The black-bellied highness, the evil concubine

Chapter 50 The danger of Jiangcheng
Gu An, the prefect of Jiangcheng, was tied up in the cell of his own government office, covered in blood. The person standing in front of him also wore official uniforms and hats. It was Xu Daoyuan, the governor of Hubei.

"Gu An, Gu An, how dare you go around and ask the imperial court for disaster relief without permission. Your courage is really getting bigger and bigger!" Xu Daoyuan's pale face was full of malice, and he squeezed the whip in his hand. angrily.

As he said that, he slapped Gu An fiercely again, and suddenly there was another bloodstain on Mr. Gu's body.

Gu An looked indifferent, and said coldly: "Xu Daoyuan, I'm more or less an official. If you executed privately like this, if the court people knew about it, your fate would not be much better!"

Xu Daoyuan laughed and walked a few steps, and said, "They all say you are a fool, you are really a fool, Gu An, do you think you can still get out alive, don't think that the Crown Prince can save you when he comes down You! Let me tell you, the way the Crown Prince came down here has been blocked. They have to divert the waterway. It will take at least three days to arrive. After three days, this Jiangcheng will become a dead city. At that time, you will also implicate His Royal Highness on a charge of incompetence!"

Gu An spit, and the blood in his mouth spit out on Xu Daoyuan's face, "Xu Daoyuan, you will not end well!"

With a snap, Gu An's face was dripping with blood, Xu Daoyuan took the handkerchief handed over by the attendant, wiped his hands and face stained with blood, and said to Gu An with contempt, "What will happen to me? I don't know, but what I know now is that you must not see my end!"

"Don't worry, I won't let you die so early. I want you to wait until you see your favorite people die in front of you one by one, and then I will let you go 'safely'." Xu Daoyuan Throwing the napkin at Gu An, he laughed madly.

"Xu Daoyuan, you have to die, you scum..." Gu An's feeble scolding reverberated in this silent cell.

Xu Daoyuan strode out of the cell and asked the attendant beside him, "How are the people outside?"

"Lord Qi, those people who are hurt and killed are unable to escape from our palms at all!" The attendant said with a sinister smile.

Xu Daoyuan sneered and said, "These scoundrels have already been bewitched by Gu An, and they all don't know the good or the bad. They wanted to go to Xianling to sue this official, but God all stood on the official's side and let them suffer from this natural disaster. ,Hahaha……"

The military officer standing on the other side of Xu Daoyuan looked a little hesitant, "Sir, His Royal Highness will arrive in a few days. If he kills everyone in Jiangcheng, he will definitely doubt it!"

Xu Daoyuan said indifferently: "Originally, after such natural disasters, plagues are common. This time the epidemic is particularly serious. After three or four days, the whole city cannot enter or leave. Gu An is a good official. He didn't want everyone to suffer, and he didn't want to let the epidemic spread to other places, so he finally released dozens of people who were not infected outside the city, and then chose to burn the city, and he should have been infected, so he never left the city, leaving a book Feng, they died together with the people! When this official heard the news, he was helpless, and he could only treat those who were not infected first."

"At that time, all the responsibilities will be placed on Gu An, who is stupid and reckless. In addition, the Crown Prince's untimely arrival, this official can't do anything about it. We are down to the first rank of the official. But with the prince working for us in the court, we will have the opportunity to make a comeback in the future!" Xu Daoyuan relied on Zhuge Jingyu's support, and in the place where the emperor was far away, he was already used to being a tiger and doing whatever he wanted.

Before Xu Daoyuan served as governor of Hubei, Jiangcheng was the most prosperous town here, because it was rich in a variety of precious jade, and every household could live a prosperous life by relying on this jade.

After Xu Daoyuan took office, he took a fancy to the extraordinary treasures here, and he kept searching. The people of Jiangcheng depend on jade for a living, and have a special affection for jade. Naturally, they all know the importance of this jade. They are never greedy, every year. It is to take only the right amount of jade and distribute it to each household, and Xu Daoyuan's inexhaustible supply will one day hollow out the place.

Gu An's repeated admonitions were useless and could only make Xu Daoyuan worse.Xu Daoyuan was born in a poor family, and he finally won the Tanhua, but his official career has not been smooth, and he feels that he is underappreciated.It wasn't until he was appreciated by Prince Qin that he had the opportunity to become the governor of Hubei.He was very grateful to Prince Qin, knowing that the prince loved these gems the most, so he searched desperately for them.He doesn't care about the life and death of the people.In his eyes, this Jiangcheng was just a small town with only 300 to [-] people, and he didn't take it seriously at all.

In the end, the people of Jiangcheng couldn't bear it any longer, and decided to jointly sign a letter to attack Xu Daoyuan's guilt.

Xu Daoyuan knew their thoughts for a long time, and naturally he decided not to save him, and waited for them to starve to death. Who knew that Gu An would take the lead in sending a memorial to the court, and he never thought that the person sent by the court would be His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.

The crown prince has always been at odds with King Qin. If he came here this time and knew everything, then, when King Qin was implicated, Xu Daoyuan would not be willing to die, so even if he did everything, he would not hesitate.

After the disaster, some people who were afraid of death had already defected to Xu Daoyuan, but most of them were still fighting. The leader was Mr. Gu, who was not afraid of power.

Seeing that they were stubborn, Xu Daoyuan also wanted to kill.

If Zhuge Jingyu, who was far away in Xianling, knew that his confidant minister, whom he had always valued, had caused him so much trouble, even if he violated his father's wishes that day, he would never let anyone from the prince's side come here. When this disaster relief person.

"Tomorrow burn the city!" Xu Daoyuan gave an order, and everyone nodded in agreement.

If Xu Daoyuan knew that in addition to the waterway, there was a small road to this river city, he would definitely choose to burn the city at this moment.

Too bad the world didn't know it sooner.

Before evening, Zhuge Jingyao and the other five finally arrived outside Jiangcheng.
"Why does the atmosphere here feel so strange?" Jian put his arms around his arms, looking at the town that was as quiet as a dead city, he couldn't help feeling horrified.

"His Royal Highness, it seems really weird. Even if there is a disaster here, it won't be that the two soldiers guarding the city are gone?" Wen Ran looked at the empty city gate guard and said with some suspicion.

Zhuge Jingyao looked solemn, "You and Jianxin go into the city to have a look, don't scare the snakes!"

"Yes, Your Highness!" Wen Ran and Jian Xin took the lead and left immediately.

It stands to reason that Jian Qing, who is the best at investigating this kind of thing, should go there, and Jian Qing himself felt a little strange that he was not sent.

However, Zhuge Jingyao quickly arranged other tasks for her.

(End of this chapter)