President of Datang [Transmigration Book]
Chapter 126
When Li Tan heard the news, he inexplicably thought of Zhu Xieli, who had never heard from him.
Although it doesn't prove that Zhu Xieli was responsible for the bloodbath of the Dark Witch Cult, it certainly wasn't done by the imperial court, after all, the imperial court has to go through formal procedures.
After Li Tan got the news, he hurriedly wrote another letter to Zhu Xieli, asking the carrier pigeon to send it back, but he didn't know if the carrier pigeon had run too far in a short time, when he saw Li Tan coming back with the letter , It actually turned its head and pointed its butt at Li Tan.
Li Tan didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and the barbarian at the side gloated and said, "The unscrupulous boss oppresses the laborers, and the laborers are about to go on strike."
Li Tan turned around and grabbed it, tied the letter to it and said, "Then you go and deliver the letter, and find out where Zhu Xieli is by the way, I know I can find him."
Zhiyi:? ? ? ? ?
Li Tan looked at Zhi Yi's shocked look, and said calmly, "You should be useful when you grow up."
Zhi Yi said: "Huang Shiren, you."
Li Tan smiled: "Yo, yes, I know Huang Shiren, hurry up, go find Zhu Xieli!"
At this time, the carrier pigeon also turned around, tilting its head and looking at it innocently.
It made Zhiyi almost suspect that it hadn't colluded with Li Tan to punish him.
Li Tan also took out an apple and said, "Take it and eat it on the way."
Well, at least there is still food, Zhiyi knew that Li Tan wanted to quickly find out whether the matter of the Dark Witch Cult had anything to do with Zhu Xieli, so Zhiyi beat him up and left.
Just as Zhiyi left, Gongsun Chui over there came over and said, "Your Majesty, we have already found out that those people did get together last night with the intention of committing crimes."
Li Tan sneered: "A bunch of idiots."
At this time, Chen Chong also came over and asked, "My lord, I'm ready here too, do you want to do it?"
Li Tan thought for a while and said, "No hurry, let me meet that Yin Zizhe first."
When Yin Zizhe received the envoy from the palace, he was very excited. He knew that his nomination certificate should have played a role.
However, under the excitement, he still asked: "I don't know, did Hai Dacheng have the honor to ask to see His Highness?"
The person Li Tan sent was Qing Kong's apprentice, also a young eunuch named Luan Fa. Luan Fa was born with squinting eyes, and he looked like he was smiling when he was not stern. .
Hearing Yin Zizhe's words, he couldn't even see his smiling eyes. He nodded and said, "Of course it's possible. Please go there early tomorrow."
Yin Zizhe hurriedly sent Luan Fa away respectfully. Of course, he was also clever and sent Luan a lot of thank you gifts.
Luan Fa naturally went back with a full wallet.
Yin Zizhe took a deep breath, turned his head, and asked someone to prepare his best clothes, as well as various accessories, and at the same time, asked someone to notify Hai Dacheng.
In the end, he didn't expect Hai Dacheng to come over in person, and asked, "Really? His Highness King Ning really wants to see us?"
Yin Zizhe glanced at him contemptuously and said, "Looking at your potential, you always have a calm attitude when it comes to major events. If you can't do this, do you still want to stand out in the future?"
Hai Dacheng didn't mind his contempt, and said flatteredly: "My father is right, there must be good things to follow you."
Yin Zizhe: ...
This guy is probably hopeless, but Hai Dacheng and his family are indeed kind to him. When his father passed away, although he was chosen by the old man to inherit, the other sons of the old man would definitely not be reconciled.
At the beginning, Yin Zizhe had indeed had a difficult time. If it wasn't for Hai Dacheng's father's help, he might not be where he is today. It is precisely because of this that he is willing to help Hai Dacheng no matter whether he can support the wall or not.
What's more, Hai Dacheng is actually quite obedient, there are advantages to not being ambitious.
It was precisely because of the past between Yin Zizhe and the Hai family that Li Tan was willing to meet Yin Zizhe.
In any case, the character of a person who knows how to repay his kindness is more trustworthy.
Yin Zizhe and Hai Dacheng got up early the next day. When the two of them came to the door, the curfew had just ended, and the porter had just woken up.
When he begged the concierge to report, Yin Zizhe was already prepared to be slapped. He even prepared the money to pay the concierge.
Unexpectedly, although the concierge looked a little sleepy, he said very politely: "The higher-ups ordered it down yesterday, but I still need to invite the two young gentlemen to come in and wait a while, and I will report."
Yin Zizhe quickly said: "This is as it should be, please trouble your Excellency."
The concierge waved his hands and said, "It's as it should be. It's cold outside, so you two hurried in to avoid the wind for the sake of Mr. Xiaolang. I'll report it first."
After Yin Zizhe and Hai Dacheng went in, the concierge turned around and walked into the mansion.
When he was far away, Hai Dacheng said secretly: "The concierge of this palace is more polite than that of the Yin family."
Yin Zizhe said softly: "This shows the atmosphere of King Ning's mansion. King Ning's ability to control his servants in such a way shows that his character is precious, and naturally it is not comparable to that of Yin Fang."
Originally, Yin Zizhe had no idea about defecting to King Ning, but he had no other choice. If he didn't want to sink the ship with Yin Fang, he could only defect to King Ning.
As for being a neutral person watching the show, I really don't even think about it. Now that I am neutral, I am afraid that I will never have the opportunity to choose again.
What's more, if these two fight against each other, it's really a disaster for gods to fight with little ghosts. If you think about it, the neutral ones will be cannon fodder.
When the concierge went to report, Li Tan just woke up in a daze, glanced at the sky and found that it was still early, and when he was about to go back to sleep, he heard Qing Kong whispering to someone: "Your Majesty hasn't got up yet. They wait first."
As soon as Li Tan heard it, he knew that someone must be coming, so he couldn't help but ask, "Who is here?"
Qing Kong immediately came over and said: "Back to the King, it is Yin Zizhe and Hai Dacheng who are here."
Li Tan half-closed his eyes and said helplessly, "They're pretty active."
Listening to him talking in a nasal voice, Qing Kong knew that Li Tan must not have woken up, so he said softly: "It's still early, Your Majesty, let's rest for a while."
Li Tan had slowly come to his senses at this time, and he might not be able to fall asleep even if he continued to sleep, so he got up and said, "No need, let someone come in to serve you, and by the way, ask the two of them if they have breakfast. Let's use it together."
Naturally, Yin Zizhe and Hai Dacheng didn't have anything to eat. They were busy tidying up early in the morning, and then they became nervous when they thought about going to see King Ning. How could they be in the mood to have breakfast?
Naturally, Yin Zizhe and Hai Dacheng didn't dare to eat with Li Tan, but in the end they were taken over to sit nervously opposite Li Tan, holding a bowl and drinking porridge, not daring to stretch out their chopsticks.
Li Tan naturally has no psychological burden, no matter who often dines with the emperor and concubine, he can become extremely calm.
However, he saw that Yin Zizhe and Hai Dacheng were really suffering from eating, so he didn't procrastinate. After eating something casually, he asked someone to remove the table and said, "Don't be nervous, I just want to see what is the young talent from Liangzhou." kind of."
Yin Zizhe hurriedly said modestly: "How can we count as young talents? It's just that Liangzhou's talent is withering now, which makes us stand out. Now that His Highness is down, it's the time for Liangzhou's young talents to make their debut."
He distractedly looked after Hai Dacheng while talking, and after he finished speaking, he found that his head was still lowered, as if he was counting rice grains in a bowl, so he couldn't help but kicked him lightly.
Hai Dacheng was taken aback, and reflexively raised his eyes to look at Yin Zizhe, and he said after a long time: "Thirteen Lang is right."
Yin Zizhe really wanted to blow his pig's head off!
Fortunately, Li Tan didn't mind. Although Yin Zizhe's words were flattering, they were also true to a certain extent.
It's not that he knows people well, the main thing is that after he comes, the various treatment in Liangzhou will be upgraded to the treatment in Shangzhou.
Among other things, the number of candidates for imperial examinations will increase, and the number of recommendations will also increase.
In the past, those students in Liangzhou who were well educated but not that great, had ushered in the spring.
Li Tan smiled and said, "Let's not talk about the polite words, let me tell you what you think of the Yin family."
Although he was talking about two people, his eyes were on Yin Zizhe.
Yin Zizhe also knew that his little partner was probably useless, so he said: "I don't know much about the Yin family, I only know that the Yin family has deep roots, and it is said that not only has contacts with Tubo and Turks, but even Khitan and Turks. Xibu and even Heishui Mohe have contacts."
Li Tan was a little surprised: "Their business scope is quite wide."
Yin Zizhe's eyes were a little dazed, of course he couldn't understand the meaning of business scope.
Li Tan didn't explain it, so he naturally didn't dare to ask. He just thought it was some new buzzword in Chang'an, so he wrote it down silently, and was going to ask someone later.
Li Tan continued to ask: "They have contacts with so many foreigners, are they just doing business?"
Yin Zizhe shook his head and said, "I don't know much about the details. I only know that they are in the fur business on the surface, but I don't know the specifics of their relationship."
Li Tan nodded. Originally, he was just asking casually, but he didn't expect to actually get news that he didn't know before.
He talked with Yin Zizhe again, and after finding out that Yin Zizhe's position was indeed very firm, he said: "Go back and study hard, the exam will start after a while."
He didn't promise anything to Yin Zizhe, but he had already decided in his heart that he must reserve a place for Yin Zizhe. Of course, the specific position would depend on how he behaved when the Yin family and other families were arrested in two days.
Yin Zizhe also nodded tacitly. He glanced at Hai Dacheng and felt that there was really no way to speak to Li Tan again.
Li Tan looked at Hai Dacheng and smiled and said, "Don't worry."
No matter how much he said, he refused to say more, but Yin Zizhe felt relieved and hurriedly left.
After he left with Hai Dacheng, Wang Wei came in and asked, "Your Majesty wants to promote these two people?"
Li Tan nodded: "Why? Inappropriate?"
Wang Wei shook his head and said, "It's not inappropriate, but we should observe more. What if these two people are not trustworthy?"
Li Tan sighed: "Of course I know that I need to find reliable people, but after I arrived in Liangzhou, I first copied the Tie family and killed the original long history, and now I want to kill many people one after another. The family is not limited to this, and when the time comes, they will be really panicked, what should I do if they dare not continue to follow me?"
Wang Wei immediately understood what Li Tan meant. He wanted to use Yin Zizhe and Hai Dacheng as an example, telling everyone that as long as they are obedient, not only will they not lose their lives, but they will also have the opportunity to make progress.
Seeing his sudden realization, Li Tan continued: "No family is willing to stay in the same place all the time. Everyone wants to replace the Yin family. Now I'll give them a chance, and it's up to them whether they dare or not."
Only then did Wang Wei express his understanding, and Li Tan asked again: "Brother Ling, do you have any news?"
Wang Wei said: "Da Lang will leave in a few days."
Li Tan frowned and said, "Just in time, Liangzhou should have stabilized by the time he comes, and it's time for him to make suggestions."
Wang Wei looked dull: "My lord, my elder brother came here as a transfer envoy."
Li Tan waved his hand: "Of course I know that he is a transshipment envoy, but the question is... what is there for transshipment in Liangzhou?"
Wang Wei was at a loss for words for a while, the transfer envoy was generally responsible for the transfer of food, and the only time when Liangzhou needed food transfer was probably when the imperial court sent relief food here.
It wasn't until this time that Wang Wei felt that they were probably being fooled by Li Tan, and they came to Liangzhou as a transfer envoy.
Li Tan saw the condemnation in Wang Wei's eyes, so he said: "Don't look at me like that, the reason why I insist on letting Wang Zhuanyun come over is mainly because of worry."
Wang Wei asked, "What are you worried about?"
Li Tan said: "Luoyang is very close to Chang'an, if there is an emergency..."
Naturally, Wang Wei didn't believe it: "The sage is still there, so what happens?"
At this moment, Du Fu said outside: "If this happens, it will be too late. Changan's defense will definitely give priority to protecting the saint lady and the prince, and the rest... can only rely on themselves."
Hearing Du Fu say the same thing, Wang Wei was a little flustered, and immediately said, "I'll write another letter to urge Da Lang to leave quickly."
Du Fu quickly said: "This is just our guess, let him stop talking nonsense!"
Wang Wei's voice came from afar: "I know!"
Li Tan looked at Du Fu silently, Du Fu smiled and said, "My lord, how is my cooperation?"
Li Tan said: "That's pretty good, so here comes the question, what did Wang Wei come to see me for?"
Du Fu is totally overdoing it.
Du Fu was also a little embarrassed, Li Tan changed the subject and asked, "What's wrong?"
Only then did Du Fu say seriously: "The tax report for the king's fief last year has come up, should we sell it on the spot and convert it into money, or let them transport it?"
Most of the taxation these years is directly collecting goods. For example, the tax on grain is to collect grain, and the tax on silk cloth is to collect cloth.
Li Tan's fief is a little far away from Liangzhou. According to the past practice, the money should be sent to Liangzhou after the local sale.
It's just that Li Tan thought about it for a while. There is no shortage of water in a small part of Liangzhou, but the canals in most areas have not been repaired. After all, the winter in this place lasts too long.
How to do engineering when the weather is cold and freezing?
So he said: "The cloth is sold, let's bring the grain."
Du Fu originally meant the same thing, so he came to ask Li Tan about it.
After he left, Chen Chong came again. As soon as Li Tan saw him, before he could speak, he said, "Get someone to prepare, and we will do it in two days. By the way, have you checked everything out? Are you sure everyone is there?"
Chen Chong said: "The last general was about to say this, but not all of them were there. Some of them chose to go back first because it took too long."
Li Tan immediately asked, "Are you sure they didn't know something in advance?"
Chen Chong nodded and said, "I'm sure, I've sent someone to follow, and there's nothing unusual about my behavior."
After hearing this, Li Tan reassured and said: "Those who left first, let people arrest them first. Remember, no one is allowed to leak, let alone someone who comes to tip the news."
Chen Chong immediately said: "I'll send someone there, but I still need the king's order."
Li Tan immediately wrote a letter to him.
After this series of things were done, Li Tan finally relaxed. Liangzhou will be settled in two days. I hope everything goes well.
Two days later, when Li Tan was sitting in the palace chatting and laughing happily with everyone, most of the city in the state capital was covered in blood.
Ordinary civilians had already cleverly hid when they saw the heavy soldiers dispatched.
On the contrary, big families like the Yin family got the news relatively late, and after they got the news, they didn't feel that these soldiers were coming for them. After all, although Li Tan still ignored them during this period, he still sent a message to his children. Admission ticket.
In their opinion, this is what King Ning meant to reconcile with them. Under such circumstances, Yin Fang only felt that Li Tan was taking the initiative to show weakness and wanted to take a step back. How could he have thought that Li Tan would actually send someone to arrest them.
After the soldiers broke into the mansion and arrested him who was listening to the music and watching the dance, he was still yelling: "You guys are so brave, you dare to trespass into the private house!"
"The home of a traitor is not trespassing." Chen Chong came over and said with a sneer.
Yin Fang glared at him and asked, "What evidence do you have to prove that I'm a traitor? If you slander me so much, I will demand my innocence!"
Chen Chong nodded and said, "Sure enough, you have something to do with a certain nobleman in Chang'an, but you probably don't know it, and the sage personally sentenced you."
Yin Fang was taken aback for a moment, his first reaction was to not believe it, how could he believe it?
What did he do that even the saints would notice?
Just when he was about to refute, Chen Chong waved his hand and said, "You have enough time to talk if you want to talk, go to the prison and put it on!"
Yin Fang saw that the whole family was arrested from top to bottom, men, women and children, and even his slaves were executed on the spot when they tried to resist. He couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart, and only shouted: "I'm wronged!"
Then got gagged.
Chen Chong looked at his tearful eyes and said coldly: "Your Majesty never wrongs a good person."
The same scene happened in the rich area of Liangzhou. Liangzhou Mansion was not big in the first place, and most of the famous people lived nearby. However, because of the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, it was very easy to arrest people.
As long as you come in and send someone to guard the gate of the workshop, basically you only have to catch a turtle in the urn.
By the time Chen Chong had arrested everyone and taken them away, there were basically only a few houses left in the rich area, among them were the Yin family and the Hai family.
Yin Zizhe and Hai Dacheng knew what was going on in their hearts. They didn't dare to go out when Chen Chong arrested him. They didn't send people out to take a look until the noise outside disappeared.
Oh, it was Yin Zizhe who sent someone to take a look, and Hai Dacheng... this guy sneaked off to find Yin Zizhe.
When seeing Yin Zizhe, Hai Dacheng turned pale and said, "One of them didn't stay, what did they do?"
Yin Zizhe was still in shock at this time. He knew that King Ning would definitely attack these families, but he did not expect such a cruel attack.
This time he didn't reprimand Hai Dacheng for being worthless, but just calmed down and said: "Don't ask, it's not something we can intervene in. After the trial of the case is over, King Ning will definitely explain it."
Among other things, Li Tan must give an explanation to the rest of the family, otherwise everyone will be scared to death.
Just as he was saying these words, his servants came to inform him that another person came to see Yin Zizhe.
When Yin Zizhe asked, he found that it happened to be sent by the few remaining families in the workshop who were not arrested, so he said: "Tell them, I will disappear in troubled times, let them be careful recently, but don't worry too much, as long as If they didn't get involved in the Yin family's affairs, it's fine."
In fact, Yin Zizhe felt that according to the arresting posture of the state government, anyone involved with the Yin family would probably be arrested, so the rest would be really safe.
But this sentence can't be said too much, what if someone in the Yin family can't stand the torture and confess something?
Thinking of this, Yin Zizhe couldn't help but feel that he had done the most correct thing by going to King Ning before.
After Chen Chong had arrested everyone and verified the list was correct, he went to report to Li Tan.
Li Tan nodded after hearing this, and said, "I'm finally relieved, since you've caught them, don't waste it, first ask carefully, and then see if you want to deal with them.
Chen Chong immediately understood what he meant, hesitated for a while and asked: "My lord, the dungeon is not enough, where are these people?"
Li Tan was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect that there were so few dungeons in Liangzhou Prefecture.
But after thinking about it, he thought it might be that too many people were arrested this time. After all, there may not have been such a big case in Liangzhou in the past.
He said directly: "The governor's mansion is now vacant, let's put it there first."
In fact, the governor's mansion also has a dungeon, but he thinks it's not possible, so he simply uses the whole governor's mansion for now. Anyway, he won't go back to live in the governor's mansion in the future. When he moves again, he should go to the new city.
Chen Chong took the order immediately, and He Zhizhang beside him sighed and said, "I hope there will never be a time when the dungeons are not enough in Liangzhou."
Li Tan knew that He Zhizhang was tactfully trying to comfort him, so he smiled and said, "After this time, Liangzhou should be honest from top to bottom, and the rest is cooperation, so naturally it won't be like this again."
He Zhizhang nodded and said: "In this case, you should appease everyone."
Li Tan said: "I act according to the law. If they are really shocked, it means that they have done something wrong. It's okay if they are not arrested. What else can I appease?"
He Zhizhang laughed: "When the water is clear, there will be no fish, and when people observe it, there will be no disciples."
Li Tan smiled: "Of course I understand this truth, but... I think the state exam is more important than me entertaining them to appease them. Well, it's a big deal to release a new news, the exam is good Yes, you can appoint an official first, and if you have the intention to continue to take the imperial examination, you can also participate. At that time, the state government will uniformly select from these people who are interested in the imperial examination, and select the appropriate number of people to go to Beijing to take the exam. out!"
As soon as He Zhizhang heard it, he knew that Li Tan had grasped the key point again. Compared with the arrest of the Yin family and other families, the imperial examination was more related to the future of the family's children.
What's more, Li Tan is very treacherous. If you want to take the imperial examination, you have to take the state examination. Otherwise, you will not be on the selection list when the state is selected. Even if you want to go to Beijing to catch the exam, it is impossible.
He Zhizhang felt that this exam was probably because Li Tan wanted to find out the bottom line, and he had a good idea of the talents in Liangzhou.
After doing this, all the scholars who went out from Liangzhou were under his command, and what's more, they were funded by him. These people would naturally be Li Tan's allies.
Of course, there may be white-eyed wolves, but those are a minority. Li Tan's identity is here, and if he wants to be a white-eyed wolf, he has to weigh whether he has the ability.
He Zhizhang thought of this and asked, "Is the topic ready?"
Li Tan said with a smile: "Isn't this waiting for you to do it yourself?"
He Zhizhang glanced angrily and said, "This is to select talents for you and for the country. How can you not care about anything?"
Li Tanli said bluntly: "I have no experience."
He Zhizhang: ...
Well, this is indeed a reason.
So He Zhizhang dragged Li Bai and Du Fu to come up with the questions, and he even said that he wanted to train these two people.
As for Gongsun Chui, he is also optimistic about this young man, but he is not familiar with Gongsun Chui, and Gongsun Chui has too many things to do as a long history, so it is not good to just let him skip work so openly.
After Li Tan saw that everything was on the right track, he was relieved.
After thinking about it, the time for the exam was set in half a month, and the time was a bit tight.
It's just that he has let the wind out a long time ago, and those who need to review probably have already reviewed it.
After everything was arranged, Li Tan suddenly thought: Why hasn't Zhiyi come back yet?
He asked Zhiyi to find Zhu Xieli, but after several days in a row, not only did Zhu Xielu have no news, but why did Zhiyi have no news?
When Li talked about this, he couldn't sit still.
He turned around to find Meng Zhiya, Gongsun Chui, Tang Tang and others, and asked them if they knew Zhiyi's whereabouts.
Naturally, these people didn't know about it. Strictly speaking, although these people were recruited through the system, their connection with the system was not very close, let alone a transformational system like Zhiyi that could walk and jump.
Just when Li Tan was very worried, he heard the window slamming that night.
He immediately felt relieved—generally, anyone who dared to touch his window at this point, except Zhu Xieli, would not be the candidate.
Of course, the most important thing is that the patrolling guards did not warn, and they are also very familiar with Zhu Xieli.
Sure enough, after he opened the window, he saw Zhu Xieli jumping in with Zhiyi in hand.
Li Tan looked at him from top to bottom and found that there was nothing wrong with him other than losing weight, so he said, "The palace has a gate, so can't you go through the gate properly?"
Zhu Xieli smiled and said, "It's too conspicuous when you walk through the gate."
Li Tan wanted to say something more, but Zhi Yi next to him shouted, "I'm starving to death, where are the apples? Where's my favorite apple?"
Li Tan conveniently took an apple from the side and stuffed it into Zhi Yi's arms, then threw it out the window.
Zhi Yi's stocky body drew a parabola in the air, and he shouted, "Where's your conscience?"
Li Tan said calmly, "Hey the dog!"
After he finished speaking, he closed the window, and when he turned around, he saw Zhu Xieli looking at him with a smile, and he felt a little embarrassed immediately.
He wasn't really dissatisfied with Zhiyi, the main reason was that since Zhu Xieli came over, something unsuitable for children would definitely happen when the two of them were together, after all, they hadn't seen each other for several days.
Zhiyi will only end up squatting in a corner and facing the wall here, so it's better to throw him out early.
Zhu Xieli asked: "When I came here, I heard that something big happened in Liangzhou. What's going on?"
Li Tan rubbed his nose and said, "It's nothing serious, it's just... just copied a few more."
Zhu Xieli immediately understood that Li Tan had told him about these things before, so he naturally knew that these obstructing stones needed to be kicked away.
But after thinking about it, he still smiled and said, "Since you came to Liangzhou, you seem to be patronizing house raids. Be careful that the people regard you as the king of house raiders."
Li Tanli said bluntly: "Who said that, I let them eat water!"
Although it is still a bit difficult to get water in winter, after all, it is frozen into ice, but that is better than no ice at all.
Li Tan made an ice cellar by the way, preparing to chill melons and fruits for summer.
Zhu Xieli stretched out his arms to hug him, buried his head in his neck and took a deep breath and said, "It's good that you're fine."
What Zhu Xieli is most afraid of is that when the two of them are separated, he will not be in time for something to happen on Li Tan's side.
Although every time he told himself not to worry too much, there were many experts around Li Tan, one more than him was not too many, and one less of him was quite a lot.
But he still couldn't help worrying, because Li Tan's assassination made him very angry.
He thought of Li Tan's assassination, and it happened that Li Tan also thought of the bloodbath of the Dark Witch Cult.
He hesitated for a moment and said, "The matter of the Dark Witch Cult...has something to do with you?"
Zhu Xieli said very frankly: "I did it, I said I will avenge you."
Li Tan was shocked: "When did you say that?"
Zhu Xieli thought for a while before saying: "Oh, you fell asleep at the time, it doesn't matter if you don't know, I just remember."
Li Tan: ...
He said dumbfoundedly: "How did you do it? There are quite a few people in the Dark Witch Sect General Forum, right?"
According to the later Di Bao, there seemed to be at least 200 people.
Although it doesn't sound like a lot, but with more than 200 people standing in front of you, you will know how many there are.
Zhu Xieli said: "There are a lot of them, but they are all trash. Most of them are fanatical believers who know nothing. Although they are also young people, they don't know what the Dark Witch Cult gave them. Describe them one by one. Haggard, no threat at all."
After Li Tan heard this, he had a bad feeling in his heart, and he asked, "Then did you get their medicine?"
Zhu Xieli nodded and said: "Of course I got it, let's see what it is?"
Li Tan took the box Zhu Xieli handed over, opened it and saw a black pill inside, lowered his head and asked, but found that he didn't know what it was.
He pushed open the window and whispered, "Zhi Yi? Where is Zhi Yi?"
Zhi Yi was hugging the apple on the tree outside his window at this time, when he heard his voice, he said quietly: "I have been thrown to death."
Li Tan suddenly laughed, waved to him and said, "Come here, I have something to ask you."
Zhi Yi snorted twice, got down from the tree anyway, and said as he walked, "One apple is not enough!"
Li Tan simply said: "I'll give you a whole plate!"
Only then did Zhi Yi happily run over, and Zhu Xie Li who was at the side only thought that this product was really easy to raise, and a plate of apples was actually bought.
After he ran over, Li Tan handed over the pill in his hand and asked, "Look at this, can you figure out what it is?"
Zhiyi lowered his head and sniffed his nose, the hair on his tail suddenly exploded and said, "A Fu Rong? Why do you have this thing in your hand?"
Li Tan breathed a sigh of relief. He had just speculated that the medicine used by the Dark Witch Cult might be a medicine that could make people addicted and thus control them.
Otherwise, there is no way to explain why the Dark Witch Cult General Forum is full of haggard people.
If the Dark Witch Cult really wanted to send people to An Lushan, then they would definitely not torture these people. Now it seems that the Dark Witch Cult wants to rebel.
But they don't need the Han people to be their thugs, they just need to make the Han people incapable of resisting.
After Li Tan covered the box, he turned to Zhu Xieli who was full of doubts and said, "This thing can make people addicted, it's not a good thing."
He described the symptoms caused by A Fu Rong, and then said with a serious face: "No one knows how long the Dark Witch Cult has existed, and I will check later to see if there is a Dark Witch Cult in Liangzhou." branch."
Zhu Xieli couldn't help feeling scared after hearing this, but he wasn't worried about his subordinates.
After all, if the addiction symptoms mentioned by Li Tan are true, then they have been away from people for a long time, no one usually goes out, and they don't communicate with the outside world at all, and no one in the clan has experienced those symptoms. .
Seeing Li Tan's serious expression, he quickly comforted him, "Liangzhou is remote, they may not have time to infiltrate, so don't worry too much."
Li Tan shook his head and said, "This kind of thing, once you touch it, it will really be ruined."
The most terrifying thing is that if a chain of interests is formed... then it may not be so easy to stop it.
How difficult it is to control drugs in later generations. Every year, many drug control policemen die unexpectedly.
But this can't stop those people, do you still expect to have the strength of future generations now?
Just when he was worried, Zhi Yi suddenly said: "Don't worry too much, this medicine...is not high in purity, if you want to become addicted, you really need to take it many times, if you take it once by mistake, you won't become addicted."
After hearing this, Li Tan was relieved. It should be much better. Now he is also grateful that the technology of this era is relatively backward, at least in this respect.
Zhu Xieli said with some regret: "If I knew this was the case, I would leave someone to observe his situation."
Li Tan forced a smile and said, "I'll write a memorial later, and let Chang'an check it out."
Although the dark witch religion infiltrated Chang'an for a short time, the results were outstanding. I don't know how many nobles were controlled by A Fu Rong. If something happened to Chang'an, these people would be An Lushan's lackeys!
Li Tan wrote as soon as he said, so Zhu Xieli finally saw him once, so he had to accompany him to write the memorial.
As a result, when Li Tan was writing the memorandum, Qing Kong suddenly rushed over and said, "Your Majesty, something is wrong, Tongguan has fallen, and Chang'an...Chang'an is at stake!"
Li Tan shook his hand, and the ink fell on the paper, staining the words he just wrote.
He was a little dazed and thought: How could it be so fast?
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Although it doesn't prove that Zhu Xieli was responsible for the bloodbath of the Dark Witch Cult, it certainly wasn't done by the imperial court, after all, the imperial court has to go through formal procedures.
After Li Tan got the news, he hurriedly wrote another letter to Zhu Xieli, asking the carrier pigeon to send it back, but he didn't know if the carrier pigeon had run too far in a short time, when he saw Li Tan coming back with the letter , It actually turned its head and pointed its butt at Li Tan.
Li Tan didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and the barbarian at the side gloated and said, "The unscrupulous boss oppresses the laborers, and the laborers are about to go on strike."
Li Tan turned around and grabbed it, tied the letter to it and said, "Then you go and deliver the letter, and find out where Zhu Xieli is by the way, I know I can find him."
Zhiyi:? ? ? ? ?
Li Tan looked at Zhi Yi's shocked look, and said calmly, "You should be useful when you grow up."
Zhi Yi said: "Huang Shiren, you."
Li Tan smiled: "Yo, yes, I know Huang Shiren, hurry up, go find Zhu Xieli!"
At this time, the carrier pigeon also turned around, tilting its head and looking at it innocently.
It made Zhiyi almost suspect that it hadn't colluded with Li Tan to punish him.
Li Tan also took out an apple and said, "Take it and eat it on the way."
Well, at least there is still food, Zhiyi knew that Li Tan wanted to quickly find out whether the matter of the Dark Witch Cult had anything to do with Zhu Xieli, so Zhiyi beat him up and left.
Just as Zhiyi left, Gongsun Chui over there came over and said, "Your Majesty, we have already found out that those people did get together last night with the intention of committing crimes."
Li Tan sneered: "A bunch of idiots."
At this time, Chen Chong also came over and asked, "My lord, I'm ready here too, do you want to do it?"
Li Tan thought for a while and said, "No hurry, let me meet that Yin Zizhe first."
When Yin Zizhe received the envoy from the palace, he was very excited. He knew that his nomination certificate should have played a role.
However, under the excitement, he still asked: "I don't know, did Hai Dacheng have the honor to ask to see His Highness?"
The person Li Tan sent was Qing Kong's apprentice, also a young eunuch named Luan Fa. Luan Fa was born with squinting eyes, and he looked like he was smiling when he was not stern. .
Hearing Yin Zizhe's words, he couldn't even see his smiling eyes. He nodded and said, "Of course it's possible. Please go there early tomorrow."
Yin Zizhe hurriedly sent Luan Fa away respectfully. Of course, he was also clever and sent Luan a lot of thank you gifts.
Luan Fa naturally went back with a full wallet.
Yin Zizhe took a deep breath, turned his head, and asked someone to prepare his best clothes, as well as various accessories, and at the same time, asked someone to notify Hai Dacheng.
In the end, he didn't expect Hai Dacheng to come over in person, and asked, "Really? His Highness King Ning really wants to see us?"
Yin Zizhe glanced at him contemptuously and said, "Looking at your potential, you always have a calm attitude when it comes to major events. If you can't do this, do you still want to stand out in the future?"
Hai Dacheng didn't mind his contempt, and said flatteredly: "My father is right, there must be good things to follow you."
Yin Zizhe: ...
This guy is probably hopeless, but Hai Dacheng and his family are indeed kind to him. When his father passed away, although he was chosen by the old man to inherit, the other sons of the old man would definitely not be reconciled.
At the beginning, Yin Zizhe had indeed had a difficult time. If it wasn't for Hai Dacheng's father's help, he might not be where he is today. It is precisely because of this that he is willing to help Hai Dacheng no matter whether he can support the wall or not.
What's more, Hai Dacheng is actually quite obedient, there are advantages to not being ambitious.
It was precisely because of the past between Yin Zizhe and the Hai family that Li Tan was willing to meet Yin Zizhe.
In any case, the character of a person who knows how to repay his kindness is more trustworthy.
Yin Zizhe and Hai Dacheng got up early the next day. When the two of them came to the door, the curfew had just ended, and the porter had just woken up.
When he begged the concierge to report, Yin Zizhe was already prepared to be slapped. He even prepared the money to pay the concierge.
Unexpectedly, although the concierge looked a little sleepy, he said very politely: "The higher-ups ordered it down yesterday, but I still need to invite the two young gentlemen to come in and wait a while, and I will report."
Yin Zizhe quickly said: "This is as it should be, please trouble your Excellency."
The concierge waved his hands and said, "It's as it should be. It's cold outside, so you two hurried in to avoid the wind for the sake of Mr. Xiaolang. I'll report it first."
After Yin Zizhe and Hai Dacheng went in, the concierge turned around and walked into the mansion.
When he was far away, Hai Dacheng said secretly: "The concierge of this palace is more polite than that of the Yin family."
Yin Zizhe said softly: "This shows the atmosphere of King Ning's mansion. King Ning's ability to control his servants in such a way shows that his character is precious, and naturally it is not comparable to that of Yin Fang."
Originally, Yin Zizhe had no idea about defecting to King Ning, but he had no other choice. If he didn't want to sink the ship with Yin Fang, he could only defect to King Ning.
As for being a neutral person watching the show, I really don't even think about it. Now that I am neutral, I am afraid that I will never have the opportunity to choose again.
What's more, if these two fight against each other, it's really a disaster for gods to fight with little ghosts. If you think about it, the neutral ones will be cannon fodder.
When the concierge went to report, Li Tan just woke up in a daze, glanced at the sky and found that it was still early, and when he was about to go back to sleep, he heard Qing Kong whispering to someone: "Your Majesty hasn't got up yet. They wait first."
As soon as Li Tan heard it, he knew that someone must be coming, so he couldn't help but ask, "Who is here?"
Qing Kong immediately came over and said: "Back to the King, it is Yin Zizhe and Hai Dacheng who are here."
Li Tan half-closed his eyes and said helplessly, "They're pretty active."
Listening to him talking in a nasal voice, Qing Kong knew that Li Tan must not have woken up, so he said softly: "It's still early, Your Majesty, let's rest for a while."
Li Tan had slowly come to his senses at this time, and he might not be able to fall asleep even if he continued to sleep, so he got up and said, "No need, let someone come in to serve you, and by the way, ask the two of them if they have breakfast. Let's use it together."
Naturally, Yin Zizhe and Hai Dacheng didn't have anything to eat. They were busy tidying up early in the morning, and then they became nervous when they thought about going to see King Ning. How could they be in the mood to have breakfast?
Naturally, Yin Zizhe and Hai Dacheng didn't dare to eat with Li Tan, but in the end they were taken over to sit nervously opposite Li Tan, holding a bowl and drinking porridge, not daring to stretch out their chopsticks.
Li Tan naturally has no psychological burden, no matter who often dines with the emperor and concubine, he can become extremely calm.
However, he saw that Yin Zizhe and Hai Dacheng were really suffering from eating, so he didn't procrastinate. After eating something casually, he asked someone to remove the table and said, "Don't be nervous, I just want to see what is the young talent from Liangzhou." kind of."
Yin Zizhe hurriedly said modestly: "How can we count as young talents? It's just that Liangzhou's talent is withering now, which makes us stand out. Now that His Highness is down, it's the time for Liangzhou's young talents to make their debut."
He distractedly looked after Hai Dacheng while talking, and after he finished speaking, he found that his head was still lowered, as if he was counting rice grains in a bowl, so he couldn't help but kicked him lightly.
Hai Dacheng was taken aback, and reflexively raised his eyes to look at Yin Zizhe, and he said after a long time: "Thirteen Lang is right."
Yin Zizhe really wanted to blow his pig's head off!
Fortunately, Li Tan didn't mind. Although Yin Zizhe's words were flattering, they were also true to a certain extent.
It's not that he knows people well, the main thing is that after he comes, the various treatment in Liangzhou will be upgraded to the treatment in Shangzhou.
Among other things, the number of candidates for imperial examinations will increase, and the number of recommendations will also increase.
In the past, those students in Liangzhou who were well educated but not that great, had ushered in the spring.
Li Tan smiled and said, "Let's not talk about the polite words, let me tell you what you think of the Yin family."
Although he was talking about two people, his eyes were on Yin Zizhe.
Yin Zizhe also knew that his little partner was probably useless, so he said: "I don't know much about the Yin family, I only know that the Yin family has deep roots, and it is said that not only has contacts with Tubo and Turks, but even Khitan and Turks. Xibu and even Heishui Mohe have contacts."
Li Tan was a little surprised: "Their business scope is quite wide."
Yin Zizhe's eyes were a little dazed, of course he couldn't understand the meaning of business scope.
Li Tan didn't explain it, so he naturally didn't dare to ask. He just thought it was some new buzzword in Chang'an, so he wrote it down silently, and was going to ask someone later.
Li Tan continued to ask: "They have contacts with so many foreigners, are they just doing business?"
Yin Zizhe shook his head and said, "I don't know much about the details. I only know that they are in the fur business on the surface, but I don't know the specifics of their relationship."
Li Tan nodded. Originally, he was just asking casually, but he didn't expect to actually get news that he didn't know before.
He talked with Yin Zizhe again, and after finding out that Yin Zizhe's position was indeed very firm, he said: "Go back and study hard, the exam will start after a while."
He didn't promise anything to Yin Zizhe, but he had already decided in his heart that he must reserve a place for Yin Zizhe. Of course, the specific position would depend on how he behaved when the Yin family and other families were arrested in two days.
Yin Zizhe also nodded tacitly. He glanced at Hai Dacheng and felt that there was really no way to speak to Li Tan again.
Li Tan looked at Hai Dacheng and smiled and said, "Don't worry."
No matter how much he said, he refused to say more, but Yin Zizhe felt relieved and hurriedly left.
After he left with Hai Dacheng, Wang Wei came in and asked, "Your Majesty wants to promote these two people?"
Li Tan nodded: "Why? Inappropriate?"
Wang Wei shook his head and said, "It's not inappropriate, but we should observe more. What if these two people are not trustworthy?"
Li Tan sighed: "Of course I know that I need to find reliable people, but after I arrived in Liangzhou, I first copied the Tie family and killed the original long history, and now I want to kill many people one after another. The family is not limited to this, and when the time comes, they will be really panicked, what should I do if they dare not continue to follow me?"
Wang Wei immediately understood what Li Tan meant. He wanted to use Yin Zizhe and Hai Dacheng as an example, telling everyone that as long as they are obedient, not only will they not lose their lives, but they will also have the opportunity to make progress.
Seeing his sudden realization, Li Tan continued: "No family is willing to stay in the same place all the time. Everyone wants to replace the Yin family. Now I'll give them a chance, and it's up to them whether they dare or not."
Only then did Wang Wei express his understanding, and Li Tan asked again: "Brother Ling, do you have any news?"
Wang Wei said: "Da Lang will leave in a few days."
Li Tan frowned and said, "Just in time, Liangzhou should have stabilized by the time he comes, and it's time for him to make suggestions."
Wang Wei looked dull: "My lord, my elder brother came here as a transfer envoy."
Li Tan waved his hand: "Of course I know that he is a transshipment envoy, but the question is... what is there for transshipment in Liangzhou?"
Wang Wei was at a loss for words for a while, the transfer envoy was generally responsible for the transfer of food, and the only time when Liangzhou needed food transfer was probably when the imperial court sent relief food here.
It wasn't until this time that Wang Wei felt that they were probably being fooled by Li Tan, and they came to Liangzhou as a transfer envoy.
Li Tan saw the condemnation in Wang Wei's eyes, so he said: "Don't look at me like that, the reason why I insist on letting Wang Zhuanyun come over is mainly because of worry."
Wang Wei asked, "What are you worried about?"
Li Tan said: "Luoyang is very close to Chang'an, if there is an emergency..."
Naturally, Wang Wei didn't believe it: "The sage is still there, so what happens?"
At this moment, Du Fu said outside: "If this happens, it will be too late. Changan's defense will definitely give priority to protecting the saint lady and the prince, and the rest... can only rely on themselves."
Hearing Du Fu say the same thing, Wang Wei was a little flustered, and immediately said, "I'll write another letter to urge Da Lang to leave quickly."
Du Fu quickly said: "This is just our guess, let him stop talking nonsense!"
Wang Wei's voice came from afar: "I know!"
Li Tan looked at Du Fu silently, Du Fu smiled and said, "My lord, how is my cooperation?"
Li Tan said: "That's pretty good, so here comes the question, what did Wang Wei come to see me for?"
Du Fu is totally overdoing it.
Du Fu was also a little embarrassed, Li Tan changed the subject and asked, "What's wrong?"
Only then did Du Fu say seriously: "The tax report for the king's fief last year has come up, should we sell it on the spot and convert it into money, or let them transport it?"
Most of the taxation these years is directly collecting goods. For example, the tax on grain is to collect grain, and the tax on silk cloth is to collect cloth.
Li Tan's fief is a little far away from Liangzhou. According to the past practice, the money should be sent to Liangzhou after the local sale.
It's just that Li Tan thought about it for a while. There is no shortage of water in a small part of Liangzhou, but the canals in most areas have not been repaired. After all, the winter in this place lasts too long.
How to do engineering when the weather is cold and freezing?
So he said: "The cloth is sold, let's bring the grain."
Du Fu originally meant the same thing, so he came to ask Li Tan about it.
After he left, Chen Chong came again. As soon as Li Tan saw him, before he could speak, he said, "Get someone to prepare, and we will do it in two days. By the way, have you checked everything out? Are you sure everyone is there?"
Chen Chong said: "The last general was about to say this, but not all of them were there. Some of them chose to go back first because it took too long."
Li Tan immediately asked, "Are you sure they didn't know something in advance?"
Chen Chong nodded and said, "I'm sure, I've sent someone to follow, and there's nothing unusual about my behavior."
After hearing this, Li Tan reassured and said: "Those who left first, let people arrest them first. Remember, no one is allowed to leak, let alone someone who comes to tip the news."
Chen Chong immediately said: "I'll send someone there, but I still need the king's order."
Li Tan immediately wrote a letter to him.
After this series of things were done, Li Tan finally relaxed. Liangzhou will be settled in two days. I hope everything goes well.
Two days later, when Li Tan was sitting in the palace chatting and laughing happily with everyone, most of the city in the state capital was covered in blood.
Ordinary civilians had already cleverly hid when they saw the heavy soldiers dispatched.
On the contrary, big families like the Yin family got the news relatively late, and after they got the news, they didn't feel that these soldiers were coming for them. After all, although Li Tan still ignored them during this period, he still sent a message to his children. Admission ticket.
In their opinion, this is what King Ning meant to reconcile with them. Under such circumstances, Yin Fang only felt that Li Tan was taking the initiative to show weakness and wanted to take a step back. How could he have thought that Li Tan would actually send someone to arrest them.
After the soldiers broke into the mansion and arrested him who was listening to the music and watching the dance, he was still yelling: "You guys are so brave, you dare to trespass into the private house!"
"The home of a traitor is not trespassing." Chen Chong came over and said with a sneer.
Yin Fang glared at him and asked, "What evidence do you have to prove that I'm a traitor? If you slander me so much, I will demand my innocence!"
Chen Chong nodded and said, "Sure enough, you have something to do with a certain nobleman in Chang'an, but you probably don't know it, and the sage personally sentenced you."
Yin Fang was taken aback for a moment, his first reaction was to not believe it, how could he believe it?
What did he do that even the saints would notice?
Just when he was about to refute, Chen Chong waved his hand and said, "You have enough time to talk if you want to talk, go to the prison and put it on!"
Yin Fang saw that the whole family was arrested from top to bottom, men, women and children, and even his slaves were executed on the spot when they tried to resist. He couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart, and only shouted: "I'm wronged!"
Then got gagged.
Chen Chong looked at his tearful eyes and said coldly: "Your Majesty never wrongs a good person."
The same scene happened in the rich area of Liangzhou. Liangzhou Mansion was not big in the first place, and most of the famous people lived nearby. However, because of the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, it was very easy to arrest people.
As long as you come in and send someone to guard the gate of the workshop, basically you only have to catch a turtle in the urn.
By the time Chen Chong had arrested everyone and taken them away, there were basically only a few houses left in the rich area, among them were the Yin family and the Hai family.
Yin Zizhe and Hai Dacheng knew what was going on in their hearts. They didn't dare to go out when Chen Chong arrested him. They didn't send people out to take a look until the noise outside disappeared.
Oh, it was Yin Zizhe who sent someone to take a look, and Hai Dacheng... this guy sneaked off to find Yin Zizhe.
When seeing Yin Zizhe, Hai Dacheng turned pale and said, "One of them didn't stay, what did they do?"
Yin Zizhe was still in shock at this time. He knew that King Ning would definitely attack these families, but he did not expect such a cruel attack.
This time he didn't reprimand Hai Dacheng for being worthless, but just calmed down and said: "Don't ask, it's not something we can intervene in. After the trial of the case is over, King Ning will definitely explain it."
Among other things, Li Tan must give an explanation to the rest of the family, otherwise everyone will be scared to death.
Just as he was saying these words, his servants came to inform him that another person came to see Yin Zizhe.
When Yin Zizhe asked, he found that it happened to be sent by the few remaining families in the workshop who were not arrested, so he said: "Tell them, I will disappear in troubled times, let them be careful recently, but don't worry too much, as long as If they didn't get involved in the Yin family's affairs, it's fine."
In fact, Yin Zizhe felt that according to the arresting posture of the state government, anyone involved with the Yin family would probably be arrested, so the rest would be really safe.
But this sentence can't be said too much, what if someone in the Yin family can't stand the torture and confess something?
Thinking of this, Yin Zizhe couldn't help but feel that he had done the most correct thing by going to King Ning before.
After Chen Chong had arrested everyone and verified the list was correct, he went to report to Li Tan.
Li Tan nodded after hearing this, and said, "I'm finally relieved, since you've caught them, don't waste it, first ask carefully, and then see if you want to deal with them.
Chen Chong immediately understood what he meant, hesitated for a while and asked: "My lord, the dungeon is not enough, where are these people?"
Li Tan was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect that there were so few dungeons in Liangzhou Prefecture.
But after thinking about it, he thought it might be that too many people were arrested this time. After all, there may not have been such a big case in Liangzhou in the past.
He said directly: "The governor's mansion is now vacant, let's put it there first."
In fact, the governor's mansion also has a dungeon, but he thinks it's not possible, so he simply uses the whole governor's mansion for now. Anyway, he won't go back to live in the governor's mansion in the future. When he moves again, he should go to the new city.
Chen Chong took the order immediately, and He Zhizhang beside him sighed and said, "I hope there will never be a time when the dungeons are not enough in Liangzhou."
Li Tan knew that He Zhizhang was tactfully trying to comfort him, so he smiled and said, "After this time, Liangzhou should be honest from top to bottom, and the rest is cooperation, so naturally it won't be like this again."
He Zhizhang nodded and said: "In this case, you should appease everyone."
Li Tan said: "I act according to the law. If they are really shocked, it means that they have done something wrong. It's okay if they are not arrested. What else can I appease?"
He Zhizhang laughed: "When the water is clear, there will be no fish, and when people observe it, there will be no disciples."
Li Tan smiled: "Of course I understand this truth, but... I think the state exam is more important than me entertaining them to appease them. Well, it's a big deal to release a new news, the exam is good Yes, you can appoint an official first, and if you have the intention to continue to take the imperial examination, you can also participate. At that time, the state government will uniformly select from these people who are interested in the imperial examination, and select the appropriate number of people to go to Beijing to take the exam. out!"
As soon as He Zhizhang heard it, he knew that Li Tan had grasped the key point again. Compared with the arrest of the Yin family and other families, the imperial examination was more related to the future of the family's children.
What's more, Li Tan is very treacherous. If you want to take the imperial examination, you have to take the state examination. Otherwise, you will not be on the selection list when the state is selected. Even if you want to go to Beijing to catch the exam, it is impossible.
He Zhizhang felt that this exam was probably because Li Tan wanted to find out the bottom line, and he had a good idea of the talents in Liangzhou.
After doing this, all the scholars who went out from Liangzhou were under his command, and what's more, they were funded by him. These people would naturally be Li Tan's allies.
Of course, there may be white-eyed wolves, but those are a minority. Li Tan's identity is here, and if he wants to be a white-eyed wolf, he has to weigh whether he has the ability.
He Zhizhang thought of this and asked, "Is the topic ready?"
Li Tan said with a smile: "Isn't this waiting for you to do it yourself?"
He Zhizhang glanced angrily and said, "This is to select talents for you and for the country. How can you not care about anything?"
Li Tanli said bluntly: "I have no experience."
He Zhizhang: ...
Well, this is indeed a reason.
So He Zhizhang dragged Li Bai and Du Fu to come up with the questions, and he even said that he wanted to train these two people.
As for Gongsun Chui, he is also optimistic about this young man, but he is not familiar with Gongsun Chui, and Gongsun Chui has too many things to do as a long history, so it is not good to just let him skip work so openly.
After Li Tan saw that everything was on the right track, he was relieved.
After thinking about it, the time for the exam was set in half a month, and the time was a bit tight.
It's just that he has let the wind out a long time ago, and those who need to review probably have already reviewed it.
After everything was arranged, Li Tan suddenly thought: Why hasn't Zhiyi come back yet?
He asked Zhiyi to find Zhu Xieli, but after several days in a row, not only did Zhu Xielu have no news, but why did Zhiyi have no news?
When Li talked about this, he couldn't sit still.
He turned around to find Meng Zhiya, Gongsun Chui, Tang Tang and others, and asked them if they knew Zhiyi's whereabouts.
Naturally, these people didn't know about it. Strictly speaking, although these people were recruited through the system, their connection with the system was not very close, let alone a transformational system like Zhiyi that could walk and jump.
Just when Li Tan was very worried, he heard the window slamming that night.
He immediately felt relieved—generally, anyone who dared to touch his window at this point, except Zhu Xieli, would not be the candidate.
Of course, the most important thing is that the patrolling guards did not warn, and they are also very familiar with Zhu Xieli.
Sure enough, after he opened the window, he saw Zhu Xieli jumping in with Zhiyi in hand.
Li Tan looked at him from top to bottom and found that there was nothing wrong with him other than losing weight, so he said, "The palace has a gate, so can't you go through the gate properly?"
Zhu Xieli smiled and said, "It's too conspicuous when you walk through the gate."
Li Tan wanted to say something more, but Zhi Yi next to him shouted, "I'm starving to death, where are the apples? Where's my favorite apple?"
Li Tan conveniently took an apple from the side and stuffed it into Zhi Yi's arms, then threw it out the window.
Zhi Yi's stocky body drew a parabola in the air, and he shouted, "Where's your conscience?"
Li Tan said calmly, "Hey the dog!"
After he finished speaking, he closed the window, and when he turned around, he saw Zhu Xieli looking at him with a smile, and he felt a little embarrassed immediately.
He wasn't really dissatisfied with Zhiyi, the main reason was that since Zhu Xieli came over, something unsuitable for children would definitely happen when the two of them were together, after all, they hadn't seen each other for several days.
Zhiyi will only end up squatting in a corner and facing the wall here, so it's better to throw him out early.
Zhu Xieli asked: "When I came here, I heard that something big happened in Liangzhou. What's going on?"
Li Tan rubbed his nose and said, "It's nothing serious, it's just... just copied a few more."
Zhu Xieli immediately understood that Li Tan had told him about these things before, so he naturally knew that these obstructing stones needed to be kicked away.
But after thinking about it, he still smiled and said, "Since you came to Liangzhou, you seem to be patronizing house raids. Be careful that the people regard you as the king of house raiders."
Li Tanli said bluntly: "Who said that, I let them eat water!"
Although it is still a bit difficult to get water in winter, after all, it is frozen into ice, but that is better than no ice at all.
Li Tan made an ice cellar by the way, preparing to chill melons and fruits for summer.
Zhu Xieli stretched out his arms to hug him, buried his head in his neck and took a deep breath and said, "It's good that you're fine."
What Zhu Xieli is most afraid of is that when the two of them are separated, he will not be in time for something to happen on Li Tan's side.
Although every time he told himself not to worry too much, there were many experts around Li Tan, one more than him was not too many, and one less of him was quite a lot.
But he still couldn't help worrying, because Li Tan's assassination made him very angry.
He thought of Li Tan's assassination, and it happened that Li Tan also thought of the bloodbath of the Dark Witch Cult.
He hesitated for a moment and said, "The matter of the Dark Witch Cult...has something to do with you?"
Zhu Xieli said very frankly: "I did it, I said I will avenge you."
Li Tan was shocked: "When did you say that?"
Zhu Xieli thought for a while before saying: "Oh, you fell asleep at the time, it doesn't matter if you don't know, I just remember."
Li Tan: ...
He said dumbfoundedly: "How did you do it? There are quite a few people in the Dark Witch Sect General Forum, right?"
According to the later Di Bao, there seemed to be at least 200 people.
Although it doesn't sound like a lot, but with more than 200 people standing in front of you, you will know how many there are.
Zhu Xieli said: "There are a lot of them, but they are all trash. Most of them are fanatical believers who know nothing. Although they are also young people, they don't know what the Dark Witch Cult gave them. Describe them one by one. Haggard, no threat at all."
After Li Tan heard this, he had a bad feeling in his heart, and he asked, "Then did you get their medicine?"
Zhu Xieli nodded and said: "Of course I got it, let's see what it is?"
Li Tan took the box Zhu Xieli handed over, opened it and saw a black pill inside, lowered his head and asked, but found that he didn't know what it was.
He pushed open the window and whispered, "Zhi Yi? Where is Zhi Yi?"
Zhi Yi was hugging the apple on the tree outside his window at this time, when he heard his voice, he said quietly: "I have been thrown to death."
Li Tan suddenly laughed, waved to him and said, "Come here, I have something to ask you."
Zhi Yi snorted twice, got down from the tree anyway, and said as he walked, "One apple is not enough!"
Li Tan simply said: "I'll give you a whole plate!"
Only then did Zhi Yi happily run over, and Zhu Xie Li who was at the side only thought that this product was really easy to raise, and a plate of apples was actually bought.
After he ran over, Li Tan handed over the pill in his hand and asked, "Look at this, can you figure out what it is?"
Zhiyi lowered his head and sniffed his nose, the hair on his tail suddenly exploded and said, "A Fu Rong? Why do you have this thing in your hand?"
Li Tan breathed a sigh of relief. He had just speculated that the medicine used by the Dark Witch Cult might be a medicine that could make people addicted and thus control them.
Otherwise, there is no way to explain why the Dark Witch Cult General Forum is full of haggard people.
If the Dark Witch Cult really wanted to send people to An Lushan, then they would definitely not torture these people. Now it seems that the Dark Witch Cult wants to rebel.
But they don't need the Han people to be their thugs, they just need to make the Han people incapable of resisting.
After Li Tan covered the box, he turned to Zhu Xieli who was full of doubts and said, "This thing can make people addicted, it's not a good thing."
He described the symptoms caused by A Fu Rong, and then said with a serious face: "No one knows how long the Dark Witch Cult has existed, and I will check later to see if there is a Dark Witch Cult in Liangzhou." branch."
Zhu Xieli couldn't help feeling scared after hearing this, but he wasn't worried about his subordinates.
After all, if the addiction symptoms mentioned by Li Tan are true, then they have been away from people for a long time, no one usually goes out, and they don't communicate with the outside world at all, and no one in the clan has experienced those symptoms. .
Seeing Li Tan's serious expression, he quickly comforted him, "Liangzhou is remote, they may not have time to infiltrate, so don't worry too much."
Li Tan shook his head and said, "This kind of thing, once you touch it, it will really be ruined."
The most terrifying thing is that if a chain of interests is formed... then it may not be so easy to stop it.
How difficult it is to control drugs in later generations. Every year, many drug control policemen die unexpectedly.
But this can't stop those people, do you still expect to have the strength of future generations now?
Just when he was worried, Zhi Yi suddenly said: "Don't worry too much, this medicine...is not high in purity, if you want to become addicted, you really need to take it many times, if you take it once by mistake, you won't become addicted."
After hearing this, Li Tan was relieved. It should be much better. Now he is also grateful that the technology of this era is relatively backward, at least in this respect.
Zhu Xieli said with some regret: "If I knew this was the case, I would leave someone to observe his situation."
Li Tan forced a smile and said, "I'll write a memorial later, and let Chang'an check it out."
Although the dark witch religion infiltrated Chang'an for a short time, the results were outstanding. I don't know how many nobles were controlled by A Fu Rong. If something happened to Chang'an, these people would be An Lushan's lackeys!
Li Tan wrote as soon as he said, so Zhu Xieli finally saw him once, so he had to accompany him to write the memorial.
As a result, when Li Tan was writing the memorandum, Qing Kong suddenly rushed over and said, "Your Majesty, something is wrong, Tongguan has fallen, and Chang'an...Chang'an is at stake!"
Li Tan shook his hand, and the ink fell on the paper, staining the words he just wrote.
He was a little dazed and thought: How could it be so fast?
The author has something to say: Fuck, the singing downstairs made me lose my mind. It’s fine if I don’t set an update time after writing it. Chapter 126 has been copied into Chapter 116... I’m just out of my mind. Zhang has a red envelope, to compensate the cute little ones who were stupid by the author~
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