People in the early Tang Dynasty: I compete with Wu Zhao for the throne

Chapter 382 Obedience

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

More than a dozen Qianniu Guards riding on tall horses carefully guarded the surrounding area, their eyes vigilantly guarding the distance.

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

Xu Lu was still wearing the milky white chest-length skirt with a green undershirt underneath, and she sat opposite Li Xuan with a calm expression, the Fuyao on her head swaying gently.

The two of them were close together, although it was a dark compartment, but with their cultivation base, as long as there was a little light from the outside world, it was enough for them to see everything clearly.

Even extra 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 quietly: "In the Tianyin Sect, there are mostly poor people. Some of them are from rich families, but under a natural disaster, the food in the family was cut off. Zhong Tiandi becomes a tenant and only has a small amount of rations to survive; when there is a disaster, the court imposes levies and miscellaneous taxes, and the family starves to death, everything can only be resigned to fate, how to do it?"

"Kill!" Li Xuan said a word calmly.

In an instant, Xu Lu felt a murderous aura of a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood rushing towards her face.

Li Xuan said indifferently: "Exceeding the interest subsidy loan, privately imposed taxes, vicious officials, aristocratic families who embezzle land, if they are seized, they will be punished immediately. Once the limit is exceeded, the whole family will be seated. Then, a new group of people will be replaced. .”

Li Xuan's last words raised Xu Lu's head in astonishment, and Li Xuan's sight immediately filled with her fair neck.

"The greed of people's hearts does not skyrocket to the point of being unstoppable from the very beginning. It accumulates little by little, and then it gets out of control. At this time, it is directly and decisively eradicated, and then replaced with a new person... in the middle The time of one reincarnation is the period for the common people to recuperate... This is already the best method this king can think of."

For corrupt officials, all dynasties have killed them endlessly.

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

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

Only in this way can the continuous operation of the entire country be guaranteed.

This is the meaning of the imperial examination.

"As long as you can distribute the benefits to more people forever, then there will always be more people supporting you." Li Xuan said in a simple sentence, directly describing his own political methods all the time.

Some people obviously have a large piece of cake to share, but they take the biggest piece themselves, so that the shareable benefits suddenly become very small.

Some people don't want to get rid of their stubborn illnesses, but always only want to force others to open up a further world. After all, they are just drinking poison to quench their thirst.

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

"You are still really cold-blooded." Xu Lu looked at Li Xuan, full of worry and admiration...

admire?

[Xu Lu, a native of Chun'an, Muzhou, a candidate for the oiran in the second year of the Shangyuan Dynasty, a nobleman of the Jinhe Academy, the deputy head of the Wuzhou Hall of the Tianyin Sect, a congenital true species with an initial level of cultivation,]

[Can be teased (to tease/not to tease): After teasing, she is happy to surrender, obeys orders, acts according to orders, and respects everything. 】

【tease! 】

After thinking about it, Xu Lu who was sitting opposite Li Xuan's eyes became much gentler in an instant.

Li Xuan spoke at this time, and said gently: "If the Tianyin Sect is eliminated this time, the king will apply to the court to give you the honor of a sixth-rank wife, at least to ensure that there will be no harm in Muzhou. People make things difficult for you."

"Okay!" Xu Lu bit her lip, nodded slightly, and there was a wave of water in her eyes.

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

Without the slightest hesitation, Xu Lu said directly, "Not many, there are only 19 people, including Helao, Master Zhang and Boss Qin, and most of the rest are Boss Qin's men... Boss Qin has more than just It’s a coffin shop, he’s outside the city, and there’s also a lumber yard... Every year he goes to the mountains to pull a lot of wood back.”

"The coffin can hide people as well as things. This is a smart way." Li Xuan nodded in amazement.

Suddenly he frowned, as if thinking of something, and asked: "These guys, they are all from Muzhou, right, in Wuzhou, they don't need land for their livelihood?"

"Yes, these people are all working for shop and factory owners. There are still many people in the state city, scattered in many places, and they will not show up until they receive an order to revolt... These people are all controlled by Fang Yunxiu himself. , He Qinger and I, we are not in charge of this."

In an instant, Li Xuan clenched her fist tightly.

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 start a riot, they will naturally deploy their own people in all walks of life.

Ordinary people farming in Wuzhou are naturally the main force, but workers in other industries are also the main force.

Timber factories, silk shops, medicine shops, dye factories, silk farmers, boatmen, etc., etc., I don’t know how many people are hiding.

Once these people are all mobilized, stabbing the invisible weakness will definitely hurt terribly.

No wonder Fang Yunxiu dared to stay in Zhoucheng. It turned out that his real plan was here.

There is also Jiaofang Division.

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

"Not many, maybe a dozen or so. They're all bad little girls from Jiaofang Division and other colleges. They can do very little except inquire about news."

"No, they can do a lot. If this king hadn't blocked the Jiaofang Division for a long time after he came to Wuzhou this time. Think about it, once they poison the tea and wine drunk by some officials, whether it is chronic It doesn't matter whether it's urgent or not, at critical moments, people will die, and many lives will be lost." Li Xuan couldn't help but let out a long breath.

Frowning, Li Xuan murmured to herself in a low voice: "It's too late to screen the whole city...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 lost contact with us. It wasn't until Helao and Hallmaster Zhang came to Wuzhou that they reconnected."

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

"Even if you just know a little bit, that's enough." Li Xuan showed a trace of murderousness on his face, and said softly, "At this moment, I'm afraid the only thing we can do is kill."

Such a group of people will cause quite a disturbance to the overall situation in Wuzhou.

If he wanted to calm them down, what Li Xuan could do was kill people.

Use the bloody killing to make them completely quiet.

As for who to kill, there are only people like He Lao, Zhang Wanyu and Boss Qin tonight.

Let others calm down by borrowing the heads and lives of these people.

……

Although his expression was a little nervous, Li Xuan still relaxed.

"That is to say, apart from these hired apprentices and some remaining loyal believers of Tianyin Sect, they don't have any other manpower in Zhoucheng, right?" Li Xuan stared closely at Xu Lu.

"There should be some low-level officials in the state government, but not many, but these people cannot be completely ignored."

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

Although Li Xuan's method of distinguishing Tianyin believers 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, and it is difficult to set off a big trend.

Suddenly thought of something, Li Xuan quickly asked: "When will the main force of Lanxi attack the city?"

"I don't know. Elder He and Hall Master Zhang won't let us know about such things."

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

If Fang Yunxiu was in charge of these things, then Xu Lu, as his deputy, would naturally know a thing or two.

But since Zhang Wanyu was in charge of the Wuzhou Hall, how could she easily reveal these secrets to the outside world.

"Then how many elites arrived in Wuzhou from the Jiaozhong General Altar back then?" Li Xuan asked the most important key.

The Tianyin Sect is in the state city, and the total strength that can be assembled in the end will not exceed one hundred.

These people can make trouble, but if they go directly to fight with the regular government soldiers of the imperial court, they will not be enough to watch.

So in the end, it was the elite of the Tianyin Sect who came down from the mountain that could decide everything.

"Are you talking about black pawns?"

"Hei Zu? This name is quite interesting." Li Xuan nodded thoughtfully.

Hei Tongxuan, Hei Zu, Xuan Zu.

Li Xuan had fought black pawns more than once in Dongyang. These black pawns were not weak, they were a group of strong soldiers who dared to fight and could fight.

Their strength may not be as strong as Li Xuan's Qianniuwei, but compared to the Zhechong Fuwei of Kuaiji Mansion, their fighting will is definitely not much worse.

What they lacked was the real experience of fighting bloody battles on the battlefield, as well as enough armor and armor that could rival the elites of the imperial court.

Although the Tianyin sect's battle armor is not bad, how can it compare to the solid work of countless craftsmen of the imperial court who have transformed it through countless years of experience.

Even in a certain batch, the quality can surpass the Ministry of Industry and the Superintendent, but it is definitely not as good as the quantity.

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

The other armours, no matter whether they were obtained from Yangzhou or from the Qian family in Wuzhou, were not even the best in their own hands, so how could they be of great use to the Tianyin Sect.

Xu Lu thought about it and said: "The black soldier was selected by the leader, and the initial training was also carried out by the leader himself. It was only after the leader retreated all the year round that it was handed over to the chief supervisor, and the chief supervisor did not fail the leader. Entrusted by him, he trained this group of people very well, and all the bandits that existed in the mountains were wiped out by the black pawns led by the general manager."

"Then what about their number, the number of these people who came to Wuzhou?"

"There are a total of 4000 black soldiers, of which 400 are stationed in the general altar, 600 are stationed in Muzhou, 700 are directly in Shezhou, and 500 are in Wuzhou, Yuezhou and Hangzhou; 400 of them are in Wuzhou. There are [-] people in Yuezhou, but only [-] in Hangzhou.”

"So it turns out that they are not evenly divided." Li Xuan's expression was both tense and relaxed.

Although he did look at it based on the average distribution at the beginning, he had long thought in his heart that it was absolutely impossible for Tianyin Sect to arrange personnel in Wuzhou, Hangzhou and Yuezhou on an even basis.

There must be some emphasis, and the facts have indeed proved this point.

In the eyes of Tianyin Sect, Wuzhou is still the most important, Yuezhou is next, and Hangzhou is the most important.

While in Dongyang, Li Xuan killed 90 people in Dongyang City, and later killed 60 people in Liu's Manor. Another 30 people were hiding in the Shangxi Gold Mine, and 180 people were either dead or trapped.

Today, there are only 520 people left in the Tianyin Sect who actually do it.

There are 520 more.

Apart from the at least 100 people needed to guard Meiling Pass, Tianyin Sect can mobilize at least 420 black soldiers to fight in Wuzhou.

420 people, a lot of people.

If you add the internal response, open the city gate, attack the city, and then incite the remaining belief in the Tianyin Saintess in people's hearts, you can overthrow the city in a blink of an eye.

But unfortunately, Li Xuan knew them too well.

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(End of this chapter)