at this time.
The city walls surrounding the county town did indeed become a gathering place for a group of refugees.
The plague has spread, and many people have already been infected.
Someone kept coughing.
Despite Su Yong's insistence on going out to maintain order, he arranged for the yamen runners to start brewing herbal medicine.
But it didn't have much effect.
Most of the medicines prepared in advance were completely ineffective.
The advisor kept advising, "Master, the plague has already started to spread. It's no use. If you ask me, we should just ignore them. We can barely manage our own people in the city. Where would we find extra medicine for them?"
Shi Jingxing and Duan Zhujun followed behind.
Both of them looked gloomy.
Su Yong: "I have already issued a notice in the city, telling people not to go out and wander around, so why are people still getting infected?"
Shi Lang's expression was complicated: "Sir, we've found out. It's basically all from the Chu family..."
"The Chu family? The one that runs the pawnshop?"
"yes."
Su Yong seemed to have suddenly realized something.
The clerk whispered, "The yamen runners found out that the Chu family bribed the guards at the gate to secretly bring people into the city to work. And the guard at the gate happens to be surnamed Lu, a relative of the county magistrate, from the same village, with the same grandfather."
Duan Wangshu is increasingly convinced that Lu Chao's actions are suicidal. Why did he agree to let the Chu family bring people? He must have given them benefits.
Now, looking at Shi Lang's actions, he paused slightly and added a comment.
"My lord, I have reviewed this person's records of leaving the city gates, and they are all uniformly represented by circles and wooden sticks."
The crowd, enraged, laughed instead.
Su Yong coldly rebuked, "Our county magistrate has quite the airs of an official. He can even get a man from the village who can't read into the government office and get a government salary?"
They really love helping their own clansmen and relatives, sparing no effort in doing so.
Shi Lang continued, "My lord, besides these, when I was inspecting the streets, I also discovered that despite the rule that each household can only allow one person to go out once, some people are still taking notes and ignoring the rule, riding their horses recklessly through the streets. They're showing off! The key is that we don't know if they've contracted the plague, so naturally more and more people are getting infected!"
"A police note? What police note?"
"It is said that the note was approved by the county magistrate's brother-in-law."
A slip from the county government alone isn't enough! You need his slip to enter and leave freely.
“There are also people who are taking advantage of the current lockdown to drastically raise the prices of food and vegetables. Normally, you can buy two cucumbers for one coin, but now you can't even buy one for ten coins!”
Furthermore, when we notified the people that they could go out to purchase supplies, some temporary cronies, wielding a tiny, insignificant amount of power, forbade everyone from leaving the house. Even the sick had to endure the illness and could only buy vegetables and medicine at exorbitant prices from places they designated!
These temporary hangers-on and gatekeepers were all, to varying degrees, connected to the county magistrate's brother-in-law, nephew, or some other distant relative.
Su Yong grew increasingly furious as he listened.
"This is outrageous! Who gave him this power? It was the people who granted us, their officials, this power. It is not for us to exploit and oppress the people, but to help them live a better life!"
Is this exploitation meant to incite them to cause trouble and become outlaws?
Duan Wangshu gave a dry laugh.
"My lord, this is why they blocked the news, and I almost missed it while investigating!"
"It is said that those rogue managers colluded with gangs and first threatened that if they caused trouble, they would be arrested and imprisoned, and that their criminal record would prevent their families from studying for the imperial examinations for three generations."
If you're not happy about it, secretly hire some thugs to beat you up.
"In fact, as soon as the first step was taken, everyone backed down."
Many people who fail in their generation rely on their sons or grandsons to study hard and become scholars, which would be better than being an ordinary person!
Bearing weaknesses, they naturally dared not cause trouble and swallowed all their grievances!
As Su Yong listened, his expression grew increasingly grim.
"They've hit our weak spot! Huh?"
Clench your fist tightly.
Zhou Xun, approaching from a distance, had a cold expression.
"You're courting death!"
“Magistrate Su, don’t worry. I will tell the higher-ups the actual situation. This man is doomed, especially in such a chaotic situation. No one can save him. That’s what I’m saying.”
...
"Hey, have you guys heard?"
"Have you heard about Brother Xiong, the biggest gangster boss here before? He's already fled to the countryside..."
Some people are already unable to suppress their restless desires.
"Should we go over there?"
"Walk!"
They left without warning, and about fifty refugees sneaked away.
There were guards at the gate, who had just been maintaining order and distributing medicine to the refugees.
Suddenly someone said, "Let's go to the countryside, find a super rich village, and settle in there for now..."
After thinking for a while, He Da hesitated for a moment, then shook his head and decided against it. He originally wanted to tell the gatekeeper, but after a moment's hesitation, he shook his head and decided against it.
I was recently reprimanded by my goalkeeper supervisor. Was it really necessary?
Don't meddle in other people's business. I heard that my superior and Magistrate Lu are related, and they seem to be from the same clan.
About an hour later.
Su Yong looked at the various chaotic situations that had recently arisen due to the plague.
I was furious.
They directly forced someone to take control of those hangers-on.
A noisy commotion came from outside.
He Da lingered at the magistrate's gate for a long time until he was reprimanded by the yamen runners, at which point he finally opened his mouth and said, "I have important business to report to you, sir. Please inform the constables."
When Master Li, who was gathering evidence about the chaos in the city, heard this, he froze and asked, "What is it?"
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