Asahi was born, and Shendu City ushered in a new day.

With the sound of rumbling street drums, the doors of the squares and squares are opened one after another, and the streets are gradually populated, and the cars and horses are noisy, and the whole city is once again full of vitality.

Outside the south gate of the letter workshop, Chen Mingzhen, the street envoy, looked tired, and walked slowly into the temporary straight hall shanty outside the door.

This straight hall is very simple, but a few wooden pillars are propped up, covered with straw felt, the day before yesterday it was accidentally ignited by the lamp and candle due to the fire, fortunately in the adjacent Yishui, the fire did not spread, but those pillars have also been blackened by the smoke, and there is a smell of burning.

Such a simple environment, compared to the deep and wide Jinwu Weidian in Yongtong Fang, Chen Mingzhen sat here, and his mood was doubly bad, and he didn't want to stay for a moment. But he couldn't leave early yet, because he had to wait for the detachments to return the talismans.

Several brigade commanders and inspectors marched into the temporary hall in turn, and when they saw that the street envoy Chen Mingzhen was so tired, some people couldn't help but sigh: "No wonder the nobles of the Fangju are singing in the mansion and praising the general for his diligence!" I have never seen such a loyal and meticulous general as I have all over the military government! ”

Hearing this, some people in the rear also spoke in agreement, and some people even sang the song of the street envoy who listened to it outside the palace wall to the beat.

When Chen Mingzhen heard these words, her face was even more ugly, she raised her hand and slapped it on the case, and was about to open her mouth to scold a few times, but after a pause, she still endured it: "Don't say more about this kind of gossip!" We are all soldiers of the Weifu who are supported by the imperial court, and we are not the pawns of any powerful family who are privately raised, others do not know the inspection, but we must be cautious, and we must not boast of personal favors! ”

Seeing that Chen Mingzhen's demeanor was not good, everyone didn't dare to say anything more for a while, and after each returned the talisman, they quit.

But after leaving, some people couldn't help but sneer: "Words are dignified, but deeds may not be!" If it weren't for the greed for power and selfish favors, why would you drive all the people here? Lao Tzu is upright and diligent, why don't you hear the nobles sing me? ”

After more than half an hour, the patrol police talismans were handed over and replaced, and Chen Mingzhen instructed the adjutant to send these night talismans back to the pawn office in Yongtongfang, where his own military government records were checked and stored.

As for himself, he led a few assistants to get on the horse and went to the Qinghuafang official office, where he caught a few more criminals and thieves that night, and he wanted to inquire whether there was any room for the operation of leashing and climbing. He really didn't want to delay this errand ordered by General Qiu, and wanted to end it as soon as possible.

Riding a horse through the outer streets, Chen Mingzhen heard the rapid sound of drums coming from the walls of the Hedong Palace. When pedestrians on the street heard the drums, they couldn't help but beat ho ha.

Chen Mingzhen didn't have such a mood at all, the sound of the drum came, which shook his brain, and he quickly left the place.

Facing the rising sun, playing a drum, this has gradually become Li Tong's daily fixed project. Unreliable research shows that the more boring a person's life is, the shorter the time it takes to develop a habit.

In the early morning, the air is fresh, and the breeze rich in moisture is full of the aroma of flowers and fruits.

"The king's drum skills are really getting more and more exquisite, the slow sound is not sluggish, and the urgent sound is not sticky......"

At the end of a drum song, the head of the Hu people's department Mi Baizhu stood in the shade of the tree and clapped his hands, his own music skills are only familiar, with the passage of time, the technique has been completely unable to guide the king, followed out of the palace just to shout six at ease, but also shouted more six.

Li Tong put down the drumstick, instructed Mi Baizhu to put away the musical instrument, took the water-stained velvet towel presented by the maidservant, wiped the fine sweat on his face, and looked at the eaves of the pavilion hidden in the flowers and trees in the back porch, where there was a white shadow dexterously passing by, and it seemed that he was not the only one who had developed a habit.

After a drum in the morning, he relaxed his muscles and invigorated his blood, and returned to the room to take a shower and relieve his fatigue, Li Tong saw that his arms were more muscular, far from the slender appearance of last year, and he was also very satisfied. The drum not only exercises arm strength, but also exercises the heart and lung vitality after persevering for a long time, which is a strength job that requires skill.

After finishing the morning bath, getting dressed and going out, he first entered the Yongwang Mansion to greet his mother-in-law Fang, Li Tong saw that Zhengtian Dasheng was gesturing to him with a happy face in front of the Wangfu across the street, so he raised his hand and beckoned, signaling Tian Dasheng to follow into the palace.

"Good news, good news, good news, great news!"

Tian Dasheng held a rattan cage in his hand, and after entering the middle hall, he whispered with a happy face: "This morning, the news from outside the workshop finally came in!" ”

After Li Tong heard this, he was also happy in his heart. Since the Jin Wuwei Siege, the entire letter workshop seems to be isolated from the world, of course, there are daily personnel in and out, but the voice transmission channels that Tian Dasheng arranged before are no longer easy to use.

Those Wuhou street disciples were too closely checked, and Li Tong was also worried that Tian Dasheng's hands would be exposed, and once those people entered the workshop, they would inevitably be discovered by the surrounding ears and eyes, so he also instructed Tian Dasheng not to pass on the news without a safety guarantee.

So in the past period of time, except for Liu Youqiu and other people who have heard and seen the people who have come and gone, there has been almost no news in the streets.

"How did you get in?"

Li Tong asked casually, and saw Tian Dasheng open the cage and take out two head-sized bow balls from it as if offering treasures. Juqiu is sewn in soft leather with fine stitches, but at this moment, Tian Dasheng cut it open with a knife without pity, shook out the feathers and other things stuffed inside, and pulled it for a while before taking out the paper ball and presenting it.

Li Tong was also surprised when he saw this, and while listening to Tian Dasheng's description of the process of sending the ball in, he twisted the paper ball, and the information on the paper ball was concise and concise, but he explained that there were already thirty-six people who were secretly ordered by the young king to run. They come in a variety of capacities, of course, mainly as dung diggers, either close to the target mansion or already accessible from it.

Among them, the most gratifying result is located in the east gate of Luobei near the Qiu family house of Jidefang, in addition to the dung diggers, there are actually people who infiltrate in the identity of coachmen and garden workers, and can stay in the house for a long time.

As for the reason, it is also explained in a small way. The mansion of the Qiu family is the second son of Qiu Shenxian, Qiu Sicheng's other business, which is used to house concubines and banquet friends, and does not live in it every day, so the defense should be relatively lax, and there are many hired workers and guest slaves in this special business.

Tian Dasheng's henchmen were able to enter, and they also borrowed a little help from Su You. Su Yue relied on Zhong Shaojing Mobao to befriend a monk of Wei Guo Temple, and was able to ask for some general affairs and miscellaneous envoys of Wei Guo Temple, and then the car he purchased was specially used to transport firewood and charcoal to Wei Guo Temple.

Qiu Sicheng is the son of Wei Guosi, and he has a lot of contacts in his daily life, and it is very common to borrow human helpers and the like.

Another ball was also cut open, and what was taken out of it was actually a sealed letter with fire paint, which looked far more solemn than the paper ball just now.

Li Tong opened the list, and it was true, this letter was sent by the hundred cavalry Guo Da, and after a brief greeting, it mainly told about a forbidden army affairs, and the Northern Ya forbidden army was expanded again, especially as an elite military force of the hundred cavalry, the strength of the army should be expanded several times.

Although the name of the Hundred Cavalry is called the Hundred Cavalry, the number is far more than that, and now there are more than 1,000 troops, which is a more elite military force independent of the Yulin Army. During the Wu Zetian period, the hundred horses were expanded to a thousand horses, and in the Zhongzong period, they were directly called ten thousand horses, and they were officially named Longwu Army in the Xuanzong period.

Wu Zetian wanted to increase the military strength of Beiya, Li Tong was not surprised, what surprised him was that Guo Da actually benefited a lot from this round of army expansion.

Originally, in the hundred cavalry, Guo Da was just a battalion commander, but this time the army was directly promoted to a Yifu team leader.

Yifu has a Zhonglang general, a left and right Lang general, a captain, a brigade commander, a team leader, a team deputy, and the team is already a military attache of the seventh grade. Guo Da was selected as a battalion pawn from a household slave, and then joined the hundred cavalry, and then directly became an officer of Yifu, which can be said to be a counterattack in life.

Moreover, the Yi Mansion is not an ordinary Zhechong Mansion, the Qin Xun Yi Mansion belongs to the internal guards, usually one or two levels higher, and is not selected by the battalion soldiers, but by the children of the officials, and belongs to the real Praetorian Guard officers.

Like Huan Yan Fan Yin entered the Yi Mansion, he was nearly forty years old before he became the captain of the Yi Mansion, and Hu Nu, a criminal in Guo Da District, was actually promoted to the head of the Yi Mansion team, which has to be said to be a big leap.

However, Li Tong also found something strange, that is, as an independent elite establishment of small arms, there is no Yifu at all. Looking at Guo Da's position again, it is indeed the registered left guard Yifu team and the head of the prison gate, but Guo Da himself said that he is still under the command of the hundred cavalry.

After a little thought, Li Tong understood that this was naturally another little trick played by his grandmother. It must be that the prime minister of the Southern Ya does not want the powers of the Northern Ya to continue to expand, so he simply directly divides the hundred horses of the Northern Ya into zero and mixes them into the Southern Ya system.

Li Tong didn't care if this method was coincidental, he was very happy that his grandmother took the initiative to help him cultivate a palace seed player.

The team is leading fifty soldiers, and the chief of the prison gate is divided into the palace gates, after this change, Guo Da suddenly jumped from the originally useless small battalion to the chief of the guard of a palace gate, although the chief of the prison gate is judged by the left and the right, and he cannot fully control a palace gate.

But this is a simple benefit, and it is cheap to pick up for nothing, and there is no need to ask too much. Besides, everyone is still so young, and there is still a lot of potential for the future!

Li Tong was also very satisfied with the information that was finally passed on this time, and he didn't have time to digest how to make some small moves, and there was a report from the government official, saying that Fu Youyi, the chief bookkeeper of Hegong County, came to visit.