Creation Color Master

Now everything was developing as he had expected. Chu Mo turned around and met Yao Guangxiao's eyes that were half smiling.

Sarliang was still a little unconvinced and insisted that he must fight with him next time they met to see the gap between them.

Yang Jiye, Six Sword Slaves and others were guarding the criminals arrested this time.

Now the matter of Baiwei County has been settled. Shen Moqian, Guo Ziming and others have all been arrested. Even the more than 200 surviving Jingyu Guards are all squatting together obediently, waiting for the judgment of fate.

In this battle, Chu Mo and others did not gain nothing. For example, the murderous aura in Lai Buyi's White Tiger attack pattern was enhanced again. Once the Feng Shui pattern integrates these into the Feng Shui momentum, the power will be greatly enhanced.

There was also the guard Li Mingxuan who was killed by Salliang. He was a third-level cultivator. Not only did all his savings fall into Chu Mo's hands, but by killing him he also obtained a great spiritual treasure.

[Rock of rock, a thousand feet of ground bred the heart rock, as hard as rock between thick soil. This is a spiritual stone bred in the ground a thousand feet underground, with indestructible defensive power, belonging to the rock path spiritual treasure. ]

Just as Chu Mo was silently calculating in his mind, he heard Shen Moqian, who was sitting on the ground in a disheveled state, wailing loudly.

"I don't accept it. When did you start planning this? I won't be able to rest in peace until I figure this out."

"Hey, is there anyone who can answer my question? Please come quickly. I can't understand why I'm confused."

Chu Mo looked at Shen Moqian who was close to him, smiled slightly, and walked slowly towards Shen Moqian with a folding fan in his hand.

"If you have any objections, just ask me any questions you have. I will let you understand everything before I die."

Seeing Chu Mo coming over, Shen Moqian yelled, "How did you know where I was in Baiwei County and what I was doing? And when did you enter Jingyu City?"

Chu Mo looked at Shen Moqian with eyes as calm as water, and said: "If you don't want others to know, then don't do it. What you did is against the will of heaven and earth, and it has made the people in the county live in misery. I have been keeping my eyes open all the way."

"I think you have been living a life of luxury for too long and haven't left Jingyu City for a long time. The prosperity of Jingyu City makes you think that the life in Jingyu City is the life of the people under your rule."

"You are actually deceiving yourself. You don't even go and see how miserable the people outside the city are because of your heavy taxes. It's almost like a famine, and there are people starving to death on the road."

After hearing this, Shen Moqian was in disbelief. After a long while, he sighed deeply and said, "So that's how it is. I understand."

"There is one more thing. I want to know who is the person who manipulated the entire plan. Xu Wenjie and the many secret guards are in danger, right?"

Chu Mo said softly, "The people who planned this were Xiaosheng and Daoyan. As for Xu Wenjie and the others, they were only arrested two days earlier than you."

Shen Moqian nodded, then lowered his head and said no more.

Seeing that Shen Moqian stopped talking, Chu Mo had no intention of continuing. He shrugged and turned to leave.

At this moment, a man came in from outside. It was Shangguan Zhuo, the master of Xuanming Sword.

Looking at the scene of corpses all over the ground, Shangguan Zhuo was slightly stunned and said, "Sir, you have already resolved the battle. I rushed here as soon as I got the news, but I didn't expect to be a step too late."

Chu Mo smiled and said, "It's not your fault. It happened too suddenly, so I couldn't send you a message right away. Now they have all been arrested. I'll trouble you to bring them back to the capital to see the emperor."

Shangguan Zhuo was stunned when he heard this, and said, "From what you said, sir, do you not intend to return to the imperial capital with me?"

Chu Mo smiled and said, "Look at the current Baiwei County. It is already in tatters. The people are living in such a difficult situation. How can I just leave? At least I can handle the affairs of the county temporarily before the new officials take office."

"Let the people live a good life sooner rather than later."

Upon hearing this, Shangguan Zhuo clasped his fists and said, "I admire your thoughts and actions, sir."

At this moment, the secret guards mobilized from the imperial capital also hurried over, and a team of black-clothed secret guards lined up hastily.

Chu Mo watched everything and said to Shangguan Zhuo, "The task of escorting them here is handed over to you. I also need to learn about the government affairs of Baiwei County. Oh, I almost forgot, I kept the stolen money that Shen Moqian embezzled over the years. After all, if you want to restore Baiwei County, you can't do without financial support."

"If the emperor asks, you can answer truthfully."

Shangguan Zhuo nodded to show that he understood.

Chu Mo didn't say much. After his men completed the handover with the secret guards, he turned and left.

Time passed in a flash and it was more than ten days, almost half a month.

During this period, some things happened.

In the imperial capital, after Shangguan Zhuo escorted Shen Moqian and his party back, Tang Tiansheng handed them over to the Ministry of Justice to convict them based on their crimes.

In the end, Shen Moqian and other high-ranking officials involved were all executed; and all the secret guards including Xu Wenjie were treated even more cruelly, being tortured to death in front of all the civil and military officials in the square.

The reason why Tang Tiansheng did this was naturally that he didn't want such things to happen again. If the Shadow Guards really colluded with officials from all over the country, then situations like Shen Moqian's would become very common.

Therefore, he had to use thundering means to intimidate those who had such thoughts.

At the same time, the operation mode of the Dark Guards was revised. That is, every three years, the local Dark Guards would be replaced. In other words, the Dark Guard Censor in charge of a county and his subordinates would leave after three years in office and go to a new state or county to continue their tenure.

Such a rotation system can greatly prevent the possibility of the secret guards colluding with local officials.

There were also more than 200 Jingyu Guards. Although they obeyed Shen Moqian completely, this was also the duty of the soldiers, so they were not killed. Instead, they were demoted to slaves, and the third-level soul master planted slave marks in their sea of ​​consciousness, making them obey him for the rest of their lives.

As for their future fate, Tang Tiansheng directly arranged them to live in Chu Mo's mansion in the imperial capital, which was also an indirect reward for Chu Mo by giving him a private army of more than 200 people.

Because Chu Mo made a great contribution in this matter, no one stood up to say anything. Besides, everyone knew that Chu Mo had been away from the imperial capital for a long time, so he probably didn't even know about this matter.

At the same time, Tang Tiansheng did not deal with the incident regarding Li Mingxuan openly because it involved the Queen.

But Chu Mo later received news that Li Mingxuan was deposed and sent back to the Li family in Luzhou. He lost his status as the legitimate son. The Li family would transfer a person from the side branch and train this person to be the future head of the Li family.

Because the empress interfered in government affairs, she was fined three years' salary, imprisoned and forced to reflect on her mistakes for a year.

At the same time, Tang Tiansheng took the opportunity to purge several high-ranking members of the Li family in the court, and all of them suffered more or less demotion.

The only thing Chu Mo didn't expect was that Tian Yiheng and Wei Zheng profited from it. Tian Yiheng was promoted to Langzhong in charge of construction affairs in the Ministry of Works, and Wei Zheng was even promoted to Vice Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, which was considered a promotion.

At the same time, Yao Guangxiao abolished a series of previous tax policies in Baiwei County, and promulgated a series of policies to encourage farming and relocate refugees. This not only solved the problem of population loss in Baiwei County, but also allowed a large amount of wasteland to be redeveloped.

At the same time, all the money looted from the Shen Mansion was returned by Yao Guangxiao to the people to help them overcome the current difficulties.