"Tie them up." Yu Zizhen rubbed his brows and gave orders while quickly browsing the newly released cannon fodder rescue mission in the system.
This task was suddenly issued by the system when Yu Zizhen and others met those yamen runners. The content of the task was very detailed as always. It not only indicated what she had to do, but also listed the background of the task and related information.
Thanks to this task, Yu Zizhen quickly grasped the specific situation in Feng County.
After learning that the current state of Feng County was entirely caused by the excessive greed of the county magistrate and the clerks and runners in the county government, Yu Zizhen immediately lost all his previous concerns.
She had the yamen runners who were accomplices tied up, and then took people to the county government office and arrested all the officials and yamen runners in the county government office, including the county magistrate.
When the fat-headed county magistrate was first arrested, he kept shouting and threatening Yu Zizhen, and he made up all sorts of charges like treason. But after being stabbed twice by Yu Zizhen, he immediately became obedient.
Yu Zizhen and Yuheng divided the work and cooperated with others to conduct surprise interrogations of all officials and yamen runners, including the county magistrate.
With the information provided by the system as a basis, Yu Zizhen can know who is telling the truth, who is lying, and who is telling both truth and lies just by taking a glance at their confessions.
For those who dared to deceive them, Yu Zizhen ordered her guards to torture them. "If you still don't tell the truth, you will be cut into pieces."
Anyway, these people have done a lot of evil, and it would not be too much if each of them died a hundred times. Yu Zizhen has no mercy on them.
With her words, the interrogation work of Yuheng and others was no longer as difficult as before, and the subsequent interrogation went extremely smoothly. Those who had lied before really did not dare to tell a lie this time.
In order to avoid suffering piecemeal, many people even took the initiative to confess some secret content that the system did not provide to Yu Zizhen.
Yu Zizhen asked people to put together the new confessions from different people to verify each other, and then record them one by one after confirming that they were true.
After her personal guards compiled a book of all the bad deeds done by Fengxian officials, yamen runners, and their relatives and friends, Yu Zizhen ordered people to arrest all the people involved in the case who were not in the county government office and bring them to the gate of the government office.
She would deal with those who deserved death a hundred times there. "For those victims, this may be delayed justice, but it's better late than never."
Yu Zizhen poured three glasses of wine on the steps in front of the county government office in succession, as a simple way to commemorate the poor people who died in vain on this land.
Yaoguang, who was accompanying her in the county government office, got a bunch of incense sticks from somewhere. She lined up the small incense burners that the dog county magistrate used to burn incense in a row at the gate of the county government office, and then lit the incense sticks three by three and inserted them in. After a while, the gate of the county government office was filled with green smoke, and it became like a temple.
Yu Zizhen's mouth twitched slightly, but he did not stop Yaoguang from commemorating those innocent people who died in vain in a way that was more in line with the thinking patterns of people in this era.
The master and servant behaved strangely and stayed at the gate of the county government office for more than half an hour. Especially since there was a long line of people kneeling beside them who usually showed off their power in Feng County, this scene was really worrying.
Driven by curiosity, the people of Feng County came to the vicinity of the county government office in secret after hearing the news.
They didn't dare to get close to the county government office, so they gathered in groups of three or five in the alleys where they could see the gate of the county government office.
"What are they doing?"
"Pouring wine and burning incense, are they worshipping someone?"
"This...worshipping at the gate of the county government office? Who was the one who died?"
"Why do those kneeling ones look so much like the officials from Feng County?"
"And there are those yamen runners who are always so majestic."
"This...does anyone know what happened?"
"I guess the people they harmed came back to take revenge on them."
“.......”
After a suffocating silence, someone in the crowd suddenly tentatively walked out of the narrow alley that hid his figure.
"Hey - where are you going?" An acquaintance reached out to pull the other person back, but his hand hit nothing.
"I'll go see what's going on." The impatient middle-aged man's eyes were slightly red. "If someone is really dealing with them, then I want to get involved too."
He just went out to buy some goods, but when he came back he found that all the dozen or so members of his family except him had died miserably and aggrievedly. In fact, he had long hated those bastards in the yamen.
If it weren't for his relatives and friends who persuaded and stopped him and stopped restricting him from going out until he calmed down, he would have rushed to the county government office and fought those bastards the day he saw the bodies of his family members.
Over the years, he changed his name and surname and lived in Feng County, and refused to move, so that one day he could kill all his enemies and avenge the unjust deaths of his parents, wife, children, brothers, and nephews.
Now that he finally had a chance of revenge, even though he wasn't very sure that his wish would come true, he still wanted to go over and find out.
There were many people who had the same idea as him. When they saw him tentatively approaching the gate of the county government office, seven or eight people with the same ragged clothes and haggard looks soon walked out from the surrounding alleys.
Yu Zizhen had actually already known the purpose of these people's tentative approach from the system's retelling. She put down the small wine jar in her hand and asked, "What are you all doing here?"
"Revenge." The middle-aged man who first suggested getting involved subconsciously told the truth in front of Yu Zizhen.
After seeing the wounds, ropes, and wooden shackles on the county magistrate and others, the middle-aged man felt that his guess was correct. These people were here to cause trouble for these bastards.
With the hope of revenge right before his eyes, the middle-aged man's originally tense nerves couldn't help but relax a little. In addition, although Yu Zizhen had a smile on her face, she was actually a ruthless person who could tie up the county magistrate and put him on display. The middle-aged man admired and feared her. In front of her, he didn't dare to play any tricks at all.
"Oh?" Yu Zizhen dusted off the wine and dust on his hands, stood up, and raised his voice towards the alleys where many people were hiding: "Is there anyone else who wants revenge? If so, come forward together."
After a moment of silence, people tentatively walked out of the alley in groups of three or five.
Yu Zizhen raised the corners of his lips. "In two hours, I will punish these corrupt officials here. All those who have been oppressed and persecuted by them can come here to watch the execution."
Facing the crowd's blazing gazes, which were filled with shock and a touch of disbelief, Yu Zizhen continued, "Afterwards, we will distribute the confiscated grain, gold, and silver to everyone present. Everyone is kindly requested to bring their own bags or buckets to store the grain."
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