How can I bow my head and serve the powerful officials?

The second flood is undoubtedly adding insult to injury for people's survival.

The relief grain in the city had been embezzled and there was very little left. When the flood came, the county government would not be able to rescue the grain in time and the rice would be washed away. Some county magistrates were even afraid that Shen Yuan would find out that they had embezzled relief grain, so they pretended that the granary was flooded and the rice was washed away, completely disregarding the lives of the people.

Even though Shen Yuan had mentioned on the first page of the disaster relief manual that the relief grain should be temporarily sealed underground to prevent a second flood, they probably didn't even glance at it, and even if they did, they wouldn't do it.

The famine began to spread rapidly throughout the hundreds of counties in Yizhou.

Without the assistance of Xie Chengze's imperial sword, Shen Yuan, as the Privy Councilor, could only choose to deal with the county magistrates. He was now in a low position and did not have the power to kill these county magistrates, nor could he kill them. After all, if the county was left without a master, the hungry people would flee the city, and the refugees would flock to other counties that were not affected by the disaster, forcing other counties to close their gates and keep them out.

At that time, it would be difficult to borrow, buy, or transport grain.

These county magistrates dared to act so rampantly just because of this.

"It seems that County Magistrate Hu is going to play dumb." Shen Yuan's white clothes were stained with dust, but it did not affect his calm temperament at all. He lowered his eyes to wipe the green sword in his hand, and stepped on County Magistrate Hu's left hand with his ink-black long boots. His patience began to run out. "Do you really think that when things go wrong, Xu Shiming will protect you?"

Magistrate Hu knelt on the ground, his voice angry, "I don't understand what Lord Shen is saying! Local officials like me are not as powerful as Lord Shen, but we cannot tolerate such humiliation! Lord Shen, aren't you afraid that I will file a complaint with His Majesty and let His Majesty see how Lord Shen bullies people in Yizhou?!"

Shen Yuan is now blocking the way of those officials. Once this petition is submitted, someone will definitely take the opportunity to impeach him and end his official career!

This young man who has just entered the officialdom is too arrogant. He deserves a lesson!

"Haha." Shen Yuan laughed softly. He leaned down, and a strong pressure that was completely different from before came over him. His calm eyes showed indifference and coldness towards the dead. His voice was deep, like a powerful official who could make the clouds and rain with a wave of his hand. He said contemptuously, "Then let's see who falls first, or Lord Hu's head falls first."

The green sword in his hand was swung violently towards Magistrate Hu. Magistrate Hu was so scared that he closed his eyes, but found that there was no pain as expected. He opened his eyes and found that the sword was stuck in the gap between his fingers, just scratching his fingers.

"You should be thankful that the value of the 'witness' protected you." Shen Yuan curled his lips and smiled, drew his sword and turned to leave, "Come here, protect Magistrate Hu, and don't let him leave! This is an important witness, and there is no room for any mistakes!"

Magistrate Hu turned pale.

Having served as an official for many years, he could certainly understand what Shen Yuan meant. Shen Yuan was planning to let him serve as a witness and report on his work in the capital in the future so that he could personally point out that the superiors were corrupt and committed injustice.

No matter whether he is a real witness or not, as long as Shen Yuan is sure that he is a witness, he will have no way to defend himself. The superiors are very suspicious and will definitely choose to kill him before Shen Yuan returns to Beijing!

This Lord Shen is killing someone with a borrowed knife!

In that case, don't blame him for being cruel!

Behind him, Magistrate Hu's eyes flashed with viciousness and madness.

……

Shen Yuan jumped on his horse and headed towards Jiangdu County.

The flood is coming. Although I believe that Xie Chengze will be fine with Wutongwutui's protection, I should go back and confirm the situation in Jiangdu County.

By the way, he persuaded Xie Chengze to take the stolen money collected along the way to the nearby prefectures and counties to buy grain to help the people of Yizhou who were suffering from floods again.

But he was rejected by Xie Chengze again.

Shen Yuan was so angry that he almost couldn't breathe.

Why does Xie Chengze always have ten thousand ways to make him angry and lose his composure?

"Your Highness, the Second Prince!" Shen Yuan suppressed his anger and asked, "Do you really care about human life? Is money so important to you?"

Xie Chengze felt a little aggrieved.

What's wrong with this person? When he returned to Jiangdu County, instead of praising him for protecting the people of Jiangdu County very well, he came up and slandered him for being greedy and murderous?

Am I so unbearable in his eyes? Even though I am obviously different from the original owner?

The reborn Shen Yuan is not cute at all.

Even though he had a good temper, Xie Chengze was really a little angry. He turned around and said angrily, "Ah, yes, yes, yes, I just don't care about human life. I'm just greedy for money and lustful. Whatever you think, since you think so, there's nothing I can do."

Who doesn't know how to say hurtful things? He knows how to say the formula for a scumbag!

tui!

Shen Yuan was upset by his behavior. He didn't know whether he had too high expectations of Xie Chengze or what, but he always lost control of his temper because of the other party's little flaws. But for the sake of the people of Yizhou, he could only suppress all his emotions and said humbly, "Your Highness, please forgive me."

"Haha, I can't afford it." Xie Chengze said sarcastically, "After all, I am a greedy and mean person. Besides, Lord Shen's incompetence should not be blamed on me. If you can't raise money and food, that's your problem."

In his previous life, there was no such stolen money, and Shen Yuan was still able to solve the problem. Shen Yuan could obviously go to those who had taken the lion's share of the money to settle accounts with them, but he chose to come to him, just to pick on him!

Shen Yuan understood the hidden meaning in Xie Chengze's words.

This implies that he could have solved the problem in his previous life without the stolen money, but with the delegation of power by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, his actions would have been much smoother. However, Xie Chengze was reluctant to even take out the imperial sword, so naturally he would encounter many obstacles in his actions.

What's more, he can wait, but the people cannot.

But Shen Yuan couldn't reveal these things. They both knew about rebirth tacitly. Xie Chengze was afraid that if he told it, the other party would kill him with a sword. Shen Yuan was afraid that if he told it, Xie Chengze would find a reason to wipe out him and the Shen family.

Taking a deep breath, Shen Yuan leaned forward and half-knelt on the ground for the first time, compromising with the attitude of a subject, "It is my incompetence, I hope that the Second Prince will have mercy on the people and give them a way out."

Seeing that he was so stubborn, Xie Chengze clenched his fists, turned his back and waved his hand, signaling Wuhen to pull the man out, "Sir Shen, the world is unpredictable, you should relax a little, this is just a small problem, in the days to come..."

He sneered, "You will find more problems waiting for you!"

Shen Yuan who was dragged out:?

Soon, Shen Yuan knew what the more difficult problems Xie Chengze was talking about were.