Empress: Your Majesty, please respect yourself, I don't want to be promoted

After a while, Chen Kuan stood up, wiping the dust off his body in embarrassment, and then looked at Lu Chen in fear, but did not dare to look at him and just lowered his head.

Seeing his bearish appearance, Lu Chen was basically sure of his guess.

But even so, he still did not directly order Zhu Yong to kill people. After all, it was not the style of his predecessor to simply use force to suppress people and then kill them without teaching.

"Chen Kuan."

He called out with cold eyes.

"Xia...Xiaguan is here!"

Chen Kuan hurriedly agreed, fearing that Lu Chen would kill him on the spot if he reacted slowly.

"I want to ask you." Lu Chen looked at him and said coldly: "These people were brought to Dongshi and tortured in public. Is it your order?"

Seeing that Lu Chen asked about this matter, Chen Kuan suddenly felt like chaff.

But he still gritted his teeth, hesitated for a moment, and nodded in response: "Yes...it's the order from my subordinate, but it's because..."

"Shut up!"

Lu Chen scolded coldly: "Just answer my questions. Don't say anything more if I didn't ask you!"

Hearing this, Chen Kuan couldn't help but feel helpless in his heart.

Lu Chen added: "Why do you use such cruel methods to treat the people? What have they done wrong? What power do you have to deal with the people? Did you ask the county government for instructions before issuing the order?"

Having said this, he looked at Li Yongcheng standing aside.

"If there is a report, Magistrate Li, why do you impose capital punishment on people without going through a public trial? Do you have such great power? Huh?!"

Facing Lu Chen's repeated questions, the two of them couldn't help but look at each other, and each could see the panic in the other's eyes.

After a while, Li Yongcheng stood up bravely.

"Master Lu, I naturally know about this. The reason for this is because these people are lawless and disrespectful of the court, so...so..."

He argued hesitantly.

It was nothing more than Chu Zhan and others provoking the imperial court, disobeying discipline, injuring government officials, and resisting the imperial court. There was a possibility of riots, and they had to obey the authority when the matter was urgent. They acted in this way in order to nip the danger in the bud, deter lawlessness, and safeguard the imperial court. Such is the case with regulations and stability.

From the beginning to the end, he had no substantive evidence to prove that these people were rioting, and he could not even prove that Chu Zhan, who shot and injured the Yamen servant, was related to others.

Nothing to say.

Lu Chen's face was cold: "In other words... it's unnecessary, right?"

Li Yongcheng's eyes twitched.

"I hope your lord will learn from this."

"Haha...what a shame."

Lu Chen had a mocking look on his face.

"It seems that your methods are still slightly better than that of King Yu, at least you won't even bother to find excuses."

When they heard this, the two of them were shocked.

Li Yongcheng said in a trembling voice: "What do you mean, sir?"

"what for?"

Lu Chen laughed.

"You've been acting like a human being, not doing human affairs, can't you even understand what people say?"

After a pause, he continued: "You promised to give each of the people who moved to Montenegro ten shi of food, but in the end, you only gave one shi on the pretext that evil spirits attacked and the official warehouse was burned down. No matter what the reason, such a promise is untrue. , shouldn’t the people question it? With a stone of food, you can’t even survive in a place like Montenegro, shouldn’t they fight for themselves a chance to survive?”

"What? All of our imperial officials in Daxia are saints. Do we not tolerate the slightest doubt?"

Seeing that Lu Chen was ready to openly accuse him, Chen Kuan couldn't help but feel a little unwilling. With a strong will to survive, he bravely defended himself: "But they are disobedient to discipline and are already rioting. The lower official... The lower official is also for the imperial court. For your own sake, take precautions before they happen..."

However, before he could finish his words, he was interrupted sharply by Lu Chen: "Nip bullshit in the bud!"

He stared at Chen Kuan with wide eyes.

"Don't obey discipline? How can they obey when they can't live anymore?! What? Is the court some kind of god? If they want them to die, they can only wait obediently?"

Hearing this, the two of them were immediately speechless.

However, as soon as Lu Chen said these words, Gu Simiao and Fu Huan inexplicably frowned at the same time.

"This... Mr. Lu, it's really not what you think, Xianguan... Xianguan..."

Li Yongcheng wanted to argue again, but Lu Chen was too lazy to ramble on with him.

He glared at the two men and said sternly: "Without any evidence, he believed that the people intended to riot based on his own imagination, and then he was convicted without a court, and he was hastily convicted and sentenced to death. As a member of the imperial court, "What is the difference between a magistrate who shoulders the important responsibilities of a county and the rise and fall of all people and acts so hastily, and a mediocre official who cares little about human life?"

As he spoke, he waved his hand suddenly.

"The people below are easy to abuse, but the gods are hard to bully, Zhu Yong!"

"The humble position is here!"

Lu Chen raised his voice and said: "I am ordering you to file a case immediately and arrest all the people involved in this matter. No matter whether they are county magistrates or government officials, no one will be left behind. They will all be under my control." Then summon the nearby Xuanji Guards to investigate the matter thoroughly, find out whether the relief grains were burned, whether the procedures for collecting the grains were in compliance with the laws and regulations, whether the account details can be matched, and focus on finding out the source and whereabouts of the relief grains?"

"No one is allowed to leave the county government until the facts of this case come to light!"

After a pause, he added with great force: "No matter who is standing behind these people, what background they have, or who comes to plead, they will be ignored and recorded. This time, I will not only pull out the carrots, but also the mud." We have to get them all out until everything is clear!"

Upon hearing this, Zhu Yong did not immediately respond, but raised his head and looked at Fu Hua not far away.

Without any hesitation, Fu Hua nodded directly.

Obviously, no matter how big Lu Chen wants to make this matter, she will support it to the end.

Isn't it just mobilizing the Xuanji Guards? It's simple.

In any case, the empress would not blame her for taking the initiative and mobilizing the Xuanji Guards without authorization. After all, she had already ordered that as long as Lu Chen needed it, the Xuanji Guards would provide all support.

Seeing that the boss of Xuanji Guard agreed, Zhu Yong immediately stopped hesitating, bowed directly, and solemnly clasped his fists towards Lu Chen and said:

"Here!"

The next second, he winked at the other Xuanji guards, and then suddenly raised his hand.

Uh-huh! !

Several milky white beams of light suddenly flew from his hands, flying towards Li Yongcheng and others at extremely fast speeds, tying them up in the blink of an eye.

Then, before they could react, Zhu Yong grasped the tail of the beam and pulled hard.

"ah!"

Li Yongcheng and others screamed in pain, and fell heavily to the ground, unable to move.

Several other Xuanji guards stepped forward and restrained them.

All this happened in the blink of an eye, and by the time they reacted, it was already too late.

Under Zhu Yong's restraint technique, they could not move at all and could only scream injustice to Lu Chen.

Lu Chen naturally ignored their grievances and waved his hand directly to Zhu Yong.

"Put it down!"

"yes!"

Several Xuanji guards responded, and then turned Li Yongcheng and others away.

Seeing that the person who was usually like God was so easily taken down by Lu Chen, Chen Qingde couldn't help but swallowed hard, and his heart was full of shock.

Obviously, Lu Chen's ability was countless times stronger than he imagined.

After finally suppressing the shock in his heart, an uncontrollable ecstasy surged out from his heart, and the old faces around him were full of joy.

How could he not be happy?

Just now, Lu Chen was like crushing an ant, and he casually knocked down the once arrogant official, and he did it for poor people like them.

What's this? This is Master Qingtian who makes decisions for the people!

With Lu Chen here, even if they only have one stone of food in their hands now, they won't have to worry about starving to death!

Mr. Qingtian has personally made the decision for them. Can the good days be far behind?

As soon as he thought of this, his cloudy old eyes suddenly flashed with light.

The numbness and despair that originally lurked in his eyes completely disappeared at this moment.

What remains is only infinite hope and expectation.