Li Mao left Shikong to organize this special wedding in Liaodong City, sent Shi Xiong and Qin Mo to Pyongyang City, and returned to Dongzhou by himself to make two appointments:

The first is to appoint Kim Do-an as the envoy of Pyongyang Town, and take the deputy envoy out of Pyongyang City to replace Seok-woong to guard the northern part of the peninsula.

Second, it was decided to build Liaodong City and appoint Zheng Xiaozhang to handle the relocation of the three major systems of military and government, economy and social security, and supervision. After the military center of gravity shifted eastward, the status of the two prefectures as economic centers in Donggao Prefecture was not weakened, but strengthened, and Li Maoliu Zhao Guangliang, the head of the Ministry of Economic and Social Affairs, and Su Pimao, the head of the Ministry of Supervision, sat in Dongzhou, and Feng Chengdao's salt and iron courtyard did not move.

The core of the Ministry of Economic and Social Affairs is the degree branch office, which was moved to Liaodong City with the clerk, and the rest of the bureaus and offices remained in Dongzhou.

The plate is bigger, there are more people, especially after the separation of the two major systems of military and political and economic systems, how to unify orders has become the top priority that Li Mao needs to consider.

Li Mao accepted Zheng Xiaozhang's suggestion to set up a council hall in Liaodong City, and the military orders and government orders were highly unified, and all military and political affairs in the future should be subject to the resolutions of the council hall, and the resolutions of the council hall were issued in the name of the yamen such as jiedu, observation, and degree, and all ministries and bureaus followed and implemented them. Suspected violations of discipline are to be investigated and handled by the Left Division of the Ministry of Supervision, and suspected crimes are to be investigated by the Right Division.

The members of the council hall are composed of the former eight chiefs, but because Zhao Guangliang and Su Pimao are based in Dongzhou, Kim Doan is based in Pyongyang City, and Qin Mo often travels to various places, there are actually only four people in the council hall: Zheng Xiaozhang, Wen Cheng, Xie Biao, and Chang Mucang. It makes sense that each of the four systems should have a representative.

At the first meeting of the council, Li Guotai listened to Li Guotai's report on the situation in Yingzhou, and the five people closed the door and discussed secretly until late at night, and on the second day, several military orders were distributed to all departments in the name of the Liaodong Jiedu Embassy, and the newly formed Fifth Division officially entered the lower reaches of the Langshui River, and joined forces with Wang Jian's troops to clear the forest tribes and ensure the safety of the communication line from Liaodong to the Central Plains.

The 3rd Division sailed north and joined up with the Assassin Shi Zhujiu of Columbia to start a battle of expulsion from the Murowei people. The Fourth Division of Huang Renfan went out of the town of Bezhou and guarded the direction of the Bohai Sea.

The rest of the armies carried out a spring and summer campaign to purge public order in the area under their jurisdiction, and did their best to eliminate other forces under their control.

The wedding of Li Mao and Xue Dingding was held in Liaodong City in the late summer and early autumn, and a month before, the Liaodong Jiedu Embassy and the Supervisory Army Embassy were moved to Liaodong City, and the Shogunate such as Observation, Duzhi, Yingtian, and Charge Fan moved to Liaozhou City, and the military administration, supervision, secret service and degree branch were located in Liaodong City.

Liaozhou Thorn History Mansion was moved to the new city under the mountain, and Liaodong City was changed to a military town.

Although Xue Dingding does not have the name of a wife, the etiquette of marrying is completely in accordance with the standard of a wife, which is grand and luxurious, giving the Xue family enough face. According to the prior agreement, after marriage, Xue Dingding still lived in the old house in the city, and Li Mao lived in the newly built Jiedu Embassy.

Because of Lan'er's presence, Xue Dingding easily did not come to the Jiedu Embassy, and Li Mao did not often go to her. When I went, I just sat and left, and never spent the night there.

The interests of the six major families in Liaodong City, Li Mao promised Xue Dingding to protect them as one, and even the children of the Lu, Cao, and Shang families, who arranged her in front of the public, were also given amnesty.

Everything seems to be harmonious, and Li Mao, the new lord of Liaodong, seems to be willing to live in harmony with the old family.

The turning point came on the night when Seok-woong and Kim Do-an led their army back to the city after the handover.

That night, Li Mao set up a banquet for Shi Xiong in the Jiedu Embassy's Mansion to wash the dust, and the military and political leaders of Liaodong, Xue Qingbao, the assassin of Liaozhou, and the local gentry attended together with the heads of the six major families, with nearly 100 people.

When the wine was half-drunk, Shi Xiong asked people to bring up six large wooden boxes, which contained ironclad evidence of the secret collusion between the six major families and the Silla Kingdom, and the evidence was collected from the Silla side by Qin Mo's right wing.

These evidences show that the six families of Liaodong City not only cooperated closely with the Silla people to deal with Li Mao during the war, but also broke off their ties with the Silla Kingdom after the end of the Liaodong War, and secretly had dealings. They violated the ban and smuggled large quantities of goods to Silla in order to make huge profits, corrupt the judicial system of Liaodong, fish for the Silla nobles, and even resell slaves to the Silla people.

The evidence is ironclad, and the six major families are not allowed to quibble, and the leaders of the six major families such as Xue Qingbao pleaded guilty on the ground, trembling and not daring to speak.

Li Mao scolded Xue Qingyu and the others sharply: "I treat you with sincerity, how can you do this beast act?" With that, he slammed his glass on the ground and brushed his sleeves away.

Zheng Xiaozhang ordered the Security Bureau to detain the six people on the spot.

That night, with the cooperation of the First Division and the City Defense Garrison Bureau, the Security Bureau went out to investigate the six major families, raided their homes, arrested people, sealed their property, and turned the world upside down.

Xue Dingding got the news in the second half of the night, and when he heard that his father was taken, he suddenly became numb, and stood at a loss for a long time, but Yang Er calmed down, and hurriedly served her to dress up, and accompanied her to see Li Mao.

The guards of the Jiedu embassy did not let him in, and the duck shouted: "You are so bold, you dare to stop you like a lady?" ”

The guard glanced Xue Dingding up and down, and said with a smile: "There is only one handsome lady in Liaodong City, I know, not you." ”

Xue Dingding said: "I am Xue Qingbao's daughter, you should have heard of it." ”

A veteran said: "It turned out to be Mrs. Xue, I'm sorry, he is a temporary errand and doesn't recognize you, but there is an order from the guard, and no one is allowed to enter tonight without a warrant from the marshal." We can't help it. ”

Xue Dingding sneered: "You don't let me in, okay, I'll show you." Bowing his head and rushing in, the guard was furious, stretched out his hand to stop, but was knocked down by the veteran, and reprimanded in a low voice: "You are crazy, you dare to touch the handsome woman." ”

The guard was shocked and refused to admit defeat: "She is not favored." ”

The veteran shouted: "You know a fart!" ”

The guard was reprimanded, came up madly, pulled out his waist knife, and pretended to say: "The military order is like a mountain, whoever dares to break through will be killed." ”

Yang Er had already seen a little ingenuity, straightened his chest, and shouted: "Come on, come on, you have the ability to cut here, frowning and not being a hero." ”

The guard was forced to retreat step by step, his eyes rolled, he flashed into the door one step, closed the door, and said with a smile: "There is a kind of you who just bang on the door and come in, then you will see your ability." ”

Before the words fell, there was a "bang" on the door.

Someone banged his head on the door.

The guard was shocked, so he heard the door shouting: "Open the door, open the door, don't let Mrs. Ru break it." ”

Xue Dingding slammed his head against the door in a hurry, broke through the layer of oilskin, and knocked out a big bag, Li Mao saw it, felt ashamed, and very unbearable, scolded the two guards in front of him, and drove them out.

Lan'er applied the potion to Ding Ding, looked at the woman carefully, raised her eyebrows, took Xue Dingding's hand and said, "Sister, it's not my sister who said you, you are too anxious, Xue City Lord is an elder, can he do anything to his old man?" It's just for show, to show others. ”

Yang Er snorted: "One sentence will arrest people, put them in prison like prisoners, others are enjoying watching it, and it is their own people who are offended, you say it won't be good, who can believe it." I came and didn't let me in, I saw that our girl was in a hurry, and she didn't kill people too much, how could she be so bullying. ”

Lan'er lowered her face coldly: "Who is this girl, do you have the right to speak here?" ”

Li Mao coughed and said to Xue Dingding: "The five families of Lu, Cao, Shang, Wang, and Zheng are rampant in the city, and the Security Bureau has repeatedly warned them, but they all turn a deaf ear. Yesterday afternoon, the house slaves of the Wang family beat people on the street and were taken into custody by the Wuhou shop in the east of the city of the Security Bureau. The Security Bureau went to ask for someone, but instead of opening the door, the Wang family also let the dog bite the person. ”

Xue Dingding said: "I don't know what you said, I only know that you arrested your father, what crime did he commit?" ”

Li Mao avoided answering: "I have preserved their net worth and property and protected their legitimate property according to your wishes, but there are no people outside the law in Liaodong, and this case cannot be opened." ”

Xue Dingding said with tears in his eyes: "I only want to ask you one thing: What are you going to do with my father?" ”

Li Mao said: "As a local parent official, he can't enforce the law, can't govern the people, and the corpse is vegetarian, he is not worthy of being this official." ”

Xue Dingding said: "The official is what you asked him to do, he can't do it well, you dismissed him, why do you have to lock him up, he is a decent person, how do you want him to be a person in the future?" ”

Li Mao said: "Arresting him is to protect him, you are a smart person, you really can't see through it?" ”

Xue Dingding said: "I can't see through, I don't have your city government scheming, I just ask you to let him go home, we can live in seclusion as a people." My two uncles, if you don't like it, I will persuade them to resign from the government and serve the people, and I will not hinder your eyes. Our Xue family's property, you can just take it over if you like it, just ask you to raise your noble hand and let us live. ”

After Xue Dingding finished speaking, he broke away from the duck, knelt on the ground and kowtowed, knock knock, and blood oozed from his head.

Lan'er hurriedly hugged and shouted to Li Mao, "Why don't you say something." ”

Li Mao endured a sigh and said: "He can't do the assassination, if you are interested, you can come to the shogunate." Liaodong's law does not engage in Zhulian, your two uncles are still at ease to be their officials, and I will not blame them. ”

Lan'er helped Xue Dingding up, angry and funny, and persuaded her while applying medicine: "You little temper has to be changed, how can you jump if you don't agree with each other, you often don't go out at home, I go to the street to buy vegetables, and it is common to see those five companies bullying and dominating the market, and a fat man surnamed Shang wants me to go back to Hufu to live with him." The people are complaining, and if they don't do it lawlessly, they lose the hearts of the people, who can bear it? Don't move, look at this, my little girl, this little temper...... It's the enemy of the old lady. ”

Xue Dingding had heard of Lan'er's name for a long time, and heard that she was beautiful and enchanting, and she was short-tempered and jealous, so she never had a good impression of her, and she never took the initiative to see her, and she didn't speak when she met.

I can't deal with her today, but I found that this rumor is half true and half false, Lan'er is indeed beautiful and enchanting, and her temper doesn't seem to be good, but she really didn't see it when she was so jealous, and what she said was also towards herself.

Seeing that she had calmed down, Li Mao said again: "City Lord Xue will move back to the city to live in the future, and it is up to you if you want to go back and wait." ”

Lan'er said: "What are you going back, is it like a family not living together?" In the future, Sister Ding Ding will live with me, and I will be irritable, but we are both temperamental. ”

Li Mao promised Xue Dingding that as long as she wanted, she could live at home after marriage, and Xue Dingding has always lived at home, during which Li Mao never forced her to do anything.

It's just that if something like this happens, can I go back? Xue Dingding wiped his tears and said to Li Mao: "I am selfish, if I offend you, it is my fault, I will compensate you, please don't be angry with my family because of me, I will do whatever you want me to do in the future, no complaints." ”

Li Mao couldn't cry or laugh angrily, Lan'er patted her and persuaded: "Hugh said this, when was he such a person." ”

Xue Dingding withdrew his arm from Lan'er's arms and said, "I'm a husband with you, you entered the door early, I think you are a sister, I respect you, but don't treat me as a fool and manipulate me at will." ”

The sharp-toothed Lan'er was also speechless with anger, and when Yang'er saw that things were going to be stiff, she hurriedly persuaded Xue Dingding away.

Lan'er's maid Hanxiang was also clever, and hurriedly led the two to see the courtyard prepared for Xue Dingding earlier.

Seeing Li Mao smiling bitterly, Lan'er quipped: "No wonder you don't go to her, this is obviously a cannon fight, whoever is caught and bombed is really her." Li Mao said: "She is still young, even if she is smart, she doesn't understand the world, you can teach her more in the future." Lan'er said: "People are beautiful women, what do I have to teach her, you want me to let her more." Don't worry, such a beauty, who sees and loves her, and she is young, how can I beat her, and I will be defeated sooner or later. If I offend her a little less today, I will have a better life in the future, and I know in my heart. ”

Lan'er is becoming more and more charming and moving, Li Mao's heart is itching, and he wants to hurry up and hold a show, Xiao Nizi tricked up his means to make him angry, but he slipped away, and Li Mao had to go to the meeting hall with a full body of anger.