Chapter 5: The Secret of Wooden Blocks
After Li Hong returned to Wang Qianhu's home to say goodbye, he returned to the courtyard house left by his ancestors.
Although it is only one in and one out, the yard is also quite large, but one person is a little deserted.
He was considering whether to live in Wang Gongchang in the future.
Day 2.
As soon as Li Hongtian was at dawn, he went to Jinyiwei to get his own order.
"Isn't this Li Baihu, when did you come back?" Zhang Chang general flag in the gatehouse of the yamen.
has been in Jinyiwei for 35 years, and he is old, and he is quite idle when he arranges to be a gatekeeper at the yamen. In the spring of next year, his eldest son will be transferred back from the border to pick him up.
Zhang Zongqi looked behind Li Hong again.
"Lord Li, where are the bandits you caught? I'll help you watch first, and you go in and do something. Zhang Zongqi asked knowingly and smiled.
"Elder Zhang, don't make fun of me, I just came back a few days ago, and I'm here to get the order today." Li Hong stomped his foot.
This general flag is kind and does not fight or grab, and he has a good popularity in the imperial city Jinyiwei, and he has stayed in Jinyiwei for a long time.
"Everyone in the guard knows it, we thought you knew it too, but it took half a year for you fool to know, I heard that your order was fine last night, you go to see where the personnel are." After Zhang Lao finished speaking, he went back to the gatehouse and sat down.
Li Hong came to the west wing of the backyard and sorted out his clothes at the door before entering.
Senhe-sama, who was in charge of human resources, was not there, only the one who was on the night shift last night was packing up and preparing to go home.
"This brother, I am Li Hong who tried 100 households, and I came to get the order today."
"Your commander took it from Master Li, and he asked me to tell you to go to the court this morning when we were deliberating." The night shift packed up and prepared to hand over and leave.
"Trouble bro."
The meeting is a routine morning meeting of middle and senior officials in Jinyiwei every day, summarizing the work deployment tasks, there is no major event, and it will be completed in less than half an hour, but it is limited to more than 1,000 households in Jinyiwei.
For Li Hong, a hundred households, it is out of reach. Jinyiwei, there are only sixteen in a thousand households, and no one dares to move.
But since the Emperor of the Apocalypse, Zhu Youxiao doesn't ask about political affairs, there are hundreds of Jinyi Weizheng six products and hundreds of households in Beijing, not to mention that he has tried hundreds of households from six products, which is as many as a cow's hair.
Li Hong couldn't figure out why, why he was asked to participate in the morning meeting.
At this time, there was still some time before the discussion, and Li Hong stood at the door of the public hall and kept greeting the adults.
"Li Hong, why are you here?" It was Li Hong's friend Wang Qianhu who spoke.
"It was Master Li who called me over, and the commander made the same acquaintance." Li Hong pointed to the sky.
"Then you can follow me in, stand next to me and don't talk nonsense." Wang Qianhu took Li Hong into the court.
In addition to the upper seat, there are eighteen seats below, which are the left and right commanders and envoys, plus the thirteen Taibao and the rest of the thousand households.
Wang Qianhu was in charge of the archives, sitting next to the door and the last position, and Li Hong was standing behind the right.
Some of the adults in the court discussed the case, some talked about antiques, calligraphy and paintings, and some looked at Li Hong with their eyes, and commanded Liu Changyou to enter the court.
Everyone stood up, "Meet the Commander." ”
Liu Changyou sat on the main seat: "No courtesy, today's discussion begins, and I will report yesterday's military situation first." ”
The major people of Jinyi Wei stood up and reported the situation from all over the country yesterday, the big and small matters, and discussed and resolved the unresolved matters.
The commander made Lord Liu, as always, leave the matter to his subordinates to solve, and sit back and wait for the result.
"The day before yesterday, Long Live Lord asked Jinyiwei to send someone to supervise, the drought situation in the two lakes, whether you choose a good candidate?"
The right commander made Tongzhi Li stand up and returned: "It has been chosen, Wang Gongchang guards Li Hong to try a hundred households, and the minister has already brought people." ”
Commander Zuo made Tongzhi Wang Xin stand up and said: "Li Layer, the person you are looking for, there is water here, the emperor is asking people to supervise, not to condole." ”
Li Hong muttered in his heart: I am also a test hundred, and I am also an official, and I still know how to investigate and eat in Jinyiwei.
The right commander is the same as Li Layer: "Commander Liu, Li Hong was transferred to Xiagou Village, 50 miles away from the imperial city, last year to investigate the case, and he just returned to Beijing to be transferred recently, and his identity is innocent. ”
Wang Xin was just about to refute, and the commander Liu Changyou said.
"This Li Hong, I have an impression, Wang Tongzhi, you may have forgotten that the snitch case last year was solved by Li Hong, and it seems that some people were involved at that time."
Liu Changyou looked at Li Layer below, and then at Zhang Xinde, one of the Thirteen Taibao.
"Then the lower officials also agreed, so let Li Hong go, but this trial of 100 households from the sixth grade is a little small, and I am afraid that I will not be convinced by the public when I go down to the two lakes." Wang Xin looked at Li Hong standing next to the door and said.
Liu Changyou looked at Li Layer, "Then Li Tongzhi has a high opinion?" The ball was passed to Lee.
After thinking about it, Li Layer said: "In the third year of Longqing, at that time, there was a precedent for giving flying fish clothes to embroider spring knives, and to go out to handle cases, and the commander could apply to the Lord of Long Live. ”
When Li Hong heard this, his heart blossomed, and the commander must agree, agree!
"Yes, then according to what Li Tongzhi said, it's decided, I immediately went to the palace to apply to the Lord of Long Live. Does Li Baihu have any objections? Liu Changyou said.
"Back to my lord, there is no objection." Li Hong said as he stepped forward.
"You go to the martial arts field to wait, and the ceremony is over today." Liu Changyou walked out.
"Wuyun is prosperous, Guotai and the people are safe, and the mountains and rivers of Jinyi Town" all stood up and shouted solemnly, and the meeting was dismissed.
It was still early, and it would take a while for Commander Liu to come back, and Li Hong followed Wang Qianhu to the archive room to drink tea.
"Brother Li can be regarded as a dream come true this time, put on a flying fish suit, take an embroidered spring knife, and don't always have to play with my knife."
When Li Hong was serving in the imperial city, he played Wang Qianhu's embroidered spring knife with several sets of knife techniques every once in a while, and this back and forth also gave Wang Qianhu a headache.
"Hahaha, what Wang Qianhu said is that we are also the ones who have the Flying Fish Suit embroidered spring knife."
Li Hong stood on the ground and stepped on the chair, very arrogant.
"Don't be too happy, you'll have to change your clothes and knives when you get back." This bucket of cold water woke Li Hong up.
Li Hong sat down and wilted in an instant.
"It's all a trivial matter, why do you think you want to try a hundred households in a small way?" Wang Qianhu asked solemnly.
"Why? I'm a reliable and decent person, and neither faction has me. ”
"Then have you ever thought about it, if you go to the inspector and find out the problem, which faction will you offend? Since you are not a faction, then there is no one to protect you, if you don't find out any problems in the supervision, if something really goes wrong, you will definitely be the one who is responsible. ”
"Yes, what should I do? Or I'll join in. Li Hong said.
Wang Qianhu squirted out a mouthful of tea.
"Do you think, who are you, a trial hundred households all over Beijing, you go to the miscellaneous miscellaneous work, and in the end you want to minimize the loss, sit down on both sides and talk, the unlucky one is still you."
"Thank you, Brother Wang reminded me, this matter can only go one step, look at one step, then I will go to the martial arts field to standby."
The Imperial Palace at this time.
"Long live the Lord, Commander Liu of the Jinyi Guard asks to see you." Palm print eunuch Wei Zhongxian said.
"I'm too busy to leave, let him come here to see me." Zhu Youxiao wiped the sweat from his forehead and said.
Liu Changyou walked into the side hall and saw sawdust flying inside.
A young man dressed in a gray linen robe, with embroidered nine-clawed flying dragons on his sleeves, sat on a half-zhang thick wood, pushing and pulling the planer knife in his hand quickly up and down with both hands, and Wei Zhongxian stood aside with a handkerchief.
This person is the emperor of the current dynasty, Zhu Youxiao, number: Apocalypse, who is better at carpentry than governing the country. In fact, outsiders don't know that Zhu Youxiao also has his own views on governing the country.
Liu commanded the general, reported the progress of the inspection of the matter, and asked for a flying fish suit and an embroidered spring knife.
"Father-in-law Wei, what do you think about this matter?" Zhu Youxiao ignored Commander Liu's envoy and turned his head to ask Wei Zhongxian.
"Just follow the emperor's wishes. The minions have no opinion. ”
Dongchang spies reported the matter to Wei Zhongxian last night, and Wei Zhongxian also guessed that the person who went out was almost Li Hong, but he didn't expect to ask the emperor to give him a flying fish suit embroidered spring knife, but it didn't hurt.
"I don't have an opinion, then I will approve it, and give another hundred taels of silver as a road entanglement." After that, he began to plank wood again.
casually handed Wei Zhongxian something made of wood, "This is an item that I made on a whim yesterday and suddenly came of inspiration, and I will reward you if I am happy today." ”
Wei Zhongxian walked to Liu Changyou's side, handed the wooden block to him, and whispered: "If there is nothing to do, go back first, don't delay our long live master's business, and send the edict over after a while." ”
Liu Changyou: "Then it's troublesome for Father-in-law Wei." ”
Liu Changyou bowed to Zhu Youxiao: "Emperor Xie, the minister retires." ”
Liu Changyou walked outside the palace and got on the horse, returned home, washed and changed clothes and waited for the edict, and saw that there was no one in the house. Liu Changyou took out a knife to split the wooden block, and a note leaked inside.
On the martial arts field, Li Hong kept wandering, anxiously waiting, and was very conflicted.