honor me as god

Chapter 532
After Kai Rui was beheaded and executed, there was a lot of applause, and many people felt that it was difficult to relieve their hatred. They crowded up and kicked the head that had rolled off the execution platform, swearing with the most vicious language in their mouths, and even threatened to kill the dog officer. relatives were killed together.

Kerry's body fell alone in front of the guillotine, trembling from time to time. As for the story behind it, no one cared about it for a long time under the angry group mood.

"Silence! In addition to the fire in the granary, there is another incident that happened at the Dragon and Fire Festival. Everyone must know—" Gomez quelled the noise of the crowd, pointed at the guards, and said profoundly, "Bring that person to Come up."

Under the attention of everyone, a dirty beggar was brought up by the guards. Although he pretended to be calm, judging from his weak legs and erratic eyes from time to time, he was very nervous now.

This is not surprising, even though death has long been regarded as home and ready to sacrifice for others, but before the guillotine, there are only a few people who can really calm down.

Ge Mai pointed at the beggar and said solemnly to the crowd: "This man broke into the Qingjiang embankment on the night of the Dragon Fire Festival, kidnapped the unsuspecting embankment director, pulled the gate to release the flood, and flooded most of Beicheng. What should he do? disposal?"

Everyone was still immersed in the anger of Kerry's beheading, and immediately shouted without thinking: "Kill! Kill! Kill!"

"Kill???" Gome showed a look of astonishment, and quickly stretched out his hand to hold the beggar, brought him to the front of the stage, and said righteously, "This is a hero!"

"He hijacked the director of the embankment and released the flood without permission. This should be a capital crime, but his original intention was to use the water from the Qingjiang River to relieve the fire in the granary! Although it failed in the end, what a brave move this is?!"

"He is saving you! He is also saving Danyu City! Die? No! This is by no means what a hero should be. He should be respected by all of us!"

Gome held the beggar's wrist, raised one of his arms into the air, and shouted loudly, "In the name of the consul of Danyu City, I exempt him from the crime of opening the floodgates and reward him with 100 silver moons as a reward." Commendation!"

At this moment, the people were stupid, and so were the beggars.

The beggar thought that his life was over, and he could take the death penalty for Ma Ban before he died. It would be better if he died early and reincarnated. Anyway, there is no hope for begging every day. If he can keep an upright official, his life is not in vain.

But who would have thought that Gomer would actually exonerate him from the crime of opening the gates to release the flood, and even gave him a fortune that he could never imagine in his dreams.

When the beggar dumbfoundedly accepted the bag of silver moons handed over by the guards, some of the people in the audience were bitter and jealous, wishing that he was the one who opened the gate to release the flood that night.

Of course, more people respect spontaneously, not only respecting the brave beggar, but also respecting the unselfish but reasonable consul Gome, who does not let the bad guys go, and does not wrong the good guys.

At this moment, the image of Gome became extremely stalwart in the hearts of the people, and gradually, cheers came and went:
"Lord Ge Mai! You are a respectable consul! Danyu City is so lucky to have you!"

"We have no regrets about being your people, we will always follow behind you! No matter what happens, we will support you!"

"Lord Gome is aware of the details and will definitely lead us through this crisis!"

With a smile on his face, Gome raised his hands and said calmly: "Thank you very much for your support. This is just my duty as a consul. There is nothing to brag about. Today's rally is here first, everyone You can go away separately."

"My lord! Please wait a moment, I still have a question!" A civilian squeezed to the front and asked worriedly, "Our families have no food left now. There was some high-priced food in the market a few days ago. You can’t buy it even if you pay a high price. Everyone is waiting for this season’s wheat in Danyu Plain to save lives, but the royal family ordered us to pull out the straw and plant blood essence grass instead, what exactly are you going to do?”

Ge Mai signaled not to panic, and said with a smile: "Please trust our kingdom in this matter, the royal family will definitely give you a satisfactory explanation."

After the rally, Gome drove back to the executive residence in a carriage. He was smiling all the way, and the civilians who saluted him would respond politely.

But as soon as he arrived at the governor's mansion and cut off the sight of the outside world, his face suddenly became extremely gloomy, as if dripping water.

Lin Gengsen and Ge Mai almost entered the door one after the other. Lin Gengsen was so anxious that his whole face was wrinkled, he stretched out his hand and pushed Go Mai: "Old Mai, what are you doing? Why didn't you execute the beggar who released the flood? He actually gave it back to him." Commendation? Are you crazy?!"

Gomez scolded back: "You are the one who didn't understand the situation! A little beggar, do you think he can think of the trick of releasing floods and fighting fires? Even if he can think of it, he can sneak into the embankment and hold the supervisor hostage? It just happens to be a good idea." The flood discharge only flooded Beicheng? That’s a beggar who wasted food alive! Who do you think he is?”

Lin Gengsen was a little confused: "Then what happened to the Qingjiang dam's flood discharge?"

Gome sighed heavily, and said in a deep voice: "I have already cross-examined, there were still Ma Ban who went to the dam that day, Ma Ban should have come up with the idea of ​​releasing the flood and fighting the fire, but the beggar was the one who pulled the gate. There are only his finger and palm prints on the control lever, this is a scapegoat who intends to take the blame for Ma Ban."

Lin Gengsen asked inexplicably: "He wants to die, so why don't you just let him die? Why should you praise him?"

Gomez paced back and forth angrily, his face flushed red: "My old friend, you still haven't figured out that things like flood discharge are no longer important! No one cares! The key point now is the Danyu Plain !"

"Abao is dead, and our plan of purchasing instead of farming cannot be implemented. Although the millions of tons of grain are still in the hands of Boss Du Mingwei, they can no longer be produced!"

"In the eyes of the outside world, the grain has been completely burned by the fire. If we suddenly take out the grain again, everyone will know that we colluded with Du Mingwei and deliberately planned the fire in the granary."

"So, now we have no way out, do you understand? If we don't pull out the wheat stalks in the Danyu Plain and don't implement the decree to replant the blood essence grass in order to protect the people, we won't be able to pay the higher authorities, and we will die."

"If we go to implement the government order and pull out the wheat stalks in the Danyu Plain, the more than 600 million civilians in Danyu City will have no food to eat. At that time, there will be a famine and a civil uprising. The two of us will either be caught and hanged by the hungry people, or we will be pawned by the royal family. Scapegoat, pushed out for execution."

"It's a dead end for us to advance and retreat now, understand?!"

Lin Gengsen should have been mentally prepared for this, so he didn't appear too surprised, but asked silently: "Does what you said have anything to do with commending beggars?"

"It does matter, because apart from the two roads just mentioned, there is another road to go. But this road is extremely dangerous. It's not about advancing or retreating, but we have to open it ourselves." Ge Mai clenched his fists, eyes Incomparably hot, he said the second half of the sentence heavily.
"This road is public opinion!"

(End of this chapter)