The first thing Xiao Xuan did after recovering was, of course, to organize people to interrogate the captured women. After many trainings in internal and external battles and even countless practices, in terms of accumulating experience in torture, the people in secret prisons have improved a lot in various skills. In particular, he has mastered some torture methods that can cause human suffering while minimizing permanent harm. In addition to torture, other methods such as covert listening, surveillance, hypnosis, and drugs are almost endless.

Although Li Yufei and more than a dozen other women were carefully selected and had received a lot of training, in just two days or so, there were still three girls who could no longer withstand the questioning and finally chose to compromise.

Under the full investigation of the internal and external affairs system, the forces behind these women have gradually been dug out. As expected, it was the work of many remnants of the party who fled to the southwest during the first war of rebellion. Although one of the big families surnamed Gu did not have the same power as others, they were very aware of the wind and steer, and they set an example in that year, and many people in the family later joined the army.

But not long after he was able to settle down, he began to plan many things. Li Yufei's outstanding appearance and extraordinary performance are also the result of the Gu family's careful preparation for more than ten years.

This example also seems to imply to Xiao Xuan: as long as it is not a woman who has grown up in a new environment under her own arrangement since she was a child, even if she is only a fourteen or fifteen-year-old girl, it is not safe. His own "harem" that has begun to take shape should also be finally "cleaned up", otherwise it will always be some kind of hidden danger in the end. Because the objects of his offence over the years are not only those opponents in the first war of rebellion.

After the injuries of the four secret guards around Xiao Xuan seemed to have improved, and there seemed to be no permanent and irreversible damage, Xiao Xuan also did not hesitate to visit the four of them, and summoned a total of more than thirty young dark guards around him to hold a temporary meeting.

"You've been secretly following me since you were about seven or eight years old, and I don't know when it began, and it is said that there was a rumor that I didn't trust the people I grew up with, so when you retire, it will be the end of the world. It has also been said that because it is difficult to find a real and reliable candidate, you may have to serve in those places where the sun does not shine until the year after ... ”

"Your Excellency... We... ”

Xiao Xuan interrupted the speeches of some teenagers and continued: "I know that some of you thought that I was a storyteller because of the great favor I received from my family when I first came in, but I didn't think that I was so unbearable in terms of self-control, so indulgent, and my usual life was also very lazy. But I didn't plan to completely change myself. And I'm not going to be like many kings before me. I don't want the public to judge a person by his lower body ethics or other private virtues in the future. Rather, it is to be able to evaluate whether a person's line, policies, and tendencies are truly beneficial to society and the people with a fact-seeking attitude. Only by completely abandoning the habits of thinking and values that came from the feudal era can our politics truly move towards progress... ”

Of course, at this time, Xiao Xuan didn't intend to just say these empty words, so he said: "Today's Ming Dynasty has no law on the age of marriage, although you have not reached the age of fifteen, but now you have married under my auspices." Of course, for the sake of safety, it is certainly impossible for your spouse to choose from a wide range of options. Now I'm here to arrange for you personally. Rest assured, these people can be sure that they are still virgins, and they are not very old, are you willing to accept it? ”

Hearing such an inquiry, the teenagers seemed very excited at first, but soon thought of something, and shook their heads one after another: "Your Excellency... We don't want to leave ... ”

"If there is any culpability, please punish us this time...

"Of course you are guilty, especially the four of you on that day, so you don't have to stay in some dark places every day. But I won't break my promise, and I will let each of you have a happy family. But I tell you. It's not the old days. If those women are usually harsh and don't know how to respect, you can come to me directly. Or try to avoid using your fists and kicks directly. At the same time, I don't want you teenagers to become 'strict wives' to a large extent in the future."

As if remembering something, Xiao Xuan continued: "According to the new law, it is forbidden to take concubines, but it doesn't matter, because now illegitimate children also have the same power status as legitimate children, and for you, I don't want these provisions to form a shackle; You can actually come to me before you are twenty years old. I also hope to have a family or even a group that can really be relied on. Your descendants may be able to come to the top post when the grade is not too old... ”

Hearing that Xiao Xuan didn't mean to drive everyone away temporarily, the teenagers who were not too complicated also silently shed tears at this time: "Your Majesty... ”

"Well, don't act like a child who hasn't grown up. In the years to come, you will not be as free as you used to be. Outside of duty hours, there are many locations in the central manor that you can come and go as you please... ”

At this time, Xiao Xuan thought of some arrangements in the past, and felt that he had considered too little in many aspects. Because in the past, many things seemed to be contradictory. Because there was a great contradiction between the reliability of the monarch and the combat effectiveness itself, Xiao Xuan did not want the team around him to one day become the Qing Dynasty palace guards during the Tianli Rebellion, or even less to look at it.

But now that you think about it carefully, there are many things that you don't need to worry too much about. After all, the service system is very different from before. In this way, under the adjustment, not only the secret guards, but also many officers in the entire new guard battalion and even the independent artillery battalion have also benefited a lot, and some quasi-complaints that used to be in private are gradually gone.

Invisibly, some hidden dangers that once existed around were gradually resolved.

(End of chapter)