Your Majesty, please stop messing around.

Linjiang City.

The government office.

Yu Feng walked back and forth in the hall, looking solemn and somewhat uneasy.

These days, he has not had an easy time.

Since the day when the Prince of Lin returned to Linjiang City and arrested the young master of the Chen family, the atmosphere in Linjiang City has become increasingly tense.

No one can guarantee whether this is the Prince of Lin acting on impulse or the Prince of Lin signaling behind the scenes to warn the families in Linjiang City?

Since the attack on Prince of Lin, undercurrents have been surging in Linjiang City, and a delicate balance has been maintained, but since the Prince of Lin came back, this balance has been broken.

As a result, the pressure on Yu Feng, the prefect of Linjiang City, has become even greater!

Although he is an official appointed by the court, he was promoted by the palace. In these years in Linjiang City, he has also maintained subtle connections with various families.

Therefore, he cannot afford to offend either the Prince of Lin's Palace or the other families in Linjiang City.

More importantly...

He has a close relationship with the Chen family in private, and even the murder of the young master of the Chen family this time has an undeniable relationship with him.

After the young master of the Chen family got into trouble, Yu Feng had been secretly inquiring about the situation, and had also personally gone to the Linwang Mansion to try to ease the relationship between the two families.

But he was turned away!

With the undercurrents in Linjiang City now surging, the Chen family has used a lot of relationships to put pressure on the Linwang Mansion openly and secretly.

This vaguely made Yu Feng feel a little uneasy.

Others don't know, but he knows the character of the Linwang best!

For more than ten years of fighting, he once led his army to trample on more than a dozen countries in southern Xinjiang, suppressed rebellions and destroyed countries, and conquered nearly a quarter of the land area for the Daning Dynasty, and established such a glorious military exploit.

It is also the only one who has been named a king of a different surname in the past hundred years since the founding of the Daning Dynasty. How could he be easily threatened?

The aristocratic families headed by the Chen family have been entrenched in Linzhou for many years and are growing stronger day by day. They controlled a lot of the economic lifelines of Linzhou, controlled people's livelihood, had students all over the country, won over scholars from all over the world, and even raised guards and troops in private, which seemed to have the capital to confront the Linwang Mansion.

But even so, can they really challenge the Linwang Mansion?

Yu Feng knew that the reason why these people from the noble families were so eager to move was, on the one hand, they speculated that something had happened to the assassination of Prince Lin. Either he was seriously injured, or... he had already died.

On the other hand, the confidence came from... the court!

The biggest reliance of these people must be the support of the court behind them. Otherwise, even if they were given a hundred courage, they would never dare to turn against the Linwang Mansion.

The conflict between the court and the Linwang Mansion will break out sooner or later. For the noble families in Linzhou, they need to weigh the pros and cons of the family and stand in line early.

But the problem is that these noble families have the support of their family heritage for dozens or hundreds of years. Even if they stand on the wrong side in the end, they can still save themselves with the accumulation of their family for many years, even if they suffer heavy losses.

But for Yu Feng, the prefect of Linjiang City, he has no family background, let alone connections in the court. Once he takes a wrong step, he will be in great trouble.

Especially since the Chen family is now frantically testing the Linwang Mansion, Yu Feng has a close private relationship with the Chen family. If something happens to the Chen family, he, the prefect, will be blamed.

More importantly... Chen Junru's case was handled by him. He is an insider and a patron.

Now that the prince of Linwang is biting the young master of the Chen family, once he finds out the truth of the matter, he will also have a bad ending.

Therefore, Yu Feng is worried.

These days, he has been walking around, trying to ease the conflict between the Chen family and the palace. But the Prince of Lin always avoided him. He went to Chen's house several times in private, but to no avail.

This result made Yu Feng feel more and more uneasy.

He knew that the only person who could solve this matter was the Prince of Lin...

But no one knew the situation of the Prince of Lin now.

The only person who could make the decision in the Prince's Mansion was the Prince of Lin.

Thinking of this, Yu Feng stopped suddenly and made up his mind: "Someone!"

"Sir."

A yamen runner walked in quickly outside the door.

"Prepare the car, I need to go to the palace."

As soon as Yu Feng finished speaking, a hurried and hurried footsteps suddenly sounded, and then a figure rushed in in a hurry.

"Sir, sir, it's not good!"

"What's the matter? So panicked?!"

Yu Feng saw the pale and panicked yamen runner, his heart sank slightly, and an ominous premonition surged into his heart.

"Lin, someone is coming from the Lin Palace..."

The voice of the yamen runner trembled slightly.

"Someone is coming from the Lin Palace?!"

Yu Feng was shocked when he heard this.

Why would someone come from the Lin Palace?

"Who is coming?!"

Yu Feng asked in a deep voice, and then he heard a burst of hurried and orderly footsteps coming from outside the hall. The next second, several fully armed black shadows appeared in his sight and broke into the courtyard.

These black shadows were restrained and murderous, and instantly controlled and surrounded the entire hall.

Yu Feng's pupils shrank suddenly.

"The one who comes is not kind!"

This thought suddenly emerged in his mind.

Then the next second, a woman in armor and tight clothes stepped into the courtyard.

Yu Feng only took a glance and recognized the identity of this woman...Lin Qingqing.

The leader of the Lin Prince's personal army.

The most trusted subordinate of the Lin Prince!

Why did she come here?

The ominous premonition in my heart became stronger and stronger.

"Commander Lin!"

Yu Feng suppressed the uneasiness in his heart, forced a smile on his face, stepped forward and was about to speak.

Unexpectedly, Lin Qingqing who stepped into the courtyard just glanced at him expressionlessly and waved: "Take it!"

The next second, two black figures appeared silently next to Yu Feng, and took him down without waiting for him to react.

Yu Bao showed a look of horror: "Lin, Commander Lin... you, what are you doing?!"

Lin Qingqing just looked at him indifferently and said loudly: "Linjiang City Magistrate Yu Fengzhi broke the law and colluded with traitors to disregard human lives. It is a heinous crime. On the order of the prince, you are specially arrested and brought to justice!"

Yu Feng's heart trembled and his eyes suddenly widened.

The ominous premonition in my heart was finally fulfilled at this moment!

Prince Lin...is he going to attack him? !

"It's unfair, it's unfair!"

Yu Feng was frightened, and he tried to explain.

If he was caught, he would probably be doomed.

But Lin Qingqing obviously didn't have the patience to listen to his explanation, and waved her hand: "Whether he was wronged or not, the prince will make his own decision, take him away!"

Immediately, Yu Feng was forced down.

Lin Qingqing looked around. At this moment, most of the government officials and officials gathered in the government office, all with frightened eyes.

No one knows why Prince Lin's Mansion suddenly went into such a big fight, sending out so many people to surround the government office, and even the prefect was arrested.

Lin Qingqing looked at everyone and said in a cold voice: "I am here to temporarily take over the affairs of the government under the order of the prince. If anyone is not convinced, just raise it!"

There was silence, no one made a sound.

Who dares to stand out at this time?

Even if they knew that the palace suddenly took over the government office by force and behaved in such a rebellious and unethical manner... who would dare to speak out without risking his life?

"Since there isn't, that's good!"

Lin Qingqing's cold eyes swept across the faces of everyone present, "I, the commander, will temporarily take over the prefecture. I hope you all can cooperate well."

…

The Prince Lin's Mansion suddenly sent people to take over the Linjiang City government office and arrested the prefect Yu Feng. News spread throughout the streets and alleys of Linjiang City in an instant.

It caused an uproar!

This news is really too shocking!

Even though everyone knows that Linzhou is the fiefdom of Prince Lin, Prince Lin also has the final say in Linjiang City.

But no matter what, Linjiang City was still under the jurisdiction of the imperial court in name, and still had a management team from the imperial court.

At least in name!

Most of the time, Prince Lin's Mansion would not directly intervene in government affairs. Even if there is intervention, it will only be done secretly.

This kind of behavior of directly sending people to occupy the government offices and arresting all the prefects has never happened before.

This is undoubtedly a severe challenge to the majesty of the imperial court! No one should doubt... is Prince Lin's Mansion really planning to rebel? !

Both the aristocratic families and the common people felt incredible when they heard the news.

Just as the news from the public became more and more intense, Prince Lin's Mansion quickly responded.

Lin Qingqing, who temporarily took control of the government office, reorganized and eliminated the government office in a very short period of time. Immediately afterwards, while public opinion was at its hottest, Chen Junru's case was reopened and made public while the iron was hot.

…

"Master, it's not good!!"

Chen Mansion.

The housekeeper rushed into the hall with anxious steps, "Master, the government has just retried the young master's case..."

In the hall, Chen Hongsheng's face was gloomy. Hearing the news, he suddenly clenched his fists.

I had expected this!

"how?"

The butler looked anxious and said in a deep voice: "Prince Lin sent Lin Qingqing to take over the government office and re-examine the young master's case. They produced a lot of evidence to prove that the young master had violated the woman named Xu Xianglian..."

"That woman named Xu Xianglian confessed everything..."

"At the same time, there is also the young master's confession... The young master personally admitted that he asked his men to beat Sun Yuan to death..."

"All the witnesses and physical evidence are there, as well as the young master's own confession..."

"Now the people in Linjiang City are excited and are targeting us... Outside the house, there are still many people shouting and cursing!"

The butler's expression was extremely ugly. He did not expect that Prince Lin would really fall out with the Chen family.

This means forcing the Chen family to die!

"Master, the situation is extremely unfavorable to us now..."

The butler's face was pale and he was already confused.

Although I had expected it, I never expected that Prince Lin would be so ruthless and take advantage of public opinion to give the Chen family a hard blow.

During this period of time, public opinion has always been surrounding Prince Lin. Whether it was Prince Lin who had been colluding with the Chen family before, or the news that Prince Lin was pretending to be a prince was spread among the people in the past few days, all this made Prince Lin in the public eye. The city is extremely hot.

But now, when the truth about Chen Junru's case is made public, it naturally explodes in popularity instantly!

Even if the Chen family wanted to suppress public opinion about this matter, it would be completely impossible.

"The rich and powerful men from aristocratic families took possession of good women and beat their husbands to death. They also collaborated with the shady government officials to confuse right and wrong..."

All elements are complete!

Nothing can ignite the anger of ordinary people more than this kind of news.

At this time, no one cared whether the Prince of Lin was real or fake. In fact, many people automatically attributed the news to the Chen family's slander.

How could the Prince of Lin be fake?

It must be the Chen family's revenge and slander!

And those who questioned the Prince of Lin some time ago were also slapped in the face.

The truth is out!

His Highness is worthy of being the Prince of Lin. Although he is a little bit dandy, he is really not afraid of the powerful!

He said he would arrest Chen Junru and he would investigate the truth... His Highness is true to his nature!

Even the matter of sending people to take over the government office was praised by the people!

The prefect Yu Feng was exposed for sheltering Chen Junru and became the object of people's scorn. In this way, the rationality of the Prince of Lin's Mansion taking over the government office was confirmed.

This series of news directly caused the Chen family's reputation in Linjiang City to fall to the bottom.

"He Lin Jiangnian is really coming for our Chen family!"

In the hall, Chen Hongsheng's face was gloomy.

As if he had aged a dozen years overnight, Chen Hongsheng was gloomy and shrouded in a violent anger.

That Prince Lin is too good at guiding public opinion, or...this public opinion is probably his plan from beginning to end!

He is really coming for the Chen family, and Chen Junru is just an opportunity!

At this moment, Chen Hongsheng realized that he had underestimated the Prince Lin.

"He is hitting me, and even more so my Chen family!"

Chen Hongsheng closed his eyes, expressionless.

Thinking silently in his heart.

"Master..."

The housekeeper said anxiously: "What should we do next?"

Chen Hongsheng's face was gloomy and he didn't speak.

The public opinion can't shake the foundation of his Chen family for the time being...This incident can't bring down his Chen family.

His Chen family has been operating in Linjiang City for many years, and it's not so easy to fall.

But this time, it is indeed likely to be a serious injury!

It is even very likely that it will never recover!

What makes Chen Hongsheng think more terrified is that... this prince of Lin, this time he guided public opinion against his Chen family, but did not kill them.

He did not kill them all!

He could have used the incident of Chen Junru to attack his Chen family, or even...

But he did not!

From the beginning to the end, in addition to making the truth public and guiding public opinion, Lin Jiangnian did not press on step by step, nor did he completely tear his face with their Chen family...

This is what Chen Hongsheng fears the most!

If Lin Jiangnian takes this opportunity to attack his Chen family, his Chen family will naturally have the spare power to fight back. On the other hand, they can also unite with people from other families to resist...

After all, no one dares to guarantee whether they will become the next target of the Lin Wang Mansion.

In this way, the various families in Linjiang City can unite.

But this prince of Lin did not!

The message he revealed from the beginning to the end was... This prince only targeted the case of Chen Junru, just a warning to your Chen family.

Apart from that, there is no other plan!

But the more so, the more uneasy and vigilant Chen Hongsheng felt.

Is the purpose of this prince of Lin really so simple?

Or...

He had anticipated this and was ready to take it step by step... He planned to boil the frog in warm water, slowly divide his Chen family and other families in Linjiang City, and then...

Defeat them one by one? !

Thinking of this, Chen Hongsheng broke out in a cold sweat.

He had a premonition that the purpose of this prince of Lin would definitely not be so simple.

If they sit and wait for death, their Chen family will definitely not have a good end.

The appetite of this prince of Lin is definitely not small!

Thinking of this, Chen Hongsheng narrowed his eyes, and a sharp murderous intent flashed across his eyes.

A long-planned idea slowly surged into his mind again.

"..." (End of this chapter)