A certain person is the Heavenly Killer Li Gui.

Chapter 216 Internal cleaning

As the sun sets in the west, the remaining rays of the sun shine on the military camp, making the broken limbs, blood and mud against the background even more desolate.

The autumn wind was blowing, and the bloody flag was blown around the camp. It was like a broken army on the battlefield, and it was particularly depressing.

In the middle of the square, there is an incense table with a tablet dedicated to the Exorcist Lord. It has long been stained red with blood. Dozens of human heads are piled together under the table, like rotten watermelons in the vegetable garden, attracting countless mosquitoes. The flies were buzzing there.

There is a small incense burner placed in front of the God's main card, and an extinguished incense stick is inserted into the incense burner.

On both sides of the incense table, there are many people on the left. A group of mid-level and above officials gathered together, tremblingly, waiting for Li Gui to show off. There are few people on the right, only a dozen or so. Ma Ling, Fang Qiong, etc. are all here.

Dozens of headless corpses lay scattered beside the incense table, silently telling the story of what happened before.

Li Gui is unreasonable in his actions. Regardless of the severity of your crime, as long as you dare to have a wrong idea about dividing the land, you will be stabbed in the head.

There is no trial, no evidence is required, no excuses are listened to, and no opportunity is given to plead guilty and meritorious service.

There is only one criterion for judging, and that is asking your heart before God!

The "asking heart incense" that I got unexpectedly before is just right at this time.

For these officials, this is not the "incense of asking one's mind", it is clearly the "incense of beheading".

When the incense goes out, the head falls to the ground!

Fang Qiong was the first to be questioned by Li Gui. At that time, he didn't know what it was, so he replied with a "no".

Now looking at the heads rolling around under the case, Fang Qiong was still frightened. She only felt that her lips were dry and the back of her neck felt cold.

Li Gui kicked the still-warm headless corpse away, lit the incense again, held the knife in his right hand, and dragged an official from the crowd with his left hand, pushed him down and knelt in front of the incense table of the Exorcist Lord, and asked in a cold voice :

"Let me ask you, are you involved in the division of land this time?"

"'Yes', or 'No'?"

The official was shaking like chaff, but he didn't dare not answer. He stared at the incense stick and uttered the word "no" with a trembling mouth.

After a while, the incense was still pointing straight upward, and the official's body went limp and he collapsed on the ground.

He had just seen too many scenes of people dying after saying "no". He was really frightened. He was afraid that this thing was not accurate and would kill him.

Li Gui tilted the tip of his sword and pointed it towards the crowd on the right. As if he had received an amnesty, the official hurriedly ran over there in a pissed off state.

Just by looking at his birdlike appearance, Li Gui knew that the bottom of this guy's butt was not clean either.

However, Li Gui mainly asked about the land allocation. He left other minor matters aside and let them go first.

Many people in the group on the left have already collapsed. Li Gui doesn't even need to ask such people, he can just kill them.

He pulled out another one and asked the same question again.

The man didn't dare to answer, he just kept kowtowing and begging for mercy, "I realize my mistake, brother, please spare my life!"

"Thieves and birds!"

"Who is your brother?"

The sword in Li Gui's hand flashed, and another head flew into the sky. The blood splashed on the incense table, adding new makeup to the already red God's throne on it.

Li Gui continued to arrest people. Fang Qiong, who was next to him, couldn't bear it anymore. He rushed up, hugged Li Gui tightly, and begged:

"Brother, please don't kill me again!"

"If you kill me again, there will be no one left!"

"These heroes came to join me because they heard about my reputation in Liangshan. If they are all killed by my brother now, I'm afraid it will ruin my reputation in the world of Liangshan."

"Name?" Li Gui sneered and asked, "What's my name in Liangshan?"

"Do justice for heaven? Or rebel and become emperor?"

"In Liangshan, we only have like-minded people like this group of ants, and it doesn't matter whether they come or not!" "In other words, it would be better if they didn't come!"

"We have no one available, so we can use our own ordinary soldiers who are illiterate."

"As long as your heart is right and you are willing to work hard, you can always get things done. It has little to do with whether you are literate or not."

"On the other hand, if you have evil intentions and are bent on corruption, even if you promote people to become scholars, they will only cause more disasters."

Fang Qiong was dumbfounded and just shouted:

"Brother, please don't joke. How can an old farmer become an official?"

Li Gui also stared and shouted:

"What's so difficult about being an official?"

“Not all official positions require very sophisticated skills!”

"Take the county magistrate as an example. He is in charge of civil affairs, finance, prison litigation and other matters."

"What is civil government? It is nothing but rewards and punishments!"

"As long as his mind is right and his actions are fair and impartial, who dares to refuse to accept the rewards and punishments?"

"We still use the laws of the Song Dynasty when it comes to punishment and naming, but the core is still fairness."

"People are not fools. As long as they are fair and comply with moral standards, what will happen if they violate the law?"

"As for finance, it's just revenue and expenditure."

“Whether it’s clearing household registration or dividing land equally, the core is not fairness?”

"Agricultural taxes under Liangshan's command have been exempted, and no labor is levied. The commercial tax standards have been set in advance and are fixed amounts. He can just ask people to collect them regularly."

"In addition to the necessary salary, how much can they spend if they don't need to drink wine, sing and answer questions?"

"Only those technical jobs such as road construction, bridge construction, farmland water conservancy, etc., require professionals. When the time comes, you can just spend money to find people to do it."

"As for educating the people, we have no one available. We can only teach literacy and arithmetic first, and the rest will come later."

"You see, as long as a person has good character and is willing to work hard, anyone can be an official."

"The reason why you are being ostracized by this group of subordinates and scoundrels is because they saw your weakness and felt that you couldn't survive without them, so they dared to be unscrupulous."

"Then Geng Gong said he was training troops, but he didn't know how much military salary he had squandered to train a good army into the kind of bird soldiers of the Song Dynasty!"

As soon as this matter was mentioned, Li Gui became angry and angry.

The defeated troops who had fled had gathered back again, but Li Gui didn't bother to look at them and sent them home.

From now on, if Liangshan needs soldiers again, they will strictly recruit sons of good families. All the officers and soldiers who surrendered will be disbanded and become civilians, no more!

Anyway, after sweeping away the powerful locals, we can allocate as much land as we can for resettlement.

Nowadays, there is no agricultural tax in Liangshan. Even if there is little land, you can live well just by farming.

If you don't want to serve the people, you can also participate in army selection, but the requirements will be more stringent. Being a member of the Song Army will result in a deduction of points.

You can do business and work, but if someone dares to go up the mountain to weed, it will be a dead end if caught.

Li Gui was determined to clean up the rebel team, pushed Fang Qiong away, and continued to investigate one by one.

In the huge city of Jinan, there were more than a hundred officials at the mid-level and above, but only twenty-three out of ten remained. The rest were turned into Jingguan, and they were piled up in front of the state government office as a warning to future generations.

(End of this chapter)