fake prince

Chapter 460
Thun An

A few old horses were walking slowly on the road, and the people sitting on them looked around quietly, without making a sound, almost blending into the night.

Until the oil lamp hanging on the side of the road gradually approached, the people on this horse gradually showed their appearance, and the leader was Qi Hongxin, the prefect of Shun'an Prefecture.

He was riding the oldest of the horses confiscated from the three gangs, and it could no longer be used on the battlefield. This kind of old horse can barely be used by high-ranking officials when they go out on business alone.

He didn't want to come here in a bullock cart, because the noise would be too loud and it would easily startle people. Qi Hongxin watched quietly, and seemed to ask casually, "Zhi Lin, you've been with me for almost ten years, right?"

"Yes!" Yu Zhilin looked around vigilantly at the back, and replied: "At that time, I remembered that I was Chengshou eight or nine years, and I kind of forgot."

"You forgot, but I haven't." Qi Hongxin said with a smile, "You were still the young hero who wanted to kill me!"

Qi Hongxin looked softly at the man in front of him. This young man has followed him since ten years ago, defending him time and time again, and intercepting many assassinations.

It has been ten years, and it has been delayed for ten years.

"At that time, I was deceived, saying that you were a corrupt official and a cruel official." Yu Zhilin pointed his sword and shot left and right: "It was only later that I found out that you are a very honest and good official."

"Actually, I'm not an honest official. The word 'corruption' may be negotiable, and the name of a cruel official is worthy of the name." Qi Hongxin said sadly: "The villagers are bewitched, so it is not necessary for me to kill 53 people."

"That's all for encircling and suppressing the three gangs. After killing Deputy Inspector He Bi, even if he deserves to die according to the law, he must go through procedures, not me."

"I'm really cool, but there's nothing I can do about it."

"The sun is at the end of the day, so go against the grain and do the opposite, and there is nothing wrong with it." Qi Hongxin really thinks so, and he himself has noticed that with the third term, his mentality has changed. Resentment gradually filled his heart, and his behavior gradually became extreme.

"Besides, this time knowing that the 23 court officials were involved, I can only give Yizao one shot. Based on this alone, how can I be considered innocent?"

"Sincerely, how can it be so easy?"

"Pfft, what did the master say? Those corrupt officials should have been killed. What are you talking about? As for the 23 court officials, being honest and good officials is not stupid."

"If the table is turned over, the master will not only fail to become an official, but will also be killed. How can he benefit another party?"

"Master, others don't know, I have been with you for ten years, and what I have seen is to benefit the people, and the total amount is no less than 100 million." Yu Zhilin simply looked back: "Master, I know what you are thinking, but I just feel that I wasted— — But I don’t think so, and my official career is nothing more than being a military officer of the eighth or ninth rank.”

"How can it be as good as now, protecting you for one day can save thousands of people."

"Really, you have such confidence in me, but I don't." Qi Hongxin smiled and said nothing.

How many monarchs, first wise, then fatuous.

How many courtiers, first wise, then greedy and violent.

"It's the same for me, but I'm old and sick, alas, I can't wait until that day."

"It's a good thing."

As he entered the area with dense farmland, he saw more and more oil lamps, one by one leading directly to the burning bonfire, Qi Hongxin stopped talking.

Most insects have phototaxis, and locusts are no exception.

buzz, buzz, buzz...

The voice from the sky made Qi Hongxin rein in the horse, and when he looked up, he saw that under the hazy moonlight, there was a dense mass of darkness, flying directly from a distance.

"The locusts are coming! The locusts are coming!" Someone not far away also heard the sound and looked up to see this scene, and suddenly screamed.

An old farmer shouted, "Don't panic! They are flying towards the bonfire, pick up the baskets and brooms, and prepare to kill them!"

Qi Hongxin's heart is tight, whether this method can be successful, whether it is effective, success or failure depends on it.

His eyes were tightly locked on the few bonfires that were a little closer to him. Under the darkness of night, the people hiding beside him were also waiting nervously, waiting for a large number of flying insects to fly over, except for a few people. The sound made the others hold their breath, for fear that the sound would scare away the attracted locusts in advance.

hum!
Until a large black spot fell straight onto the bonfire, and wanted to escape because of the burning of the flames, someone shouted: "Quick!"

One, two, three... Several figures rushed over, raised the tools in their hands, and swat down on the locusts that had lost the ability to fly or were slow to react due to the fire.

The large black specks that were about to fly up just now fell into the bonfire with crackling crackles. Not only did they not extinguish the fire because of their fall, on the contrary, the fire's intensity was more than doubled in an instant after it dimmed for a moment!
A meaty smell that made people move their index fingers wafted out from the campfire.

If you didn't know that the smell came out, it was a locust that was dreadful and disgusting, and I'm afraid someone would swallow their saliva.

And farther away, figures swayed, and there were obviously not a few people who followed suit.

Tens of thousands of taels of silver can already mobilize the whole government to cull the locusts.

This effect is really good.

Qi Hongxin's heart, which he had been holding on for a long time, finally fell to the original place, and he felt that his forehead was sweating because of the tension just now.

"It only takes about ten more days to completely cull the locusts in the mansion, and remove all the locust eggs in the ground."

Even if the bonfire attracted locusts from the neighboring prefectures, and the prefectures didn't spend a penny, they could enjoy the benefits for nothing. Others would definitely not be upset, but Qi Hongxin felt that this was fine.

"Even if it's not the people of Shun'an Prefecture, if they suffer from locusts, I can't bear to see them. If they don't care, then I will take care of them!"

"My lord!" Just as he was thinking, his thinking was interrupted again, Qi Hongxin turned his face away in surprise, and saw Yu Zhilin pointing: "Look."

"Not to mention anything else, if you, sir, bring up a big case, all the officials in the house will now be in order to protect the black hat, and no one will be able to take care of serious business."

"Now, how attentive are they?"

"Yeah!" Qi Hongxin couldn't help showing a smile, and turned away in a blink of an eye: "However, mobilizing so many people and distributing tens of thousands of taels in the seven counties of the whole prefecture won't take much time."

"Come on, let's go back. The mining rights must be at least 3 taels, right?" Qi Hongxin, who was very satisfied with the locust extermination operation, called Su Ziji to meet him as soon as he returned to Fucheng.

When Su Ziji arrived, he was not polite, and asked directly: "Master Su, how is it that you are in charge of the mine? Do you have any regulations?"

Su Ziji smiled: "It's almost done, and I'm just waiting for the adults to see it."

"Oh?"

so mysterious?

This is actually not official style, how could he return to Shangguan like this?

Moreover, Qi Hongxin has always done things boldly, and doesn't like this kind of mystification, but facing Su Ziji, who has helped him a lot since he arrived in Shun'an Mansion, Qi Hongxin still has some tolerance.

"It seems that Mr. Su has already finished this matter? Then I will let you take a look at this mansion."

(End of this chapter)