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The entire twelfth year of Chongzhen is still not too good, especially in the previous year, which also exacerbates the possibility of contradictions and problems in many places.

However, Xiao Xuan and his team did not stay in Shu for too long as many people expected, and after investigating some things, they boldly marched along Guizhou, Guangxi, Jiangxi and many other places that were difficult to reach by waterways in the open sea, and it took three or four months before finally approaching Yingtian again. It passed through hundreds of counties and expanded the scope of the survey to hundreds of counties. In more than 40 surveys and arraignments, more than 30,000 randomly selected local people of all walks of life were interviewed and recorded.

In the end, Xiao Xuan did not let the vast majority of them return with the followers or give too high a reward, in an era when the quality of the public is not very high, Xiao Xuan is also worried that if this opening is too open, it is also likely to form another kind of chaos: populism is rampant, and local officials and even big families can only do nothing in many aspects in order to accommodate the people or make trouble for the people in some things. Therefore, those who planned to break the sky in the local area had to take the risk of retaliation to an appropriate degree, and in the end, only about 200 people returned to Beijing with the team.

When investigating a lot of things, Xiao Xuan did not deal with it immediately in order to avoid wasting too much time and causing unnecessary trouble, but when the army was on the verge of returning to Yingtian, he began to suddenly interrogate all parties, and interrogated more than 7,000 local people in more than 200 counties, large or small, a big prison approached again in the winter of the twelfth year of Chongzhen, and finally summoned more than 5,000 people who did not flee to Beijing as a breakthrough, and in the investigation in the following four months, there were soon more than 30,000 people, Tens of thousands of households in all aspects were investigated. Some of these people are local officials, some are members of the local law hall system or the military system, and some are big people who have violated the law and discipline, and of course, many of the long-standing shortcomings in the prison administration system have also surfaced in this large-scale direct inspection.

Of course, Xiao Xuan can also be sure that there may be a lot of unjust prisons among them, but in order to produce unprecedented changes in the entire social outlook and even the consciousness of abiding by the rules since ancient times, he finally made up his mind to secretly detain most of them, and let out the rumors that many people have been secretly executed by capital punishment, until the facts can be determined to a greater extent within a year, and the unjust prisons can be reduced to a greater extent, and then large-scale cleansing and treatment can be carried out. In this way, without reducing the deterrent effect much, it also minimizes hidden dangers and injustices.

On the one hand, in most parts of the country, the excessive plundering and even illegal phenomena that once targeted the lower strata have been greatly reduced. Even some local bandits who are attached to the big families, and even characters such as the city fox and the rat feel the tremendous pressure. Because no one can be sure whether he was because of which of his fellow villagers he had offended and bullied when he was a teenager, he was inexplicably summoned by the Son of Heaven and finally died in that terrible prison.

On the other hand, this also makes some people who have no intention of rebelling before start to actively prepare and move. Because if such behavior is not stopped, many people and forces will eventually be ruined sooner or later for one reason or another. Although some places seem to be calm or no different from most other places, this also makes Xiao Xuan believe that if he leads his team on a long tour again, especially in some border areas where it is difficult to get quick support, there is a chance that he will encounter greater threats and hidden dangers. Xiao Xuan hoped that when he traveled again, those people would be able to make some preparations and finally jump out, but the time to jump out couldn't be too late or too far, so that these people were too well prepared.

So the time for a new round of travel was determined to be a year later, about the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, when winter was approaching. After a year and a half of preparations, the preparation plan for the entire new guard battalion battle group has also been preliminarily completed. With everyone equipped with light horses, even if they are temporarily divided into five to six battle groups, they have quite strong combat effectiveness. In this way, when going out on patrol, it is possible to form a multi-way column to influence a wider area.

Unlike the last time, Tian Xiuying knew in advance that this trip might take a long time, and more than a year might be the same as a Konishi expedition, so she still felt a huge pressure: at this time, Xiao Xuan didn't dare to trust all the people when he had a lot of past turmoil experience, so when he planned to go on a relatively long patrol, and even possibly carry out a large-scale operation, there were hundreds of backbones of the core arsenal who followed the new guard battalion, as well as those who had just turned one year old. The two children I just remembered and even the few women around me who might have been pregnant.

Unlike many people, after many rebellions, especially the popularity brought by the last expedition, Xiao Xuan is now different from the ordinary emperors in the past. Xiao Xuan believes that if something happens in the Yingtian area, those who plot a coup d'état and military rebellion should not be so easy to usurp the throne as easily as they were in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties eras, and the imperial power, which has a considerable part of the people's will, will become stronger in terms of actual legality. But the people around Yingtian's core and even any possible heirs and children are possible hidden dangers, and Xiao Xuan must hold some key cards in his hands in this tour in order to avoid some risks to the greatest extent.

Of course, in this way, the scale of the entire patrol team has reached the scale of about 2,000 people, and it seems that the one-time secret assembly and even the patrol are not as convenient as before. Especially when even some specially selected military horses cannot be as effective in concealing their body shape and discipline as humans. Therefore, this time the dispatch, first of all, three reinforced companies, a total of more than 900 people, secretly went out of the central manor in several places near Nanjing, and launched an advance to Chengdu from multiple directions, while Xiao Xuan personally led three companies and some core men and horses, a total of more than 1,000 people, to go up the river by waterway, and when approaching Chongqing, they went west through some passes and finally completed the convergence in the Chengdu area.

Obviously, this time Xiao Xuan changed some of his previous thoughts, especially after getting some accurate information about the collusion between many forces in the southwest and the many remnants of the war in the war, he planned to start a showdown in the southwest.