The reason why Daomen can boast of being civilized is largely not because of how civilized the Daomen is, but mainly because of the foil of other people, under the backdrop of robbers and villains, even if it is just an ordinary person, it will be set off as glorious and tall as a sage and gentleman.

It is precisely where there is black that there is white, and where there is evil, there is good.

The reason why Daomen did not engage in the slave trade was because after the overthrow of Confucianism and the Great Wei Dynasty, in order to eliminate the influence of Confucianism and oppose the Confucianism's dignity and inferiority, Daomen began to comprehensively advocate the concept of equality. Today, there are still servants in the Central Plains, but these servants do not belong to the lowly status, they can also participate in the imperial examination, they can marry normally, and the main family cannot be killed at will, otherwise they will have to pay for their lives, which is actually the nature of employment.

There is a female Taoist priest surnamed Yu in Daomen, who is very famous because of her good looks and good at welcoming and sending off, but because she killed her maid, she was finally executed by Daomen.

If the Daomen were engaged in the slave trade, they would violate their own concept of equality, and the double standard would cause a huge backlash, which was directly reflected in ideological confusion and division. Moreover, there will be an opening, at the beginning, it is still to find slaves from the outside, and in the case of insufficient "supply" and high profits, eventually the slave trade will inevitably develop to their own people, which is infinitely harmful.

In addition, the Daomen have to transport a large number of immigrants to Borneo every year to strengthen their control over Borneo, and the Daomen are still very short of people.

Therefore, Daomen resolutely resists such acts.

Because they could not keep slaves, some people kept slaves in the name of "adopted sons" and "adopted daughters", who were nominally sons and daughters, but in fact they were slaves and maids.

However, the Daomen is also strictly prohibited, as for the Li family, no one really dares to say that the Li family's acceptance of the righteous son is a slave collection, after all, the matter of letting the righteous son be the head of the family has also happened, and in this regard, it is the Li family that implements the concept of equality most thoroughly.

It can only be said that the same people do not have the same fate, for example, Qi Xuansu, in fact, is also the adopted son of Qi Niang, and he was adopted halfway, but the treatment is similar to that of his own son, which makes Zhang Yuelu have a headache and helpless, and makes Li Qingnu envious and jealous. Some righteous sons and righteous daughters, in fact, are good-sounding, but they are actually slaves and the like, and they want to die for their father-in-law.

After Maginot left, Li Tiangang reported the matter to Qingwei Zhenren.

After listening to it, Qingwei Zhenren pushed an official letter forward: "It is expected that Westerners are restless, look at this."

Li Tiangang picked up the official letter and quickly swept it, his face changed slightly: "This is sent by Deputy Hall Master Qi?"

Qingwei Zhenren nodded and said: "This time he used Qi Tianyuan, it was indeed the right one, he sent me a total of three secret letters, the first one was to successfully recruit the Suzuka Imperial Front, the second was to explain in detail how the Tuyu Gate Stream Onmyoji made a mistake, and the third one is this, on the way to Suzuka Mountain, he accidentally discovered that a metropolitan of the Holy Court was secretly involved in the *** of the Daoist Sect, and promised to provide all kinds of support to the Daoist Sect."

Li Tiangang said with a solemn face, "Although this was expected for a long time, I didn't expect the Westerners to be so bold that they would dare to run to the Ise region. I wonder what the real person's opinion is?"

Qingwei Zhenren said indifferently: "Just let them help, but let's see how many gold and silver mountains they have to fill in the bottomless pit of Fenglin Continent." We are only separated from Fenglinzhou by a small half of the East China Sea, but they are separated from Fenglinzhou by most of the South China Sea, I don't know who can afford it more? Moreover, the tactic of adding oil has always been a taboo for soldiers, who think that they are using the lives of the Japanese to consume us, to bleed us, but in the end, it is still unknown who bleed whom."

Li Tiangang immediately understood what Qingwei Zhenren meant.

If the Daoist sect is grouped against the Daomen, it is probably five people fighting ten people, which can indeed cause losses to the Daomen, in this case, it is of practical significance for Westerners to support the Daoist sect, and they can continue to bleed the Daomen. But if the Daoist Sect is completely defeated, the remaining stragglers will become one person and one person will face the ten people who go to the Dao Gate in turn, and they will not cause losses to the Dao Gate at all, but will turn into the Dao Gate to bleed the Holy Court.

Besides, the Daomen will not blindly pay attention to civilization, and after the Daoist faction is reduced to zero, it will indeed be difficult for the Daomen to eliminate them, and it will cause great expense, but

After reaching this point, there is no need for the Daomen to do it himself, because the Daomen also supported the Toyotomi Prime Minister's Mansion. In the past, the Toyotomi Prime Minister's Mansion has ruled Fenglin Island for nearly two hundred years, which can be said to be deep-rooted, with rich experience in suppressing and counterinsurgency, and even before the defeat of the Ise army, the Toyotomi Prime Minister's Mansion was once on the offensive, so how to clear out those stragglers next, the Toyotomi Prime Minister's Mansion is responsible, and the Daomen can withdraw and announce the end of the war.

The game in this is naturally quite complicated, but the distance determines that the role that the Holy Court can play is quite limited, and it will not change because of any scheme.

Toyotomi Chiyo walked down the streets of Yoshida Castle, dressed in the costume of a female Taoist priest, followed by two spiritual officers in charge of guarding, followed by two samurai from the Prime Minister's Mansion and two onmyoji of Onmyoryo.

Passers-by avoided her, and their eyes were full of awe.

For this kind of awe, Toyotomi Chiyo has long been accustomed to it, after all, she has another identity - the sister of the previous regent Guan Bai, Her Royal Highness the princess of the Toyotomi Prime Minister's Mansion.

At this time, Toyotomi Chiyo was more sentimental, and her brother Toyotomi Hidetsugu died in Ise. She had prayed to the Dao Ancestor countless times, praying that the heavenly soldiers of the Dao Gate would descend from the sky to avenge her brother. And Daozu and Daomen did not disappoint her after all, the heavenly soldiers of Daomen really appeared, so she asked to follow the Daomen army to Ise, and the Fenglinzhou Daofu agreed to her request.

It was only when Toyotomi Chiyo really came to the devastated Ise that she realized how deep the trauma of war was on the world.

The black-clothed people are responsible for garrisoning important places, and the servant army of the Prime Minister's Mansion patrols back and forth on the streets, and after seeing Toyotomi Chiyo, the leader of the flag always humbly and respectfully salutes, because Toyotomi Chiyo has the dual identity of the Prime Minister's Mansion and the Fenglinzhou Provincial Mansion, and in the eyes of ordinary people, he is an undisputed big man.

At the end of the street is a shrine.

At this time, it has been taken over by the spirit officers.

The main hall of the shrine is in a solemn atmosphere.

"Xu Kou, the head of the Daomen Tiangang Hall Shaking Light Division, a five-grade Taoist priest, is ordered to ask you questions, please be sure to cooperate."

Xu Kou stood with his hands in his hands, his back to the crowd, and looked at the shrine where he was enshrined.

He spoke the official dialect of the Central Plains, and the interpreter of the Prime Minister's Mansion translated his words into the official dialect of Fenglinzhou.

Around Xu Kou were neatly uniform black-armored spirit officials, like black statues. A temporary bookcase was set up not far away, and an ordinary Taoist priest sat behind the bookcase, responsible for recording.

Xu Kou turned around, looked at the people of the shrine who were surrounded by the spirit officials, and said, "I want to know, the hiding place of the Daoist faction in Tatsu County, don't say that you don't know, as a subordinate shrine of Ise Jingu, isn't it already a nest with the snakes and rats of the Dao Ronin?"

There was silence.

No one answered Xu Kou.

Xu Kou was not surprised by this result, but said, "I know that toasting is not eating and drinking. I warn you once again, that the Daomen do not advocate the use of torture to extract confessions, but in wartime, when all rules must make way for victory, it is better for you to suffer than for our own people to suffer."

The spirit officers did not move, and several ninjas from the Prime Minister's Mansion walked out quietly.

They are the Hattori clan, the royal ninja of the Prime Minister's house, and torture is one of their many specialties.

Xu Kou didn't intend to let the people of the Daomen dirty his hands, and these dirty jobs were still left to the professionals of the Toyotomi Prime Minister's Mansion to do.

The two ninjas set up the palace priest who had lost the ability to resist, fixed it to a pillar in the main hall with iron chains, and then took out various torture instruments and placed them on the ground one by one, mainly knives, needles, stabs, and medicines.

After all, Xu Kou was born in Qingluanwei, and it was already commonplace to do this, so he didn't take a second look, but set his eyes on the rest of the people. He did have a record of torturing people to death, but he didn't take pleasure in it, his fundamental purpose was to pry open the mouths of these people and get what he wanted.

Soon, Xu Kou's gaze fell on a little witch.

Xu Kou's face lifted a barely kind smile and asked, "What's your name?"

The little witch raised her head and met Xu Kou's gaze

, his face turned pale, his lips trembled slightly, and he replied in a low voice, "Shallow, shallow."

Xu Kou said, "Asai Bell, my intuition tells me that you are a kind girl, and you must not want to see your friends and elders suffer misfortune, right?"

Asai nodded hesitantly.

Xu Kou pointed at the palace priest and continued, "As long as you tell me where those Daoist sects are hiding, I will let him go."

Asai's lips moved slightly, and he was about to speak. Miyaji shouted violently, frightened Asai Bell, and swallowed back the words that had already reached his lips.

Xu Kou said calmly, "Shut his mouth."

A ninja immediately stuffed something resembling a hemp kernel into Miyaji's mouth.

Xu Kou leaned over slightly and smiled, "Okay, you go on."

Asai turned his head to look at Miyaji-sama, who was constantly struggling, and was speechless.

"I'm not going to say it, my patience is limited." Xu Kou straightened up, and the smile on his face gradually faded.

Just then, there was a commotion outside the door.

Xu Kou turned his head and asked, "What's going on?"

A spirit officer walked in briskly and whispered softly beside Xu Kou.

Xu Kou frowned slightly: "Let her in."

A moment later, Toyotomi Chiyo approached the main hall.

Xu Kou was impatient in his heart, and a trace of unhappiness flashed across his face at first, but he immediately squeezed out a somewhat polite smile: "Miss Toyotomi, what are you doing here?"

For the Daomen, Toyotomi Chiyo symbolically means a lot, so he has a special status, and Xu Kou is not easy to despise.

Toyotomi Chiyo looked around and asked, "What is this doing?"

Xu Kou replied succinctly, "Question."