However, Gui Tangdong was set up by someone, so he flatly refused. Instead, he lectured Jiang Xianchen and persuaded her to be a down-to-earth person.As expected, Jiang Xianchen's favorability increased again, even though tears welled up from the corners of her eyes, and she looked like she was about to cry at any moment.

"I grew up so big, no one is so fierce as me! Fellow Daoist Gui, you... big villain!"

Jiang Xianchen ran away angrily. The next day, when she opened the door, Gui Tangdong handed her a stack of papers. She took it in doubt, and found that it was the train of thought of the paper on finite ring removal. The materials needed for the dissertation... Gui Tangdong has already set up the framework for her, and she only needs to fill in the content according to the materials needed, which greatly saves her time.

Holding the stack of papers in her arms, she whispered, "You are so kind, Fellow Daoist Gui."

"Who called me a big bad last night?"

Jiang Xianchen turned his head as if nothing had happened: "I don't know, is Fellow Daoist Gui dreaming?"

"This way you can always write by yourself and catch up with the time. Anyway, after you finish writing, burn this stack of paper..."

"I don't!" Jiang Xianchen shook his head with a gentle expression, "I will treasure it well, this is the proof of my friend Gui Daoyou."

If Jiang Xianchen's favorability hadn't dropped a little, Tangdong Gui would believe that Jiang Xianchen really regarded him as a friend.

It took four days for Jiang Xianchen to finish writing the main body of the thesis, and he and Gui Tangdong spent another day revising it.In return, Gui Tangdong asked Jiang Xianchen to teach Nan Qingxu a low-level confidentiality method of maintaining beauty and health——

This was Nan Qingxu's own request. She noticed that the frequency of frequent intercourse had changed her body, and not all changes were pleasant, so she needed exercises to trace her physical state.

This period of learning without doing business was regarded by Gui Tangdong as a holiday for Nan Qingxu. He didn't want to push Nan Qingxu too far, causing him to lose interest in life.

In the past few days, Tan Jiuhe finally recalled the list of all possible curses that could lead to him, and the number one was a man named Yu Zuochen.

At that time, Jiang Xianchen and Gui Tangdong pretended to be a medical team. The white girl and the black girl were all there. The black girl asked, "What is Yu Zuochen's origin and what is his state? What magic weapon is he good at, and what skills are he good at?" ?”

Hei Niu's question simply reflects the order of the factors that measure the combat power of casual cultivators in the casual cultivator group: first of all, the identity and background. The fellow cultivators fear it like a tiger, for fear that the other party will bring reinforcements from the Eight Great Sects...unless they meet someone who is more deeply involved with the Eight Great Sects;

The second is the state, the poor growth and cultivation environment, so that casual cultivators usually lack planning, or the planning must succumb to reality. Under the premise that everyone is equally bad, casual cultivators of high realms almost firmly eat casual cultivators of low realms;

Then there is the magic weapon. The exercises cultivated by casual practitioners are all common goods, some of which are even fragments. Arming yourself with such exercises, the upper limit and lower limit will not be too high, and it is impossible to hide the power to determine the outcome with one blow.

The magic weapon is different, because the magic weapons held by casual cultivators are not all inferior goods, some magic weapons are obtained by their "chance", and contain the power to determine the outcome with one blow. The enemy's family killed him with one blow.

As for this "opportunity", it is related to the distribution of banks of the eight sects.The closer you are to the bank, the more likely you are to get a "chance".

Facing Hei Niu's series of questions, Tan Jiuhe said: "No, Yu Zuochen was recommended by Zhang Gongbao, one of my confidantes, and now he is the magistrate of Caozhou, north of Licheng. Before that, he was in this city. Responsible for public security work, and strike hard at those who commit crimes.

Those who commit crimes are naturally unwilling to admit their mistakes. They think that Yu Zuochen is Zhang Gongbao's subordinate, and Zhang Gongbao is my confidant, so they think that Yu Zuochen represents my will, so they are very likely to resent Me, buy murder to kill. "

"Then Daoyou Tan, can you contact Yu Zuochen? It's better to get rid of the curse as soon as possible." Bai Niu said.

Tan Jiuhe took out the communication talisman with some heartache. Jiang Xianchen turned his head and smiled secretly. He saw the old traces and patterns on the communication talisman. 150 years behind what she now uses.

Therefore, what Tan Jiuhe cherished seemed so ridiculous in her eyes.

Tan Jiuhe contacted Yu Zuochen, hoping that he would recall how many people Yu Zuochen had offended when he was in charge of the work in Licheng. Yu Zuochen said that it would take a month, because he killed more than 2000 people in Licheng for one year. There are hundreds of families, so there are many enemies, so we need to recall them carefully.

"Uh, I don't quite understand. Do you need to kill more than 2000 people a year for security work in a mortal territory?" Jiang Xianchen asked in a secret voice.

"No, this is a cruel official, and it is the practice of the eighteen generations of cruel officials who were poked in the back by the people." Gui Tangdong replied.

Bai Niu and Hei Niu also had common sense, and when they heard about Yu Zuochen's political achievements, their expressions were a little bright.Tan Jiuhe defended his subordinates and said: "Everyone has also heard that there are two major factions of local and non-local cultivators in this city, and there are more mortals attached to them, and their confrontation has worsened the security.

After I was unable to act due to a strange illness last year, my clansman controlled the cultivation materials, which intensified the conflicts among the casual cultivators in the city... They are willing to cherish their own lives, dislike each other and me, but only trick mortals into fighting for them.

The public security situation in the city is deteriorating, people are in panic, and morality and law are on the verge of collapse. Under such circumstances, someone really needs to stand up and strike hard at the things that disturb the order of the city and affect the reputation of the city.

The so-called heavy codes in troubled times, after a year of governance, I fell ill again this year. The two major factions in Licheng are restless, but they have no means to incite mortals to fight bloody battles.

The deaths of more than 2000 mortals may be cruel, and there may be unjust, false and wrongly decided cases, but they are necessary sacrifices to restore order.As a result, their sacrifices preserved the stability of most people. "

On the list, Tan Jiuhe's confidant Zhang Gongbao ranked second for the same reason as Yu Zuochen. Zhang Gongbao worked hard in his tenure, building water conservancy, and seeking the well-being of the people, but he offended the common people and the gentry because he enlisted civilian husbands and asked the rich to donate money. .

I didn't want to work, and I didn't want to donate money. In the end, a section of the dam was not repaired as scheduled, and unfortunately, it caught up with the heavy rain, and 10 people were affected.These people must blame Tan Jiuhe for not building water conservancy in time, which led to a tragedy.

The same is true for Gangbi, who ranks third. He is a model of honest officials. During his tenure as an official, he does not accept any bribes, nor does he allow his relatives to receive benefits from others. Clear, all pending cases are closed.

Therefore, Gang Bi also offended many people, and this account must eventually be counted on Tan Jiuhe's head, plus Tan Jiuhe's other two go-getters, the three of them created countless enemies for Tan Jiuhe.

This made Bai Niu look embarrassed. At the beginning, it was agreed that the family member of the Tan family was responsible for arresting people, and the Daming Lake Theater Troupe treated Tan Jiuhe and tortured the prisoners, and produced useful information, but according to what Tan Jiuhe said, Tan Guo hated him so much Too many, it will be the year of the monkey until the servant catches the suspect, and how long will it take for her to torture him?

"It's simple. As long as you delineate the area of ​​suspicion, arrest people in batches, and screen them over and over again, you can always screen out suspicious elements." Tan Jiuhe said, "Everyone, let's wait for the good news together."

The servants of the Tan family attacked and made Licheng go crazy.On the Mingyue Tower, Gui Tangdong and his group used Jiang Xianchen's high-magnification to observe the magic weapon and watch the casual practitioners fighting like chickens pecking each other.

How bad are the casual cultivators in Licheng fighting?A fact can be described: Nan Qingxu used the magic weapon in the storage ring to kill all the casual cultivators in Licheng other than Tan Jiuhe by himself.

Jiang Xianchen stopped reading it a long time ago. She sharply commented that the battles of the casual practitioners were polluting her eyes, so she went back and continued to change the bits and pieces of the paper;

On the one hand, Nan Qingxu strengthened her self-confidence in the city's pecking-like fighting scene, on the other hand, she saw with pity that mortals were being ravaged like livestock by casual cultivators.

People can learn, how the eight sects squeeze out the value of casual cultivators, how casual cultivators squeeze out the value of mortals, the weak always punch the weaker, and then write their own tragic history of being oppressed, those weaker People, they disappeared silently in the night of blood and carnival, and at the carnival party of casual monks, everyone was in the name of justice.

Yun Xiaojing yawned. At first she watched the scattered repairs, as fun as a child watching ants fight. After a while, she got bored, but on the glass, she saw Gui Tangdong's focused attention. face.

"Do you want to meddle in your own business? Maybe as soon as you leave Mingyue Tower and use the Yangyan Mansion technique, your master will be able to obtain precise coordinates, teleport to you and arrest you." She asked.

Guitang looked at the other party, and Yun Xiaojing continued: "It is true that you still have the knowledge of Rishengdu exercises, but without my support, your body cannot produce different kinds of spiritual power, and naturally you cannot use Rishengdu. skills."

"So, what's the price?" Gui Tangdong asked.

Yun Xiaojing looked at Nan Qingxu, changed into Bai Xiyou's appearance, and pointed to his lips——

"Although I'm not Bai Xiyou, Bai Xiyou is me, so what Bai Xiyou wants to do is also what I want to do. Kissing a beautiful girl can get what you want, Fellow Daoist Gui, you've earned your money. "

Chapter 10 The Heart of the Absurd

"Blood earning? I refuse!" Gui Tangdong replied.

Yun Xiaojing smiled: "Okay, let's change another target. You go and kiss Jiang Xianchen, and I'll help you, how about it?"

"I reject!"

"Oh, there's no way." Yun Xiaojing pushed Nan Qingxu to the east of Guitang, "I can only sacrifice fellow Daoist Nan."

There is nothing wrong with Gui Tangdong kissing Nan Qingxu, and Nan Qingxu is also willing to do so. After the two kissed deeply, Nan Qingxu shed tears for some reason, and Gui Tangdong wiped her clean.

"Go to Jiang Xianchen to change a leather case first, and then borrow a weapon from her." Yun Xiaojing said.

Gui Tangdong glanced at Yun Xiaojing suspiciously, and after he walked away, Nan Qingxu said softly, "Thank you."

"I think it's quite fun. Gui Tangdong will be back soon, so that woman with a strong desire to control won't get on her body immediately." Yun Xiaojing stretched out her finger and twirled around, "When he comes out, do you want to come back?" Kiss him once?"

Kissing is a daily routine for lovers, but Yu Nan lightly Xu, but it has become a precious experience.So when Gui Tangdong came out with the face of a passerby, Nan Qingxu asked for a kiss again.

"Don't worry." Gui Tangdong stroked her hair.

"Where are the weapons?" Yun Xiaojing asked.

"Jiang Daoyou doesn't have anything I can take advantage of."

"Ah, I have it here!"

Nan Qingxu opened the storage ring, and handed a round tanned hand guard sword from Dalu to Gui Tangdong. Gui Tangdong held the sword, and Yun Xiaojing's hand overlapped with his, so golden water gushed out from the sword. brilliant.

Gui Tangdong nodded to Nan Qingxu, the latter left, Yun Xiaojing stabbed his hand into Gui Tangdong's body, Gui Tangdong felt that he was being enriched and filled, as if his lost part was returning.

"I'll give you the strength of one arm, but don't use it for too long, I don't want to be troubled by some lolita old woman." Yun Xiaojing said.

"understood."

Gui Tangdong used the psychedelic yellow light in "Golden Crow and Seven Lights". This technique was upgraded by the golden law, allowing him to blend into the night and quickly enter Licheng.

The turmoil is still going on. The monks and servants of the Tan family are attacking the two forces of the Tan family. They are mainly playing emotional cards and armed confrontation with the local conservatives, while they are mainly killing the reformers from outsiders.

There is a shrewd calculation here, fighting and killing the locals, this enmity may last for a long time, monks of the Tan family also have to consider the situation of their own night walks; but killing rootless outsiders and plundering their hard work However, there is no need to worry too much about the revenge of their relatives, because those people cannot enter Licheng, and they are not familiar with Licheng.

So even mortals were targeted by monks who slaughtered resisting men, killed useless old men, bound young, fertile women and children as trophies, and rummaged through their possessions.

The outsiders who can stay in Licheng, even mortals, are capable, and capable people will naturally accumulate wealth, and this is the reason why they become unlucky.

In a courtyard, a large family of 13 people, thirteen heads were placed neatly on the top of the wall, and the wall was smeared with blood. This was not a rational murder, but an act of the perpetrator to vent his anger. When they got their wish, they didn't find a silent ghost gliding into the courtyard.

Violent red light suddenly appeared in the courtyard three times, and three corpses with their chests pierced fell down. The ghost slid into the next courtyard, ignoring the two factions of monks who were fighting, and specifically targeted the monks who were killing and robbing mortals.

In the battle between the true legends, the violent red light is visually no different from the lethality of the water gun. The intention of the person who casts it is to block the enemy's movement, and does not expect to have the effect of deciding the outcome.

But here, the violent red light is like a life-threatening spell, which kills when touched.After Gui Tangdong confirmed the effect, he fled into the night.

Gangbi, one of the three upright officials on Tan Jiuhe's list, was in charge of arresting the criminals. His subordinates included not only relatively well-qualified monks from the Tan family, but also some casual monks hired by the Tan family. mortal army.

His order to his followers was to first encircle the ten squares where outsiders gathered, and then break through one by one, arrest hundreds of suspects hiding in them, and kill them on the spot when they encountered resistance.

At the same time, he acquiesced in the actions of the hired casual cultivators to "earn extra money" during the arrest operation, because these thieves were all like dead people in his imagination.After tonight, Tan Jiuhe will coerce the seventeen workshops of the traditional school to submit to him, otherwise, these hired casual practitioners will "mutiny" and sweep at least seven of the seventeen workshops, and they will be supported by the belated The Tan family was slaughtered.

Although this will cause Licheng and the Tan family to suffer considerable losses, it is like digging out rotten flesh that is gradually spreading from the body, these are all necessary costs.

The population can multiply and grow, monks can be recruited and cultivated, wealth will come back, word of mouth can be restored with time, but Tan's lost rule will never come back.Therefore, for the Tan family's rule, the temporary population, monks, wealth and reputation are all sacrificed.

Moreover, these losses have been carefully calculated in advance, and it only takes five to ten years to recover. If Tan Jiuhe hadn't eradicated the cancer in the city when he was in his best state in recent years, the Tan family's rule might end within ten years. up.

Tan Jiuhe has lived for two hundred years, and his experience makes him indecisive. He is afraid that if this matter is overdone, it will trigger a civil uprising, unite his opponents, or attract the intervention of Emperor Liangzong. However, Chen, Zhang Gongbao and Gang Bi advocated the use of heavy codes in troubled times.

Tan Jiuhe was persuaded, Yu Zuochen was preparing the army in Caozhou, Zhang Gongbao came forward to contact the leaders of the two factions, and made a gesture of compromise, while Gangbi mobilized his strength to strike hard.

The battle went smoothly at the beginning, it wasn't even a battle, because the reformers were not in the same league, they came from all corners of the country, with different accents, different habits and different industries, which made it split into countless small groups Group, the cohesion of this faction comes from the xenophobic sentiment of Licheng traditional faction.

Some of them pursue fairness, some want to go out of the city and return to their hometown, some just want to be locals in Licheng, and the last batch of immigrants. In addition, their leaders were confused by Zhang Gongbao's actions and devoted their energy to dialogue. The preparations for combat have not been completed...Because the internal goals of the faction are different, it is a non-mainstream idea to use violence to get what you want.

Now, the barbaric behavior of the Tan family's armed forces tells them that the weapon of criticism cannot replace the criticism of weapons, so three of the ten reformist workshops were captured, and the remaining seven workshops were not ready.

Relying on the intermittent contact with the front line, Gang Bi confirmed that he will win a brilliant victory, the rebels will be wiped out, and as long as the perpetrators who used the curse technique are found out, Tan Jiuhe's body will be completely restored, and he will be completely restored. , the threat posed by foreign enemies to Tan will also disappear.

"Doctors can only heal patients, but I can heal a country." He said to his deputy.

Gang Bi received a lot of praise, he took out the sundial to look at it, and said: "There is still one hour before New Year's Day. When the New Year arrives, I will sit and eat in the Seven Star Workshop, which is the core of their enemies."

However, 15 minutes after the time passed, Gangbi felt something was wrong, because no messenger came back to report the situation. I don’t know if it was his illusion. The sky in front should have been ablaze, and the screams of killing were mixed with the cries of sinners. , but now he feels that the sky is dim, and the road paved in the workshop, the shadows spread like ink.

With the help of the magic weapon, Bai Niu and Hei Niu observed the intervention of a third-party force from a bird's-eye view. That person was alone, but every time he appeared, he could solve the target in the blink of an eye. Tan's casual cultivator, the cornerstone of Licheng's rule, couldn't even walk in front of him for a round.

"Based on the standards of casual cultivators, this person is at least a perfect golden elixir, and he is a casual cultivator associated with the eight sects. What he releases is the violent red light from Ri Shengdu's "Golden Crow Seven Lights"," Hei Niu said.

"There are remnants of "Golden Crow and Seven Lights" handed down to the world, and it is normal to have one or two moves at the meeting, but it's just that you have cultivated to this level..." Bai Niu smiled, "Our Lord Gang is about to suffer."

The black girl frowned: "It deserves it, this reckless thing is so powerful, he thought he could control us like those trash fish.

Yu Zuochen, Zhang Gongbao, and Gang Bi, after listening to Uncle Tan's statement that day, I sent someone to ask the locals, and as expected, the three honest officials Tan Jiuhe talked about were actually three beasts.

Yu Zuochen, who arrested people, sent them to die in cages. After one year, 2000 people died in cages, and most of them were wronged people.If you hate someone, just make up a few random charges and send a letter to report to Yu Zuochen, and Yu Zuochen will arrest the person, and if he confesses, he will put the criminal he thinks in a cage and stand there to die. As a punishment; and if he does not confess, even if the criminal speaks hard, he will still die after being locked in a cage until he pleads guilty.

Those who have been framed and framed by others will be imprisoned, those who express dissatisfaction with his careless life will be imprisoned, and those who he thinks are bad people will be imprisoned... There are only twelve cages in his government office. For the benefit of others, if you want to keep a person who goes to the cage, you will prevaricate him by saying that the cage is full and you will temporarily put the prisoner in prison. However, Yu Zuochen's approach is: randomly pick four prisoners in the cage and beat them up. die to make room for new prisoners.

Zhang Gongbao, who was building water conservancy, did not know that he believed the alchemist. He wanted to arrange flood control dams according to the hexagrams. Many local people with insight pointed out that this was a waste of money and people. Thickening, if it is necessary to break the embankment which section should be pushed, the mark is clear.

Zhang Gongbao refused to listen, he scolded the gentry for being stingy, he scolded the common people for being lazy, and in the end, his fantastic idea was ruthlessly destroyed by the flood, and 10 people were affected, but he blamed those people for not cooperating, so that the project could not be completed on schedule , boasting a lot about his foresight.

He then presided over disaster relief work.This time he did a good job, and he was moved and praised himself fiercely, and finally forgave these sinners in his heart.

As for Gangbi, he was able to complete the 17-year dossier accumulated by his predecessor in half a year after he took office, not because he was diligent and intelligent. The case was settled, and cruel officials were used to beat him into tricks, and the death case was successfully handled.

For example, there was a family extermination case in which a family of more than ten people could be killed overnight. This was something that at least four adult men could do, and the footprints at the scene also supported this judgment.

but.After Gangbi read the dossier, he quickly arrested the father and daughter of the Wei family who were singing in the restaurant. He said that when the murder case happened, someone saw that they were still awake, so they must have killed someone.

As for how they completed the extermination case, they naturally relied on singing and musical instruments as the medium of illusion to control four adult men to exterminate the family, and then deal with the four men to get rid of the suspicion.

The Wei family's father and daughter are just mortals. After they were arrested and imprisoned, they quickly became overwhelmed by torture, and Gangbi also created a perfect chain of evidence to prove that his judgment was right.

Many people have heard the little tunes of the Wei family father and daughter, and they like them very much.Everyone gathered together, and under the operation and tie-in of a juren, put pressure on Gangbi by bribing Gangbi's upper management, but Gangbi said harshly, he wanted to be an upright official, not to bow to the powerful, but to ask his heart Ashamed, he withstood the pressure and executed the Wei family father and daughter. "

The black girl gulped down a large bowl of water angrily, and said, "Unlucky, really unlucky! If we had known they were like this, we wouldn't have taken their jobs. There are ghosts in this place, why are there so many self-impressed things?" An upright murderer!"

"Sister, I understand. You suffered from hardships in your early years, and you can't get used to such things."

Bai Niu's voice seemed a little indifferent: "Mr. who wrote the lyrics for our screenplay, no matter what kind of festive script, it always makes people feel sad after thinking about it. Because the comedy he writes is to write the tragedy of the characters, so that the audience can bring Take pleasure in the character's tragedy with a mentality of watching fire from the other side.

The same is true for things that you think are absurd. When you look at the fire from the other side, you naturally feel that they are extremely absurd. For those characters in the situation, every step has shrewd calculations in it.

Yu Zuochen used torture to kill 2000 people a year because Tan Jiuhe needed him to stabilize the order in Licheng. violence;

If you carefully analyze the 2000 people he killed, there are more immigrants than locals, more common people than rich people, and the gentry and gentry are almost completely unaffected, and most of the people who were killed did not support the Tan family. people who rule.

All unjust, false and wrongly decided cases are excuses for cleaning up, and he has completed Tan Jiuhe's task.So he went to Caozhou to be the magistrate.

Zhang Gongbao was not good at water control, but the most severely affected area was very subtle. There was a warehouse for storing bulk materials, and after the flood, this warehouse was naturally included in the damage caused by the disaster. "

"You mean, they might be doing it...to balance the accounts?" the black girl said in surprise.

"Don't forget, this is the border between Emperor Liang Zong and the Palace of Four Seasons, and there will definitely be a lot of smuggling business. Every once in a while, fire, flood, mutiny or other things can wipe out these evils.

In addition, disaster relief is a very lucrative job. On the absolute moral high ground of disaster relief, Zhang Gongbao can use all his firepower to force people to donate supplies, and which ones will be returned secretly, which ones will be laughed at by himself, and which ones will be used for disaster relief. Mature bureaucrats will grasp the proportions so as to make enough money without stirring up riots among the disaster victims.

And Gangbi's motive may be the simplest, he just wants to gain fame, but fortunately, he is more likely to be promoted by his superiors when there is a vacancy to fill, so he has no one to rely on, and the Wei family father and daughter who are not worried about offending, that's it In a daze, he became a scapegoat.

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