A few days later, sure enough, a guard reported to the Ding Bureau that he wanted to get married, and Jin Sheng, the editor of the Ding Bureau, waved his pen: agreed to reward the benefits of marriage, 200 taels per person. The welfare of the Yinyi Wei suddenly provoked the other yamen officials in Longdu to be red-eyed, but they did not dare to impeach the Yinyi Wei, through the Shao Xue incident, they realized that this was because they could not be provoked, and now the city's health still has to rely on them.

There is a short-sighted official who does not believe in evil, and he insists on impeaching Yinyi Wei for corruption and perverting the law, hoping that the inspection court will investigate and deal with it.

In the following month, the streets of the front and back doors of the official's house were full of garbage and waste, and the subordinates only dared to secretly buy rice and vegetables at a high price. ”

Since then, everyone has also understood that living in the city needs to rely on these people who manage all aspects of the city, and the role of the silver guards is indeed more important than that of the officials, after all, people do not always encounter homicides, but they always need the management of the city.

Zhang Xiaowu also took over an important task, the coffin of the king of Nanyang County was finally transported back to Longdu, and Longdu City was to hold a grand state funeral ceremony, and the heavy responsibility of holding this state funeral fell on the head of the Ministry of Rites, and the task of assisting in maintaining the entire state funeral fell on the head of Yinyiwei. Hu Ting, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and the officials of the Ministry of Rites had been preparing for the emperor's wedding, but the king of Nanyang County was defeated and killed in the army, and the emperor fell into the water and almost died, so the wedding was postponed. The Ministry of Rites had to change from preparing red things to preparing white things.

Emperor Dade said that although the king of Nanyang County was defeated and killed himself, he was the hero of the country, if everyone has this kind of loyal and patriotic feelings and self-esteem, why not break the pseudo-Wu. Hu Ting knew that Emperor Dade was to show an attitude to all the soldiers and civil officials who were loyal to the country, so this state funeral must be extremely grand, even more than Emperor Taiqian's funeral.

Hu Ting convened a group of dignitaries such as the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Households, the Longdu Mansion, and the Yinyi Guard to discuss the order of the state funeral, and invited the nephew of the king of Nanyang County to participate in the whole process. Since the king of Nanyang County had no son and only one daughter, and the funeral of Shenghan stipulated that the spirit man must be a son, not a daughter, so the entire funeral must be handled by Shi Chong'an, the nephew of the king of Nanyang County.

But Shi Chong'an made a request, if he wanted him to descend, he must inherit the title of the king of Nanyang County, which immediately caused the dissatisfaction of other relatives of the Shi family.

The king of Nanyang County inherited the title of the king of the county back then, because he was super strong in martial arts, and he was much stronger than his brothers who had a few wine bags and rice bags, and his only drawback was that he had not yet given birth to a son, and only had a daughter. The old king thought that he was still young, and since he could have a daughter, he would be able to have a son to inherit the title in the future, so he passed the title to him. What I didn't expect was that the king of Nanyang County really had only one daughter, so when he was alive, the issue of succession to the title was already a problem for the Shi family.

Now that the king of Nanyang County is dead, the issue of title succession has naturally become the focus of contention among the sons and nephews of the Shi family, and the king of Nanyang County is not only Shi Chong'an's nephew, Shi Chong'an is just older, but the succession of the title does not depend on age, even the prince's position is not because the prince is the oldest, but because he is the best. In the title of Shenghan and the succession to the throne, the martial people of Shenghan are full of wolf nature and competition, and the fighting and hatred between brothers are even far greater than mortal enemies.

The nephews of the Shi family have long competed for the title of the king of Nanyang County, but Shi Zhongqiu, the small county lord of the Shi family, has always refused to believe that his father is dead, and must ask to see his father buried before he can study the title issue, and the nephews of the Shi family proposed that if they do not give up the title to them, there will be no one to give their uncle the king of Nanyang County.

The state funeral process was very simple, but the Wang family of Nanyang County was in a mess.

Some nephews even said: "The little sister is twenty years old, but she has not married for a long time, should she want to wait for the death of the fifth uncle to inherit the title of the king of Nanyang County?" It's a pity, if she is a man, it would be fine, but if she is a woman, can the child born belong to our Shi family? Besides, there is no precedent for a woman to inherit a title? ”

Later, an official of the Ministry of Rites informed that there had been a daughter in the history of Shenghan who inherited her father's title, and that was because the old man had no son or nephew, only one daughter, and the daughter recruited a son-in-law and gave birth to a son with his mother's surname, so he inherited his father's title. Therefore, if the small county lord wants to inherit the title, he must first find a man to enter the Shi family and have another boy - it's a pity that she has no time, the funeral of the king of Nanyang County must be held within the year, and no one holds a funeral every other year, especially the date of the state funeral is set on the tenth day of the first month of winter (the tenth day of November).

"It would be nice if I could marry her off, so that the title of county prince would not fall into the hands of people with foreign surnames."

"Nonsense, the fifth uncle just died, and the little sister must keep filial piety for three years."

"Three years later, my little sister will be twenty-three years old, and she has become an old girl, how can she get married? Who to marry? ”

"It's okay for my little sister to get married, but our family's title can't fall into the hands of outsiders."

"It's too late to say anything, it's all to blame on the fifth uncle, you have to get used to her, so that the little sister is twenty years old and hasn't married yet."

"With my little sister's temperament, how can I get married."

"In short, the title must be in the Shi family, and it cannot be leaked."

"Yes, yes, the title must be in the Shi family."

Although several cousins and cousins fought fiercely for the title, they were unusually united against the small county lord recruiting a man into the family, and they united with the elders of their family to put pressure on the little county lord, and asked the Ministry of Rites to transfer the title to one of them, and some even did not hesitate to spend a lot of silver just to get the title.

When Zhang Xiaowu saw Shi Zhongqiu for the second time, it had been three years since the last parting, and he came to the palace of Nanyang County in order to determine the route of the funeral. Unexpectedly, what Zhang Xiaowu saw was Shi Zhongqiu's aunts and aunts who forced her to write a letter of recommendation, recommending who in her own family would inherit the title.

Shi Zhongqiu sat in the center with a lonely expression, surrounded by a group of women, and outside the house, several cousins and cousins also looked at each other nervously, and some even sarcastically mocked each other, saying that the other party was not worthy of inheriting the title.

"Zhang Xiaowu, the silver-clothed guard, has seen everyone." Zhang Xiaowu stood at the door and said, the Shi family stopped discussing, looked at the door, and saw a bearded general standing at the door with a group of strong men, and there was some fear in his heart.

Shi Zhongqiu raised her head and looked at the person in front of her with a puzzled face, gradually, memory and reality merged together, and she finally had a livelihood in her pear blossom and rainy eyes, she couldn't help but ask in a trembling voice: "Zhang Xiaozuo?" No, Commander Zhang? ”