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Fires broke out in many places in Xizhou.

The fire rushed to the sky like a raging sea, sparks and dust flew in all directions along with the wind, and the flames gradually rolled towards the mountains.

This fire, if there is no sudden heavy rain, it seems that even if it will burn for three days and three nights, it will be difficult to quell.

The guards who rushed from outside the door didn't bother to hold the umbrella, got off their horses, and rushed into the governor's mansion in a hurry.

"Is your lord okay?" He asked the servants in the governor's mansion while running.

A middle-aged man with red eyes from crying shook his head: "The doctor said, I'm afraid I won't make it through tonight..."

The guard took a few breaths with difficulty, gritted his teeth and ran back.

The rain was overwhelming, he wiped the rain from his face, and rushed into the main room where the sound of crying came from.

In the main room, Xizhou Inspector Gan Zhen was lying on the bed, breathing heavily with his mouth open.He has been ill for more than half a month, and the prescriptions have been changed one after another, but there is no improvement after taking them all.Just yesterday, the doctors shook their heads to persuade Gan's family to prepare for the funeral.

But it's easy to prepare for future affairs, but it's not easy to let go of Xizhou's affairs.

If he couldn't get out of bed, he couldn't even move when lying on the bed. Gan Zhen just wanted to use up his last ounce of energy to deal with the matter for the people of Xizhou.

Xizhou is located in the westernmost part of Longyou Road, close to the outside of the customs. Therefore, in Xizhou, intermarriage with foreigners is more frequent than in other places.

But because of this, a lot of troubles arose over time.

Because of the convenience of getting in and out of Xizhou, many barbarians took the opportunity to plunder the people's money, murder people and sell goods, and did all kinds of evil, which made Xizhou restless and the people were in panic all day long.

After Gan Zhen served as governor, he implemented a new policy in Xizhou, requiring all those who marry foreigners to register. Whether they are Dachu people or foreigners, they need something to prove their identity when entering and leaving Xizhou.

However, local officials in Xizhou were not satisfied with this, and many people even felt that Gan Zhen's decision was unnecessary.

Based on the idea that the sky is high and the emperor is far away, many things did not go as he thought.

The incidents of barbarians harassing the people continued to happen, but for the sake of political achievements, many county government officials directly concealed those things, and even helped the barbarians lobby the people.

If there is one thing like this, there will be two, and if there is two, there will be three. In the future, the matter will become bigger and bigger, and the bigger and more serious, it is no longer the case that they can hide it.

Gan Zhen didn't know until then that both he and Xizhou Supervisor Yushi were kept in the dark by this group of deceptive guys-those barbarians can no longer be called people, but bandits.

They are extremely sturdy and have a large number of people. Even if they are divided into gangs, they can still do their own thing, help each other, and are very united.Every time after robbing a place, they run away without stopping, making it difficult for people to catch even if they want to.Not to mention, local officials dare not stop them.

In order to stop these barbarians, Gan Zhen fell ill from exhaustion.After all, he is getting old, and he has never stood up again due to this disease. He has been lying in bed for more than half a month, and all the eating, drinking, and messing can only be taken care of by the servants of the Governor's Mansion.

Gan Zhen is over 50 years old this year. He has sons and daughters, and a house full of descendants.As early as after he fell ill, all the children rushed back, and no one dared to leave for too long.

A few days ago, the barbarians attacked again and burned, killed and looted a village. There were only about 130 people in the village. More than [-] people died that day, and only a dozen survived. Many women were left as captives. Walk.

The incident was so violent that if the local villagers hadn't asked the governor's mansion, they would have been deceived by the local officials.

But Gan Zhen was already ill at the time, so how could he manage these things? He dragged his sick body to find Bie Jia and Chang Shi, told them his opinion, and asked them to lead someone to rescue the kidnapped woman.

But who knows, what Bie Jia and Chang Shi promised, not only failed to complete in the end, but also failed to appease the villagers' emotions, and even caused people from all over Xizhou to rise up and attack the local governments.

The development of the situation to this point was beyond Gan Zhen's expectations.

He can only hope that the officials below can think about His Majesty who is far away in the capital, think about the environment they are in now, and then make a decision, so as not to intensify the conflict with the people again, and create disaster for those foreign barbarians. Opportunity to loot people.

When the guards rushed into the main room, Gan Zhen was already ill, with shortness of breath and coughing from time to time.The children and grandchildren of the Gan family all cried and gathered in the room.

He was lying on the bed, unable to move his body, unable to speak, and could only look at his children and grandchildren in tears.

When his eyes fell on the guard who suddenly barged in, Gan Zhen suddenly let out a wild beast-like whimper.Mrs. Gan cried so much that she couldn't help herself, she reached out her hand and pulled the guard over, "Hurry up, Master wants to see you, come quickly!"

The guard was pulled almost to the ground, and seeing the adult looking at him all the time, he knelt down.

Gan Zhen looked at him and shouted ahh.The guard gritted his teeth and slammed his head a few times: "Lord Inspector, outside..."

Gan Zhen really wanted to ask what was going on outside, but he couldn't make a sound, so he could only try to open his eyes and look at the guards.

His breathing became more and more difficult, and he made a rough and unpleasant sound, as if he was about to be buried by something.

The guard kowtowed again and again: "My lord, don't let your lord find a thousand military households to suppress the people outside the city. Now more than ten people headed by Pei Chu have been arrested, and they are preparing to make an example to others!"

The guard is Gan Zhen's confidant, so naturally he won't hide it from him.Everyone could see how Gan Zhen was busy for the people of Xizhou before he fell ill, but now that he was dying, how could he tell people to lie and hide it.

Gan Zhen was already a little invisible, and even the voice could only be vaguely heard.He heard the guard's phrase "Kill chickens to scare monkeys", but what kind of chickens to kill, and which monkeys are they to scare?

He opened his mouth wide and questioned sternly, wanting to hear more specific answers.

He wanted to ask, who gave them the power to dispatch military households to suppress good people?

He could do his best, even though his mouth grew bigger, but he still couldn't ask the question he thought, only crying like a weak old beast.

The Gan family members in the room were already crying together, and no one could hear the old man's voice.

Everyone was crying, crying that he was about to die.

Gan Zhen wanted to say too much, and there were too many things to do, but at this point, he could only hoarse, panting, and swallowed the last breath that he was reluctant to swallow.

In his life, his old wife was by his side, and his children and grandchildren were around his knees. It was not considered desolate, but it was a pity that he failed to manage Xizhou well for his loyal majesty until his death.

It's just a pity that I have to take it with me even if I go to Huangquan.

Gan Zhen finally left.

Everyone in the room burst into tears immediately.Mrs. Gan closed her eyes and passed out from crying.The servants were in a hurry, crying and carried the old lady to the next door, and the rest of the people hurriedly took out the shrouds they had prepared, and wiped and changed the adults.

The Gan family's children endured their grief and began to get busy with their father's funeral.

For a while, no one could spare their minds to take care of outside affairs.

The guard who was still kneeling in front of the bed was persuaded out of the main room in a daze.He stood in front of the house, watching the servants of the governor's mansion who were busy coming in and out, feeling a great pain in his heart.

Mr. Gan is gone, who else can take care of Xizhou's affairs?

He was horrified to find that Xizhou seemed to be hopeless...

The fires in various parts of Xizhou were gradually extinguished in the chaotic rain, but the people who rose up did not stop their resistance.

Most of them are ordinary people who have been plundered by barbarians. They live a peaceful life. They don't want to be rich and powerful. Three meals a day are enough to support their families.But the inaction of the government has pushed their days to the forefront day by day. Apart from resisting, these helpless people have no other way to think of.

But these people are just a mob, how can they defeat the military households called by officials from all over Xizhou to practice and prepare for war all the year round.

Xizhou was originally located at the border, and in terms of ferocity, the frontier army of Longyou Road was the most ferocious.But the soldiers and horses of Longyou Dao, even the governor has no right to dispatch them, so the officials from all over Xizhou can be used to suppress the people, but they are all military households.

In Dachu, once you are registered as a military household and become a military household, you will be a military household for generations. The father dies and the son succeeds, and the brothers end up with the brothers. Unless the family dies, a male must come out to be the soldier. military.

Therefore, there are actually not many people who are willing to join the military. Most of them are poor and have no choice but to join the military to make a living.The military households in Xizhou are more from exiled officials.

Among them, there is the Pei family who was exiled in the first year of Yifeng.

Xizhou Governor's Mansion is in Ancheng.

The news of the assassin's death was quickly reached to Bie Jia Xin Li's ears.

If it wasn't for the wrong timing, he really wanted to shout "good death".But when the words came to his lips, he couldn't swallow them, and he tried to hold back and didn't dare to show the slightest expression of ecstasy.He was only afraid that if he couldn't hold back for a while, he would lose face in front of the First Prince.

The eldest prince didn't seem to see Chang Sui bending over to enter the room, talking in Xin Li's ear, holding the teacup under his palm with his long fingers, his brows and eyes drooping slightly, making it hard to see his expression.

This cup of tea has been poured for a long time, and he didn't take a sip, as if just smelling the smell made him feel unappetizing.

Xin Li stood aside with his head slightly lowered, his mouth opened, but he didn't know what to say, so he had to take a sneak look at the elder Shi Liyan who was opposite him.

The two of them have been working with Gan Zhen for several years, but in the past few years, they have become less and less talkative in private. Their political views are different, which makes their handling of things very different.

For example, this time when the people rioted, Li Yan wanted to appease the mob, but he didn't know that appeasing the mob would only make them gain an inch, telling him that he should beat and kill a few troublemakers to scare them.

Xin Li couldn't mobilize soldiers and horses, so he had to lure many military households to help him suppress the common people.

It is really easy to subdue those mobs.He picked out a few more eye-catching ones from those mobs, tied them up and dragged them to the execution ground.Surrounding the execution ground are the mobs he ordered people to arrest. He wants to kill these guys here, kill chickens to show the monkeys, and let the monkeys know how to write the word fear.

But I didn't expect that there would be a sudden hiccup in the middle.

Xin Li swallowed his saliva, and raised his eyes to look at the First Prince.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty."

After a lot of effort, he finally opened his mouth, "I don't know why His Highness came to Xizhou this time..."

He didn't know what to ask, the words circled in his mouth a few times, a little vague, when he heard the sound of His Highness knocking down the teacup, he couldn't care less about being looked down upon by Li Yan, so he plopped down on his knees.

"Your Highness, calm down!"

No one responded, but a chuckle came from outside the door.

Xin Li's heart trembled, and he didn't dare to turn his head, only to hear the originally silent First Prince finally speak: "Come?"

Xin Li knelt on the ground, and could only see a pair of navy blue shoes passing by, and the voice was neither soft nor heavy, so that people could hear it clearly.

"Here we come. Brother Pei has already been taken care of by Auntie, and I have ordered people to settle the rest. Your Highness, the rest of the matter depends on how His Highness handles it."

The cold sweat dripped down on Xin Li's forehead, and he felt that there was a sword on top of his head without a sound. As long as he said a word, the sword would fall and cut off his head easily.

He trembled all over, only to hear the eldest prince whisper: "Lord Xin."

He hurriedly took a few steps on his knees, and his whole body was on the ground: "Your Highness..."

"Master Xin," the man chuckled, "tell me, how should Gu deal with you?"