Under the slanting moon, on the long street, a black carriage was moving slowly.

More than a dozen Qianniu guards on tall horses carefully guarded the surroundings, their eyes vigilant and guarded far and near.

In the carriage, Li Xuan and Xu Lu sat opposite each other.

Xu Lu was still wearing the milky white breast-length skirt with a green coat inside, sitting opposite Li Xuan with a calm face, and the sway on her head swayed gently.

The two of them relied on each other, although it was in a dark carriage, but with the cultivation of the two of them, as long as a little light from the outside world shone through, it was enough for them to see everything clearly.

Even exceptionally clear.

It's the same even if it's covered by a small coat.

Li Xuan closed her eyes slightly, thinking about what to do next.

At this time, Xu Lu suddenly said faintly: "In the Tianyin Sect, there are many poor people, some people have a solid family, but under a natural disaster, the food in the family is cut off, in order to survive, they have to sell the fields in the middle of the house, become tenants, and only have a small ration to survive; In the event of another disaster, coupled with the excessive taxes and miscellaneous taxes imposed by the imperial court, and the family starved to death, everything can only be left to fate, how can we do it?"

"Kill!" Li Xuan calmly spit out a word.

Suddenly, Xu Lu felt a murderous aura of a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood coming directly to his face.

Li Xuan said indifferently: "Loans with excessive interest, private taxes, extremely vicious officials, and wealthy families who embezzle land, but if they are found, they will be punished immediately, and once they exceed the limit, they will be full of people. Then, there will be a new batch of new people."

Li Xuan's last sentence made Xu Lu raise his head in some astonishment, and his white neck suddenly filled Li Xuan's sight.

"The greed of the human heart did not skyrocket to the point of being uncontrollable from the beginning, it was all accumulated little by little, and then it was out of control at once, and at this time, it was directly and decisively eradicated, and then replaced by a new person...... The time of reincarnation in the middle is the period when the people recuperate...... This is the best way this king can come up with."

For corrupt officials and corrupt officials, all dynasties have killed them endlessly.

No matter how strict the management is, they always have a way to steal the benefits of the government and at the same time embezzle the land of the people.

Therefore, every once in a while, it is necessary to replace a new group of officials and harvest a crop of local wealthy families.

In this way, the continuous functioning of the entire country can be guaranteed.

This is the meaning of the imperial examination.

"As long as you can share the benefits with more people, then there will always be more people who support you." Li Xuan said lightly, and directly explained his political methods all along.

Some people obviously have a big piece of cake to share, but they take the largest piece by themselves, so that the divisible benefits suddenly become very small.

Some people don't want to get rid of stubborn diseases, but they always only want to force others to open up a farther world, which is just drinking to quench their thirst after all.

Today's Datang, as well as the later Anshi Rebellion, are all like this.

"You're still really cold-blooded." Xu Lu's eyes when he looked at Li Xuan were full of worry and admiration......

Admire?

[Xu Lu, a native of Chun'an, Muzhou, a candidate for Oiran in the second year of the Shangyuan Dynasty, a native of the Qing Dynasty of Jinhe Academy, the deputy hall master of Wuzhou Hall of the Tianyin Sect, and the cultivation of the first realm of the congenital true species,]

[Can flirt (flirtation/not flirtation): After flirting, the heart is happy to surrender, obey orders, act according to orders, and respect everything. 】

【Flirtation! 】

With a thought, Xu Lu, who was sitting opposite Li Xuan, looked much softer in an instant.

Li Xuan opened his mouth at this time and said gently: "If the extermination of the Tianyin Sect goes smoothly this time, this king will apply to the imperial court to give you the title of a six-rank life woman, at least to ensure that in Muzhou, no one will make it difficult for you."

"Good!" Xu Lu bit her lip and nodded slightly, her eyes flickering, with a hint of water.

At this time, Li Xuan continued to speak: "Can you tell me how many people the Tianyin Sect has in Jinchangfang now?"

Xu Lu didn't hesitate at all, and said directly, "Not much, only nineteen people, including Elder He, Zhang

The hall master and Boss Qin, and most of the rest are Boss Qin's men...... Boss Qin doesn't just own a coffin shop, he has a timber yard outside the city...... Every year he would go to the mountains and pull a lot of wood back."

"The coffin can hide people and things, and that's a smart thing to do." Li Xuan nodded abruptly.

Suddenly, he frowned, as if he had thought of something, and asked, "These guys, they are all from Muzhou, right, in Wuzhou, they don't need to live on the land?"

"Yes, these people are all working for shop and factory owners, and there are still quite a few people in the state city, scattered in many places, and they will not appear until they receive the order to start an incident...... These people are all controlled by Fang Yunxiu himself, me and He Qing'er, the two of us are not responsible for these."

Li Xuan clenched his fists tightly for a moment.

He always felt that there was something he had overlooked, but he didn't expect it to be here.

If the Tianyin Sect wants to cause trouble, it will naturally secure its own manpower in all walks of life.

The ordinary people who farm in Wuzhou are naturally the main force, but the workers in other industries are also the main force.

Timber factories, silk shops, pharmacies, dye factories, silk farmers, shipwrights, etc., etc., I don't know how many people are hidden.

Once all these people are mobilized, they will stab them in the invisible underbelly, and it will definitely hurt to death.

No wonder Fang Yunxiu dared to stay in the state city at the beginning, it turned out that his real plan was here.

There is also the Department of Teaching.

Li Xuan looked at Xu Lu and asked in a deep voice, "Then what about your subordinates, how many people do you have?"

"Not much, more than a dozen, they are all little girls who are not very good in each courtyard of the Teaching Workshop, except for listening to the news, they can do very little."

"No, they can do a lot, if it weren't for the fact that after this king came to Wuzhou this time, he would have blocked the Jiaofang Division for a long time. If you think about it, once they poison the tea and wine that some officials drink, whether it is chronic or acute, it will kill people at critical moments, and many lives." Li Xuan couldn't help but let out a sigh.

Frowning, Li Xuan whispered to himself, "It's too late to screen the whole city now...... By the way, how much does Boss Qin know about this list?"

"I don't know, Boss Qin has always followed Fang Yunxiu before, after Fang Yunxiu died, he cut off contact with us, and it wasn't until now that Elder He and Hall Master Zhang came to Wuzhou, they reconnected." Z.br>

"With Fang Yunxiu's style of doing things, he definitely won't let Boss Qin know too much."

"Even if you just know a little bit is enough." Li Xuan's face showed a hint of murderous intent, and he said softly, "At this time, I'm afraid that I can only kill the chaos."

Such a group of people will cause a lot of turmoil to the overall situation of Wuzhou.

If you want to calm them down, then what Li Xuan can do is kill people.

Take advantage of the bloody killings to silence them completely.

As for who to kill, there are only Elder He and Zhang Wanyu tonight, as well as Boss Qin.

Borrow the heads and lives of these people to calm the others.

Although he looked a little nervous, Li Xuan still relaxed.

"In other words, apart from these hired apprentices and some remaining Tianyin Sect Zhongcheng believers, they don't have any other manpower in the state city, right?" Li Xuan stared at Xu Lu tightly.

"There should be some low-level officials in the state government, but there are not many, but these people can't be completely ignored."

Li Xuan nodded, there are smart people in this world.

Although Li Xuan's method of identifying the Heavenly Yin Sect was effective, it was a bit rough after all.

Some smart people can quickly find a way to deal with it, so as to effectively avoid it.

However, there are too few of these people to set off a general trend.

Suddenly, as if thinking of something, Li Xuan hurriedly asked, "When will Lanxi's main force attack the city?"

"I don't know, this kind of thing, Elder Crane and Hall Master Zhang, won't let us know."

"And so it should be." Li Xuan sighed lightly, this is true.

These things, if they were originally mastered by Fang Yunxiu, then Xu Lu, as his deputy, would naturally know a thing or two.

But since Zhang Wanyu's Wuzhou Hall, how could she easily leak these secrets to the outside world.

"So how many elites arrived in Wuzhou from the sect's main altar?" Li Xuan asked the core key.

The Tianyin Sect is inside the state city, and the total number of forces that can be gathered in the end will not exceed a hundred.

It's okay for these people to make trouble, but let them go directly to fight with the regular government soldiers of the imperial court, they don't have enough to see at all.

So in the end, it was the elite of the Tianyin Sect who came down from the mountain to determine everything.

"Are you talking about the Black Pawn?"

"Black pawns? It's an interesting name." Li Xuan nodded thoughtfully.

Black with Xuan, black pawn, Xuan pawn.

Li Xuan has fought with black pawns more than once in Dongyang, and the strength of these black pawns is not weak, they are a group of strong pawns who dare to fight.

Their strength may not be as good as Li Xuan's Qianniu Guard, but compared to the Zhichong Mansion Guard of Huiji Mansion, their will to fight is definitely not much worse.

What they lacked was the experience of real bloody battles on the battlefield, and the armor that was enough to rival the elite of the imperial court.

Although the weapons and armor of the Tianyin Sect are not bad, how can they compare to the solid works that countless craftsmen of the imperial court have transformed over the years.

Even in a certain batch, the quality can surpass the Ministry of Industry and the general supervisor, but it is definitely inferior in quantity.

With a mere mountain, how can it compete with the world.

The other armor, whether it is from Yangzhou or from the Qian clan in Wuzhou, is not even the best in their own hands, how can it be of great use to the Tianyin Sect.

Xu Lu thought about it and said: "The black pawn was selected by the sect leader, and the initial training was also started by the sect leader himself, but later the sect leader retreated all the year round, which was handed over to the hands of the chief manager, and the chief manager also lived up to the trust of the sect leader, and trained this group of people very well, and all the bandits existing in the mountains were all wiped out by the black pawns led by the chief manager."

"And what about their number, the number of these people who have come to Wuzhou?"

"There were 4,000 black pawns in total, of which 500 were stationed at the main altar, 500 were stationed in Muzhou, 1,400 were stationed in Shezhou, and 1,600 were placed in Wuzhou, Yuezhou, and Hangzhou; Among them, there are 700 in Wuzhou, 500 in Yuezhou, and only 400 in Hangzhou."

"So it was, they weren't evenly divided." Li Xuan's face was tense and relaxed.

Although he did look at it as an equal division at the beginning, he had already thought in his heart that the personnel arrangement of the Tianyin Sect in Wuzhou, Hangzhou, and Yuezhou was absolutely impossible to really be evenly arranged.

There must be some emphasis, and it has proven that.

In the eyes of the Tianyin Sect, it is still the heaviest in Wuzhou, followed by Yuezhou, and Hangzhou the second.

While in Dongyang, Li Xuan killed 90 people in Dongyang City, and later 60 people in Liu's manor, and another 30 people were hiding in the Shangxi gold mine, and 180 people were either dead or trapped.

For example, if the Yin Sect really started today, there are only five hundred and twenty people left.

And five hundred and twenty people.

In addition to the minimum 100 people needed to guard Meiling Pass, the Tianyin Sect can mobilize at least 420 black pawns to kill Wuzhou.

Four hundred and twenty people, quite a few.

If you add the internal response, open the city gate, attack the city, and then incite the remaining Tianyin Holy Maiden faith in people's hearts, you can revert to the state city in a blink of an eye.

But it's a pity that Li Xuan knows them too well.