Died In Infancy! My Wife Is Actually A Villain

Chapter 172 Erya

Seeing how quickly the other party responded, Li Hongxiong tightened his eyes and reminded in a cold voice: "These grains must be distributed to those farmers. If I know that you have embezzled the grains, you know what will happen."

Zhou Zhi immediately lowered his head and said with a smile on his face: "Don't worry, Mr. Li, this is food sent by the imperial court. Naturally, I don't have the guts to take it privately."

"You'd better not have the guts."

After speaking, Li Hongxiong waved his sleeves, turned and left the lobby.

The riots that occurred this time were obviously due to the fact that the people had no food to eat and were forced to do so. In other words, the current disaster situation in Huzhou was not as simple as Zhou Zhi said.

Although he also had the intention of swallowing the food, this was a mission assigned to him by His Majesty after all, and he did not want to mess up the matter.

Rather than receiving news about Zhou Zhi at home, it would be better to take people out to see the situation in person. If it is really serious, he must find a way to solve it.

Looking at Li Hongxiong's retreating back, Zhou Zhi narrowed his eyes and all the smiles on his face disappeared.

In recent years, he has done nothing to honor the head of the household department in Kyoto. Every time he secretly swallowed some of the food and taxes, some of them went into the other party's pockets.

Now that the imperial court finally sent food, he kept one third of it himself, but he reminded himself not to take it. Wouldn't it be a bit unkind to do so?

But it doesn't matter, Huzhou is his territory anyway, and if he wants to consume the food quickly, he can only handle it.

As for how much it will sell, that's up to him.

After thinking for a while, Zhou Zhi stopped thinking about what happened before and turned to look at the government servant next to him, "Where is Li Hao now?"

The Yamen servant lowered his head and replied: "There is a medical clinic not far from the south of the city."

"Let's go, take me there first to see the situation." Zhou Zhi said coldly.

He took in a new concubine a few years ago, and this Li Hao is the brother of this concubine, and he can also be regarded as his brother-in-law.

Zhou Zhi dotes on this concubine very much, and Li Hao also works on his own at the recommendation of the concubine. However, relying on his status, this guy often bullies the people, and Zhou Zhi has to wipe his ass every time.

Now that something big happened to the other party, if he didn't go and take a look, some of the concubines at home would probably make trouble with him.

Not long after, Zhou Zhi was led by the yamen to a medical clinic in the south of the city. After entering the room, he quickly found Li Hao.

At this moment, he was lying quietly on the bed, his face was pale, the sleeves on his right hand and right foot were empty, and his whole person was extremely depressed.

However, when he saw Zhou Zhi approaching, Li Hao's eyes lit up and he became extremely excited, "Zhou, Mr. Zhou, you have to avenge me! Those people were so vicious that they actually destroyed my My limbs and my roots were broken!”

Although Li Hao is Zhou Zhi's brother-in-law, Zhou Zhi is much older than the other person. Coupled with the gap in status, Li Hao only dares to address the other person by his official position.

"Does Cui'er know your situation?" Zhou Zhi asked.

The Cui'er he was talking about was his concubine, Li Hao's sister.

Li Hao shook his head, "No, I don't have time to tell my sister, Mr. Zhou, I am completely useless now, you must avenge me and cut those guys into pieces!"

Zhou Zhi nodded, "Don't worry, I have sent people to look for these people again. I will give you an explanation when the time comes. You can stay here to recover."

Zhou Zhi had no intention of letting him go if he dared to run wild on the territory of Qingshui County.

"Okay, thank you, Mr. Zhou."

Li Hao kept nodding, his eyes full of gratitude.

....

Gu Chen and his party returned to Tanjiang Village and handed the girl over to the care of the old village chief.

While communicating on the road, Gu Chen also learned something about the girl. The girl was called Erya, and she had a nickname. She was from a village near Qingshui County and had lived with her grandfather since she was a child. In terms of age, he will be fourteen in a few days.

However, judging from her height and figure, it is difficult to tell that the other party is a fourteen-year-old girl.

After all, she looks a bit small.

Then, the old village chief sent several younger villagers to help her bury her grandfather, and the other party's mood became more stable.

In the evening, after dinner, the old village chief arranged accommodation for Gu Chen and others.

Erya chatted with Xiaozizi relatively well and stayed at the village chief's house.

In the room, Gu Chen was lying on the wooden bed, looking at the beams above in a daze.

After dealing with the group of government officials today, he did not choose to showdown directly with Li Hongxiong and the magistrate of Qingshui County.

Because now is not the time.

The disaster is still in its early stages, and they can use improper supervision as an excuse to excuse themselves.

Then the greedy grains are taken out and distributed to the people, so that they will receive a slight punishment at most, and they will not even lose their official positions.

After Gu Chen is gone, the other party will still be able to abuse his power and harm the people.

This is not what Gu Chen wants to see.

Now that he is here, he must completely eliminate this big scourge in Qingshui County.

And he knew that within a few days, farmers in various regions would gather to rebel and lead people to besiege Qingshui County.

There is no other reason than that there is nothing to eat and the price of food in the county is too ridiculous.

Even if they were to die anyway, they wouldn't just rebel, at least they could still have enough to eat.

Only then will there be a real outbreak in Huzhou.

In the original plot, the magistrate of Qingshui County did not expect that these untouchables would dare to join forces to resist, resulting in the entire Qingshui County being captured by a team of farmers, and countless officers, soldiers, and children of aristocratic families were killed.

Afterwards, Emperor Wu received the news and sent the sixth prince Gu Tianming to deal with and control it.

Of course, Gu Chen is still a little worried.

The people he brought this time were not many. Although they were all experienced in battles, they could not be compared with the officers and soldiers of a county. In addition, Li Hongxiong also brought hundreds of soldiers here this time. If the two of them jumped over the wall in a hurry, he might be a little invincible.

"But things still can't be delayed for too long. If we really wait for the riots in Huzhou, the people who will die the most will be the common people." Gu Chen murmured in his heart.

Most farmers chose to resist because they were forced to do so. If they had a full meal to eat, they would not be like this.

Another point, if Gu Chen remembers correctly, most of the shops selling grain in Qingshui County are actually owned privately by the magistrate of Qingshui County.

Then they treat the public grain as private grain and sell it, making huge profits from it.

As for those who replaced him, most of them were other officials who transported their family's surplus grain to Huzhou, and then took advantage of the disaster crisis to make a fortune from the national crisis.