In the eyes of people like Duan Shishi, who have lived in the East Factory since he can remember, and are surrounded by bloody killings, the scene outside is indeed nothing more than "someone making trouble".
But when Jun Huailang opened the door and looked out, he saw that the construction site was already battling.
The embankment was originally wide, but now the construction schedule is very urgent, and the number of workers on the embankment is extremely large, and there can be thousands of people in total.
At this time, on the construction site near the break of the embankment, a large group of people gathered in a fight, smashing the surrounding utensils and materials for repairing the embankment. The tents that were originally built for recreation on the edge of the river bank collapsed and destroyed a lot at this time.
From a distance, the originally orderly construction site has become a mess. There were also a few migrant workers who were fighting, and they tried to break into his house, but were blocked by Jin Yiwei who was guarding outside.
Jun Huailang was startled and could not help frowning.
The dams are being built so well, how could such a crowd fight suddenly happen
However, Jun Huailang was too late to think about it. He immediately instructed Jinbao: "Go, immediately call the official in charge this afternoon, and let him hurry to gather all the officers and soldiers standing guard around the camp, and control the fight first, and don't cause casualties."
Jin Bao snorted and hurried out.
Seeing that Jinbao was running away, Jun Huailang stepped out and went to a nearby official to ask the situation and the reason.
But an unsheathed Embroidered Spring knife stood in front of him.
Jun Huailang looked sideways and saw Duan Shishi blocking him.
"Please leave the prince with your subordinates," he said.
"There is a situation on the construction site of the dyke repair, how can I go first?" Jun Huailang said. "I can handle it myself, don't worry."
Duan Shishi lowered his eyes, looking like he couldn't get in.
"The prince has his life, and his subordinates need to protect the safety of the prince," he said.
Jun Huailang understood, what he meant was that he was only responsible for protecting his own safety, as for the rest, he would not care.
Jun Huailang watched as the situation outside became more and more chaotic. There were a few people in official uniforms mixed in the crowd, but he couldn't control the scene at all. Instead, he was only beaten.
Under such circumstances, there must be someone who will come forward to arrange and stabilize the situation.
Jun Huailang was a little anxious, and explained to him: "I'm just going to arrange the troops to stop them from causing chaos, and there will be no danger. You have your responsibilities, and I have mine."
Duan Shishi's sword was still there: "The prince can leave from the west gate, there is no one there."
Jun Huailang understood.
The young man following Xue Yan's side, although strong and stable, can do everything well, but lacks a bit of humanity, and is not the same as ordinary people.
He was like a hidden weapon and a sharp sword in Xue Yan's hands, more than sharp, but only a weapon.
Let him do things according to orders, he can, but if you explain and discuss with him, it will not work at all.
- After all, he couldn't understand it at all.
Jun Huailang changed his words: "Xue Yan asked you to do more than protect my safety, right?"
This time, Duan Shishi raised his eyes to look at him.
A pair of icy dark eyes filled with two clumsy doubts.
Jun Huailang looked at him and took out the piece of sapphire from his sleeve: "He asked you to obey me, right?"
Duan Shishi's eyes fell on the piece of jade.
"Yes." he said.
Jun Huailang took the jade back into his sleeve.
"Then I order you now to follow me to the construction site," he said. "As for how to keep me safe, that's what you have to do."
This time, Duan Fourteen understood.
He has always only understood orders, and as for the rest, he has never learned it since he was a child.
"Yes." He responded with a knife in his hand, and asked Jun Huailang to go out.
Jun Huailang did not really need Duan Shishi's protection.
The few migrant workers who dared to rush to his residence were already subdued by the Jinyi guards. As soon as he left the house, a middle-aged official who was beaten with a black face and disheveled hair ran up to him and saluted him: "The prince forgives his sins, his subordinates are not doing well, and there is an accident at the construction site..."
Jun Huailang hurriedly asked, "What's going on?"
The official said, "It's the dozen or so workers who were injured at the construction site today. The pensions and medicines were clearly delivered to them, but they said they didn't receive them. They also said that the petty officials were going to drive them all away. I went to discuss with their fellow villagers and friends, and inexplicably they all started fighting..."
Jun Huailang frowned.
At this moment, Jinbao hurriedly led the officer in charge of patrolling over here.
"Quickly send officers and soldiers to pull them all away," Jun Huailang said. "All those involved in the fight, don't let any of them fall, and control them all first. You take half of the Jinyiwei here with you, and you must not let them kill them."
Jinbao and the official took orders and hurriedly took people to the construction site.
When the official who just ran over heard the words, he opened his mouth and said: "This... Your Highness, do you really want to detain all of them?"
Jun Huailang looked at him.
I saw the official whispering: "It's better to wait for the situation to stabilize, and let the subordinates go to ask first. If it is true that our subordinates have done something wrong, it is not good to wrong these people..."
Jun Huailang knew what he was afraid of.
At the moment of the catastrophe, the people in the government are most afraid of chaos and loss of people's hearts.
Today, there are already people on the construction site who are in chaos because of the government's mistakes. If they are blindly detained again, the conflict between them and the government will become more serious. What should we do? Today, the scene of a construction site can still be controlled, but if it chills the hearts of the people in the city, they will be in chaos, but they will not be able to control it.
Hearing this, Jun Huailang turned to look at the chaotic construction site, but did not speak.
The official persuaded: "His Royal Highness, Jinling City is in danger now, and it can't be messed up any more."
Jun Huailang shook his head.
"Don't worry," he said. "I make my own decisions."
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Before dark, Jun Huailang received a petition from the officials on the construction site to arraign the perpetrators.
Sure enough, as he expected, because the accident on the construction site was urgent at that time, the pension was distributed directly, and it was not strictly recorded, so it was not certain whether it was really embezzled.
But Jun Huailang knew, no.
From the moment he saw the chaos on the construction site today, he had already thought about it.
The official was right, there is no chaos in Jinling City today.
Because of this, there must be some people who want to see the turmoil in Jinling, making the disaster more serious and completely uncontrollable.
Isn't that what happened in the past
From the "refugee" who rushed into the academy to beat the scholars, to the fight at the construction site where the embankment is being repaired today, to the previous life, there were many riots in the refugee camp, and even to the point where some people rebelled, these chaos and disasters broke out together , not only can make Jinling chaotic into a pool of muddy water, but also make the officials in charge bear serious crimes.
And in the midst of chaos, taking the opportunity to embezzle the blame, it is also better.
Jun Huailang guessed that someone was acting today.
As soon as Xue Yan left, the construction site was in chaos. How could there be such a coincidence
Fortunately, he arraigned the little leader of the trouble that day, knowing that he was a local who was bribed and had no contact with other troublemakers. With this clue, Jun Huailang guessed that the messengers and participants in today's chaos were also mixed among the people.
The most important thing now is to find out all these people. Otherwise, if they are allowed to mix among the people, Jinling will not be peaceful.
However, just like today, those people are mixed with the common people, and once they stir up trouble, the common people will be instigated, and they will riot together.
Once the number of people is large, the main envoy is mixed with the innocents. At this time, it will be even more difficult to find them out.
Jun Huailang fell into deep thought.
Just then, there was a knock on Jun Huailang's door.
He let people in, and he saw that it was the official in charge on the river bank today.
"His Royal Highness." He saluted. "Today, all the rioters on the river embankment have been detained. Among them, a hundred or so were injured, and the lower officials came to ask what to do."
Jun Huailang pondered for a moment.
"Go to the treasury to get the medicinal materials, and then send a doctor there to treat them as soon as possible," he said. "Report the situation to me every day, don't delay."
Officials should go.
Jun Huailang continued: "As for the rest... all of them are released."
The official was stunned for a moment, puzzled: "… Are they all released?"
This... He was the one who arrested people in the morning, why did they let them all go in the evening
Jun Huailang hummed lightly.
"Next, you must listen to what I say," he said. "Every sentence has to be executed as I say, you know?"
The official looked at him.
Although His Highness is extremely noble and cold and distant, he has a good temper and is extremely easy to get along with.
But at this time, for some unknown reason, there was an unquestionable coercion on him, making him involuntarily do what the other party said.
For a time, there were actually two points of King Guangling who looked like the living King of Hell.
"Yes, please instruct your Highness." He responded quickly.
Jun Huailang nodded.
"When you release people, just let out the wind and say that there is turmoil on the dam. I am extremely angry. I must investigate this matter clearly, and those who make trouble will not be spared," he said. "But Jinling was extremely short of manpower and material resources, and it was impossible to detain so many people. My subordinates persuaded them. My father and the Shen Zhifu also put pressure on me, so I let them all go in a fit of rage."
The officials were dumbfounded.
This... how can there be such a corruption of their own reputation
But Jun Huailang wanted this result.
When such news is released, ordinary people among the rioters will definitely be shocked. After all, the nobles who have attracted the anger of the principal, how dare they use their lives to make jokes
But the crowd of bandits mixed in is different. When they see that they are provoked and at the same time have no ability to imprison them, they will definitely think that what they are going to do has achieved initial results, and they can continue their efforts.
Next, it's time to drop the bait and give them a reason to continue rioting.
"Let's arrange it again. Because I am angry, the wages on the construction site will be halved after that, and the money saved should be used to pay for the losses of the construction site. Then send the money to the prefect of Shen, and let him use his name to pay to the laborers in the family. The women and children have an extra meal a day.”
Jun Huailang continued.
After all, ordinary people would never care who the official who actually ordered the order was. Even if the money was reduced, the pressure on them to support their families was immediately reduced by more than half. In this way, they benefited from it, and naturally there would be no more troubles.
And those who make trouble... They just want a reason to make trouble, and they give it enough.
The officials responded again and again, but did not understand the reason why he did these things.
"Then what?" he asked.
Jun Huailang looked at him, smiled lightly, and for a while, like the ice melting and the snow melting, the orchid first bloomed.
"Then, wait," he said.