"Outrageous! Insolent! Stop right now!"
"You, you rioters, are you trying to rebel?"
When Magistrate Zheng realized that he had actually provoked public anger and attracted so many people to attack him, he was terrified.
My legs were trembling, and my body felt weak.
He shouted, his voice trembling with fear, "Stop! Stop right now! How dare you attack an official of the imperial court? Don't you want to live?"
The crowd seemed to be frightened.
But at that moment, someone in the crowd shouted, "So what if there's an attack? There were attacks last year too!"
"Exactly! Last year, the one who died was a seventh-rank county magistrate, and those 'rioters' got away with it, didn't they?"
"The law doesn't punish everyone! Charge! Kill this corrupt official!"
Two or three people mingled in the crowd, shouting one after another.
The people, who had just been intimidated, were once again incited.
Yes, in Yuezhou, and even in Lingnan, there is a tradition of "civil unrest".
The county magistrates sent by the imperial court have all died. I heard that the prefect of Huangzhou next door also died.
It's just killing a nobody county magistrate now, it shouldn't be a big deal.
As the saying goes, "The law does not punish the masses!"
The people have been oppressed too much by Magistrate Zheng, especially since last winter when he started a new round of land grabbing and seizing farmland.
The already oppressed people suffered even deeper exploitation, and their resentment had been building for a long time.
Now that the opportunity has presented itself, and with constant encouragement from others, people have actually become tempted.
"Charge! Kill the corrupt officials!"
Even from a great distance, Cui Boyong, who had just returned to the back office, heard the commotion.
When he arrived with his troops, the "rioters" had already fled in all directions, leaving only an unrecognizable corpse on the ground.
boom!
A chill ran straight to the back of Cui Boyong's head: What a decisive and ruthless Princess Xie!
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