Taifu Temple, the yamen of the emperor and the horse administration, was originally set up in the Northern Qi Dynasty, and the successive dynasties have not changed. But in the Qing Dynasty, it was set up, cut and set up, and its fate was a bit bumpy compared with the Dali Temple, Taichang Temple and Honglu Temple, which also have a long history.

It is said that it was initially set up in the first year of Shunzhi, there was no special office, but attached to the Ministry of War, the Arsenal of the Qing Division, in charge of the two wings of the pasture, to Zhili, Shandong, Henan, Jiangnan to levy more than 600,000 taels of silver, the Taifu Temple storehouse, the end of the year to restore. Due to some overlap with the functions and powers of the household department and the internal affairs government, it was abolished at the end of the year, and the horse price and silver converted into money and grain levied by the provinces were merged into the household department, and the two wings of the pastures were merged into the military department.

Not long after, Zhu Huizuo, who was in charge of the bureaucracy at the time, asked Zhu Huizuo to reinstate the Zhan Shifu, Taifu Temple and Monk Baosi and other yamen to attract talents and calm people's hearts. Although Lord Shunzhi gave permission, the Taifu Temple after the restoration was still attached to the military department, and he did not have to manage the pasture or Ma Zheng, and he was a yamen who raised idlers.

In the third year of Yongzheng, Taifu Temple had its own government office, but it was not built in the Taifu Temple Street, which was named after the Yamen of Taifu Temple in the previous dynasty, but was built under the root of the east city of Zhengyangmen, next to Zhan Shifu, and like Zhan Shifu, it became the step of the Hanlin officials, and still did not care about Ma Zheng.

It wasn't until the sixth year of Qianlong that the left and right two divisions of pastures were set up, and there was something to do.

Han Xiufeng, who thought that Taifu Temple was very leisurely, came to Yamen for the first time to order Mao and found that Wen Xiang was very busy, and he was meeting the officials who came from outside the mouth in the public room, and there were six or seven civil and military officials waiting to meet him in the courtyard.

"Lord Han, you are finally here, your public house is here, and the lower officials have already sent someone to clean it up......"

"What about Lord Yulun and Lord Zhao?"

"Lord Han, Lord Yulun is not safe, and he hasn't been here for a while. If there is really an urgent official business, Lord Wen will go to his house to report. The emperor returned to the Old Summer Palace, and Lord Zhao was on duty in the Old Summer Palace, and came back every three or five days. ”

Han Xiufeng followed the extremely diligent chief into the public room, sat down and asked with a smile: "Chief Wang, what are those people outside?" ”

Director Wang hurriedly said: "My lord doesn't know, although our Taifu Temple can't keep up with the courtyard, but there are two wings of horse factories outside the mouth, and the left wing factory is in the north of Dushi Mountain, which is more than 200 miles long from east to west and 170 miles wide from north to south; The right-wing factory was originally located in the territory of Fengzhen Hall outside the border of Datong, Shanxi, and later moved east to the south of the Shang River outside Dushikou, which is 70 miles long from east to west and 80 miles wide from north to south.

Such a large horse factory, raising so many horses, how can a single general manager take care of it, so under the general manager, there is a left and right wing general manager, who has jurisdiction over the stables, shepherds, pastors and other civil officials of their respective horse factories; There is also a military attache on the left and right wings of the defense, and a military attache such as the Xiao Riding School and the Guardian Military Academy in charge of their respective horse factories, specializing in detecting lawbreakers who steal horses and reclaim pastures without permission. ”

Thinking that he had said a lot of things but didn't say anything to the point, Director Wang hurriedly said: "There are so many civil and military officials in the two-wing horse factory, only the general manager is specially released, and the rest of the staff below the general manager of the two wings are all selected by the general manager to send us here to introduce and make up for the release. The shepherd, the pastoral deputy, the shepherd, the protector and the deputy assistant, and the pen post are all selected and appointed by the governor, and the outside ones are sent by the governor. ”

Han Xiufeng realized that the two horse factories outside the mouth of Taifu Temple were similar to the salt farms of the Salt Transportation Division, and the factory officials were in charge of both horses and the army; The relationship between the Taifu Siqing and the Taifu Temple Shaoqing and the general manager is a bit like the relationship between the Hubu Shangshu and the Hubu Shilang and the two Huai salt transport envoys or the Guangdong Customs Superintendent.

Thinking that the two horse factories outside the mouth of the Taifu Temple were purely in name, Han Xiufeng asked curiously: "Is there a horse factory in Shangfu Temple?" ”

"Yes, there are 17 stables in the Imperial Court and Nanyuan, and more than 700 horses are raised. There are four horse farms in Kouwai and Shengjing, not only raising horses but also camels. Separate officials were assigned to herd horses, and defense, horsemen and other lawsuits were set up to arrest thieves and maintain law and order in the horse factory. ”

Master Wang thought about it, and said with a smile: "Actually, how many horse factories do we have in Taifu Temple, and how many horses do we raise, it doesn't matter to Lord Zhao, Lord Wen or Lord Han, the emperor ordered a few of you to come here, and he didn't really let you take care of the horse factory and horse politics." ”

"That's right."

"Tea, sir."

"I'll drink the tea later, and I'll help the official do things first." Han Xiufeng motioned to Xiao Shandong to take out the silver money that he had prepared earlier, looked at him with a smile and said: "How many scribes and subordinates are in the temple, I can't figure it out when I first arrive, and I bother my brother to help the official take these silver coins." ”

"Your Excellency is too polite, the next official will go."

As soon as he sent away the king's affairs, and was about to find some official documents to read, Enjun hurriedly walked in, motioned for Xiao Shandong to go outside to guard, and then took the door and said eagerly: "Fourth master, I just received the report from Guangdong from the performance office, and I saw the boss of the Tang family in the text enter the palace to report the funeral!" ”

Han Xiufeng was taken aback and stood up suddenly: "His old man was still leading the hundred officials to enter the first emperor to record the holy hadith yesterday, why did he leave today?" ”

"On the way over, I heard that Wen Zhongtang entered the palace yesterday and exhausted the last bit of energy, so he collapsed as soon as he went back. The emperor must be very sad to know this news! ”

"It's not just the emperor, we are just as sad."

Wen Qing is not only the foreman of the military aircraft minister, but also the most concerned about the "Houyi Hall" among all the princes and ministers, Wen Qing left, Eun Jun really felt like the sky was falling, and couldn't help asking: "Then what should we do?" ”

"Prepare some silver, and go to mourn together after the end of the class." Han Xiufeng took the Guangdong newspaper copied by the Internal Affairs Office from Eun Jun's hand, and continued: "Lord Wen is meeting with an official from outside the mouth on the other side, you go over and talk to him." ”

"Huh."

Seeing Eun Jun gone, Han Xiufeng sat down again and looked through the report of Ye Mingchen, the Minister of International Trade of Wukou and the Governor of Liangguang, which had been copied by the Internal Affairs Office.

Although he had been prepared, he couldn't stand it anymore, and was thinking about whether the emperor and Prince Zheng, Prince Yi, Su Shun, Bai Ye, Peng Yunzhang and other princes and ministers believed Ye Mingchen's nonsense, Wen Xiang hurriedly walked in with Enjun.

"Zhixing, Wenzhongtang, his old man is gone!"

"It's really not the right time for him to leave, Bochuan, you take a look at this first."

"What?"

"Ye Mingchen's recital."

This letter reported to the emperor and the princes and ministers in the court who had waited for more than a month, and the "Houyi Hall" had also waited for more than a month.

“…… From September 29 to October 1, the Yingyi consular officer Bar Hali (Pa Xia Li) dared to sail into the provincial river and harass the Liede Fort, and opened empty artillery at the Dahuangjiao Fort, attacking the city wall and setting fire to the Jinghai Gate, Wuxian Gate, and nearby houses from September 29 to October 1;

On the first day of the new year, about two or three hundred people were pickpocketed in the city, and after the general Xuan Fang and the gentleman Ouyang Quan, they fell to death. On the ninth day of the first month, the Yi sailed from the surface of the Thirteen Lines River and went straight to Dongdingtai. The soldiers bravely destroyed the ships and killed the head of the sailors, and the bandits suffered more than 400 casualties. Now the ministers and others are sticking to the old city, and more than 20,000 soldiers and soldiers have been mobilized to block and suppress. ”

Seeing this, Wen Xiang couldn't stand it anymore, threw down the fold and said: "Pa Xia Li fell to death, Xima was killed, and more than 400 bandits were killed. He can write casually whether there are so many soldiers in battle, and it will be difficult to verify for a while anyway. But if the Yingyi consul Pashali and the leader of the Yingyi sailors, Yingxi Maji, come back from the dead, how will he end up then! ”

"I'll talk about it later, but now no matter how he says it, the emperor will believe it, even if he knows that he is talking about it, he can only believe it."

"What do you say?"

"What if you don't believe it, if someone else takes over, not to mention that it will take two or three months to get to Guangzhou at the earliest, even if you can take office tomorrow, can you still do a better job than him?"

Wen Xiang reacted and asked with a bitter face: "Zhixing, are you saying that the emperor will not blame him even if he knows that he is talking about it?" ”

Han Xiufeng groaned: "As long as he can survive it, not only will the emperor not blame, but he may also be promoted to an official." After all, it's not easy for him to survive until now, but I don't know how long he can last. Qingxian's experience of his arma is there, and I estimate that the day he can't hold on is when he is dismissed and arrested! ”

"Zhixing, what will happen to him in the future is his business, and the top priority is what should we do next?" The more Wen Xiang thought about it, the more worried he became, staring at Han Xiufeng and saying worriedly: "You are now in charge of the 'Houyi Hall', and it is your job to investigate, sort out and verify the situation." If the upper fold debunks his nonsense, the emperor will definitely not be happy; But if you don't do anything, when you don't see this excerpt, when nothing happens, not only will you be unlucky, but you will also be to blame. ”

"Brother Bochuan, you can rest assured, I didn't do nothing."

"What did you do?"

"I have ordered Yunqing to rush to Guangdong, and I have ordered Shishi to rush to Shanghai to see if things are as he played in the excerpt, if everything is true, it will be good, and if the situation is out of control, he can also act on the camera."

Wen Xiang asked in surprise: "Zhixing, shouldn't you even believe the words of Yun Qijun and Ling Mei?" ”

Han Xiufeng took the excerpt and said meaningfully: "Hearing is false, seeing is believing, it's better to send someone to take a look." ”

Wen Xiang reacted suddenly, and said with a smile: "I understand, you are pretending, it seems that you have done a lot, but in fact you have done nothing!" ”

"Pretending is better than nothing, at least don't worry about Ye Mingchen's nonsense being exposed in the future, and our 'Houyitang' will be implicated."

"You're really an official, if you guessed correctly, you didn't say anything to death when you reported to those adults in the Military Aircraft Department."

"It's nature."

Looking at Han Xiufeng's natural appearance, Wen Xiang finally understood why Han Xiufeng asked him to see this excerpt and why he told him this, and couldn't help but smile bitterly: "I've been taught, but Wen Xiang is stupid, brother, I can't learn this set of Wen Xiang!" ”

"If you can't learn, you have to learn!"

Han Xiufeng stared at him closely, and said sincerely: "Brother Bochuan, Wen Zhongtang is gone, and Lord Sushun doesn't know if it's because he was provoked, and he treats me much worse than before." Guangdong is so tight, I estimate that this is just the beginning, it can be said that the 'Houyitang' has reached the most difficult time, up and down, inside and outside Beijing, so many people, in the future, all pointing to you, brother. ”

"What can I do with me?"

"Be an official, be a big official!"

"Here it is again, when I can shelter from the wind and rain, I really don't know how to wait until the Year of the Monkey."

"But for us, it's better to have hope than not to have hope."

This is the Taifu Temple, not the 'Houyi Hall', Han Xiufeng was worried that there were ears outside the wall, and he didn't want to go around in circles anymore, so he said bluntly: "Brother Bochuan, if I remember correctly, the head of the command outside the mouth is concurrently served by the Chahar Dutong, and the civil and military officials outside the mouth are all sent by the Chahar Dutong to introduce and supplement, and according to the rule, the officials of the left and right winged horse factories must be filled by Chahar people, so I think as long as the name and age are not written incorrectly on the resume, I will quickly hand it over to the Ministry of Officials to introduce and supplement according to the meaning of the Chahar Dutong." ”

Wen Xiang was planning to be a competent Shaoqing of the Taifu Temple, so he summoned the alternate candidates who came from outside the mouth one by one to ask about the big and small things in the horse factory, and found that two of them were not only illiterate but even confused, and were about to let those two stupid people get out, but he didn't expect Han Xiufeng to say this.

He was still unwilling to think about it, and couldn't help asking: "What does Chahar Dutong mean, then what do you want me to do in Taifu Temple?" ”

"If one or two are dismissed, people will send one or two more, anyway, you can only use Chahar locals, who doesn't use it?"

"But ......"

"Brother Bochuan, there are not so many, but it is better to have one more friend than one less friend, not to mention that everyone is still unified." Seeing that Wen Xiang wanted to speak and stopped, Han Xiufeng's words changed: "Don't forget that I am also the Shaoqing of Taifu Temple, and I have the right to inquire about this matter." ”

"Okay, listen to you, the rest are gone."

"That's right, how long can you stay here, no fault is merit, and you can't offend people because of this." Han Xiufeng patted him on the arm, and said helplessly: "I didn't plan to come here, but because the emperor planned to reward me for my background, I was roasted on the fire by Su Shun, and I have to be cautious and cautious in everything I say and do in the future, so you have to find something to do for me." ”

"You won't let you do what you need to do, where can I find something for you to do?"

"Just find something to do, just pretend."

Seeing that Han Xiufeng didn't seem to be joking, Wen Xiang asked again: "What does the emperor have to do with Su Shun when he rewarded you for your background, how did you get roasted by him, why haven't I heard any news at all?" ”

Han Xiufeng smiled bitterly: "I can't tell for a while, but you will know when the emperor sends down the edict." ”

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