Under the slanting moon, on the long street, a black carriage was slowly moving forward.
More than a dozen Qianniu Guards riding on tall horses carefully protected the surroundings, with vigilant eyes on both sides.
In the carriage, Li Xuan and Xu Lu sat opposite each other.
Xu Lu was still wearing the milky white chest-length skirt with a green coat underneath. She was sitting opposite Li Xuan with a calm expression, the swing on her head swaying gently.
The two of them were very close together. Although it was a dark carriage, but with their cultivation, just a little light from the outside world was enough for them to see everything clearly.
Even exceptionally clear.
Even if it is covered by small clothes, it is the same.
Li Xuan closed her eyes slightly, thinking about what to do next.
At this moment, Xu Lu suddenly said quietly: "In the Tianyin Sect, there are mostly poor people. Some people have a good family, but a natural disaster has cut off the food in the family. In order to survive, they have to sell out. I became a tenant farmer in Zhongtian and had only a small amount of food to survive. If disaster strikes again, the court imposes excessive taxes and miscellaneous taxes, my family starves to death, and I can only leave everything to fate. How can I do this?"
"Kill!" Li Xuan calmly spit out one word.
In an instant, Xu Lu felt a murderous aura coming directly from a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.
Li Xuan said calmly: "Loans with excessive interest rates, private taxes, ruthless officials, and aristocratic families who have embezzled land will be severely punished immediately. Once the limit is exceeded, the whole family will be punished. Then, a new group of people will be replaced. .”
Li Xuan's last words made Xu Lu raise her head in astonishment, and her white neck suddenly filled Li Xuan's sight.
"The greed of people does not surge to the point of being uncontrollable from the beginning. It accumulates little by little, and then becomes out of control. At this time, it is directly eradicated decisively, and then replaced with new people... In the middle A period of reincarnation is a time for people to recuperate and recuperate... This is the best method I can come up with."
Corrupt officials have been killed in every dynasty.
No matter how strict the management is, they will always find a way to steal the government's benefits and embezzle the people's land at the same time.
Therefore, it is necessary to replace a new group of officials every once in a while and harvest a group of local wealthy families.
Only in this way can the continuous operation of the entire country be ensured.
This is the meaning of the imperial examination.
"As long as you can always distribute your benefits to more people, there will always be more people supporting you." Li Xuan directly stated his handling methods in a simple sentence.
Some people clearly have a large piece of cake that can be divided, but they take the biggest piece themselves, making the interests that can be divided suddenly become very small.
Some people do not want to eliminate stubborn diseases, but always only want to force others to explore further worlds. In the end, they are just drinking poison to quench their thirst.
Today's Tang Dynasty, and the later Anshi Rebellion, are all like this.
"You are still really cold-blooded." Xu Lu looked at Li Xuan with eyes full of worry and admiration...
admire?
[Xu Lu, a native of Chun'an, Muzhou, a candidate for oiran in the second year of the Yuan Dynasty, a steward of the Qing Dynasty in Jinhe Courtyard, the deputy head of Wuzhou Hall of Tianyin Sect, and a first-level cultivation of Xiantian Zhong,]
[Teasing possible (teasing/not teasing): After teasing, the heart is happy to surrender, only follow orders, act according to orders, and respect everything. 】
【tease! 】
After thinking about it, Xu Lu, who was sitting opposite Li Xuan, her eyes became much gentler in an instant.
Li Xuan spoke at this time and said gently: "If the annihilation of the Tianyin Sect goes smoothly this time, I will apply to the court to give you the title of a sixth-grade life wife. At least it will ensure that there will be no trouble in Muzhou. People make things difficult for you."
"Okay!" Xu Lu bit her lip and nodded slightly, her eyes flickering with a trace of water.
At this time, Li Xuan continued to speak: "Can you tell me how many people the Tianyin Sect has in Jinchangfang now?"
Xu Lu didn't hesitate at all and said directly: "Not many, only nineteen people, including Mr. He, Zhang
Hall Master and Boss Qin, and most of the rest are Boss Qin's clerks... Boss Qin owns more than just a coffin shop, he also has a lumber yard outside the city... He rushes to the mountains every year to pull a big Stack the wood and come back. "
"Coffins can hide people as well as things. This is a smart approach." Li Xuan nodded in confusion.
Suddenly he frowned, as if he thought of something, and asked: "These guys, they are all from Muzhou, right? In Wuzhou, they don't need the land to make a living?"
"Yes, these people all work for shop and factory owners. There are still a lot of them in the city. They are scattered in many places. They will not appear until they receive the order to start an uprising... These people are all controlled by Fang Yunxiu personally. , He Qing'er and I are not responsible for this."
In an instant, Li Xuan clenched her fist tightly.
He always felt that he had overlooked something, but he didn't expect it to be here.
If the Tianyin Sect is going to cause trouble, they will naturally deploy their own manpower in all walks of life.
Ordinary people farming in Wuzhou are naturally the main force, but workers in other industries are also the main force.
Lumber factories, silk shops, medicine shops, dye factories, silk farmers, boatmen, etc., I don't know how many people are hiding there.
Once these people are all mobilized and stab an invisible soft spot, it will definitely hurt like hell.
No wonder Fang Yunxiu dared to stay in Zhoucheng. It turned out that his real plot was here.
There is also the Jiaofang Division.
Li Xuan looked at Xu Lu and asked in a deep voice: "What about your subordinates? How many people do you have?"
"Not many, maybe a dozen or so, they are all little girls who have not done well in the various courtyards of the Jiaofangsi. Apart from gathering information, they can do very little."
"No, they can do a lot. If I hadn't sealed off the Jiaofang Division for a long time after I came to Wuzhou this time. Think about it, once they poison the tea and wine drunk by some officials, whether it is chronic No matter whether it is acute or acute, at the critical moment, it will cost people's lives, and many lives." Li Xuan couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief.
Frowning, Li Xuan whispered to herself: "It's too late to conduct a city-wide screening... By the way, how much does Boss Qin know about this list?"
"I don't know. Boss Qin used to follow Fang Yunxiu. After Fang Yunxiu died, he lost contact with us. It wasn't until Mr. He and Hall Master Zhang came to Wuzhou that they reconnected." Z.br>
"With Fang Yunxiu's style of doing things, he will definitely not let Boss Qin know too much."
"Even just knowing a little bit is enough." Li Xuan said softly with a hint of solemnity on his face: "At this point, I'm afraid the only way to cause chaos is to kill."
Such a group of people will cause considerable turmoil to the overall situation in Wuzhou.
If he wanted to calm them down, all Li Xuan could do was kill people.
Use bloody killings to silence them completely.
As for who to kill, the only ones tonight are He Lao, Zhang Wanyu, and Boss Qin.
Borrow the heads and lives of these people to make others calm down.
Although she looked a little nervous, Li Xuan relaxed.
"That is to say, apart from these hired apprentices and some remaining Zhongcheng believers from Tianyin Sect, they don't have any other manpower in Zhoucheng, right?" Li Xuan stared at Xu Lu closely.
"There should still be some low-level officials in the state government, but not many. But these people cannot be completely ignored."
Li Xuan nodded, there are many smart people in this world.
Although Li Xuan's method of identifying Tianyin cultists was effective, it was a bit rough after all.
Some smart people can quickly find ways to deal with it and effectively avoid it.
However, there are too few of these people to create a big trend.
Suddenly he seemed to think of something, and Li Xuan quickly asked: "When will Lanxi's main force attack the city?"
"I don't know. Elder He and Hall Master Zhang will not let us know about this kind of thing."
"That's how it should be." Li Xuan sighed softly. This was correct.
If Fang Yunxiu was originally in charge of these things, then Xu Lu, as his deputy, would naturally know something about them.
But since Zhang Wanyu became the chief of Wuzhou Hall, how could she easily leak these secrets to the outside world.
"So how many elites arrived in Wuzhou from the Jiaozhong Forum?" Li Xuan asked the core key.
The Tianyin Sect's total strength within the state city would not be more than a hundred in the end.
It's okay for these people to cause trouble, but if they are asked to fight directly with the regular soldiers of the imperial court, they are simply not satisfied.
So in the end, it was the elites from the Tianyin Sect who came down from the mountains who could decide everything.
"Are you talking about the black pawn?"
"Black pawn? This name is quite interesting." Li Xuan nodded thoughtfully.
Hei Tongxuan, Hei pawn, Xuan pawn.
Li Xuan has fought against black pawns more than once in Dongyang. These black pawns are not weak in strength and are a group of strong pawns who dare to fight and can fight.
Their strength may not be as good as the Qianniu Guards under Li Xuan, but compared to the Zhechong Guards of Kuaiji Mansion, their fighting will is definitely not much worse.
What they lack is the experience of real bloody fighting on the battlefield, and the weapons and armor that can rival the elites of the imperial court.
Although the weapons and armor of the Tianyin Sect are not bad, how can they compare with the solid works that have been transformed by countless craftsmen in the imperial court over many years of experience.
Even if the quality of a certain batch can surpass that of the Ministry of Industry and General Supervisors, it is definitely not as good as the quantity.
How can a mere mountain land compete with the world?
The other armors, whether they were obtained from Yangzhou or from the Qian clan in Wuzhou, were not even the best in their own hands, so how could they be of great use to the Tianyin Sect.
Xu Lu thought thoughtfully and said: "The black pawns were selected by the leader. The initial training was also carried out by the leader himself. It was only later that the leader retreated for many years and was handed over to the hands of the chief manager. And the general manager did not disappoint the leader." As entrusted by me, we trained this group of people extremely well, and all the bandits in the mountain were wiped out by the black soldiers led by the chief steward."
"What about their number, the number of these people who came to Wuzhou?"
"There are 4,000 black soldiers in total, of whom 500 are stationed at Zongtan, 500 are stationed at Muzhou, 1,400 are stationed directly at Shezhou, and 1,600 are stationed at Wuzhou, Yuezhou and Hangzhou; among them There are seven hundred people in Wuzhou, five hundred in Yuezhou, and only four hundred in Hangzhou."
"I see, they are not evenly divided." Li Xuan's face was tense and relaxed at the same time.
Although he did look at it in terms of equal distribution at the beginning, he had already thought in his heart that the Tianyin Sect's personnel arrangement in Wuzhou, Hangzhou and Yuezhou would never be truly evenly distributed.
There must be some focus, and the facts have indeed proven this.
In the eyes of the Tianyin Sect, Wuzhou is still the most important, followed by Yuezhou and Hangzhou the least.
While in Dongyang, Li Xuan killed ninety people in Dongyang City, and later killed sixty people in the Liu Manor. Another thirty people were hiding in the Shangxi Gold Mine, and one hundred and eighty people were either dead or Sleepy.
Now, only 520 people from the Tianyin Sect are actually taking action.
Five hundred and twenty more.
In addition to the at least 100 people needed to guard Meiling Pass, the Tianyin Sect can mobilize at least 420 black soldiers to fight in Wuzhou.
Four hundred and twenty people, a lot of people.
If you add internal support, open the city gates, attack the city, and then incite the remaining faith in the Tianyin Saint in people's hearts, you can overturn the city in the blink of an eye.
But unfortunately, Li Xuan knew them too well.
