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While Song Zheng and Huang Yuandu were talking secretly, a black shadow came out of a private house a few miles away from the east side of the Prime Minister's Mansion and sneaked west against the root of the wall. 【 High Quality Update 】

The Prime Minister's Mansion is not far from the Imperial Palace, which is the core area of Jiangning City, and it is also the most densely patrolled place. In order to protect the tranquility of this area, the Jiangning government has arranged one-third of the night patrol force here. Every quarter of an hour, six officials pass along the main road. There are also several changfu in between, and every other hour the drum is beaten to report the latest chapter of the time.

Not only that, but the right division also gathered more than ten masters in this area, they are different from ordinary officials, but lurking in unknown corners, always paying attention to the movements of the streets and alleys.

This is the aristocratic area of Jiangning, and it is also the safest area, and no small person will steal or make trouble here, otherwise once he is caught, he will be sentenced heavily.

The black shadow seemed to be familiar with the situation here, and was extremely careful, and at the slightest disturbance, it would shrink into the shadows and remain motionless. After half an hour, he finally sneaked under the wall in the northeast corner of the Prime Minister's Mansion.

After judging the direction slightly, the figure took a loop of rope from his waist, and at the top of the rope was a small iron claw, the size of which was only a few inches, but it was very delicate and sharp.

He put his ear to the wall, listened for a moment, then threw the hook and flung it up. There was a click, and the hook seemed to have hooked somewhere. He didn't act immediately, but waited for a moment.

At this time, a dog barked in the house, and then the dog let out a low "whoop", and then there was no sound. After another moment, the black shadow outside the wall stretched the rope, tried his strength, and nodded in satisfaction.

He wrapped the rope around his right wrist, then leaned upwards and hung himself against the wall. With his hands crossed upwards, he slowly climbed up to the wall. The whole process didn't make a sound, and the house dog inside the wall was still lying in the nest.

Just as the black shadow wanted to continue moving, footsteps were heard in the distance of the alley, and several officials came from afar, and the figure hurriedly lay on the wall, merging with the wall. The officials drew closer with their torches, and the figures turned their heads sideways, their faces facing outward. The torch shone through, revealing a hideous face.

In fact, the word "hideous" is not enough to describe this face. From the face, the person was quite thin, however, his face was densely covered with wounds, most of which were fresh, densely covered with bloody scabs, and some had even festered, oozing yellow-brown liquid.

The most terrifying thing is that half of his nose is missing, leaving only a black hole, and the whole person is like a ghost. It's hard to imagine how much pain it would have to endure to ruin a face like this.

Soon, the patrol officers passed. The figure crouched for another half a cup of tea, and then got up from the wall. He first sank his wrist down, and the hook rope broke away from the wall, and was slowly retracted, and was soon hung around his waist. Then he felt around his waist, and a miniature bow and arrow was taken out. The bow was no more than half a foot long, and the arrow was only a foot.

Quietly bending his bow and arrow, he aimed in the direction of the kennel.

Perhaps it was the official who had just passed by that the house dog had no intention of sleeping peacefully, and its two ears quickly stood up. As one of the two most sensitive hearing and smelling animals in the world, the shadow stood up despite its silent movements. As the black shadow pulled an arrow string, its natural alertness made it look up in the direction of the black shadow.

When it finally saw the black shadow, it immediately opened its mouth to bark and call the police, but before its breath could rush out of its throat, a sharp arrow came in an instant, and shot the breath back.

The arrow was so powerful that it went through the dog's throat and through its entire body until the tip of the arrow poked out from behind the dog. The watchdog took two steps back, and then fell to the ground without a sound.

The shadow unhurriedly put the bow away and hung it back on his back. After a few more pauses, until there were no accidents, the shadow took out the hook again and threw it onto the branch of a nearby tree.

Then he leaped and swung off the wall. Swinging back and forth in the air a few times, he slowly slid down, his feet on the ground.

As soon as he reached the ground, the black shadow shook the rope back, and quickly shrank under the tree. After judging the direction again, the black shadow actually jumped forward and dived towards a small courtyard on the north side of the house.

The dark shadow stopped from time to time, and after the tea work, he came to this small courtyard. This is an independent courtyard, although it is located in the Prime Minister's Mansion, but there is only a small gate connected to the inner courtyard. The small door was locked at night, but the wall was low.

Everyone in Xiangfu knows that the people who live in this small courtyard are called "Lu Lao", and they are characters who follow Xiangye to fight the world. Now that he is old, he has also retired. Xiang Ye did not forget the original friendship, and directly opened a small courtyard in the Prime Minister's Mansion for "Lu Lao" to live in.

I have to say that Huang Yuandu did treat Lu Junqing very kindly, and when he heard that Lu Junqing's life was in danger, he directly gave him this small courtyard on the north side of the Prime Minister's Mansion. With Huang Yuandu's status, no one dared to come to the Prime Minister's Mansion to assassinate him.

Today, though, is an exception. The black shadow seemed to be familiar with the terrain here, and soon climbed over the wall into the small courtyard.

The high wall on the outside can be climbed over, and this low wall is not a problem at all.

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Just when the black shadow sneaked into Lu Junqing's courtyard, Song Zheng finally told Huang Yuandu his vision of the political system. In fact, if you look at it from the perspective of the political system, the system that Zhu Yuanzhang engaged in can only be a half-finished product.

Lao Zhu is full of energy, and he works all night to make a concert, and he is an out-and-out workaholic. The system he established also required the emperor to be diligent and not lazy.

The extremes of things must be opposed, Lao Zhu's descendants are not very angry, and even have not been to the court for decades, concentrating on carpenter work in the harem. This also caused the power of the inner court to grow. The emperor stopped working, and everything was handed over to the eunuchs.

Many people say that eunuchs are not necessarily bad, and even Wei Zhongxian, who has been stinking for thousands of years, has now been overturned by countless people. Some of these reversals are very reasonable, but it cannot be denied that there are not too many eunuchs who do good things.

When commenting on the history of the Ming Dynasty, some people said that the history of the Ming Dynasty was so dark that people couldn't bear to read it. Among them, the most criticized is undoubtedly the bloodshed brought about by spy politics and the eunuchs' power. Many people after the Ming Dynasty sang praises to the Ming Dynasty, which was just to express their anger at the helplessness of braids.

Song Zheng knows history and knows all kinds of harms of the Ming system, but if he is asked to analyze the gains and losses like an expert, he is far from enough. But he knows that any kind of system has drawbacks, and there is no perfect system in the world, what he has to do is to introduce this system to Huang Yuandu, and let professionals like Huang Yuandu improve it and implement it.

Of course, Song Zheng will also remind Huang Yuandu according to his own historical perception. For example, eunuchs cannot be the supervisors of the border army, eunuchs can only be the supervisors of the Imperial City Division, not commanders, and the Jingshi Guards cannot appoint clan nobles......

In the end, Song Zheng's thinking was also a little messy, basically thinking of what to say, what a whip method, spreading into acres, land and silver, and even the "Military Aircraft Department" of the Manchu Qing Dynasty came out. Huang Yuandu frowned sometimes, then bowed his head, and sometimes shook his head, no matter what, Huang Yuandu was seriously thinking about every suggestion mentioned by Song Zheng.

The conversation lasted until the middle of the night, for four hours. In the end, Huang Yuandu was still very excited as if he had discovered a new world, but Song Zheng was a little tired.

"Xiaolang, tell me, is Kedao's power too great? Isn't that the petty official the big one? ”

Huang Yuandu was still tireless, but Song Zheng was excited, "Xiangye, I just put forward such an idea, as for the specific regulations, you can make your own ideas, it's really not good, it's okay to discuss with others." As long as it is feasible, it will be formed as soon as possible. ”

"That's fine." Huang Yuandu also saw that Song Zheng was really not good at this kind of meticulous work, so he let him go, "It's dark at night, you can rest in the mansion with your son-in-law today." ”

Song Zheng smiled, "I'd better go back!" I've never been here today, and I've never brought up any statutes. ”

Huang Yuandu twisted his eyebrows and pondered for a moment, "Do you know that if this cabinet system is really adopted, it will be a famous thing in history." Why, you are so willing to give up? ”

"Leaving a name in history, that's what a big man like Xiangye does, as for the boy, it's better to keep a low profile. Honestly and comfortably living a small life is the most suitable for me. ”

After looking at Song Zheng carefully for a long time, Huang Yuandu shook his head, "You are very strange." That's it, anyway, I can't guess you all the time, so you can go back. Don't worry, I will contribute to the affairs of Jiang Kui's family. ”

Song Zheng solemnly arched his hand, "Thank you, Xiangye." ”

"If you want to say thank you, I should thank you."

Song Zheng smiled and gave his hand again, "Xiangye stays, I'll go back." ”

Huang Yuandu didn't get up, but waved his hand lightly.

Song Zheng turned around and came out, and Huang Yue was lying on the chair outside, already asleep. A housekeeper next to him leaned against a pillar and kept dozing.

Maybe he let go of a big thing, and Song Zheng was even more like an arrow. Home is a comfortable nest, home is a safe haven, and even Song Zheng has the illusion that he doesn't want to leave home. Perhaps, this is the sequelae of the envoy Shu who did not come back for a long time.

stepped forward and patted Jiading's shoulder, Song Zheng laughed in a low voice, "Send me out of the house through the back door, don't disturb the eldest prince." "Without the people of the Prime Minister's Mansion to bring him, Song Zheng would not dare to break in.

That family is only ten years old, although he is smart and clever, he is extremely sleepy. I woke up in a hurry, and I didn't quite understand. looked at Song Zheng blankly.

Song Zheng had no choice but to repeat it again, and then the family lowered his head and bowed his waist and made a gesture of leading the way.

The housekeeper plucked a lantern from the doorway, led the way, and walked quietly to the north.

When he was about to approach the north gate, Song Zheng suddenly stopped and looked at the small courtyard next to him.

"What's wrong, Childe?" The family Ding hurriedly said.

"The people in your house are really diligent, and there are still people dancing with knives and sticks in the middle of the night." As he spoke, Song Zheng gestured towards the small courtyard.

The guy shook his not-sober-minded head and listened carefully. Before he could hear anything, a terrible scream sounded in the small courtyard.