Chongming County is located at the estuary of the Yangtze River. The whole county is flat and consists of the three islands of Chongming, Changxing and Hengsha. Among them, Chongming Island is the largest alluvial island in the estuary in the world and the third largest island in China. It covers an area of ​​more than 1,400 square kilometers. Its capital is Chongming, and it has five towns under its jurisdiction and a population of more than 200,000.

Li Weiguo and his group arrived at the Nanmengang Wharf of Chongming County by river boat. The sight of them was full of chaos, with a large number of ragged refugees gathered. They had just suffered a huge Yangtze River flood that had not been seen in a century and lost their homes.

"It is the newly appointed county magistrate Li Weiguo and Li is here!" someone suddenly shouted in the crowd, and the crowd was excited and surrounded Li Weiguo and his group like a blow.

Is this a situation?

When Li Weiguo was surprised, Zhang Xiaoliu was already protecting him. One hundred guards quickly held guns to guard the crowd, blocking the crowd from getting closer and establishing an isolation belt.

"Back back!" A guard captain shouted, and his bright bayonet pointed at the visitor.

Unexpectedly, the man suddenly fell to the ground, and cried with tears in his nose, "Please ask Master Qingtian to save us all the people in distress."

"Please help Master Qingtian save us!"

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The people almost spoke in unison and knelt in a large area.

There was obviously only one Master Qingtian present, that was the new Chongming Magistrate Li Weiguo.

But Li Weiguo looked puzzled. He was in Chongming for the first time and was wearing casual clothes. How did these people recognize him?

Someone must have secretly instructed him, and it is probably not a good thing, and he may be plotted against him.

Li Weiguo realized this instantly, but he remained calm and said calmly: "My fellow villagers, I am the new magistrate of Chongming Li Weiguo. I wonder why you are calling for help under the blue sky and white sun?"

When Li Weiguo asked, everyone was talking and messing around, but he understood the general situation.

All the reasons are directed to this flood. Chongming County spends a lot of silver to build and strengthen the Yangtze River embankment every year. However, the problem is that the previous county magistrates only focus on strengthening the residences of high-ranking officials and wealthy families and the embankments near their fertile fields. The embankments near civilian areas have been disrepaired for a long time. This flood is particularly serious. In order to relieve floods, the government deliberately did not strengthen the embankments near the slums, resulting in the dams that broke out there. All the already poor houses and fields were destroyed, leaving them homeless and lacking food and clothing.

Now these refugees are surrounding Li Weiguo, hoping that he can open warehouses and release grain to help the victims.

"Don't worry, all villagers, it is the responsibility of the government to open warehouses and release grain to help the victims. When I returned to the county government, I immediately started to do it."

No matter what, Li Weiguo agreed first, after all, this was what he should do. But he vaguely felt that things would not be that simple, and his intuition told him that there seemed to be a trap waiting for him.

After the refugees were guaranteed, they took the initiative to make way, but they did not leave. Instead, they followed Li Weiguo and his group into the city and headed to the county government.

Li Weiguo didn't think too much about this. Anyway, when he arrived at the county government office, he directly asked the county magistrate to negotiate with the chief clerk, opening the warehouse for those who should be opened and those who should be released.

All the county magistrates lived in the county government office, so the decoration of the county government office is generally very luxurious.

The Chongming County Government, which was placed in front of Li Weiguo and others, is very luxurious and can even be described as magnificent. It is in sharp contrast to the light-toned folk buildings around it. It is obvious that the previous county magistrates have "embezzled public funds".

However, there is only one janitor in the huge county yamen, and the people in the other yamen are missing.

"Hey, what are the county magistrate, the chief clerk and the yamen runners doing? Why don't you come to welcome me? I wonder if the new county magistrate is taking office today?" Zhang Xiaoliu asked the janitor.

"Our county government has not paid any salary for half a year. Everyone is taking care of their families. How can they work without money? So they all go home." The janitor glanced at Li Weiguo not far away and deliberately mocked loudly.

As the saying goes, the new official takes office for three reasons. Before Li Weiguo can show his power, he is disguised by his subordinates.

This is clearly a warning and deliberately embarrassing him.

Looking at the refugees coming closely behind him, Li Weiguo's face suddenly became dark. Someone had instructed these refugees to surround him and forced him to agree to open a warehouse and release grain, but now there is no one in the county government. How to open a warehouse and release grain is clearly a trap prepared in advance.

"Please open the warehouse and release the grain to save us!"

"That's right, the adults promised that we would open the warehouse and release grain when we arrived at the county government. Could it be that the adults deceived us and the common people? Is it that the adults would open the warehouse and release grain and help us!"

Someone in the crowd begged, and someone immediately followed him to drink, as if he had made an appointment in advance, and more people suddenly shouted in unison.

"Open the warehouse and release grain!"

"Open the warehouse and release grain!"

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The crowd immediately became angry and crowded towards the yamen. Li Weiguo's escort hurriedly blocked the crowd to prevent the influx of the crowd.

Thanks to Li Weiguo's escorts with a hundred muskets, the angered crowd was shocked, otherwise the other party might have rushed in and forced the opening of the only granary in the county yamen.

Obviously, someone in the crowd was instigating and noticed that Li Weiguo's escort team was not expected, so they had to find another way to encourage the crowd and create riots.

Humph! If you play this method with me, can you be blind?

Li Weiguo sneered and glanced at the crowd, like an eagle looking for prey. He quickly locked in the three people in the crowd. They were inciting and inciting, and someone would be instructing him to hide an ulterior motive.

"Catch them!"

Li Weiguo pointed his hand and immediately a guard opened the crowd and captured the three of them.

Seeing that someone was arrested, the crowd suddenly became quiet. Obviously, what ordinary people fear most is that the government arrested people, and even if they were not guilty, they would be skinned.

The arrested three people looked at each other, all of whom were shocked and looked at Li Weiguo in unison. How could this guy easily pull the three of them out of so many people?

"Sir, please spare me. The little people are really hungry and just want to have some food." However, they quickly recovered from their composure. One of them quickly became injustice, and the other two hurriedly drank to arouse the sympathy of other ordinary people.

How could Li Weiguo give them a chance? Before the people could react, they started to act first, and shouted: "The bold and unruly people dared to pretend to be refugees and have ill intentions. The county knows that you three are wanted criminals in the court. You are taken down quickly and put them in prison and then taken to the county to deal with it."

It turned out to be a wanted criminal in the court? The people naturally believed in the words of the county magistrate. Some people originally wanted to go up and persuade him, but now they stopped and stopped talking.

The three of them were stunned and secretly called Li Weiguo accused him of being cunning and shameless. They had to put this shit on them and did not allow them to explain. Then a guard suppressed them, leaving them without the opportunity to debate in front of the people.

Sure enough, after Li Weiguo's Thunderbolt captured the three people, there was no intentional instigation in the crowd, and no one from the refugees bewitched them, it became much quieter.

Li Weiguo ran into the railway while the hot: "Friends, you have also seen that the county has just come to take office and I don't know the situation here. The officials in this county government are not sure where they are going. Please give our county half a day, and when the county finds the officials, they will immediately open the warehouse and release grain."

"I heard it, but why don't you parted quickly and come back in the evening, otherwise you will be punished by gathering people to rebel and behead them all." Zhang Xiaoliu made a threat and cooperated with Li Weiguo to sing one with a blush and the other with a blush.

The refugees immediately scattered, fearing that the government would be labeled as a rebellion by the government, and that they would not be able to afford to be promoted to the common people.

Li Weiguo personally sat in the hall and interrogated the three suspects, but he had fewer necessary roles, including county magistrate, chief clerk, and household, rituals, soldiers, punishments, officials and other yamen runners.

But he had a hundred military-trained guards, each with his back and waist, and his long spears poked at him, with a faint murderous aura, which was much more powerful than the yamen runners.

Not long after, the three suspects were brought up, each with a bruised nose and a swollen face. It was obvious that Zhang Xiaoliu had been tortured in advance. Li Weiguo didn't mind this. This kind of torture was common even in the civilized era, let alone in this era when people were not treated as human beings.

Zhang Xiaoliu handed the confession to Li Weiguo. After seeing it, Li Weiguo was furious. It turned out that all this happened today was secretly instructed by the chief clerk Xiao Yang, with the purpose of inciting the riots to attack the county government. It would be better if he could take advantage of the chaos to kill Li Weiguo, otherwise he would rob the county government and the granary. The court also punished Li Weiguo, making him unable to bear it. At the same time, the grain in the granary was also replaced by Xiao Yang. As long as he burned it, he would die without evidence.

"I'm afraid there's more than that. I just sent someone to check the granary. Most of the food used for disaster relief is fake. So who will tell me where the other foods of disaster relief have gone?" Li Weiguo asked lightly, his calm words were full of irresistible power.

The three criminals were already afraid of being beaten. They knew that the young county magistrate in front of them could kill them at will on a charge, so they did not dare to hide it and reported directly.

"My dear master, we are just following the order of Chief Xiao to burn down the county's accounts and granaries over the years under the order of Chief Xiao. As for the whereabouts of the disaster relief food, the villain does not know, so I hope the master will observe clearly."

No need to guess, this was a seamless plan, inciting the rioters to snatch granaries, and then taking the opportunity to burn the granary and county government accounts, and push everything to the refugees. The court could not find Xiao Zhubu and others. If they could assassinate Li Weiguo in the chaos, then these refugees would quickly escalate to kill officials and rebel. Xiao Zhubu and others could legitimately send troops to suppress, kill people to silence, and confirm everything, becoming an iron case that no one knows. They would be at ease and boldly greedy for the court's disaster relief food and salary.

"It's really a good plan!"
Chapter completed!