Johime Three Kingdoms

Chapter 166 Hard work for you
"Prefect, there are already rumors in the city. If this continues, the people of Guangling will lose their hearts!" Yuan Lin reminded Yuan Huan with a gloomy face.

"The city guards have been ordered to prohibit discussing this matter in public places such as wine shops, Feng Ji need not worry." Yuan Huan reassured.

"What's the use of just banning discussion? Aren't people's hearts still declining?" Yuan Lin asked angrily.

"Oh? Are you going to forcefully collect the Jiangdong relief grains picked up by the people as you said? Haha, if you must think so, just give the order yourself, and I will not stop you!" Yuan Huan said angrily.

Although Yuan Lin's surname is also Yuan, it is true that she is a member of the Yuan clan in Runan and is considered to be the nephew of Yuan Shu. After Shu Shao was raped, he was arranged to serve as the county magistrate in Guangling County.

Obviously Yuan Shu could no longer trust outsiders, so he arranged for one of his "own men" to serve as the deputy to the prefect of Guangling...

"You... I have not considered it properly, Lord Yuan, please forgive me." Yuan Lin was angry when she heard this, but she suppressed her anger.

Yuan Lin had indeed proposed this before, but it was rejected by Yuan Huan at the time. In fact, Yuan Lin had already figured it out - forcibly confiscating relief grains would only make conflicts more acute and public dissatisfaction more intense.

"Well, after that... you draft a notice and publish it in the city to calm the people." Yuan Huan did not irritate him too much.

But this is obviously a hard job. At least Yuan Huan feels that, in his own words, this notice is really difficult to write - how to criticize the act of sending relief food to the people?
Yuan Huan felt that if it were him, he would definitely be at a loss for words, just like when Bai Tu saw a wealthy family giving cattle and wine to the people during festivals.

How could Yuan Huan not know the purpose of what Chen Gong and the others did yesterday?

If this continues, without Jiang Dongbing taking action, Guangling will collapse without a fight - even if it weren't for the founding BUFF, the current public sentiment is already on the verge of collapse.

Once Cheng Ji leaves the city, the outer city wall will probably "disappear", leaving only the inner city wall that cannot be defended.

Lu Bu had enjoyed this kind of treatment when he was in Yanzhou before.

Before Bai Tu crossed over, Chen Gong set fire to PY, defeated Cao Cao's army once, and even almost killed Cao Cao in the city. However, this was a desperate act. Since Cao Cao escaped, naturally the city where Lu Bu belonged to later was in Due to the resistance of county magistrates from various places, Cheng Ji ran away from the city.

In this case, the outer city wall will "disappear" until Cheng Ji returns...

As a result, Lu Bu could only evacuate Yanzhou and Yuzhou in a hurry. This is why Bai Tu easily escaped from the city at the beginning of his journey and did not pass through Wengcheng at all.

When Yuan Lin heard Yuan Huan's words, she didn't think it was a chore and instead breathed a sigh of relief.

He understood his position, that is, as the representative of the Dazhong royal family, he came to look after these local officials who were outside.

Originally, he was worried that Yuan Huan's previous passive response was due to his disobedience, but now he feels relieved.

That day, Yuan Lin wrote a chapter of [-] words eloquently, defining Bai Tu's feeding as a humiliation to the courageous people of Dazhong from the perspective of "food that comes from afar".

And the preparations are considered adequate, I specially found a few babysitters, and after reading the list, they will donate the relief food to the government in public, and they will ironically accept the weak bones of Jiangdong's relief food.

After arranging for the subordinate officials to give presentations at various announcement offices tomorrow, Yuan Lin felt a little complacent.

then……

On the afternoon of the day when the list was made, Chen Gong came to the city again to deliver relief food to Guangling City. After the delivery, there were still very few people who were willing to hand it in. On the second day after the list was made, the official documents everywhere were destroyed by unknown persons.

Just when Yuan Lin learned the news and cursed "diao people", Yuan Huan on the side looked at him strangely, and after thinking for a while, he said: "Should the city guards be dispatched to go from house to house to find out who did it?"

"Of course... no, please calm down, Lord Governor. Wouldn't that make the people's resentment worse?" Yuan Lin reacted in time.

When Yuan Huan heard this, he did not persuade him again.

Yuan Lin discovered that recently Yuan Huan seemed to finally understand that the Yuan family in Runan is the master of Dazhong, and she respects her opinion very much...Well, after all, in the future, when Dazhong conquers the world, with her noble blood, if she has some credit, she should be able to Make a county king.

On the other hand, Yuan Lin also had some doubts in her heart - was Yuan Huan trying to trick me?
But like this time, after Yuan Lin said not to do it, Yuan Huan immediately gave up the idea. At the same time, Yuan Lin's doubts were naturally included.

On the seventh day, Chen Gong still came to deliver relief food on time. During this period, Yuan Huan and Yuan Lin discussed whether they should go out to fight. After all, the number of troops in Guangling City was dominant!
However, Yuan Lin thought it was too risky and did not "agree" - I don't know when, Yuan Lin felt as if she had become the one who made the decision in Guangling City?

"Fengji, after these seven days, we have collected a lot of relief food. Will it be used as military supplies or given to the people?" Yuan Huan asked.

Yuan Lin quickly got used to Yuan Huan's deliberative tone, and said, "Of course it's stuffed with military supplies! No matter how much you pretend to eat those things that taste like grass fodder, you'll know it's Jiangdong's relief rations, even in the city. If I hand it out, they won't be grateful to me!"

"Brother Feng Ji, thank you very much." Yuan Huan said.

When the clerk on the side saw this, he immediately followed Yuan Lin's instructions and dealt with the matter...

Yuan Huan's expression flickered at this time, and then he asked: "Would you like to check first to see if there is any problem with the relief grains? What we have collected are all dropped from Wengcheng. If the other party deliberately made some of the relief grains into If it's heavier and poisoned..."

"Ah! As expected of Yao Qing! You are thoughtful. Xiao Zhao, follow Master Yuan's instructions and go check on the relief food." Yuan Lin reacted immediately and said to the scribe on the side.

Yaoqing is the nickname of Yuan Huan.

Yuan Huan also acted very indifferently to Yuan Lin's behavior of not even calling her "prefect", but there was a bit of urgency in his eyes - wasn't my reminder obvious enough?

A few days later, Yuan Lin finally remembered something, and gave a secret order to her confidant.

On that day, Yuan Huan was "supervising the battle" on the city tower. In fact, when he was watching the relief grain being thrown into the city, he discovered that there were still people spreading relief grain in the inner city...

That night, some people in the city who had picked up relief food during the day suffered from diarrhea and vomiting all night long. In the most serious cases, they could see that they had too much air and not enough air to take in!
Rumors began to spread in the city that Jiangdong's relief food was poisoned, and it was the kind that was contagious...

In fact, things like "poison" were still very rare in the Han Dynasty, which had advanced extraction and purification technology. Let alone poisoning, even when the emperor gave poison to his guilty ministers, it was often poisonous enough to kill the person and required another piece of white silk. .

The "poisoning" in the army is mainly gold juice - a kind of metabolite produced by Ji Zao soldiers after they work, which is equivalent to human... shit.

Yuan Lin wanted to poison people directly, but for such a large-scale poisoning, you couldn't use feces, right?Only an idiot can't detect the smell!

Therefore, I just used some herbs with toxic side effects. The effect was average, but it did kill some people.

However...even if there is an unknown force pushing this rumor to spread, the people still find it hard to believe it. After all...there are too many suspicious things, and even the motivation is somewhat unbelievable—poisoning the whole city to kill the city. Self-destruct?
And I don't know when, another unknown force in the city began to make a different sound - Yuan Lin poisoned and framed Mr. Bai!

In comparison, this rumor seems more credible.

"I never expected that Governor Yuan would be such a person!"

"No, it's not Governor Yuan, it's Yuan Juncheng. They are not related..."

"Yes, yes, I heard that the governor has been in the Wengcheng military camp recently, and all matters in the city are left to the county magistrate."

"No! I heard that Yuan Juncheng took advantage of the fact that he was Yuan... His Majesty's nephew, so he took advantage of the prefect!"

"What can we do...my family still hopes that the relief food will be cooked!"

As soon as this rumor gained some momentum, Yuan Lin got the news and thought to herself: Could it be that the drug store leaked the news?Sure enough, it would be safer to silence him!

But before he could give the order, a group of city guards rushed in. Regardless of whether the servants in the house dared to stop them, they would just draw their swords and chop them. After a flurry of excitement in the house, Yuan Lin was pulled out by the city guards by her hair. .

"Bold, bold! Don't you know who I am?" Yuan Lin said angrily.

"Master Jun Cheng, if you have anything to do, you should talk to the eunuch." The city guard chief said indifferently.

Only then did Yuan Lin realize that these city guards were Yuan Huan's confidants.

And just when he was being escorted out of the mansion, he found that there was another team of people escorting the shopkeeper of the drug store where he got the medicine!
Suddenly Yuan Lin understood that Yuan Huan had come prepared...

Yuan Lin was not a "very" idiot. At least he had confidants among the city guards. However, when another governor who served as the city guard chief stopped him, he was surrounded by the people instead.

The confidant of Yuan Huan who was escorting him also showed his "fangs" at this time, rushed directly to the gate of the city by force, and handed Yuan Lin over to Ji Zao's soldiers in the urn...

Yuan Lin also understood at this time that Yuan Huan was afraid that he was going to rebel!
"Yuan Huan! How dare you..." Yuan Lin looked at Yuan Huan who was leading the troops, and her teeth itched with hatred.

However, Yuan Huan looked at him indifferently and said with some gratitude: "Thank you for your hard work..."

"you……"

What Yuan Huan said was sincere, after all...

I, Yuan Huan, will not surrender easily, but Yuan Shu's nephew and my deputy are harming the people in the city. As a famous minister and sage who loves the people like a son, he has no choice but to capture him, tie him up and burn him to death in front of the people ...to set the record straight!
After that, I originally wanted to turn myself in and plead guilty to Yuan Shu, but under the strong request of the onlookers, as a celebrity, I followed the public opinion and opened the door to welcome Chen Gong in, which was what I should do.

This is all the fault of the cruel Yuan Lin and the fault of Yuan Shu who does not trust me. What does it have to do with me, Yuan Huan?

Chen Gong expressed his approval for this.

When Yuan Huan opened the city gate and welcomed Chen Gong into the city together with the representatives of the villagers, Chen Gong stepped forward and held Yuan Huan's hand tightly and said: "Master Yuan is dedicated to the people and righteous to the public. I appreciate your hard work!"

When Yuan Huan heard Chen Gong's words, his eyes reddened, and he said sincerely: "I don't dare to take credit for betraying my master. It's all thanks to Bai Gong's kindness, and the people are rushing to join him. Huan was originally stupid, loyal and stubborn, but Yuan Lin...hey! In desperation, I really don't want to disobey the public opinion for the sake of the party..."

　Dongdong: I have recently fallen in love with the rhythm of 3000-word chapters. Before the end of the afternoon, there will be another 3000-word chapter.

　　
　
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