Someone caught a corrupt official in the county government office and would execute him at the gate of the government office in two hours. After the execution, everyone would be given money and food. The news spread like wildfire.
By the time Yu Zizhen's subordinates followed her instructions and went to various places in the county government office to catch all the escaped criminals, the entrance of the county government office was already surrounded by people in three layers.
Under the scorching gazes of the crowd, Yu Zizhen had all the crimes confessed by the officials and yamen runners read out. Since each of them had killed more than one person, Yu Zizhen simply gave them all a chance to be reborn together.
After the guards read out the charges against those people and retreated, the onlookers, as Yu Zizhen had expected, attacked the officials and yamen runners who were kneeling there because of their resentment and anger.
They would throw rotten eggs, rotten vegetable leaves, stones, tiles, or use long sticks, hoes and other things to hit one or several archenemies they had been targeting for a long time.
This group of people were so excited that they took the initiative to attack, and Yu Zizhen didn't even have time to give orders for his personal guards to execute those officials and yamen runners.
"Master, won't this cause civil unrest?" Seeing that those officials and yamen runners were actually beaten to death by the people of Feng County, Yuheng suddenly became worried about the safety of his own prince and their personal guards.
Yu Zizhen calmly touched his crossbow and said, "Don't worry, they won't dare."
She knew these lower-class people too well. Unless they had no other way to make a living, their first reaction would always be to swallow their anger and avoid oppression, exploitation and malicious harm.
If not for this, the officials and yamen runners in Feng County would not have the ability to act so arrogantly.
Soon, the people of Feng County proved the correctness of Yu Zizhen's inference with their actual actions.
After all the officials and yamen runners were beaten to death, the people who had been very vicious at first immediately returned to their previous honest appearance.
Some of them were frightened and quickly moved away from the murder scene, while most of the rest either shed tears silently or cried loudly.
Yu Zizhen listened quietly to them shouting loudly or whispering about their relatives and friends, and listened to them telling those innocent victims that they had finally avenged each other.
Only after everyone had calmed down did Yu Zizhen order someone to move out some of the rice, flour, gold and silver that his personal guards had found.
Everyone present, regardless of age, gender, or background, received one or two taels of silver and about ten pounds of fine rice and flour from Yu Zizhen's personal guards.
After all the people who came to watch and receive things had dispersed, Yu Zizhen asked his personal guards to go to the slums in the west of the city.
They hired a few clean and efficient women there to help make cakes and steamed buns out of the remaining flour.
A small portion of these cakes and steamed buns were for Yu Zizhen and his companions to carry with them as dry food, while most of them were prepared by Yu Zizhen for the beggars who gathered at the dilapidated temple outside the city.
The reason why most of those people became homeless and became beggars was actually thanks to the corrupt officials. Since Yu Zizhen distributed food to those people in the city who could barely live a normal life, he naturally would not ignore those people in the dilapidated temples outside the city who were in a worse situation.
In addition to the steamed buns and pancakes prepared in advance, Yu Zizhen also prepared small change, rice, meat and vegetables for them.
Meat and vegetables, like rice and flour, were all stockpiled by corrupt officials earlier. Due to the small quantity, Yu Zizhen did not distribute them. In order to avoid waste, she decided to pack them all up and send them to the dilapidated temple.
Yu Zizhen quietly stored all valuable gold, silver, pearls, jade, precious medicinal materials, antiques and paintings into the system warehouse.
Yu Zizhen did not take things like clothes, bedding, tables, chairs, beds, fabrics, silks, porcelain ornaments, tea, wine, etc. She felt that after they left, the braver people in the city would probably sneak in and pick up some bargains.
Anyway, she has already made a fortune, and Yu Zizhen doesn't mind slipping some of it through her fingers to give more to the people in Fengxian who are suffering these days.
After leaving Fengxian County, Yu Zizhen found another county town to enter in his direction.
This time she did not encounter the strange officials and yamen runners like in Feng County, but she was shocked to hear the news of her own death in a teahouse, and was also involuntarily listening to many of the tea drinkers' wild speculations.
Yu Zizhen's personal guards all knew her true identity, so when they heard others discussing the "cause of death" of Yu Zizhen, some of the hot-tempered personal guards almost ran over and overturned the table.
Fortunately, Yu Zizhen reacted quickly and calmed down those hot-tempered guards with just one word, "Come back".
"Master." The guards all felt that this matter was extremely tricky, and at the same time they also despised the cold-bloodedness of the Zhenbei King and his wife.
Their son had been held hostage in Beijing for so many years, so even if he had no merit, he should have worked hard, right? The King of Zhenbei was so quick to turn his back on his own flesh and blood, and this was too sad and infuriating.
Facing the solemn gazes of the crowd, Yu Zizhen smiled and picked up a piece of snack. "Eat quickly, we still have to go shopping to restock after we finish eating."
This is not the place to talk, and Yu Zizhen does not intend to discuss this matter with his personal guards here.
Seeing that she was calm, everyone was puzzled but finally felt a little relieved.
According to Yu Zizhen, everyone quickly drank the tea in the pot and finished all the snacks on the table.
Yuheng asked the waiter to pay the bill, while Yu Zizhen and others packed up their things and walked out of the teahouse in a straight line.
They were going to stay in the city tonight, so after coming out of the teahouse, Yu Zizhen sent two people to find a suitable inn, while she took the majority of the rest of the people to shop along the street.
It was not until the two groups finished their business and reunited that Yu Zizhen took them to have dinner at an old restaurant in the county town, and then everyone returned to the inn they rented.
"Regarding the Zhenbei Palace's claim that I was assassinated by the Lu family, what do you think? Tell us."
Yuheng was the first to speak, "They probably want to add some leverage to their cause of raising an army to support the king."
Yu Zizhen nodded, "That's the reason."
"They're also trying to seize your position as Crown Prince." Tian Heng, one of the hot-tempered guards with a baby face, was so angry that his face turned purple. "These people are really too much. When there's danger, they push you out as a target, and when there's something to gain, they..."
With a bang, Tianheng was kicked hard and accurately by Yuheng under the table.
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