More than 20 days passed quickly, and the monk Yunshan of the Temple of Mercy and Grace and 26 accomplices were executed in public.

On the day of sentencing, the people of Chang'an City gathered outside Dali Temple. Here, they are relieved to see that the way of heaven is still there, and the wicked have their own punishment.

Twenty-seven corpses filled the street outside the yamen of Dali Temple, and even the water in the nearby ditch that day was red.

The rest of the monks who committed crimes that did not lead to death were given different numbers of sticks according to the severity of their crimes, and then released and returned to their families to their homes.

Liu Yu arranged a lot of eyes and ears around the yamen in advance, and ordered Tang Biao to guard in secret, in case the monk Puzhen, who was bent on establishing a Buddhist country, came to rob the Dharma field. However, what he was careful about did not happen after all, I don't know if Pu Zhen was disgusted that these monks of the Temple of Mercy and Grace had tarnished the name of Buddhism, or Li Jing persuaded her father.

Liu Yu felt a sense of loss in his heart for no reason, and he couldn't lift his spirits for a long time.

At present, the treasury of Dali Temple is full of silver, and the officials and officials are full of enthusiasm, and under the organization of Vice Secretary Dong Neng and the "guidance" of Liu Lao Scholar, they have done a good job in the boxing business and the trial of cases.

For a time, the reputation of Dali Temple in Chang'an City became more and more grand, not only in the common people prestige, but also rare to win the support of a group of officials and children of the family.

This point was especially unexpected by Liu Yu.

In order to win the official reputation, he did not hesitate to turn his face with the emperor and the prime minister in the court, put forward his own ideas, and cleared the guilt of the former prime minister Xie Youzhi. Even so, he had never seen an official who genuinely courted him.

The only explanation is that there are people behind the scenes of the officials and family members who have taken refuge in him this time.

In order to determine the true intentions of these officials and the children of the family, he secretly ordered Tang Biao to investigate the background of these people.

At the same time, Liu Yu paid close attention to the changes in the situation inside and outside Chang'an. At present, the situation in Chang'an City is changing, and King Kui can be called a dominant family after receiving the help of Yu Feilong, and even the Qingfeng Society, which has Fu Lingyun's secret support behind him, has also begun to avoid its edge and go underground.

Yu Xiaoliang had just removed all the horses from the Cao Song Temple on the Dead Man's Street a few days ago, and I heard that this person had gathered those loyal Cao Song Temple believers in a broken alley in the south of the city, which was crowded with dozens of streets and alleys, and there seemed to be more than 100,000 people.

According to Tang Biao's secret report, because these Cao Song Temple believers no longer need to eat after being poisoned by witch grass, they burn incense and pray every day, and never rob houses in the city, so the court did not pay special attention to them. Coupled with the shadow of Fu Lingyun behind them, no one wants to mess with them.

On the night of the seventh day of the eighth lunar month, Tang Biao laid an encirclement outside the north gate of Daming Palace and killed the eyeliner of six black crows who followed them. After this battle, Dixin's actions were somewhat restrained, and he did not send anyone to follow the Hayabusa group again.

Sun Meihe came to report on time every ten days, and her attitude and demeanor were much more low-key than before. One by one, one by one, "please show the master", the Truth Word Sect is now truly in the hands of Liu Yu.

Outside the city, the siege of Huang Chao and Wang Xianzhi's army became more and more intense, only on the evening of August 13, Mingde Gate was attacked by the righteous army, and the defenders lost more than 2,000 people, so they barely held the city gate.

Li Zi, the king of Kui, who was hiding in the shadows, issued several edicts through the mouth of his puppet nephew emperor, and placed 30,000 forbidden troops in Mingdemen, preparing to deal with the next attack of the rebels. This person's idea of deploying troops is full of stubborn thoughts, and it seems that he does not want to break the rebel army outside the city at all, but wants to fish in troubled waters between the attack and defense of millions of troops inside and outside the city walls, and achieve some ulterior personal goals.

Outside the city, Zhu Wen kept his previous promise and kept transporting grain to the city in an endless stream, accumulating as much as 230,000 quintals before and after. Liu Yu had searched through these grains, and even tested for poison, but he had not found anything unusual, so he believed that although his senior brother was harsh, he was a person who loved the people like a son. If it weren't for that, there would be no need for the senior brother to risk losing his head to transport food to the city.

It's just that the two images of cruelty and indiscriminate killing and loving the people like a son are completely different, and it is really difficult to put them on the same person, so that whenever Liu Yu thinks of his senior brother Zhu Wen, he has the illusion of living in a dream and not daring to believe it.

On August 21, Tang Biao brought back the results of the investigation, and those officials and children of the family who had taken refuge in Dali Temple had a common background, and they were all protégés of the late Prime Minister Xie Youzhi, known as Xie Dang.

The people in the Xie Party have always been arrogant and have never easily fallen to a certain faction in the DPRK and China. The reason why these high-ranking scholars were willing to show favor to Liu Yu must have been persuaded by a very influential figure. And this person who persuaded them must be inextricably linked to the late Prime Minister Xie Yuzhi.

After hearing these news, Liu Yu's eyes were a little warm. He remembered the charity shop next to his own charity shop on Dead Man's Street, and hurriedly sent someone to inquire, and found that the charity shop was still there, and the steamed cakes still had an attractive fragrance, which was far better than his own scones, but it was a pity that the owner of the charity shop never showed up again, as if he had evaporated from the world.

On this day, Liu Yu was in a trance and rode a flying dragon to the street. After running all the way, I came to a dilapidated garden, and a plaque hung crookedly on the door.

The plaque is covered with cobwebs, and two mottled gold lacquer characters can be vaguely seen, "Xie Fu".

This is Xie Youzhi's mansion before his death, and after more than 20 years, it has fallen into disrepair. Even so, no one dared to occupy the homestead to build a new house, which shows that the influence of the late prime minister is still there.

Liu Yu led the horse and stepped into the gate cautiously, wanting to see the place where Xie Anniang once lived, only to see that the courtyard was vast, and the flat ground was made of good and regular bluestone. Because it has been left untended for a long time, the crevices of the stones are crowded with yellowish dead grass.

Among the rows of houses, a hut that is about to collapse stands out. There is a plaque hanging on the door of the hut, the handwriting is faintly recognizable, "Zhiyuan Zhai", it is speculated that the name of this house is from the famous sentence of Zhuge Wuhou, "Non-indifferent and unambitious, non-quiet and far-reaching." “。

Liu Yu estimated that this was Xie Youzhi's study before his death, so he tied the flying dragon to a half-broken horse stake outside the house, and approached the hut alone.

He gently pushed the door open, dust falling on his shoulders. He didn't care about patting the dust on his shoulders, closed the door behind him, walked into the study, and his eyes fell on the rows of books on the wooden shelves, among which Li Daoyuan's "Notes on the Water Classic" and Jia Sixian's "Qi Min's Techniques" were the most conspicuous.

These two books were written during the Northern Wei Dynasty, because the royal family and princes of this and previous dynasties were all born in the Northern Wei Dynasty and had a cultural inheritance, so these two books have been passed down to this day. These two books are written about some engineering technologies for building water conservancy and benefiting the country and the people, and Xie Youzhi puts them in a conspicuous position, which shows that he attaches great importance to them.

Liu Yu took these books off the shelves and took them in his hands to look at them carefully. Unfortunately, the old paper was very thin and brittle, and he only turned a few pages before the pages began to fall off. He felt very sorry in his heart, and had no choice but to close the book and put it back in its place.

His eyes scanned the room, and beside the dusty desk, there was a simple rattan chair, and it was speculated that Xie Youzhi, the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, should have sat on this chair and worked hard to govern the country.

Liu Yu blew away the dust on the case, and a stack of old folds appeared in front of his eyes, including "Jiangnan Water Control and Sparseness", "Jiannan Road Famine and Sparseness" and "Anxi Increasing Troops" and so on.

He sighed softly and thought to himself, "A generation of virtuous slaughter, the end is nothing more than this!"

He shook his head, feeling very lonely in his heart, and felt that it was boring to sit here, so he turned and walked out of the house. He was about to push the door out of the house and go around the rest of the yard when his eyes fell on the dusty doorknob.

On the doorknob, in addition to his handprints, there are clearly traces of belonging to another person.

"Has anyone been here?" he thought.

Just then, he heard footsteps in the courtyard, presumably someone else who had left a mark on the doorknob.

He suddenly remembered that he had just bolted his mount to the outside of the house, and that if the man had seen it, he might have turned away. After all, in today's imperial court, it is not a good thing to belong to the Xie Party.

He thinks that instead of waiting for the rabbit, it is better to take the initiative and see who it is.

Thinking of this, he flew out of the house and ran straight to the courtyard, and sure enough, he saw a plain white figure standing in the courtyard in the distance.

The woman was quietly watching his mount, the Wyvern, and did not leave when she saw him running.