Zhang Xiaowu asked them to take them to a watchtower, walked up to the top of the watchtower, and asked, "Wang Bao, how does Yinyiwei pass on information?" Do you use watchtowers to pass around? He thought of the black and white twelve squares of the watchtower in "The Twelve Hours of Chang'an", and transmitted information through the cryptographic system, which could not only achieve timely and accurate information, but also keep the information from being deciphered by others.

"The watchtower delivers a message?" Wang Bao scratched his head and asked suspiciously, "Can the watchtower transmit information?" With carrier pigeons? Or with wolf smoke? ”

"In Beijing, the division used wolf smoke to transmit information, just afraid of provoking the four forbidden armies into the city." Ruan Qingwen said with a smile, he didn't understand how the watchtower transmitted the message, and the others were also confused.

Zhang Xiaowu explained to them the convenience of using watchtowers and flags to transmit information, and also pointed out its military value.

But Wang Bao put forward the particularity of Longdu: "Our silver-clothed guards usually use oral and letter to transmit information at the same time, and the role of the watchtower is only responsible for observing where there is a fire and where an accident occurs, so we can rush there as soon as possible, and are not responsible for transmitting information." In our one hundred and eight squares in Longdu, there are many pavilions in some squares, and even large households have colorful buildings, if we use watchtowers to transmit information, those pavilions will inevitably block the view. ”

Indeed, some of the buildings in Longdu City are even five or six stories high, which seriously obstructs the view of the watchtower, and these buildings are all buildings that were built very early, and they have the right to demolish them. The Qinglou Song Workshop in Longdu is often about four floors, these Qinglou Song Workshops involve the industry and business of the scholar families, with a deep background, and the Yinyi Wei is only the fifth product, which is qualified to demolish the industries of those scholar families.

Zhang Xiaowu smiled bitterly, it seems that he is thinking simply, Longdu is not Chang'an, let alone Wannian County and Yongnian County, he then asked: "How many pavilions are higher than watchtowers, and where are they located?" ”

Wang Baodao: "I don't know, we have never checked, the residents and Ding Ji in Longdu City are not under the control of Yinyi Wei, but in Longdu Mansion." ”

Zhang Xiaowu nodded. The reason for this is the difference between the Shenghan and the Tang Empire, because the Shenghan Empire is sitting on natural dangers, it only needs to stick to the frontier to obtain national security, and there is no need to worry about the invasion of foreign enemies.

Wang Bao said again: "Actually, our silver guards are responsible for maintaining order on the streets, punishing some people who fight and make trouble, and the other is whose weddings and funerals, you have to come to us in advance to take care of it, and we will send someone to arrange the road for them." ”

Zhang Xiaowu asked: "Why do you need to clear the road in advance?" ”

Wang Bao said with a smile: "My lord, the rule of our Longdu is that weddings and funerals do not go back, and the same intersection cannot be passed twice, so you need to set the road in advance, so as not to go bad and spoil the mood of people's weddings and funerals." If there is a family getting married, a family is funeral, and they meet each other while walking, do you say embarrassing or not? Sometimes there is often a fight because of this kind of thing, so all weddings and funerals must be reported in advance. In addition, the champion of the imperial examination rode through the streets, and also needed our silver guards to guide him, I remember one year because the new champion abandoned his wife and son to marry a rich man, but he was stopped by his mother's family when he rode a horse on the street, and he was beaten to death. By the way, next October will be the first imperial examination in the Year of Dade, and our Yinyi guards will be so busy that they can't touch the ground. ”

Zhang Xiaowu was not interested in this, he asked again: "Wang Bao, do you know what the official system of the Silver Clothes Guard is, I have just been appointed as the commander of the Silver Guard, but the Silver Clothes Guard has been disbanded, and there is no way to take over, so I can only ask you." ”

Wang Bao immediately said: "Although the official position of the lower official is not high, in the thirty or forty years of the Yinyi Guard, he knows better than anyone else about the official structure of the Yinyi Guard. We have a leader in Yinyiwei, who is the fifth grade, the left and right deputy commanders, the left deputy commander is the civil service from the fifth grade, and the right deputy commander is the sixth rank martial officer. Under the leadership, there are six bureaus in charge of the compilation, and the official positions are all from the six products, each responsible for everything in each bureau. There are left and right co-editors under the editorial, which are the seven products and the seven products respectively, to assist the management of the bureaus. Each bureau has set up each institute to manage the specific work of each bureau in detail, and the number of each bureau varies, there are only two ink bureaus, and there are six bureaus in the Ding bureau.

We have set up a total of 24 branches in the Sixth Bureau of the Yinyi Guard, each of which has a director who is responsible for the eight products or from the eight products, and each director has two nine product assistants. In addition, there are one hundred and eight squares in Longdu City, each square sets up one or two management offices, and there are one chief of nine products, five chief of Wu and 20 guards in the household. But sometimes there are more than twenty-six people, and sometimes there are less than twenty-six people. ”

After a simple understanding of the system and establishment of the silver guard, Zhang Xiaowu is more sure of the necessity of the existence of this silver guard organization, as the so-called predecessors planted trees and later people enjoy the shade, after he took over the silver guard, he only needs to change slightly, and does not need to make too many changes. But the biggest problem now is the personnel structure, he thought about it and said: "Mr. Ruan, I bother you to temporarily serve as the deputy commander of the five grades, and you are fully responsible for the time when I am not in the Jingshi." ”

"Yes." Ruan Qingwen said, his heart was a little excited, after all, among the ghost guards, his work was not much, because the main responsibilities of the ghost guards were military and training, and they did not rely on the document management system. The main role of the silver guard is to manage the livelihood and livelihood of the two million people in Longdu Mansion, and it needs the assistance of a huge cultural management system, otherwise it is difficult to operate. Ruan Qingwen is good at handling this kind of trivial matters, so it is his strengths that he uses to form the Silver Guard. He laughed and arched his hand: "In the future, we will have to change our words to call you the commander, I am really not used to it." ”

Wang Baodao: "We privately call the commander Yinshuai. ”

Zhang Xiaowu shook his head and said, "Yinshuai is too ugly. ”

Xia Ming said: "It's too unspecific to call a commander, otherwise it's better to call it a general, everyone is called Shunkou." ”

Zhang Xiaowu said: "You can call it whatever you want, the title is not important, the important thing is the work, Xia Ming, Bao Yin, Jia Siye, in the future, your official position will be reduced, if you are not happy, say it." ”

Xia Ming and the others immediately laughed and said: "General, we are willing to be in Longwu and unhappy in Saibei, hahaha......" I am used to seeing the prosperous Longdu City, and then let this group of big-headed soldiers return to live in Saibei, everyone is indeed unwilling to stay from the bottom of their hearts, just like every young person goes to the north and Guangzhou, if he can work in the capital, how can anyone want to go to the countryside and frontier, unless some obscene-looking pretending criminals will yearn for poetry and distance.

After visiting the Yinyiwei Mansion, it was getting late, so Zhang Xiaowu asked everyone to live in the Yinyiwei tonight, but Wang Bao said that there was not even a quilt in the Yinyiwei now.

said with a smile: "It will take a while for the appointment and dismissal of the military department to be promulgated, and I will be removed from the post of commander of the ghost guard first, and I also need to return to Saibei with this dismissal letter." ”

Ruan Qingwen said: "Are we waiting for the adults to come back and do the editing staff, or do it immediately." ”

Zhang Xiaowu said: "Now you are not in a hurry to run the Yinyi Guard, you first secretly check the situation, the Yinyi Wei is so big, there are countless people who intervene in it." If we take over such a large industry, it will inevitably touch other interests. Previously, the officials of the Longdu Mansion took over the work of the silver guards, and if we want to take over this part of the work, they must return the tricky ones to us first, and write the easy work of making money in their hands. ”

Everyone nodded one after another, and the silver guards put it bluntly are the assistant police or urban management who maintain law and order, and they do not involve the arrest and investigation of the case, and the case handling work of Longdu City is the business of the officials of Longdu City, so the two sides cooperate consistently, but sometimes they overlap, so there are often contradictions between the two sides.

After the temporary cancellation of the Silver Guard, the forbidden army temporarily replaced the work of the Silver Guard to maintain law and order, and a year later, the officials of Longdu Mansion took over the work of the forbidden army to maintain law and order in Longdu Mansion, but unfortunately both sides did not do this job well, causing the people to complain again and again. But the officials don't care whether the work is good or not, they only care about whether they make money or not, some jobs are very profitable, they naturally hold on, and some jobs are not profitable, they naturally abandon them.

A day later, the hundred officials of the court, the imperial envoy announced the appointment decision, Zhang Xiaowu because of improper words and deeds to kill colleagues caused disturbance, when dismissed from the post of general of the ghost guard, even demoted four levels to the fifth rank of captain, but remembered the loyalty of the monarch patriotic killing dog Yi to invigorate the national prestige, and was transferred to Longdu as the commander of the silver guard. The war in Saibei was suspended, and the ghost guards were reduced from 10,000 border troops to 3,000 border troops, and the remaining 7,000 ghost guards border troops entered Longdu to supplement the silver-clothed guards, and Zhang Xiaowu, the commander of the silver-clothed guards, went to Saibei to select 7,000 border troops to enter Beijing. In addition, the household department allocated 30,000 taels of silver for the construction of Yinyiwei, and the imperial treasury allocated 50,000 taels for the construction of Yinyiwei, and all the large and small official offices in Beijing should assist in the reconstruction of Yinyiwei.

At the end of the appointment, the hundred officials were silent, and everyone understood that Zhang Xiaowu's entry into Beijing was the emperor's announcement of imperial power, and with the support of Emperor Dade, Zhang Xiaowu, the hottest official in the dynasty, would definitely be prosperous. Everyone can't be offended, they can only make friends, and many people in the Zhang Party are even more angry with Zhang Xiaowu, gritting their teeth, and even saying that Zhang Xiaowu's entry into Beijing will definitely disturb the security of the Beijing Division.

After receiving the order, Zhang Xiaowu met with Emperor Dade alone, and the monarch and ministers talked for an hour, and Zhang Xiaowu left the palace with the sword of Shang Fang in his hand. Li Canglan invited Zhang Xiaowu to drink, but Zhang Xiaowu said that he had to leave Beijing that day, Li Canglan was surprised how he left Beijing so quickly, Zhang Xiaowu said: "Brother Li, I will return to Beijing in the near future, how about you and I get together again then?" ”

Li Canglan said: "I'm afraid that there will not be many opportunities to meet in the future." ”

Zhang Xiaowu was surprised: "Could it be that Brother Li wants to leave Beijing?" ”

Li Canglan said with a smile: "When the virtuous brother returns to Beijing, I will know, I will sell it." ”

Zhang Xiaowu guessed in his heart that Emperor Dade should have made a verbal promise to Li Canglan, and even acquiesced to him leading the army Xuanwu in the future. He was happy for Li Canglan in his heart, and a person with ambition and ambition like Li Canglan was not suitable to be locked in a cage. He patted Li Canglan on the shoulder and said, "I believe that you are the best wherever you are, and I look forward to your surprise." ”

Then Zhang Xiaowu took Xia Ming and others to run out of Longdu overnight, and they traveled day and night, and it took only seven days to rush to the Two Wolves Pass. After a long journey, when they arrived at the Two Wolves Pass, everyone had to take a break and change their winter clothes. At the end of September, it had cooled down in Saibei, and everyone had rested for the night, intending to continue moving, but they were unexpectedly told that a yellow sand wind was blowing in Saibei.

The yellow sand wind in Saibei is also known as the sandstorm in the later world, and because there is no high mountain in the area of Mucheng in Saibei, the sandstorm is often blown for several days, and the world is dark and does not know the southeast and northwest heaven and earth, and everyone can only continue to be stationed.

That night, Murong Yan, Marquis of Yingchuan, who had received an official document from the imperial court, also sent his second son Murong Chi to visit Zhang Xiaowu, who resigned from the banquet but left a gift. He knew that Murong Yan was showing favor to himself, after all, he was going to walk in the capital in the future and would no longer have a competitive relationship with him. And under the competition between the two, it is naturally a lose-lose relationship, and everyone is a politician who naturally knows when to take action and when to stop.

Now that there are 10,000 ghost guards in Mucheng, David has been reduced to 3,000 small guards, and Murong Yan thinks that he has won the final defeat. Zhang Xiaowu has changed to a new field, and he doesn't have to beat the water dogs or show off anything, it should be repaired in due course. However, Zhang Xiaowu did not regard Murong Yan as an opponent at all, but the two on the front foot were still mortal enemies, and how could they become close comrades-in-arms on the back foot, but Xiao Kai and other ghost guards still stayed in Saibei, and they needed to have a good relationship with the wolf guard, so they didn't have to refuse their kindness.

Zhang Xiaowu said to Murong Chi: "Seven thousand ghost guards will enter Beijing to join the Yinyi Guard, although the Yinyi Guard does not have much power, but after all, he is the future landlord, if General Murong comes to the capital of Beijing in the future, he will do his best to be a landlord." ”

Murong Chi laughed and asked, "Will General Zhang have a place to stay after he arrives in Beijing?" ”

Zhang Xiaowu said: "I left Beijing in a hurry, and I haven't purchased a courtyard yet. ”

Murong Chi said: "Brother Yu, there is a place here, just as a congratulatory gift to you, it happens to be at No. 19 East Fourth Street, Jixiangfang, a small courtyard, next to the wall, which can be used as a place for General Zhang to temporarily settle down and settle his family." It is much smaller than the Mucheng General's Mansion, but it is quieter. ”

Hearing that this courtyard was in Jixiangfang, and the silver-clothed guard yamen was also in Jixiangfang, it was much more convenient, but Zhang Xiaowu was disrespectful and accepted this favor. Then Zhang Xiaowu inquired about the thirteenth son, Murong Yin, Murong Chi's face was strange, Zhang Xiaowu didn't know what he meant, Murong Chi said that Murong Yin had already gone to Jingshi, and he planned to open the best Qinglou in the world in Jingshi. Murong Yin officially gave up the right to inherit the title of Marquis of Yingchuan, so his brothers' attitude towards him became better.

In fact, Murong Chi was surprised that the two wolves knew that the thirteen sons were half male and half female, and the people who interacted with him generally had some special qualities, but he didn't expect Zhang Xiaowu to be so familiar with the thirteenth brother.

Murong Chi thought to himself, could it be that they have a lot of relationship......