Just as Lin Hongfei was thinking about road construction, Wu Yongquan walked into the study and said:

"Hongfei, those people have all gone to the dock, let's go there too!"

Lin Hongfei turned around, nodded, picked up the top hat on the table and buckled it on his head, and then walked outside.

After walking out of the county government, Lin Hongfei turned over and stepped on a white horse like a snowflake, then pulled the reins and urged the white horse to rush towards the dock.

Behind him, thirty guards carrying shell guns, followed by the Huaji Office, and the horse's hooves stepped on the bluestone slabs on the main road of the county town, making crisp sounds.

The people along the way hurriedly hid on both sides of the road, and then watched Lin Hongfei and his group leave with awe.

Jiangdu Wharf, on a nearby open space, there are densely packed chairs and long benches.

The rich and wealthy gentry and merchants and shopkeepers on the dock gather here, as if waiting for something.

However, everyone had no intention of chatting, and looked at the soldiers around them who were responsible for the guard and guarding.

Although these soldiers remained silent and remained firm, they could be seen with their momentum, wear and equipment alone.

Especially the new and neat military uniforms on the soldiers were obviously made of good fabrics. Even the clothes worn by some gentry were not as good as those on the big-headed soldiers.

But this is normal. After all, Lin Hongfei himself runs a dyeing factory. It is not a trivial matter to get some good fabrics for his personal soldiers to make military uniforms.

Let’s look at the heavy machine guns and tilted mortars on the open space in the distance. The Ren family militia did not have such good equipment at the time.

The strength of the independent group under Lin Hongfei can be imagined!

A few brave children came over to watch the fun. They were wiping heavy machine guns and fiddling with the gun barrels, but the soldiers who were fiddling with the gun barrels did not drive them away. Instead, they smiled and asked the children to touch the gun barrels and touch the shells, which made the children scream and cheer.

Everyone's eyes left the mortar and finally looked at an iron armored gunboat that swayed slightly with the flow of the river not far away!

Just now, everyone saw several officer-like people transferring from the gunboat to the land to meet Guo Lang, Huo Yunshan and the others, which means that the gunboat was also Lin Hongfei!

This incident made everyone frightened. As the saying goes, relying on the mountains and water to eat, Jiangdu County is close to the Yangtze River, so these gentry naturally made a lot of money by relying on the river water.

An iron-armored gunboat lies across the river, and that is an invincible existence.

To put it bluntly, Lin Hongfei can control the shipping, fishing and other matters of Jiangdu Wharf with this gunboat.

Everyone’s lifeline is controlled by Lin Hongfei!

Look at the black and thick cannon tube on the ship and the barrel as thick as an arm, this is not something that wooden ships can compete with.

After thinking about this, not only these gentry, but also the merchants, shopkeepers, Cao Gang, and ship owners on the docks changed their faces one after another.

At this time, Lin Hongfei had not arrived at the dock, but everyone looked at the empty main seat, and his eyes clearly showed a look of awe and fear.

It seems that everyone should be careful when doing business at Jiangdu Wharf in the future.

However, some people with a lot of mind soon thought that if they could obtain the protection of this armored gunboat.

So the waters around Jiangdu County are much safer, and there is no need to worry about the robbers robbing them.

For a moment, there was a little strangeness in everyone's eyes.

Several people have already started to plan and figure out what price to pay for Lin Hongfei's protection.

Just as everyone was thinking differently, a dense sound of horse hooves sounded. Everyone looked back and saw Lin Hongfei galloping towards him, and the horse team behind him raised a burst of smoke and dust!

Soon, Lin Hongfei came to everyone, turned over and dismounted, and saw everyone bowing down and saying respectfully:

"Welcome to the county magistrate!"

"I'm late, sorry for everyone!"

Lin Hongfei laughed, then strode to the rostrum, then sat in the main seat, looking directly at the crowd of wealthy gentry, merchant owners, and boat merchants below the stage.

Beside them, Wu Yongquan, Chu Liangyi, Huo Yunshan, Guo Lang and others sat down one after another. Although these people were young, the momentum they emitted still shocked everyone in the audience.

At this time, Wu Yongquan stood up, held up an iron trumpet, and shouted loudly to the audience according to the speech specially written by Lin Hongfei:

"Since the abdication of the former Qing emperor, a total of 9 county magistrates have come to Jiangdu County!"

"They are all bastards, beasts, parasites!"

"Apart from corruption and abuse of power and plundering people's wealth, they did not do anything good to the people of Jiangdu County."

"I have neither been able to live and work in peace nor protect my family and the people!"

"But, our County Magistrate Lin is not like this!"

"Today, Mayor Lin, please call you here to show everyone the military power of our Jiangdu County Independent Regiment in public!"

"Let everyone know that our independent group can protect the family and the people!"

After saying that, Wu Yongquan pointed to a correspondent soldier not far away and said, "Go and bring all the bandits!"

Soon, nearly a hundred bandits with black cloth covered in their heads were taken to the open space not far away by soldiers of the Independence Corps, and then forced them to kneel down.

Wu Yongquan shouted at the top of his voice: "These people are all from the Ren Family militia. They are doing evil and committing crimes and becoming bandits."

"Today, we will be executed in public to serve as a warning to others!"

"Trial squad, do it!"

As soon as the words were finished, the soldiers immediately raised their rifles and shot at the bandits in front of them. The bullets penetrated the back of the bandits and quickly took their lives.

Seeing this scene, everyone present trembled in their hearts. It was not that they had seen dead people before, but this was the first time they had seen such a large-scale execution.

Immediately afterwards, Wu Yongquan shouted again:

"Why do you need to shoot the militia!"

"Because they robbed the big people and robbed the gentry"

"They were shot to make everyone understand the consequences of being a bandit!"

Speaking of this, Wu Yongquan pulled his neck with a hoarse voice, shouting: "The county magistrate is here, the river is peaceful!"

"The county magistrate, there is it in the sky!"

"Ahem......"

He shouted too hard, and Wu Yongquan almost came up in one breath.

The people who were shot just now were naturally not Ren's militia, they were some bandits who were captured by the Independent Group two days ago.

Lin Hongfei then used them as militias to deceive everyone, and at the same time confirmed the rumors that the Ren family militias were indeed bandits.

At this time, Lin Hongfei stood up, looked at everyone with a smile on his face, and said loudly: "I came to Jiangdu County and only did three things!"

"Fair, fairness, or fairness!"

"So, I hope that you will be fair and just in your future."

"If someone does evil, don't let me catch it."

"Otherwise, no matter which master he is or whose son he is, he will be shot on the spot!"

"I, Lin Hongfei, are the county magistrate, and I pay the most attention to the rules."

"I, do what I say!"

As soon as these words came out, Lin Hongfei looked at the crowd in the audience with a cold look, which made everyone's heart tremble.

At this moment, four words appeared almost at the same time in everyone's hearts:
Chapter completed!