The road is vague
Chapter 107 New official takes office
Chapter 107 New official takes office
the next day.
Li Mo, wearing his official uniform of flying birds, came to the Ministry of Destiny in high spirits.
According to Jiang Feiyan, unless there is a major case, it is not the General Flag's turn to take action. Therefore, she usually practices hard and comes to check every once in a while.
According to her, working hard to improve one's own cultivation is also a form of carrying out a mission.
Even though he is the so-called deputy general flag, Li Mo, as a cultivator in the foundation-building stage, has far exceeded the cognition of ordinary mortals.
For what mortals call bandits, even sending out a small flag is a luxury, so sending an inspector is enough.
As for those cases involving demons and monsters, even with a base as large as Bai'an County, they do not happen frequently, and most of them are just hearsay. Cases that can truly endanger the order of the people and rise to the level worthy of the attention of the Ministry of Destiny are often encountered only once every few months.
As for cases that require the intervention of cultivators in the Foundation Establishment Stage, sometimes there is not even one case for two or three years, but sometimes, they even have to seek help from the Destiny Department of the surrounding counties and prefectures to deal with them together.
"General Li."
"General Flag..."
Li Mo nodded in response, then walked through the inspectors' public office area and came to his private office.
The room is spacious and bright. There is a carefully cared-after cedar bonsai on the windowsill, Feng Shui fish are kept on the door screen, and there is a bookshelf in the corner with burning sandalwood on it. The sunlight shines through the gaps between the bamboo forest outside the window and falls on the spacious mahogany desk, which is fully equipped with pens, ink, paper and inkstone.
After Li Mo got the inkstone, he added a little water to grind the ink.
"People outside, bring us all the files and documents related to evil spirit cases in Hua'an Town over the past five years."
Since the inspector's public office area is outside the office, it is very convenient to dispatch people.
"Yes."
After a while.
Zhao Xiaonan came to Li Mo's office holding a thick stack of files.
Li Mo was a little surprised by this, and Zhao Xiaonan explained with a smile.
"I was assigned by General Jiang as a civilian logistics worker. She said I was careful and conscientious in my work, but I think she might be dissatisfied with my lack of cultivation and worried that something might happen to me outside."
Zhao Xiaonan could say these things in a joking tone, and it can be seen that she is a girl who does not pursue fame and fortune.
"Maybe you're overthinking it."
Li Mo said with a smile: "By the way, are you still selling spiritual tea?"
Zhao Xiaonan couldn't help but look surprised when he heard this, then he smiled and shook his head.
"At the time, I simply felt like I had nothing else to do. Seeing others working so hard, I thought about selling some spiritual tea and making some money. Now that I'm employed here, and according to court regulations, inspectors of the Ministry of Destiny are forbidden from doing business openly to avoid bribery, I gave up."
The two chatted for a few more minutes, and then Zhao Xiaonan sorted out the information and left.
Li Mo quickly calmed down and looked at the documents on the desk seriously.
"Why are there so many?"
He frowned and flipped through a book of information at random, and found that even small things like seeing so-called ominous things, being possessed by evil spirits and suffering from hemiplegia, and convulsions were counted as cases of evil spirits.
If this counts, then he must have saved several people when he was a traveling doctor in Jimin Hall.
Then Li Mo looked through the information in detail for a while and gradually understood the reason.
For the traveling doctor.
Those who become sick due to the evil spirit of cold wind are just unlucky and their illness is normal.
But for the inspectors of the Ministry of Destiny, this represents a breeding ground for evil spirits and a sign that evil spirits are lurking. These places will need to be closely observed as the probability of evil spirits being born will be higher than in other places.
"It seems that the information should be provided by Jimintang."
Li Mo seemed to be lost in thought.
"Otherwise, the patrol officers of the Ministry of Mandate would not be able to obtain such detailed information. It seems that the patrol officers of the Ministry of Mandate are not just responsible for killing as we imagine. They also need to communicate with local civil organizations."
He then spent the entire morning quickly looking through the materials.
Li Mo even found several cases of hemiplegia caused by stroke that he had personally treated, including the crazy hunter in Lihua Village!
Then Li Mo simply classified the information.
"Over the past five years, Hua'an Town has seen nine suspected cases of evil spirits: four minor cases and one major case. This one major case was the Tan River Great Evil that caused a flood that destroyed the Bai'an Dam and spread the plague. The other four cases all occurred around the time of the Bai'an Dam breach."
Li Mo's eyes gradually became sharp.
If the secret organization called "White Moon" that Jiang Feiyan mentioned really existed in Bai'an County, then this organization must have been causing trouble in Hua'an Town at that time. Those people in the River God Temple might have just been used by them.
Those people in the temple are probably just a bunch of fools who don’t even know that the river god has been replaced.
Li Mo supported his chin with both hands and carefully recalled everything that happened at that time.
Unfortunately, five years had passed, and he was just a traveling doctor in Jimin Hall at the time, with very limited vision, and he did not notice anything unusual at all.
Li Mo sighed.
He was unwilling to give up and continued to look through the files, trying to find some clues.
So he put aside the case file that recorded the great evil spirit in the River God Temple temporarily, and looked at the four files that recorded ordinary evil spirit cases. When he saw the words "Dagou Village", his eyes froze slightly, and he thought of some past events.
"Dagou Village."
At that time, he was still an apprentice in Jimin Hall and heard Wang Pan talk about this matter.
At that time, he thought it was miraculous and kept it in mind. Later, he went home to visit his relatives and stayed for two days. When he woke up on the morning before leaving, he met Brother Zhang Qin who was working in the fields and asked him about this matter.
Brother Zhang Qin also said that the Ministry of Destiny did send someone.
This case happened to be the beginning of a series of evil events in Hua'an Town.
Li Mo took a deep breath and changed to a more comfortable position.
He began to carefully recall his impression of Dagou Village.
He remembered that it was a poor village where farming was the main livelihood and fishing and hunting were secondary. It was close to the Tan River and the situation was very similar to Shanbei Village.
However, this village is very close to the more affluent Sanxigou, so most of the girls from Dagou Village married in Sanxigou, which led to many bachelors in the village.
As for Sanxigou, it is the village where Wang Pan’s cousin, Wang Qi, lives.
It was a well-known wealthy village in Hua'an Town, rich in apples, pears, sour plums, and hawthorns. It also seemed to have an iron mine. The family ancestral hall was very powerful and even had a school...
As Li Mo continued to recall, he rubbed his forehead frequently.
He suddenly felt stupid.
Perhaps when I became his disciple, I should have asked Lu Qi clearly and asked him what he thought about the case of the great evil spirit in Tan River. At that time, he had been struggling with the great evil spirit underwater for a long time, and it is very likely that some unknown secrets had happened.
"Next time you see the master, ask him in person."
At this time.
Li Mo noticed some noise outside. So he stood up and opened the office door. He saw a middle-aged man with a pointed chin, dressed in an imperial official uniform, wiping the sweat from his forehead while speaking impatiently.
"notify?"
Li Mo accepted the other party's official uniform.
The so-called notification of the Qian Kingdom can be understood as an official specifically responsible for poverty alleviation and relief. The power of this official position is not great, but its characteristic is that it is an official duty to carry out the royal will.
Besides.
There are also so-called instructors, who are officials responsible for educating border towns.
The head of the Liang family in Bai'an City is a high-ranking official in the imperial court who holds the dual positions of governor and instructor. Every year at dusk, he will reach the emperor through the teleportation array.
Li Mo personally benefited from the poverty alleviation and naturalization policy in the border area since he was a child, so he has great respect for these notices and instructions in his heart.
"What happened?"
As Li Mo spoke, the outside became quiet.
The person responsible for receiving this notice was Gao Zhengyi Xiaoqi, who ran over.
"A batch of supplies was looted by bandits, probably a group of roving bandits. The supplies were not valuable, but a doctor from Longzhou was also kidnapped by them."
Li Mo heard this and nodded.
"Bring him into my office."
"Yes."
Gao Zhengyi showed excitement and came to the impatient notification.
"That's the new deputy chief of the department. Go and explain the situation clearly."
Li Mo soon learned the whole story.
If only supplies were robbed, the matter could be serious or minor, depending on the specific mood of the inspectors, but the doctor who came to support Longzhou was robbed, which is no trivial matter!
This was the chief physician who came all the way from Longzhou to Muzhou and was responsible for etiquette education. He was similar to his master Zhang Dongliang. If he was killed by bandits on the way, it might cause considerable trouble to the progress of Muzhou's naturalization mission.
more importantly.
The doctor's destination was actually Jimin Hall in Hua'an Town!
Thinking of this, Li Mo immediately stood up, walked to the office door, and looked at Zhao Xiaonan.
"Immediately take out three hundred taels from the stabilization funds in the treasury and give it to He Tongzhi. Have him re-purchase the necessary supplies from the major pharmacies in Bai'an County. This year's flood season is approaching, and this matter cannot be delayed. As for Doctor Wang..."
At this point, Li Mo's voice grew colder.
"Gao Zhengyi!"
"To!"
"Bring your team and follow me immediately. I will personally lead the team to rescue Doctor Wang. I want to see him alive or dead!"
"Yes!"
Upon hearing this, Gao Zhengyi led a team of four and hurriedly followed Li Mo.
It was not until the six men left the Tianming Division on horseback that He Zhidao took the silver and signed the receipt, and then he came to his senses with a look of surprise on his face.
"I'm so grateful to you, Mr. Deputy General, for coming personally this time. I'm truly grateful."
The deputy chief of the Tianming Division is a seventh-rank official.
And he was just a lowly official of the ninth rank.
After Zhao Xiaonan took the receipt, he smiled and nodded.
"As a new deputy general, he must familiarize himself with the situation in Bai'an County and give them a warning. Since these bandits are blind, they are just unlucky. Don't worry, Master He, this is a general!"
For Zhao Xiaonan, the general flag is a cultivator in the foundation-building stage.
And just as Zhao Xiaonan said, Li Mo really did need to familiarize himself with the work flow of the inspector first, and by the way, observe where the spiritual-smelling lightning-struck wood might appear during the coming rainy season.
"drive!"
The six people galloped all the way and arrived at Quhe Town in three days.
When passersby along the way saw the flying bird costumes on the six people, they all retreated away. The six people rushed straight to the township government office.
The vast majority of prefectures and counties in Qian State do not have so-called township government offices.
However, because Muzhou was vast and sparsely populated, and the surrounding situation was complicated, the so-called Xiangyue Yamen was established under the county government to facilitate the education of the people.
"Your humble servant greets the inspectors. I hope you will forgive me for not welcoming you in person."
The villagers of Quhe Town, along with the village head, yamen runners, and constables, came forward to welcome them.
Li Mo's face looked unhappy. He brought five people headed by Gao Zhengyi and entered the lobby with a mirror hanging high in a menacing manner.
"Let me ask you, it's only been a little over two years since the last crackdown on the Eighteen Mountains bandits. Why has the public security in Quhe County deteriorated so much? Unbelievably, the education supplies we were supposed to be transporting were openly looted by bandits, and they even kidnapped a doctor who had come all the way here to carry out the naturalization mission!"
When the villager heard this, his face changed.
"Please understand, General Flag Officer. The bandit problem in the Eighteen Mountains is a historical issue. Desperadoes from counties near and far have all fled to the Eighteen Mountains. Those bandits are committing all kinds of evil. It is absolutely impossible for the public security of Quhe Town to solve this problem!"
He kept complaining.
"Although it's only been less than three years since the crackdown, there are still at least thirty or forty bandit gangs gathered in the Eighteen Mountains. I can only adopt a conciliatory policy, keeping them as far away from the villagers as possible. Only when those who commit heinous crimes endanger the village will they be targeted and ruthlessly eliminated to prevent chaos."
Li Mo gradually calmed down.
He had spent some time in Shibashan and was well aware of this historical issue. He could not simply blame Quhe Town for inaction. Some things could not be handled solely by violence, but also required guidance and resolution through rules.
After snorting lightly, he took out the case file of He Tongzhi's robbery and threw it on the table.
"I'll leave the other matters aside for now. Just look at this case. Which gang of bandits could have been responsible?"
Upon hearing this, the village heads all stepped forward.
After these people carefully looked at the information, a village head made a decision immediately.
"This must have been done by the Tiger Gang. Their leader is known as the Mountain-Splitting Tiger. He's a master of martial arts, and his two-handed sword can split mountains and shatter rocks. I'm also organizing local militia..."
"What is this Mountain-Splitting Tiger?"
Gao Zhengyi couldn't stand these evil people who exploited the people in the village.
"If you don't act like a tiger with its tail between its legs in front of our Tianming Division, we will make you act like a tiger with your head cut off!"
Upon hearing this, the village heads and village chiefs of Quhe Town nodded in agreement.
(End of this chapter)
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