Chapter 42 Kill the dog official and worship the goddess!

The county magistrate felt a chill on his back.

"My lord, what I mean is that our county is now tightly blocked by the people. It has truly become an isolated city!"

"Unless General Sun can come to rescue us, I'm afraid we will be completely starved to death."

"What about the tunnel?"

"Don't we have a tunnel?"

In order to speculate on the price of grain, they closed the Tongmen Pass on the surface, but in fact, each county has a tunnel leading to the outside world.

This tunnel was left by the previous dynasty. It had been abandoned, but in order to speculate on the price of grain, it was dredged by each county.

"Sir, I think you don't quite understand the current situation."

The official took a deep breath: "Our people can't even leave the county office now."

"It's impossible to leave here and go to the tunnel."

"Not only us officials, but even our homes have been besieged, just to offer sacrifices to the goddess."

"Crazy!"

"All crazy."

Just for a few grains of food, these people dared to treat the court officials like this!

The county magistrate was angry and scolded, then sat down on the chair.

"Call all the officials."

He cheered up and gathered all the officials together to discuss countermeasures.

However, so many officials together, but could not think of an effective solution.

"Even if there is a way, we have to be able to leave the government office to implement it. Now we are trapped here and can't do anything."

"Yes, we are trapped here now and can't do anything. Even if all the people in the county office gathered together, they are still less than half of the people outside. We can't get out by force."

"After all, these people just want to fill their stomachs. Otherwise, we would just open the warehouse and put grain in it."

"Open the warehouse?"

"If the warehouse is opened at this time, then the people who were killed before would have died in vain?"

"How can their families agree?"

Several officials started chattering, and Zhixian had a headache when they heard it.

"Okay, now is not the time to argue."

"After all, those who were hacked to death were a minority. I think we should open the warehouse."

"When we get reinforcements, we will kill all these rioters."

The magistrate's eyes flashed with a hint of cruelty.

Since he became an official, he had never suffered such humiliation. He secretly vowed in his heart that he would not let these bastards go!

He appointed a yamen runner to go out and announce the opening of the warehouse to the people.

But the yamen runner stammered and said, "Sir... I dare not."

"I came out to work just to make a living. My family has old people and children, and they all depend on me."

"If I die, then... what will happen to the people in my family!"

The magistrate was so angry that he almost died.

"Stupid, if you don't go, I will kill you right now!"

After hearing the threat from the county magistrate, the yamen runner hurried out helplessly.

Although the people said that this was a good official who loved the people like his own children, all the people working for him knew that he was not that kind.

Those bad ideas were all his.

The yamen runner did not dare to delay and hurriedly opened the door of the county yamen.

Outside the county yamen, the people sat quietly at the gate of the yamen, and some even brought bedding, obviously intending to guard it all night.

The yamen runner announced the news of opening the warehouse with a bitter face, but the people did not buy it.

"We dare not take the grain from the granary, for fear that we will

not be able to eat it even if we take it!" "What's the use of opening the granary to release grain? If the grain is gone, won't we have no money to buy more?"

"You're right, the grain in the granary is limited, but the Goddess's grace is endless. It's more cost-effective to sacrifice a few dog officials than to open the granary to release grain!"

"We all know it, it's because you dog officials from the county government secretly investigated the Goddess Temple, which angered the Goddess!"

"If the Goddess's anger is not calmed down, I'm afraid the Goddess will bring down a heavenly calamity."

The people who shouted were all those whose relatives died because of robbing the granary. Now they have become the supporters of the goddess.

With just a few words from them, some of the people whose emotions were shaken came back to their senses.

Yes!

If the granary really wanted to be opened, it would have been opened when they petitioned last time. Why wait until now?

It's nothing more than seeing that they were really angry, so they wanted to appease them temporarily.

If they really listened to the words of this yamen runner, when their reinforcements came, no one would be able to escape! Instead of believing

in some county magistrate, it is better to believe in the goddess.

"We don't want food, we just want the officials who offended the goddess to offer sacrifices to the sky."

"Yes! Let the dog officials who offended the goddess come out!"

"Kill the dog officials and worship the goddess!"

"Kill the dog officials and worship the goddess!"

"Kill the dog officials and worship the goddess!"

"..."

How could a small yamen runner control this scene?

He shrank his neck and ran back in panic.

This time, the people did not chase after him, but just watched quietly. They had already organized themselves and guarded every exit in the city. These dog officials would definitely not be able to get out.

They wanted to let the dog officials also taste the feeling of being trapped in the government office and tortured by hunger.

Hearing that these people were indifferent to opening the warehouse to release grain, Zhixian felt that things were out of control.

He sat paralyzed in the chair, completely without his previous high spirits: "They are going to trap us to death in the county government office."

Seeing that Zhixian had become like this, some people couldn't help but mutter: "What should we do? They won't really do as they wish and sacrifice eighteen officials, right?"

"What crazy things are you talking about? If we give in to these bastards this time,

what about next time?" "What if the next time it's not eighteen who are going to be sacrificed, but twenty-eight or thirty-eight?" "

That's right. If there really is going to be a sacrifice, it certainly won't be the turn of a high-ranking official like the county magistrate. It will be small officials like us who will die. Don't mention this again."

The entire government office was silent.

They knew that the easiest way to resolve the riots was to select eighteen scapegoats for sacrifice.

But they couldn't be sure if they would become one of the scapegoats, so everyone tacitly stopped talking about the sacrifice.

But their words were heard by the county magistrate. He didn't say anything, but just asked everyone to disperse.

Although no one could go out, there were still some food in the canteen of the county office, so everyone would not starve to death for the time being.

But there were many people in the county government, and no matter how much food there was, it was limited. After two days, there was not much food left in the canteen.

There was no other way, so the people in the canteen had to cut off the meals of some ordinary yamen runners to protect the adults.

But even so, the food was still not enough.

Not only was the food not enough, but many yamen runners in the county government also complained.

"If it weren't for those officials who came up with bad ideas and killed those people who stole food, the current situation wouldn't have happened." "

That's right, the flood only collapsed a tiny road, and one person could have repaired it by moving a brick at a time. How could it take so long to repair it? It's clearly collusion between officials and businessmen to drive up food prices!"