After holding it in all the way, when Zhu Tongpan saw Pei Youxiang, Balabala told him all the inhuman things that happened to him throughout the whole day.
Finally, Zhu Tongpan asked the question to Pei Youxiang, "Your Majesty, the magistrate is just a small magistrate. He has no right to give orders like asking all officials to do things. So, we still have to
Sorry to trouble you, Lord Prefect!"
"Since this is the order of His Highness King Dingbei, you and I just have to follow it. Even if some officials resisted, they took His Highness King Dingbei out. If there is any problem, I think His Highness Ninth Prince will handle it.
There’s no need for us little guys to worry about it.”
With that said, Youxiang Pei poured another cup of tea for Zhu Tongpan, "Zhu Tongpan doesn't have to worry too much. It doesn't matter that His Highness King Dingbei has iron-blooded skills. This Tongzhou City is so intricate that even if your Majesty comes, he won't dare to say anything."
His tone offended all the dignitaries.
But when His Highness came, he confiscated all the grain and offended the merchants. Now he wants all the officials to go to the front line. He has offended all the powerful people in one breath. There is no need for us to take action. Someone will sit down.
Can’t live without it.”
Zhu Tongpuan was most determined to follow the wind and he was very afraid of death. When Right Minister Pei woke him up, he understood instantly.
"Your Excellency, the magistrate, is worthy of being from the imperial capital. He is far more farsighted than those from small places like us. I understand. I will go and do it now without disturbing your rest."
In Yizhuang, Xicheng, it was already midnight in the blink of an eye.
Feiyu brought the food, "Your Highness, it's already the third watch. You have hardly slept in the past few days, and you haven't eaten much today. The conditions here are simple. I made two small dishes. You can finish them first."
Let’s eat some.”
Qi Jue casually found a seat to sit down, frowned tiredly, and took the food from Feiyu's hand.
"Any new letters?"
Feiyu hesitated, but could only tell the truth: "Not yet, we should still be on the way. We are in a hurry these days, and the carrier pigeon may not be familiar with the route yet. Wait two days, and you will definitely receive a letter from Miss Yan.
Already."
After setting off from the imperial capital, Qi Jue sent messages to Yan Mingzhu and Feige almost every day, but every time he only sent them out and never took them back.
To put it simply, Yan Mingzhu did not write a letter to Qi Jue.
As a subordinate, Feiyu felt that His Highness was pitiful.
I wrote letters eagerly every day, waiting for a reply to relieve my pain of lovesickness, but there was no movement from the other girl's side. She was like a heartless scumbag who turned around and didn't recognize the person.
Qi Jue instantly lost his appetite, "I am full."
"Your Highness, if you take two more bites, you won't even finish half the bowl of rice. How can your body resist it? Maybe... maybe it's your Highness's message to Miss Yan. Miss Yan was intercepted by the Yuan family before she received it.
It's very possible that Miss Yan won't be able to reply to you if you are so stupid!"
Qi Jue glanced at Feiyu, as if he was looking at a fool.
For such a poor reason, why should he be coaxed when he is a three-year-old child?
However, Qi Jue really had no appetite. He stood up and dusted himself off, "I want to take a bath."
His Highness Prince Dingbei, who has always been a germaphobe, spent the whole day in the dirty Yizhuang. At the end of the day, his clean clothes were already dirty. It was already very difficult for him to endure until now.
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Unable to persuade Qi Jue, Feiyu could only agree and go down to prepare bath water.
Early the next morning, Qi Jue was awakened by the movement outside after less than two hours of sleep.
"Your Highness, the government is besieged by those traders, led by the rice shops, who want justice in the name of the government's forced expropriation."
Due to the extreme lack of sleep, Qi Jue's aura was very low. He placed one hand on his forehead and sneered when he heard the words: "Little traders have the courage to go to the government. If they were really brave, they would have made trouble yesterday."
Get up."
"Your Highness, you mean that someone is secretly inciting them to cause trouble on purpose?"
Qi Jue stood up and changed his clothes, and said calmly: "Many of these should be the work of that surnamed Pei. Yesterday he hid because of illness, so he took the opportunity to attack me."
"You have already been demoted to the position of magistrate, and you are still so restless. Your Highness, why don't you wait for the subordinates to go over and arrest that guy directly? Since they are leaderless, they will definitely not dare to make trouble again."
Dressed neatly, Qi Jue washed his face and said in a tone that showed no emotion or anger: "The person named Pei will naturally die, but now is not the time. Let's go. Since there are people who want me to take action, why don't I help them."
Many people blocked the gate of the government office, led by traders, holding banners and shouting that the government was bullying good people.
"A good citizen depends on the word "good". You, the merchants, have taken advantage of the plague to make a fortune for the country. You have raised prices unconscionably, causing most people to starve to death instead of the plague. You should have the honor to come to the government."
There was trouble in front of the door, who gave your dog the courage?"
Originally, he was so arrogant and clamoring for the government to return the food that the government officials were unable to stop him. When Qi Jue appeared, he only said one word and without even doing anything, he made the group of people retreat in fright.
However, there is one exception among this group of people, and that is the largest rice shop owner in Tongzhou City, the owner of Feng Ji Rice Shop.
Although Feng Dongjia was also afraid of Qi Jue, but thinking of the guarantee given to him by others yesterday, he mustered up the courage to take a step forward and said: "Your Highness King Dingbei, even if you are the prince of the Tian family and have a distinguished status, the state has national laws.
You can't rely on your high status to ignore the wishes of our merchants and forcefully collect the food we store at low prices. Those people are human beings, but we merchants are not human beings and don't need to support our families?"
"That's right, we are all engaged in serious business. Is there any law in Dazhao that stipulates that the price of food cannot be increased? Furthermore, Tongzhou has been closed down and supplies from outside cannot be transported in, so we only have this little left on hand.
Is it wrong to raise the price of food a little bit?"
"That is, we also ask the government to return our grain. If we want to collect grain, we will collect it at the price we have marked. In this way, we will have no problem!"
Just as these traders were getting more and more excited, they heard Qi Jue chuckle.
As soon as the white light appeared, all the sounds suddenly stopped!
Under the watchful eyes of everyone, everyone saw the head of the leader of the Feng Dong family falling to the ground with a clatter.
The sword was drawn out so fast that no blood was even sprayed out, and the head rolled around on the ground, finally rolling to the feet of one of the vendors.
His eyes were still wide open, and he was obviously killed by a sword without knowing what happened. The vendor was so frightened that he screamed and collapsed on the ground.
Qi Jue held a long sword in his hand, with the tip of the sword lightly touching the ground. There was blood dripping from the edge of the sword. He seemed to glance lazily at the silent troublemakers.