The Demon-Slaying Grandmaster

Chapter 18 Everyone gets what they need
Li Jingxiao met Jing Feng and his younger brother Jing Wu yesterday.

I know that the two men are the seventh-rank generals of the Daoluo Division, and they are in charge of 50 strong men in brocade clothes.

Jing Feng and Jing Wu are Shen Boping's confidants in the Daolu Division.

Those 50 strong men in brocade clothes were basically selected from the border troops who had fought in the battlefield and had military merits.

Moreover, most of them are "night busters", that is, they are spies in the army.

These brave soldiers who crawled out of the pile of dead bodies are still effective in dealing with evil and weirdness.

If they form a military formation, ordinary demons will flee upon seeing them.

Otherwise, some newly born ghosts might be scared to death by the blood and energy of the military formation.

The border troops did not repel the enemy at night, and they often scouted the enemy's situation in the dark, which showed their extraordinary courage.

This kind of person wouldn't just turn around and run away when they encounter something strange.

Li Jingxiao nodded, without much politeness, and followed Jing Feng into the yamen quickly.

When I met Shen Boping, there were six people standing beside him.

An official of the sixth rank, two officials of the secondary sixth rank, two officials of the eighth rank, and one official of the secondary eighth rank were talking to him about something.

When they saw Jing Feng bringing him in, these people stopped talking and looked at him.

Li Jingxiao was not afraid and saluted Shen Boping.

Shen Boping nodded and introduced the six people around him in a somewhat rapid manner.

The right minister is Rao Guangxian, the left minister is Yu Fubao, and the right minister is Su Lin.

On the left is Ling Peng Xianglin, on the right is Ling Sun Jingxiu, and on the left is Yuan Yi Tian Guoying.

Including Li Jingxiao and Shen Boping himself, there were only eight civil servants with ranks in the entire Daoluo Division.

The others were all officials and were not qualified to hold a meeting at this time.

Li Jingxiao saluted each of the six people.

Seeing his upright attitude, the six people immediately developed a favorable impression of him.

They exchanged gifts and made a few polite remarks.

Shen Boping then started talking about the official documents from Tongzhou.

However, not all officials in the Daoluosi were aware of the true mission of this office.

To put it bluntly, some of these people have no backing, so they come to work in this government office that has little real power and is not taken seriously.

Some come for a temporary stay and get promoted and leave after a year or two.

So this kind of people are generally the ones who handle ordinary official documents.

Shen Boping said a few perfunctory words to them and asked them to go back to work.

Left behind were Right Minister Rao Guangxian, Left Minister Yu Fubao and Li Jingxiao.

Finally, Rao Guangxian led the team, took Yu Fubao and Li Jingxiao, and a team of small flags to Tongzhou.

Along the way, everyone rode horses in order to save time.

This was a tough situation for Yu Fubao, who was in his forties. He could only slow down and talk while walking.

Rao Guangxian and Yu Fubao had already known from Shen Boping that Li Jingxiao was a real talent, so they were quite enthusiastic about him.

He muttered for a long time about the things that need to be paid attention to in the Daoluo Division.

Li Jingxiao took the opportunity to hint that he joined the Daoluosi not for promotion.

It was for the sake of experience, hoping to advance quickly so that he could avenge his master.

Rao Guangxian and Yu Fubao naturally also knew about the murder of seven Taoist priests in Zhenwu Temple.

After comforting Li Jingxiao for a few words, he advised him to be ambitious.

The two of them simply didn't believe that Li Jingxiao posed a threat to their positions.

One was of the sixth rank, the other of the secondary rank, and Li Jingxiao was only 15 years old. It would take at least three to five years for him to be promoted to the seventh rank due to his merits.

Moreover, there were quite a lot of officials who were promoted or transferred from the Daoluosi.

It may have been 10 years since Zuo Yuanyi, Zuo You Zhiling and You Yanfa came together.

Yu Fubao, then a sixth-rank official, was already in his 50s, and perhaps too old and dim to sit in court. Or perhaps, because Li Jingxiao had continued to make contributions, he had benefited from his success and was promoted.

Therefore, not only did the two of them not hate Li Jingxiao, they were also eager to make more contributions.

In order to avoid encountering serious trouble, the Daoluo Division would have to ask for help from Youdao Zhenxiu as they did before.

In the end, most of the credit was taken away by these Taoist priests, and the officials of the Taoist Records Office only received a few words of praise from the Ministry of Rites.

Moreover, there are not only few Taoist priests with real skills, but they are generally impossible to hire.

People are busy practicing Taoism and seeking immortality, so how can they have the time to care about those trivial matters?
Not to mention, it’s not that easy to deal with weirdness.

If you are not careful, your life may be in danger.

If these Taoists felt that the people in the Taoist Records Office were too annoying, they would simply travel around and find a place to continue their practice.

In the end, if he wants to solve the problem, Dao Lu Si will have to fight for it himself.

So it was the best thing that Li Jingxiao, a true cultivator who was willing to serve as an official, came to the yamen.

Rao Guangxian and Yu Fubao rode their horses around Li Jingxiao along the way, and asked the entire small flag's strongmen in brocade clothes to stay away.

Then he whispered to Li Jingxiao that Zuo Yuanyi and Tian Guoying were just new top three Jinshi with no connections or backing.

As long as you are willing to pay money and find your superiors in the Ministry of Rites, with three to five hundred taels, you can transfer Tian Guoying to a local county town.

Tian Guoying might even be grateful.

Li Jingxiao could tell that his two superiors were trying their best to win him over.

The so-called showing courtesy for nothing is either cheating or stealing.

These two people must be like Shen Boping, treating themselves as coolies.

Fortunately, Li Jingxiao was not angry, but was happy about it.

To gain experience, of course you have to do more work.

Otherwise, those weird and evil people would not have gone to the government office or Zhenwu Temple to commit suicide!

And Li Jingxiao is not like that, he really doesn't want to be promoted.

Since you have chosen to be an official, how can you not have ambition?
But Li Jingxiao knew that it was always a good idea to be humble when just entering the workplace.

After chatting all the way, we finally arrived in Tongzhou around noon.

After exchanging greetings with the local judge and having lunch, the group arrived at the charity cemetery outside the city.

As he entered the morgue, Li Jingxiao heard a prompt in his mind.

There was no need to open the museum for inspection, Li Jingxiao knew that the corpse inside was undergoing a transformation.

The simplest way to deal with it is to burn it to ashes.

But after Li Jingxiao thought about it, he felt that he had to show some of his skills.

Otherwise, no matter how much Rao Guangxian and Yu Fubao valued me along the way, they would hate me so much after being disappointed.

"Sir," he called out to Rao Guangxian and Yu Fubao, and Li Jingxiao pretended to stare at the coffin without moving.

This immediately made Rao Guangxian, Yu Fubao, and a dozen soldiers from a small flag team nervous.

Tongzhou Tongpan You Shiheng, and his entourage and yamen runners looked at Li Jingxiao strangely.

The manager of the charity cemetery saw what Li Jingxiao had noticed.

I couldn't help but ask in a low voice, "Does the master also see the problem?"

Li Jingxiao still had some good feelings towards this middle-aged manager who was dressed in a sloppy Taoist robe.

At least this Taoist priest is not a fake who wears a Taoist robe but has nothing to do with Taoism.

And reporting in a timely manner is also considered responsible.

Li Jingxiao nodded, smiled and saluted, "Thank you for your courtesy, fellow Daoist. I am the current abbot of the Zhenwu Temple in the capital.

If you have some free time, or if you have any unusual matters, please come to Zhenwu Temple to find me."

Now, except Rao Guangxian and Yu Fubao, everyone else was surprised.

It is not uncommon for Taoists to serve as officials, but in the last ten or hundred years, it has basically been unheard of.

(End of this chapter)