Walking into Shanxi Street, Li Zhi saw that people in front of the road were fleeing into houses in panic. As Li Zhi's team moved forward, the streets that were originally sparsely populated became increasingly empty. Every household was closed. After entering the room, Li Zhi did not feel the support he was accustomed to in Tianjin Town.
Those people from other places who came to work seemed to be very afraid of and alienated from him, the King of Qi.
As Li Zhi walked, he felt more and more that this "Shanxi Street" did not look like a place with nine provinces in one town.
Li Zhi suddenly stopped his horse and asked the magistrate of Jinghai County: "What's the point? Why are the people here so afraid of me?"
When He Ganyi heard Li Zhi's question, he rolled off his horse in a panic and finally stood up. He stood beside Li Zhi with a bow, cupped his hands and said, "I don't know..."
Li Zhi frowned and looked at the magistrate.
Seeing that Li Zhi was unhappy, the county magistrate next to the county magistrate hurriedly coughed, walked up and said, "Your Majesty! The residents of Shanxi Street only know the Emperor and not the Prince. In one town and nine provinces, the local people respect the Prince more than the Emperor." , so the outsiders on Shanxi Street have various things they are not used to. When they see the prince, they subconsciously want to avoid him. "
Li Zhi was silent for a while after hearing this and looked at the county magistrate.
These words sounded reasonable. But after thinking about it carefully, Li Zhi felt that these words were not good words. He suspected that the county magistrate was slandering the workers of Shanxi Street in front of him.
Li Zhi looked ahead and found that there was a Guandi Temple in the center of the main street. The facade looked very big.
Li Zhi walked into the temple, looked around, and finally pulled up a chair in front of the statue of Guandi and sat down.
"Go and bring up the Yang brothers who destroyed the statue."
He Ganyi was stunned when he heard this, and said in a trembling voice: "Your Majesty...this is Shanxi Street, we people from Jinghai County are going to get someone's words..."
The county magistrate next to him raised his hands and said: "Your Majesty! Shanxi Street is dissatisfied with Wang Hua and is resisting the law with arms! If we take people by force, I'm afraid it will trigger a riot!"
Li Zhi looked at the two local officials.
With a wave of his hand, Li Zhi pointed to the flag-raising guard next to him and said, "You go under my banner, Li Zhi! It is said that the Yang brothers have come to Guandi Temple."
When the two local officials heard this, they didn't dare to say anything more. Li Zhi had already spoken to this extent, and the two of them emphasized the difficulty again, questioning Li Zhi's banner and it didn't work. Li Zhi's banner in one town and nine provinces didn't work. , no one would believe this.
The flag-bearing guard followed the two magistrates and several policemen and walked out.
Li Zhi sat quietly in Guandi Temple and waited.
After a while, the Yang brothers did not come, but Shanxi workers gradually gathered outside the Guandi Temple.
The workers and their families obviously knew that Li Zhi came to "take" the Yang brothers in person, and they all felt that something big had happened. They all rushed to the gate of Guandi Temple to see what Li Zhi was going to do with the Yang brothers.
If the local officials had taken people by force, I'm afraid these workers would have swarmed up and used force against the local officials. However, the local officials used Li Zhi's banner, and the workers in Shanxi did not riot.
After all, Li Zhi was not only the patron saint of the local people in one town and nine provinces, but also the hero who saved the Ming Dynasty and destroyed the Tartars. Although Li Zhi wanted to take people, the Shanxi workers were a little confused, but they did not dare to use violence.
Men, women, and children from Shanxi Street came to see Li Zhi take care of people. More and more people gathered outside Guandi Temple, and finally the entire main street was blocked. In front of the main hall of Guandi Temple is a small square, Shanxi Workers and their families crowded in the square, looking timidly at Li Zhi sitting on a small stool.
But there are also some men with anger in their eyes.
People outside gathered around in circles, and finally after a long time, someone suddenly shouted.
"The Yang brothers are here!"
The crowd parted like a tide, revealing the middle road.
The Yang brothers, with their hands tied behind their backs, walked towards Guandi Temple under the escort of the county magistrate and county magistrate.
He Ganyi led the two of them to Li Zhi, raised his hands and said, "Your Majesty! These are the eldest son and the second son of the Yang family who destroyed the statue!"
Li Zhi looked at these two people.
Both of them were of medium build, relatively thin, and wore half-worn cotton-padded jackets. Neither of them wore a headscarf, but tied their hair with a rope and put it on their heads, making them look very rough.
When they walked up to Li Zhi, the two of them behaved differently.
The older man was obviously his elder brother. He didn't dare to look at Li Zhi, so he knelt on the ground politely when he came up. The younger man stood up straight, standing in front of Li Zhi and glaring at Li Zhi, as if he had a belly. gas.
Li Xing saw the look of his younger brother and couldn't help shouting: "That man! Don't you know how to kneel down when you see King Qi?"
The elder brother on the ground turned pale when he heard this, and quickly pulled his brother who was frozen there with his hand. But the younger brother reached out and knocked his brother's hand off, and shouted at the top of his voice: "The rebellion has already started! Why are you kneeling down? What a big deal. I don’t want this life to be cut into pieces!”
The words of Yang Jiaerlang resonated with the surrounding audience, and many Shanxi workers cheered regardless.
Li Zhi has saved the country and the people and benefited the people over the years. Wherever he goes, Li Zhi is not worshiped. This is the first time that Li Zhi's bodyguards have seen such a situation, and they can't help but become nervous.
Li Zhi frowned when he saw the people applauding the sinner who was "rude" to him.
Clearing his throat, Li Zhi asked in a deep voice: "The eldest son of the Yang family! The second son of the Yang family! Why do you want to destroy the ancestral halls of the people in Jinghai County?"
When Erlang of the Yang family who was standing there heard this, he sneered and turned his face to the side.
The elder of the Yang family on the ground wants to answer!
But just as the elder brother was about to speak, the younger brother cursed loudly: "Don't answer him! We just rebelled. What's the explanation?"
The eldest son of the Yang family looked at his younger brother, sighed, and said, "Second brother! This is the King of Qi who saved the entire Ming Dynasty from the Tatars. Even if he wiped out our whole family, we have no choice but to recognize him!"
Yang Jiaerlang's eyes widened and he said, "Brother! Why didn't you say that when you chopped down the statue?"
The Dalang of the Yang family said: "The statue is a statue of a local in Jinghai, but it is not the real person of the prince! The statue can be chopped down, but you cannot be rude in front of the real person of the prince!"
Hearing his brother's words, Yang Jiaerlang opened his mouth and couldn't answer for a while.
The eldest son of the Yang family no longer cared about his younger brother, kowtowed on the ground and said, "Your Majesty, the reason why I chopped down the statue in the ancestral hall is because my two brothers were really driven into panic."
"The villain's wife, Liu, is originally a Shanxi woman. We have just been married for a year and have no children yet. Jian, a literary official in Jinghai City, fascinated the villain's wife with his erudition and wealth. The villain's wife Unwilling to live a hard life with a villain, she volunteered to be Jane's concubine. She took advantage of the opportunity when Jane went to Siam to become an official and left Jinghai County, abandoned the villain, and followed Jane to the extreme south."
"The villain has been married for a year, but lost his family all of a sudden. After drinking a pot of shochu that night, he felt that he no longer had the shame to be a human being. He went crazy and led his younger brother to destroy the prince's birth shrine in Jinghai County."
"It's been a few days since this happened, and the villain is now awake. Now that the prince is on top, the villain knows his crime and will obey the law."
"The villain is willing to die. It's just that the villain's brother is a fool. He was persuaded by a few words from the villain before he did something wrong with the villain. I hope the prince has a good life, is merciful, and can leave a legacy for our Yang family.
