In the conference hall of the Ji family's headquarters, Chen Chong, Yin Chaofeng, Zhang Gongqiong, and the four of them waited for about four hours to carefully investigate and count, and they had already completed the tasks assigned by Wang Mang.

At this moment, these generals came to the council hall to report to Wang Mang.

And Wang Mang secretly went to Ji Xue and Xu Ziqing's mother and daughter residence once in the past four hours, and then he stayed in front of Ji Rou's hospital bed and cooperated with Lang Zhong to treat Ji Rou.

In his expectation, Ji Xue's mother and daughter should have left Kunlun Mountain a long time ago, but he still had some thoughts in his heart, so he went to take a look. When he arrived at Ji Xue's residence and didn't see their mother and daughter, he died of this heart, secretly thinking that he didn't know when he would meet again in the future.

Under Ji Rou's full treatment in Langzhong, and then with the elixir given by Wang Mang, she gradually came to her senses and regained her senses, but she couldn't get out of bed temporarily due to serious internal injuries, and it took a long time to recuperate.

Ji Rou came to her senses, and her injuries were controlled, and Wang Mang was also considered to have a heart disease.

He told Ji Rou all the major events that had happened since Ji Rou left that day, so that she could heal here with peace of mind, and then came to the council hall to meet Chen Chong and others.

When Chen Chong and the others saw Wang Mang coming, he took the lead and said: "Your Majesty, this time the last general was ordered to search the mountain, and after repeated searches, the last general found a total of five hundred and eighty-four people in Kunlun Mountain. At present, these five hundred and eighty-four people are all ambushed, and in Kunlun Mountain, except for our army and ordinary people of the Ji family who do not know martial arts, there is no Ji family thief.

Also, after investigation, a total of eleven secret passages will be discovered, and some people from the Ji family escaped from these secret passages while we were fighting with Ji Daotian. The number of thieves who fled cannot be counted, and it is impossible to pursue them. The last general only captured fifty-three core disciples of the Ji family in one of the secret passages, and all of them have been wiped out. ”

"Okay, I'm sorry for you." Wang Mang said: "I also expected that they would escape from the secret passage, after all, Kunlun Mountain is their nest that has been operating for thousands of years, and it is impossible for them to escape without a backhand." The reason why I asked you to settle the battle quickly was also to buy time and capture those who were trying to escape through the tunnels.

Spread my will, hunt down the Ji family and thieves throughout the country, and implement a reward system to involve local officials and ordinary people. If someone provides clues or captures the Ji family's thieves, they can be given a certain reward.

I expected that these thieves of the Ji family who fled were all elites, and they would not be so easy to be arrested. And after this great defeat, they will definitely be deeply hidden, and it will be very difficult for us to capture them all, so we just need to do our best, and we don't have to focus all our energy on this matter. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty, the last general." Chen Chongying said.

Zhang Gongqiong and Lin Yuanhou saw that Chen Chong had finished reporting the matter, and the two of them also spoke in time: "Your Majesty, according to the holy decree, the last general has buried all the soldiers who died in battle, and counted the list of soldiers who died in battle. Follow-up notification of the situation of his family and the bereavement pension are being processed, which is expected to take one or two months.

In addition to these things, the last general seized a total of more than 6 million deniers of grain, and countless armor, weapons and herbs. The last general has already asked people to load these stockpiles of grain into trucks and transport them away at any time. At the same time, the last general left 3,000 deniers of grain in the Ji family's warehouse for the rest of the ordinary people of the Ji family.

In addition, the celebration banquet has also been fully prepared, which can ensure that every soldier is full of food and drink. Now all the soldiers are in place, just waiting for His Majesty to come and enjoy it together. ”

"Okay, you've done a good job."

Wang Mang nodded and said, "The Ji family is really powerful, and they have hoarded so much grain on their own. Now that we have these grain stockpiles, we can temporarily solve the problem of food shortage for the people of Kyushu. As for the celebration banquet, you can go and enjoy it with the soldiers, and I also need to accompany my friends and reminisce about the old feelings. And if I go, those soldiers will have a sense of restraint, and it will be difficult for them to enjoy themselves.

This time the extermination of the Ji family was a great success, and all of you and the soldiers contributed a lot. You can divide the silver taels seized by the Ji family equally among each soldier according to the number, and you don't need to confiscate the treasury. The soldiers are working for us, and we need to give them wealth that they can see and touch. ”

"Don't you have to confiscate a penny?" Lin Yuanhou hesitated and said: "This time, we seized a lot of silver taels from the Ji family, which is enough to pay the tax of the Emperor Dynasty for three years. Such a great reward ....."

Wang Mang said with a smile: "It is the so-called take from the people and use it for the people." In the past few years, the people have lived quite poorly, and I have lowered taxes again and again, but it is still difficult for the people to pay in full, which shows the hardships of the people.

When everything is taken care of and the new dynasty is on the right track, I still plan to exempt eighty percent of the tax and collect only the remaining twenty percent of the tax to support the soldiers and ministers. You have to remember that the prosperity of the people is the prosperity of the dynasty. If the dynasty is only rich, it means that the people are poor. We are not to do things that put the cart before the horse. ”

"Your Majesty, the last will obey the order." Lin Yuanhou said in unison.

"Very good, go. After the celebration banquet, let the soldiers rest for an hour, and then the whole army set off towards the imperial capital. Wang Mang waved his hand.

"It's Your Majesty, the last general will retire!" Chen Chong and the others bowed, and then left the conference hall together.

Wang Mang saw that everyone had left, and he also walked towards Ji Rou's house.

After a while, he came to Ji Rou's bed and sat down.

Ji Rou saw Wang Mang go and return, and she was about to get up and salute.

But Wang Mang took the first step to help her down, shook his head and said, "Ji Rou, you and I are friends, don't do those false courtesies, lest you get angry." ”

Ji Rou smiled bitterly: "Today is different from the past, you are the Son of Heaven, I am a folk girl." When the folk girl saw the Son of Heaven, where did she have a reason not to salute? But I can barely move my body now, and I can't salute. When I get better in the future, I'll make amends. ”

"If you bow to me, it will only cost me my life. Ji Rou, judging from your current injuries, it will take you at least a hundred days to recover. And I can't stay here for so long, and in a while I will have to go to the imperial capital with the army to deal with the affairs of the Great Beauty. After your injuries are healed, if you want to go to the imperial capital, you can go at any time. If you don't want to, then it's up to you. ”

"Of course I'm going, I haven't seen Sister Jingyan and Sister Shangguan for a long time, I miss them a lot." Ji Rou said: "And my hometown has been destroyed by you, what's the point of me staying here?" But you're so ruthless that you've killed almost nine out of nine of my people. ”

Wang Mang said: "This is also a matter of no choice, I went first to give your Ji family a chance, but your Ji family didn't seize it." Your Ji family's anger has come to an end, and no one can recover it. Besides, if the main force of your Ji family is not destroyed, won't they continue to influence Mingjun's decision-making in the future? I don't believe that your Ji family will obey Ming Jun in everything if they have sufficient strength. ”

"You're going to be, I mean not you. But if you didn't attack the ordinary people of my Ji family, I won't care about this matter. If you kill even the ordinary people of my Ji family, I will die with you. ”

Ji Rou clenched her fists and demonstrated, "When I returned to Ji's house that day, I deliberately went to take a look at Ji Xue, the Lord of the Willow Sword, and I thought she was weird at that time. And she has hardly cooperated with the other Nine Swords Lords to hunt you down. Especially in Gansu that day, she was a little strange. Now can you tell me why? No matter how I see her, she doesn't look like someone who wants to kill you. ”

"She?" Wang Mang hesitated for a moment, and then said slowly: "At that time, I led the army to Gansu to crusade against Da Shan Yu, Ji Yun and several of the Nine Sword Masters followed me together, and Ji Xue followed me. At that time, they all thought that Ji Xue was captured by me, but this was not the case. Since then, Ji Xue and I have been walking together.

That's why she hasn't hunted me down with other Ji family masters. Over the years, Ji Xue has been unwilling to go down the mountain to cooperate with Ji Yun, the reason is that in addition to the fact that she really wants to cultivate, she doesn't want to kill me at all, she is the mother of my daughter, and that child has now been sent to Tianyang Mountain. ”

"What, she's so close to you, and she's still the mother of your daughter?" Ji Rou's eyes widened, and she was so shocked that she couldn't speak.

"Amazing, you're amazing, you actually took her down without making a sound, you have to know that she is the master of the willow sword."

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