Thief Emperor

Chapter 339: Strong will!
Li Yun's face turned even darker, and without thinking, he slapped him in the face.

"You bastard!"

Li Yun was really angry and shouted, "Where is the envoy of Li Shijun you mentioned?"

"How much benefit did you receive from him?"

The village chief was almost fainted by the slap. Looking at the ferocious Li Yun in front of him, he felt scared to death, his crotch felt hot, and he peed all over the floor.

Li Yun looked at him with disgust, then looked at the other people. Among these people, two were the leaders of the villagers, both of them were around 30 or 40 years old. When they saw Li Yun looking at them, these two people were not afraid at all and looked directly at Li Yun.

Li Yun also tore off the cloth strips on their faces one by one and looked at them expressionlessly: "It's your turn to speak."

The older man spat blood foam on the ground and gritted his teeth and said, "You dog official, if you want to kill me, just kill me. What's there to ask? The yamen runners in your city have robbed or bought seven or eight girls from our village before and after the New Year!"

"Shouldn't such a dog-like government be killed?"

Li Yun kicked him hard in the stomach, and the pain made him speechless immediately.

"I'm asking about the people in the city!"

"With a knife in hand, you can do whatever you want. If you become officials, I'm afraid you will bully people even more than the previous officials!"

Li Yun interrogated these four or five people one by one.

Soon, he knew the general idea of ​​what had happened.

Last winter, someone went to Bailong Village, found several leaders of the village, and brought them gifts.

He gave away a few women and nearly five thousand strings of cash.

At the same time, the so-called subordinate of Li Shijun showed the official seal to the people in Bailong Village and told them that he was a subordinate of Li Shijun.

We must cooperate with Bailongzhai to bring chaos to Changzhou.

However, this plan to disrupt Changzhou did not go particularly smoothly until a riot broke out in a village near Guodi Mountain where officials were killed. The two sides hit it off and entered Changzhou city as good citizens around the end of the year. Not long after the New Year, the riot began.

In the governor's mansion, the leader of Bailong Village let out a miserable howl.

One of his legs was broken by Li Yun.

The leader of the White Dragon Village screamed: "I told you everything, I told you everything!"

"That person told me..."

The village chief cried and wailed, "That person said that the Great Zhou Dynasty is about to be destroyed, Li Shijun..."

He screamed again and continued, "Envoy Li intends to... intends to recruit heroes from Jiangdong, saying... saying that when I accomplish this task, then..."

He cried and said, "Let me serve under Li Shijun as a captain, and we can work together to achieve great things in the future."

Li Yun had no expression on his face from beginning to end. He just glanced at the leader of Bailong Village, and then slowly said: "Look carefully, I am the Li Shijun you mentioned."

The village chief stared at Li Yun with eyes wide open, his face full of disbelief: "You...you..."

"You idiot, how dare you do such a heinous thing and still expect to join the government and become a captain!"

Li Yun glanced at him and sneered, "There are corpses everywhere in Changzhou City. Not to mention that the government can't tolerate you, even I... even the outlaws can't tolerate scum like you!"

At this moment, Li Yun was indeed very angry.

He even became the leader of Cangshan Village again and almost uttered the words "We are the Green Forest Road".

The village chief looked up at Li Yun with his eyes wide open: "You... Envoy Li, you want to..."

Li Yun glanced at him.

"I told you that you are an idiot, but you still don't believe me. If it was really Li who ordered you to do this, you would have been dead the first time I saw you!"

"Can I still keep you until now?"

"You are such a scoundrel who has no brains at all, yet you have such ambitions."

Li Yun put his hands behind his back, looked at the five people who were tied up, and said slowly: "None of you will survive. Three days later, I will personally execute you in Changzhou City!"

After saying that, he turned around and left. As soon as he walked out of the courtyard, Yang Xi came towards him and said with his head down, "Sir, in the dungeon of the state capital, we found the governor of Changzhou, the deputy governor and other Changzhou officials. They were all taken away by these thieves and thrown into the prison. They are suffering a lot."

"but…"

"They're all still alive."

Li Yun said in a low voice: "Kill officials to rebel, kill officials to rebel, in the end the rebellion was launched, the city was occupied, and a lot of people in the city were killed, but these officials in Changzhou are still alive and kicking."

He put his hands behind his back and walked out.

"I'm tired. I'll see them tomorrow." Yang Xi bowed his head and said yes. He first watched Li Yun leave, then hurried over in two or three steps and asked, "Sir, should we block Changzhou City and temporarily prohibit anyone from entering or leaving?"

"Don't open the city gates until I wake up."

Yang Xi bowed his head again: "Yes."

After saying yes, Yang Xi turned around to look at the five people tied up in the yard, then turned around to set up city defenses.

………………

the next day.

As soon as it got light, Li Yun got up from bed early. He did not sleep well that night.

To be honest, he was already very generous to be able to sleep. If those who valued their reputation encountered such a thing, they would probably cut open their stomachs to prove that they only ate a bowl of noodles.

However, Li Yun is still a person with relatively strong spirit.

For him, the events in Changzhou were just some annoyances and would not have a particularly big impact on him.

In his position, as long as he has a clear conscience, it doesn't matter what other people think.

Don’t say that he didn’t do it. Even if he did, so what?

Emperor Wu of Wei was able to massacre everyone in the city.

As the ruler of a region, or someone who is about to become the ruler of a region, one must have this kind of powerful soul, otherwise it will be difficult to accomplish anything.

After getting up, Li Yun first had some food, and then went to the study of the governor's mansion, where he personally wrote a notice to reassure the people. He then gave it to his subordinates and asked them to copy ten copies and post them in various places in the city.

Then, Li Yun ordered his subordinates to deal with the bodies of the people in the city properly and bury all those that needed to be buried to prevent the outbreak of epidemics.

In this way, he was busy until noon. After lunch and a nap, Li Yun finally had time to invite the governor and his deputy of Changzhou to the main hall of the governor's mansion.

The governor of Changzhou was named Wu Bian, and his deputy was named Wan Yong.

The two men entered the main hall one after the other, and their expressions were different after seeing Li Yun.

Governor Wu bowed his head politely, saluted and said, "I am Wu Bian, your humble servant, and I pay my respects to Envoy Li."

The deputy driver surnamed Wan looked straight at Li Yun, then bowed his head reluctantly and said, "Greetings, Envoy Li."

Li Yun naturally noticed his look and said indifferently, "You don't have to look at me like that. I know Wan Biejia must have heard some rumors."

Li Yun lowered his head and drank tea, saying, "To be honest, if the chaos in Changzhou was really caused by Li, no matter how stupid Li was, he would not have made the entire Changzhou city full of the words Li Shijun."

He looked at the two Changzhou chiefs and said slowly, "If I take this opportunity to take over Changzhou, it will be difficult for the two of you to stand here in one piece."

"Is this true?"

Before Wan Yong could speak, Governor Wu beside him bowed his head and said, "Yes, I have figured this out while I was in prison. If Li Shijun was really the mastermind behind this, then it would be impossible for almost everyone of those thieves to know Li Shijun's name."

"Someone must have slandered the envoy's reputation, but the means used were not very clever and the traces were too obvious."

Li Yun snorted: "This man's methods are very clever."

"This matter will not be effective unless it is known to everyone. It doesn't matter whether you officials believe it or not. As long as the people believe it, those people's goal will be achieved."

"Sit down and talk."

The two men hesitated for a moment, but finally sat down.

Li Yun lowered his head to drink tea and asked, "How did you two survive? The villagers in that village came here to kill the officials and rebel."

Before Governor Wu could reply, Wan Yong on the side said in a cold voice: "Those unruly people wanted to kill us, but they were stopped by their accomplices. I heard them call that man the village leader."

"If he hadn't stopped us, Envoy Wu and I would have been dead by now!"

Li Yun pondered for a moment, squinted his eyes and said, "It seems that the village chief surnamed Bai really wants to be an official."

After saying this, Li Yun glanced at the two men and said calmly: "Two days later, I will execute those traitors in Changzhou City."

"When the time comes, come and watch it together."

Wan Yong frowned: "Envoy Li, shouldn't we report this matter to the court?"

Li Yun stood up and walked out with his hands behind his back.

"Need not."

(End of this chapter)