northernbook #542 - Wandering around
#542 - Wandering around
Since the construction of the mountain gate was still in full swing, after arriving in Xi'an City, Liang Yue spent most of his time in the city, except for occasionally going up the mountain every three or two days to observe the progress and offer some guiding opinions.
For accommodation, he simply found an empty space outside the city and built a few stone houses himself to live in temporarily.
Every day, besides the routine morning practice, he wandered around the city and its surroundings.
However, he wasn't just wandering aimlessly. While familiarizing himself with the local terrain and observing the people and things in the area, Liang Yue would occasionally communicate with some of the local big shots.
Among them, he also frequently contacted the Quanzhen Taoists, whose ancestral home was nearby.
After all, no matter how much one cultivates purity and transcends the mundane, people are still people and cannot completely escape the habit of social living.
In addition, the news of Liang Yue's arrival had already spread far and wide, and even some independent cultivators from the world of supernaturals, disciples of various sects traveling abroad, were also curious about him and often appeared in nearby towns.
Liang Yue's newly built, simple stone houses outside the city had recently become a sightseeing and check-in spot for some people, both supernatural beings and ordinary people.
Even recently, some minor gang leaders among ordinary people had been emboldened to come and curry favor with him, aiming to promote several clever disciples who had just joined their gangs.
Okay~
It seems that these people have set their sights on the remaining spots in his hands.
And those so-called novice disciples may not really be from ordinary families, although their appearance is somewhat unique~
However, Liang Yue didn't want to pay attention to how much entanglement and twists there were in it.
But the appearance of these gang leaders did remind him~
That is, his own mountain gate is about to be built, and the progress of the construction is so gratifying that it is completely visible to the naked eye, almost changing every day.
In this situation, should he also start considering the issue of recruiting disciples?
Act on impulse~
So, in the next few days, Liang Yue took Jingxiang and Hinata, the two girls, and began to wander around Xi'an City, frequently taking action and cracking down hard.
Later, he simply cooperated with the local garrison and police to wipe out several human trafficking dens in the area in one fell swoop…
With the assistance of the Tenseigan and the panoramic sand table, whether it was a large-scale gang affiliated with some organizations or a small team of two or three people operating independently, none of them could escape Liang Yue's sanctions.
Just from these people's hands, the number of boys and girls aged two or three, three or four, four, five, six, seven, and eight who were rescued had exceeded five hundred!
Among them, there were also twenty or thirty babies who had just been born a few months ago and were still in swaddling clothes.
According to the Great Ming Law, those who abduct young children shall be executed, and those who practice 'caisheng zhe ge' shall be executed by dismemberment.
The later Qing Dynasty seemed to have also adopted part of the Ming Dynasty's laws, and the current Republic of China also deeply hates such acts.
In this era of unstable situation, underdeveloped information dissemination, and ambiguous aspects in all aspects, human life is actually very worthless.
Therefore, those gangs and individuals who participated in these activities, regardless of gender, ultimately could not escape death.
Perhaps, before Liang Yue came, some local officials and soldiers had already been well aware of these bad things in their city, pretending to be ignorant while knowing the truth.
Only because there were some conflicts of interest, they turned a blind eye to them and adopted a policy of appeasement.
But now it's different, Liang Yue has come~
Along with him, there was also excessive attention from all over the country, from various administrative centers.
This situation is like hundreds of thousands of bright spotlights focusing simultaneously on the shady areas that even the sun could hardly shine on in the past.
As a result, many people in the area were also sitting on pins and needles, trembling with fear.
Now that Liang Yue, this guy, has揭开 (unveiled) that layer of window paper, they naturally have to quickly wipe their asses, wipe all traces clean, so as not to be held accountable in the future and involve themselves!
In short~ Liang Yue is here, and the sky is clear~!
These words were not said by Liang Yue himself, but were the views debated by the local people in the streets and alleys after the incident.
Apart from not knowing the specific name of this person involved, the meaning is generally the same~
However, Liang Yue did not feel complacent about this, because he is still busy dealing with these children he rescued.
A full five or six hundred abducted children, most of whom are local, are now being properly handled with the cooperation of city officials and soldiers.
Those who are a little older and recognize people and places are naturally escorted home.
Those who are younger and don't remember things are posted all over the city with notices, waiting for their parents to come and claim them in person.
This method and progress will naturally be slower in the Republic of China, where information channels are not developed, but fortunately, the progress is still smooth.
In order to encourage local officials and soldiers to really take this matter seriously, Liang Yue directly took out ten places to ensure that those people would do their best for this.
Among them, five places were allocated to senior officials and officers, and five to middle and lower-level clerks and ordinary soldiers.
Although those superiors had some objections to the distribution of these places, the actual effect was quite good, and the enthusiasm of everyone from top to bottom was mobilized.
In addition, besides these children who were abducted locally and were about to be sold all over the country, the rest were mostly transported here from other places and were about to be sold.
There are quite a few, as many as one hundred!
Anyway, since this batch of拐子 (traffickers) inside and outside the city was uprooted by him, the local forces, except for the government and the military, basically remained as quiet as chickens.
They stayed aside and watched dutifully, and no one dared to jump out and claim them.
After patiently questioning these children, Liang Yue found that most of them knew nothing about their past.
Only a few people could barely remember that they were taken away when they were very young, and then gathered with other children, learning a few words and verses, and being taught some basics such as playing musical instruments.
But that was all.
Later, even Liang Yue was unable to figure out where they came from with his Tenseigan ability.
There was no way, these children were too young when they were abducted, and some were taken away from their parents as soon as they were born.
At that time, their thoughts were chaotic, and their brains had not yet fully developed. Some vague fragments of memory were not enough to allow people to judge their specific origins.
There was no other way. In the end, Liang Yue had to come forward himself. After confirming that no one would really come to claim them, he directly assigned these children to his own mountain gate.
Anyway, the six hundred places that Liang Yue had agreed with Yuan Datou were only the number of disciples who were allowed to carry guns for combat and self-defense.
With a slight modification, those disciples who normally practice ancient methods, or even just participate in gun fighting skills training, but do not use guns as their main combat means, are certainly not included…
I think my dignified Taoist sect in the world of supernaturals, normally recruiting cultivation disciples from the secular world, is justified, and it's not up to your Republic of China government to interfere, right?
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