Taiping Inn

Li Xuandu's original intention of this trip was to pick up Bai Juan, but it turned out to be the current situation. However, Li Xuandu was not too worried about Bai Juan's safety.

First, Bai Juan was not walking in the martial arts world for the first time. Before she met Li Xuandu, she had been alone in the martial arts world for many years and had rich experience in the martial arts world. It was not reasonable for her to become a weak woman who needed to be protected after meeting Li Xuandu. Second, Li Xuandu did not know why Bai Juan went to Shan Laofeng. He only knew that Bai Juan left a mark. In connection with what Bai Bo said, Bai Juan did not encounter any danger, but she took the initiative to go to Shan Laofeng, which means that Bai Juan was certain about this matter. Third, it was Zhang Haishi's idea to directly refine the "Five Poisons True Pill". For Li Xuandu, Zhang Haishi was both a father and a brother. In his bones, he still believed in the Confucian father-son monarch-minister relationship, and it was not easy to disobey his second senior brother. Fourth, there are priorities, and sharpening the knife does not delay the chopping of wood.

For the above four reasons, Li Xuandu temporarily slowed down his intention to find the white silk, and decided to stop Qingyang Sect first, and then rush to help Langya Prefecture City.

At this time, the undercurrent in Langya Prefecture City was surging.

Outside the governor's office is a large square area, about four acres square, which implicitly fits the meaning of "the court commands the four directions". In the middle of the large square stands a three-meter-long flagpole with a bucket, facing the gate and the two huge stone lions on both sides of the stone steps. The spaciousness shows the majesty. Along the two eight-character walls on both sides of the gate stone lions, the governor's personal soldiers lined up against the wall, with amazing momentum.

And now the large square and the stone-paved official road leading to the gate are full of kneeling petty officials and military officers, all kneeling quietly, only the whistling spring breeze blows the flag on the bucket to make it flutter.

The gate of the Governor's Mansion was open, and through the doorway one could see a row of personal soldiers with swords in their arms standing in the yard.

Chu Yunshen, dressed in cloth, was sitting alone in a wheelchair on the stone steps in front of the gate, looking at these people coldly.

In the past day, Chu Yunshen had investigated the list given by Li Xuandu and dismissed three military and political officials in succession. The close confidants of these three people were also implicated.

Although Chu Yunshen was called the shadow governor, he was not the real governor after all. In such a short period of time, without any preparation, and attacking so many people at the same time, it was inevitable that it would cause turmoil in the officialdom, and it was a great turmoil from top to bottom. At this time, the people kneeling in front of the Governor's Mansion were waiting for the real governor to come back and preside over justice.

Chu Yunshen was silent, and the kneeling crowd was also silent.

From afar, the imperial guards escorted Qin Daofang and his party in sedan chairs. Across the street was the crowd of people at the government square. Neither the horses nor the sedan chairs could enter the square, so they had to stop outside. Qin Daofang and the governor Zhou Yunxian both walked out of the sedan chair, while the deputy general Lu Jingzhong got off the horse. The three of them looked gloomily at the governor's mansion that they could not enter, and at Chu Yunshen in front of the gate of the governor's mansion.

Chu Yunshen's eyes only looked at Qin Daofang's eyes. When their eyes met, they tacitly staggered. The two had known each other, knew each other, and worked together for many years. With just a glance, Qin Daofang already knew the current situation.

The people who had been kneeling with their heads bowed now followed Chu Yunshen's eyes and looked at Qin Daofang.

The governor Zhou Yunxian was a middle-aged man who lived a life of luxury. He came to Qin Daofang and said, "I wanted to wait for the minister to return to the governor's mansion before reporting this matter to the minister, but I didn't expect these people to be so outrageous that they actually made trouble in front of the governor's mansion. But then again, Mr. Chu's handling of the matter was indeed a bit hasty, which led to the disaster."

At first glance, this statement seemed quite fair, but the last sentence was the real highlight.

Lu Jingzhong, who always showed himself as a reckless warrior, pointed at several military officers kneeling on the square with his whip and said, "I know these people. They are all people who have made military achievements on the battlefield. They all crawled out of the mountains of corpses and seas of blood. Why are they kneeling here? I don't think it's as simple as hasty treatment. I'm afraid it's not just a personal vendetta! If the minister handles it improperly, it will probably chill the hearts of the soldiers."

One of them played the good cop and the other played the bad cop. After they finished speaking, they looked at Qin Daofang at the same time, waiting for the minister to express his opinion.

Qin Daofang glanced at the two of them and said meaningfully: "It's better to be disappointed than to lose your life."

The two of them were startled at the same time, and looked at each other subconsciously, and then Zhou Yunxian spoke first: "Minister, what should we do now? So many people are kneeling here, and this is the governor's office..."

"Kneeling here to force the emperor to abdicate?" Qin Daofang interrupted him: "When I was in the Hanlin Academy, the clean officials of the Hanlin Academy knelt in front of the West Garden every now and then, asking His Majesty to accept advice. When I was the county magistrate, the scholars in the county often went to the gate of the county office to set up the "broken boots formation". Now that I am the governor of Qizhou, these people are kneeling in front of the governor's office again. Do they want me to resign and return home as soon as possible? Or do they want me, the governor, to listen to them? If I obey them this time, will they continue to do the same thing if I am not satisfied with something in the future?"

Zhou Yunxian and Lu Jingzhong saw that Qin Daofang's words were spoken harshly, and they did not dare to refute a word.

Qin Daofang said in a deep voice: "Come here!"

A group of personal soldiers shouted: "Here!"

Qin Daofang raised one hand in the air and suddenly chopped down: "Catch all these people."

"Yes!" With a roar in response, many personal soldiers in the courtyard of the Governor's Mansion, under the eight-character wall, and around Qin Daofang rushed over like arrows.

Those military officers were fine, as they had cultivation and could still struggle and resist for a few times, but those petty officials were all weak scholars. Although there were masters who had cultivated the aura of righteousness in the three academies, they obviously did not have such cultivation, and were even powerless. They knelt there one by one, and before they could come to their senses, they were pressed to the ground by the governor's personal soldiers who were as fierce as wolves and tigers. Some of them were pressed on the bluestone ground of the square because they were face down, and their faces were immediately covered with blood.

Zhou Yunxian and Lu Jingzhong were stunned. They had never expected that Qin Daofang would give such an order.

Qin Daofang turned around and looked at the two men, and ordered: "Lock up these two too."

Several personal soldiers rushed over immediately. Zhou Yunxian was just a scholar, and had no power to resist, so he could only surrender obediently. But the deputy general Lu Jingzhong was different. He was a warrior in the Xiantian realm. Although he was not as good as Hu Liang, Li Taiyi and others, he was more than enough to deal with several governor's personal guards who were at most in the Baodan realm. With just one knife, he cut off the heads of two personal guards, and then wanted to hold Qin Daofang hostage.

But in his panic, he forgot that there was another Chu Yunshen not far away.

Chu Yunshen flicked his fingers lightly, and a ray of light shot out from his fingertips, like light and air, and flashed away.

This is the "Wanhua Raozhi Sword". Even Han Yaoyue suffered a great loss when she was caught off guard.

Then Lu Jingzhong's entire arm holding the knife was cut off at the root.

Qin Daofang didn't even look at Lu Jingzhong who was howling with his hands covering his wounds. He said calmly, "The governor's personal guards, listen to my order. Take all these people into the prison of the governor's mansion. Anyone who dares to resist will be killed on the spot."