After taking over the government affairs of Caozhou, Li Mao recommended Zhang Xuan to know the Caozhou military, and sent a battalion from Gushan Town to garrison the city, recommending Caozhou generals and dispatching the Gushan garrison was the privilege granted to him by Li Shigu, and the spearhead was naturally aimed at Wang Xun, and Li Mao's use at the moment was not a violation.

The overall situation has been decided, Li Mao issued an order to concentrate the officials of Caozhou in the state court, everyone will review and pass the customs, and those who cannot pass the customs will be arrested on the spot, in Li Mao's original imagination that no matter how bad Caozhou is, in the end it will be able to pick out one or two relatively honest and usable officials, but the facts tell him that this officialdom has rotted to the bones, from top to bottom, it is all ordinary rotten black, and no one is available.

As a last resort, he had no choice but to use a group of officials who were working outside the country, telling the officials who had returned to their hometowns to temporarily act as agents for government affairs, and inviting the gentry, chambers of commerce, and guilds to organize talks with leading figures, asking them to go back to restrain the guilds and localities, exercise autonomy, and resolve the contradictions that arose.

The chaos that occurred after the paralysis of the government that Li Mao was worried about did not appear, and the people's fields were planted, bought and sold, and wine was drunk. Li Mao was worried that his cognition was wrong, so he went to the streets and alleys to investigate the people's feelings, and the situation he got made him excited, and the people were very numb to the purge of Caozhou officialdom, and they did not approve or oppose it, so they just watched the show.

In the eyes of many people, the government will only take the initiative to deal with you when you want your benefit, and they will always disappear in time when you encounter difficulties. If someone boasts about the number of officials he has killed, then he has really miscalculated, everyone knows that this group of people has already rotted, and you have killed a lot, which can only prove that you are ruthless enough, but it cannot prove your integrity. Both the tiger and the wolf want to eat meat, and the tiger has a greater appetite than the wolf, and the tiger has killed the wolf and taken over the sheep under the wolf's rule, and the sheep have nothing to be happy about.

Knowing the people's feelings, Li Mao is deeply grateful, he is now the tiger, the tiger fights the wolf, the wolf will die, the numbness of the sheep makes the wolves have no place to hide, and it is not far from death. Qingmo felt discouraged and complained: "Let's risk our lives to help them, it's good for them, they sit there one by one like no one else, even if they are timid and don't dare to help, at least they have to shout two voices to cheer." Li Mao smiled: "Isn't this very good, if they don't help at both ends, it will only be beneficial to me, I'm afraid that they will be bewitched by wolves and get up to help." "Mo Qi Shen Channel: "Yes, if they are in a state of panic and give a tongue to someone with a heart, we can only accept it when we see it, and give up halfway." ”

Qingmo said: "You say it's not strange, the sheep are drunk and eaten by wolves all day long, and the argument should be to hate the wolves to death, but why do the wolves encounter danger, but they have to stand up for them?" Is this the legendary cheapness? Li Mao said with a smile: "If black and white are placed in front of you, it will not be difficult for people to make judgments, and the difficulty is that black and white are not clear." After all, people are different from wolves, people know how to deceive, and are good at reversing black and white, confusing yin and yang, so that you can't distinguish right from wrong, and you can't judge right and wrong. ”

After speaking, he drank all the tea in the bowl, wiped his mouth and said: "Without further ado, let's cut through the mess quickly, kill him by surprise, and the blood will flow like a river." ”

Qingmo was a little worried: "It's all brought to justice, the officialdom of Caozhou will collapse, I'm afraid of ......" Mo Qi Shen Channel: "What are you afraid of, it is the people who stand up to the sky, not those dog officials, if they are killed, the sky will not fall." Qingmo glanced at Mo Qi's supernatural powers, this Hu Er's brain has been surging recently, and he often argues with him, making him deflated repeatedly. He didn't have anything to say: "Kill all the Caozhou wolves, and then a group of wolves from other places, the wolves eat meat after all, and the people of Caozhou are not the ones who suffer?" ”

Li Mao took out a string of money and put it on the table, and said with a smile: "I'm not afraid of wolves eating meat, I'm afraid that wolves will join forces to eat meat." The wolves will be unscrupulous when they form a gang, and what we have to do is to arrange for them to fight each other, leaving a chance for the sheep in Caozhou to breathe. Qingmo smiled: "Brother Mao, listening to your words, I suddenly opened my mouth, and I feel that you are in a group with the wolves." ”

Li Mao said: "Don't be wordy, don't be a wolf, do you want to be a sheep?" ”

Mo Qi Shentong took the opportunity to step on Qingmo, and said with a smile: "It's good to practice in the public gate, and only when you are a stable wolf can you speak for the sheep." Brother Mo, drink less and read more on weekdays, haha. ”

The purge of Caozhou's officialdom continued, and the scale became larger and larger, with more than ninety percent of Caozhou's officials imprisoned and their cells overcrowded.

Feng Guo has been on an errand in Jiyin County for more than 20 years, and he is very familiar, and he has collided with Li Mao due to a misunderstanding in the past, Li Mao is expected to give him a chance to redeem his merits, and Feng Guo does not dare to refuse.

Feng Guo took office hard, he has been mixed in Jiyin County for more than 20 years, this is the first time to see such a situation, looking at the high-ranking officials and officials who were high up in the past, and they had to look up to see them, at this moment they were crawling at his feet like dogs, not only did he not have the slightest feeling of turning over and being the master, but he became more and more panicked.

He is humble and prudent, walking on thin ice, like facing the abyss, and bowing his waist is not as good as a dog.

Brother-in-law's nest made his brother-in-law Yang Qi very disdainful, he persuaded his brother-in-law to straighten his waist, asserting that these people would never be able to stand up again, Feng Guo sneered: "You know a fart, don't think that you can be an uncle if you are covered with a layer of skin today, you can put it on with one sentence, you can take it off with one sentence, and send you to the eighteenth layer of hell with another sentence." And he said, "This errand is so good, why is no one willing to come forward?" Are all people in the world stupid? I advise you to stay away from the land of right and wrong. ”

Yang Qiyuan opened a noodle restaurant and a black shop in Liuyuanzhuang, Jiyin County, and lost him 200 yuan after being burned by Su Dong, he took the money to open a wine shop in the north of the city, but the business was like the warm swallow water that could not be boiled, and there has been no big improvement, he has been in the county seat (also the state city) for a long time, his vision has been broadened, and his mind has changed, and now he wants to drill into the official mansion ********. Knowing that his brother-in-law was being reused, he closed the business and rushed to run, thinking that he could serve the official family's rice, but he was poured cold water on his head by his brother-in-law.

Yang Qi was furious, and found Li Mao with a breath of anger, begging to serve under his command. Li Mao had a deep impression of Yang Qi, and Li Mao could laugh at the misunderstanding in the past. These words reached Li Mao's ears, and Li Mao ordered Feng Guo to be relieved of his post and Yang Qi to be reused as the head of Caozhou Prison. In view of the fact that the original officials were unusable, Li Mao decided to temporarily recruit a group of people to guard the criminal officials, and the remuneration given was increased again and again, but no one came to apply.

Yang Qi, who was in charge of recruitment, was worried that he would not be able to be punished, so he went to the street with an idea, and set up a position to recruit homeless people and beggars, Yang Qi's wishful thinking was that officials like Feng Bu were old and sophisticated, and they were unwilling to work hard, and ordinary people suffered from gains and losses, numbness and fear, and these homeless people and beggars had nothing to fear, they had a bad life, they had a good life, they had a happy day, and it was worth dying. His judgment was not wrong, the homeless and beggars heard that there was wine, drink, meat to eat, and money to take, and they also had the opportunity to humiliate the former high-ranking officials.

Yang Qi quickly recruited enough manpower, sent everyone to take a shower, trimmed their heads, changed their clothes and began to work on errands. The upstarts are ********, full of energy, and obedient to Yang Qi, treating them as if they were new parents. However, after a few days, their hearts were not balanced, guarding a bunch of fat sheep, it was too uncomfortable to just look at it and not eat, although the food was high, although the wine and meat were good, how could the enemy casually reach out and scrape the oil and water? If you don't fish for nothing, it's ill-gotten gain anyway. They began to extort bribes, and the abundance of money made their hearts tremble, and they became more and more desperate, and they soon forgot their identity, and some became wolves that ate people and did not spit out bones, and some of them became slaves to money.

The former knocked on the bones and sucked the marrow and tried their best to exploit the corrupt officials and dirty officials, while the latter opened the door of convenience so that the detained officials could walk around privately and collude with each other, and some officials held banquets in prisons to invite their colleagues in distress, and made an alliance of wine and blood, sharing blessings and woes, and never abandoning each other, and invited public and private prostitutes to sing and dance to cheer up, and to meet each other frankly after drinking, so as to increase friendship.

When Li Mao heard this, he called Yang Qi and asked him how to deal with it, Yang Qi gritted his teeth and said: "It's okay to ask the stolen officials for money, anyway, their money is not clean." Those who fight the wives and daughters of **** people, they are not as good as animals, but I blame me for being blind, and I want to kill you casually. As for those who received money to make slaves and servants, they raided their homes and put them in prison, so that they could continue to serve their new masters as cattle and horses. Li Mao shook his head and said to Yang Qi: "I wanted to promote you, but I harmed you, but now if I want to save your life, I can only send you to the west of the capital." Yang Qi was shocked, kowtowed, and said: "I know that I have collided with you in the past, but the ancients have a cloud and those who do not know are not guilty, although I am a bastard of what you confessed to me, but the crime is not enough to fill the army, right?" ”

Qingmo shouted: "Conniving at subordinates to extort money, **** offending officials' wives and daughters, what a crime, don't kill your head, you just thank God." ”

Yang Qi said: "I don't believe that those corrupt officials can make a comeback, their money is not clean, when they are in power, there are still few **** women from good families, and they don't do anything less to steal chickens and dogs from each other, why can't we do what they do?" I can't figure it out. Qingmo smiled: "Dogs eat, do you eat it too?" Yang Qi was stunned and speechless.

Mo Qi Shen Channel: "Don't you smell things and hurt them, your life is like an ant, and it is effortless to pinch you to death." ”

Yang Qi was silent, and Li Mao smiled and persuaded: "Manly husbands dare to act, you have the courage to connive at them to do evil, so don't you have the courage to carry it for them?" I'll take you to Jingxi as a whole army, give you a sum of money, and then entrust the old man to take care of it, maybe you can be a general in the future. If you insist on refusing to go, you will be left to it, and in the future, open guns and arrows will come together, and you should not complain. ”

Yang Qi said: "Let me think about it carefully. ”

When Yang Qi's sister heard that Yang Qi was going to be confiscated into Jingxi, she cried and begged her husband for help, Feng Guo replied in a sullen voice: "He doesn't know the height of the sky, and you don't know what to do, who can I save him?" He added: "You can be content, this is the picket officer protecting him, leaving him in Caozhou sooner or later will inevitably die." Yang Qi also figured out at the moment, people like him are just as humble as ants in the eyes of those high-ranking officials and officials, it is too easy to pinch him to death, stay in Caozhou, sooner or later he will be poisoned, so his sister persuaded him, and he agreed.

sold all his belongings for a while, took the initiative to surrender to the Yamen, cooperated with Li Mao to go through the motions, and led the twenty-three pit brothers he personally recruited to embark on the long road to the west of Beijing.