The afternoon sun shines in the large house. It is obviously a hot summer day, but it makes people feel cold for no reason.
Qi Guang walked out of the courtyard slowly, his right hand tilted to the ground, holding a knife with blood dripping from it.
Several soldiers holding swords walked past him and then quickly ran to other houses.
Everyone's blades were covered with blood, as if they had just experienced a bloody killing.
Qi Guang continued walking forward as if he didn't notice anything.
Until a gentle voice from the front sounded: "Okay, stop."
The voice directly penetrated Qi Guang's consciousness and brought him back all at once. .
Looking at Li Xuan, who was wearing a black gold silk robe, Qi Guang quickly raised his hand and said, "I have seen the prince."
"You're welcome." Li Xuan reached out and patted Qi Guang's shoulder and said with satisfaction, "You did a good job this time."
Turning his head, Li Xuan looked at Xu Jian on one side and asked, "How was the harvest this time?"
"Reporting to the prince, this time, a total of seven Tianyin Sect bandits were found, and now they are all executed. In addition, there are several servants and guards who assisted the rebels, and they were also executed... In addition, we seized a large amount of copper coins in the courtyard. and gold and silver, and the most important thing is that a large amount of jewelry, jewelry and land deeds were found inside."
Saying that, Xu Jian raised his hands to Li Xuan: "Congratulations, Your Majesty, now we can delay the wait for a while longer."
Xu Jian is now one of Li Xuan's trustworthy people. He is also well aware of the shortcomings of the land grant in the eyes of the farmers.
"Who would have thought that an ordinary little altar owner would have 500 acres of fertile land at home." Li Xuan shook her head, with a hint of disdain at the corner of her mouth.
The officials in the imperial court were corrupt, and the Tianyin Sect was not a good bird either.
"According to Qi Guang's account, the altar master surnamed Zhou would use various reasons and methods every month to ask his followers to pay tribute to a large amount of property, and he himself used these properties to purchase a large amount of fertile land and wealth. Amazing." Xu Jian couldn't help but shake his head.
Even he didn't expect that people from the Tianyin Sect would be so bold.
Exploit believers and plunder wealth.
No wonder, as soon as Li Xuan opened an opening, thousands of Muzhou immigrants immediately turned against him.
"Tianyin Sect was strangled by the imperial court twenty years ago, but they still survived tenaciously. However, during these twenty years, some old people still occupied high positions. Such people become more greedy as they get older. The whole world The Yin religion has been completely corrupted." Li Xuan sighed with emotion.
There was Liu Ji before, and now there is this altar master.
Although they are all working hard for Tianyin Sect, secretly, they are cultivating their own manpower.
Secretly, many are amassing wealth.
Li Xuan was almost certain that the altar leader of Tianyin Sect must have other wealth hidden in a place like a cabinet.
But it's a pity that Li Xuan is now basically certain that he won't be able to get those things.
After retracting his thoughts, Li Xuan looked at Qi Guang and said, "You have made great achievements this time. I, the king, now make the decision. The wasteland in your home can be exchanged for 20 acres of high-quality paddy fields, and the 3,000 acres of paddy fields given by the Yang family will be exchanged." Then we will take out 40 acres from the 500 acres, for a total of 60 acres."
At this point, Li Xuan paused for a moment, looked at Qi Guang and said, "It's not that I'm reluctant to give you more land. It's just that the land I can mobilize is limited, and most of it needs to be granted to other people." People, it’s difficult to move. Secondly, this time I will grant land to you. There will definitely not be many more than 40 acres. You are probably the only one with more than 60 acres."
Qi Guang suddenly stood in awe, then raised his hands to Li Xuan and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty!"
"No need to say thank you, you got it, you should have got it. In addition, you have to be especially careful. Now you have become a thorn in the side of some caring people. Sixty acres of good paddy fields, you should know how envious others are. If I really grant you a hundred acres, I'm afraid you won't survive tonight." Li Xuan felt better for a while
laugh.
In Wuzhou today, even locals are not granted more than 40 acres of land.
Qi Guang was granted sixty acres of land in one fell swoop, and many people were envious and jealous of him.
"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your generous gift." Qi Guang quickly bowed to the ground in deep admiration.
"My king sees how good you are in the military. What do you think? Are you interested in serving as a soldier under Xu Shenjun?" Li Xuan turned her head and looked at Xu Jian with a half-smile.
Xu Jian immediately came over, nodded in agreement and said, "That's true. I also think that he does have this potential."
"Bing Cao?" Qi Guang's face was blank.
He just reported the leader of the Tianyin Sect who had been exploiting them, so why did he become a member of the government?
But soon, Qi Guang realized that anyone from the government was definitely better than ordinary people.
"My dear, thank you for the reward from your highness, and thank you for training Xu Shenjun!" Qi Guang expressed his thanks very skillfully.
Li Xuan nodded and said, "You have earned everything by yourself. Okay, go get to work."
"Here!" Qi Guang bowed slightly to Li Xuan and Xu Jian before holding the knife and heading elsewhere.
"It seems that in the future, I'm afraid I'll have to leave this kind of thing to him." A wry smile appeared on Xu Jian's face, but there was a bit of relief in this wry smile.
"Let him do it. When he does these things, he will dig more thoroughly, and at the same time, more people will understand the hypocrisy of Tianyin Sect." Li Xuan looked at the back room and said softly: "This time, search from here A lot of information has come out. If we follow the clues, we should be able to find a lot of Tianyin Sect members to participate. We still have a lot of land in our hands, and now we can use them to fill it."
Although Fang Yunxiu had previously evacuated most of the people from the Tianyin Sect's Wuzhou branch, there were some people he could not evacuate.
For example, those altar leaders who are responsible for liaison with various religions, their existence is related to the connection between Tianyin Sect and tens of thousands of believers in Wuzhou.
Once these people withdraw, problems will immediately arise in Tianyin Sect's control over the entire Wuzhou.
Li Xuan is too sensitive. Once he seizes the opportunity, the foundation of Tianyin Sect will be dug up.
The tens of thousands of Tianyin sect members in Wuzhou are the foundation of the entire Tianyin sect's uprising.
The hundreds of thousands of Tianyin followers in the southeast are their greatest confidence to carry out this uprising.
"One Qi Guang is not enough. We need more Qi Guang, but it must be Qi Guang." Li Xuan emphasized repeatedly.
"Don't worry, Your Majesty, I will strengthen the "guidance" later. "Xu Jian quickly raised his hand to Li Xuan.
Qi Guang did not turn into the killer he is now due to resentment for no reason. This was more due to the intentional or unintentional guidance of Xu Jian and others.
"You handle it here, and the new recruits will be sent to you soon, so that they can form a team individually and perform tasks together."
"Here!" Xu Jian accepted with his hand raised.
"Yes!" Li Xuan nodded, told Xu Jian to make good use of this group of people, and then took them back to the state government office.
Sitting on the carriage, swaying, a strange smile appeared on Li Xuan's face.
The role that Qi Guang and his group can play is far beyond what a small Tianyin Sect can currently limit.
If used well, these people will become the most loyal subordinates to Li Xuan. It depends on how they are arranged.
The carriage came to a halt while swaying. At this time, Li Zhu's voice came from outside: "Your Majesty, the Qian family's truck has arrived."
"Yeah!" Li Xuan opened the curtain and saw a heavy carriage on the long street, slowly driving into the state government office.
The people around were looking curiously.
"Your Majesty!" A voice sounded from the side of the carriage. Li Xuan turned around and said, "Zhang Canjun."
"Reply to the prince." Zhang Yi stood on one side, followed by several officials. He cupped his hands towards Li Xuan and said: "The first hundred of the thousand new sickles promised by the Qian family have been delivered."
"Very well, please join the army now and post the notice. The next morning, I, the King, will
If you want to see these people, go to the ground with me. "Li Xuan's eyes fell on the official documents in the hands of several officials, and three huge words fell directly into Li Xuan's eyes.
Conscription order.
Serve, corvee.
Immigrants from Muzhou were registered in Wuzhou, so in addition to paying taxes, they naturally had to perform corvee labor.
According to Tang law, people served for twenty days every year.
The number of regular servants, miscellaneous servants, and sex servants is absolutely considerable.
What Li Xuan wants now is for these Muzhou immigrants who have just been naturalized in Wuzhou to serve in corvee service. This is also his next most critical step.
Once it succeeds, it will be difficult for the Tianyin Sect to make any move in the southeast of Wuzhou.
Even the idea of some aristocratic families trying to use the Tianyin Sect to conspire and embezzle land will be completely defeated.
Li Xuan waved her hand and watched Zhang Yi retreat and leave.
He is the person with the closest connection with the aristocratic family in Wuzhou. Now he has vaguely noticed something, but he cannot see through Li Xuan's real plan.
"Keep going!" Li Xuan returned to the carriage, and a voice came from inside: "Go to Fa Cao's mansion."
"Here!" Li Zhu responded slightly, and then drove the carriage towards the state government office.
When the people around them saw the black carriage and the Qianniu Guards, their eyes revealed a sense of awe and hope.
Within the Fa Cao, everyone was busy and busy.
Li Xuan had previously removed many people from Fa Cao, which immediately made the Fa Cao people who were already short of manpower even more confused.
Li Xuan asked everyone to stop outside and only took Li Zhu into Hucao.
Among the officials, Du Bixing was flipping through the case files one after another. Unknowingly, his brows were furrowed.
"Take a rest when you need to." Li Xuan put a hand on the case file, and Du Bixing, who had been concentrating on thinking about something, was immediately awakened.
Seeing Li Xuan, he quickly stood up, raised his hands and saluted: "Your Majesty!"
"Well, sit down, how's it going?"
"Three people have been circled. One is Gou Heng, a clerk at the dock, one is Wu Hu, the eldest son of the Wu family in the east of the city, and the other is deputy arrester Zuo Xiang. These three people are running rampant in Wuzhou, and they are They colluded with each other, preyed on the people, oppressed the villagers, and were good at pretending. All the governors failed to expose their evil deeds. Official documents from Dali Temple and the Ministry of Punishment mentioned that such a situation may exist in Wuzhou. After the official checked, it turned out to be true. Clues." Chinese website
"You don't need to worry too much. As long as there is conclusive evidence for a case, countless evidences will emerge immediately once it goes to court." Li Xuan said a few words, and then said: "Get ready, my king. We need to find three heads to sacrifice the flag before Xia Shuang goes to the ground."
"Here!"
