Chapter 185: Layman and Insider

"Lord Ye,." Nie Rui arched his hand and said to Ye Tao.

Nie Rui was naturally referring to the matter on the side of the Thunder Yin Demon Sect. Originally, in order to let the Intelligence Bureau be targeted in its work and not to have its own people beating their own people, Tan Xiaopei had privately told Nie Rui about the Lei Yin Demon Sect, so that Nie Rui could understand why Tan Xiaopei recommended Ye Tao to be a lecturer for the Intelligence Bureau, and also asked Nie Rui to pay attention to the direction of some containment operations and espionage operations in Xiling. Nie Rui originally didn't attach much importance to the Thunder Yin Demon Sect, an organization that was directly managed by the Inner Government and was somewhat whimsical. He was born in the military, although he was appointed as the director of the intelligence bureau because of his talent in intelligence, but he does not have a deep understanding of conspiracy, speech, spiritual power, etc., as Ye Tao and Tan Weixin, who have been instilled in later generations and have also instilled in other people's senior white-collar workers. At the beginning, Nie Rui only regarded the Thunder Yin Demon Sect as the back hand left by the Inner Government in terms of intelligence gathering organization after handing over the Internal Affairs Guard Organization, and the experience of the Inner Government in managing this kind of secret society, Nie Rui still had some confidence.

But what happened this spring made Nie Rui start to value a community like the Thunder Yin Demon Sect. The cause of the incident was Ye Tao's instigation of Guan Huan's performance. From this moment on, the Daoming Sect had to spend a lot of energy to deal with all kinds of rumors and rumors among the sect, especially around the entire Zhenbei Military Division and Shunyi City, that is, almost the entire northern diocese centered on the Zhujun Palace. Even began to spread to the more southern dioceses, which were denser and more influential, and the impact was becoming more and more dire. Finally, in the southern diocese of Xiling, in the area where the Yingtang was the first to brew the tragedy, a Yushi who was originally assigned to the local area to eliminate the negative impact was mad because he couldn't bear the questioning of some local celebrities and the ignorant people asking the simplest and most unnutritious questions over and over again. The feather priest ordered the members of the Eagle Hall who accompanied him to the local area to exterminate some of the most suspicious scholars in the area...... And after the serious consequences of the extermination incident, the members of the Eagle Hall, who were a little nervous by the repeated instructions of the Eagle Hall, were too "careful" to kill the son of the local county magistrate who was a guest at the home of a famous person. With this, a new snowball effect begins. The county magistrate directly threw down his official position and ran to the capital to complain, and reprimanded several core figures of Daomingzong in person, and the Xiling royal family had to send officials and soldiers to symbolically investigate even if they acquiesced to almost all of Daomingzong's actions.

In the north, where the people are strong, this kind of investigation immediately caused a strong backlash from some parishioners. Jiang Xujing originally didn't want to be embarrassed, and he was a kind Daoming Sect. The matter of the investigation was directly handed over to the prison army who came to the Zhenbei Military Division after the Battle of Yunzhou and had many disagreements with him. The prison army did not misunderstand the meaning of the imperial court, but his subordinates still had the idea of taking advantage of the situation to make a fortune, and looted some of the parishioners. When the clash between the sect members and the sergeants, who were already poor and unable to cope with this flying disaster, they actually found that the Dao Ming Sect, which had always been the master of them, was silent. None of the practitioners, Taoists, or feathers dared to stand up and speak for the people, but persuaded them to "cooperate" with the sergeants' investigation. At this time, Daoming Sect would never dare to stand up as a thorn. And when the parishioners were faced with this situation of no way to enter the heavens and no way to enter the earth, the rebellion finally began......

This time, without the instruction of the Daoming Sect, the impact of the "Religious Rebellion" launched by the low-level parishioners was extremely huge. Tens of thousands of parishioners. At its peak, there were more than 100,000 cultists, which was really not much of an opponent for the Zhenbei Military Division, but this rebellion brought the agricultural production near the Zhenbei Military Division and Shunyi City almost completely to a standstill. The Zhenbei Military Division will inevitably have a lot of difficulties in raising grain and grass this year and next year. But what is even more fatal is that this rebellion clearly revealed the irreconcilable contradiction between the Daoming Sect, which had completely surrendered to the Xiling court, and the low-level parishioners.

And at this moment, Nie Rui received a suggestion from several "high-level sacrifices" from the Lei Yin Demon Sect who were still groping for how to preach through Tan Xiaopei: Let Nie Rui think of a way to link Chen Jia, the last "traitor" of the empire who happened to be exposed at this time, with Daoming Sect, from the perspective of the times, it is true that about twenty years after Chen Jia's disappearance, the predecessor of Daoming Sect, "Tiandaomen", was established. Buckle Chen Jia's basin on Daomingzong's head, regardless of whether this thing is true or not. It's all a good way to put it.

Nie Rui thought about it, and spreading some rumors was just an attempt and training for the Intelligence Bureau. But after the news was disseminated, no one expected the reaction. The rise of the Daoming Sect and the disappearance of Chen Jia's family are both mysteries, and when these two fans are combined and encounter the Daoming Sect, this chemical effect makes the top level of the Daoming Sect embarrassed, and the middle level is in chaos. And the people at the bottom of the church are except for those who are fanatics. Some of them were skeptical......

Nie Rui originally thought that this was just a suggestion. But he didn't expect that it was a conspiracy of those high-level sacrifices of the Thunder Yin Demon Sect. It was at this time that they stood up and firmly defended the divine throne system that the Daoming Sect had been propagating, and appeared as staunch believers in front of the general public. And they did not directly state that they were another religion, but only that they were some believers who were not originally accepted by the Dominion Sect, a sect with their own thinking...... They persuaded the sergeants and officers who were conducting the "investigations" to accept goods and services to pay off the "investigation costs", they organized the parishioners to help each other and to deal with the "goods" and "services" in a cooperative manner, they tried to collect medicines to treat the parishioners who were sick or injured by beatings in the "labor", and although they were not wealthy, they tried their best to help families who had almost nothing and tried to find some way to make a living for them...... All this happened in front of everyone, the sacrifices and high-level sacrifices of the Thunder Yin Demon Sect had almost nothing like all ordinary people except for their robes that became more and more tattered as they ran around, and they also worked hard to help the people in this situation, and gained countless favors, touches, respects, and even loyalty. They even tried their best to organize all kinds of evidence to clear up the relationship between Daomingzong and Chen Jia, and even Lei Huang and others even went deep into the camp of the rebellious churchmen, persuading the churchmen to give up the confrontation with the "imperial court...... With a series of dazzling measures, the Lei Yin Demon Sect assisted the Zhenbei Military Division, the Xiling Imperial Court, and the Daoming Sect. It also helped the vast number of parishioners to survive this difficult time.

Under the kindness shown by the Thunder Yin Demon Sect, the Daoming Sect was actually divided into two factions, that is, it was not to sweep away the Thunder Yin Demon Sect that had opposing opinions. But even if the Daoming Sect wanted to wipe out the Thunder Yin Demon Sect, it would never be possible at this time, or even in a short period of time, that would directly expose the Daoming Sect's meanness, ingratitude, and greed for absolute power. On the one hand, Daoming Sect ordered the Eagle Hall to find ways to infiltrate the Thunder Yin Demon Sect, but on the other hand, it acquiesced to the existence of the Thunder Yin Demon Sect. And the Thunder Yin Demon Sect just stood firmly in the north of Xiling. began to develop their theoretical system and organizational structure in an orderly manner.

When Nie Rui fully understood how bold and meticulous the Thunder Yin Demon Sect had been in such a complex situation for a few months, he began to gradually understand how the guys of the Thunder Yin Demon Sect who were "skilled in the arts" regarded creating suspicion and building trust as their most powerful weapons.

"Lord Ye, the matter in the Thunder Yin Demon Sect is really giving me a headache." Nie Rui said with a wry smile. "Your Majesty wants you to have a good rest, so let me temporarily supervise the affairs of the Thunder Yin Demon Sect, but I can't let those people in the Intelligence Bureau know. And the students you have cultivated are really spinning too fast. Although I know that they actually have a plan in their heads, after all, I have limited contact with them. I don't know much about what they think about them, and sometimes it's a constraint to make decisions. Lord Ye, it's good that you're back, no matter what appointment Your Majesty gives you, I'll ask Your Majesty to let you continue to manage the affairs of the Thunder Yin Demon Sect when you go back. ”

Although Nie Rui was complaining, he also showed that he had a very high estimate of the role that the Thunder Yin Demon Sect would be able to play in the future. He was anxious to hand over these unfamiliar businesses to Ye Tao. I was also afraid that my layman's decision would hinder the development of the Thunder Yin Demon Sect. Tan Xiaopei temporarily entrusted these things to him, because Tan Xiaopei himself didn't completely understand the form of the Lei Yin Demon Sect, and thought that it was something more similar to an intelligence organization. But Nie Rui has been in charge for a few months and has fully understood that it is completely different. Although the Thunder Yin Demon Sect attaches great importance to all kinds of information. But they pay more attention to their profession: mission. When they wanted to do something about some well-known local figures, they often wrote to Nie Rui to ask if the intelligence bureau had any information about that person, or if there was anything to pay attention to. There are also various other questions and requirements, such as some medicinal herbs, some plant seeds...... And Nie Rui often couldn't figure out what they were going to do at first. It wasn't until those professional gods of the Thunder Yin Demon Sect really did something that he suddenly realized. This state, Nie Rui really doesn't want to relive it again and again.

But Nie Rui also mentioned one of his doubts, that is, the corrosiveness of the Thunder Yin Demon Sect to Xiling. Not reflected at all.

Just as the two of them were riding side by side, Ye Tao answered this question: "General Nie, I think that letting many people in the Daoming Sect see that the Daoming Sect and them are no longer of the same mind is the biggest erosion of Xiling, and this is also one of the goals I wanted to achieve when I established an organization like the Thunder Yin Demon Sect." It's just that maybe it's the world that makes people. I didn't expect them to have such fruitful results so quickly. The value of the Thunder Yin Demon Sect is not in how much information it can gather. How many officials are bought, or how much military power is weakened. Everything they do. It seems that not only did it not erode Xiling, but it reduced the contradictions on the surface of Xiling. The common people were organized to help each other in production, and if someone went to ask for favors from the landlords and officials for them, so that they could live a better life, they naturally would not always think about working against the government. It seems that Xiling, of course, is only in the north of Xiling now, and seems to be more stable. But in fact, the common people did not reach any understanding with the government, the landlords, and the rich people, and no one made concessions, but there was only one more mediator in the middle. And this mediator, once the tone changes, who do you think those ordinary people will believe? Is it the Thunder Yin Demon Sect who has always thought about them, or those who want to loot all their property? Not to mention, religion is a very scary thing, even if the Thunder Yin Demon Sect is not a pure religion, but once you believe it, it is not so easy to get rid of it later. Whether it is the familiarity of the mind with those doctrines, or the habits developed in the long-term organizational life, it will have a very strong effect. The Daoming Sect relied on these to grow in the past, and now, this has become the weapon of the Thunder Yin Demon Sect. ”

Nie Rui nodded, seemingly satisfied with Ye Tao's statement, he sighed and said, "After all, this is an organization created by you, and only you can understand the thoughts of those people." I'll go back and write an excerpt, but ...... I'm afraid I won't be able to approve it in the next few days. If there's any new letter, I'll come to Counselor Ye. ”

Ye Tao said modestly: "Don't dare, don't dare, General Nie is willing to come to the mansion, that is an honor in the future." ”

Nie Rui looked at the people who had come to greet Ye Tao together. Speaking of which, except for him, the others are ordinary characters, such as the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, the deputy head of the Inner Mansion and other characters who will inevitably appear according to etiquette. The last time Ye Tao returned to Danyang, the situation that Tan Weiran personally greeted did not appear.

Nie Rui smiled and said, "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and His Royal Highness the Prince originally wanted to come to greet your lords, but this morning, it was unfortunate that Your Majesty summoned the two of them into the palace. It seems to be discussing something quite important. …… Lord Ye, when you come back this time, what kind of duties do you have, and now the officials can't come up with a charter, Your Majesty is already very dissatisfied, and when you are in such a bad mood, such a strange thing actually came out. Hehe......"

"Strange things?" Ye Tao was stunned for a moment, and then he understood that Nie Rui was going to remind him of something.

Sure enough, Nie Rui smiled and said, "Your Majesty seems to be a little at odds with Her Royal Highness Princess Xiu. His Royal Highness is not young, and His Majesty originally wanted to arrange a family affair for His Highness, but several candidates were said by His Highness to be worthless. His Majesty was a little unable to get off the stage, and he could not break the promise he made to His Royal Highness the princess in person - in the future, her concubine must be someone she recognized and she liked. …… The two of them were vindictive, and as a result, all of us never mentioned anything related in front of them. You are also a member of the Son of Heaven's family...... Even if you want to hide, it will be a little difficult. Hehe. ”

This is probably not a reminder, it can only be said to be a warning to Ye Tao. Tan Weiying is a very interesting little sister, and he is also a guy who likes to steal all kinds of exquisite gadgets from him, and this time he really prepared a lot of interesting gifts for Tan Weiying. These gifts should be enough for her not to spill her anger on herself, right?

But for this, Ye Tao has no confidence.