I am happy to be a mother in a famine year, I have a system to farm the land

The old man was just about to thank him, but when he heard Prince Ling calling himself, his eyes widened in fright.

Seeing this, the guards on the side stepped forward to explain.

"This is His Royal Highness Prince Ling of Zhou Dynasty. He is the younger brother of His Majesty. If anything happens to the old man, please feel free to tell us."

The old man seemed not to have expected that he would meet a royal person. His lips trembled for a long time, and then he suddenly shed tears.

"It turns out to be the prince, please save us..."

The old man seemed to have lost his worries and choked up completely.

The rest of the people were also frightened. They were worried that the officials in the county government would not make decisions for them. After all, those people had warned them before.

He said that even if they get to the government, the officials will not make decisions for them.

They didn't dare to eat before because they were worried that they would never wake up after eating.

Unexpectedly, the man in front of him was not an official, but a prince.

Seeing the village chief kneeling down and crying bitterly, it was as if the invisible pressure that had been weighing on everyone these days was suddenly relieved.

"Please, Your Majesty, make the decision for us, please, Your Majesty, please save us..."

King Ling had no choice but to have someone prepare a chair for the old man.

"Old man, if you tell me anything, I can make the decision for you. If you don't say anything, how can I seek justice for you?"

The old man understood what King Ling meant and pointed to the blood book in King Ling's hand.

"Your Majesty, this is a petition written by our villagers collectively. It costs the lives of more than a hundred people in our village..."

"We wanted to report it to the police when we escaped, but we didn't expect that we would be chased by those people on the way. Those children who originally escaped were just gone..."

The old man seemed to be thinking about what happened when they escaped, and tears suddenly blurred his eyes.

When King Ling heard this, his face turned livid.

He didn't expect the people behind this to be so bold. They dared to massacre the village under his nose!

But why are these ordinary people being hunted down by those people?

"The injuries on your body were also caused by being chased?"

The old village chief nodded.

"Why are you being hunted by those people?"

"Your Majesty, you don't know. Our village used to make paper pottery for the government. But three days ago, someone asked us to stop the work. In desperation, I had no choice but to take the young adults in the village back to the village."

"But...but when we go back, the wife, children, parents are gone, all gone...The infant child is only three years old, what do they know..."

The old village chief's body was trembling slightly.

King Ling was furious. These beasts did not even spare women and children.

"Someone, go and bring the county magistrate to me!"

When the guard heard what happened to this villager, he felt angry in his heart.

Who would have thought that the people behind this would be so arrogant, and would be regarded as such a trivial matter in the Great Zhou Dynasty!

When the county magistrate was brought up, his body was covered with iron chains and his hair was unkempt. His clothes were in tatters, and his body was full of whip marks and signs of torture.

When everyone saw such a person being pressed up by the guards and thrown to the ground, they were all frightened and backed away.

Prince Ling gave everyone a calm look before sitting back down again.

"Did you ask people to do the massacre of the village?"

The Linxian magistrate who was thrown to the ground was still a little stunned for a moment, obviously he did not expect that King Ling would suddenly ask such a question.

The county magistrate thought carefully about Prince Ling's question and kowtowed in fear.

"Your Majesty, I don't dare to do this. This is not what I did."

The county magistrate also felt wronged.

Now His Highness Prince Ling is personally in charge of Lin County, who dares to do something under his nose?

Moreover, when Prince Ling came here this time, he still brought an imperial edict.

If they dare to confront King Ling at this time, wouldn't that mean they are committing rebellion?

Thinking of this possibility, the county magistrate couldn't help but shudder.

He had indeed done some low-key things before for the sake of money and his family. But he was limited to seeking some benefits for himself. Such a serious matter of rebellion would require beheading.

Thinking of the government officials who had been beheaded a few days ago, the county magistrate felt chills all over.

He was somewhat lucky that King Ling had found those people who had been placed by the prefect around him, otherwise he would not be able to clean himself up even if he jumped into the Yellow River.

His current crime is to spend a few years in jail.

But if it had something to do with rebellion, he might even lose his only chance to survive.

Thinking of King Ling's methods in the past few days, the county magistrate couldn't help but tremble.

He kowtowed to Prince Ling twice more, "I beg you, Your Majesty, to look into it. I will never dare to do such a thing."

Prince Ling squinted his eyes as he looked at the county magistrate in front of him, thinking that he had been controlling people since he came to Linxian County.

Even if the county magistrate has other ideas, he is afraid that he will not be able to take action.

Thinking of this, King Ling couldn't help but narrowed his eyes.

Thinking of the prefect of the government office, if these things were not done by the magistrate of Linxian County, then it could only be the prefect.

Before, he only thought that there were a lot of corrupt officials here, but now it seems that things are not that simple.

I just don’t know what these people did to make the prefect so afraid that he actually wanted to kill them and silence them?

Looking at the people sitting next to the old village chief, King Ling couldn't help but take a deep breath.

"You'd better tell the truth, otherwise the crime of beheading will fall on you in the future. Don't blame me for not reminding you."

Before, King Ling thought that the magistrate of Lin County was just a pawn of the prefect, but he didn't expect that this guy turned out to be a fool, which was why the prefect did not set up defenses against him.

Otherwise, he wouldn't know so much evidence when he came this time.

Looking at the county magistrate kneeling below, King Ling couldn't help but narrowed his eyes.

"You said that the prefect asked you to go to a mountain to see the pottery being fired and see if there were any of these people?"

The county magistrate was stunned for a moment, then looked up at the old man beside him.

After seeing the old man's face clearly, the county magistrate nodded repeatedly.

"It's them. The prince is indeed the pottery made by these people."

"Do you know why the prefect took you to that place?"

The county magistrate shook his head, "My lord, you also know that although the prefect values ​​our Lin County, he doesn't value me as the prefect."

"If the prefect hadn't threatened me with my family, I wouldn't have done those things."

When the county magistrate talked about this matter, he was still a little angry.

If he knew that the prefect was doing beheadings, he would not be involved in beating him to death.

Seeing his current miserable situation, the county magistrate cursed the prefect bloody in his heart.

That bitch knows that he is enjoying happiness when good things happen.

Now something happened, but he, a small county magistrate, was pushed out.

It's so shameless, and I don't want to see if His Highness Prince Ling believes his nonsense.