Li Qingxian raised his eyes and glanced at the officials standing outside the door, then called them in one by one.
They were all people who had eaten and drunk with him a few days ago, all old hands from the Patrol Bureau who had been transferred elsewhere. Having received word today, they had come one after another.
Li Qingxian received them one by one. They all wished to return to the Patrol Bureau, and Li Qingxian told them to go back and await news.
Late that morning, the eunuch bearing the Emperor's edict arrived. Accompanying him was Yan Shixiao, the Inner Factory's Right Commander, who was responsible for overseeing the Night Guard.
After seeing off the eunuch who had delivered the edict, the officials held a meeting chaired by Yan Shixiao, who conveyed the Emperor's and the Inner Factory's orders.
When the meeting ended, Yan Shixiao spoke with Li Qingxian about a few matters concerning the Patrol Bureau. After offering several bland, meaningless remarks, he left the Night Guard.
The two of them were as unfamiliar as though they had never met.
Li Qingxian went to the Patrol Bureau's offices. He first drafted several official documents to transfer the old hands from Chunfeng Residence back, then summoned his subordinates for a meeting to resolve the four matters discussed that morning.
As the head of a bureau, he only needed to oversee the broad direction and did not need to fuss over every twig and leaf. His subordinates had already presented several plans for him to choose from.
The investigation was simple, cooperation with the Black Lantern Bureau was not difficult either, and even sending documents to the Heaven's Mandate Sect's Divine Capital branch was fine. But after hearing about the several small gangs they were to purge that night,