For Gu Junli, punishing a prefect is not the main point. How to gain recognition in the hearts of the people and make the people of this city work for him is the most important thing.

But now, he has a bigger challenge.

Some bandits just need to be dealt with because they are real bandits.

But sometimes, you can't do this, because they are just ordinary people. They were forced to take this path.

Therefore, Gu Junli was considering what to do, and attacking by force was definitely not the first choice.

"Third Prince, please give me five hundred men, and I will level this village for you!"

A disciple of the Divine General Sect said this, but Gu Junli had no intention of agreeing.

This is not the time to pursue merit, nor can we give them training. These people will be our own people in the future.

"No, there are five thousand people in this village, we have to find a way."

In this way, the disciples of the Shenjiang Sect understood that they did not need to raze this place, but to conquer it.

If they can be eradicated, that's all they can learn, but subduing them is not their job.

So in the end, Gu Junli decided to negotiate on his own.

One can imagine the reaction this caused.

"How can this be possible!"

"Yes, Third Prince, how can you take risks alone!"

The men tried their best to stop him for the sake of Gu Junli. In fact, there were thousands of people on the other side, even ordinary people. As long as they wanted to, Gu Junli would not be able to come back.

That's right, your life will be lost.

Therefore, they absolutely cannot agree. If something happens to Gu Junli, then they will lose their attachment.

"Stop trying to persuade me, it's decided like this." Gu Junli insisted, no one could stop what he wanted to do.

No, it’s not like no one can stop it, such as Su Ruchun.

"Don't tell the princess!"

With these words, everyone's last road was blocked, and they could only watch Gu Junli walk to the so-called cottage gate.

This cottage looks really shabby.

The door of this cottage looks like a false door, because there is really nothing to stop it.

Gu Junli stood in front of the village gate, and did not move for a long time. The people above looked at him quietly, as if they were considering, do they really want to attack this man?

Yes. Are they really going to attack this person? This person looks really powerful.

Gu Junli was helpless, so he took off his accessories, handed them to the person next to him, and took two steps forward.

He took two steps forward, and the people took two steps back.

"Wait, don't be nervous, I don't mean any harm, I'm here to see your village chief."

Hearing this, everyone was very puzzled. They asked their village chief?

Don't be kidding, there were a lot of people outside, and they all saw him.

There are so many people, and one person can kill them all with just one blow.

To be honest, when they saw their army arriving, everyone in the house was ready to die.

They are currently discussing how to hide the children or send them away from the back mountains.

But they were also surrounded by the mountains behind them, so escape was impossible.

Because of this matter, everyone did not think about food or tea that day, since there was nothing to eat anyway.

No matter what, they just didn't believe that Gu Junli wanted to find their village chief.

"Tell you village chief, I am the third prince, Gu Junli."

Hearing him identify himself, the villagers became uneasy.

A prince! He was actually alive. They saw the living prince!

This is simply an unbelievable thing. How could they see a person like the prince on a daily basis?

Could it be that they were making such a fuss that the court knew about it?

Everyone looked at Gu Junli in awe, not daring to get close, acting as if Gu Junli was the real bandit.

The village chief came in a hurry... He used to be the village chief, but now he is the leader. Anyway, that's what it means, he has always been in charge of them.

In the past, I was only in charge of one village, but now I am in charge of people in several villages.

The village chief looked at Gu Junli and saluted hurriedly, showing his greatest sincerity.

"Your Highness the Third Prince, they have never done anything bad and are all honest people. If you want to punish them, just punish me."

When the village chief said this, he also made up his mind to fight all this on himself.

If killing one of him could save more than 5,000 people, young and old, he would have deserved his death.

But unexpectedly, Gu Junli helped him up and said, "You fell into trouble and became bandits. It's the officials' fault, not yours."

Just this sentence made all the dozens of people standing at the gate of the village cry.

They didn't expect Gu Junli to say that it was the officials' fault, not their own.

This gave them hope and their future.

This made them understand for the first time that not everyone thought they were bad people.

At least, the third prince is here to help them.

"Come on, Third Prince, follow us in and take a look."

With such a warm invitation from the village chief, Gu Junli really followed him in. The people behind him didn't know what to do?

Just let the third prince go in alone?

But this is a military order and they cannot refuse.

Therefore, no one followed him, not even the personal guards. No one followed him in.

Gu Junli just followed the village chief and walked forward. The village chief here introduced enthusiastically what was in this village.

"The houses were all built together. After we cut down the wood on the mountain, we built the house, and then used the land behind the mountain for farming."

Hearing this, Gu Junli nodded.

Looking at the low house, I knew that what they lived in could only be considered as a living, but with a place to shelter from the wind and rain, they lived in peace of mind.

It seems that they really call this place their home, but the local magistrate says they are bandits!

"Is the food you grow enough to eat?"

"It's not enough. This is a mountainous area, and the yield of food grown in mountainous areas is not good. I can make do without going hungry."

Hearing such words, Gu Junli frowned.

"If it was so hard, why did you leave your hometown?"

"Because we can't survive, we don't want to cause trouble, but we have been able to deal with it in previous years, but this year the various taxes combined are too much. Therefore, everyone can only escape."

Hearing the village chief's words, Gu Junli understood in his heart.

They don't want this, but the taxes are too heavy and don't give them a way to survive.

If it wasn’t that they couldn’t bear it, who would leave their hometown?

After Gu Junli figured this out, he followed them to see the fields. Although it was on a mountain and the fields were not large, it could be seen that they had taken care of them carefully.

Such a piece of land can allow so many people to live a stable life, why can't such a large area of ​​fertile land at the foot of the mountain do the same?

After walking around like this, Gu Junli thought a lot. He originally thought that he would wait for them to finish their internal friction before taking action. But looking at these people, Gu Junli knew that he could not wait any longer.

Yes, he is going to Kyoto.

If they are allowed to continue making trouble like this, the people will be the unlucky ones in the end, and the world they want will become barren.

"Village Chief, I want to take you away, are you willing?"

When the village chief heard this, he felt very uneasy.

"Third Prince, do you want to take us away? Where are we going?"
Chapter completed!