After 300 years of cultivating immortals, he suddenly discovered that he was a martial arts man

"What's going on in front?" Cui Heng got down from the carriage, looked at the people of Lu County in front, and asked Liu Litao beside him.

"This, this is probably written by Sun Panshi and others." Liu Litao trembled with anger, gritted his teeth and said, "My lord, these people are already lawless, and most of these people are bewitched by them!"

"I'm afraid there are thousands of people. What a great skill!" Cui Heng sneered and said to Hui Shidao, "Go over and ask, what's going on?"

"Yes! My lord!" Hui Shi saluted and accepted the order.

"Those people are probably watching our joke." Cui Heng glanced at the distant city wall of Lu County, and said with a smile, "Liu Juncheng, let the accompanying soldiers prepare to release food and salt!"

After he accepted the position of prefect of Lu County, he kept Liu Litao by his side as the county magistrate, which helped him quickly understand various affairs of Lu County, and it was more convenient to collect the seven emotions of all beings.

"Yes! Your Excellency!" Liu Litao nodded quickly, and exclaimed, "Your Excellency is really good at predicting things, and I have long expected that there will be such obstacles."

"Go, go." Cui Heng waved his hands and smiled.

This Liu Litao's official habits did not change, and his three words were never far from flattery. Fortunately, he was still sincere in his actions, and the soldiers behind him were quickly mobilized.

Cui Heng's entourage to Lu County City is not small.

In addition to Huishi, Xu Fengan, Liu Litao, and Qian Cang, there were more than a dozen disaster victims who originally fled from Dachang County to Juhe County as soldiers.

New officials take office in a different place, especially if they come to a place like Lujun City where a hole has been dug, so they must be prepared in advance.

If you want to gather people's hearts, win the love of the people, and collect positive emotions, you must have your own people who can be used to do things from the beginning.

There must be at least a dozen of them.

These former Dachang County disaster victims are undoubtedly the best choice.

They are absolutely loyal to Cui Heng, and even think that their lives belong to Cui Heng.

On the other hand, it was also because Cui Heng had brought a lot of supplies to Lujun City, which needed people to transport them.

It is true that he can also use magic to make those materials after he arrives at Lujun City, but that would be considered fishing out of water.

You can only harvest emotions on a large scale at one time, and there is no follow-up.

After the [-] troops were submerged in a bowl of water in Juhe County, he didn't receive many emotions from sentient beings.

This is not in line with the concept of sustainable development.

It is better to arrange more manpower, and it will be better step by step.

……

As soon as Hui Shi came to the gate of Lu County, more than a dozen people immediately surrounded him.

"Officer, you are the Lord Sheriff, please let the Lord Sheriff give us a way to survive, we can't even afford food!"

"I beg the governor, don't raise the price of food. We ordinary people can't afford it. I beg the official, give me a way to survive!"

"There is also the Yan family. My family has not dared to eat salt for three days. The child's body is getting weaker and weaker. Pity him is still growing! Woooooo!!"

The more these people talked, the more excited they became, and some even started to push forward, almost completely surrounding Hui Shi.

Zheng!

Hui Shi lightly shook the steel knife at his waist, looked around coldly, and shouted loudly: "Everyone, the prefect is alive and loves the people like a son, and don't get excited, he will definitely help you solve the problem!"

Ordinary people are afraid of swords, and when they saw the battle, they subconsciously took a few steps back.

"How to solve it, can he still spit out the money he ate?!"

At this time, someone in the crowd suddenly shouted, "I've heard that the new county guard conspired with grain merchants and salt merchants to raise the price several times, and he took half of the commission himself!"

"Who is talking nonsense!" Hui Shi yelled angrily, and wanted to go out to check, but was surrounded by people from the inner three floors and the outer three floors, unable to move at all.

"My lord! Is it true that the prefect is getting a commission from merchants?"

"My lord! Have pity on us! If this continues, we won't be able to survive!"

"My lord, my lord..."

The voices of countless people buzzed in Huishi's ears, making him extremely irritable, and he almost couldn't help but draw out his knife and cut people.

But these people are not from the Huang family in Juhe County, so they cannot be killed at will.

He could only hold back forcibly.

However, Hui Shi was a warrior in the Qi Condensation Realm after all, so he could slowly push these people away with his true energy and return to Cui Heng's side.

"My lord, the situation is not optimistic." Hui Shi reported in the past, and said in a deep voice: "Someone is mixing among these people to sow discord, saying that your lord, you are partnering with merchants and competing for profits with the people."

"Have you found out who it is?" Cui Heng asked.

"My subordinate was surrounded by common people, so I couldn't find out." Hui Shi nodded a little ashamed.

"No problem." Cui Heng smiled. "Go again and tell these people that if you come to me to buy grain and salt, you can buy it at half the usual price, and each person is limited to [-] catties of grain and one catty of salt.

"However, every commoner who comes to collect grain and salt must say something about the merchants who are driving up the price of grain and salt. At that time, you will organize people to record all these."

"Yes! My lord!" Hui Shi returned immediately.

"My lord, I have already discovered that person just now." Xu Feng'an, who was pretending to be an old scholar, wondered, "Why don't you let me catch him directly?"

"If you show up, you won't be able to kill the weeds." Cui Heng smiled lightly, and glanced at the gatehouse on the city wall, "They all know you."

……

At this time, in the gatehouse on the city wall of Lu County.

Sun Panshi and Wang Jinsheng were sitting and drinking, looking at the scene outside jokingly.

"Brother Wang Xian, how do you think Cui Junshou will deal with this raging public opinion?"

Sun Panshi drank a glass of fine wine and laughed loudly, "This is probably the first new sheriff ever to be blocked by the people at the gate of the city! Hahaha!"

"Brother Sun, haven't you noticed the 20 or so carts brought by the new county guard?" Wang Jinsheng didn't answer the question, looked outside, and said with a chuckle, "I'm afraid there is a lot of food inside."

"How is it possible? Can he still move grain from Juhe County here to help the people?" Sun Panshi shook his head and said, "Besides, Juhe County has been impoverished for a long time, how can there be so much grain to transport?"

"When this prefect Cui was in Juhe County, he opened a warehouse to release food and rescued thousands of victims." Wang Jinsheng still looked outside, "I think this hurdle will not be difficult for him, and we should prepare for the next one." Countermeasures."

"Brother, you're worrying too much..." Sun Panshi still didn't believe it, but when he saw the changes outside, he stood up abruptly and shouted in shock, "How is it possible that he really brought so much food?! "

"Not just food, but also salt!" Wang Jinsheng's eyes became slightly fascinated, and he suddenly smiled, "Hahaha, that's interesting. If it's too easy to be suppressed, it will make me feel boring."

"Oh, it's just an act of buying people's hearts!" Sun Panshi was still unconvinced, and sneered, "After these days of publicity, the image of the new county governor and merchants partnering with the people for profit can no longer be changed!

"Even if he eats a bear's heart and dares to attack those merchants after entering the city, his image in the hearts of the people will not be good. They just think that he is crossing the river and tearing down the bridge!"

……

Cui Heng brought twenty carts of grain and five carts of salt.

The food is naturally not enough to sell to these tens of thousands of refugees, so it is first come, first served.

Then, promise that there will be more in the future, and you can go to the county sheriff's office to buy them.

And we will do our best to lower the prices of grain, salt and other livelihood industries.

In this way, the people will naturally disperse.

Even if there is support in it, it will have no effect in the face of real grain and salt.

"Have you written down all the merchant's information?" Cui Heng asked Hui Shi.

"Reporting to my lord, I have written it all down." Hui Shi nodded and said angrily, "A total of thirteen grain merchants and six salt merchants all raised their prices seven times by coincidence!"

"Okay!" Cui Heng nodded slightly.

"My lord, even though you sold them food at half price, some people still feel that this is an act of buying people's hearts." Hui Shi said with some concern, "I still think that you and those merchants are in the same group."

"It doesn't matter." Cui Heng waved his hand, didn't say anything else, and returned to the carriage directly, "Enter the city!"

……

After dealing with the city gate incident, Cui Heng succeeded in becoming the prefect of Lu County.

Sun Panshi and others were waiting for the new sheriff to make a move.

But three days passed.

There was no news from the Sheriff's Mansion.

All he knew was that Cui Heng was arranging people around him to take up various positions.

There doesn't seem to be any sign of a move.

Moreover, during the past three days, food and salt have been continuously transported from Juhe County through the Honghe River.

It is still sold at half price to the common people!

It seems that the food and salt there are inexhaustible.

This made Sun Panshi and other popular people almost scold their mothers. They couldn't even find the people to go to the county guard's mansion to make trouble.

He could only curse Cui Heng in his heart for running out of food and salt.

After more than ten days, the food and salt are still flowing.

There was no sign of giving up.

Ballads praising the new sheriff have even begun to circulate in the city of Lu County.

Sun Panshi and others could bear it, but the major grain merchants and salt merchants under their banner could not hold on.

There has been no income for more than half a month, and any businessman will explode.

Therefore, some merchants first began to buy grain from the common people at twice the price, and then sold it at three times the original price.

Food and salt are important, but money also understands people's hearts.

It is inevitable that some people could not help but be tempted to sell part of the grain and salt in their hands.

This has led to the fact that the overall price of food and salt remains high despite the continuous existence of half-price food and salt.

The people soon began to spontaneously picket those who sold grain and salt to merchants.

So the grain merchants and salt merchants quickly tripled the purchase price.

More and more people secretly sold grain and salt.

But the price has also increased to five times, which is almost seven times the original price.

At this time, the grain and salt transported from Juhe County suddenly stopped!

The County Sheriff's Office also issued a notice that there was really no food and salt to be shipped.

The price of food and salt soared to fifteen times their original value in an instant!

Sun Panshi and others played the crown to celebrate.

All the merchants held a banquet to celebrate.

The people were furious, but there was nothing they could do.

The entire Lujun City has almost become a powder keg.

It's about to explode.

Finally, a large number of people couldn't bear it anymore, and ran to the sheriff's office to complain, hoping that the sheriff would severely punish these unscrupulous merchants.

This time, no one instigated it, everyone was spontaneous, and they all just wanted to ask the prefect for help.

Instead of questioning.

In the past month, the image of the new sheriff fighting against the grain merchants and salt merchants in the city by himself has been established in the hearts of the people.

No one would believe that Cui Heng and those merchants were in the same gang.

Inside the sheriff's office.

Cui Heng took a list and said to Hui Shi who was waiting for orders: "Thirteen grain merchants, six salt merchants, nine medicine halls, twelve carbon merchants, seven...all of these have been checked out. Bar."

"Yes, my lord, everything has been investigated." Hui Shi said respectfully.

"What is the attitude of the people?" Cui Heng asked again.

"Your Excellency, the people in the city have sincerely admired you now." Hui Shi admired Cui Heng's approach to the extreme, and this is the real way to gather people's hearts.

If they had ransacked the homes of these merchants when they first entered the city, they would definitely not have such a cohesive heart, and they might be stigmatized as killing donkeys.

"Okay!" Cui Heng nodded and smiled. Now, the first goal has been achieved.

So, he immediately slapped the list on the table, and said in a deep voice, "Hui Shi listens to the order! All the above-mentioned merchants will have their homes confiscated, and a public trial will be scheduled! Anyone who obstructs them will be killed on the spot!"

Pigs are fattening.