Longevity: I want to enjoy wealth and honor in the world
Chapter 61 Testing the Imperial Court
In Liaoyuan City now, Feng Tianzong is the biggest one, and he has the final say. The power of the court has disappeared.
"Master Immortal, County Magistrate Wang is in the inner room. I will take you there right away." The warden nodded and smiled.
Wang Mingyuan in the cell had been stripped of his official uniform. He was wearing underwear and curled up in a pile of straw in the corner. He thought that he would be imprisoned after reselling grain in the warehouse, and he also thought that Feng Tianzong would rebel and he would be implicated and imprisoned as an accomplice.
He never thought that he had made contributions to defending the city, and when he was happily waiting for a transfer, he received a bad news.
"Master Feng, Master Feng, save me, please save me." Wang Mingyuan saw Feng Tianzong, as if a drowning man grabbed a life-saving straw.
Although he also knew that Feng Tianzong was not a member of the court, he didn't know who to ask for help now. Desperate.
"Wang Mingyuan, I can save you, but you know that I have no connections in the court. Even if I do, I can only do it in a way that violates the court's laws.
After rescuing you, you can't continue to work as a county magistrate openly." Feng Tianzong said.
"Master Feng, no matter what method you use, if you don't help, I will be dead. The most important thing is that they charge me with dereliction of duty, which has caused the extinction of all the gentry in the city.
After they charge me, they can use this reason to veto my signing of the land deeds under your name.
I am familiar with the rules of officialdom. I am just a scapegoat. Their next target must be you. Please prepare early." Wang Mingyuan said in a very sincere tone.
"Come, open the prison door and invite County Magistrate Wang out." Feng Tianzong ordered.
The jailer who had been accompanying him was in trouble. He just wanted to flatter Master Feng. Everyone knew that Feng Tianzong was already the largest landlord in Liaoyuan City, and he would become the biggest local snake in the city.
It was nothing to come to see the imperial prisoner, but he would be held responsible for releasing him without authorization.
"Master Feng, I really can't bear this responsibility." The jailer knelt on the ground with a thud and begged.
"Who asked you to take responsibility? County Magistrate Wang has always been the county magistrate. Who locked him up in the prison?" Feng Tianzong asked.
"Master Feng, the prosecutor from the prefecture is still in the county government." The jailer said puzzledly.
"No, no, no, the prefecture has never sent anyone to Liaoyuan City, and no one has seen anyone from the prefecture. So County Magistrate Wang is still the county magistrate of this city. As for the people sent by the prefecture, they were probably killed by the rebels outside the city!" Feng Tianzong said lightly.
"Okay, let him go!" The jailer didn't understand Feng Tianzong's meaning. He only hated himself for being so cheap and rushing over to flatter him. Are these things something that a small jailer like him should know?
But he didn't dare to disobey Feng Tianzong's orders. When the rebels attacked the city, he saw with his own eyes that Feng Tianzong waved his hand, and there was lightning and thunder, and a large number of rebels were struck into charcoal by lightning.
Although the court was frightening, this was Liaoyuan City after all. The mountains were high and the emperor was far away, and Master Feng, who was close at hand, made him more afraid.
Wang Mingyuan came out of the prison door, knelt on his knees, knocked his head on the ground and said respectfully: "Wang Mingyuan greets the lord. From now on, I will serve the lord loyally."
Feng Tianzong waved his hand and took out ten iron and wooden puppets from the storage bag.
"You two take them to clean up all the people from the city. And those yamen runners, let them surrender." Feng Tianzong said.
"My lord, I'll go right away." Wang Mingyuan did not delay, he stood up and walked out with ten iron puppets, the jailer hurriedly followed, they were all old hands, they knew that they had boarded the pirate ship and could not get off, if they did not kill someone as a token of their loyalty, they would probably come back.
None of the people sent by the prefecture city were left, all of them were killed by Wang Mingyuan and the yamen runners.
Wang Mingyuan could only go one way to the end, there was no other way to go, this was a disguised rebellion, but he had not yet broken the window paper, nominally, he was still the county magistrate of the court.
Now the situation is chaotic, there are refugees who can't live in various places rebelling. Liaoyuan City is remote and should not attract the attention of the court.
This is also Feng Tianzong's test of the court. If the court really sends cultivators to investigate, at worst he will throw Wang Mingyuan out to give the court a face. After all, he is a cultivator in the late stage of Qi Refining, and his magical powers are not weak. People from the court should not fight him to death.
If the imperial court did not send cultivators to investigate, then he would simply establish his own regime. As long as he could drag it out for a few years, Feng Tianzong felt that he would not be afraid of the imperial court at that time.
Wang Mingyuan also understood Feng Tianzong's plan, but he had no choice. In addition, he had already seen Feng Tianzong's powerful strength, and sincerely following Feng Tianzong might not be a bad way out.
Although he was a county magistrate and knew that there were immortal masters working for the imperial court, he had never seen how strong the imperial court was, but he had seen Feng Tianzong's strength with his own eyes.
After Feng Tianzong solved Wang Mingyuan's problem, he returned to the mansion and began to refine ironwood puppets in seclusion. The ironwood in stock began to turn into puppets in large quantities.
The city sent several groups of people to Liaoyuan City, but they were all killed after entering the city, and the city never sent anyone here again.
During this month, Feng Tianzong even spent his leisure time making ironwood puppets. Now he has 300 ironwood puppets.
One ironwood puppet is worth a hundred, and these 300 ironwood puppets can resist 30,000 troops.
"Housekeeper, go ask Wang Mingyuan when the next batch of ironwood will arrive, or the monster bones I asked him to collect last time, has he received it?" Feng Tianzong asked the housekeeper.
"My lord, County Magistrate Wang said that now that the city has cut off our trade route, we can no longer receive ironwood from other places. We can only rely on local production, which is very scarce.
We have collected a set of monster bones and have transported them to the mansion." said the housekeeper.
"Blocking the trade route, is there enough food in the city?" Feng Tianzong asked with concern. The shortage of ironwood is not a big deal for the time being, but food is related to the population under his jurisdiction and his tax revenue, which cannot be wrong.
"My lord, there is still enough food. After all, the gentry in the city have been cleared out, and the food in their granaries is now in your hands. For the current population in the city, it is enough to feed them for a year. If there is no disaster next year, there will be no danger." The butler replied.
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