Pawn Crossing the River

A powerful cult stronghold, in front of the Tiangang Hall, is like a flame in the wind, struggling for a few times before quickly extinguishing.

The "Yinglong" warship set sail again, which in a sense returned with a full load.

Not everyone can be escorted back to Yujing. Before that, Tiangang Hall had already made a classification, which was what Zhang Yuelu called screening.

Most of the manor's guests were left to the local Taoist authorities to cooperate with the government. The Taoist authorities did not interfere in specific affairs, but only played a role of supervision and supervision to prevent the situation of grabbing the front foot and letting the rear foot go. In this case, the government usually convicted the person, ranging from imprisonment to exile, and also imposed fines of varying amounts and deprived him of his status as a gentry.

When Daxuan was first established, he took advantage of the general trend of sweeping the world and implemented the New Reform Policy, which mainly focused on dividing people into acres.

The so-called "divide every ding into an acre" means, to put it bluntly, the ding tax is abolished and merged into the local tax. Ding tax is a head tax. It does not collect tax according to the number of people, but according to the amount of land under the name. Those with less land pay less tax, and those with more land pay more tax. This is beneficial to the poor people with more people and less land, and is not beneficial to the poor people with more people and less land. A gentry landowner with a lot of land but a small amount of land.

The gentry naturally opposed it, but at that time the Confucian sect and the Wei Dynasty were defeated. The focus of the Taoist sect and Daxuan nobles was no longer on the fields, but on sea trade. Naturally, it was ineffective. Instead, the various privileges of the gentry were abolished.

Although the privileges of the gentry were not completely abolished, for example, the gentry still did not bear corvees or taxes. However, it was explicitly stipulated that it was only limited to the gentry himself. The gentry could no longer protect others, and his family members still had to perform corvee service. As for not paying taxes, in the past there was no Din tax. Now that the Din tax has been abolished, everyone no longer pays taxes, but local taxes still have to be paid.

If the status of a gentry is deprived, then all kinds of corvee will follow, which is also a disguised punishment.

Except for those who were killed on the spot, all the cult monsters in the manor were escorted back to Yujing to be tried by Beichen Hall. If any Taoist disciples were involved, Fengxian Hall would also be involved.

After all, every inch of land in Yujing is precious, and only serious criminals are eligible to be imprisoned in Yujing City. These people will be imprisoned on Yuzhu Peak, where there is ice and snow, and it is very painful.

Then there is the stolen money involved in the case. In such a gold sales cave, the Taiping money that has not been transferred is as high as more than 200,000.

You must know that in a major Jiangnan case, a second-grade Taiyi Taoist priest died, hundreds of people were implicated, and the amount involved was only a few million Taiping money. More than 200,000 Taiping money was already a huge amount.

According to the instructions of Master Cihang, all the stolen money was sealed, transported back to Yujing, and handed over to Du Zhitang for disposal. Part of the stolen money will be allocated to Tiangang Hall as rewards. This is the special subsidy that Qi Xuansu also enjoyed. If there is no stolen money, Duzhitang will provide a guarantee.

The manor was handed over to the local government. The local government would not destroy it, but use it for other purposes, such as using it as a Puji hall, a nursery school, or as an academy or warehouse. If that didn't work, it would use it as a charity village. it is also fine.

As the leader of this operation, Zhang Yuelu has his own independent study room in "Yinglong".

Because it is a temporary study room, there are not many personal belongings, only mountains of files.

These were all found from the manor, mainly ledgers, because there were no signs of the Tiangang Hall's raid, which caught these cult monsters off guard, and a roster of relevant personnel survived.

Zhang Yuelu was looking through the roster at this time, and found that there were many gentry among them, and her whole family had joined a cult, which made her sigh, what does it mean to be unpopular? That's it.

As for the people on the list, it is natural to notify the local government and arrest them according to the list. No one can be let go.

There is no room for comment in such matters.

At this moment, someone knocked on the door.

Zhang Yuelu's eyes remained on the roster and he said without raising his head: "Come in."

Mu Jin walked in quickly, holding many official documents in her hands, but hesitated to speak.

"Yinglong" naturally also has a "message talisman array" for message communication.

"Tell me." Zhang Yuelu turned another page.

Mu Jin then said: "There is news from Wuxu Palace. We would like to ask our Tiangang Hall to help solve the case."

"Crack the case? Isn't that the errand of Beichen Hall?" Zhang Yuelu then raised his head, "We only want to destroy the secret societies, and don't care about anything else. Is there someone who asked me for something? Do you want to use public weapons for private use?"

Mu Jin hesitated for a moment and said, "They suspect that this matter is related to the secret society."

Zhang Yuelu reached out to take the paper from Mu Jin's hand and read it quickly.

"Wan Xiuwu... this name is a bit familiar. I seem to have heard it somewhere." Zhang Yuelu frowned slightly.

Mu Jin said: "This person is a disciple of the master of the Wuxu Palace, so the Wuxu Palace pays more attention to it. It is said that Pan Cuiqing, the junior master of the palace, personally dealt with it."

If masters and apprentices, brothers and sisters, parents, children, and brothers and sisters are in the same hall, house, or palace, and their status is higher and lower, then there will be a saying of "big and small". For example, in Tiangang Hall, Ci Hang Zhenren is the well-deserved Master Zhangtang, and Zhang Yuelu is privately called "Little Master Zhangtang" or "Little Master Zhangtang".

Although Zhang Yuelu didn't like this statement, he had to admit that this statement could accurately and simply point out the specific status of this person.

Mu Jin only needed to mention "Little Palm Palace", instead of mentioning the eldest disciple of the real Palm Palace, close confidant, and assistant minister of Wuxu Palace, and Zhang Yuelu understood Pan Cuiqing's status in Wuxu Palace.

Zhang Yuelu also remembered that when the Quanzhen Taoists visited Yunjin Mountain, she had met this person in the Shangqing Palace.

Qi Xuansu was still with her at that time. She never imagined that just a few days later, heaven and earth would be separated forever.

Thinking of this, Zhang Yuelu's mood dropped. He still held the official letter in his hand and didn't speak for a long time.

"Qingxiao?" Mu Jin said softly.

Zhang Yuelu came back to his senses, regained his composure, and said in deep thought: "Whether it's the Little Palm Palace or not, I just want to ask, is this matter really related to the secret society?"

The piece of paper in Zhang Yuelu's hand was just an official letter, very simple. There were other official documents describing the case in detail.

"Judging from the statement from Wuxu Palace, it should be related." Mu Jin took out another detailed case that was bound together.

Zhang Yuelu took it and browsed it quickly: "Do they suspect that they died at the hands of Uncle Feng? It's simply ridiculous. Not to mention that the time doesn't match up at all. With Uncle Feng's cultivation, killing people is so troublesome."

Mu Jin said: "But apart from Feng Bo's line, there are no clues."

Zhang Yuelu asked: "Have you checked Wan Xiuwu's personal dealings and various relationships?"

"I checked, and Wan Xiuwu hasn't made any enemies recently." Mu Jin replied.

Zhang Yuelu said calmly: "It's never too late for a gentleman to take revenge. Ten years is not too late. Don't just check the recent past, but look forward. Did he make any enemies when he was in Wanxiang Dao Palace?"

Mu Jin looked strange and said nothing.

As a close confidant of Zhang Yuelu, she would transfer many official documents to Zhang Yuelu only after she had read them, which acted as a filter. Naturally, she had already read them.

Zhang Yuelu also happened to see the last page.

Wan Xiuwu did have an enemy in Wanxiang Dao Palace.

Name: Qi Xuansu. The name is Tianyuan.

Age: twenty-five years old.

Level: Sixth-grade Taoist priest, enjoy the treatment of fifth-grade Taoist priest.

Born: Jia Ke, Bingzi Year, Wanxiang Taoist Palace.

Inherited by: Qi Haoran. Note: The Taoist priest of the fourth grade of wine sacrifice died unexpectedly.

Position: Deacon of Yaoguang Department of Tiangang Hall. His whereabouts are unknown and he is suspected to be dead.

Zhang Yuelu was silent for a long time, and then said softly: "His heart is worth killing."

This was the reason why Mu Jin was awkward and didn't dare to tell her directly. Of course she knew that Qi Xuansu was a thorn in Zhang Yuelu's heart, so there was a tacit understanding between the top and bottom of the Yaoguang Department and they would not mention Qi Xuansu easily.

During this period of time, Zhang Yuelu had almost no time to spare, letting himself focus on matters big and small, but there wasn't much difference.

But now asking Zhang Yuelu to investigate Qi Xuansu, isn't this a stab in Zhang Yuelu's heart?

Zhang Yuelu said slowly: "Don't they... know that Tian Yuan is my friend? What do you want to express by asking me to handle this case? Are you looking at my joke? Or is it because you don't want to drink?"

Mu Jin hurriedly said: "Actually, they reported it to Tiangang Hall. The reason why they were transferred to the deputy hall master was because of the intention of the master."

"What does master mean?" Zhang Yuelu was startled and then fell into deep thought.

Mu Jin didn't dare to say anything.

After a long time, Zhang Yuelu said: "I understand. After handling this matter, I will go to Wuxu Palace."