This meeting didn't last long, it was over in less than half an hour.
Li Xiuyuan rode the big rooster back the same way as he had come before, and quickly returned to his house in Jinling City with a strong wind howling.
After he landed, he began to look at the jade seal in his hand.
This jade seal is crystal clear, like jasper, emitting a faint cold light. Four ghost faces are carved on the four sides of the jade seal, namely a crying face, a smiling face, a sad face, and an angry face. These four ghost faces are lifelike, as if there are really four faces.
Same as printed on it.
But on the bottom of the jade seal, there were several crooked fonts engraved on it, which looked like characters but didn't look like characters. Li Xiuyuan couldn't recognize them.
"Is this the Ghost Seal that can dispatch eight hundred ghost generals and one hundred thousand Yin soldiers?" He frowned and looked at it for a long time.
This was given to me by the dignified and beautiful woman who attended the party before.
Li Xiuyuan then called out: "Is the Long-bearded Ghost King in the house?"
Immediately, a gloomy wind blew up in the courtyard, blowing here from the backyard of the mansion. The gloomy energy gathered into a whirlpool, and out of it walked out a man wearing a robe, with a blue complexion, a long beard hanging down his waist, and a skinny face.
Ghost King.
"The little ghost pays homage to the young master. I wonder why the young master calls the little ghost here late at night?" The long-bearded ghost king bowed respectfully.
Li Xiuyuan said: "You have followed Lu Pan, and you should also have paid a visit to Yama. Do you know this thing?"
The long-bearded ghost king looked at the ghost seal in Li Xiuyuan's hand and said in surprise: "This is the ghost seal on the Yan Jun's case. It is the certificate for dispatching the ghost soldiers, ghost generals, and assigning the ghost king. It is just like the imperial seal in the hands of the emperor on earth.
When all the ghosts in the underworld see this jade seal, it will be like seeing Lord Yama coming in person, and they must obey the order. Where did the young master get it?"
"It was given to me by a woman." Li Xiuyuan said, "Do you know that woman?"
As he spoke, he roughly described the appearance of the dignified and beautiful woman at the banquet.
The long-bearded ghost king immediately sighed: "The woman you described is the empress of the underworld. Lord Yama has reincarnated in the underworld. The reincarnation of life and death in the underworld is controlled by the empress of the underworld. But when Lord Yama left, there was a rebellion in the underworld.
The queen alone cannot rule this vast underworld, and the book of life and death and the pen of reincarnation have also been taken away by ghosts and gods, so that the ghosts in the underworld are not convinced by the queen of the underworld."
"Is she the empress of the underworld?" Li Xiuyuan's expression changed slightly: "Then what she said about being able to dispatch eight hundred ghost generals and one hundred thousand Yin soldiers with this ghost seal is true?"
The long-bearded ghost king nodded and said: "This is true. Although Lord Yan has left, his power is still there. There are some loyal ghost generals and Yin soldiers who are still willing to be loyal to Lord Yan and will obey Gui Xi's orders. The only question is whether they can control the ghost generals."
"Bringing the Yin soldiers out of the underworld depends on the wishes of the ghost kings in various places. Every city in the underworld is occupied by ghost kings. It is impossible to send so many Yin soldiers out of the underworld without surrendering to those ghost kings. They will block the passes and prohibit release."
"This is a small matter. I will be satisfied knowing that this Guixi really has the ability to dispatch Yin soldiers and ghost generals." Li Xiuyuan nodded: "It has nothing to do with you now. You should go and rest first. Try to stay in Jinling City during this period.
, something big is going to happen soon.”
"Yes, young master." The long-bearded ghost king bowed and then turned into a sinister wind and receded.
"Where is Li Linfu?"
As soon as the long-bearded ghost king left, Li Xiuyuan shouted again.
Soon, a figure appeared on the wall of the courtyard, and then a middle-aged man wearing official uniform and looking somewhat old walked in through the wall.
Li Linfu bowed respectfully: "Meet the young master."
Li Xiuyuan said: "The ghosts and gods who have surrendered before should have been arranged to serve as city gods and land in various places."
"The arrangements have generally been made. The ghosts and gods in various places are already registering the people in various places, and governance has also begun. If the registration and registration are completed, the plan of the master's co-governance by humans and gods will soon be implemented," Li Linfu said.
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"This is indeed a happy thing, but there are more important things to deal with now. There is going to be a military disaster in Yangzhou. You let the ghosts and gods go around to find out the news. I want to know what is happening in Yangzhou within three days.
People want to gather people to rebel and cause a military disaster." Li Xiuyuan said.
Li Linfu was shocked, but immediately said: "This is really a very urgent matter. I will send Yin soldiers and order ghosts and gods from all over the world to investigate this matter."
"Sorry to trouble you." Li Xiuyuan nodded.
After Li Linfu left, he asked again: "Where is Tieshan?"
A gloomy wind carried the smell of incense drifted over, and a tall man wearing armor and a sword hanging from his waist appeared in front of him.
Now Tieshan has become a ghost general and his Taoism is not low. Thanks to Li Xiuyuan who moved his statue to the original Lanruo Temple and rebuilt Lanruo Temple, there is now a lot of incense and his Taoism has made rapid progress.
Of course, part of the reason is that he worked faithfully, captured the evil ghosts, and accumulated a lot of merit.
"Young Master, the younger one is here." Tieshan said with cupped hands.
"Go back to Guobei County and give me a message to my father. Let him arrange to transfer half of the escorts from every Shunfeng escort agency in Jiangnan and have them gather in Guobei County." Li Xiuyuan's eyes flashed and he spoke.
said.
Tieshan said in shock: "Deploy half of the bodyguards. That's several thousand people. What do you want to do with so many people gathered together?"
Li Xiuyuan said: "What else can I do, of course, is to protect my family and the country. Some people in Yangzhou are going to rebel, so I have to prepare in advance. Although countering rebellion is a matter for the court, if the court fails to put down the rebellion in time, the military disaster will spread.
What about when we arrive in Guobei County? Moreover, one escort agency’s deployment of half of its escorts will not affect the operation of the escort agency, so I am well prepared.”
"Yes, young master." Tieshan responded.
Li Xiuyuan stood with his hands behind his hands and watched Tieshan leave.
The bodyguards he wants to recruit are all desperadoes. They have been run by the Li family for more than ten years. Whenever a bodyguard bureau is opened, it must first hire some well-known local heroes to be the bodyguards. And with the bodyguards
After that, some local desperadoes were recruited as bodyguards. As for committing a murder, it was not a problem. As long as they spent some money to bribe, the establishment of the bodyguard agency would not be a problem.
The corruption of the imperial court also directly helped the development and growth of the Li family's escort agency.
There are even some places where the bodyguards are so fierce that even the local yamen are afraid of them.
It's just that the Li family has strict control over these escort agencies. If there are any escorts who commit crimes and refuse to change their ways, the Li family will directly kidnap and send them to the government.
After ten years of sharpening the sword, it is finally time to take it out of its sheath.
Now Li Xiuyuan doesn't know how many escorts there are in his Li family's escort agency, but he is certain that the Li family has tens of thousands of registered escorts. Counting those who are not registered, there are tens of thousands of escorts.
If Li Xiuyuan mobilized more harshly, he could pull up an army of tens of thousands of horses in a short time.
This is something that no prince's mansion or a wealthy family can do.
So don't look at those princes, the powerful and powerful family, but the Li family's background is also a bit scary.
"If it were a peaceful and prosperous age, my Li family's escort agency would only be an escort agency forever. It's a pity that this is not a peaceful and prosperous era. The rainy day preparations I made back then were finally in vain. I built an escort agency, opened an iron mine, stocked up on food, and expanded
The racecourse, it seemed like the money was not worth it at first, but in fact, how could my father fully understand my good intentions?"
Li Xiuyuan thought to himself, and then sighed to the sky: "If there is a military disaster, the chaos will inevitably be quelled. If the chaos is quelled, there will be rivers of blood and heads rolling in. I hope not so many people will die in this turmoil."
When he sighed, there seemed to be something in the sky above the sky. In an instant, dark clouds rolled in the sky above Jinling City, thunder and lightning flashed, and bursts of deafening thunder exploded in the clouds.
"Um?"
Li Xiuyuan looked at the rolling thunderclouds in the sky, but he could see divine lights flickering in the dark clouds, and from time to time some gods in golden armor gathered together.
In front of this group of gods was a Taoist wearing a Taoist robe with erect eyes. He bowed to Li Xiuyuan and then rolled up his Taoist robe. In an instant, the god in the clouds suddenly disappeared, and he was taken along with him.
The thunder and lightning in the clouds all swept into his sleeves.
Then the Taoist with an erect eye grabbed his sleeve and took out a handful of tokens.
"Please ask the saint in the world to wield the Thunder God's Order." This man's voice rang along with the thunder and reached Li Xiuyuan's ears.
When the voice fell, the Taoist dropped the token in his hand.
Immediately, the token turned into eighteen thunderbolts that suddenly cut through the sky and illuminated the sky above Jinling City. Then these eighteen thunderbolts fell from the sky into Li Xiuyuan's yard.
Immediately, eighteen small craters were exploded in the yard, thunder smoke filled the air, and the smell of sulfur and hot coals filled the air.
When the smoke cleared, they saw a token standing in each of the eighteen small pits.
This token is shaped like a small sword and is golden in color with several large vermilion characters on it.
There are names such as Thunder Lord of Destroying Demons, Thunder Lord of Dangerous Monsters, Thunder Lord of Five Directions, etc., but what is written on the back is: Nine Heavens Yingyuan's thunder is universalizing under the command of Tianzun.
Li Xiuyuan immediately understood the meaning, and when he was about to go over to get the Thunder God Token, he suddenly saw the figure of a Thunder God appearing behind each token.
There were some Thunder Gods that I had seen before, and some that I had never seen before. These Thunder Gods all bowed to him, and then disappeared into the Thunder God Order.
"These are the eighteen thunder generals sent by the Heavenly Lord of the Thunder Department." He thought to himself.
I looked up at the sky again, only to find that the sky was empty. There were no dark clouds, no thunder, and no gods appeared. Everything was calm again.
Sure enough, this miracle only lasts for a moment and is invisible to mortals. It can only be seen by specific people at specific times.
Li Xiuyuan was not polite. He walked over and took out the Thunder God Tokens from the small pits.
This Thunder God Token looks like it is made of gold, but it is not. It is as light as nothing and made of something unknown.
Received all eighteen Thunder God Tokens.
He originally wanted to put it into the Ghost King's bag, but as soon as the Ghost King's bag touched the Thunder God's Token, it was burned again and black smoke emitted. Li Xiuyuan was shocked and hurriedly gave up this plan.
"Yes, the Ghost King Bag is a magic weapon made from the Ghost King's skin, and the Thunder God Token is the incarnation of the God of Thunder in the sky. How can this Ghost King's skin hold the God of Thunder?" Li Xiuyuan thought to himself.