On the official road leading to Jinling City, there were more and more pedestrians, cars and horses coming and going.

Jiangnan is beyond comparison. Although he has experienced a chaotic situation, now that the chaos has been settled, merchants of all sizes have quickly become active. Many of them are the people who have been trapped in other places before, and are trying to return to their hometowns at this time.

Among such a pedestrian team, the strong chariots and horses where Li Ling is located seem a bit eye-catching. Compared with ordinary merchants and ordinary people, their clothes and spirit are much better than those of them, especially the swords and weapons that are exposed from time to time, which makes other passers-by dare not approach, and they will only look and observe secretly from a distance and infer their origins.

Li Ling, who was sitting in the carriage, didn't care about this. After a turmoil, Jiangnan returned to peace. Ordinary businessmen were more cautious than before. No one dared to come forward to ask about their origins and identities.

Now all the injuries on his body have been recovered, and the situation in Huating County has been stable and improved. I thought everything was over, but what I should do next was to be a qualified local county magistrate, rectify the local area, and let Huating County grow from a poor and small county to a qualified Jiangnan county town step by step.

But a few days ago, a summons were sent from Jinling, asking Li Ling to rush to the local area to meet the governor before September 13, thinking that the rebellion in Jiangnan would be summarized. Regarding the order sent by the second-rank official, Li Ling, a small sixth-rank county magistrate, naturally did not dare to refuse to obey. So after arranging the relevant affairs in the yamen to his subordinates, he brought about twenty people to Jinling.

After a few days of journey, Li Ling had a further intuitive understanding of the Jiangnan Rebellion. Many cities along the way were damaged, and towns without many walls were destroyed by war. The people were more than half less than before.

The originally prosperous and peaceful Jiangnan water town was depressed at this time, and you could often see corpses dying in the corners. I don’t know if they died of war or starved to death. This made Li Ling and his party feel more and more depressed after seeing him, and they just wanted to kill the thieves of the Luotian Sect, who were the ones who started the culprit.

It was not until they entered the boundary of Jinling Prefecture that the situation improved a little, especially some villages near the city, which were still well preserved, and the people inside lived and worked in peace and contentment. The rice in the fields had been golden, and it was almost time to harvest.

"Huh... it will get better, everything will get better." After seeing these scenes, Li Ling showed a smile on his face and said to Yang Qingxiao who was in the car, "I think this time the governor summoned us local officials to Jinling to better safeguard the people and the disaster."

Yang Qingxiao also nodded slightly and expressed her agreement: "Then Li Lang, you have to teach others all the ways to safeguard the people in Huating County." When she said this, her tone was full of praise.

Although Li Ling was generally recuperating during this period, the matter in the county was not delayed at all. He used various methods to get the people out of the disaster as soon as possible. For example, borrowing grain and seeds from the people without any interest, such as mobilizing the people of the county to cooperate with each other to rebuild their homes... It was precisely through his series of efforts that Huating County was able to recover quickly, and even the townships that had been swallowed up by the flood had already rebuilt their homes.

Hearing this, Li Ling was not satisfied and only smiled bitterly and shook his head: "It's not easy. The situation in Huating is beyond comparison with other prefectures and counties. We are already poor and we didn't let the rebels break into the county town, so we can naturally recover quickly. However, some other cities have suffered military disasters. It's unrealistic to recover for less than a year or two.

"Of course, more importantly, I'm afraid other officials don't have the power and wealth of me as much as I do. Now that Huating has no constraints on the two major families of Xu Fang, the orders of my county magistrate will naturally be unimpeded. But elsewhere, just some local gentry is enough for local officials to have a headache."

Yang Qingxiao nodded deeply. She was also a smart person, so she could naturally understand the entangled troubles between local officials and local forces. Indeed, there were very few officials like Li Ling who uprooted the two major county tyrants before the disaster occurred. However, she still hesitated: "After that being said, at this point, those officials cannot suppress the gentry and let them cooperate with them?"

"It's also difficult. After all, those gentry have too many forces involved, so it's not something that officials from one county and one government can suppress. It's me, if it weren't for the help of all the brothers of the Cao Gang, if it weren't for the several attempts from you and Mo Yun to kill the enemy, I'm afraid I'd already died in the various plots of the Xu Fang family. Unless..."

"Unless what?"

"Unless the governor can be the backer of all of us and use the great force of the court to suppress the local gentry. But in this way, the governor's reputation in the court will inevitably be greatly damaged. I don't think he will do this."

At the end, Li Ling sighed again. In the officialdom, there are too many things that an official can make decisions on his own, because there are too many stakeholders involved. Even if the chief officials of the border are like governors, they can only make compromises for their own future.

"So after all, the most painful thing is the people who are weeping, because no one will really do everything for their livelihood and sacrifice their own property, interests or future. In the south of the Yangtze River, at least the people still have a way out, but in the southwest and northern borders, the situation will only get worse." Li Ling sighed with heart, and finally he could only sigh powerlessly.

Yang Qingxiao's face became more and more gloomy because of his truth, and in the end he could only hum: "So in this chaos, some officials and wealthy businessmen were killed by themselves. It was because they ignored the lives and death of the people and committed too many sins, which led to the people in and outside the city being deceived by Luo Tian Sect and then raised an army."

"Yes, if you can survive, such a coaxing will naturally not have much effect. But once your own survival becomes a problem and you suffer from disasters, the situation will be completely different. That's why those guys think about digging the river embankment and disrupting the entire Jiangnan during the flood season.

"In fact, it is not a problem for Luo Tian Cult to do this. The most hateful thing is that they know that it is impossible to accomplish things with these mobs, and they will eventually be pacified and wiped out by the official army, but they still bewitched many people on the road of no return. So in my eyes, they are a group of rioters who are harming the country and the people, and they are not to be cherished by death!"

Speaking of this, Li Ling frowned again, and some of the thoughts in his mind came up again. How could Luotian Sect, a folk sect that has existed for a hundred years and has fought with the Dayue government for a hundred years, have taken such a step with their experience and lessons learned over the years and the minds of conspirators like Zhao Chenghuang?

You know, this Jiangnan Rebellion was a game that they planned for a long time, echoing the movement in the southwest. As a result, they were suppressed with such a loud thunder and raindrops? Although Jiangnan was indeed very damaged, it would be difficult to return to their former appearance in a few years, for the Luotian Sect, their gains and losses were too disproportionate.

Although at the last moment, many core members of the Luotian Sect escaped and fled, and those who were eventually killed and captured were ordinary people, before this, in the rebellions and battles, the casualties of the Luotian Sect were quite serious. Songjiang Mansion alone had no less than five or six hundred Luotian Sects were killed and captured, which were all their important teams. They could follow the clues and find out many official members.

There are also many important members who have been exposed or escaped, such as some big figures who had a certain reputation and power in a certain county and city, who had to leave their family business and flee because of this rebellion. In this way, the industrial status they had built for many years has become empty talk, and this naturally has a great blow to the Luotian Sect.

Even if we don't mention these, the defeat in Jiangnan's defeat on the reputation of Luo Tian Sect was fatal. At the last moment, their escape would naturally be deliberately spread by the government, so that the people of the world would know what they looked like. In this way, when they want to gather together to cause trouble, the fewer people can respond, which almost gave them a fatal blow from the root.

So when you look back at the Jiangnan Rebellion carefully, both the court and the Luotian Sect were actually losers, and the latter's losses seemed to be greater. This is very unreasonable. Didn't they realize that there would be any consequences first? Or is there anything else that they didn't know about?

Just as Li Ling was thinking about all kinds of unreasonable things but couldn't think of the reason, Wan Shenji's greeting came from the front: "I'm here in Jinling City!"

Li Ling then quickly came back to his senses. He looked out the car, but found that the sky was getting darker. After a while, after his thoughts, Yang Qingxiao in front of him fell asleep against the wall of the car.

This made him smile a gentle smile, quietly leaned his head out of the car window, looking at the majestic city ahead.

This is a towering city that is not inferior to Luoyang, the capital. The city wall is more than ten feet high, all of which are built by stones. At the highest point, various bows and crossbows and other guardians are placed. The soldiers who are unsheathed in swords and guns are even ten steps away, densely spread on it, staring at the road below from a high point.

The city gate is about five feet high and three or four feet wide, and there are soldiers and horses inside and outside, constantly searching for the personal belongings of the people entering and leaving the city. A suspension bridge spans on both sides of the deep and turbulent moat. This river alone is five or six feet wide. With the heroic city behind, you can only look at it from a distance and make people feel that this is the most powerful city in the world. There is no way to break through the countless tens of millions of elite soldiers.
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