In Li Chuan's study, Yang Ju sat squatting on the table, her fluffy tail curled up.
She has a big head and short ears, a lion-like mane, and big round eyes, with one yellow and one blue mandarin duck pupils. When she stares quietly, she has an indescribable nobility and elegance, which makes her look like a born noblewoman, as she should be. a feeling of.
For some reason, Li Fan looked at the white cat so close and felt the urge to reach out and pet her.
But thinking about her claws that she claimed had once torn a tiger alive, she still held it in with great pity for her life.
Yang Concubine said: "Have you already obtained that rare treasure weapon?"
"I got it, it's here." Li Fan turned around and took out the sword from the shelf at the back and showed it to Yang Yan.
"I specially picked it for you. How do you think it is? Is it good?"
Yang Yang held her head up triumphantly, her eyes half-closed, and she looked like she was about to praise me.
Li Fan laughed at himself: "Thanks to the immortal, you got such a good weapon, which makes me feel like I'm eating soft food, but I'm not ashamed of it. Who said this thing is so delicious?
If this kind of good thing happens again in the future, please be sure to come again.
In fact, I personally have a small improvement suggestion, that is, there is no need to stick to the form of rewards for meritorious service. As long as you are in a good mood, you can give rewards whenever you like. "
"What a beautiful idea you have!" Yang Yan spat, "The benefits of this great immortal are not free of charge. It is time to do what we promised before."
Li Fan said seriously: "Okay, tell me, what is the situation with the demon cultists now?"
Yang Yan said: "The people from Catching Wind Hall are responsible for tracking and investigating, and found that they were hiding in Yonghefang in the south, but when they chased them, the building was empty."
Li Chuan said: "This is not surprising. The demon cultists are not fools. If such a big thing happened, they should have run away long ago."
Yang Yu said: "Yes, they still have three cunning burrows. They have strongholds in Yong'anfang, Anyifang, Shengpingfang and other places, but they have also been abandoned."
Li Fan couldn't help but frown when he heard this: "The organizational strength shown by the Gu Xin Demon Sect is no weaker than that of the imperial court, and is even better than that of the imperial court."
Yang Ju said disdainfully: "What kind of skill is this? It's just relying on exotic treasures and fallacies to confuse people's minds.
However, they do have great prestige among the low-income people and poor people. They have secretly developed many believers. They usually pretend to be honest people and have no way of starting. "
Li Fan understood that what she was referring to was that the Gu Xin Demon Cult divided the entire organizational structure into two sects, the Hidden and the Revealed, respectively named Red Yang and White Yang.
This is the name of the period derived from the end of the three periods. It is a natural destiny performed by the way of heaven according to the rotation of the universe and the changes in time sequence. It is divided into Qing Yang, Red Yang and White Yang, which respectively mean the past, present and future.
All ordinary people who were involved in the demonic sect and became casual believers belonged to the Hongyang Sect.
The elites selected from among them will join the Baiyang Sect and be trained to become strangers or missionaries, as well as protectors at all levels for future use.
Regardless of the various names and descriptions, this is essentially the prototype of military-civilian separation.
The demon sect has specialized evangelists who use gentle methods such as treating diseases, giving alms, praying for blessings and warding off disasters as an excuse to go around the streets, go to the countryside and villages, and actively promote their sect's ideas and various ideas.
For the people who have never been in contact with them, they will not rashly promote some treacherous things, but instead encourage people to be good and be diligent and practical.
Because these missionaries use various legal names, sometimes incarnating as bell doctors, sometimes as Taoist priests, and monks, there is no way to trace them. Even if they are traced, they are legal and legal and difficult to ban.
But after being in contact with it for a long time and becoming familiar with it, they will gradually spread some things about the age of the Dharma End, and guide people to chant "Old mother without life, empty homeland" in order to seek shelter.
The Inanimate Old Mother is a deity derived from Taoism, but after various interpretations, fusions, and fabrications, it has become a popular belief in folk religions. The eight-character mantra of "Inanimate Old Mother, Vacuum Hometown" has also become a common slogan of many secret sects. The imperial court believed that they "all tabooed the name of Bailian and practiced the teachings of Bailian", so they banned and banned them.
Generally speaking, it is a common practice among all religions to claim that the Inanimate Mother is the creator god and savior, and that the vacuum hometown is heaven and the world of bliss.
The emergence of weirdness has given this sect a steady stream of financial support, and even the legendary vacuum hometown seems to have an entity.
Poor people often put their hopes in the afterlife and have very firm beliefs. They secretly help hide and cover them. It is not surprising that some Baiyang Sect members are transferred.
The demon cultists broke down the process of hiding weapons, sheltering shooters, and communicating with each other into parts. Each family contributed a little bit, but their participation was not deep. Even some ordinary people who helped did not know what they had done. , the method is very clever.
The strongholds mentioned by Yang Ming are not necessarily those that require specialized management, but ordinary people's homes.
The Holy City is prosperous and has a developed commodity economy, which requires a large number of migrant workers. Every household often has servants, maids, tenants and other floating people, making it even more difficult to deal with.
Not to mention anything else, there are a large number of servants in the Marquis Wu'an Mansion alone. Even Li Ao himself cannot figure out the specific number, let alone know every servant.
Even in his own east courtyard, there were about thirty personal maids, maids, and maids, and it was not possible to name every one of them when he saw them.
It looks familiar at best.
I have my own national conditions, so it would be even more unrealistic to ask the small officials in each department to know the population under their control.
Many things are often left unchecked by the people and ignored by the officials, and life goes by as it should.
After Yang Ju introduced the general situation, he continued: "But the imperial court is not a vegetarian. The spies placed within the Demon Cult provided reliable information, saying that shadow puppets have been haunted in the Pingkangfang area, and that may be the place. Where their real stronghold is."
"Pingkangfang?"
Li Fan raised his eyebrows slightly.
"So our next step is to go to Pingkangfang to investigate this case?"
"Yes, but you have to be careful. It seems that the demon cultists really want to turn from darkness to light this time and make trouble through weird things!
Their purpose is crazy, perhaps they want to artificially influence or even control the evil spirits in order to achieve the purpose of subverting Daqian!
The Demon Cult's Great Protector Shadow Puppet is just one of them. This time, it seems that there are several other masters of the same level who have sneaked into the Holy Capital, all waiting for opportunities in the dark! "
"That's it..."
Thinking of what Li Xin had said before about the strange recovery, Li Ao looked a little solemn.
"Those great protector-level experts don't sound like they are fuel-efficient lamps. If we leave them alone, they might really cause some big trouble.
If they really succeeded, the destructive power would be beyond what a mere fox bride could match.
Now that I have been promoted, I have the authority to supervise strange things, and I will participate in the investigation as soon as possible! "
