The host is red and black, and the system can only chirp

A person has been sticking to his word for decades, and suddenly someone attacks him. He cannot fight back, but if he wants to argue, the other person isn't completely wrong... It's hard to explain the aggrieved person to outsiders.

Fortunately, Yunnei County has Li Erfeng, the community leader and the emperor's cousin. He accompanies Duke Zhennan day and night, perfectly saving the face of the clan leader.

As he was planning to leave, Song Que maintained his composure and prepared to say goodbye to Sect Leader Xi properly.

The Xi clan leader who was busy trying to digest the three counties of Wuyuan, Shuofang and Yulin, said:

Recalling the compensation clause of the Song clan, Sect Leader Xi finally remembered that she had not fulfilled her duties as a host. So she politely tried to persuade her to stay: "Why don't you go to Yulin, Shuofang and other places?"

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In order to prevent the new manager from being constrained by local powerful people, Xi Mingming forcibly stuffed the powerful families of the three counties into the city of Mayi County and handed them over to Wang Rengong for reception.

When the Turks moved south, the government offices in various counties suffered an impact, and records such as household property records and population records were severely damaged.

Nowadays, Xi Mingming is busy arranging people to re-register.

If the powerful have clearly recorded their land and population and they match the official credentials, then it is still yours; if the government records are incomplete, it is embarrassing to confiscate all of it.

The next time the Turks invade the border, there will be no emperor besieging Yanmen County... and no soldiers will respond to the call and rush to the border to defend the king.

So what if they are local tyrants? They will still destroy their families and clans.

If you think about it this way, wouldn't it be more acceptable to confiscate the lost property and use it to raise troops and defend against invaders?

Sect Leader Xi is doing this.

Didn’t Song Que want to test her?

Go ahead and take a good look. Sect Leader Xi is very open.

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Moreover, the people under the Song clan were really useful. For example, Song Lu, in just ten days, had already taken Zhang Shu back and forth from Hedong.

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If Xi Mingming had not been so extraordinary, Song Que would definitely be considered a great master of his generation in every sense of the word.

Therefore, at this moment, Song Que sighed: "One leaf falling tells us that autumn is coming. I can see clearly the various things in Yunnei County, how Master Xi governs the people and how he manages the army."

A woman with such courage and insight... Regardless of success or failure, Sect Leader Xi is definitely a person who can do great things as she dares to reform the land despite the disapproval of the world.

The next generation of the Song clan are mostly inferior to them.

As a grandmaster who is not even in his twenties, Song Que often couldn't understand how one had to learn and practice to achieve such martial arts and knowledge in just a dozen years of life.

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Before leaving.

"Master Xi, do you know that there is an established rule in the martial arts world today?"

"what?"

"Grandmasters don't come out easily, and they don't take action casually."

"Who decided that?"

“No one has stipulated that.”

"As long as it's not a rule set by me, then there are no rules!"

"What are Sect Master Xi's rules?"

"Violating the law with force. In my territory, if there are people who practice martial arts and rely on force to oppress the common people, or if there are forces that rely on the army or official power to bully the people..."

Xi Mingming had a blank expression on his face, full of murderous intent, and spoke word by word: "Kill without mercy!"

Sect Leader Xi's expression turned pale, "The bigger wish... is to find a way for the common people to survive."

Xi Mingming naturally would not demand an ideal country in this era and with the current level of productivity.

Doesn't she want children to be educated, students to be taught, workers to be paid, the sick to be treated, the elderly to be cared for, people to have homes to live in, and the weak to be supported?

I can't do it.

Let’s find a way to survive first.

“Of course…” Xi Mingming changed his tone, “For example, the Heavenly Monarch Xi Ying was hunted down by Mr. Song because he violated the taboo of the word [天]… Xi will not intervene in internal fighting in the martial arts world like this.”

The Heavenly Lord versus the Heavenly Sword.

No matter how evil Xi Ying was, Song Que found such a perfunctory excuse to chase him for thousands of miles... This one incident alone shows how tyrannical Song Que was.

Xi Mingming looked towards the east of the river, where his original self was born.

Sect Leader Xi's eyes were firm, and his tone was calm but unquestionable: "If a private fight between warriors involves innocent people, they should be killed. Just like Xi Ying who was being hunted down, he passed by Zhuangzi and slaughtered the whole family."

Song Que felt as if a bolt of lightning had struck him out of the blue, and after a moment he looked as pale as death.

When he spoke again, Song Que spoke slowly and in a low voice: "Hedong Xue Family."

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Song Que has always been aloof and self-admiring in his life. He is pure and innocent, and he believes that he has never killed innocent people.

When he hunted Xi Ying down for thousands of miles, he claimed to be the Lord of Heaven because the word "天" in his name was taboo, but in reality it was just because Xi Ying killed innocent people indiscriminately.

Song Que asked himself and realized that there were three things he regretted in his life.

One was that there was no opportunity to unify the country. The Lingnan army had 10,000 soldiers against Yang Jian's 100,000 soldiers. Although they won every battle, they could not unify the north from the south. The power of the country was not in Lingnan.

The second is the departure of a confidante;

If these two things could still be told to outsiders... Of course, after Sect Leader Xi tore off the fig leaf, Song Que definitely didn't want anyone to mention it again.

As for the third thing, Song Que could only keep it deep in his heart and could not speak out loud.

That was when he was chasing Xi Ying to Hedong, and he turned around without hesitation... Xi Ying slaughtered all the branches of the Xue family in Hedong.

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The Hedong Xue family was not initially worthy of being considered a surname in Guanzhong County.

Because they were not natives of Hedong, when the Hedong Xue family first moved to the Central Plains from Shu, they were regarded as "not of our kind" by the local prominent families and for a long time were derogatorily called "Hedong Shu" and "Shu Xue".

After hundreds of years of development, it was not until the early Northern Wei Dynasty that the Hedong Xue family was listed as a county surname, on the same level as the noble families of the Han and Jin Dynasties.

The Hedong Xue family has always been rich in martial virtues and, after years of accumulation, Xue Daoheng, a prominent literary figure in the early Sui Dynasty, suffered misfortune because he openly revered Gao Jiong and offended Yang Guang.

Xue Daoheng actually had a chance to save himself.

Fang Xuanling's father, Fang Yanqian, who was the governor of Sili at the time, advised Xue Daoheng to stay at home and protect himself.

Xue Daoheng refused.

This incident shows that the Xue family is stubborn.

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Patriarch Xi was actually the only descendant of the slaughtered branch of the Xue family.

No wonder Xi Ying died in the Western Regions.

The Xue family.

Song Que sighed deeply. Although he didn't know why Sect Leader Xi changed his surname, this could be considered as... not losing the martial spirit of his ancestors.

"Master Xi, Lingnan will be the most loyal supporter of the Northern Frontier."

In any case, the choice made by the Xi clan leader was extremely smart - the world was about to fall into chaos, and resisting the invasion of the barbarians from the south would put himself in an invincible position.

Xi Mingming: ...What happened? How did the moral level suddenly rise to such a high level?