SFS Chapter 526 Guess
Chapter 526 Guess
Chapter 526 Guess
Xu Yanbin breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the civilian husband was appeased, and asked someone to move a stool, stood on it, and said loudly: "Everyone, the court is sympathetic to the people. It's gone, and there is still a prison sentence, everyone, don't be provoked by others."
"Master Xu, the imperial court hired us instead of recruiting corvée. We are naturally grateful, but we can't give us moldy food."
"Yeah, moldy food will eat people to death."
"My lord, please let us see if the food is moldy."
Although Xu Yanbin is not a celebrity, he has been in the officialdom for so many years, and he is not useless.
From the words of these common people, he sensed the taste of conspiracy.
Regardless of whether it was moldy food or not, these peasants were obviously provoked.
"Everyone, there must be a misunderstanding about this matter. Don't believe the rumors. Someone must have deliberately instigated this matter." Xu Yanbin said loudly.
"My lord, how do you explain the sudden diarrhea of so many people?"
"Yes."
"It's no problem if you want to see the food, but there can't be so many people going, right? Everyone stand in line according to their respective teams, and each team chooses one person. How about I take them to see it?" Xu Yanbin said.
What Xu Yanbin said is reasonable, and now that no one is instigating, the civilian husband is willing to accept the arrangement.
Xu Yanbin said to the small foremen: "Now go and count the number of your subordinates immediately, and find out who spread the rumors."
"Yes."
After dismissing the little foreman, Xu Yanbin called an official to give some instructions.
The officer took the order, turned and left.
After a cup of tea, the small foremen came back.
"My lord, one of my civilian husbands is missing."
"My lord, I'm missing one too."
According to Xu Yanbin's statistics, basically every small foreman has a small number of civilian husbands under his command.
Xu Yanbin has now confirmed that someone secretly changed the food and spread rumors.
It is very likely that some of the civilian husbands who cooked were also inserted.
At this moment, the former official came back and said: "My lord, some of the food has indeed been replaced with moldy food, and some of the folks who cook can't find it. The food was disposed of."
"I see, you go down."
Xu Yanbin sent the officials away, and said to the small foremen, "Now each of you choose a representative, and then take them to see the grain."
The moldy grain had already been disposed of, so the folks naturally couldn't find the moldy grain.
No moldy grain was seen, and the peasants did not dare to make trouble anymore.
Just at this time, the person Xu Yanbin sent to invite the doctor before also came back.
The doctor got an explanation when he mentioned it, and found a random reason to deal with the civilian husband.
Xu Yanbin finally let go of his worries when he saw that the civilian husband had finally started to build roads normally again.
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Changan
"Your Highness, something is wrong."
Li Chengqian was listening to Fang Xuanling's lecture when Yao Yuanwen rushed in suddenly.
"Presumptuous, what's the point of being flustered?" Li Chengqian reprimanded.
Yao Yuanwen knelt down with a plop, and said, "Please forgive me, Your Highness."
Fang Xuanling smiled and said: "Your Highness, since he is in such a hurry, he must have something important to do, so why don't you listen to something first before talking about it."
"The master is right."
Li Chengqian looked at Yao Yuanwen and said, "Tell me, what happened?"
"Your Highness, there is an urgent message from the person in charge of road construction in Luoyang. Some people have replaced the grain of the peasants with moldy grain, causing many peasants to suffer from diarrhea. There are also people spreading rumors, which almost caused a civil uprising." Yao Yuanwen said.
"What!" Li Chengqian's expression changed, and he asked, "How is it now?"
"Returning to Your Highness, fortunately the official in charge, Xu Yanbin, was calm in the face of danger. He comforted the peasants while sending people to dispose of the moldy grain. This did not cause a catastrophe," Yao Yuanwen said.
Li Chengqian breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "Have you caught anyone suspicious?"
He's the supervisor of road repairs, and he's to blame for anything that goes wrong.
"I'm afraid those people have already left." Fang Xuanling said.
Yao Yuanwen was stunned for a moment, and said: "What Fang Xiang said is that those people have already run away, and none of them were caught."
Li Chengqian bowed respectfully to Fang Xuanling, and said: "I also ask Master Fang to enlighten me."
Fang Xuanling shook his head, and said: "Your Highness, I also guessed it from Yao Neishi's words, who did it, even the old minister can't guess."
"Fortunately, there was no chaos." Li Chengqian was a little disappointed, but he was still very fortunate that there was no chaos.
"No, His Royal Highness, don't be too happy, those people's goals have been achieved." Fang Xuanling said.
"Achieved?" Li Chengqian was puzzled and said, "Master Fang, why did you say that?"
The civilian husband was appeased and did not cause chaos. How can the other party's goal be achieved?
Fang Xuanling said lightly: "Those people carefully arranged this situation, how could they be so easily appeased. If someone continued to stir up the emotions of the people, the people would not have time to deal with the moldy food when they were angry. "
"Then what is their purpose?" Li Chengqian asked puzzled.
Fang Xuanling smiled slightly, but did not speak.
Li Chengqian understood that Fang Xuanling was asking him to think for himself, so he didn't continue to ask, and frowned and thought hard.
"Gu knows, their goal is Gu." Li Chengqian exclaimed.
Fang Xuanling looked at Li Chengqian approvingly, as Li Chengqian said, those people's goal was Li Chengqian.
"No, if their goal is to be alone, why would it be better to take people away in advance, continue to incite and cause riots?" Li Chengqian wondered.
"What's the difference between rioting and not rioting? What they want is an excuse to attack His Highness. It is estimated that His Majesty already knows about this matter, and tomorrow morning, there will be many officials impeaching His Highness." Fang Xuanling said.
If you continue to incite, it may be exposed. Once someone is caught, you can even catch the person behind it.
For the man in the dark, all he wanted was a reason to attack Li Chengqian.
Don't let Li Chengqian finish the road in peace and win people's hearts.
"There are records of recruiting civil servants. As long as we find out those civilian husbands who disappeared and catch them, we will be able to find out who is behind them." Li Chengqian said bitterly.
Fang Xuanling shook his head, and said: "Your Highness forgot, this time we are hiring civilians, not conscripts. The information of those civilians is likely to be false, and nothing can be found out."
If corvee is imposed, there will be records of who is serving corvee in each village.
But the hired men didn't take the time to register one by one.
"Then what should we do now?" Li Chengqian said a little discouraged.
Fang Xuanling said: "Your Highness is going to plead guilty to His Majesty now. You must be sincere and don't make any excuses."
No matter what, Li Chengqian is the main person in charge of road construction, and he has an inescapable responsibility for anything that happens.
In this way, when Li Shimin mentions the impeachment tomorrow, he will not be too angry.
"Thank you Master Fang, I'll go here."
There was a trace of hatred in Li Chengqian's eyes, he felt that Li Tai probably did this.
When he is impeached, Li Shimin is likely to make Li Tailai responsible for road construction.
Whoever makes the most profit is also the most suspected.
(End of this chapter)