Gao Chongwen was overjoyed and did it according to Li Mao's wishes.

Li Mao comforted him to make him stand out of the list and settle the people, both inside and outside.

When Gao Chongwen's army arrived at the city of Chengdu, because Liu Pi and Lu Wenruo fled, the dragons in the city were leaderless, and Wei Gao's staff, Wei Qiandu, Dugu Mi, Fu Zai, Xi Shimei, Duan Wenchang and others, who were squeezed out by Liu Pi, were dressed in hemp and asked for guilt.

The blatant defection of these people saved the city of Chengdu from a huge catastrophe, and Li Mao and Gao Chongwen not only meant to open up to these people, but also to truthfully report their exploits to the imperial court and not put them in a separate book.

Qin Mo persuaded: "Xi Shimei, Dugu Mi, and Duan Wenchang are all momentary heroes with both ability and political integrity, why don't you take advantage of the situation to recruit them into the shogunate and strengthen our strength." ”

Li Mao said: "I appreciate their talents, but they are too qualified, I am afraid that it will be inconvenient to use, and their reputation is outside, everyone is afraid that they also know, how dare I use them well." ”

He also secretly instructed: "Those who are not famous but have talents, you can recruit more." You have to remember: talent is always the most valuable wealth, don't always keep your eyes on the treasury, the gold is scattered and come back. ”

Qin Mo said: "Yes, people are the most valuable wealth, but people also have to eat, you don't have the idea of the silver treasury, and you don't allow the brothers to extort bamboo and bargains, where does this money come from?" The brothers are poor and can't open the pot immediately, if you make trouble again, you go to appease, I don't have the face to persuade anyway. ”

Li Mao said: "Okay, good, it's a big deal, if someone sends it to the door, you will receive it first." But there is one rule: no bribery, no extortion. As a person, we must take a long-term view, and don't worry about the small profits in front of us, which are not worth it. ”

Qin Mo said: "I can't knock it out if I want to, the officials in Xichuan have been stripped of their skins layer by layer, and now they are all in debt." ”

Li Mao said: "In this way, the war has subsided, so many war materials, you won't need them for a while, you pick out those damp, moldy, and useless ones first, take them out and dispose of them, and you can recover a little loss for the country." Don't laugh, this is not a resale of military supplies, this is called dealing with expiring goods, and defective products, to recover losses for the country. If you don't understand it, you just nod your head and giggle again, to do this kind of thing, you want brains, brains, understand, brains are not paste. ”

Qin Mo said: "Understood." ”

With this sentence, the materials piled up in the warehouse have resurged, rain, no need, in order to recover losses, can only be taken to the market to sell, according to the proportion of 136 account, the country gets 10%, the manager gets 30%, Li Mao only gets 60%.

Selling materials at a low price is subjectively to make money, but objectively it also ensures the supply of materials in Chengdu, stabilizes prices, and the people benefit a lot.

Li Mao played accordingly and won Li Chun's commendation.

In the meantime, Qin Mo still couldn't help but collect some black money, Li Mao learned about it, shook his head helplessly, and took Qin Mo to temporarily leave the nest of right and wrong in Chengdu in the name of going out to inspect.

Whenever Li Mao went to a place, he would publish his itinerary and accept the people's complaints, and no matter when the previous unjust cases occurred, they would all be attributed to Liu Pi's head, otherwise they would not be accepted. The people of Sichuan distinguish between right and wrong, so thousands of sins are attributed to Liu Pi.

Li Mao was disgusted to sit there to try the case, so he handed over all the cases he received to Lin Yun for judgment.

Lin Yun felt the grace of his reconstruction, and he worked very hard, and this old man did have a few brushes, and he decided hundreds of cases every day, and all of them were in order, and the plaintiffs and defendants were all happy and convinced. For a while, it was called "divine judgment".

One day to inspect Shuzhou, the local assassin has already vacated the government office, left to the "divine judgment" to judge the case, Li Mao did not want to disturb the "divine judgment" Yaxing, after dealing with the important matters in the management, he went to have fun.

It is autumn, the weather is neither hot nor cold, and it is the harvest season, and the melons and fruits are fragrant everywhere. Li Mao walked to the outskirts of the city, walking back and forth along an ancient street paved with stone slabs, reluctant to leave.

Qin Mo, Han Yi, and Hu Chuan followed behind, sweating profusely and hungry, so they asked passers-by how many ghosts there were in this place, and the passers-by were so frightened that they waved their hands and said no. Qin Mo said: "Since there are no unjust ghosts, how can Brother Mao act like he has fallen into an evil spirit, turning around, sticking to this street and not being able to get out." Hu Chuan asked passers-by if there was a temple nearby, and the passer-by hurriedly pointed to a vacant lot recessed by the street, saying that there was a Jiaoque Temple there.

Hu Chuan patted his thigh and boasted: "That's right, Brother Mao turned out to be a monk, and when a monk meets a temple, just like a prostitute meets a Qinglou, can he still take a step?" ”

In the recessed clearing on the side of the street grew a large, leafy tree, an unknown tree, and behind the tree was a whitewashed wall.

Li Mao walked over, Qin Mo took the first step, sat down on the stone bench under the tree, and was busy taking off his shoes and rubbing his feet.

Suddenly, he exclaimed, "Hey, it's a temple." Brother Mao, are you looking for this? ”

There is actually a temple hidden in this recessed clearing, and the temple gate is hidden behind the shop facing the street, and the door opens to the north, so that it is not visible from the street.

The wooden plaque at the door of the temple reads two words: Jiao Que.

Li Mao got up and walked towards the temple gate, Qin Mo said, "What are you going to do again?" Hu Chuan said: "When the monk sees the temple, what do you say." When the two were arguing there, Han Yi had already followed with a knife.

A small novice came out of the door, clasped his hands together, and asked Hu Chuan to leave the knife.

Hu Chuan glared at him and shouted: "As a warrior, the sword will never leave your body." ”

Xiao Shami was neither happy nor sad, and Han Yi did not hand over the knife, so he stopped him from entering.

Qin Mo bumped into Han Yi, handed the saber to Xiao Shami, and said to Han Yi: "The samurai who does not leave the sword, you will stay outside to protect the Dharma, and we will go in and do a deal." Hu Chuan exclaimed: "Amitabha, good, good." Brother Mo, Buddhism is pure, how can you say this? What are you going to do in there? ”

Qin Mo often took Hu Chuan in and out of the brothel, and the secret word agreed between the two was to go out to do business.

Qin Mo's eyes were stunned, Hu Chuan didn't dare to make a mistake, he followed behind with a smile, and asked Qin Mo what Li Mao was doing here, Qin Mo said, "You ask me, I ask who to go." Maybe it's because I've killed too many people and I'm uneasy. ”

Hu Chuan also panicked when he said this, and hurriedly said: "I also have to say goodbye, so as not to let the big ghosts and small ghosts haunt me." ”

The three of them entered the temple, first went to the main hall to offer incense, and then sat down with the presiding monk and said a few words, and then got up and went to the temple to observe. Li Mao is a person who has been in the temple for more than ten years, knows a little about Buddhism, and can talk to the presiding monk.

Qin Mo and Hu Chuan felt bored, and they were far away, talking nonsense without a match.

This temple is built according to the mountain, there is a stone wall behind the temple, the presiding monk accompanies Li Mao to climb the stone pavilion embedded in the stone wall, climb high and look far away, overlook the city of Shuzhou in the distance.

Qin Mo and Hu Chuan were lazy and weak-footed, and refused to climb, so they stayed in the open space under the stone wall.

When there was no one around, Li Mao handed over a jade pendant to the presiding monk. That jade pendant is Lu Wenruo's belongings, Lu Wenruo didn't want to say anything to Li Mao before, but his eyes were staring at the jade pendant on his waist, Li Mao knew that this thing had some doorways, so he secretly took it down and hid it.

"Before Brother Ling died, he said three times in a row, I think he meant to let me come to you."

The presiding monk touched the jade pendant in his hand and touched it, and a layer of mist rose in his thin eyes.

Li Mao was overjoyed in his heart, and Lu Wenruo muttered two words repeatedly in his mouth before he died: Jiao Que.

He didn't understand the meaning until he heard that there was a Jiaoque Temple in Shuzhou, and the presiding officer of the temple was surnamed Lu, so he remembered the list that Lin Ying gave him before leaving Beijing.

That list recorded a list of all the imperial court personnel who were ordered to lurk in Xichuan, and at the top of the list were two Lu Moumou, both of whom only had surnames and no names.

Li Mao initially guessed that one of them was Lu Wenruo, but it was too ridiculous, how could the dignified chief strategist of Xichuan be an undercover agent of the imperial court? It wasn't until Li Dingjin killed Lu Wenruo in the sheep irrigation field that Li Mao was convinced that his initial judgment was right, and one of the two "Lu Moumou" was Lu Wenruo.

"The little monk's family name is Lu, and Wen Ruo is a brother. Twenty years ago, he and I went to Beijing to take the exam, young and vigorous, accidentally angered the children of the powerful, and were arrested and imprisoned for a year, dying. Later, the nobles were appointed, and then they went south to Xichuan together to act as the eyes and ears of the imperial court. ”

"I am doing book history in the military mansion, he is doing palm solidification in the observation mansion, I am in the light, he is in the dark. King Nankang treated us well, and we didn't embarrass him. Ten years of getting along, autumn has not committed any crimes. But if we want to get close to the center, we can't, the above is tight, and we took a risky move. I killed an innocent person, King Nankang placed me here, I withdrew, he was whitewashed, King Nankang trusted him more and more, and Liu Bi obeyed him. Finally, one day, he helped Liu Bi sit in the position of deputy envoy of the branch. ”

Li Mao said: "Do Liu Bi know about these?" ”

The presiding monk shook his head: "He is a fool and a wise man." ”

"About a year ago, he came to me and told me that he had gone to Chang'an to see the nobleman, and the nobleman told him that the imperial court would soon take action against Xichuan, and that in order to cut down the grass and eradicate the roots, a war must be started, otherwise, Xichuan would return to the hands of the imperial court, and it would be difficult to guarantee that it would not become a second Hebei. He told me that as long as we finished doing this, our hard life in Xichuan would be over. I asked him, Nishikawa Shihei, can we still be human again? He told me that he would, that he would, that everything we did, the Holy Lord would see. ”

“…… This kind of rooster and dog thief will pretend not to see it when you see it. He's so stupid. ”

When the presiding monk said this, he took out a thick linen paper letter from his wide sleeve and handed it to Li Mao.

Then, without warning, he climbed the guardrail, jumped down, and like a swooping eagle, he swooped down on the hard brick ground, smeared his brain on the ground, and killed him on the spot.

Hu Chuan protected the scene, Qin Mo came up to check, and when he saw that Li Mao was safe and sound, he exclaimed: "Why did you throw him down?" ”

Li Mao said: "It was he who threw it down. ”

Qin Mo looked at Li Mao, his Adam's apple squirmed, and finally he didn't ask.

The presiding monk died suddenly, and it was expected that there would be a big trouble, but the first monk in the temple took the initiative to stand up to exonerate Li Mao, and after shaking his head and sighing repeatedly, the first monk said in public: "This is not to do the business of a few donors, the host is suffering from a vicious disease, the pain is unbearable, and he has long had the idea of suicide. Today, I return to Huangquan, and my soul flies for nine days, good, good. It is immeasurable creation. ”

Hu Chuan asked Qin Mo secretly: "Is this thief bald monk or Taoist priest, his beliefs are very mixed." ”

Qin Mo shouted: "What do you know, he is a monk halfway, and it is normal for his mind to be a little messy, don't make a fuss." ”

The temple did not pursue it, and everyone secretly breathed a sigh of relief, left a sum of money for the presiding monk to burn, and quickly fled.