268 What crime should I charge them with? Treason?
At the same time that changes occurred between Beiyi and the capital, officials from several counties in Hezhong, centered on Su County, also quietly gathered together to plot again in a teahouse somewhere.
This is no longer a secret meeting between a few county guards and the governor, but a grouping of most of the upper-level officials in several counties.
Even some county magistrates and thousands of households who were very close to the meeting place dared to come quietly and took a seat in the corner.
It wasn't until everyone arrived that Yu Gao, the leader, said with a solemn expression:
"You must have heard about the tragedies in Yaohe, Taihe, and Qiuyang counties. Whether it is Wu County Magistrate, or Xu and Yang County Magistrates, they are all our friends, classmates, and even students.
.They prayed for me in the river
The surnamed Jie worked hard and forgot to eat and sleep, but ended up having his house ransacked and beheaded, and his head was hung in front of the county government office. Sad, deplorable, what is more? Hateful! Who is hateful? That enchanting concubine who flatters and bullies others is hateful.
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Looking around, Yu Gao looked at the angry, fearful, or silent colleagues in front of him, and said in a high voice again:
"Everyone, my lips are dead and my teeth are cold. How can there be eggs under the overturned nest? Today for Magistrate Wu and others is tomorrow for you and me. The demon concubine is going to drive us all away!"
After Yu Gao's words, several county guards and governors who had colluded with him immediately spoke up:
"Master Yu is right. The demon concubine is coming with great force. If we just sit back and wait for death, we may not be able to escape death."
"Instead of passively waiting for death, we should give it a try. It's not going to be easy for us, and we will never make it easy for her, Xiao Xiruo!"
"Besides, if something happens to that person in the river, it's not necessarily our problem! What can we know? We don't know anything!"
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Everyone knows that their men are not clean, and their heads can only be tied to their belts.
It is better to resist than to wait for death.
So when Yu Gao said that the demon concubine had entered Qin in advance, with only twenty or thirty men, the eyes of those who were interested instantly brightened.
What about the legitimate daughter of the Xiao family? What about the current imperial concubine?
As long as there are no soldiers around her, she is not at their mercy?
As the saying goes, a strong dragon cannot overwhelm a local snake. Are these local snakes still afraid of a little girl who has never been in the river?
Nowadays, there is plague and banditry in the river. Isn't it as easy to kill a noble concubine without an army as to kill an imperial envoy?
Then all the officials looked at each other with understanding smiles on their faces.
Just do it, everyone immediately respected Yu Gao as the leader and carefully arranged the beheading plan.
Yu Gao and the governor of Su County around him worked hard and worked hard without complaint, vowing to carry everyone's lives on their shoulders.
But how could anyone else know? If they hadn't known that they were bound to die, they would never have made such a move.
First, a plague broke out in Su County, and then the teacher was killed and the Wang family was confiscated. Now they are at the end of their rope and must think about it for themselves...
However, while the officials were plotting, a county magistrate quietly left the room.
He raised his hand and wrote a note under the cover of his servant. He immediately asked the servant to set off and send him to the direction where the imperial concubine's honor guard was coming.
The river has been dark for decades. God finally sent down a ray of light, but we can't let these man-eating tigers be extinguished anymore.
He only hoped that the imperial concubine would be like the White Lotus Immortal in her mouth, and be able to protect her body with immortal energy and turn disaster into good fortune during this calamity!
However, he did not know that Xiao Bailian, the noble concubine whom he said was protected by immortal energy, was not at all in the direction that the young man was running towards at this moment.
There is a guard of honor for the imperial concubine, but the people in Hongchen have dispersed into the river earlier. Isn't it easy to temporarily disguise and gather a convoy to come out?
What's more, Xiao Xiruo and others wore masks when they were outside, and only a handful of people had seen her true appearance.
Therefore, all the corrupt officials would never have thought that after a certain sick and weak imperial concubine killed chickens in three counties, she immediately asked a group of cronies to take her across the entire Qin County day and night, and fell into the plague early this morning.
The most serious case is Su County.
However, considering that her body was weakened again due to the rush, they did not choose to enter the epidemic area directly. Instead, they entered the relatively safe Sujun Fucheng and settled in the courtyard that Hongchen had prepared long ago.
Severe coughing sounds came from the room, Bai Zhi and several female secret guards came in and out, and the water in the basin was dyed red again and again.
Traveling day and night is a big taboo for patients, let alone being led by experts to ride the wind.
It takes time to rush, but Xiao Xiruo forcibly shortened this time.
It was not that Wen Susu had not tried to persuade them during this period, but she also knew that if they arrived one day late, more people would die of illness.
Now that they are here, the Hongcheng guests who entered the epidemic area in advance have also begun to follow the arrangement and separate the patients in the epidemic area into critical, severe, mild, and self-healable, and they have taken away the first batch of her deployment.
Good medicine.
But along the way, they discovered that controlling the plague in several counties along the river was not as easy as they imagined.
Even in the relatively safe city of Su County, patients can be seen everywhere who are quietly hiding themselves and not yet getting sick.
If others can't see this, why can't she, Wen Susu, see it?
"Ahem, corrupt officials are corrupt officials, and besides being greedy, they are lazy. They do all the honors projects and the gifts are unambiguous. But what about when the court needs them to do practical things? They can't even catch all the patients for me...
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Resisting the urge to curse, Xiao Xiruo coughed a few times, feeling extremely weak.
She finally understood that if she wanted to control the plague in the river, she couldn't just give those patients some medicine.
It's rotten in the river.
The devastation is everywhere, the officials are ineffective, the officials are not doing practical work, and the soldiers are cheating and avoiding work.
But it is this group of people who firmly control the lifeblood of the entire river.
If she didn't get rid of these corrupt and mediocre officials and completely control the Hezhong area, it would be impossible for her to achieve the efficiency she had in the capital and suppress the plague as planned.
Because no matter how good a person's brain is, it can't stop her limbs from obeying the command, and she may even slap herself in the face!
"My dear, don't be angry. It's all their fault. How could you hurt yourself because of this?"
Bai Zhi and others stepped forward one after another, trying to persuade their master with words.
But is Xiao Xiruo angry?
No, she is obviously tired when she coughs!
But soon she didn't feel tired anymore, because the secret guards who had been closely monitoring the officials sent back news that those corrupt officials finally couldn't stand it anymore.
Su County, Qin County, Wu County, Chu County, and the newest addition, Mu County...
Under the conspiracy of the officials of these five counties, the governor of Su County was gathering troops as quickly as possible in an attempt to strangle her on her way to Su County.
Very good, before she didn't know which ones should be killed and which ones should not be killed, and whether killing too many at once would have any negative effects.
So she first killed three county officials to scare the monkeys and lure the snake out of its hole. She just hoped that these people would consciously hate her and scold her, and leave a record of the news for her.
Now that she is fine, they are so angry that they want to surround her.
Then it makes sense for her to kill them, right?
By the way, use this to clean the entire river?
Well, the crime of intercepting and killing a noble concubine doesn't sound good, so let's commit rebellion. Rebellion sounds good!