Chapter 790: Killing the Governor to Establish Prestige

When Zhang Jiuli led others to kneel down, he didn't notice anything wrong at first. It was just a greeting gift. He might be able to greet Li Xiang later, but the situation now was different from what he thought.

After receiving the imperial edict from the imperial court, he summoned his people. They lived the same life as the earthly emperor. Anyway, the sky was high and the emperor was far away, so no one usually took care of it. But if something happened to the imperial court, it would be the last resort. It has to be done properly, otherwise someone from the court will notice this.

Li Xiang went to Nanzhao to get married and they had a lot of things to do here, so Zhang Jiuli told the people below that no matter what kind of request Li Xiang had, we would try our best to handle it as best as possible. Anyway, it would only take more than half a year. After Li Xiang returns to Chang'an, our place will return to its original scenery.

The people below also agreed very simply. After all, they are all vested interests. When they were first assigned here, no one was willing to come here. But after they came, they found that although they were poor here, their lives were still poor. We are all very comfortable, and we don’t have anything to deal with at ordinary times. We just need to enjoy life, so leaving our grandson to take care of us means that our good days are coming again.

Although they have heard of Li Xiang's great reputation, they have nothing to fear. This place is different from other places in the country. If someone who is not familiar with the local situation comes, it may be difficult to move here, especially if they don't make friends with the chieftain. People, I guess they might be killed after they get out.

So even if there is any mistake, the court will be lenient to them considering the actual local situation. Generally speaking, delaying taxes is a serious crime. Local officials everywhere dare not do this, but they don't care. All you need to do is give a memorial to the court and talk about the weather and other man-made conditions here, and the court basically allows it.

So they thought that Li Xiang was just a passer-by, and they left for Nanzhao in at most half a month. When Li Xiang came back, they would give them a generous gift, and say hello to the chieftains in the meantime. Don't provoke Li Xiang, then this matter will be completed perfectly, and it is very likely that the court will receive a reward.

But now that Li Xiang didn't let them get up, these people immediately felt that something was wrong, and they should give up the courtesy greetings immediately. Many of them had also been to Jinluan Palace and were personally received by Li Yuan and Li Shimin. There were not so many rules there. , what is our great grandson going to do? Do you want to give us a warning?

Zhang Jiuli wanted to look up, but at this moment he felt the pressure around him. This was a kind of pressure from a superior person. He had never felt it in normal times, but now he couldn't move at all.

As for the other people, not to mention now, their mental endurance is not as good as Zhang Jiuli's. They don't know where they offended His Highness Taisun. It's already been a cup of tea, and they still don't let us get up. The ground outside Chengdu was also uneven, and there were many small stones that hurt them.

"Your Highness."

Xiao Yu will continue to serve as an official here in the future. If he goes too far, he may not be able to govern in the future. So what needs to be said is that everyone else can remain silent, but he cannot. We all When people are in danger, as our chief officer, you don’t say a word, so why should we work for you in the future?

"Where is the governor of Mianzhou?"

Although Xiao Yu was born, Li Xiang must establish his authority today. Along the way, Li Xiang was already very angry. Although people were not starving to death everywhere, when passing by Mianzhou, the whole The village is deserted. Doesn’t this belong to your magistrate?

Li Xiang specially ordered people to inquire about it. It turned out that the Mianzhou governor had annexed all the local land. All the people were tenants of his family. When he met some weak and elderly people, he just let them fend for themselves. On the mountain The bark of the tree is almost eaten out.

"The humble minister Wang Bowang has met His Highness Taisun."

An official in his forties crawled out from the crowd. This man was the governor of Mianzhou. He looked upright, but who would have thought that this guy had occupied all the good land in the state.

"I heard that Lord Wang's family's fields stretch for hundreds of miles. I don't know if it's true. I came from the north. It is said that wherever I pass is your family's fields, but on the edge of your family's fields, the entire village There is no one inside, how do you explain it?"

Li Xiang was already suppressing his anger. If he hadn't been in front of so many officials, if this guy had appeared in Mianzhou at that time, Li Xiang would have immediately ordered his warriors to take his head directly, and said in such a long-winded way Is it much?

"this……"

As soon as Mr. Wang heard this, he knew that Li Xiang had already figured it out. After all, Li Xiang came from the north, but in order for Li Xiang to arrive in Chengdu safely, he had already asked people to clear a way. Moreover, both sides of the road are also whitewashed, so why didn’t Li Xiang take that road?

Ordinarily, he should be waiting for Li Xiang at his station. This guy was afraid that Li Xiang would deal with him, so he hurried to Chengdu, hoping that all the adults here could work together to protect him.

Originally, they had already planned to use natural and man-made disasters to fool Li Xiang, but they didn't expect that Li Xiang would find out so clearly and get so angry when he got up. Who dares to plead with you at this time? If I ask you to plead for mercy, wouldn't it mean that trouble is moving eastward? Do we, the people, want our lives?

"There's nothing to say, right? Since it's you who have nothing to say, it's my turn to speak. As an official of the imperial court, you don't care about the people. You actually take the land of the whole state as your own. Every month, you are hungry. Hundreds of people have died. This is the land you manage for the imperial court. If this is the case, then you don’t have to take care of it from now on..."

Hearing Li Xiang say this, Mr. Wang was so frightened that he fainted. They have all heard of Li Xiang's methods, let alone your mere week, what can those foreign khans do? In this way, it is not so easy to kill a country at will in Li Xiang's hands. How can you compare with others?

Confiscating homes, exterminating families, distributing people...

This is Li Xiang's arrangement. All the men in the family will be executed, and the women will be sent to Gaochang...

Li Xiang killed the chief executive of Mianzhou when he came up. The officials below will have to investigate more carefully. This move is quite powerful...