Chapter Three Hundred and Ninety: Master Chenghuang Makes Qi Min for Ghosts
In the underworld of the ghost market, all the ghosts looked at the golden light flashing in the sky, with fear on their faces.
The next moment, they heard a loud voice in their ears.
"All the ghosts and ghosts in this underworld are required to come to my residence within two quarters of an hour before registering the people. If you fail to arrive after the time limit, you will be responsible for the consequences. Don't say that I did not predict what I said!"
After hearing these words, although these ghosts were still scared, at least they felt a lot more at ease.
After all, before they died, each of these ghosts were good citizens of Chang'an City. Under the Emperor's feet, they still knew very well what it meant to make households uniform for the people.
That is to register yourself.
In other words, from now on, ghosts like myself are no longer lonely ghosts, but ordinary people under Zhang Daoyuan City God.
But they still don't understand why they were registered.
When they were alive, the purpose of registering was to make it easier for the court to collect taxes from them, but now they are dead...
Do ghosts also need to pay taxes?
In the end, although most of the ghosts were afraid of their lives and paying taxes, they honestly left their homes and walked in the direction of the sound.
Of course, there were also ghosts who did not believe in evil and did not do what Zhang Daoyuan said. Instead, they quietly hid in a corner of the netherworld, trying to avoid this action of reorganizing households and people.
One after another, the ghosts walked out of the house and followed the road to the underworld to the former Taishan God's annex, which was what Zhang Chenghuang called the mansion. After that, they saw two long tables set up on the left and right in front of the door.
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Among them, behind the table on the left sat a dozen little ladies who were sharpening their ink, while behind the table on the right stood a burly man with a sinewy face, wearing a round-collared official robe.
And a bunch of shrinking monsters.
"Put away the paper here quickly...Mo, why is there no ink here? Did you forget...go get it quickly?"
While inspecting, the special agent scolded the few monsters in his hands who could barely be called reading monsters.
"Look at these fox ladies under Master Qingwei, why are they already prepared, but you guys are so careless? You are also men after all. Do you think you can't even compare to a young lady?
Don't tell someone that women are more careful. Look at Jin Youzhang, why is he equally prepared?
What? Jin Youzhang is a human being...
You losers can't even compare to humans, so how can you have the dignity to act like monsters?"
Under the curious eyes of the ghosts around him, the special agent beat and scolded him for a long time, and finally got the literate ghosts to sit down behind the table.
Two quarters of an hour later, the front of the mansion was already filled with ghosts and ghosts of all kinds.
Whoosh!
A golden light lit up, and an old man in purple robes walked out of the golden light and stood in front of these ghosts. Then from behind the old man, a Taoist priest in white and another in purple walked out from behind.
The old man in robe.
At this time, the first old man to appear, the City God of Xijing, Zhang Daoyuan, took a step forward and glanced downward with a pair of majestic eyes.
"I, Zhang Daoyuan, am the City God of Western Capital appointed by the Supreme Lord. From now on, I will be based in Chang'an, assisting the Taishi Bureau to take charge of the ghosts, mountain spirits and water monsters in the entire Jingzhao area, clean up evil, and rectify lawlessness.
, protect good ghosts..."
After hearing these words, although the faces of these ghosts in the underworld still had a look of fear, their expressions suddenly relaxed.
This is all thanks to Kong Qing!
Ever since he discovered that Buddhism was sparing no effort to blackmail the Taishi Bureau among spirits and ghosts, he immediately took targeted countermeasures in Chang'an.
First of all, the "Chang'an City Special Operation to Combat Gangsters and Evil" was held to deal with the big demons who were causing trouble in Chang'an City, including the evil ghosts from various underworlds, and finally repaid Chang'an.
In the world of city monsters and ghosts, there is a bright blue sky.
Kong Qing then vigorously promoted the Good Demon Certificate, letting ghosts and spirits know that as long as they abide by the law, the Taishi Bureau will not harm them.
Of course, if we only rely on these two methods in the so-called public opinion, I am afraid that even if the image of the Taishi Bureau has been changed, it will be very limited.
But Kong Qing, who is well aware of the importance of propaganda work, while doing these things, also used search foxes to bribe many big Vs among ghosts and ghosts, spending incense and willing to pay real money to hire these influential ghosts and ghosts.
With rhythm and trend, he repeatedly publicized things such as, "The Taishi Bureau will never slay demons at will, and those before were all rumors and malicious alienation."
In the face of this three-pronged measure, the old-fashioned rumor-mongering methods of those bald men were immediately washed away. The image of the Taishi Bureau in the underworld changed 180 degrees in a few months.
of flipping.
Those ghosts who dare to come out and open shops in Chang'an at night are the best proof!
So after hearing that this god was related to the Taishi Bureau, the ghosts present finally put aside their worries about their lives and began to look at the god in front of them with concern.
As long as your life is not in question, you still have to pay taxes... you still have to pay them!
Next, these ghosts in Yintu saw the god who called himself Zhang Daoyuan speaking in a respectful tone to the white-clothed Taoist priest standing aside.
"Master Qingwei, please use your magic power to find the ghosts and ghosts in this underworld that have not come to report."
"good!"
After hearing Zhang Daoyuan's words, Kong Qing stepped forward and shook the whisk in his hand.
"Please invite the Mirror Immortal!"
Then, two clear lights appeared behind Kong Qing, and then the ghosts present saw two ancient mirrors, one large and one small, emerging from the clear light, like two full moons, slowly rising in the yin earth, leaving Qing Leng
The light spread to the ground.
"ah!"
When the ancient mirror was raised, a panicked shout suddenly came from the ghosts present.
I don't know why, when they saw these two ancient mirrors, these ghosts couldn't help but feel a burst of fear from their hearts, as if their bodies would melt in the cold mirror light the next moment.
"No need to panic!"
At this moment, Kong Qing stood up, the sapphire ring on his finger flashed, and a soft voice reached the ears of these ghosts.
"Jingxian is upright and selfless and will not harm you."
While Kong Qing was speaking, the clear light from the ancient mirror had already fallen on these ghosts. It was exactly as Kong Qing said, and this clear light did not harm them.
Immediately, these ghosts saw a cry of surprise coming from a house not far away, and then a guy with a deer-like head and rat eyes and a cunning face stumbled out of the house.
"Ah! There is a ghost..."
The ghosts present looked at this slippery ghost running around like a headless fly, with confused expressions on their faces.
What are the ghosts to be afraid of?
Which of these people present is not a ghost...
At this time, Zhang Daoyuan, who was standing in the air, seemed to have expected this moment and waved his hand below.
"Take it!"
"yes!"
A tall and thin man from the Western Region dressed as a barbarian and seven or eight fully armed spirits swarmed up and quickly captured the slippery man.
Until this moment, this slippery ghost seemed to have woken up from a dream.
"Yes, I am a ghost. What ghost am I afraid of?"
Next, one after another the hiding ghosts were discovered by the ancient mirror, and then they were charmed by the illusion and ran out of their hiding places on their own initiative, and were captured by An Zhigao and his men.
After the clear light of the ancient mirror looked around, the light on the two mirrors dimmed and fell behind Kong Qing.
"I just said that those who fail to show up after the time limit will be responsible for the consequences. Since these guys violated my orders, I can't blame me."
With that said, Zhang Daoyuan waved his hand and said decisively.
"Let each of these guys be whipped ten times and shackle them here for three days to serve as a warning to others!"
"yes!"
An Zhigao agreed, and very neatly dragged down all the hiding guys, and then soon heard a crackling sound of whips, and screams of pain.
After hearing this sound, the ghosts present looked at Zhang Daoyuan with a bit of fear in their eyes.
"I just taught those who disobeyed my orders because they were at fault, so they must be punished,"
Zhang Daoyuan glanced at these ghosts with majestic eyes and then said.
"But you all followed my orders, so you don't have to worry about my government punishing you. In fact, not only will I not punish you, but I also plan to reward you."
When they heard that there was a reward, each of these ghosts had expressions of disbelief on their faces, but they immediately saw Zhang Daoyuan wave his hand and shout loudly.
"Bring it up!"
Following the words, several ghosts walked out with a few large plates and a large bucket. When the ghosts present saw clearly what was on the plates, they were instantly stunned.
"Ghost food?"
"honeydew!"
"..."
"That's right!"
Zhang Daoyuan looked at the surprised expressions of the ghosts below with satisfaction, and nodded slightly.
"This is the reward I will give you. As long as you stay here honestly..."
As he spoke, Zhang Daoyuan pointed at Secretary Fox and the spirits led by Special Agent sitting on both sides of the mansion door.
"Both parties report their names and addresses. After completing the registration of households and people, each person can get a spoonful of ghost food and nectar."
As soon as he finished speaking, Zhang Daoyuan saw those ghosts swarming towards the secretary fox and special agent.
"I'll come first, I'll come first..."
"Record me, record me..."
"..."
Looking at the very enthusiastic ghosts below, Kong Qing smiled slightly at Zhang Daoyuan.
"Mr. Zhang, I can only help you here. After these ghosts are organized into households and the people are all together, it will be up to you how to manage them."
"Qingwei, don't worry!"
Zhang Daoyuan replied confidently.
"I may not be able to do anything else, but I still have some experience in how to be a parent. But to appease these ghosts, incense is indispensable. You still have to worry about this matter."
"Don't worry! The poor Taoist will ask Sanniang...Princess Pingyang to personally go to the saint to propose building a City God's Temple in Dongshi. As for the incense in the temple?"
Kong Qing pointed with his hand at the ghosts below who were scrambling for a bite.
"You have so many ghosts in your hands, why are you worried about incense? Learn from those monks and mobilize these ghosts to fill Chang'an City to entrust dreams to those people and ask them to come to the City God's Temple to offer incense!"