When Yun Zheng and his personal guards arrived at the south of the city where the fight took place, they heard a commotion from afar.
Yun Zheng's eyelids jumped. Shen Kuan and five hundred guards were unable to quell the fight?
"Your Majesty, Commander Shen and his men have been surrounded by those who were fighting!"
Just when Yun Zheng was puzzled, a royal guard came running to report with a look of panic on his face.
"What?"
Yun Zheng's face suddenly fell, and he shouted angrily: "Pass the order down, everyone immediately follow me to quell the riot! Anyone who dares to stop us will be killed!"
At this moment, the murderous aura that Yun Zheng had honed on the battlefield suddenly erupted.
He didn't believe that Shen Kuan, leading five hundred fully armored cavalrymen, could be surrounded by a group of rioters.
It was obvious that Shen Kuan did not want to harm the lives of those rioters.
But those rioters took Shen Kuan's kindness as their weakness!
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Following Yun Zheng's order, the eyes of a group of guards suddenly became sharp.
Soon, Yun Zheng led a large group of guards to the scene of the riot.
The scene was packed with people, and a rough estimate was that there were at least two to three thousand people.
Shen Kuan and the five hundred guards could only gather together and take a defensive posture.
"Their reinforcements have arrived!"
"Stop them, we can't let them take the clan leader away!"
"Stop them..."
Seeing more government troops coming, the crowd burst into shouts again.
As the shouts rang out, some rioters immediately rushed over with rakes, sticks and other things in their hands.
“Bold!”
Seeing these people rushing over, the guards in front shouted angrily: "How dare you, the rioters, attack the prince?"
Prince?
Hearing the voice of the Royal Guards, the few rioters running in front subconsciously stopped.
They relied on their large numbers and thought that the law did not punish them in large numbers, so they dared to resist the government troops.
But fighting against government troops and attacking the prince are two different things.
If you attack the prince, you will be beheaded!
No matter how strong their sense of ethnic honor is, they are still afraid of death!
Just when those rioters hesitated and dared not move forward, a man next to them suddenly shouted: "Let's rush over together. Even the prince can't do anything to us! Anyway, no one can take Master Su away!"
As this man's voice sounded, the rioters, who were originally a little frightened, began to stir again.
Yun Zheng narrowed his eyes slightly, suddenly raised his hand and pointed at the person who was speaking, and shouted angrily: "Go! Bring me the head of that bastard who fanned the flames!"
Following Yun Zheng's order, several guards immediately rushed out on horseback.
Seeing several people rushing towards him, the man who fanned the flames panicked and immediately shouted, "Stop them and let them know that the people of our Su family are not easy to bully!"
After being shouted at by this person, a few hot-headed rioters actually rushed forward foolishly.
However, as soon as they approached, the guards swept over with their cavalry muskets.
Bang!
The force of the cavalry lance directly knocked away the fastest rioter.
Before the others could react, the people behind them had already caught up and fired their muskets wildly. Several people all fell to the ground screaming.
Seeing that the situation was not good, the person who fanned the flames wanted to escape into the crowd, but it was too late.
A royal guard drew his sword and rushed over, chopped off the man's head with a single swipe.
The guard thrust the head in his hand onto his lance, raised it high and shouted, "Put down your weapons! Otherwise, I will kill you all!"
Looking at the head held high, the rioters, who were originally aggressive, suddenly panicked.
The originally noisy scene suddenly became quiet.
They thought that the law did not punish everyone.
I didn't expect that this group of people would actually kill people!
Although most of these rioters have the surname Su, most of them are actually just ordinary people. They are all hot-headed and dare to do so because they rely on their large numbers.
The sight of the head in front of them quickly calmed down many hot-headed people.
An indescribable feeling of fear quickly spread.
"Bang……"
A man dropped the stick in his hand and knelt on the ground in panic, "I, a humble man, kowtow to Your Majesty."
As this man knelt, the others finally came to their senses.
Yes!
This is the prince!
Not only did they not perform any formal ceremony before, they even wanted to surround the prince and the people he brought with him?
Soon, everyone dropped the messy weapons in their hands, retreated to the side in panic, knelt down, and made way for a path in the middle.
Many people buried their heads and didn't dare to look up.
They didn't know where they got the courage from before, and they even wanted to surround the prince.
He must be having a brain seizure!
In an instant, almost all the people involved in the fight knelt down, and only a few who had made great contributions were exempted from the kneeling ceremony.
Yun Zheng ignored these people and quickly met up with Shen Kuan and others under the protection of his personal guards.
Shen Kuan also hurried forward, lowering his head in shame, "I have failed to do my job well, please punish me!"
"You are really promising!"
Yun Zheng glared at Chen Kuan angrily and scolded him in a low voice: "I will deal with you later!"
Shen Kuan lowered his head even lower, his face full of shame.
Yun Zheng glanced at Shen Kuan and asked loudly, "Where is Su Zan?"
"I am Su Zan, your humble servant, honored to meet His Majesty!"
Su Zan hurriedly trotted out from the other side.
"Get it!"
Yun Zheng was too lazy to talk nonsense and directly ordered his men to arrest Su Zan.
Su Zan's heart twitched, and he immediately questioned with dissatisfaction. "Your Majesty, what crime have I committed?"
"What crime?"
Yun Zheng looked at Su Zan coldly, "Your ineffective governance has led to large-scale armed conflicts in Juping. Tell me, what crime have you committed? Don't you want to be an official? I will grant your wish!"
He had met this Su Zan when he was in Jingyang Prefecture.
He had asked Tuohuan to remind those who resigned long ago that there was no resignation, only dismissal and investigation!
Although he is not clear about the specific situation now, the series of armed conflicts in Ju Ping must be directly or indirectly related to the county magistrate Su Zan.
If Su Zan had been able to forcefully quell the fights from the beginning, why would so many fights have occurred?
Facing Yun Zheng's questioning, Su Zan opened his mouth slightly, hesitated for a long time, but ultimately said nothing.
No matter how many reasons he had, or how many difficulties he faced, large-scale armed fights broke out one after another in Juping, and as the county magistrate, he did have an unshirkable responsibility.
Yun Zheng wanted to use this incident to punish him, and he really had no way of making excuses.
After calming Su Zan down, Yun Zheng asked Su Zan with a cold face, "Are all the seven elders of the Su family here?"
“No…no!”
Su Zan hung his head and replied, "Only the clan leader Su Henian and two other clan elders are here..."
“Shen Kuan!”
Yun Zheng shouted.
"I will be here!"
Shen Kuan took a step forward.
"Take people and get him immediately!"
Yun Zheng deliberately raised his voice and shouted murderously: "Take all the seven elders of the Su family and their families to the county government office! Anyone who dares to resist, regardless of gender, age or status, will be executed on the spot!"
"yes!"
Shen Kuan loudly accepted the order.
After Yun Zheng finished giving the order, he looked at the people who participated in the fight with a dignified look, "I heard that the Su family is the number one family in Fuzhou, and no one dares to offend them! Today, I want to provoke the Su family!"
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