Yang Hao finally chose a new house to the south of the patrol camp and east of the governor's mansion. This was a house purchased by Yu Ping, the former county magistrate of Yongfeng County. Yu Ping was dismissed and investigated by Meng Bochang for two crimes of privately investing in Meishan Mine and asking for bribes from Wang Rentong, and all property was confiscated. W     w√W√.

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Like Yu Ping, there were 38 Yongfeng officials who were dismissed for their stake in Meishan Mine. This was just the beginning of Meng Bochang's cleanup of Yongfeng's officialdom. Starting from the tenth day of the first lunar month, Meng Bochang completely turned the Yongfeng officialdom in two months. Among the 39 officials of the Ninth Century and above in Yongfeng, thirteen were dismissed and imprisoned, twenty-six demoted, and 46 redundant personnel were eliminated. After some rectification, Yongfeng's military and political affairs were completely controlled by Meng Bochang.

Yang Hao mainly did two things during this period.

First, he formed a gang at Meishan Mine. He appointed Hou Jie, who had worked as a gang supervisor at the mine, and represented the government supervisor Wang Rentong to fulfill the terms stipulated in the contract, such as increasing wages, building new sheds, improving food and reducing working hours. The leaders of the gang were elected by the laborers themselves, but the real power of the gang was controlled by Hou Jie. Meng Bochang sent a school official and sixteen coaches to the Meishan Mine to supervise the gang for military training.

The second thing Yang Hao did to eradicate the forces of the Yongfeng Ghost Gang.

The Ghost Gang is a private association organization with mutual assistance that formed among the foreign immigrants in Yongfeng. According to the different sources of immigrants, it is divided into different factions such as the Northern Sect, the Southern Sect, and the Guanzhong Sect. At the beginning of the establishment of the Ghost Gang, it played a positive role in uniting foreign immigrants, protecting the interests of new immigrants, and assisting the government in maintaining local public security. However, as the power continues to grow, its social harm gradually emerges: stealing, stealing, bullying, and dominating the market, and trafficking of foreign populations as slaves and maids.

In order to eliminate the Ghost Gang's forces in one fell swoop, Yang Hao made careful arrangements. He first secretly arrested the Ghost Gang leader Qingpi with the assistance of Wang Rentong, and then captured the four guardians in the Ghost Gang through Qingpi. Then the four Vajras pulled out the sixteen heads distributed inside and outside Yongfeng City.

In two months, Yang Hao arrested more than 170 members of the Ghost Gang, interrogated 32 sentenced people, the extremely guilty Daling Qingpi, the Four King Kongs and Eight Heads were sentenced to death. According to Yang Hao's original intention, these thirteen people were executed immediately to eliminate future troubles, but Meng Bochang insisted on sending the case to the Ministry of Justice for review. Yang Hao had a dispute with him for a long time, and no one could convince anyone. Finally, Meng Bochang said impatiently: "Sending the Ministry of Justice for review is the chief executive. You have to fight to argue with him."

Yang Hao was speechless and left in a bad mood.

Although the thirteen people were not killed, the people in Yongfeng City beat drums and drums and delivered a umbrella to Yang Hao. For a moment, the name "Yang Qingtian" spread throughout the streets and alleys, and Yang Hao knew that this was Meng Bochang's way to appease him. Although the Ministry of Justice review was just a formality, the thirteen people did not die for a day, and he could not let go of his heart for a moment.

According to Wang Rentong, in addition to the great leader and the Four Vajra in the Ghost Gang, there is also a mysterious second leader in the Ghost Gang. Correspondingly, in addition to the four great protectors standing at the front, there are four invisible protectors in the Ghost Gang. Only the two leader and the four invisible protectors know the names of the two leader and the four invisible protectors. Qingpi Yakou denies the existence of the five people, and the Eighth Elders are all over 70 years old, claiming that they have not participated in the specific activities of the Ghost Gang for nearly twenty years, and they have no idea about this.

Yongfeng City is now calm, but Yang Hao can always feel that in a dark corner, a pair of resentful eyes are staring at him. As long as he is a little careless, the remnants of the Ghost Gang hidden in the dark will pounce on him and tear him to pieces.

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On the third day of the third month, Shangsi Festival.

Early this morning, every household planted willows in front of the door, every household cooked a basket of eggs, ordered a red heart, and distributed them to neighbors, relatives and friends before the sun came out. After breakfast, men and women went out for a walk on the banks of Xiaoyang River outside the city to see the willows.

Qing'er and Lu Rui got up to cook eggs at the end of the third update, packed more than a dozen small willow baskets, and beat people to Meng Bochang and Yang Hao's colleagues. It was a little dawn, and the two of them each carried a flower basket of eggs along the street to their neighbors. After a circle, there were still more than ten left. Lu Rui suggested sending them to the patrol camp with corn porridge and quash cakes to Yang Hao for breakfast.

The faceless meeting of the Spurs Camp is about to be held, and Yang Hao dared not slacken at all. He has been living in the patrol camp for the past half month and busy deploying. Although Qing'er was crazy about missing her, she refused to show any of it on the surface.

As soon as the two left, Qing'er suddenly remembered that there was a can of pork ribs and yam soup on the stove, so she went back to get it. When she went out again, she disappeared from Lu Rui. When asked Mr. Guan who was busy in the door, Mr. Guan was confused, but said, "Miss Lu was just outside the door. The Chief Secretary's Mansion sent someone to deliver a basket of eggs. I took two packs of red dates and gave them back to them. In the blink of an eye, Miss Lu disappeared. Will she take their carriage and leave them together?"

Qing'er asked in confusion: "Did they drive here?"

Mr. Guan replied affirmatively: "Yes, both young men are unfair, but the carriage is indeed the carriage of the Changshi Mansion. The old man can see clearly that it will not be wrong." Qing'er nodded silently and did not take it to heart.

When Meng Bochang secretly ordered Yang Hao to execute Lu Benzhong to seize the military power of Tiande Right Army. Lu Benzhong discovered the news and asked the media to offer his adopted daughter Lu Rui to Yang Hao as a concubine overnight. One is to win over and the other is to test him. Yang Hao knew this well. He did not dare to stimulate Lu Benzhong, for fear that he would defeat him by misjudgment. Therefore, he agreed to this marriage. After that, Lu Benzhong pretended to die and escape, and Yang Hao was able to successfully take over Tiande Right Army.

Qing'er has been eating and living with Lu Rui these days, and Yang Hao has never fulfilled her family. According to Yang Hao's idea, when the limelight passes, he will send Lu Rui back to Lu Benzhong, and both sides have explanations. But Lu Rui doesn't think so. She judged that Yang Hao does not want to accept her. The reason why she was so lukewarm was because Qing'er was blocking the middle. These days she has been looking for opportunities to approach Yang Hao alone. She is confident that as long as she can be alone with Yang Hao a few times, she will definitely be able to grasp his heart. Qing'er knows these little thoughts of Lu Rui, but she just doesn't point them out.

At this moment, she suddenly left, which made Qing'er instinctively think that she was going to show her affection to Yang Hao. Qing'er was quite unhappy. She was not a narrow-minded woman, but as another woman wanted to share her love, her heart was still filled with a strong jealousy.

"lady."

Seeing Qing'er being stunned, Mr. Guan called softly. Qing'er hurriedly calmed down, rubbed her hot cheeks and said, "I'm fine." Mr. Guan, who had already seen through the various aspects of the world, smiled kindly, and shouted to the inner room of the doorman: "Suer, come out."

"well,"

With a crisp response, a young man with a long and beautiful body in his fifteen or sixteen years old walked out. His black eyes swam around Qing'er unscrupulously from the beginning. Qing'er's cheeks were a little spicy, and she hurriedly lowered her head.

"Don't be rude." Mr. Guan glared at the boy fiercely. The boy hurriedly lowered his head and his cheeks turned red.

"Madam, this is the incompetent boy that the old man mentioned to you - Guan Suo, Yongfeng that he arrived at last night."

"Oh, it's him." Qing'er remembered it.

A month ago, Mr. Guan mentioned him to him, saying that he was old and wanted one of his grandsons to come and help. Qing'er agreed without thinking. After Yang Hao was promoted to the judge of the Tiande Army, he had to assist Meng Bochang in the army while also in charge of the civil affairs of the State Central Committee. He was often busy with black and white. After all, he and Lu Rui were daughters and could not be with him all the time. Mr. Guan was older and often could not take care of him. It would be a good thing to have a person who knew the truth and was by his side.

"Your name is Guan Suo?"

"The villain is Guan Suo." Guan Suo bowed and answered, suddenly becoming polite.

“Have you read a book?”

"I have been studying for more than ten years," Guan Suo felt a little embarrassed when he said this. "It's a pity that he has not received the guidance of a wise teacher and has never been able to do the same. But it's okay to write and calculate."

"Well," Qing'er likes his straightforwardness very much, "You stay here, help Mr. Guan first, and then let him do his job when he is familiar."

"Madam Xie." Guan Suo bowed to the end.

When Qing'er arrived at the patrol camp, Yang Hao was practicing guns. He was only wearing a sweaty short shirt, and his exposed arms raised a piece of solid muscles. Qing'er suddenly felt itchy in her heart. She bit her lip and watched the formation without saying a word. Yang Hao had seen her for a long time, and deliberately shot her in front of her when she was resuming her move, which made her jump.

Yang Hao laughed, picked her up, and asked, "Why did Madam come here?"

"If I don't come, you won't come back, will we not meet again in the future?" Qing'er struggled for a moment, "Let me down quickly and let people see what it looks like."

"I hug my wife, what does it have to do with others?" Yang Hao said, but he didn't dare to disobey her. He put her down, twisted a towel in the basin and wiped his face, and said, "After finishing my work, I will send someone to send her back. You and I will sleep until the sun is noon every day. Do you think you are okay?" Qing'er spat and sneered, "Who knows whether you are sincere or false." Yang Hao asked curiously, "Why didn't she come when you come?"

Qing'er asked in surprise: "What? She didn't come?" Yang Haoxin asked the guards in panic: "Has anyone been here when I was practicing?" The guards replied: "No one has come. But someone brought a box of things and said that they would open it when the general finished practicing."

There was a wicker box under the stone steps next to the door: five feet long, three feet high, and two feet wide. Several threads were tied with a hemp rope thicker than a thumb. Yang Hao took the knife and carefully picked the rope tied outside the box in his hand. When he opened the lid, he saw a piece of white cloth inside. Everyone was puzzled, and a whimper suddenly sounded under the white cloth. When he opened the white cloth, he found that there was a girl in red curled up in the wicker box, which was Lu Rui who had disappeared in the morning.

The little school student's face changed drastically and pulled out his sword and shouted, "Come on the person who sent things." Yang Hao shouted to the guards and instructed, "This matter is not allowed to be rumored! Violators are dealt with strictly." Everyone retreated. Yang Hao waved his sword to cut off the rope on Lu Rui's body and pulled off the cloth stuffed into her mouth. Lu Rui felt aggrieved and threw himself into Yang Hao's arms and started crying.

Yang Hao instinctively wanted to push her away, but felt that Lu Rui's arms were extremely powerful. Yang Hao softened his heart, after all, she had just been frightened. Looking at the intimate look of the two, Qing'er suddenly felt a sense of loss. She sighed silently and turned to leave.

He rushed in and almost collided with the lost Qing'er. Zhang Cheng was wearing a new official robe and ran away with sweat. When he was shocked by Qing'er, he quickly bowed his hand to apologize, and then plunged into the courtyard without saying a word.

The scene in front of him made Zhang Cheng extremely embarrassed, Yang Hao was also a little embarrassed, but Lu Rui was very calm.

"Zhang Changshi, the sky is blue and the sun is blue and white, and someone is openly kidning people on the street. What are your explanations?"

Yang Hao pretended to be sarcastic. He admired Zhang Cheng's ability to be literary and martial, smart and capable. In dealing with the Ghost Gang, although Meng Bochang warned him first, Yang Hao still wanted to give him a chance to excuse him. However, Zhang Cheng's performance made him speechless. His numbness, dullness, and inaction had reached the limit of his patience.

Zhang Cheng looked ashamed and angry: "Please give me one day, and I will definitely give you an explanation."

"Then I'll wait for the good news." Yang Hao said with a cold face.

Zhang Cheng bowed and retreated ashamed. Lu Rui took out his handkerchief and wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes. He walked to Qing'er and naturally carried Qing'er's arms. Qing'er silently pushed her hand away.

The gentle war between the two women was very interesting in Yang Hao's eyes. He laughed in his heart and asked Lu Rui: "Do you still have the courage to go out for a walk now?" This was almost the first time Yang Hao took the initiative to talk to Lu Rui, and it was obvious that Lu Rui was very excited. She ran to her side, pulled his hand and shook it, saying:

"I don't dare to be alone. If you accompany me, I dare."

Yang Hao said: "Okay, then let's have breakfast and go out of the city together."

Lu Rui's eyes rolled and said, "You eat first, I, I have to go back to do something." After that, she ran out excitedly, and Yang Hao hurriedly sent four guards to follow him.

Yang Hao grabbed Qing'er's hand and comforted her: "She is alone and a weak woman, and she is under someone's roof. She is frightened again. She should comfort her in terms of emotion and reason. Little lady, don't bother with her."

Qing'er sneered: "So, this is mine."

Yang Hao smiled and said, "Madam, it's my fault. I'll accompany you for some reason." Yang Hao bowed, but Qing'er turned her face and ignored her. Yang Hao moved her shoulder and advised, "Stop making trouble, go back and change your clothes."

Qing'er said, "What clothes should I change into? Are I going to wear this outfit to throw you away?"

Yang Hao shouted, "What are you saying? Even if Mrs. Yang doesn't wear clothes, she is also the number one beauty in Yongfeng."

Qing'er's face was flushed with shame, and she stomped her feet and cursed: "Bao, it's such a bastard that is worse than a pig or a dog."

Yang Hao laughed at her embarrassed look and said repeatedly, "It's better to wear clothes." Qing'er knew that she was the only one who was at a disadvantage when she was tangled with him, so she put away her smile and asked him in a stern manner: "They are so boldly warning you, aren't they hitting their guns when they go out? Judge Yang, aren't you using us women as bait to catch thieves?" Yang Hao slapped Qing'er's buttocks and scolded, "Stop talking, go back and change into a bright dress, find a few more decorations to wear, don't let anyone compare."

Qing'er was full of joy when she heard this, and she left with a smile. Looking at her back, Yang Hao made up his mind secretly: "There will be a meeting without a face, and I will beat Lu Rui back immediately."

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Chapter completed!