Chang'an City is like a giant beast, crawling on the vast land, this is a capital city with a long history, but in the summer of this year. But there was a catastrophe, and it is impossible to tell whether it was self-inflicted or a calamity imposed on this ancient city. No one knows what the original cause of this incident was, and no one pays attention to these things, but the officials in the court are all in danger during this time, and everyone is sincerely afraid. Because recently, officials in Chang'an City are being sniped by a force of unknown origin.

"Have you heard, last night, Lord Cao Yunshan's house was hit by a disaster!" A middle-aged man in a long robe was pouring himself a drink in a restaurant, and the people at the table next to him were quietly discussing, but the two tables were close to each other, and he still listened to their conversation.

"What's wrong? Could it be that the man shot again? When the person next to him heard this, he immediately replied more carefully, as if he was afraid of being heard, but he couldn't help the excitement in his heart, this is a big deal, how many people are there this month? They don't remember.

"This is the fifth planted in that man's hands this month!" The middle-aged man just stuffed a Sixi pill into his mouth when he heard such an exclamation.

"No, Lord Zhang of the Ministry of Households, Lord Hu of the Ministry of Rites, and Lord Sun, the Minister of Officials, these were all found out by that person in this month! It's really unbelievable that these officials are actually such people, they weren't like this when they were running errands in Chang'an City! It's only been a few years! "It's a sigh of endlessness, these people know all these officials in Chang'an City very well, because before these officials were promoted to the top of the court. All of them have been servants in Chang'an City. This is also an unspoken rule in officialdom, before being promoted. You have to go to the feet of the Son of Heaven to run errands, so that those above can test your abilities. Therefore, most of the officials in Chang'an City were promoted later. In Chang'an City, they all worked as small officials.

"Hey...... Don't talk about that, when was it? That was before they were promoted, if they performed poorly at that time, how could they climb up? So at that time, none of us knew whether they were pretending to be or not, but now this mysterious person really makes Lao Yu admire him very much! At this moment, an old voice suddenly came out, but it was an old man at another table who spoke: "These officials are in their positions." But what is this doing? Vegetarian meal in the cadaver position? Not only do I not want to do things for the people, but I am thinking more about how to scrape, this is our parent official? Phew! This mysterious person was able to dig out their secrets, and let them write a confession willingly, and then kneel in front of the Suzaku Gate to confess their guilt, which is really happy! ”

"That is, who is this mysterious man? With such great powers, he is simply omniscient! Look at this Lord Cao this time. Even when she was a child, she stole a pear from her neighbor's uncle's house, which is even more clear than Master Cao himself! A man said.

"What Lord Cao? Now it's Cao Thief, haven't you seen how much military salary he has deducted over the years? As a squire of the military department, he has real power in his hands. The salaries of the government soldiers everywhere have to go through his hands, but you can see this time he wrote it himself, exchanging old rice for new rice. Profit from it, new rice five wen a bucket. How much is a bucket of aged rice? Sanwen! He deducted two cents for this bucket of rice, how many government soldiers are there in the country? How many of them go directly to him for military salaries? He deducted the money he had deducted in a year. I'm afraid it's enough to buy two mansions in Chang'an City! A young man dressed as a scholar analyzed aloud at this time: "Even if he allocates a year a military salary of one million dou rice, that is, two million Wen, one thousand Wen and consistent, it is also two thousand yuan, two thousand taels of silver!" ”

This number is not unknown, as soon as it is calculated, everyone is shocked, what is the concept of two hundred taels? The annual cost of a family of three in Chang'an City is dozens of taels of silver, and his small military squire is from the official rank of Sipin, and his annual salary is only a few dozen taels. But how did he do it, the money he got every year was enough for him to work for a hundred and eighty years. In the face of such interests, who can be indifferent. So even if these people are just discussing, they just hear this number, and they all breathe for a while.

"What is this? That Lord Zhang of the household department, that is the real daily gold fight! In this department that is in charge of the money bags of the Tang Dynasty, it was the rat that fell into the rice bowl and died. Say less about 10,000 taels of snowflake silver a year! ”

In the past two months, the people of Chang'an City have all been fluctuating, and they are even more resentful of the Tang Dynasty, and they are extremely angry at what these officials have done, and they are asking the court to give a reasonable explanation. This made all the officials in the court restless, none of them were clean, and if something like this happened to them one day, the end would probably be the same. So they have no way, even more than the people, they hope that this matter can reach a consensus as soon as possible, after all, an agreement is reached, and then things will be easier to do, otherwise who knows that after they just gave an explanation, they turned around and were approached by the mysterious person, and at that time they wanted to cry without tears. But when they were as anxious as ants on a hot pot, they had no choice, because no one knew who the mysterious man really was, where he was, and how could this satisfy that person? There is no standard for this, and it is possible to be wrong if you can't find that person to do anything, but if you don't do anything, the situation will get worse and worse.

Those ministers are anxious and can't sleep peacefully every day, after all, no one is clean, so no one can say whom, those who are exposed will be punished, and those who are not exposed will be counted. But everyone is on guard against each other, because they are all guessing who the mysterious person is, because no one can guarantee that the mysterious person is not someone above the rising sun! After all, such detailed information would never have been possible without the support of strong strength. But who is this strength? No one can believe that everyone is carefully watching out for everyone around them, and the whole court can be described as a mountain rain is coming.

But at this time, it is not this group of ministers who are most anxious, but Li Er, because now this situation is not only shaking the people in the court, but the foundation of the Tang Dynasty - the people's heart! This is simply a matter of drawing wages from the bottom of the kettle, when the Tang barbarian family colluded with each other to prepare for an incident, suddenly such a thing that shook the foundation of the Tang Dynasty's rule broke out, Li Er's first thought was the means used by those enemies, but in a blink of an eye, he dispelled this idea, because the things committed by these people were all recorded in detail, if those enemies had such ability, then the Tang Dynasty would have already changed hands. But if it was done by those enemies who looked down on the Tang Dynasty, then who would it be?

No matter how much Li Er wanted to break his head, he would never have thought that this was something that Li Kuan had done. Li Kuan, this guy is completely out of the way this time, Datang is just on the right track, and it has only been a few years of stable life, these Datang officials have learned to bend the law for bribes and learn to be insatiable, is this really the case in Datang officialdom? The last time Li Kuan saw the conspiracy between Li Chengqian and the eldest grandson Wuji in the mansion of the eldest grandson, he felt a chill in his heart. As the prince of the Tang Dynasty, Li Chengqian actually betrayed the interests of the Tang Dynasty sailors, in exchange for the support of the Japanese slaves, but what was left of the Japanese slave country? The two ships were only pirates with less than 1,000 people, but they buried nearly 400 hot-blooded men of the Tang Dynasty in vain. Li Kuan felt a chill, and suddenly felt sad for this Tang Dynasty: In this court, how many officials are sincere for the people of the world?

With this question, Li Kuan played a big game this time, he came back this time just to beat Li Chengqian, but now it has become that he wants to try to see if there is a person in this court who is sincerely for the people, for the Tang Dynasty and the society, whether these officials are sincerely asking for the people's lives or just for their own interests. He endured his nose, which had become sensitive in Chang'an City, and wanted to thoroughly comb through this court to see if the mainstay of the Tang Dynasty could really support the Tang Dynasty.

The three women were placed by him in a small mountain village outside Chang'an City, where the people are simple, Li Kuan claimed to be a family of master and servant four people ready to live in seclusion between the mountains and forests, these villagers all sincerely accepted their temporary residence, and also enthusiastically helped them build their own huts, which made Li Kuan more determined to do this time, not for anything else, just for these simple people of the Tang Dynasty, they may not be any characters in this world, not even the dust of history, They are just a drop of water in an endless ocean, but they are also flesh and blood people, and there are joys, sorrows, and sorrows, whenever he successfully interrogates an official in Chang'an City, and needs a place to relax and not impulsively slap those officials directly to death, he will come back here, stay with these simple mountain people, listen to them tell the same story every day, and recall every bit of their ordinary life, His heart will always calm down in the shortest possible time.

During this time, he randomly selected some officials in the court for quiet interrogation, under his hypnosis, these officials can be said to know everything, he gradually has a deep understanding of the court of the Tang Dynasty, these officials, many people are officials for their own interests, in that position, only for their own future and interests, do those absolutely outrageous things. Such officials occupy one percent of the court, but it is this one or so officials who have done nearly eighty percent of the things that hurt the Tang Dynasty, and they are hateful compared to the anti-thieves and rebellions promoted by the Tang Dynasty. But this time, Li Kuan did not directly kill these people, but asked them to write down the sins they had done, and then went to surrender outside the Suzaku Gate. As for the officials who did not have much bad deeds, he made those people forget the memory of this encounter. (To be continued.) )