County Magistrate Tan looked at Gu Yezhou, raised his emphasis, and said in an official voice: "What important thing should I report?"

Gu Yezhou said: "I found that this time the victims gathered in the yamen was someone instigated by the instigation. Moreover, I know who was instigating him later."

County Wei Tan was overjoyed: "Who is it?"

"The bandits and gods! When they entered the city to rob, I had fought with them, so I recognized two of them. They pretended to be victims and incited the victims to make trouble. They must have wanted to disrupt the city, so they could rob them by fire!"

Gu Yezhou was here to go to the yamen to ask when his bounty would come. As soon as he left, he saw that in the alley outside their courtyard, in addition to the two corpses sent by Wenshun Escort Agency, there were a lot of strange faces, and he immediately dodged and hid when he saw him. He couldn't help but feel moved and walked towards the yamen as if nothing had happened. As expected, those people followed along, and he was even more alert, afraid that the bandits were sent to monitor him!

He came to the yamen without moving his expression, and saw the victims gathering at the yamen. He saw several people telling the other victims that the yamen’s disaster relief grain had already arrived in the yamen. He was very surprised and went over to hear that when he was approaching, he suddenly recognized that two of the victims who were talking about this matter were actually bandits who had previously looted Hu Wanghai’s family and had fought with him, so he recognized it. So he immediately entered the yamen and told the yamen about this matter.

When County Magistrate Tan heard that it was a bandit who secretly provoked trouble, he was even more surprised and said, "Take the constable and hurry up and catch it! If you catch it, you will be rewarded!"

Gu Yezhou would not waste this important opportunity in vain and smiled faintly: "I killed the third leader of the bandits before. There are other bandits. This bounty has not been sent to me yet. Should I ask the county magistrate to send me this bounty first? Let's talk about catching the thief?"

County Magistrate Tan said: "Catch the person first, and then give it to him together!"

Gu Yezhou shook his head: "Sorry, I must give a bounty first. I know that my bounty has been allocated. But the county magistrate has been detained for no reason and refused to give it to me?"

County Magistrate Tan said: "It's not that he is reluctant to give it to you, but he wants to discuss it with you. Look, the main thing is that our yamen is doing. Suppressing bandits requires a lot of money, but the yamen has no money and cannot afford more money to organize bandit suppression. So I want to discuss with you, can you take out eighty tan to the yamen as a donation to suppress bandits? I had to tell you earlier about this matter, but this was too busy during this period, so I was delayed. What did the sir think?"

Gu Yezhou smiled: "I only have a bounty of more than 100 yuan in total, but the county magistrate asked me to give 80% of it to donate to Xiamen. This is too much!"

County Magistrate Tan smiled and said, "How much is that sir willing to donate?"

"Sorry, I urgently need money now and donate no money. - Suppressing bandits is the court's business. The court should pay the money, how can it be distributed to us people?"

County Magistrate Tan smiled and said, "It's wrong to say this sir. Suppressing bandits is everyone's business. Only when the bandits are wiped out can you live and work in peace."

Gu Yezhou looked at him meaningfully: "I'm afraid that the donated money is not used to suppress bandits, but falls into the private pockets of some people!"

The smile on County Magistrate Tan's face disappeared. He originally planned this. The so-called donation to suppress the bandits was just an excuse. Unexpectedly, Gu Yezhou saw it and said in a dark voice: "Sir, this is meaningless. This is the money given to the sir by the court. If you don't want to donate, I will not force you. But to tell you the truth, we have already spent your bounty on suppressing the bandits, because the court's suppression of the bandits has not been allocated. Please wait patiently. When the sir will be allocated, I will naturally notify you."

Gu Yezhou shrugged and stood up: "The bandits encourage the victims outside, but they would not just wait outside so honestly. They have any tricks behind them, but no one can say anything. I heard that the disaster relief grain from the yamen has arrived, and the county magistrate suppressed it and refused to distribute it. The victims are all hungry. These disaster relief grains are for their lives. If they do not catch the bandits secretly incited early, they will be afraid that the consequences will be unimaginable!"

"Do you dare to threaten me?"

"I dare not! I just tell the truth. As the county magistrate said, whether I donate or not is my voluntary. By the same token, am I telling you that the bandits who secretly incite disaster victims to cause trouble is also my voluntary."

County Magistrate Tan slapped the table: "The person surnamed Gu! If you don't report it, that's a cover-up! I can take you down as a bandit accomplice!"

Gu Yezhou also sneered: "My County Master, your threat can only work for ordinary people. I am a scholar and have fame. I killed the third leader of the mountain god and the court has also registered. If you want to slander people, it is probably not so easy! Besides, Gu has fought with the bandits and his head is hanging on his back. If others want to frame me, they have to consider it!" He picked up the teacup on the table, and then used force and cracked it, and it was crushed.

County Magistrate Tan was shocked, took two steps back, and knocked the chair over: "You..., what are you going to do?"

Gu Yezhou already knew that the world would be destroyed soon, so he didn't have to pay too much attention to the officials of the court, not to mention that he was a scholar, a privileged person, and he was not caught by the yamen as soon as he said it. Therefore, he was not polite to speak. At that moment, he smiled faintly: "Goodbye!" and turned around and walked out.

"Wait! Sir, wait!" County Magistrate Tan hurriedly said.

Gu Yezhou stopped and turned to look at him.

Seeing that he was so hard that he could only be soft, he whispered: "Sir, don't be in a hurry, everything is easy to discuss."

"No discussion is required! I will not donate a penny to the yamen. I know that the bounty of more than 100 yuan has been allocated. If the lord gives me, I will take the constable to capture the bandits who were incited in secret. If I don't give it, as the county magistrate said, I will wait patiently, but my patience is not very good. If I can't figure it out, I will write to the court to talk about this."

County Magistrate Tan's face changed slightly. If a scholar wrote a letter saying that he had deducted the bounty, the court would probably send someone to investigate immediately. There are many people who are jealous of his current position. If this handle is held, I don't know what will happen. What's more, I'm going to catch the people who are provoking trouble first and thus stabilize the victims. It is the top priority. You can't let the victims make trouble. In that case, I'm afraid that my official position will be in danger.

County Magistrate Tan hurriedly smiled and said, "Sir, why bother to make things so stiff! Okay, since the sir urgently needs money, the official will first borrow 106 straits of money from other places to the sir. After the imperial court allocates the bandits to suppress the enemy, then fill it. How about it?"

Gu Yezhou killed seven bandits, including the Sanzhu family, of which one was 100 guan. The remaining six bandits were 6 guan.

Gu Yezhou said: "Thank you so much. But can it be exchanged for silver? If you don't have so much copper coins, then you can get it."

"Okay! I'll give you one hundred taels of silver to you."

After saying that, County Magistrate Tan ordered someone to spend 100 taels of silver from his house bank and gave it to Gu Yezhou.

One hundred taels of silver are quite heavy, so it is packed in a small cash box. It is not big in size, just hold it under your armpits.

Gu Yezhou collected the receipt, held the box of money and said, "Okay, let's go, the two bandits who incited the disaster victims to make trouble are among the victims in front of the yamen. I'll point them to you and you will catch them yourself."

"Okay!" County Magistrate Tan immediately called Captain Ruan and asked him to take Gu Yezhou to arrest people.

Just as the arrangement was being made, I suddenly heard the crowds of people in the direction of the gate. Then, I saw several pale-faced yamen run back with their knives in their arms: "Not good! Sir, the victims rushed in!"

County Magistrate Tan was so scared that his whole body trembled: "What's going on? What's going on?"

"Someone said that the price of grain is very high now, and the yamen wants to sell disaster relief grain to make money, and will not distribute it to the victims. The victims went crazy and rushed to the gate together. We injured a few of them, but it was useless. They broke the gate open and rushed in! They beat people when they saw them!"

"What... what should I do?" County Magistrate Tan shook like a sieve. Captain Ruan drew out a single knife with a pale face, blocked in front, and shouted: "Brothers, protect the county Magistrate!"

The dozen or so yamen runners held rulers in their hands, and had single swords, tremblingly blocking them in front.

In a blink of an eye, the victims rushed over, and the crowd was like a tide. However, Captain Ruan threw away the knife and ran away with his head in his arms. Seeing this, the other constables also threw away their weapons and fled in scattered them.

County Magistrate Tan was so scared that he collapsed on the ground. Gu Yezhou grabbed him and dragged him back. In a blink of an eye, the victims had already caught up with them. Gu Yezhou used the box of silver to block the weapons, swung them up and smashed them, and knocked them around and flew around.

Seeing that he was powerful, the victims did not dare to move forward. At this moment, the victims did not want to kill the officials and rebel, but wanted to eat food and grab things. So they did not mainly target them, and they began to rush into the back house to grab things and grab food.

Gu Yezhou roared: "Master Tan, take off your official robe quickly! Hurry!"

Only then did Lord Tan realize that he quickly took off his official robe, put on only the Yuebai robe, and howled with his head in his arms. Gu Yezhou dragged him towards the toilet. There were very few victims rushing towards this side, almost all of them went to the granary, silver treasury, and inner houses. There were relatively fewer people coming to the toilet. Moreover, they all rushed in blindly. When they saw it was the toilet, they turned around and went back to find another place to rob.

Gu Yezhou pulled him behind the toilet and whispered: "Sir, hide here, don't move around, no one will come. It's better to smear your face, and others won't recognize it!"

County Magistrate Tan was so moved that he shivered: "It's really a strong wind that knows the strong grass. I will never forget it forever, and I will definitely repay you!"

Gu Yezhou actually didn't want to save him at all. He was for Mo Huaixiang. Mori was being locked up in a death row. Mo Huaixiang's family bribed the county magistrate in charge of the Yin to save his father. If he was beaten to death by the rioters, the Mo family's money would be wasted. Thinking of Mo Huaixiang's affection for him, Gu Yezhou decided to save Prince Tan by the way.

Gu Yezhou said: "Sir, don't be polite, it's a simple task. I have to leave."

"Okay! You..., can you not leave..." County Magistrate Tan said pitifully.

"I have to go and take care of my relatives! I don't feel at ease with them. Just hide here and no one will come. Don't go around!"
Chapter completed!