Realizing This Is A Wuxia World After Cultivating For 300 Years Chapter 65: 0 surname heart 1 thought room
"What's going on in front?" Cui Heng got down from the carriage, looked at the people of Lu County in front, and asked Liu Litao beside him.
"This, this is probably written by Sun Panshi and others." Liu Litao trembled with anger, gritted his teeth and said, "My lord, these people are already lawless, and most of these people are bewitched by them!"
"I'm afraid there are thousands of people. What a great skill!" Cui Heng sneered and said to Hui Shidao, "Go over and ask, what's going on?"
"Yes! My lord!" Hui Shi saluted and accepted the order.
"Those people are probably watching our joke." Cui Heng glanced at the distant city wall of Lu County, and said with a smile, "Liu Juncheng, let the accompanying soldiers prepare to release food and salt!"
After he accepted the position of prefect of Lu County, he kept Liu Litao by his side as the county magistrate, which helped him quickly understand various affairs of Lu County, and it was also more convenient to collect the emotions of all beings.
"Yes! Your Excellency!" Liu Litao nodded quickly, and exclaimed, "Your Excellency is really good at predicting things, and I have expected this obstacle a long time ago."
"Go, go." Cui Heng waved his hands and smiled.
This Liu Litao's official habits have not changed, and his three words are always flattering. Fortunately, he is still sincere in his actions, and the soldiers behind him were quickly mobilized.
Cui Heng's entourage to Lu County City is not small.
In addition to Hui Shi, Xu Feng'an, Liu Litao, and Qian Cang, there were more than a dozen disaster victims who originally fled from Dachang County to Juhe County as soldiers.
When a new official takes office in a different place, especially in a place like Lujun City where a hole has been dug, he must make preparations in advance.
If you want to gather people's hearts, win the love of the people, and collect positive emotions, you must have your own people who can be used to do things from the beginning.
There must be at least a dozen of them.
These former disaster victims in Dachang County are undoubtedly the best choice.
They are absolutely loyal to Cui Heng, and even think that their lives belong to Cui Heng.
On the other hand, it was also because Cui Heng brought a lot of supplies to Lujun City, which needed to be transported.
It is true that he can also use magic to make those materials after he arrives at Lujun City, but that would be considered fishing out of water.
You can only harvest emotions on a large scale at one time, and there is no follow-up.
After the 50,000 troops were submerged in a bowl of water in Juhe County, he didn't receive many emotions from sentient beings.
This is not in line with the concept of sustainable development.
It is better to arrange more manpower, and it will be better to proceed step by step.
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As soon as Hui Shi came to the gate of Lu County, more than a dozen people immediately surrounded him.
"Officer, you are the Lord Sheriff, please let the Lord Sheriff give us a way to survive, we can't even afford food!"
"Please don't raise the price of food, Lord Magistrate. We ordinary people can't afford it. Please, Lord, give us a way to survive!"
"There is also the Yan family. My family has not dared to eat salt for three days. The child's body is getting weaker and weaker. It is a pity that he is still growing! Woooo!!"
The more these people talked, the more excited they became, and some even started to push forward, almost completely surrounding Hui Shi.
Clang!
Hui Shi lightly shook the steel knife at his waist, looked around with cold eyes, and shouted loudly: "Everyone, the prefect is alive and loves the people like a son, and don't get excited, he will definitely help you solve the problem of!"
Ordinary people are afraid of swords, and when they saw the battle, they subconsciously took a few steps back.
"How to solve it, can he still spit out the money he ate?!"
At this time, someone in the crowd suddenly shouted, "I've heard it for a long time. The new county guard conspired with the grain merchants and salt merchants to raise the price several times, and he took half of the commission!"
"Who is talking nonsense!" Hui Shi yelled angrily, and wanted to go out to check, but was surrounded by people from the inner three floors and the outer three floors, unable to move at all.
"Officer! Is it true that the prefect is getting commission from merchants?"
"My lord! Have pity on us! If this continues, we won't be able to survive!"
"Officer, official..."
The voices of countless people buzzed in Hui Shi's ears, making him extremely irritable, and he almost couldn't help but draw his sword to cut people.
But these people are not from the Huang family in Juhe County, so they cannot be killed at will.
He could only hold back forcibly.
However, Hui Shi is a warrior in the Qi Condensation Realm after all, so he can slowly push these people away with his true energy, and he can still return to Cui Heng's side.
"My lord, the situation is not optimistic." Hui Shi reported in the past, and said in a deep voice: "Someone is mixing among these common people to sow discord, saying that my lord, you are partnering with merchants and competing for profits with the people."
"Have you found out who it is?" Cui Heng asked.
"My subordinates were surrounded by common people, so I couldn't find out." Hui Shi nodded a little ashamed.
"No problem." Cui Heng said with a smile. "Go again and tell these people that when you come to buy grain and salt from me, you can buy it at half the usual price, and each person is limited to 20 catties of grain and one catty of salt.
"However, every commoner who comes to collect grain and salt must say something about the merchants who are driving up the price of grain and salt. Then you organize people to record all these."
"Yes! My lord!" Hui Shi returned immediately.
"My lord, I have already discovered that person just now." Xu Feng'an, who was pretending to be an old scholar, wondered, "Why don't you let me catch him directly?"
"If you arrest people now, you won't be able to kill the grass." Cui Heng smiled lightly, and glanced at the gatehouse on the city wall.
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At this time, in the gatehouse on the city wall of Lu County.
Sun Panshi and Wang Jinsheng were sitting and drinking, looking at the scene outside jokingly.
"Brother Wang Xian, how do you think Cui Junshou will deal with this raging public opinion?"
Sun Panshi drank a glass of fine wine and laughed loudly, "This is probably the first new sheriff in history to be blocked by the people at the gate of the city! Hahaha!"
"Brother Sun, haven't you noticed the twenty or so carts brought by the new sheriff?" Wang Jinsheng didn't answer the question, looked outside, and said with a chuckle, "I'm afraid there is a lot of food inside."
"How is it possible? Can he still move food from Juhe County here to help the people?" Sun Panshi shook his head and said, "Besides, Juhe County has been poor for a long time, how can there be so much food to transport?"
"When this prefect Cui was in Juhe County, he opened a warehouse to release grain and rescued thousands of victims." Wang Jinsheng still looked outside, "I think this hurdle will not be difficult for him, we should prepare The next countermeasure."
"Brother, I'm worrying too much..." Sun Panshi still didn't quite believe it, but when he saw the changes outside, he stood up abruptly and shouted in shock, "How is it possible, he really brought so many Food?!"
"Not just food, but also salt!" Wang Jinsheng's eyes became slightly fascinated, and he suddenly smiled, "Hahaha, this is interesting. If it is too easy to be suppressed, it will make me feel boring."
"Oh, it's just an act of buying people's hearts!" Sun Panshi was still unconvinced, and sneered, "After these days of publicity, the image of the new county guard and merchants partnering with the people for profit is irreversible!
"Even if he dares to attack those merchants after entering the city, his image will not be good in the hearts of the people, they just think he is crossing the river and tearing down the bridge!"
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Cui Heng brought twenty carts of grain and five carts of salt.
Naturally, the food is not enough to sell to these tens of thousands of refugees, so it is first come, first served.
Then, promise that there will be more in the future, and you can go to the Sheriff's Office to buy them.
And they will try their best to lower the prices of grain, salt and other livelihood industries.
In this way, the people will naturally disperse.
Even if there is support in it, it will have no effect in the face of real food and salt.
"Have you written down all the merchant's information?" Cui Heng asked Hui Shi.
"My lord, I've written it all down." Hui Shi nodded and said angrily, "A total of thirteen grain merchants and six salt merchants all raised their prices seven times by coincidence!"
"Good!" Cui Heng nodded slightly.
"My lord, even though you sold them food at half price, some people still feel that this is an act of buying people's hearts." Hui Shi said with some concern, "I still think that you and those merchants are in the same group."
"It's okay." Cui Heng waved his hand, said nothing else, and returned to the carriage directly, "Go to the city!"
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After dealing with the city gate incident, Cui Heng succeeded in becoming the prefect of Lu County.
Sun Panshi and others were waiting for the new sheriff to make a move.
But three days have passed.
No news came out from the Sheriff's Mansion.
All I know is that Cui Heng is arranging people around him to take up various positions.
There seems to be no sign of doing it.
Moreover, during the past three days, food and salt have been continuously transported from Juhe County through the Honghe River.
It is still sold to the common people at half price!
It seems that the food and salt there are inexhaustible.
This made Sun Panshi and the other popular people almost scold their mothers, they couldn't even find the people to go to the sheriff's mansion to make trouble.
I could only curse Cui Heng's food and salt to run out quickly.
After more than ten days, the food and salt are still flowing.
There is no sign of severing.
Songs praising the new sheriff have even begun to circulate in the city of Lu County.
Sun Panshi and others could bear it, but the major grain merchants and salt merchants under them could not hold on.
For more than half a month without a penny, any businessman would explode.
As a result, merchants began to buy grain from the people at twice the price, and then sold it at three times the original price.
Food and salt are important, but money also understands people's hearts.
It is inevitable that someone could not help being tempted to sell part of the grain and salt in their hands.
This has led to the fact that the overall price of food and salt remains high despite the existence of half-price food and salt.
The people soon began to spontaneously picket those who sold grain and salt to merchants.
As a result, grain merchants and salt merchants quickly tripled the purchase price.
As a result, more people secretly sold grain and salt.
The price quickly increased to five times.
It is almost seven times the original size.
At this moment, the grain and salt transported from Juhe County suddenly stopped!
The County Sheriff's Office also issued a notice that there was really no food and salt to be transported.
The price of grain and salt soared to fifteen times their original value in an instant!
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The people were furious, but there was nothing they could do.
The entire city of Lu County has almost become a powder keg.
It's about to explode.
Finally, a large number of people couldn't bear it anymore, and they ran to the sheriff's office to file a complaint, hoping that the sheriff would severely punish these unscrupulous merchants.
This time, no one instigated it, everyone was spontaneous, and they all just went to the prefect for help.
Instead of asking questions.
In the past month, the image of the new sheriff fighting against the grain merchants and salt merchants in the city by himself has been established in the hearts of the people.
No one will believe that Cui Heng and those merchants are in the same group.
Within the Sheriff's Office.
Holding a list, Cui Heng said to Hui Shi who was waiting for orders: "Thirteen grain merchants, six salt merchants, nine medicine halls, twelve carbon merchants, seven...all of these are checked. It's clear, right?"
"Yes, my lord, everything has been investigated." Hui Shi said respectfully.
"What is the attitude of the people?" Cui Heng asked again.
"Your Excellency, the people in the city are now sincerely admiring you." Hui Shi admires Cui Heng's approach to the extreme, and this is the real way to gather people's hearts.
If they had ransacked the homes of these merchants when they first entered the city, they would definitely not have such a cohesive heart, and they might be stigmatized as killing donkeys.
"Okay!" Cui Heng nodded and smiled. Now, the first goal has been achieved.
Therefore, he immediately slapped the list on the table and said in a deep voice, "Hui Shi listens to the order! All the above-mentioned merchants will have their homes confiscated, and a public trial will be set for a public trial! Anyone who obstructs them will be killed on the spot!"
The pig is fattening.
Time to kill!