In mid-July, after the fighting subsided, Xuzhou was once again turbulent and turbulent.

At this time, the gongs and drums on the east gate street of Xiapi City were noisy, and the flags were waving, a joyful scene.

The city gate was wide open, and thousands of Xuanjia war horsemen stood inside and outside the city gate, and the soldiers were like a prison, but the city gate guards did not prohibit the people from entering and leaving the city.

Until noon, the East Gate is closed to pedestrians.

Immediately, hundreds of soldiers poured water on the street, and then the war cavalry opened the way, Jia Xu, Guo Jia and Chen Gong led Xuzhou to go out of the city with great fanfare to welcome the lord of Xuzhou, the general Li Li, who returned from the inspection of Donghai County.

Li Li, who was riding a horse, saw the grand scene at the gate of the city from afar, and immediately raised his eyebrows, and a fierce color appeared in the corners of his eyes. As he got closer and closer to the city gate, the discoloration on his face disappeared completely, and was replaced by a gentle smile, beckoning gently to the people on the side of the road from time to time, and giving a bright smile, giving people a sunny and enlightened handsome face, which was very good.

"Wechen and others meet the lord! Welcome back to the city! Seeing Li Li driving the Golden Lion Beast King across the suspension bridge, Jia Xu and Guo Jia led more than 200 Wenchen generals to quickly step forward to greet Shi Li.

"You don't have to be formal, get up quickly." While speaking, Li Li waved his hand to signal everyone to get up, but did not dismount.

Immediately, seeing that he waved his hand, he drove his mount directly into the city, "Everyone follow me into the city, and the state capital lobby will talk!" ”

As Li Li entered the city gate first, Lu Lingqi, Li Zhi, Kebineng, Chen Deng, Xu Yi and others who followed him rode into the city one after another. At this time, people with a heart could clearly see that Lu Lingqi, who was following Li Li, was becoming more and more radiant. A suit of armor can't cover the charming color on her pretty face, and she is beautiful and lovely, which makes countless men dare not face it. However, no one dared to stop at her. I didn't dare to have the slightest thought, for fear of offending the supreme majesty of the general.

Half an hour later, Li Li, who had freshened up a little, appeared in the main hall in a dark red brocade robe, sitting on the throne of the state pastor on the upper steps, and looked down condescendingly at the civil and military generals who bowed down in the hall.

After a little greeting, everyone sat down, and Jia Xu and Guo Jia were at the head of the two classes of civil and military. Chen Gong and Chen Qi sat under Jia Xu, and Huan Fei and Xu Chu were at the bottom of Guo Jia.

"When the day is part, everyone will go out of the city to greet each other. It really shouldn't. If you think about the first offense, you will not be prosecuted, and you must remember that you must not act like this in the future! The tone was not good, but Li Li's expression was very calm when he spoke. It's like joy and anger are invisible.

"No. Obey the Lord's teachings! Everyone in the hall responded in unison. The voices are in unison, but they may not really remember it, most people just echo it and do it perfunctorily. This kind of official trick is staged almost every day, because they have already practiced it perfectly, and when they reply, they are full of emotion, and it is completely false and true. No one can see a flaw.

Li Li bowed his head slightly and said, "That's it." In the future, it doesn't matter if you can't remember it, I'll let you remember it. This is the end of the matter. ”

Speaking of this, Li Li paused and said in a deep voice: "Recently, I heard that the city is quite unpeaceful, and from time to time there are small people who wantonly make trouble, disturb the people, wantonly smash shops, and disturb the public order in the city. Not only that, all the counties under the jurisdiction of Xuzhou are like this, bandits are numerous, rogues are running around, unscrupulous, and they are a disaster for the people. What is the reason why bandits are so rampant, and why don't you send troops to exterminate them? ”

Jia Xu responded and respectfully accused: "My lord, this is a micro-minister who has no way to control it, and I implore the lord to punish him!" ”

Li Li waved his hand lightly, and said in a slightly angry tone, "Don't just care about asking for blame, what you want is the solution to the problem, not asking for blame!" ”

Jia Xu bowed down to thank him and reported without thinking: "In the past half a month, there have been many small people in the city, who are bold and reckless, and who are rampant. However, Weichen repeatedly sent armor soldiers to arrest but found nothing, those thieves heard the wind from nowhere, and every time the official army went out, the thieves ran away without a trace, or hid in the people's homes, so as to escape the capture of the soldiers defending the city. In this way, if we go from house to house to search and arrest people's houses, it will inevitably affect the lives of the people, so that everyone in the city is in danger and people are panicked. So far, the soldiers defending the city have arrested more than 100 small people, and upon inquiry, they learned that these people are all ruffians who have been hanging out in the fireworks and willow alleys all year round, and they are not instructed by others.

As for the other counties under the jurisdiction of the state capital, the situation is similar to that of Xiapicheng. However, the thieves in the counties are numerous and even more rampant, and they have plundered villages many times, wantonly burning, killing and plundering, raping and plundering, and doing whatever they want. In view of this, Wei Chen, together with Guo Jia, the division of the Right Army, has sent more than 20,000 men and horses to various counties to exterminate the bandits. According to the lists of bandits reported by various counties and counties, more than 3,000 bandits have been arrested in various counties and counties, half of whom are homeless people who have fled to Xuzhou, and the rest are all scoundrels. ”

After listening to Jia Xu's report, Li Lijian's eyebrows furrowed slightly, his eyes showed a fierce murderous intent, and he said in a deep voice: "More than 3,000 bandits have caused peace in the entire six counties of Xuzhou, rumors are spreading, bandits are numerous, and hundreds of thousands of people are panicked all day long, which is very powerful!" This kind of thing actually happened in the prefecture and county under the rule of Li Li, which is a blatant provocation, a contempt for Lone's ability to govern Xuzhou, and an insult to you! ”

After a pause, Li Li ordered angrily: "Pass my general's order, the Wuwei Battalion of the Bocai Department will divide the troops into two routes and enter Langya County and Pengcheng; Xu Huang led 10,000 cavalry and 10,000 infantry troops into the cities and counties around Xiapi to eliminate bandits; Xu Chu led Ji Ling and Lei Bo, two generals, and led 20,000 troops to Guangling County; Zhang Xun, Hou Cheng, and Mi Fang led 20,000 troops into Donghai County. Send troops in the afternoon, be sure to arrive in the counties within three days, and see the results of your suppression of bandits within half a month, if not, you will come to see you! ”

"No!" The generals whose names were called in the hall stood up one after another and answered in unison.

Li Lishi continued to order: "The general's order is promulgated, from today onwards, the entire territory of Xuzhou will be blocked, and road checkpoints will be added between various counties and counties, and all people will be allowed to enter and not leave except for the road guides issued by the state government." Tell the people of all counties:

During the period of the army's suppression of bandits, those who dare to wantonly disturb the peace will be killed!

Whoever dares to do harm to his neighbors, kill!

Those who dare to resist the sergeant search, kill!

Those who dare to harbor or hide the bandits, behead their families, and the rest of the family, all of them will be exiled to Mobei! ”

"Sizzle——— bang!" As Li Li's words fell, all the civil and military officers in the hall gasped one after another, and many cowardly or ghostly officials trembled all over, so that their sitting posture was unstable, some of them were crooked, some of them fell sideways, and some of them were so frightened that they were incontinent. For a time, these state officials were full of ugliness, flustered, and unprepared, and they were extremely wolf-like.

At this moment, the terrifying voice of everyone sounded again: "Where is the armor in the lobby?" Drag out such thieves and put them in prison and interrogate them severely! ”

"Tom tom!" Before the words fell, hundreds of hall soldiers hurriedly stepped forward and dragged away more than 50 disheveled and crooked officials in the hall without saying a word.

"Lord, lord, lord spare your life! Weichen did not participate in the rebellion, the lord spared his life! ”

"Lord, lord, Weichen doesn't know anything, Weichen is wronged!"

“?????? Weichen is not guilty, and I hope that the lord will be clear! ”

“??????”

This sudden scene was something that no one in the hall expected. Suddenly, there was an uproar in the hall, and the faces of many civil and military generals were pale, their bodies trembled, and they were terrified. But they had to sit upright, with their heads held high and their waists straight, lest they be dragged out of the hall if they were unstable in their posture. At this moment, everyone knows very well that once he is put in prison, he will shed his skin even if he does not die, and he will definitely not be able to get out of the whole body.

Not only did the Xuzhou bureaucrats panic, but even the cronies such as Jia Xu, Guo Jia, Chen Gong and Huan Fei were unaware of this, and they were not psychologically prepared at all. However, they did not panic at all, and sat upright one by one, feeling sorry in their hearts, and deliberately paying attention to the expressions of the nearly two hundred Xuzhou officials in the hall. Although they were not sure that the officials who were dragged out at this time were the masterminds behind the current turmoil in Xuzhou, Li Li had a sentence that touched their hearts, that is, to be a thief.

If these officials are only timid and cowardly, but they sit upright and have no bad deeds of their own, why are they so panicked that they can fall down on soft cushions? There is a saying: don't do bad things, don't be afraid of ghosts knocking on the door. Since you didn't participate in creating chaos and didn't have a ghost in your heart, what are you panicking about?

Just when a group of tiger warriors dragged more than 50 state government officials out of the lobby, Jia Xu, Guo Jia, Chen Gong and others deliberately paid attention, and really saw some situations that were different from the past, Huo Ran found that about sixty percent of the more than 100 state government officials who stayed in the lobby looked flustered, holding the soft cushion under the seat with both hands, trembling and sitting there, their whole body trembling like a swing, their faces were pale and bloodless, biting their lips, their foreheads were full of beads of sweat, and they were sweating profusely. This scene was fully watched by Jia Xu, Guo Jia and others, and they had already written down the names of these state government officials and the officials of the surrounding cities in Xiapi City in their hearts, and they had to be carefully investigated after they retreated.

Not only these officials with low official rank were panicked, but even Chen Qi, Chen Deng, father and son, who were sitting not far from Jia Xu, as well as generals such as Cao Bao, Wei Xu, and Zangba who were sitting under Guo Jia, the expressions on their faces at this moment were also very exciting, frightened, their faces changed again and again, their eyes were fluttering, their necks were not shaking a few times, and their bodies were constantly trembling. The demeanor is very suspicious, as if they are experiencing unbearable pain and torment for ordinary people, and their hearts are struggling violently, obviously they also belong to the group of people who have ghosts in their hearts. But their mental instinct was obviously much better than that of those who were dragged out, and they sat in a rigid posture, trying their best to show a calm demeanor, lest they show clues and then incur the disaster of death.

And the source of this qiē is that twenty days ago, Jia Xu and Guo Jia joined forces to rectify the rule of Xuzhou, which caused turmoil throughout Xuzhou.

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