Damn it, I'm in the garbage book I wrote

Chapter 244 Natural disaster or man-made disaster
Plague blocking the road? I'm afraid it's not that simple, right?

Xia Lin looked at the governor and the county magistrate below him and laughed secretly in his heart, with a very calm expression.

How does the saying go? Investigating a case requires evidence, counter-terrorism requires a list, and suppressing a rebellion only requires coordinates. Xia Lin's team is a serious suppressing rebellion team, and it is not an ordinary suppressing rebellion team. He is here to suppress a rebellion under the orders of the emperor, the crown prince, and all the officials in the court.

The crown prince needs to give an explanation to his subordinates, and the officials need a reason to calm the situation. The truth is not important at all at this time. The matter is too big. A fourth-rank official was killed in his home in the capital. This is simply a great shame for the dynasty.

Dignity, whether you are an official or an emperor, all you need is dignity. Now everyone has lost their dignity.

Therefore, Xia Lin had already figured it out along the way. He was here to investigate a serious case, and he came here just to give face to his superiors.

"You two, please be patient. I will send someone to investigate."

Xia Lin ordered someone to bring wine and food: "You two adults, please eat and drink a little, and wait for the news."

His attitude made the two local officials a little confused. The county magistrate kept wiping his sweat. Xia Lin leaned over and smiled, "Master Zhou, is it hot in this tent?"

"It's... it's not that bad, it's just that I have a hot body and sweat easily."

Magistrate Zhou forced a smile, while the governor next to him sat there with his eyes half closed, as if he was in a trance.

Xia Lin was patient. He leaned over there and ate something by himself, and from time to time he looked up and glanced at the two of them.

The yamen runners outside and the officers and soldiers on their side have all been disarmed. They don't even need a reason, they just have to wait for news.

At the same time, the scouts were moving forward along the official road. They saw paper banners and coffins everywhere in the surrounding villages, which looked dilapidated.

Several scouts followed Xia Lin's instructions and walked into the village with their faces covered with veils. They found the village extremely quiet, with no living people around, but there was a stench of corpses.

They used the bamboo sticks they carried with them to pry open the doors and windows, only to see that the inside was empty. It was the same in every household, as if no one had lived here for a long time.

But what is strange is that although there is clearly no one here, there are coffins parked at the doors of every household. Some of the coffins are empty, while others contain corpses. The corpses have long since decayed under the scorching sun, and the whole village stinks.

All the wells had been filled with stones, and there was no one to be seen in the houses. This was very strange, because if the village was sealed off due to plague, there would always be people inside. And if everyone had died, then the number of people in the coffins would not match.

After that, the scouts went to several villages behind and found the same situation in almost every place. Coffins were scattered all over the deserted villages, and even the coffins seemed to have been ordered from the same funeral shop.

Soon they returned, took a bath, then burned all their clothes, shoes and hats, and then came to the big tent refreshed.

"General Xia, after our investigation, we found six unusual villages ahead. The villages are deserted, but every household has coffins parked in front of their doors. Many of the bodies in the coffins have decayed, and it seems they have been there for four or five days. However, there is a lot of dust inside the houses, so it doesn't look like there are people living there."

Xia Lin raised his head and looked at the two people below him. The governor was about to speak, but he stretched out his hand to stop him. Then he coughed and said, "Come here, execute these two rebels immediately. Write down their names and report to me."

The soldiers nearby immediately stepped forward and started to drag the man away without saying anything. The governor and the county magistrate were stunned for a moment. They only recovered when they were dragged to the door of the military tent. The governor shouted, "Xia! Fuck your grandmother! I am the governor appointed by the court! Your Majesty has to go through three provinces to kill me. What right do you have? Xia! Someone will make sure you die miserably!"

The shouting and wailing spread far and wide and finally stopped. However, Xia Lin just picked up the water cup, took a sip, chuckled and said nothing.

After a while, two human heads that had been bled and pickled in salt and lime were placed in a box in front of Xia Lin. He stretched his neck and nodded: "Keep them safe. I'll build a temple for the masters in the capital later."

"General, what is the charge?" the lieutenant general beside him asked in a low voice.

Xia Lin stood up and kicked him on the butt: "You ask me everything, where's your brain? Of course it's rebelling, killing innocent people for credit, deterring the army, and delaying military operations. Tell me, which one is not a capital crime? Just write it down and that's it."

After they killed a provincial governor and a county magistrate, the yamen runners and local garrison troops lost their courage immediately. When they saw the scholar in white clothes again, their legs became stiff and they couldn't even muster the courage to look him in the eye.

"I'll ask again." Xia Lin pulled the soldier who had blocked the road in the beginning to his front: "Is there a plague ahead or not?"

When they spoke before, they felt that their superiors backed them up, and they didn't know how tough they were. But now that Xia Lin opened his mouth, he almost peed himself, and fell to his knees with a plop: "No... no plague... it's all fake, they just don't want to call the general over."

"childish."

Xia Lin pointed to the big tent at the back: "Do you see the tent at the back? Do you see the flag of the Po Lu heavy cavalry? Go back and tell the general in your camp that if you want to stop me, gather 100,000 men first. I will take the heads of the governor and the county magistrate. I don't want to take one more, but I don't mind." As he said that, he pushed the people back and raised his hand: "The army will rest until tomorrow."

The soldiers in these places ran away, and naturally they had to run back to the camp to tell the camp commander here.

"What? Governor Jiang and Magistrate Zhou were both beheaded?"

"General, it's absolutely true... That lunatic even said that if you show up, he wouldn't mind taking one more head."

The commander of the local camp burst into laughter: "Hahahahahaha, good, good, good, you are really arrogant, good!"

After saying that, he threw the cup in his hand to the ground: "Pass the order!"

At this time, everyone in the room stood up and waited for the next order.

"Pass the order down. The camp will be closed from today onwards. It will reopen after the bandit suppression army passes through." The camp commander nodded and said, "Just say...just say that the weather is hot, so we will suspend the training for now."

Everyone looked at him blankly, and the camp commander spread his hands and said, "What's wrong with you? They have heavy cavalry and the Eagle Shooting Gun, and their armor and equipment are the configuration of the first-class army. What do you, the third-class soldiers, want? Before, the governor asked us to stop them, and we had to go. Now the governor has been killed, what are you going to do? Are you really planning a rebellion? If you are really planning a rebellion, they will destroy our camp."

The camp at the intersection of the two lines was actually sealed off, and the news that Xia Lin came and killed a provincial governor began to ferment rapidly and spread all the way along this line.

It was cruel, really cruel, he didn't even ask who was behind the governor, he just killed him. But actually it didn't matter who was behind him now, whoever dared to report Xia Lin at this critical moment would be an accomplice of the rebellion, no kidding, the crown prince would have to settle accounts with him because he disrupted the government, Gao Xiang would have to settle accounts with him because he disrupted the rules, Zeng Xiang would have to settle accounts with him because he killed him.

Anyone who jumps out at this point will be seeking death. Xia Lin knows this so he can be said to be unscrupulous. Moreover, the more unscrupulous he is, the more it reflects the importance of his identity this time.

Xia Lin was invincible at the moment, because the court wanted to use him to settle accounts, and for a person who was settling accounts, the more noisy he was, the better, and the more noisy he was, the happier he was. As for who would kill him later, that was not something to worry about now. Now we just had to see how he messed up the world. The more he messed up, the calmer the court would be. It would be best if he could poke a hole in the sky.

"Master, isn't this a bit too harsh?"

At night, in the general's tent, Xia Lin lay on the bamboo bed in the heat, and Narcissus beside him was fanning him gently. It was the middle of July, and even Xia Lin did not dare to run outside. Even though it was very hot, he could only lie there and pretend to be dead.

"It's going to be fierce. Now it depends on who runs into the muzzle of the gun. Whoever runs into it will die. You may not believe it, but the moment I stepped into Lingnan Road, I was the biggest in the nine prefectures and twenty-eight states of Lingnan.

But if I can't come up with something and give that explanation, I will die the most miserably. Do you think Xiao Chenzi called me here to kill me with the plague? He was just betting on whether I could shut up everyone in the hall. "

"Then can you do it?" Narcissus suddenly became nervous: "It's so difficult..."

"It's not difficult at all. Someone has given me a sample. I can just follow it." Xia Lin turned over and ran his hand upwards along Narcissus' belly button.

"Who?"

"My brother Monkey, this is just a disturbance in the underworld at best. One day I will make a scene in the Golden Palace in the capital."

Narcissus bit her lip and said, "I don't understand these principles. I just know that I have to serve the master well."

Xia Lin chuckled, stretched out his hand and pulled off the scarf wrapped around Narcissus: "Then it depends on your ability."

In fact, if you just think about it, you will know that if the people of Lingnan Road were not afraid, they would not use such a crude method to stop Xia Lin, let alone the plague...

However, it seems that the situation in Guangzhai is also going to be muddy. But it doesn't matter. There is no need to arrest him. No matter whether it is the gentry, powerful people, civil officials or military generals, they will be dragged out and killed if they are not pleasing to the eye.

The only difference between him and Hou'er is that Xia Lin does not despise Bimawen's low-ranking position.

Xia Lin's reputation has really grown now. When he entered the country, he killed two imperial officials without saying a word, and one of them was a fifth-rank governor. Who wouldn't be panicked?
This news actually reached Guangzhan before Xia Lin. Guangzhan was now leaderless, with no new governor in office and the previous vassal kings already escorted to the capital.

You can imagine the level of chaos now.

(End of this chapter)