On the third day of September, an order came out of the Xuanqingwei Commander's Yamen and went down to the Xuanqingwei West Town Fushi Yamen with the highest security level. Liao Chengfeng followed the rules and checked the order three times before opening it for reading.
In the evening of the same day, the highest-level secret order from the Xuanqing Weixi Town Fushi Yamen was delivered to Jiang Cheng, the Qianhu Officer of the Qianhu Office in Fengri City. After personally signing for it, Jiang Chengping stepped back to read it alone, with a smile finally appearing on his face.
The caliber above is the same.
On the fifth day of September, the commander of the Xuanqing Guards, Pang Ban, issued a rotation order to all the military supervisors in the country. All the supervisors who had been in the same place for three years were transferred to other places for rotation. The order was required to be completed within half a month. Rotate.
On the tenth day of September, news came out from the palace that the Queen would be celebrating her 70th birthday this year. The emperor wanted to celebrate her birthday and made preparations one month in advance. On the day of the Queen's birthday, the Emperor would open the Wanmin Hall for a banquet to invite ministers to congratulate the Queen.
As soon as the news came out, everyone in the country congratulated him.
All the high-ranking nobles or officials, and even the sects, sent messengers saying that they would come to the imperial city that day to congratulate the Queen on her birthday.
The emperors of the Jingjiu Dynasty were very "boring" and rarely chose to make a fuss about anything. This congratulation to the empress was also the second grand banquet since the emperor ascended the throne, so he was very concerned about all aspects, and it was far away. My birthday is only one month away.
Starting from September 11th, the price of rare treasure pills in major auction houses has increased horribly. Especially the beauty pills have soared three to four times higher than usual, which frightened many people.
There is only an auction house in Fengri City, and it has been extremely popular today. Many nobles with profound backgrounds in Licheng have spent their wealth to try their luck at the auction house. Of course, they are all qualified to participate in the imperial city banquet on October 11. of noble family.
As for ordinary people, there are also benefits. Each family can go to the local government office to receive two kilograms of white flour or an equivalent amount of rice. This is a celebration welfare for the whole country. If the yamen dares not to distribute it, it will not give the queen face. Should she still be an official? Besides, the country has been resting and recuperating over the years, and official warehouses in various places are abundant, so no one will make irresponsible remarks when this small amount of rations are distributed.
Take the people of Licheng as an example. I heard that the yamen were going to distribute rations of two kilograms per person. Although the food was not much, it was hard to come by! Since people pay taxes, when did they come back? Strange!
However, no matter how strange it was, I didn’t dare to shout loudly. At most, a few friends or neighbors gathered together and chatted quietly. When I went to pick up things, I went back quickly and didn’t dare to look around.
All afraid!
It’s been almost half a month, and people are beheading people in the East Market every day. Most of them are “big brothers” on the street or “ye” in the vegetable market. Now, if they don’t respond even a few words, they are jailed, and the next day they are pushed to the East Market. The market has its head chopped off.
When the first person was beheaded, people were still gloating about his misfortune, saying, "Hey, isn't this the long-haired brother from the west of the city? He is usually so arrogant that he wants to cut his head off when he sees anyone. Tsk, tsk, he'll just cut him off if he does anything." Headed?"
As a result, this time there was no detailed list of crimes as before, only an unfamiliar word: picking quarrels and provoking trouble.
To put it bluntly, he is a second-rate person and a big bastard.
The second, third... When all the petty thieves were beheaded, all the people in Licheng's jurisdiction were a little scared. Who is right? Who hasn’t had a fling with someone? Is the threshold for beheading so low now? ! I had a fight with old man Zhang next door yesterday, so he wouldn't sue me, right? !
This is a severe crackdown. There are more than ten cities under the jurisdiction of Xuanqingwei in Licheng. Let alone thieves, no one dares to pick up gold when it is dropped on the ground. It is even more likely that someone is digging holes to harm people. Seven or eight people can report it. Officials, no one even came close before the Yamen came.
However, after arresting so many people and beheading so many people, Xuan Qingwei's evil spirit was not reduced at all, and instead, each of his faces showed more arrogance.
"I heard that the Baihu Office in Licheng was smashed by thieves!"
"Pfft! No way! What kind of thief is so bold?!"
"I don't know. Anyway, we have been searching these days just to arrest people."
"Have you caught them? These thieves dare not let them run away, otherwise it will be ordinary people like us who suffer from doing bad things every day!"
"If they were caught, how could these Xuanqing Guard's uncles be so red-eyed? They must have run away."
"Hey, if we run away, these Xuanqingwei men won't continue to be so strict, right? It makes me afraid to go out on the street and look around."
"I think this is good. I can sleep peacefully at night without having to worry about being robbed, and I don't have to worry about anyone being malicious when I go out on the street."
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Beicheng Inn.
It's almost a month, and the inn's business has not picked up at all. The shopkeeper is trying to stay open, but he doesn't know how long he can last. Except for a few regular customers who came to eat during the day, the only people staying in the hotel were the master and servant pair.
A few days ago, Qin Yurou received news from the Hundred Households Office in Licheng, which came from the previous trial hundred households surnamed Wang. Although it was a little slow, it was excusable. After such a big incident, the Black Flag Battalion was immediately closed, and no one could get in or get out. Only recently did the news come out.
The news said: Many corpses were indeed excavated from the dungeon ruins of Black Flag Camp, all of which were beyond recognition and crushed. One of the corpses rotten together with a cross pillar should be the prisoner who was in the prison at that time. At that time, the only prisoner alive in the Black Flag Camp prison was Wen Renhai, so Wen Renhai was definitely dead.
When he first heard the news, Wen Shiliu was worried that his mistress would not be able to handle it, but she was not. On the contrary, Qin Yurou, who had been worried before, suddenly became energetic. Not only did she take the initiative to eat, but she even grabbed two sets of health-preserving medicine to drink. But they never mentioned the Wen family's request for her to return to Baishan Mountain.
Wen Shiliu diligently waited on Qin Yurou to slow down her body. At the same time, she noticed that Qin Yurou's eyes had been filled with frost from time to time in the past few days, and she often sat for most of the day, seeming to be thinking about something.
Another three days passed in a flash.
That day, the shopkeeper of the Beicheng Inn cried again, this time with joy, because the Xuanqing Guards who had been standing guard for him for almost a month for free withdrew, and the Yamen also came to inform him that he would not be patrolling every day, and that he could resume his previous duties. It's open for business.
Thank God, this time has finally passed.
I immediately bought two firecrackers and the crackling firecrackers were said to be bad luck. Little did he know that the real bad luck had been here for a month.
It was not only the manpower at Dongcheng Inn that was withdrawn, all investigations within the jurisdiction of Xuanqing Guard in Licheng began to shrink as a whole. After a month of rigorous investigation, there were no clues at all. This type of rigorous crackdown cannot be sustained for a long time. What else can we do if we don’t withdraw? If things go on like this, something will definitely go wrong.
The firecrackers in the inn had just been set off when Qin Yurou, the master and servant who had lived here for a month, came down to check out.
"Madam, are you home now?"
"Well, going home is just the imperial city of Qin Mansion."
