Chapter 41
Finally, after personally confirming that the capital had restored "calm", Xuanwu officially returned to the North Pole.
However, this incident was not very grand. Apart from the seven star masters under Xuanwu, other Arctic leaders with slightly lower status did not know that Xuanwu had returned.
Most people are still exploring everywhere, wanting to verify the authenticity of the news that "The Lord Xuanwu has returned to the city" that was circulated before.
When they received a message from their superiors, informing them that the North Pole Heaven had officially lifted the previous blockade and restored freedom, they realized that Xuanwu had really returned to the city, and it had been a while since.
Of course, although the people below are notified to no longer enter dormant state as before, Xuanwu will not completely regain the Beijitian in a short period of time.
Just like a bear or snake that has just woken up from hibernation, no matter how hungry it is, at the beginning, you must first restore your mind from the confused state of hibernation for a long time, and then take a lot of details around the situation before you can eat wildly to make up for the weight you lost during hibernation.
What's more, for the Arctic Heaven, they have confirmed that in the wilderness, there is a hunter holding a full set of weapons and armor, who is searching for himself. In this case, they naturally have to be more careful.
Even though this hunter has been criticized by the readers who are also playing in the mountains, he dare not show up.
Moreover, Xuanwu did not forget that his previous temptation plan was not only to test the movements of the court and the emperor, but also to test the lower-level incense halls.
Now, while the main purpose of testing the movements of the court and the emperor has been achieved, it is time to clear the portal based on the results of the previous tests.
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The Jinyiwei, who had been "ravaged" in the capital for several days, disappeared again, and the constables of Dongchang and the Six Gate of the Constables disappeared without a trace. This made many inferior people who were originally frightened, tremblingly confirmed that the "evil gods" had disappeared suddenly like before, and once again plucked up their courage and appeared from the hiding snake and rat nest.
While they complained, cursed, cursed, cursed the Jinyiwei, Dongchang, and the six gates that suddenly appeared and disappeared were all a group of lunatics. They just like to mess around, and they had to mess around with each other, and they were always frightened.
On the other hand, they couldn't help but start to wonder what the Jinyiwei, Dongchang and Liushemen, the three terrifying yamen that they were most afraid of, were doing what they did during this period.
The water leaves traces when passing by, and the geese leave sound when passing by.
No matter how clever the means are, as long as you do it, you will leave some traces. What's more, for more than a month, people from the Jinyiwei, Dongchang and Liusanmen yamen have frequently been dispatched. Moreover, as people from the three major yamen, they have always acted domineeringly. It is already considered to be the best of their ability to wear plain clothes. As for other means of covering up, there is no such thing as at all.
Therefore, in more than a month, it is not very difficult to inquire about the traces left by the people from the three major yamen.
There are indeed many people, either because they have made too many orders before, and they feel a little bored, or because they made a lot of quick money some time ago, and now they have free time. Perhaps some people think that if they can find out the key points and analyze the secrets, they can make a lot of money with these key points.
In short, driven by curiosity and greed, when Jinyiwei, Dongchang Fanzi and Liushemen Constable disappeared in the city again, many of these people from the lower grades "take over" the three major yamen and began to quietly explore the clues of the previous investigation by the three major yamen.
Soon, many of these people really found some clues, but immediately, before they could continue to investigate along the clues, what greeted them was the dark and thick fog that scared them.
But those who had just started to investigate and did not find too many clues were intimidation tokens such as broken swords and broken swords.
And those who have already found a clue and can definitely find some results as long as they continue to search. What is waiting for them is the dark and windy night, and three or five masters with great martial arts come to their doors in person.
Although these masters speak in a gentle and gentle manner, as if they are just kindly persuading them to stop and not continue to investigate, but they will understand that this is the last warning before the other party takes action. If they do not listen and continue to investigate, the weapon that was originally placed on your neck will probably be cut open.
Just like the unlucky people who have been celebrating the sensation among the lower-class groups in the past two days, the unlucky people who have been cut open and died in the hiding place that have been scared by all of them.
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Under the huge threat of death, most people, for the sake of their lives, naturally chose to admit defeat and immediately destroyed all the information they had found. They were secretive about this matter and would never talk about it to anyone.
But there are still many "iron-headed kids" who see the huge value behind this series of intimidation, warnings, and assassination. They are seduced by the white money and decide to continue taking risks.
It is natural that there are few people who can hang out in the deep waters of the capital, which are as deep as the sea, with turbulent waves on the surface and undercurrents inside.
Especially under the huge threat of death, those brave people who still dare to take risks, even if one or two of them are "money connoisseurs" who are jealous of money and cannot walk, most of them really have the confidence and are hiding behind this incident, and are now dealing with the Arctic Tian and Di Ting, which are not known to them.
Of course, this may also be related to the fact that the Arctic Sky has not yet completely resumed operation and cannot cover the capital as before, and can only rely on Diting Action.
It was also because Xuanwu did not want to completely make this matter uncontrollable, so that the emperor could seize this opportunity and release the Jinyiwei again, and the East Factory was related to the Six Gates.
After all, for Xuanwu, these low-ranking little people were just scabies. Compared with Jinyiwei, Dongchang, Liushemen, and even the entire court, they were like a drop of water in the sea, not worth a shower.
Moreover, this time, after two "cleanings" by the imperial court and Beiji Tian itself, I believe that many incense halls will be vacant, and naturally, the position of the incense master will be vacant.
For Xuanwu, this is also an opportunity to absorb these brave and capable lower-level figures into the North Pole.
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Xuanwu was "cleaning" many incense halls that betrayed him or suspected of betraying him. At the same time, Di Ting secretly arrested the lower nine-rate figures who were still investigating the matter. He gathered up what he was willing to use for him. After completing the "cleaning", he immediately took office and once again set up the deposed incense halls.
As for those who are stubborn and have a hard head, they either use means such as threatening their family members and tempting money to soften their mouths or heads, and then continue to take the lead, or they can only slaughter them with one knife and then deal with the matter.
Anyway, there are hundreds of thousands of people in such a huge capital, and many people die every day for various reasons. It is not a big deal to have such three or five inferior and pickled people.
Besides, there is no body found anyway. Even if someone really reports to the government, who can be 100% sure these people are dead? Maybe they were found by enemies, so they escaped from the city to avoid disaster?
This kind of thing is not uncommon for these low-ranking people.
Therefore, the philosophy of life that officials and men have always liked "It is better to have less than more things". Unless they see a corpse, they are too lazy to deal with the lives and deaths of a few people.
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Such trivial matters basically cannot go wrong, the only thing that requires a lot of time and energy.
Therefore, after determining the general direction, Xuanwu became the boss and handed over the matter to his subordinates.
With Beiji Tian and Di Ting supervising each other, he was not worried that anyone would dare to fool him.
In the capital for many years, the word "check and balance" was the most valuable experience he learned from the court and from the emperor.
Of course, after he threw this matter to his subordinates, he did not really take it as a complete free time, not caring about other things, and only enjoying leisure.
There are many more things he needs to deal with.
The most urgent and difficult one is undoubtedly the one that Diji Hall’s Lord Zuo Qingsong told him at the Xishan Temple that Jiang Biemei, the Lord of Liangjiang Hall, had never come out after entering the Ning Prince’s Mansion.
Speaking of this matter, it actually seems quite strange to Xuanwu.
Based on his understanding of King Ning, Liangjiangtang has not been targeted by the Prince Ning's Mansion yet, and it has even taken action to wipe out it, which is a very surprising thing for him.
After Jiang Biemei, the leader of Liangjiang Hall, entered the Ning Palace, lost contact. He must have revealed his strength and was discovered by Ning. After Jiang Biemei fell into Ning's hands, he was able to keep the secret about Diting. Xuanwu himself did not believe this kind of thing.
As a result, King Ning probably had known many secrets about Diting a few months ago, and he must have known that he was the man who manipulated Diting behind it.
With King Ning's character, how could he be so calm when he knew that a dog under his command had tried to be on an equal footing with him?
Xuanwu couldn't figure this out.
So, recently, he has been thinking about this matter, and at the same time he has been sending orders to Liangjiangtang, trying to ask the people from Liangjiangtang to investigate the Ning Prince's Mansion.
He naturally knew that the people sent to investigate were unlikely to come back, but this was his purpose. He wanted to test through the second time the manpower was sent to see what was sold in Ning Wang's gourd.
In addition, he also sent a special envoy to the road at the same time as the Lord of the North Pole of Tianyan Sect.
As for the purpose of this special envoy, on the surface, he was to greet the general sect leader of the Tianyan Sect, and at the same time asked about the arrangements of the General sect leader of the Beijitian to do this next time, and the situation where the General sect leader of the Dongjitian and Zhongjitian have been destroyed.
The real purpose is obviously to test King Ning’s attitude towards the North Pole Heaven through this special envoy.
In Xuanwu's view, King Ning should have three reactions when the special envoy he sent came to visit.
First, he naturally became furious and arrested the special envoy he sent, and completely broke up with him and the Arctic Heaven.
Second, it is to pretend that nothing has happened before, and after taking the person in, he will give the person a false alarm and then put him back.
The last type is to stay closed, but he will not arrest the special envoys he sent.
Among them, the last one that makes Xuanwu feel most uneasy is undoubtedly the last one.
Because if it is the first situation, it will prove that King Ning is still the Ning King. He can still find King Ning's vein. In the future, he can still speculate King Ning through his past understanding of King Ning and provide support for his plan.
And the second type is undoubtedly the situation he is most happy to see.
Because if King Ruo Ning really did this, it was enough to prove that the successive obstruction of Dongjitian and Zhongjitian this time had a considerable impact on King Ning's strength. Even if he knew that his past dog was trying to go to the table and sit on equal footing with him, he could only temporarily hold back his dissatisfaction with him, and use his power to rebuild Dongjitian and Zhongjitian, which had been completely wiped out by the Tianyan Sect.
In this way, even if the situation improves, King Ning will definitely break up with him again, break up completely, and even go to war directly, which will be able to win him a short time from three years to five years, or even longer.
But if it is the third type, it will be a bit unpredictable for him.
Over the years, although he has learned a lot of information about the Ning Prince's Mansion through listening carefully, the Ning Prince's Mansion has been deeply rooted and has been around for nearly a hundred years. With the many privileges and conveniences brought by the title of Prince of the Prince, he is sure that what he learned was just the tip of the iceberg of the Ning Prince's Mansion.
Although the Tianyan Sect seems to have a wide range of power, one day was wiped out and the main celestial was wiped out, and its strength was greatly damaged. The remaining Antarctic Heaven was already useless. The Xiji Heaven was in harmony with Shenli, and the Beiji Heaven under his control directly planned to completely break with the Ning Prince's Mansion. The originally huge Tianyan Sect collapsed instantly, and the help to the Ning Prince's Mansion had disappeared.
But for the fall of the Tianyan Sect, he had no idea how much the loss was for the Ning Prince's Mansion.
Under such circumstances, what attitude will the Ning Mansion, who is hiding in the dark, take towards him, a "betrayer" and what means will it use to deal with him.
He was not prepared at all.
Chapter completed!