The wind and the waning moon, and the drizzle and slight dew, Cui Hanzhang punished the miserable and miserable relatives.

Fortunately, his cultivation is getting deeper, and his muscles and bones and soul are small, and he only needs to run the internal breath to activate his qi and blood and resolve the feeling of numbness.

Moreover, the advantage of being an official in Beijing Taikang is that he has practiced a pair of kneels that say kneel, the capital is full of princes, and the five-grade petty officials are not as good as dogs.

After a long time, he naturally practiced good knee skills, kneeling for an hour is as natural as eating and drinking, you must know that the Qingliu people of the Fengxian Yamen can kneel for a long time at every turn, and after kneeling for a long time, they will become accustomed to nature.

Although he knelt all night, Cui Hanzhang always remained sober, and he took this opportunity to sort out and review some things, but his thinking became clearer and clearer.

In the second half of the night, Cui Hanzhang clearly felt that someone seemed to be spying secretly, but he tried his best to look around, but he never found a suspicious trace; Later, he whimsically tried to submerge his mind to perceive his surroundings, but the result backfired, and he was almost suppressed by the dragon qi of the imperial city.

Leng Buding suffered this small loss, which made him more and more curious about the mystery of the imperial city.

It's just curiosity that kills the cat, but now he can't bear to give up his own life.

At three o'clock in the morning, the old lady of Shouxi Palace came over to pass the word, "Respect the message of the Empress Dowager, Lord Xiao Cui continued to go back to Xiaolian Village to think about it." ”

Cui Hanzhang didn't dare to slack off, and kowtowed with a sincere and teachable expression: "Weichen thanked the Queen Mother for her teachings!" ”

The old lady is a human spirit, you can tell at a glance whether you are convinced or pretending, the young offspring will not learn to be a director if she doesn't suffer enough, but she doesn't want to be entangled with this little Cui, so she raised her feet and left.

It wasn't until the old lady disappeared around the corner that he got up and kicked a few times to recover his strength, then raised his left foot and strode over the high steps.

Looking up at the rising sun, the morning sun is bright but not dazzling, the light falls in all directions, stretching his figure, and after leaving the palace gate, he is really relaxed, stretching his waist and legs, and the bones of his body crackle and burst. In addition to Princess Yunlan, what he was thinking about was the soft and comfortable bed of Xiaolianzhuang.

Yun Lan's dormitory he can't go, he has to avoid suspicion at the cusp of the moment, maybe the eyeliner of each palace is squatting there waiting for him, even the doumi alley outside his Xiaolian Village is also full of dark piles, and now it seems that he should go back to Xiaolian Village first, everything is considered in the long run!

Cui Hanzhang hadn't been groomed for a day and a night, the whole person was sloppy, and the palace maids along the way avoided him, so that he couldn't help but smell his sleeves, obviously okay, inexplicable.

It has been drizzling for many days, and the whole Taikang City is wet. Although Cui Hanzhang was confined to home, it did not prevent him from listening to all kinds of news. Jin Yuwei and his subordinates are now obedient and obedient by Lingwu Hou Enwei and Shi, and the big and small things that happen in the palace will be sorted out and sent to Xiaolianzhuang in every detail, and the letters between Cui Hanzhang and Yun Lan are also delivered by Lingwu Hou himself.

On this day, Lingwuhou leaned on the door panel, dangling a letterhead in his hand, and shouted to Cui Hanzhang, who was fishing on the trestle: "Hongyan Feishu, but you can be tired of this Hongyan nagging!." ”

The apricot red silk flower paper, slightly wet with rainwater, swayed in the wind in the hands of Lingwuhou.

Cui Hanzhang smiled, he knew Bai Yanqiu too well, he was a drunkard, and he came to eat again.

"Peach Charm! Make a fire to cook, our Hou Ye is hungry. Cui Hanzhang shouted into the backyard.

Princess Yunlan was also confined to the palace, and she had to go to the Shouxi Palace every day to set the province in the morning and dusk.

"Okay, it's just a piece of letterhead, and I'm going to look at it over and over again. Hanzhang, you put your heart in your stomach, and the matter between you and Yun Lan is in order. ”

Cui Hanzhang couldn't stand his seeping gaze, so he put the letterhead into his cuffs, and then stared at the undulating fish mark in the lake and said, "How can you understand the fun." Not to mention this, there are two things that are urgent now, one is that the Holy Lord will hold a banquet to entertain the Beihu Mission, how are you preparing? Second, how is the iron circulation channel in the three squares of the ghost market poor? ”

"Mo Cui, the emperor is not a starving ghost! Rong Benhou finished this meal well, the craftsmanship of the peach fu girl is amazing, in my opinion, it is not much worse than the head chef of our Dashun Zhai. Ling Wuhou buried his head in eating, but he disliked him as a death ghost.

"The banquet of the mission is arranged by Jin Yuwei, and the internal supervision of the imperial dining workshop cooperates, from the security inspection of the personnel entering the palace, to the inspection of the purchased ingredients, to the female envoys and servants who accompany and serve are all personally checked by Ben Hou, and I don't think there is a trace of mistakes."

"I've ignored the matter of the three squares of the ghost market for a while, but what clues did the rangers find?"

Cui Hanzhang was quite helpless, shook his head and said: "Xiaolianzhuang is still too shallow, and Taikang City seems to be under control, but in fact, it leaks like a sieve. The forces of the various parties are intricate, and the rangers are tied up. ”

Bai Yanqiu drank the mouthwash tea, sat down and said slowly: "Let's take a look, maybe we can come up with a thread." The formation of the three squares of the ghost market is mostly due to historical reasons, and Fengle Fang was in the previous dynasty. Although there are a lot of foreign people living together in Taikang City, but in order to facilitate the management of our dynasty are concentrated in the Fengle Fang area, they also like to live in groups, so people gather more and more, coexist and reproduce, and then expand the other two squares, that is, the ghost market three squares later, although they are numerous, but the livelihood in Taikang City is quite difficult, what can be done is nothing more than to sell furs, open a horse shop, raise horses for some high-ranking families, and then some resell northern medicinal materials, as for small iron casting, It has only slowly emerged in recent years, and all the materials they need have to be imported from outside. ”

"I know what you said, but how the iron and pig iron materials flow in, and from whose hands does it flow out, is the key?" After listening to him, Cui Hanzhang directly said the question in his heart.

"And don't you think there are too many people coming to the North Hu and the mission this time? When the mighty troika entered the city, you and I, as deputy negotiators, have not seen them pay too much tribute, so what is it in the carriage? In retrospect, it was an omission not to scrutinize the inside and outside of the carriage, and if I had been suspicious, I always suspected that someone had mixed in with it and had something unknown. Cui Hanzhang continued.

"What you said reminds me of this, although the black fire thunder detonated in the Longyuan River last time, the matter is strange everywhere, could it be related to this matter?" Ling Wuhou remembered the black fire thunder lost by the military department at the beginning of the year.

"Now there are too many threads, some can't be connected, and some are broken inexplicably, it's really messy."

"Didn't you scatter half of the Ghost Hand Battalion at the beginning, they are all good riders, and they are scattered all over Taikang City as ordinary people, how about it? If you have entered the ghost market, it should be time to pick fruits after a year. ”

"The situation is not ideal, a year is still too short, a few people have entered the ghost market, but they are all small marginal roles, running errands and miscellaneous are okay, if you say that you can't count on the news. What can Hou Ye do, don't hold it, Cui is counting on you now? Cui Hanzhang thought that Lingwu Houfu had a deep foundation, so he threw the question back to him.

Lingwuhou heard Cui Hanzhang begging for mercy, and he was very happy, and his whole spirit suddenly perked up, and after drinking a full cup, he said:

"The mountain people have their own tricks, have you ever noticed who has the most people in the city?"

"What's the most?" Cui Hanzhang really couldn't think of it for a while.

"There are many hawkers in the West Market, there are many pavilions and singing buildings in the East Market, and there are the most people in the ghost market." Lingwu Hou knew the situation in Taikang City like a treasure, and he came as soon as he opened his mouth.

"There is also a kind of people who do not distinguish between east and west markets, nor ghost markets, and are everywhere in the city, which can be described as annoying to everyone."

"Could it be that you're talking about beggars?" After being reminded by him, Cui Hanzhang thought of a kind of person.

"Yes, beggars are men, women and children, especially small beggars, Taikang City brings together beggars from all over the world, Ben Hou heard more than ten years ago that they are numerous and well-organized, and they are already beginning to take shape as a gang, and they are all over the city, that is, they are in the ghost market gambling stalls, and the second is that they will not attract the attention of the world, after all, people are the most unguarded against the lowly things." Lingwu Hou knows so much about the beggar organization, which shows that the Hou Mansion is attentive to the cultivation of eyeliner.

"Wonderful! Use beggars as eyeliner and extend your tentacles to every corner of the city. The effect is twice as effective with half the effort, they beg along the streets, pass by door to door, and are most suitable for passing information and tracking them. Cui Hanzhang slapped his thigh and admired Bai Yanqiu's cleverness.

"You really gave it for nothing when I was the Marquis of Lingwu Mansion, for many years, this beggar organization has been blessed by the Hou Mansion, and has also helped some inconspicuous little favors, but raising soldiers for a thousand days and using soldiers for a while, it will come in handy for us today."

"The tree is big and the roots are deep, and the ancients did not deceive me. There are also a few wealthy families like the Hou Mansion in Taikang City, will they also secretly collude with the beggar organization? Cui Hanzhang deeply felt the shortcomings of his Xiaolian Village, not to mention the ability to collect intelligence, even if there were few trustworthy officials, otherwise he would not be at a loss for words when the Fengxian Yamen was impeached this time.

"That's natural, there are many rich princes and princes in Taikang City, and the wealthy families also have their own doorways, and the beggar gang now has a small climate, and they all go for the silver, who they cooperate with and how they cooperate, it is not up to a family to decide." Ling Wuhou was blunt about this, after all, Taikang is so big, and the forces of all parties are intertwined, and they can only check and balance each other by playing games with each other.

"Don't startle the snake, let's not care about how the beggars make money, and it's best to get useful information." Cui Hanzhang said what he thought in his heart, he knew that it was difficult for a strong man to control the beggar gang, and this matter could only be done slowly, not in a hurry, but Ling Wuhou's words helped him open up a train of thought, he completely let the people of the rangers break into the beggar gang, as long as he was willing to take the time to work hard, he could completely control it sooner or later.