Snow falls overnight, Weizhou is covered in silver, snow is pressed on the road, occasionally pedestrians come and go to leave footprints, the inner city of Weizhou is extremely quiet, the chickens and dogs in the outer city smell more and more clearly, there is a person who speaks as if the voice will echo on the ground.

It was cold.

Li Kou paid attention to the feet of Zhu Wen and Zhang Xiaoyi, and it can be seen that Zhu Wen's center of gravity is very stable when walking, and Zhang Xiaoyi is just an ordinary soldier.

The two chatted, and Zhang Xiaoyi was a very talkative person.

He talked to Zhu Wen about repairing the city wall.

Zhang Xiaoyi said: "What is going to be repaired this year is only the urn city, this is okay, but I am afraid that the Chunxi thieves will come to invade the territory, and this time I will destroy the spy nest of the thieves, and it is said that Cao Mian's grandson is the marshal, I am afraid that I will come to retaliate." ”

Zhu Wendao: "Come and come, why not be afraid of him Cao Mian here." ”

Zhang Xiaoyi said with a smile: "I'm afraid that those guys in the regular army are unwilling." ”

The regular army wants to be a field army or something?

Li Kou asked: "Do you also divide the regular army when you do things in the state government?" ”

Zhang Xiaoyi said with a smile: "The so-called army is one of the parts that are sent to the border pass, for example, we have ten roads on Jingyuan Road, and the eldest son of the Jingyuan family is one of the ten generals on Jingyuan Road." This is used to fight the western thieves, can attack, can retreat, and is not usually guarded. This other guard is called a garrison, and the guard becomes, a beacon, and even transmits general military information, that is the garrison. The generals and garrisons of the Tenth Route Army are the main army, also called the forbidden army, and the commanders of our state government are box soldiers, does the young monarch know nothing about this? ”

Li Kou said: "In order to avoid thieves running around the mountains and forests all day long, I don't know." ”

Zhang Xiaoyi sighed: "Fighting with the West Thieves year after year, it's just us little people who suffer. ”

He is quite a good teacher and explained to Li Kou: "In addition to the regular army, that is, the forbidden army, our box soldiers are guarding the cities of a state and a county, and even running for state affairs, civil affairs, and even civil lawsuits, this is the Xiang army." In addition, there are also local soldiers in the county, such as many yamen in Pingliang County, which are actually native soldiers doing things, and Xian Siduo also uses local soldiers as government servants. ”

Speaking of this, he said with some mockery: "There are also some soldiers in the countryside, who do not join the army, do not eat military rations, and are mostly distributed by the county government to pay for food. ”

Li Kou understood that the main army was the field group army, the box soldiers were the garrison troops, and the native soldiers mostly ate the food of the yamen, so they could only be regarded as police, and perhaps they could be counted as militia or even reserves. Archers are the most basic soldiers, in the Song Dynasty when the military and police were not separated, the native soldiers and archers were eaten by the local finance, and they were also looked down upon by the forbidden army and even the box army.

Li Kou said: "I don't even know this. ”

Zhang Xiaoyi said: "Shaojun is astute and a reader, so it's good to know these things and listen to them once." ”

Zhu Wen said with a smile: "I'm afraid that if it's not an errand in the yamen, I don't know this, but Zhang Dutou has seen it." ”

The three of them talked, two laughed and one listened, and went out of the small street to the street, only to see that the street was three feet wide, and there were shops on both sides, but they did not see the gate of the high-gate compound opening towards the street.

Li Kouqi said: "Such a wide street, there are many open spaces on both sides, why not open the door on this side?" ”

Zhang Xiaoyi was even more curious: "Which gate did Shaojun see open to the street?" ”

Do you want to see the new era?

Li Kou said: "The wild people in the mountains and forests are all smiling. ”

Zhang Xiaoyi said: "This is still in the national dynasty, and the Sprinkle family has heard that in the Tang Dynasty, even the mats were not allowed to open the streets, and most of them were surrounded by a circle in the market." ”

Zhu Wendao: "It was like this at that time. ”

Li Kou sighed: "This is really a sight. ”

Before the words fell, someone suddenly ran from behind and shouted, "Ma Niangzi and the case have been tried." ”

Then someone poked his head out of the mat, looked at it and shouted: "Is it really Ma Niangzi and leaving the case to be tried?" Didn't you say that the prime minister would wait until the beginning of spring to ask about the case? ”

Someone shouted again: "Wu Da, don't talk nonsense, you all say that Ma Niangzi has reconciled with the Wang family." ”

The one who ran by looked like an idler, with a dirty face, a rancid smell, and his messy hair tied up at the back of his head with a wooden hairpin, and when he saw someone asking, he smiled and shouted, "What do you know?" The Wang family first coveted the dowry of the Ma Niangzi, but now that it is wide, what extravagant characters do they want to marry, they naturally want to reconcile with the helpless Ma Niangzi, when did the Sprinkle family deceive people? ”

Someone shouted: "Have you seen with your own eyes that the Minister of Economics, who wants to try this case himself?" ”

The idle man said: "This Sprinkle family doesn't know, only listen to the Wang family shouting, after a little minister wants to personally try the case, the Sprinkle family also listened to the Wang family's help, that Ma Niang treats people harshly, this time she will be retributed, you taste, you taste, this is not to kill the horse lady?" ”

So an old man sighed and commented: "I don't know how Mrs. Ma reprimands us, but Wang Jiate is not a person." ”

This quarrel angered Zhang Xiaoyi, who pulled out a knife from under his waist at that time, turned around and beat the idler on his back, and scolded: "You are such a pickled talent, you are used to picking quarrels and provoking trouble, aren't you?" Teach you to see the excitement, you don't have to run, watch the Sprinkle family beat you to death a scoundrel. ”

The idle man ran away, and only when he ran away did he turn around and smile and said: "That horse lady is also a beautiful woman, and she ...... with you."

"Dog, watch me beat you to death." Zhang Xiaoyi returned the knife into the sheath, but untied the bow and arrow from his waist.

At this moment, the idle man's soul flew away, dripping around the mat and running wildly.

Li Kou didn't comment on that Zhang Xiaoyi, he just wondered what kind of case had to be interrogated by the envoy himself?

Zhu Wen said in a low voice: "Don't ask him, go quickly - that Ma Niangzi is a character, she is the famous general of the Taizong Dynasty Huyanzan family Jintou Ma old Taijun family, six years ago from Hedong to Weizhou, the family wealth is more than one million, operating a big grain store, Weizhou grain merchant Wang family has a broken settlement, relying on two or three talents, and Ma Niangzi's ancestors have a marriage contract, Ma Niangzi then married the Wang family, in charge of the Wang family's property, this is only five years, the broken settlement into one of the eight major grain merchants on Jingyuan Road, I have long heard the reputation of this Ma Niangzi in Qinzhou, is quite an amazing woman. ”

He saw that Li Kou insisted on asking, but he just thought that the young man was curious, so he talked about it roughly.

But Li Kou wanted to know the law of this age.

He asked Zhu Wen what was going on now.

Zhu Wen also didn't know why the Wang family and Ma Niangzi reconciled, he was not a person who was good at speculating about other people's family affairs.

Zhang Xiaoyi chased out more than ten zhang, and when he saw that the idle man was running fast, he threw down "I will discount your dog's leg next time", and came back with the bow and arrow under his waist, and saw that Li Kou was curious, so he said stupidly: "What else can the rich people do for, it's nothing more than ......."

Speaking of this, he suddenly refused to say more, only urged to leave quickly.

After a while, Li Kou saw that there were many pedestrians in the same direction as him, and he knew that he was going to see the excitement, and suddenly asked Zhang Xiaoyi coldly: "This is just an ordinary case of fighting for family property, and it shouldn't be tried by a person, right?" ”

Zhang Xiaoyi couldn't help but scolded indignantly and in a low voice: "Then the Wang family's grain store also supplies food for the forbidden army in Pingxia City. ”

Only then did Li Kou understand how important this case was.

However, this does not necessarily have to be examined in person.

There must be a reason for this, but I am afraid that there is a competition of interests.

Sure enough, Zhang Xiaoyi said again: "The wind is like this, the eunuchs also love money, there is a big official over there in Caosi, there is a daughter under his knees, he admires the 'young man' of the Wang family, and there is a matchmaker in Benzhou, who knows what the reason is here, but it's a pity that the horse lady, people are harsh, only if there is no such a lady in Weizhou, who knows how expensive the wheat is, she just does everything according to the rules, and there are so many bad seeds in the Wang family's great cause, which is to drive the horse lady out of the fire." ”

Li Kou said in his heart, this lady is a strange person when she thinks about it.

Modern family business is also inevitable, and she has to use the rules to adjudicate.

It's no wonder that the Wang family doesn't like it.

Zhang Xiaoyi said in a low voice: "Wang Jiazaburo is a wife, and his name is childless after marriage, but in fact, which one in Weizhou doesn't know the place where he is nostalgic for fireworks, and he broke his body in his early years?" The two elder brothers in his family are not good goods, and they only ask their younger brothers to find flowers and willows for that piece of family property, and now they are anxious to see that Ma Niangzi's daily money is no less than tens of thousands. And those two Hun families are not good goods, and I met an old man who was old and faint, this time I am afraid that I will be stunned by the same knowledge, and I don't want to be a family if it is not Ma Niangzi's Wang family? It's just a broken settlement. ”

Zhu Wen exclaimed: "In this way, those people will have to try the case in person......

"Don't say it!" Zhang Xiaoyi hurriedly shouted and said in a low voice.

Li Kou straightened out the reason, it was nothing more than that the big official took a fancy to the money of the Wang family's grain store, one of the eight major grain merchants on Jingyuan Road, and the Wang family looked at the power of the big official, and there was a Weizhou Tongzhi who made peace with him, so the Ma Niang, who married Weizhou, was helpless and held the money of the Wang family, and now she had to become a victim of the combination of power and money.

But what does this have to do with the Sutra Strategy?

Zhu Wen said in a low voice: "The physical condition of the Jingluo is very poor, and this time I have come from the Beijing Division, and I don't even have much military management, but I am afraid that some people want to 'go through the strategy', either they are tired and die so that they can go up, or they are embarrassed to see the Jingluo." If the royal family is judged to be at fault, there will be some squires and elders who will attack them on the grounds that they have no children after marriage, and they can be released in three years. If there is more filth in the Western Army - if he wants to sentence Ma Niangzi to the loss, the people are only afraid of dissatisfaction, after all, although Ma Niangzi harshly reprimanded the people in the grain industry, but to stabilize the price of grain, the fierce year in accordance with the requirements of the three departments for disaster relief, that is really there are people here, not to mention that Ma Niangzi supplies the soldiers of the Western Army all the way to the grain and straw, if you let others take charge of this opportunity, a bad one will be in an uproar. ”

Li Kou nodded and said, "I know, those guys are going to be exhausted and forced to die at this juncture." ”

Zhu Wen and Zhang Xiaoyi both sighed: "Isn't that the guy exactly what he wanted?" ”

It's just that Li Kou said: "I'm afraid that this is the only one who will be embarrassed by this matter." ”

Zhang Xiaoyi said: "How do you say this? ”

Li Kou didn't say anything, he guessed that this envoy was afraid that he was going to push other departments out for a verdict.

The fight between officials and officials hurts the people, not to mention the menacing twists and turns of the same knowledge, but I am afraid that it is necessary to avoid the edge for the time being.

Moreover, I am afraid that this matter is not just a ploy of some constitutional secretary and some common knowledge.

Li Kouke heard them talk about the news that he had just returned from the capital division several times.

Then the emperor really doesn't have any instructions?

Li Kou was mixed at this time, if he was to be able to tolerate Ma Niangzi and leave the case, he was afraid that he would have to win back a city in the matter of pushing his son to the throne.

No wonder that guy knew so quickly that he and Zhu Wen "helped" Zhe Yan to kill the Western thief and spy, and successfully rescued the craftsman Wang Xiaoyi.

I'm afraid he's going to make a big move.

It's just that Li Kou is innocent and offends people.