Zhao Ran finally understood, Ning Zhenren wanted to save the life of the crazy girl, so he could only admit defeat, in fact, it would not work if he didn't admit defeat, the matter had come to this point, losing was definitely losing, Zhao Ran really couldn't think of any good way to turn the tables, if he didn't admit defeat, not only would it be useless, but I was afraid that the crazy girl's life would have to be compensated.

But Zhao Ran actually doesn't mind the life and death of the crazy girl, he has a preconceived idea, and he has a bad impression of the two girls of the Ning family, if he can deal with the girl of the Ning family again, he is willing from the bottom of his heart, so he tentatively: "Is there still a chance? For example, change a real person?"

Dongfang Li said: "Then this girl may die...... suddenly tilted his head to look at Zhao Ran and smiled: "Could it be that you have a grudge against the girl of the Ning family?"

Zhao Ran laughed dryly: "How is it possible, Senior Brother Li said that he was laughing, haha." ”

Dongfang Li nodded: "Even if you want to change, it's too late, there is not so much time......"

When Dongfang Li left, he told Zhao Ran that the reason why he confessed to him was to let Zhao Ran shut up, control his heart, don't talk too much, don't be curious, and at the same time control the people of the Louguan faction, try to stay out of the matter, and don't get involved.

arranged for the people on his side to forget about this matter, especially telling Wei Zhizhen not to talk nonsense, and strictly asked Yu Zhichuan, Moon Shadow, and Yang Zhiwen not to mention it in the future, Zhao Ran went down the mountain and returned to the White Horse Courtyard, while dealing with official business, while waiting for the next news.

On November 23, Zhao Ran received the news that something went wrong when Yunxiu Pavilion Ning Zhenren was cultivating and needed to retreat for half a year, so he withdrew from the competition for the Sanqing Pavilion Sitting Hall Zhenren, and Yunnan Longquan Pavilion Yu Zhenren became the only candidate.

Zhao Ran asked Dongfang Li about the final disposition of the murder on a rainy night, and Dongfang Li told him that when Ning Luoniang, the yellow-crowned female cultivator of Yunxiu Pavilion, was ordered to arrest the six brothers of Maju Village, she did it because the other party resisted arrest, and in the process of casting the spell, because of her lack of cultivation, she could not control the powerful magic weapon freely, so that all six people were killed on the spot.

The case was reported to the East Pole Pavilion for archiving, and after Yunxiu Pavilion asked the East Pole Pavilion, Ning Luoniang was severely punished and detained in the original place of Yunxiu Pavilion for three years, and he was not allowed to take a step out of the mountain gate for three years.

However, this punishment has caused controversy in the Shangzhou scattered cultivation circles, and the death of the six brothers in Maju Village is reported to make the local casual cultivators applaud, in addition, they have also come to Yunxiu Pavilion to petition, hoping that Yunxiu Pavilion will release Ning Luoniang, who is harmful to the people.

Zhao Ran can only hehe about this.

On the first day of December, Zhao Ran, who had not paid much attention to the follow-up progress, continued to receive news from Dongfang Li.

At the public promotion ceremony convened by the True Master Hall that day, Yu Zhenren received the votes of the twenty-seven Refining Void Realm senior cultivators present, and at the same time received the letter support of the nineteen real people and Heavenly Masters who were not present (also counted in the approval votes), and finally more than half of them were promoted to the Sanqing Pavilion and became the new Zhenren after Chen Zhenren, presiding over the affairs of the Sanqing Pavilion together with the Martial Heavenly Master.

Yu Zhenren was mainly in charge of the north and south halls of the Sanqing Pavilion, targeting the Northern Yuan in the north and Tubo in the south; Wu Tianshi was still in charge of the west and inner halls, and was in charge of the Western Xia and the Ming Dynasty.

When he received the news, Zhao Ran couldn't help but feel a little confused, this was the first defeat he had participated in the political struggle since Jiajing 16 years ago, although he was not the protagonist of it, and he didn't even get the qualifications of an important participant, but after all, he had worked hard to beat the side drum and made a sacrifice, and he felt quite uncomfortable to get such a result.

But now that the result has come out, it is necessary to adjust the mentality, accept rather than resist - there is no point in resisting, it is only right to focus on the present and deal with the affairs in front of you. What's more, he belongs to Xitang, and he is still a person from Wutianshi's side, and Yu Zhenren can't control him for the time being.

Now it is the end of the twenty-fourth year of Jiajing, basically the major major events have come to an end, and all the deacon's offices are busy summarizing affairs and summarizing the results according to Zhao Ran's requirements.

Zhao Ran has been in charge of the White Horse Academy for one year, and the results are quite gratifying.

16,000 mu of cultivated land and 387,000 mu of grassland were allocated, and at the same time, some gentry and businessmen were attracted to Hongyuan to buy 93,000 mu of grassland at market prices. By the end of the year, a total of 8,600 stone of barley and 12,000 stone of millet had been harvested, and 490 dairy cows and more than 17,600 sheep had been harvested. In addition, more than 160 horses were captured, smuggled and bought.

At the same time, the orders that the White Horse Temple continued to throw out attracted many merchants from Songfan, Dufu and Long'an to come to Hongyuan to do business, and 39 shops were opened in the city, including restaurants, tea houses, inns, blacksmith shops, medicine shops, grain shops, silk shops, salt sauce shops, pawn shops, grocery stores and other categories, and even Jiaqinglou also opened at the end of the year.

These shops are rented in the number room property, the number room welcome Meng Dengke is full of smiles, in his account book, this year for the first time the number of houses have a surplus of four hundred and sixty taels of silver. When the Qinglou opened, Meng Yingbin also attended the ribbon cutting in person, according to his return report, the woman in it was really ordinary, her appearance was mediocre, and her talent was not brilliant, but the business was very hot.

Zhao Ran said that he doesn't mind Hongyuan opening a green building, in his understanding, this is an important measure to solve the current gender imbalance between men and women in Hongyuan. But he resolutely did not allow gambling houses to be opened, which was an important source of lawlessness in society.

At the end of the year, the total population under the rule of the White Horse Academy historically exceeded 30,000, and the ratio of Han people to party members reached two to one.

The most important thing is that the prestige and self-determination of the party members have been eliminated, and the remaining leaders are no longer the leaders in the original sense, such as Baozhong, who belong to the leaders who have a certain prestige but no absolute authority, and are oriented to the Tao.

As for Zehui, who defected anyway, because of the report on Li Yansi and Qiangxiong, his prestige among the party members was discredited, although he was released back as early as June because the case was concluded, but he has been idle at home, and Zhao Ran is also considering the reuse of his surplus value.

Zhao Ran continued to wait, waiting for the population growth of the people under his rule, and when the actual population of the White Horse Courtyard exceeded 40,000, he would start to solve the problem of the White Horse Third Division.

Of course, the internal basis of Hongyuan's unconventional development is the massive lending of charity funds, and the common people have paid a ten-year debt burden in order to obtain land, pastures, farm tools, seeds and other means of production.

By December, the entire Hongyuan, including the White Horse Temple and all the people under its rule, had a long-term debt of 76,000 taels of silver, and 100,000 taels of principal and interest needed to be repaid in ten years. Among them, the White Horse Temple had to return 18,000 taels, and each of the people had a loan of more than two taels of silver on their heads.

Zhao Ran is initially satisfied with the current composition of the White Horse Academy, and the most satisfied are Yuan Hao, Lei Shan, and Meng Dengke, who are subordinates from the government, who are all good at specific affairs. In the Daomen series, there are Taoist priests such as Li Zhike, Lu Fangzhu, Zuo Xunzhao, etc., who support him, so in daily management, Zhao Ran can almost let go, and what he really wants to do is to erect the banner and point out the direction.

At the year-end banquet of the Taoist priests of the White Horse Academy, Zhao Ran officially erected the banner - in the future and in the future, all the affairs of the White Horse Academy are for one purpose, that is, trust.

For this purpose, he made a special trip to Songzhou to meet with the Du Tenghui of the prison hospital.

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