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

Chapter 428: Do you dare to be a warlord if you don’t have the skills?

Who is Xia Lin? Although he is just like that on the surface, and he only got a fourth-rank official position before leaving, he has been a warlord for some years. No matter how big or small, after all, when the warlords were fighting, 800 people dared to call him commander.

He governs the largest county in the country, with a total population of nearly one million, and more than 18,500 officials at all levels. To put it bluntly, 80% of the countries around Wei are not as large as his county.

In other words, what he is in charge of is basically a medium-sized country. That's why it is said that in the future, 80 percent of the people will be more than enough to make a county governor the emperor. The size is there.

If he wants to take over a small county town with less than 100,000 people, it would be like a piece of cake. If these local tyrants here compete with him in wits and courage, it will be a waste of time.

As the saying goes, there is no false reputation under a great name. His vision, knowledge and experiences are beyond the imagination of people in this small place.

Now that we have the confession and the account book, everything will be easy.

At this stage, it was his job as the Investigator, but he did not panic. First, 800 cavalrymen from Huangya Pass arrived, and then 1,500 defenders from Li Jing's Jinmen camp also arrived. After arriving, they directly surrounded the county town.

Even Jizhou's top warrior Huo rushed over day and night, and the scene suddenly became bigger.

When all the people were present, Wu Shi Huo, after understanding the situation, arrested the people directly, and then Xia Lin was put in charge of the investigation. The two courts jointly started to try the case, and all the people in the county government were arrested overnight. Then it was the turn of the wealthy families at all levels. They had originally planned to resist, after all, they had hired a lot of thugs as security guards.

But that being said, these bodyguards and thugs show off their power in front of ordinary people, but when they meet the regular army, they are not even a dog. With a total of more than 2,000 regular army troops and cavalry, this kind of posture would make them a regional power in the Western Regions.

There was no conflict at all, and basically everything was taken down like that.

The Procuratorial Department does not try cases, but it has the power to supervise them. Besides, Xia Lin is a fourth-rank official in the capital, one level higher than the official he meets. Although Wu Shihuo is the governor of Jizhou, he can only go through the motions when he meets Xia Lin.

Of course, the process still has to go through a circle.

"How does Lord Xia plan to conduct the trial?"

"Hold it in public." Xia Lin stood on the county wall and pointed to the huge grain drying field of Jiuye's family not far away: "It's right there. What do you think, Wuzhou Mu?"

"It's up to you, Master Xia."

The day of the public trial happened to be the tenth day of the bet with Xiao Douya. On that day, the entire threshing ground was packed with people. More than a hundred people, including the main culprit and accomplices, were kneeling there. It was a huge scene.

In fact, Wu Shihuo had read the file the night before. After reading it, he really thought that Xia Lin was quite awesome. He had encountered such a difficult problem before, but who would have known that Xia Lin just passed by and solved the case that had been pending for more than ten years in just ten days.

We even obtained key testimony and key evidence.

The thick stack of account books and the confessions of collusion between officials and businessmen to annex land and take human lives over the years were laid out on top in great detail.

There is no way to deny this debt, and the public trial is mainly to vent the anger of the local people.

The entire public trial lasted from the dawn of the morning until late at night, and the crowds of people around increased instead of decreasing. They hated it so much that they gnashed their teeth. When they heard the group of bastards led by County Magistrate Zhou confess their guilt, they would burst into enthusiastic cheers.

"Master Xia, it's getting late. How about retrial tomorrow?"

Xia Lin sat there with his arms folded and pointed down: "Trial, the trial must be completed until dawn. Today I will avenge those who have been offended over the years. Trial!"

The warrior Huo was helpless. He was an old man in his fifties, and he had to endure the pain with this young man in his twenties. How could he endure it? By dawn, his face had turned blue and he was yawning all the time.

Xia Lin was still sitting there with that deadpan look on his face, his expression cold.

"Master Xia, how long will this last?"

"Master Wu." Xia Lin suddenly said coldly, "As the governor of Jizhou, I don't believe you didn't hear anything about such a big thing happening under your control. You say it's difficult, how difficult can it be? I'll tell you clearly, today I asked you to sit here and endure it, not only to ask you to judge them, but also to ask you to judge your own conscience. The people treat you like your parents, but you treat them like grass. As governor of this state, you can do it if you can, but if you can't, you can go back to your hometown to retire."

The warrior Huo was startled, his mouth twitched. He looked at Xia Lin in amazement, and he tried to force a smile: "Sir Xia, we are officials in the same dynasty, why do you have to do this?"

"Since you know who I am, you should also know what kind of person I am. If you want to sue me, then go ahead. If you have the ability, hold me here. Otherwise, don't even think about leaving this chair until the trial is over today. Trial!"

The moment Xia Lin uttered the word "trial", the gavel in his hand slammed on the table, and the sound of the gavel was accompanied by the sound of the soldiers' long spears hitting the ground.

Of course, there was also the tremor in the warrior Huo's heart. At this moment, the people watching below were silent. No one knew who took the lead and knelt down first, and then everyone knelt down like wheat in autumn harvest, shouting "God of Heaven".

Xia Lin smashed the gavel on the table and shouted angrily, "Stand up! Don't kneel! Everyone, stand up! Sir Wu, continue the trial!"

The warrior Huo took a deep breath. How could he dare to sleep now? Meeting such a reckless and unruly guy would really be a death sentence.

To be honest, officials are not afraid of their colleagues, whether they are from the capital or relatives of the emperor. They still have room for maneuver, after all, they are all people who can break bones and tendons. What they fear most is this group of warriors and warlords, these people are merciless.

Everyone knows that Xia Lin is a warlord. The future of the Po Lu Army belongs to him. Even Guo Da has no other intentions on this point. To go against such a warlord, it would be a joke for him to just dig a hole here and bury himself. When the time comes, the Ministry of Personnel will come and praise him for digging a beautiful hole.

So the warrior Huo could only hold his nose and bear the grievance and continue to interrogate the common people until the afternoon of the next day.

He hadn't slept for nearly sixteen or seventeen hours, and even the strongest man could not stand it. Fortunately, the warrior Huo burned up his soul power and finally figured out everything.

Led by the county magistrate Zhou Huan, they colluded with merchants to seize and plunder, annexed 35,000 acres of farmland, causing nearly 5,000 people to be displaced, and condoned the local tyrants to pretend to be bandits and kill people for money. There were more than 70 cases of family annihilation alone, causing the people's livelihood in the county to decline and the countryside to be desolate.

"Zhou Huan should be executed according to the law, but considering his merits..."

Before the warrior Huo finished his words, Xia Lin grabbed the command arrows in front of him and threw them all down: "Behead him immediately."

"Master Xia... this is inappropriate. This person has made great achievements. No..."

Xia Lin laughed: "That's right."

After saying that, he suddenly turned around and snapped his fingers. Then all the soldiers turned their backs. The people didn't understand what was going on at first, but soon someone realized what was going on.

At this moment, someone suddenly shouted, "Kill the dog officer!"

Suddenly, the people's resentment was boiling like a huge wave. At this moment, the warrior Huo quickly followed Xia Lin's example and turned around. In an instant, only screams could be heard in the threshing ground, which was like hell on earth.

"Master Wu, I'm sorry."

At this moment, the warrior Huo finally reacted. He asked in a trembling voice: "Xia... Lord Xia, is there really such public resentment..."

"It's almost time. If we don't deal with this today, someone might raise a big banner this fall. They'll first attack your Xindu, and then hang the heads of your family on the gate of the provincial capital." Xia Lin crossed his arms and heard the begging and screaming behind him. He shook his head and said, "Master Wu, you should stop working when you are old. Listen to me and go back to your hometown. You can't control Jizhou."

"Thank you, Master Xia, for your advice..."

Wu Shihuo still felt a little uneasy. If it weren't for Xia Lin, he wouldn't have known that the people under his rule had reached such a level of resentment. What Lord Xia said might not really be alarmist...

After a long time, at dusk, Xia Lin coughed first. Then someone in the crowd whistled, and immediately all the people scattered.

After a while, they looked back and saw that there was no living thing in the entire threshing ground. The corpse on top looked extremely miserable, and there was no complete human figure.

"De Xing, go to the county and issue a notice, asking these idiots to come and dispose of the bodies themselves, otherwise they will all stink in the middle of summer. Each person who comes to bury the bodies will be paid two taels of silver from Master Wu's treasury."

The warrior Huo had already squatted beside him and vomited bitter bile. The scene was too horrifying. Even if he only took one look at it, he felt that he could not survive. Intestines and heads were flying everywhere. Even the trees were hung with pieces of meat. The blood dyed the ground purple-red. Crows squatted on the corpses and pecked at the rotten flesh...

"Master Wu, go back and have a good rest. We have to return the land they have occupied to the people tomorrow."

After Xia Lin finished speaking, he raised his foot to avoid the blurred area with broken flesh and walked away carefully.

On the way back, many people wanted to kneel down to Xia Lin, but Xia Lin just waved his hands and did not stop them. The main reason was that he was too tired. He had not slept for almost forty hours from yesterday to today, and he felt his temples throbbing.

After returning to his residence, he naturally had no intention of playing with Xiao Douya. He didn't even have the energy to take a shower, so he fell asleep on the bed.

Xiao Douya came to see him once during the trip, and felt a little pity for him when he saw him like that. However, his voice in the early hours of yesterday morning was so touching that when he recalled it, it was like a general on horseback.

Especially the sentence "Stand up, don't kneel", that arrogant posture, that expression and eyes, Xiao Douya tried to learn it several times but just couldn't learn it.

(End of this chapter)