Chapter 679: Killing someone with a sword

The victims were already in a hurry to enter the city. The King of Pingxi wanted everyone to enter the city, so of course this sentence counted.

However, the border troops guarding the gate did not move, and they still stood in front of the city gate openly, and their eyes still fell on Wen Xianzhi.

Wen Xianzhi had a smile on her face, neither nodding in nodding nor shook her head to refuse.

Flying catkins all over the sky fell over their heads, and the outside of the city became quiet again. The victims looked at the vicious border army and calmed down again. Only then did they realize that even if King Pingxi nodded, the city might not be able to enter.

"Haha..." The person who laughed dryly was Wang Zhi, the prefect of Taiyuan behind Wen Xianzhi. Wang Zhi was almost frozen and moved his body, his legs and feet were sore and numb. But he knew in his heart that the governor was waiting for him to speak. Wang Zhi had to bite the bullet and come out. He was the prefect, and whether the victims would enter the city or not, he would always listen to what he said.

Wang Zhi walked carefully to Chen Ao, bowed to Chen Ao, tried his best to make his smile more and said slowly: "The Prince of Taiyuan Prefect Wang Zhi has seen His Highness."

Chen Ao's eyes fell on him at all, and he just said a slight nod. This was already very polite.

Wang Zhi continued: "Your Highness Bodhisattva's heart is heartless, and he cannot bear to the disaster victims starve and freeze outside the city. He is so impressed by the heart of protecting the people." He then smiled bitterly and said in embarrassment: "Your Highness wants to let refugees enter the city. It is not wrong for the Governor to prevent refugees from entering the city. Your Highness is not wrong because your Highness is kind-hearted. But the Governor is not wrong because the Governor is ordered to guard Taiyuan. Taiyuan City will never allow any mistakes. Of course, there is nothing wrong with the responsibility."

He said a lot of nonsense before he started to get to the point. Wang Zhi was in the officialdom and was extremely smooth. He thought that even if his words could not be touched by King Pingxi, they were generous and decent enough to give King Pingxi a step: "If Your Highness lets refugees enter the city, he will save thousands of creatures, the governor and the subordinates, in fact, he also hopes that the refugees will rest in the city, drink a sip of ginger soup, eat a bowl of porridge, and save people. But the palace I don’t know what the remaining grain in the treasury in the city is empty, and even if the refugees enter the city, there is no food. If so many people enter, if there are sluts who are hungry and crazy, what will it turn out? If Taiyuan City falls into the hands of thieves, is it necessary to be the governor and the lower-ranking officials who come to the back or the lower-ranking officials? Therefore, in the opinion of the lower-ranking officials, please ask your highness to enter the city first. Your highness and the governor sit together, work together, and come up with another way to compromise."

After Wang Zhi finished speaking, he glanced at Wen Xianzhi with a slight pride, which was quite intriguing to seek credit.

The King of Pingxi wanted the victims to enter the city, but the governor refused. Whether the victims can enter the city now depends on the governor's methods of the King of Pingxi. Wang Zhi thought to himself that the King of Pingxi had caused such a thing before he entered the city, and today it was interesting.

Chen Ao took off his hat, knocked off the snow on the hat, and asked Wang Zhi slowly: "Are you the prefect of Taiyuan?"

Wang Zhi bowed with a smile and said, "The lower official is the prefect of Taiyuan."

Chen Ao put on the hat and couldn't help looking at him curiously, saying, "Since you are the prefect of Taiyuan, do you still remember your responsibilities?"

Wang Zhi was stunned for a moment and said with a smile: "The duties of the subordinates..."

Chen Ao interrupted him and said, "Your duty is to guard the country and protect the country and the people. But do you have any thoughts to safeguard the people just now? I saw countless hungry people struggling in the snow, and countless people lying on the ice field. The collapse of the ground is a natural disaster, but the corpse outside the city is not caused by natural disasters, but man-made disasters!" He approached Wang Zhi viciously and continued, "How did you, the prefect?"

Wang Zhi defended himself: "The official... the official is a good wife... the official is not a good woman..."

"The clever wife has no rice? Where is the rice??" Chen Ao asked him.

Wang Zhidao: "No rice."

Chen Ao sneered: "There is no rice? But why are there mountains of grains piled up in the rice storage warehouse in the city?"

Wang Zhidao: "What does the rice and the lower officials of the merchant have to do?"

Chen Ao approached one step closer and said, "The merchant's rice has been sold for two coins and one dou. Do you know?"

Wang Zhi was stunned for a moment and denied: "No...I don't know."

"Will you not know? As the prefect, you are the prefect, regardless of the life or death of the victims, and there are thousands of people in the country who starve to death. This is one of them. Tolerating merchants to act rampantly is to neglect their duties and is the second crime. To be clever and to deceive the imperial envoy, this is the third. With these three crimes, do you still want to live?" He pressed his hand on the hilt of Shangfang's sword, and his whole body was like a sword, as sharp as a blade.

Chen Ao looked directly at Wang Zhi and said in a stern manner: "Now Wang is ordered to inspect the disaster. The first person to kill is you, a mediocre and inaction!" He accelerated his pace and approached Wang Zhi step by step.

Wang Zhi was startled and leaned back. Unexpectedly, his feet were paralyzed and he staggered, and said to Wen Xianzhi: "Governor save me."

With a whimper, the long sword had been unsheathed. The Shangfang sword was in the flying catkins all over the sky, with a faint cold light. The sword tip pointed to Wang Zhi's chest. Wang Zhi's hands were dancing in the flying catkins. He groaned, his hands drooped, his face was dull, and he fell on his back in disbelief.

The snowflakes were still floating. When the long sword pulled out from Wang Zhi's chest, blood splashed out. The blood fell on the snow. The remaining blood instantly melted the snow. Chen Ao's face had no expression. He took the Shangfang sword back into the sheath, looked at the dirty snow on the ground, and said lightly: "It's a pity that it's dirty this good snow."

The cold wind was like a knife, but at this time, many people didn't feel cold anymore. No one expected that the fifth-rank prefect of the dynasty would have killed him with just one sword.

Several officials were no longer possessed and kept swallowing their saliva, their bodies trembling slightly.

Wen Xianzhi tightened the fox fur tightly, but her face was very cold. She glanced at Wang Zhi's body and then turned her eyes back to Chen Ao.

Chen Ao smiled slightly, like the spring breeze, and the north wind blew on his face. He actually smiled like the spring in March and the spring flowers bloomed. The corners of his mouth curled up slightly, and at this time he looked like a child who was virgin, showing a knowing smile.

Chen Ao said to Wen Xianzhi in an unquestionable tone: "Governor Wen, don't you know that the victims can enter the city now?"

Wen Xianzhi's face suddenly changed, she snorted coldly and said, "Your Highness, how dare you not obey?"

The sound of leather armor rubbing from the border soldiers came out, and they quietly let the door out, and then countless victims rushed in. When they entered the city gate, they had hope. A foot away was the difference between life and death. At this time, who was so excited that they even forgot the coldness of their bodies? While surging into the city, the crowd was shouting: "Pingxi Duke is waiting for Wandae."

The ragged victims immediately surrounded the door hole and the side army standing beside the road was pushed to the side. At this time, in front of this sea of ​​people, they became weak, as if under a storm, the small boat in the blue waves was swaying, being pushed, and suddenly submerged in the crowd.

Wen Xianzhi smiled, looked at Shangfang Sword on Chen Ao's waist, and said, "I have seen the power of Shangfang Sword today. Your Highness, please enter the city."

Chen Ao didn't look at him, and turned around and got on the carriage. The pen, ink, paper and inkstone had already been removed. The axle of the carriage began to roll, and slowly entered the city under the guard of 1,500 indifferent lieutenants.

Wen Xianzhi glanced at the carriage, smiled coldly, her lips trembled slightly, as if saying, "This is what you are seeking death by yourself, no wonder others." He said to an official beside him, "Go, bury Lord Wang and return to the city." He sat back on the warm sedan chair step by step. The warm sedan chair and the ice and snow outside seemed to be in a two-dimensional world. He leaned slightly on the warm mat woven from the fur, holding the small hand stove in his hand, Wen Xianzhi's body returned to the world.

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"Prince, where are we going now?" Tong Hu, who was sitting on the horse, looked excited, and the frost had already condensed his eyebrows. The scene just now made him excited. Tong Hu was a straight man. Seeing so many corpses lying on snow in the wild and the people who were starving and frozen outside the city, he felt a little angry. When Chen Ao stabbed the prefect's chest with a sword, Tong Hu's chest was spit out with a breath of turbid air.

happy!

Chen Ao, who was sitting in the carriage, said lazily: "Of course I'm going to the prefect's office."

"Go to the prefect's office?"

Chen Ao slowly said in the car: "Isn't there a saying that is good? If you want people to know the pain, kill his whole family."

Tong Hu couldn't help but say, "Who said this?"

"The handsome and elegant number one talented man in Bianjing, and the Prince Pingxi who is both outstanding in calligraphy and painting!"

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Hundreds of lieutenants rushed into the prefect's office in snow. The prefect's office had already been in chaos. As soon as the bad news came, the family members in the back house were already crying and the servants dispersed. The prefect's office became the headquarters of Chen Ao in an instant.

Wang Zhi's female family members had been driven away, and the remaining two brothers were also taken to cut off their heads. The Absolute and several of them were also "invited" to the signing room. When they saw Chen Ao sitting high on the first case, they had no courage? They immediately knelt down and kowtowed, and said together: "Your Highness, please spare your life!"

Chen Ao smiled and said lightly: "Why do you want me to spare your life? Could it be that you and the king are in harmony, or have you done something that is harmful to the world?"

The leader of the Oshi immediately shouted: "Your Highness clearly, we are just being surrounded by Wang Zhi, how dare you do anything that is harmful to the world..."

Chen Ao smiled and said, "Since that's the case, I don't want your life, and all stand up and talk."

Several people stood up without possession, bowed their bodies, like a shrimp, and did not dare to breathe.

Chen Ao leaned on the chair, took a sip of hot tea, raised his eyes and said, "Who is in charge of the treasury?"

The spoken spoke earlier, Ai Shi stood up and said, "It's a villain who holds the treasury of Taiyuan City. What is your order?"

Chen Aohe nodded and said, "How much food is left in the treasury?"

"If you go back to your highness, there will be seven thousand dou."

Seven thousand dou, not too much, but not too little, but too little. However, the population of Taiyuan has exceeded 100,000, and 100,000 people pointing at these seven thousand dou of grain, which is really pitifully small.

Chen Ao said: "Take out five hundred dou and bring a few officers to the gates of each yamen to make porridge. Within an hour, can the victims eat hot porridge?"

An hour was too tight, and it was really difficult for him to adjust food, build a porridge shed, and make a fire to make porridge. However, Chen Ao asked this, and the guards said without hesitation, as if they had received a military order: "In one hour, the victims can drink porridge."

Chen Ao said: "How many pounds of five hundred dou of grain is roughly?"

This Abbot is in charge of money and food, and hesitated a little bit, saying, "Around nine thousand jin."

"Nine thousand kilograms of rice, one hundred thousand kilograms of mouth, this mouth is only one or two meters long. Can you stand up if you make porridge?"

Oshi nodded and said, "It's almost done."

Chen Ao said, "You go now."

Oshi went there immediately.

Chen Ao's eyes fell on another Aoshi and said lightly: "What's this Aoshi's name?"

The man immediately said: "The student's surname is Yang."

Chen Ao said: "Go and find some ginger, boil it into ginger soup, and distribute it next to the porridge shed."

Yang Aishi said: "Abide by the order."

Chen Ao's eyes fell on the heads of Dutou and said, "You can't be idle either. I immediately took all three squads of staff to collect hay, find the narrow alley, clear out the snow in the alley, and provide the victims with rest at night." Faced with these Dutou, Chen Ao's face became murderous again, and he continued with a sneer: "The ugly words of the king are ahead. As long as the victims enter the city and freeze one to death, I will peel you alive. Do you understand?"

Where did the heads dare to say anything? They immediately bowed and said, "The villain dared not refuse to obey."

Hundreds of servants from three shifts came out in full swing, and for a while, they were busy everywhere.

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Chapter completed!