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The residence of the Luyang prefect at this time.
It was the middle of the night and the prefect Lu Yinli was still processing documents in his study.
He was incorruptible, diligent in government affairs, and was deeply loved by the people of Luyang.
As the ink-black brush tip wrote the word "匪", a black shadow suddenly flashed across the windowsill.
Lu Yinli pulled out the long sword hidden beside him, his brows were alert, he stood up and ran to the windowsill.
The windowsill was empty, with only a letter left.
Lu Yinli opened the envelope and saw only the two words "Qinglong" and an ivory.
He was very familiar with this ivory, it was the personal accessory of the leader of Qinglong Mountain!
Why are you here?
Lu Yinli's mind was spinning rapidly. He opened the door and asked the servant to call his staff.
The three discussed for half the night and finally decided to lead a thousand elite soldiers to climb Qinglong Mountain at night!
At three quarters past the hour of Chou, the people of Luyang were all asleep and the crescent moon was hanging high in the sky.
Lu Yinli led a team of elite soldiers and rode at full speed to Qinglong Mountain.
Looking at the unconscious bandit, everyone was a little surprised.
Lu Yinli stood with his hands behind his back, his grey clothes fluttering in the night wind, his eyes solemn.
There are two major cities in the Central Plains, Youzhou and Luyang.
Qinglong Mountain is located at the junction of Youzhou and Luyang. The bandits in Qinglong Mountain rob and plunder, and act lawless, making the people of Luyang feel insecure.
Ever since he took office, he has always wanted to take over Qinglong Mountain in one fell swoop.
But Youzhou never cooperated.
The people have been complaining, and he has been worried about this matter for many years.
But now, someone had knocked out all the people from Qinglong Mountain and handed them over to him?
This political achievement was enough to get him promoted two levels, from the fourth rank to the second rank.
But Lu Yinli felt a little uneasy when he held it.
Just as he was thinking about it, a subordinate ran over and handed him a stack of letters.
"Sir, I found a letter in the room of the head of Qinglong Mountain showing his secret communication with Youzhou prefect Cen Rui."
Lu Yinli had expected this. He took the letter and said calmly, "Go down."
The night wind blew up his wide sleeves.
The storm is coming.
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Three days later.
"My Lord, according to the news that came back, Lu Yinli annihilated the Qinglong Mountain bandits and exposed the evil deeds of Youzhou Governor Cen Rui colluding with the Qinglong Mountain bandits. The people of Luyang and Youzhou were overjoyed and called him the Great Lord of Justice."
Gu Wei nodded and looked at the endless green mountains in the distance.
"What is the Second Prince's movement like?"
"They are recruiting soldiers. I think they are going to rebel."
Xu Xingzhi on the side said calmly: "Lu Yinli is a man of integrity and ruthlessness. He will be transferred to Shangjing to take up a post, and he will definitely not get along well with the prince's party.
Coupled with the Second Prince's turmoil, the Crown Prince will probably be too busy to pay attention to us."
In fact, Gu Wei had more considerations for letting Lu Yinli enter Shangjing.
Many years later, Xu Xingzhi suddenly realized it.
Whenever he thought back to this situation, he wanted to applaud.
Praise Gu Wei for his ability to plan and direct strategies, and to make clouds and rain with a wave of his hand, saying that he is truly a natural strategist.
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Xie Ling recently discovered that there are more and more refugees on the road.
Basically, several families or people from the same village go together.
There were not many places to rest on both sides of the official road. Most of the time, the exiled prisoners basically rested together with the refugees.
However, the refugees were very tactful. They stayed away from them, rested themselves and left without disturbing them.
These days, people don’t fight against officials, even if it means exiling officials.
The most important thing is that GunGun is too conspicuous.
A big tiger is lying there majestically. Who dares to approach?
Today everyone is resting at the post station.
Wu Zheng had nothing to do so he came to visit.
As the two chatted, they talked about these refugees.
Wu Zhengqing is a descendant of a military family and has a better understanding of the situation.
She looked out the window and whispered, "I heard from my father that it was because the Second Prince rebelled and recruited soldiers everywhere that these people fled."
Xie Ling nodded, "No wonder."
When a country prospers, the people suffer; when a country perishes, the people suffer.
Taxes, corvée labor, everything else could squeeze the skin of the ancient people.
Xie Ling turned her gaze to the yellow mud road outside the post station.
The vagrants were like black dots, hurrying along with their heads down.
At this time, Gu Wei was standing by the sink in the post station washing his hands.
Under the frosty moonlight, she is graceful and elegant.
A familiar murderous aura came from behind.
The cold and sharp sword energy lifted the hair on the side of his body.
Gu Wei didn't even bother to turn his head. He quickly picked up a branch beside him, blocked the sword with his backhand, and stabbed it into the throat of the person behind him.
The man in black fell heavily to the ground.
Shu Jian appeared from the darkness, dragged the body away and disposed of it.
As Xu Xingzhi said, after this wave of killers were dealt with, there were indeed no new ones.
However, Chen Daoyu frowned when he received the letter from Shangjing.
They came out of Qinglong Mountain not long ago, and the original Luyang prefect Lu Yinli happened to be promoted through Qinglong Mountain?
How could there be such a coincidence in the world?
Chen Daoyu looked at the words "Daoyu, what should I do now?" on the letter with a cold gaze, and he felt annoyed.
Lu Yinli is a very difficult person. Who threw such a dog-skin plaster into Shangjing?
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At this time in Qinglong Mountain, all the members of the second branch of the Gu family who had been in a coma for three or four days slowly woke up.
The effect of the drug had not yet been neutralized, and everyone had dull eyes and looked idiotic. They were so hungry that they grabbed the mud on the ground and started eating it.
When all the food around them was gone, they started to kill each other.
After a few months, only a pool of blood, bones and flesh remained, which were washed away by the water.
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