Now Zhang Ba's broken arm has been bandaged haphazardly, and with the ropes and blood stains tied around his body, he looks miserable. There is no trace of the confident demeanor of a great monk in the late stage of foundation building. The fastest update.
What's more important is that Zhang Ba's eyes have lost the sparkle of wisdom and have become empty and void.
"You heard everything just now, what else is there to say?" Lin Qing asked slowly and calmly.
"Bitch! I don't believe that I am sincere to you, but I still pretend to be that stinking body cultivator in my heart. What's so good about him..." Zhang Ba's reaction was so strange that he didn't even pay attention to Lin Qing's question, but just kept talking.
She was talking to herself, not seeming to care about her lie being exposed, but angry that her mistress still had true feelings for her husband.
"What's the matter? Sima Yan's master suffered the torture for you and is as close to you as flesh and blood, but in your heart he is no better than someone else's wife?" Lin Qing asked with a slight frown. This Zhang Ba is really weird.
"Jiejie, in my heart, Zhang Ba, my feelings for anyone can be hypocritical. Only my feelings for that bitch are true. Only in front of her can I dare to relax completely and get drunk like this.
Mu, in fact, she really doesn’t understand, even if I knew that I had confided these things to her, I still couldn’t bring myself to kill her to silence her..." At the end of Zhang Ba's words, his voice became lower and lower, almost inaudible.
"So, you admit that what the physical cultivator just said is true, and you are not going to defend yourself anymore?" Lin Qing's face no longer had the original joking look, but was serious.
asked.
"I betrayed my brother who I have known for many years, and was betrayed by the woman I loved deeply. It is a cycle of fate, retribution, God's will, God's will. I have nothing to say, you can do whatever you want." Zhang Ba closed his eyes with a face ashen as death.
Two drops of muddy tears oozed from the corners of his eyes. He didn't know whether he regretted betraying his junior brother or was sad that he had not won the sincerity of his mistress.
Lin Qing turned to look at Sima Yan and said:
"It's up to you to deal with this Zhang Ba. You can choose to give him a happy life, or you can torture him to death."
Zhang Bahun acted as if he didn't hear Lin Qing's words and didn't beg for forgiveness. However, Sima Yan bit his lip tightly, with an expression of extreme hatred on his face for one moment, and a look of intolerance for another, as if he couldn't make up his mind.
.
After a long time, Sima Yan sighed and said:
"My lord, although this person has harmed my master, he has known my master for many years and is considered an elder of my subordinates. I really can't do anything, so I should let my master handle me!"
Seeing that Sima Yan could no longer resist, Lin Qing called the guards to take Zhang Ba down, and then said to his first subordinate:
"Excessive sympathy is a taboo for monks, especially for us who are not strong enough. Kindness to the enemy means cruelty to ourselves, do you understand?"
Sima Yan did not say a word, but nodded silently.
Lin Qing continued:
"This Zhang Ba is treacherous and cunning. He is a man who speaks his mind and speaks his mind. If it hadn't happened that the physical practitioner knew his details today, I think you would have almost completely believed his lies."
Although his master's words were not serious, Sima Yan's face was as red as a cloth, and he became even more ashamed.
Lin Qing said again:
"You just saw him suffering from the betrayal of his lover, and you felt sympathy for him, but have you forgotten why your master became a cripple? Why was he forced to commit suicide? Why are you being hunted? Even if you
If you let him go today, do you think he will give you a chance when you meet alone in the future?"
It's early autumn now, a time of coolness and refreshing. Sima Yan feels as if he's lying naked in the ice and snow, and there are even drops of cold sweat oozing out from his temples!
He knelt down on the ground with a thud, kowtowed several times, and said:
"My lord, Sima Yan knows that he made a mistake. Please give me another chance. I will kill Zhang Ba with my own hands to avenge my master!"
Lin Qing shook his head and said:
"You have to understand that in this world, most of the time, once an opportunity is missed, it will never come again, and the price you pay may be your life, or even the lives of thousands of subordinates who follow you, so I hope
You will keep this lesson in mind, I will arrange for someone to take care of Zhang Ba’s life, and you will have nothing to do with it anymore.”
"No!" Sima Yan nodded and agreed. He was sincerely convinced and had no complaints at all.
It was now afternoon. Seeing that Zhang Ba's matter had been dealt with, Lin Qingbian and Sima Yan returned to the meeting hall.
The bloodstains and traces of fighting here had long been cleaned up by Mo Sanniang. All officials from Xinyi Prefecture, big and small, who were qualified to meet Lin Qing, had stood neatly in the meeting hall and had been waiting for a long time.
Lin Qing, still wearing the white robe of a disciple of the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect, calmly walked up to the innermost platform and sat on the large chair, which was not much smaller than the emperor's dragon chair.
Under the leadership of Mo Sanniang and Guo Rusong, everyone in the hall knelt down and saluted loudly. Lin Qing clearly felt a kind of respect and admiration from the heart from the words and expressions of the officials at his feet. This feeling was
Something he'd never had before.
"I want to announce something!" Lin Qing said directly to the audience without any nonsense: "From today on, after Xinyi Prefecture secedes, the Zhao State will become its own territory. From now on, this land under our feet will
The land was renamed 'Worry-free Territory'!"
Without any worries, doubts, or even hesitations, the entire meeting hall rang with deafening shouts of long live the mountain. The officials of Xinyi Prefecture, big and small, expressed their feelings about this day with the most fanatical emotions.
The longing has finally arrived!
To be honest, Lin Qing was somewhat unexpected about such a scene. After all, Zhao State had very little knowledge about the establishment of the "Worry-free Territory" after Xinyi Prefecture seceded, and most officials were kept in the dark.
Lin Qing has almost never stayed in Xinyi Prefecture for a long time. He couldn't even name most of the officials in the audience. He never knew that he had such a high status in the hearts of these people.
!
You must know that the people in the audience now are mainly civil servants from Xinyi Prefecture. They were originally the group of people who were least familiar with and understood Lin Qing. They were just wage earners and could not talk about having any relationship with the boss.
Really sharing weal and woe.
Most of the Xinyi Army generals who are truly part of Lin Qing's strength and can be regarded as hard-core subordinates, as well as the cultivators who have surrendered to him, are following Bai Qi to fight, or are engaged in their respective jobs in Yuanjiabao and other places. They are not here at this moment.
in the meeting hall.
Since ancient times, how to win the hearts of the people to the greatest extent has been what every emperor has been trying to do. But now, Lin Qing, who seems to have done nothing, has already won the hearts of the entire "Worry-Free Leader"!
"I must remind everyone that the current 'Worry-free Territory' is the place where the Fourth War is fought. The army of Hou Zhao is coming soon, and our army is still fighting against the Great Dian Kingdom. The Bai Zhao Kingdom on the other side has also been eyeing it, wanting to
Bite off a piece of flesh from our body. From today on, we are facing a difficult and bumpy road full of thorns. There is no way to retreat. If you do not live, you will die. You are willing to walk with me and carve out a world of your own.
!" Lin Qing's solemn and deep words aroused a tsunami-like response from the officials in the audience. Officials, big and small, kowtowed and beat their chests to show their loyalty.
After the mood in the hall stabilized slightly, Lin Qing said slowly:
"All the gentlemen here are no more widowed than Lin Qinggu. They all have families and families. It is inevitable that they have to consider their families and relatives. Therefore, before the official establishment ceremony of the 'Worry-free Territory' is held, there are those who want to leave, no matter where they go.
, I will never stop you, and I will provide you with travel expenses, but after the ceremony, if there are any people who are half-hearted, they will be severely punished!"
…
At this meeting, Lin Qing made detailed arrangements for the division of independent work, and also announced that his wife Lei Ying would soon come from the Ten Thousand Beast Sect. This was also a major event that made all the officials happy and required a lot of work.
In preparation, these officials started working in an orderly manner and at high speed.
After the meeting, Lin Qing called Mo Sanniang alone into the side hall to learn more about the current situation of the "Worry-free Leader" and finally understood why these officials showed such fanatical loyalty to him.
When Xinyi Prefecture was first established, no work had been carried out, and officials, big and small, were not in place. Most of them were responding to military control according to wartime laws. Mo Sanniang was extremely capable of handling things. Lin Qing's presence or absence did not actually matter.
What's the difference.
As the forces of all sizes in the Xinyi Prefecture surrendered, and officials of all sizes in the five cities were gradually put in place, the disadvantage that Lin Qing, the actual owner of the Xinyi Prefecture, was always absent from the territory gradually emerged.
Any force must form a strong centripetal force around its supreme leader in order to be able to operate in an orderly and normal manner, otherwise it will start to lead to disintegration and chaos.
Lin Qing has not shown up for a long time, and most officials have never even met the master they serve, so how can they be loyal?
The person who discovered this potential threat was actually not Mo Sanniang, but Guo Rusong, the first civil official. As a representative of many foreign officials, he could see many things that Mo Sanniang could not notice.
After many discussions between Guo Rusong and Mo Sanniang, they actually came up with a set of incredible and unprecedented plans called "The Glory of God"!
The central idea of this plan is to establish a wise and omnipotent god in the hearts of the monks, troops, officials and even the entire people of Xinyi Prefecture through a series of measures that combine light and dark, and will lead everyone out of the sea of suffering and create an unprecedented world.
The image of a god-like king in a glorious and prosperous age! ^-^^-^