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Xu Qing came out this time with multiple tasks, the first task is to be the minister of the Qin Mission, inspect the world on behalf of the Tang Emperor, investigate and eliminate corrupt officials, faint officials, and mediocre officials, and find out who is the local high-ranking officials at the state assassin level, to see who is the Hou Party, who is the royalist party, and who is the wall-riding faction, so that the officials of the Tang Dynasty know that the authority of the Tang Dynasty is still there, and spread the imperial authority in all directions, so that there are no corrupt officials and corrupt officials under the sky of the Tang Dynasty, and there are no incompetent officials and mediocre officials, so that the people can feel the immense grace of the emperor and spread the emperor's grace all over the world; The second task is to secretly protect the red dart, this task has been successfully completed, and the third mission is to find Leng Yuehan, so that Yu Junsheng can lead thirty scouts to track it down;

The fourth task is to take a trip to the rivers and lakes to increase experience and understand the situation of the various major sects in the rivers and lakes, especially to investigate how many branches and secret bases there are in the evil sects and gangsters such as the Demon Sect and the Black and White Sect that endanger Xu Qing's safety and the rule of the Tang Dynasty; The fifth task is a temporary increase, in the battle of the Gourd Valley, the Black and White Sect and the Demon Gate have a large number of archers, crossbow soldiers, sword and axe hands, swordsmen, and spearmen, which are completely the weapons and training of the regular army of the imperial court, Xu Qing wants to know who provides the Black and White Sect and the Demon Gate with the standard weapons of the regular army of the imperial court, and who provides military training consultants for the Black and White Sect and the Demon Gate.

Xu Qing and Zhao Tuozhi searched for Leng Yuehan and Xu Ce in Ezhou, where the "Black Phoenix" Lin Yue (i.e., Leng Yuehan) and Xu Ce, the former Demon Gate Ezhou incense lord who had defected, and unsuccessfully, sent people to all the states with Ezhou as the center and within a radius of 2,000 miles, asking for assistance in investigating the whereabouts of the "Black Phoenix" Lin Yue and Xu Ce, and immediately reported to Xu Qing as soon as there was news. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Xu Qing often paid private visits, and it was not easy for his cronies to contact him, but the more than 1,000 guards and soldiers who accompanied him to inspect the world often rested in various prefectures and counties, and they could contact his entourage and guards, and if Xu Qing and his entourage could not be contacted, they would report to the Andong Mansion in Chang'an.

A few days later, Xu Qing received a report from the government, saying that a floating corpse had been found somewhere in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. Xu Qing deduced from this that Leng Yuehan and Xu Ce sailed on the Yangtze River by boat, which may have been a shipwreck accident in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River.

Whenever Xu Qing went to a place, as long as time permitted, he first made a private visit accompanied by Zhao Mengchen, Xue Jinlian, Ye Xiaodie, Xue Rengui, Zhao Tuozhi, Liu Sisi, and Ji Yusheng, to observe the people's situation, and then went to the state and county prisons to conduct surprise inspections and listen to the prisoners who were detained to tell their grievances.

If the people have no complaints against the magistrates, the prisoners have no grievances, the roads are not left behind, the houses are not closed at night, the people live and work in peace and contentment, there are no thieves running rampant, and there are no bullies oppressing the people, then it can be preliminarily judged that the magistrates are doing a good job in governing the localities; if the situation is the opposite, then it can be preliminarily judged that the magistrates belong to one or more of the corrupt officials, the unscrupulous officials, and the mediocre officials, and it is necessary to focus on examining the magistrates, and even all the officials in the locality, as well as examining the officialdom connections of the magistrates.

On the whole, the struggle between the Li Tang royal family and the Wu Zetianhou party group in the later period of Tang Gaozong did not have a negative impact on the lives of the people, although it did not reach the Zhenguan period, the officials and people of the entire Tang Dynasty were disciplined and law-abiding, and the prisoners of the Tang Dynasty were only a few dozen people a year, and the people were well fed and warmly dressed, and there were few landlords, gentry, and bullies who oppressed the people, and few officials were corrupt and derelict in their duties, and the atmosphere of officialdom was not bad.

However, the officials were divided into two camps of fierce opposition, the pro-Tang faction on one side and the post-party faction on the other, and there were some wait-and-see factions and absolute centrists who did not hold a position in the middle, who supported whoever was strong, and who supported whoever was good for themselves.

After the secret visit, Xu Qing went to the prefecture and county yamen to conduct an open investigation to check the financial taxes and expenditures of the official government, and to investigate the local officials' wives, concubines, slaves and maidservants, and the property of their relatives and friends. If a county order has a four-room aunt's wife, and each aunt's wife has a house and a maidservant, Xu Qing must ask him to explain, how much his salary is, how much does it cost him to raise the four-room aunt's wife every year, whether his salary is enough, and where does the insufficient money come from.

Xu Qing dismissed the officials at the state and county levels who had taken bribes and bent the law, and sent 10 and 4 Youwu guards respectively to escort them to Beijing, where they were tried by the Dali Temple and the Criminal Department and sentenced and convicted.

The main altar of the Black and White Sect is in the area of Mount Emei, and the standard weapons of the Black and White Sect are provided by bribing Yizhou (now Chengdu, Sichuan) to assassinate Shi Fan Wei and increase production by the arsenal in Yizhou.

Xu Qing found out that Fan Wei belonged to the latter party, and he was unceremonious to him, taking advantage of the privilege of the ministers of the Qin Mission, such as the emperor, to wipe out Fan Wei and more than 100 of his henchmen, and to make a big fuss about Fan Wei's case of selling weapons to the Black and White Sect, to dismiss and investigate the officials who had embezzled and accepted bribes, and to escort them to Beijing. The vacant official positions were temporarily filled by officials of the pro-Tang faction, and they could be officially appointed after waiting for the emperor's edict and the official appointment letter of the ministry.

Fan Wei formed a party in Yizhou for personal gain, preyed on the common people, and acted recklessly, Xu Qing investigated Fan Wei and his henchmen, and changed the blood of Yizhou officialdom, which can be described as very happy, and the people of Yizhou set off firecrackers to celebrate.

Xu Qing and his cronies also felt very happy, the royalists had always lost the upper hand in the struggle against the Hou Party, but this time they had the upper hand and felt angry. Wu Zetian's unchallenged power will become history.

Xu Qing's scouts scouted near the main altar of the Black and White Sect in Mount Emei, and the news brought back surprised Xu Qing, it turned out that Shi Zhiyuan, the leader of the Black and White Sect, was the enemy of Xu Qing one after another, and learned the strength of Xu Qing's power.

The weight of the Black and White Sect in Xu Qing's heart is far less than that of the Demon Gate, because the Demon Gate has been engaged in anti-Tang activities for many years, and its activities are secret, while the Black and White Sect has never been anti-Tang, and now it is not anti-Tang, and the main reason for the enmity with Xu Qing is the conflict of interests of the Jianghu Gang. is also because the Demon Gate has a lot of earth-shattering, weeping ghosts and gods of martial arts, such as ** Eight Desolations Solitary Martial Arts, Northern Spiritual Skills, Ice and Fire Palms, and Heaven Destroying Divine Skills, the Demon Gate has many innate masters, likes to engage in assassination, and also supported the establishment of a killer organization with more than 1,000 people behind the scenes, "Ruthless Valley", Xu Qing believes that the Demon Gate is a big threat to himself, no less than the Houdang Group.

Although the Houdang group is in charge of most of the military and political power in the Tang Dynasty, the Houdang group is in the light, and the magic gate is in the dark, as the saying goes, "the open gun is easy to dodge, and the hidden arrow is difficult to prevent", so Xu Qing did not dare to take the demon gate lightly, which is also the reason why Xu Qing was eager to find Leng Yuehan.

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