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"Since Yan Qing and Xu Bin have already come to the town, Your Majesty doesn't have to worry too much, the current Taiping Sect people may be able to stir up a pot of water, but it is almost impossible to make any big waves. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoWhat's more, we still have Xu Bin, an expert, and we also know the roots of this Taiping Sect, maybe we can catch a few big fish. Xiao Tang deliberately wanted to relieve the somewhat somber atmosphere and divert the topic.

"Xiao Tang, don't expect too much from Xu Bin, although he was born in the Taiping Sect and served as the eldest junior master, his focus at that time was not on the teaching affairs of their Taiping Sect, but on the military. Of course, as a senior young master, he must be able to know a lot of high-level insiders, but as far as I know, the Taiping Sect's teaching affairs have always been in charge of You Daofang's henchmen, even Xu Bin and Lan Bailin rarely asked. The Taiping Sect was very naïve militarily and politically, but it was quite cautious and solid in its system of preaching, that is to say, in terms of religious affairs, otherwise it would have been difficult to set off such a big storm in a short period of time. It's a pity that they lack talents, and the few talents You Daofang can't make the best use of them, coupled with the short-sightedness and poor quality of the middle and upper class figures, it will lead to the rapid collapse of the Taiping Sect. However, the demise of the military strength of the Taiping Sect did not cause much damage to their grassroots network, and apart from the destruction of the military power of the Taiping Sect, the other religious organizations were still quite well preserved. ”

"After receiving the reports from Pinglu and Yulin, I went back and reviewed some of our previous measures, and felt that we had been a little careless at the beginning, thinking that the military power of the Taiping Sect had collapsed, and that the Taiping Sect would naturally disappear, and we ignored the fact that the Taiping Sect was not a simple political organization, but a mixture with strong religious overtones and armed with a religious organizational structure. In order to completely destroy such a deep-rooted force, it is difficult to eradicate it by force alone, and it is necessary to use a variety of means, especially to eradicate it from an economic basis. ”

"Then Your Majesty thinks that in addition to the intervention of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Imperial Security Bureau, we can also take some measures economically? such as increasing the relief in kind to the poor areas of the three northern counties, or increasing the investment in the infrastructure of the three northern counties in the form of cash-for-work, and strengthening the supervision of the financial sector in these areas to prevent the flow of funds into the hands of these rebels. Xiao Tang pondered what Wu Feng meant and put forward his own ideas.

"Well, you can arrange for the financial department and the central bank to give a certain degree of favor to the three northern counties, this is the root cause of the problem, and the first thing we need to solve is what has been exposed. Wu Feng nodded, there are too many places that need funds everywhere, and the imperial finances are already a little overwhelmed, Tian Yi has also hinted twice that he needs to be cautious in terms of spending, otherwise there will be a chain reaction once there is a financial crisis.

It seems that even the sky has felt the solemn atmosphere in the city of Pinglu Mansion has become much more gloomy, the travelers on the streets are in a hurry, and the sunshine of early spring has disappeared. It has been a few days since Yan Qing arrived in Pinglu Mansion City, and before he entered the territory of Pinglu, Yan Qing asked all the people who followed him into the Northern Plains to sneak into the territory of Pinglu Mansion in disguise, and first connected with the informants laid out by the internal affairs department in various places to understand the general situation, the Taiping Sect people do have a fairly good foundation of the people in this area, and the barren and poor mountains and remote areas are a good place for the Taiping Sect forces to entrench, but the internal affairs department is not vegetarian, Yan Qing believes that it will not be long before he can fish up some real situations.

Yan Qing, the new city guard of Pinglu Mansion, was quite dissatisfied, and he also knew that with the appointment of the governor of Beiyuan, a large number of so-called economic officials filled the Beiyuan officialdom, most of these guys came from the Jiangnan and Donghai regions, and they did not know much about the actual situation in Beiyuan, it took a process to understand, and it took time to develop the economy, and the Taiping Sect people did not seem to want to give these officials the opportunity to adapt to familiarity.

Although the sentence "Pinglu is not flat and ditch three thousand" can not completely and truly reflect the geographical topography of Pinglu Mansion, it can also be regarded as depicting that in addition to the broken and complex geographical environment in Pinglu, the harsh natural environment has also created the fierce folk customs of Pinglu, Yan Qing has been to Pinglu when he was appointed to Anyuan City, and he also has some understanding of the situation in Pinglu, and he also knows that it is in these areas that the Taiping Sect has the soil space for survival.

As soon as Yan Qing arrived in Pinglu Prefecture, there was a conflict with the local officials in Pinglu, and Yan Qing demanded that the police patrol posts in all towns under Pinglu Mansion must immediately take action to restrict the movement of people in the areas under their jurisdiction, and to arrest and detain all idle people who go to villages and households without legitimate reasons, and also asked the garrison wing to immediately send two brigades to divide Pinglu into two areas, east and west, to conduct intimidation exercises, and first disperse the chaotic clouds that have been hovering over Pinglu Mansion. With the entry of the secret advance unit of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the special police force, the situation on the land, which had once spiraled out of control, was quickly brought under control.

However, this also led to an intensification of the conflict between the local officials led by the Pinglu Castle Guard and the Imperial Ministry of the Interior, and the local officials believed that the large-scale curfew and restrictions on the movement of people adopted by the Interior Department in Pinglu had seriously affected the economic development momentum that had just begun in Pinglu Prefecture, and the construction of infrastructure had to be terminated, and the arrests and detentions beyond the scope also made the local gentry angry, and the gentry's joint letters had been piled up on the desk of the castle guard, and even sent to the desk of the governor's office in Anyuan.

However, Yan Qing was unmoved, the development of the local economy in Pinglu had nothing to do with his own task, his task was to quickly stabilize the situation in Pinglu, and also dig deep into the potential disasters that exist in Pinglu now. But Yan Qing knew that the contest with the remnants of the Taiping Sect was a long-term and arduous task, and it was impossible to eradicate these hidden dangers when the soil that bred this trend of thought still existed, even if Pinglu was economically developed, these sparks would still exist for a long time. What he needs to do now is to secretly do everything possible to lay a long line after controlling the situation, catch big fish, and prepare for a long-term competition.

Yan Qing is quite satisfied with the special task force he personally formed, these people are divided into two parts, one is the elite drawn from the internal affairs departments in various places, familiar with the local situation, good at investigation and investigation, good at tracking and interrogation, comprehensive skills, outstanding ability, and the other part is mostly from the outstanding people in the imperial Jianghu martial arts sect, most of these people have a skill, and the martial arts are strong, especially suitable for secret arrest, sniping and tracking.

Although the Ministry of the Interior is a department under the Government Council, on the surface, it does not have the high status of the Imperial National Security Administration and the Imperial Security Bureau, and the power does not seem to be as large as these two direct bureaus, but the Imperial Ministry of the Interior has an advantage that neither of the two can match, that is, the Imperial Ministry of the Interior not only governs the internal affairs bureaus of the imperial provinces, but also governs the Imperial Imperial Police, that is to say, the police in the whole empire are under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of the Interior, and the open and secret internal affairs forces are gathered to cover every corner of the entire empire, and the intelligence network is all over the empire and all industries, and this huge advantage cannot be compared with any department, and the Imperial Internal Affairs Department can use the resources in its hands to compete with the two major secret agencies of the Empire without falling behind.

The Ministry of the Interior's Einsatzgruppen also showed its might in this operation, in addition to cooperating with the special police force to carry out some overt operations, the Einsatzgruppen also attacked alone, destroying two important secret nests of the Taiping Sect, and the means of thundering the cave made the Taiping Sect fully see the ferocity and fierceness of the Imperial Internal Affairs Department once, so that the Imperial Inspectorate could not find any evidence when it launched an investigation after receiving complaints from the people.

Compared with the vigorous and resolute actions of the Ministry of the Interior in Pinglu Mansion, the actions of the Imperial Security Bureau in Yulin seem to be uneventful. The appearance of Xu Bin, a mysterious figure, has always been a mystery to the top of the imperial political circles, except for a few high-ranking officials and dignitaries such as Xiao Tang and Ling Tianfang, I am afraid that it is an individual who is directly related to Xu Bin's appointment as the Imperial Security Bureau. Where did this person come from, and why did he directly form the Imperial Security Bureau, known as the "Imperial Scissors", without warning, and became powerful, but no one knew his origins. And Xu Bin seems to be extremely low-key after becoming the director of the Imperial Security Bureau, even less common than the elusive Diao Su, the director of the Imperial National Security Bureau, and even several times the court has not seen the appearance of the head of the four directly subordinate agencies, so that many people who do not know even wonder if this person really exists, could it be that His Majesty the Emperor deliberately used such an unknown name as a code name to replace the head of the Imperial Security Bureau, but in fact this person does not exist.

The arrival of the Imperial Security Bureau had little impact on the local authorities in Yulin, and when the local government axe asked the Imperial Security Bureau personnel who came to contact him if they needed assistance, they only received a vague sentence and would ask in advance if they needed it. The whole of Yulin seems to be extraordinarily calm and normal, except for some mysterious people who often enter a huge mansion in Yulin City at night. But that doesn't mean it's peaceful, until one night of stormy rain.

(To be continued)