Two chamberlains stepped forward and lifted the white cloth covering the wooden tray in turn.

The Qingcheng faction is located in Sichuan, and when the officers and soldiers were ordered to transport these severed heads and severed hands from the corpses to the capital, it stands to reason that they should have begun to rot and grow maggots and emit peculiar smells with the change of weather and the extension of time.

However, how dare the people below let such a hideous and terrifying pickled substance stain the eyes of His Majesty the Emperor?

Therefore, the corpse stumps that are now presented in the eyes of Qiao Heng and the little emperor have been specially treated.

Whether it is the head or the severed hand of a disciple of the Qingcheng faction, after being cut off, someone will take it away and be responsible for cleaning the remaining blood stains on it with lime water, and then use a knife to cut off the irregular residual flesh at the fracture. Then, the surface of the skull and severed hands was covered with cinnabar and realgar water with a brush, and finally they were wrapped in lime and smeared very thickly.

Qiao Heng felt that if he threw light on their surfaces, they would look a bit like Western plaster sculptures.

He thought that if Lin Zhennan saw this scene, he would definitely feel very happy.

But it is conceivable that the rivers and lakes have probably pushed everything on him at this time. It's not wrong to think so, after all, this matter is also because of him.

Thinking that his reputation in the rivers and lakes is even worse than Lin Pingzhi in the original book, but this is his own choice, he knows very well that when he takes the step of defecting to the imperial court, he will not want to win the favor of the people in the rivers and lakes.

The emperor said to Qiao Heng, "Although it is a little late, I can finally give Qiao Qing an explanation. 」

He remembered all the accounts, and now it was time to settle the accounts.

The emperor clapped his hands, and another eunuch stepped forward with a square wooden tray, but there were no broken limbs in this tray, but pieces of paper with handwriting written all over it.

The chamberlain stepped forward to remove the papers from the plate, and then respectfully held them and walked closer.

"This is the confession of the disciples of the Qingcheng Sect. The Emperor said this, and then he explained, "If it weren't for the fear that the Jianghu people would come and rob the Dharma Field, I would have intended to transport them to the Dharma Arena for public execution. 」

Seeing that Qiao Heng didn't react, the emperor tentatively said, "Qiao Qing?".

The Emperor didn't look as confident as he used to be, and he said, "...... Am I doing something wrong?"

Qiao Heng said, "No. The minister just came across this good news, and he didn't know how to say a thousand words in his heart. Your Majesty is so gracious, it is really difficult to repay ......."

The emperor didn't let Qiao Heng continue: "This is what I should do. He said this with great seriousness.

He inadvertently mentioned to Qiao Qing last time that most of the martial arts mastered by the imperial court were not as good as those in the Jianghu sect, but the next day, Qiao Qing asked the eunuch to present him with a secret book.

Even if he didn't study martial arts deeply, he could see at a glance that if this secret book was put on the rivers and lakes, it would be more than enough to become the treasure of the first-class sect.

When he realized this, he walked around the temple three or four times before he forcibly calmed down.

He suspected that this was the rumored disaster that led to the destruction of the Fuwei Dart Bureau, and everyone could not ask for it.

He always knew that Qiao Qing was not in good health, and he had sent so many imperial doctors over to no avail. Perhaps in Qiao Qing's mind, the Fuwei Dart Game is also a sword spectrum to ward off evil, and the defeat is also a sword spectrum to ward off evil, but now that Qiao Qing's body foundation has been damaged, the sword spectrum of warding off evil spirits can no longer be carried forward in his hands, so it is better to take it out and make it play a greater role.

However, when he asked if this was an evil sword technique, Qiao Heng just smiled and shook his head to deny his speculation.

And when he asked in front of Qiao Qing what reward the other party wanted, Qiao Qing thought for a while and said to him, "If Your Majesty really wants to thank me, then please ask Your Majesty to send someone to help collect the understanding of the soldiers who have practiced this exercise, and I can record it." 」

The emperor agreed, so why bother with such a trivial matter? It was not even a reward.

Whether it is the value of this secret book itself, or the full heart contained in it, it is so heavy that the young emperor feels that it is difficult to breathe. He secretly made up his mind,

When the time comes, we must seek justice for Qiao Qing.

Now, it's just the first account to be recovered, and it's finally here.

The people of the rivers and lakes were waiting for the next move of the imperial court, and the disciples of the Wuyue Sword Sect speculated one after another who the imperial court would take next. No matter which side it takes this time, it will not be caught off guard by the imperial court like last time.

Everyone is even more vigilant about Qiao Heng's movements, there are many lay disciples in Shaolin and Wudang, and at the request of everyone, the heads of the two factions let people contact the lay disciples who are far away in the capital to see if they can get any relevant news.

However, Qiao Heng's reputation in the capital is actually quite good, who would have imagined that such a courteous son would single-handedly lead the action of encircling and suppressing the Qingcheng faction?

They couldn't figure out Qiao Heng's specific movements at all.

In fact, Qiao Heng's next movements have little to do with the people of the rivers and lakes, just from the surface.

This is a long story, when he decided to participate in the imperial examination in this life, he studied the scientific examination system of this dynasty in advance. Then to his surprise, he found that there had been a distinction between "cold nationality" and "warm nationality" in this dynasty. However, if it were to develop normally, this would be something that would only appear in the late sunny days.

The cold and warm here refers to the type of household registration, the so-called cold nationality is that although you are innocent, if the ancestors have no fame for the last three generations, then when you refer to it, you belong to the cold nationality.

There is no explicit provision in the laws and regulations on the distinction between cold and warm status, but it has become an unwritten unspoken rule in various places. In the later stage of the development of the cold registration system, according to the different "regulations" of each region, cold students could not participate in the imperial examination because no one protected the names of cold students, and they were despised and excluded.

Strictly speaking, the identity that Qiao Heng is using now belongs to the ranks of cold people.

At first, Qiao Heng was puzzled.

In this dynasty, the rivers and lakes are powerful, the martial style is prevalent, and the imperial examination is far less enthusiastic, and officials from all over the country only hate that the number of applicants is not enough, how can they destroy the Great Wall and make such a stupid thing that restricts the reference of students?

Later, Qiao Heng found that in the final analysis, it was the reason for Wu Sheng's decline.

If the children in the family have no talent for reading, the elders will inevitably sigh and think that it is better to hand over the money of this private school to a certain Jianghu sect, so that they can learn some martial arts and come back to be a guard for a large family.

If you succeed in gaining fame, you can still show prestige in ordinary people, but in the eyes of the people in the rivers and lakes, it is still not enough. I think that when the court officials came to confer the decree on Liu Zhengfeng in the original book, at first the guests mistakenly thought that the official was looking for trouble, holding a weapon in his hand, and thinking that as long as the situation was not good, he would "behead the official into meat sauce".

All in all, if you can't get out of the mix, you will be disliked, and if you get out of the mix, the contradiction will be deeper.

Perhaps in the eyes of ordinary people, which side is easier to get ahead and support their families, they will fall to that side, regardless of the difference between civil and military. However, for those traditional literati who cultivated and studied the family, can they still be expected to have a good impression of the Jianghu people? Although they are openly befriended by the Jianghu sect, and even turn in their offerings on time every year to seek refuge, it is difficult to say what they are thinking in their hearts.

Under all kinds of coincidences, the cold registration system that should have appeared hundreds of years later began to sprout at this time.

In Qiao Heng's view, this is really full of black humor. The self-paralyzing constantly elevates one's own identity, and then excludes the other person from his own class.

This move only increased the difficulty of the imperial examination for ordinary people, making more ordinary people join the ranks of the rivers and lakes, and other than that, it did not get any benefits.

However, there is a God-given opportunity, and now after several great changes in the rivers and lakes, whether it is decency, demon cult, or evil way, they have suffered heavy losses.

For ordinary people, they practice martial arts just to better support themselves, but now they want to charge into battle like a pawn, and after the decent infighting, they have to fight with the Demon Sect, which makes the whole rivers and lakes panic.

What parent is willing to let their children worship such a teacher? This is not to devote themselves to the rivers and lakes, but to embark on the road of no return.

So when the people of the rivers and lakes had different opinions about the movements of the imperial court, everyone took the first step and waited for the new one issued by the imperial court

Laws and decrees related to the imperial examination.

Qiao Heng drafted it by himself.

「...... The distinction between warm and cold is actually a bad rule and bad custom, and it has been banned since then. Anyone in all localities who extorts money on the grounds of cold registration shall be punished as the crime of perverting the law with money. Officials and officials who obstruct the reference shall be punished as the crime of negligence in official affairs, and if there is a whistleblower, a reward of 100 taels of silver will be awarded after verification. 」

If you don't attract people's hearts at this time, when will you wait?

Then next, it was enough to make the world's students and aspiring martial artists extremely excited, His Majesty the Emperor decided to open Enke next year, and the literary and martial arts were carried out simultaneously.

"It's really a good calculation, this is a clear and sparkling salary draw. Yue Buqun couldn't help but sigh when he received the news.

Now all sects and sects urgently need to replenish their disciples, but the shadow of the Shaolin Temple battle has not receded before, and Zuo Lengchan's methods when he killed dissidents are cruel, and the attitude of preferring to kill by mistake is still fresh in people's minds, and the scene of confrontation with the 30,000 members of the Demon Sect is also terrifying...... All of these things added up, and the number of people from all walks of life who came to worship the teacher dropped sharply.

The imperial court rushed to issue two notices with such contents one after another at this time, and it almost directly shouted at the factions in the rivers and lakes to openly rob people. If this is barely a cultural fight, then the previous iron-blooded suppression of the Demon Sect and the encirclement and suppression of the Qingcheng faction were martial arts.

The Huashan faction had enough of the suffering of the withering of talents due to the sword qi dispute back then, and no one could better understand the viciousness of the imperial court's move than Yue Buqun, but he didn't know if the other sects could react in time.

Yue Buqun said, "I don't know which minister is using the knife behind his back. 」

It's really hard and accurate.

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