"No matter what he does, while you are drunk and confused, he can take you out of Iron Urn City."

Jin Huanming stood up slowly, and said to Gao Chengxiang with some slurred words, "You...... Bring Lao Tzu's bow and arrows, and go to Pyongyang City with Ben! Let you too...... Meet the ...... of Da Mo Lizhi"

After saying that, he burped and walked out.

Gao Chengxiang hurriedly picked up Jin Huanming's bow from the wall, and followed behind with Jin Huanming's quiver. He sniffed quietly with his nose, and there was a pungent smell in the quiver!

Gao Cheng knew from time to time that the person who came was not from Longxing Ranch, but no matter who he was, being able to get Jin Huanming out of the city must be what Lu Xiaoyu Pastoral Supervisor expected.

A cronie helped Jin Huanming to get on the horse, "General Jin, do you want us to follow?" ”

Jin Huanming looked at Gao Chengxiang with a confused look, and then looked at the bow and arrow that Gao Chengxiang was carrying, his big iron spear, and said, "Laugh, joke!" Just go back to Pyongyang, it's enough to have him with you. You, you guard the city, wait for me to discuss and discuss important matters, and you will return at dawn. ”

"What a guts!" The person who came praised loudly, "The villain will accompany the general out of the city!" ”

It was already dusk, and a crack was quietly opened in the gate of the iron urn city, and the first one to come out of the city stood outside the city gate and asked, "General Kim, please, we have to rush to Pyongyang City overnight." ”

Jin Huanming was still bullish when he was riding on the city street, but at this time, he was blown by the wind in the city gate cave, and his mind was a little sober.

He reined in and hesitated to go out, "You said yes...... Which one wants to invite this general? ”。

Gao Chengxiang was secretly anxious, afraid that he would regret it, so he secretly poked Jin Huanming's horse butt with the gun of the big iron gun, and the horse was in pain and jumped out of the city gate at once.

The three men came out of the crack in the door and rushed to Pyongyang City.

On the way, Jin Huanming grinded and retreated several times, "The two jars of wine just now were so strong that I was dizzy, and my waist was a little weak!" It's time to go back to sleep and do it again at dawn. ”

After a while, Jin Huanming muttered on the horse that it was time to go back to the city and call some guards.

Jin Chengxiang dragged it to the end, slapped Jin Huanming's quiver loudly, and said loudly, "General Jin has magic arrows, villains have iron guns, I'm not afraid of anything!" ”

So Jin Huanming walked forward again, but after walking only for a while, he stopped by a mountain stream, got off his horse and sat down on the ground, saying that he was very thirsty.

The person who came picked up the kettle from the horse and handed it over, but Jin Huanming didn't answer it, but looked at Gao Chengxiang behind him.

Gao Chengxiang leaned forward and said to Jin Huanming with his ear, "The villain sees that the mountains here are treacherous, we shouldn't delay for too long!" General, you must always keep your bow and arrows in your hand to rest assured. As he spoke, he handed Jin Huanming's bow and arrow to him.

Jin Huanming took the bow and arrow, and his courage was a little back, and he took the kettle from the man's hand and drank a few big sips, saying that it was refreshing.

But the man snorted coldly and shouted, "The cool is still to come!" ”

Jin Huanming was startled, and saw that in the twilight of the mountain road and among the trees, more than 20 black shadows with their own sharp blades flashed!

He was shocked, his blood was surging, he hurriedly jumped over to pull the saddle, and shouted to Gao Chengxiang, "Someone is going to murder the general, come and protect me!" ”

As he spoke, several black shadows had already jumped closer, and the previous person jumped out of the circle, pointed at Gao Chengxiang, and shouted, "He hasn't drunk water, so it's easy to take him down first!" ”

In the blink of an eye, Gao Chengxiang was surrounded by six or seven black shadows, and the blade flashed cold light to greet him. He danced the big iron gun to resist left and right, and the knife in the black shadow's hand was clanged and fell, but it was getting farther and farther away from Jin Huanming.

Jin Huanming didn't care about getting on the horse, so he hid behind the horse and put a poisoned arrow on it, aiming at the person who had entered the city earlier.

That person was a leader, and at this time he came to help, and he had already stepped aside to command, and he was only a dozen steps away from Jin Huanming. Jin Huanming hated from between his teeth, "I see how you hide!" ”

Before the words fell, the arrow was out!

But the man stood still, and the arrow did not know where it went, and there was not even an echo.

At such a distance, the arrow missed, which has never happened before!

Jin Huanming, who boasted that he could penetrate Yang in a hundred steps, was shocked, and his heart was flustered, and when he went to touch the second arrow in the quiver, his eyes suddenly turned black, his feet were soft and he fell to the ground, and he didn't know who he was.

At this time, Gao Chengxiang had already killed the crowd and walked away, and his subordinates wanted to chase after him, but their leader said, "If you don't chase it, it won't be cost-effective to let him hurt a few more." ”

Everyone lit torches, quickly tied Jin Huanming, who was unknown underground, hand and foot, put him on horseback, and then fixed him with ropes to the saddle.

The leader breathed a long sigh of relief and patted Jin Huanming, who was like a dead pig on the horse's back, "General Jin's magic arrow, I have learned today!" As he spoke, he picked up Jin Huanming's bow and arrows that had been thrown from the ground and hung them on the saddle.

The subordinate said, "My lord, what if he returns to Iron Urn City to report the news, there are not many of us!" ”

By the light of the fire, the man looked at Jin Huanming's quiver, and there were clusters of arrow feathers exposed outside the mouth of the pot, but those arrow feathers had been cut off with a dagger, and new stubble was revealed on the arrow pole.

He sighed, "Da Mo is not leaking from his worries, and he is really much higher than us!" I'm sure of it! The person who ran should be our internal response under the installation of the Iron Urn City! Unexpected! After he left the city, he was grinding in the back at first, but it saved my life! ”

At this point, they were not in a hurry, these people carried Jin Huanming along the dark mountain road, and they also spoke in a low voice.

The person who entered the city also sighed, "This person pretended to be really like, and he stabbed me to death several times with an iron gun in the iron urn city, but he never imagined that it was him, and he abolished the bow and arrow that Jin Huanming relied on!" ”

"My lord, we succeeded immediately, and caught Jin Huanming, a thief, from the heavily guarded iron urn city, I don't know how Da Mo Lizhi will reward us."

"Then what are you waiting for, let's hurry up and take Jin Huanming back to Pyongyang City to hand over the order! And I expect that there will be no explosion in the iron urn city - Da Mo is really a clever calculation!! ”

"This is the fate of betraying our Da Mo Lizhi, even if he hides in the Iron Urn City, he can't escape!"

"More than 20 of us took him into custody, and he acted at night, unaware, I think this credit will never fly again!"

When they were triumphant, there were nearly two hundred pairs of eyes in the night, staring intently at the twenty people. Seeing them slowly enter this ravine, Lu Xiaoyu, the chief pastor of Longxing Ranch, whispered to the people around him:

"After rushing down for a while, I recognized Jin Huanming! Except for him, anyone who wants to break through is not allowed to block hard...... Remember to throw the flag on the trail ahead! Ignition! ”

On both sides of the valley, in front and behind, soon a little, two, strings of torches flickered, shining on these figures in the military uniforms of the Iron Urn City.

"Rush-rescue General Jin Huanming back to Iron Urn City-who dares to stop and kill!"

……

In the second half of the night, Jin Huanming drank a few sips of water and the medicinal power weakened, he opened his eyes, and felt that the ropes on his hands and feet had been untied, but he was still a little numb at this time.

He lay in a moving, bumpy open-top carriage with the moon and stars above his head.

He didn't move, but stole his eyes. In the moonlight, there were many soldiers from Iron Urn City walking silently beside the car, surrounding the car as they marched.

He asked in a hoarse voice, "Where is this?" ”

An unfamiliar voice replied, "We have been ordered to take you down from the people of Pyongyang." ”

"On whose orders? Who sent you the message? ”

This man did not answer, but the other said to him with a smile, "General Jin, it was a guy with a big iron gun who reported the news, and we came here at the right time." ”

Jin Huanming was relieved, and his heart was moved, saying that he was rescued by Tie Wengcheng's men, "Then where is he?" ”

"He has rushed back to Iron Urn City in advance, so that the people in the city should be on guard, in case Gai Suwen becomes angry."

"Gai Suwen is jealous of the general," Jin Huanming said to himself.

Then he asked, "What day is today?" ”

Another person said in a deep voice behind the car, "Today is the tenth day of November!" General Jin, don't think about it too much, it's better to drink saliva, sleep steadily, and we'll be there as soon as we wake up. ”

In the haze, someone handed over a kettle, which seemed familiar.

But Jin Huanming's heart had already been put back in his stomach, he didn't think about it, he just bowed his neck slightly, and let people wait and drink two more sips.

He was so tired that he fell asleep again.

A sergeant next to him looked at Jin Huanming and stabbed him in the car with a scabbard, but when he saw that there was no response, he said with a smile:

"Master Lu, at this time, our hearts are the same as General Jin's - finally in our stomachs!"

The atmosphere on the trail immediately came alive, and another person said, "Not really! I thought that the membership fee would be a lot of twists and turns, and if I couldn't get it right, I would have to use the Tang Army in Crested City. Who knew that they were so obedient, and they acted according to our wishes step by step, and almost gave us a city guard! ”

"Pastor Lu, if we succeed on the 14th, we only have nine days to hurry, and we are still in a hurry. But in this way, it is much more relaxed, almost half a month's work. ”

"Now our Longxing Ranch should be as famous as Tianshan Mu, after receiving Chang'an Feixin for twelve days, Longxing Ranch did not hurt a single person, and captured Jin Huanming, the guard of Iron Urn City! I think Shang Shuling should be satisfied. ”

Listening to the gossip of his subordinates, Pastoral Supervisor Lu Xiaoyu was not idle, and the next thing was the aftermath. The identity of the Iron Urn City was also shown to them, and the broken flag of the Iron Urn City was also thrown to them, and there was another good show to watch next.

And Lu Xiaoyu felt that Gao Chengxiang, who was still in the Iron Urn City at this time, should make good use of it.

As for Jin Huanming, Lu Xiaoyu suddenly had a whimsical and considered whether he could send fresh goods to Chang'an. It seems that this is not against the orders of the tall man.

It's just that in this way, the originally very loose time is not enough, and it adds variables.

……

The office of Shangshu Province is the largest of all the official offices in Chang'an City.

It is located in the imperial city, almost in the center, reflecting the importance and authority of Shangshu Province.

This is the core area of the government, on its east, west and south sides, there are also some other very important government agencies, the west is the general supervisor, the south is the Taichang Temple, the Honglu Temple, and the north is the Chengtianmen of the Taiji Palace across a street.

After the early dynasty, the heads of the six departments of the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Industry, and the Ministry of Punishment would all step out of the Chengtianmen Gate and gather here, because the six Yamen were all concentrated here.

After the street, the open flat field outside Shangshu Province is paved with lotus bricks, and the patterns are full of flowers.

The new Shangshu Ling Gao Jun would stand on these square bricks printed with lotus motifs and look back after each retreat from the dynasty.

His gaze can cross the tall palace wall of Taiji Palace, the majestic and solemn Daming Palace in the northeast and on the Longshou Plain.

The northeast is "Gen", "mountain", and "authority", which is the most powerful place in the Tang Empire.

Shangshu Province, on the other hand, is a tool that can be flexibly loaded and unloaded at any time in the imperial authority.

——Equipped with the festival, you can spread the will of the Tang Dynasty to the Quartet, where you don't tame, you can put on the axe, immediately murderous, the officials are in charge of the officials, the household is in charge of the people, the Ministry of Rites has the general gentleness of Sanchun, and the Criminal Department has the same purge and Xiao killing.

The tall walls of the Shangshu Provincial Government are also different from other places, and the tiles on the top are also printed with lotus patterns, and each long strip of green brick used to build the wall is pressed with a clear handprint by the billet maker when it is fired.

This is called a handprint brick, which is unique to Shangshu Province.

Where there are privileges, there are people who stretch out their hands, some of them ask for benefits with their palms up, some of them grab them with their palms downward, and some of them pinch with two fingers and three fingers to pinch.

Gao Jun thought that these handprint bricks were a warning, and those ubiquitous lotus patterns were a silent warning to all the officials who came and went here.

This should be the most well-behaved place, and it is also the same on the surface from Gao Jun's point of view, the officials in the various yamen are busy, doing official business, and they generally don't go back after lunch, but put a game of chess on the bookcase, and the sound of falling children can be heard clearly.

But why does His Majesty the Emperor still hint at "rules" from time to time? This should be the emperor's primary concern.

And Gao Jun believes that he belongs to a place like Xizhou, he likes to be eclectic, he doesn't like to be constrained, and he is simply far from the rules.

He must have liked the pastures more than the places in Shangshu Province. And he felt that since he entered Chang'an, it seemed that even the charcoal fire had been treated a little badly - it had not been galloping to its fullest for a long time.

Gao Jun set a rule for himself first, less fingers and less orders, especially in front of those old qualified scholars.

For example, Liu Dewei, the secretary of the Criminal Department, is almost sixty-seven years old this year, and this person led his troops to the Tang Dynasty in the first year of Wude, and awarded the general Zuo Wuhou, and later served as Sima of Bingzhou, Governor of Yizhou, Yongzhou Farewell, Tongzhou Thorn History, Dali Temple Shaoqing, Qing, and Loose Cavalry Chang Attendant.

In front of such an old qualification with a blind resume, Gao Jun, who is only in his twenties, even if he is a second-class Shangshuling, his respect for Liu Dewei is also from the heart.

Liu Dewei is famous for his honesty and integrity, and he should also pay the most attention to the rules, otherwise he is almost old and old, and it is impossible for him to still hold a high position.

People like Liu Dewei, as well as Tang Jian, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and the Ministry of Household (the official name is the Ministry of the People, although it is the emperor's offense, but for some reason, the official has always been called the Ministry of the People. However, the ministers are used to being called the household department) Shangshu and the Ministry of Industry Shangshu are not young.

Counting it on your fingers like this, if you add Li Shichang, the squire of the military department, among the six departments of Shangshu Province, it is indeed a little old-fashioned. Therefore, Gao Jun also set a rule for himself, that is, to study more.

The emperor asked Gao Jun to come to the position of Shang Shuling, in addition to the superficial reason of "opening the style of the six ministries", Gao Jun believed that it was extremely important for him to learn and familiarize himself with the essence of the six ministries, accumulate experience, and discover the wrongs.

After the family moved to Chang'an, Gao Jun found that the happiest in the family were the sisters Lirong and Lilan, followed by Xie Jinlian, and they seemed to have improved their temperament.

And Fan Ying, Siqing, Cui Yan and others have not changed much at least in their attitudes, especially Liu Yuru, who has a vigilance against authority and power in her bones, and a heart of precaution, until she became the secretary of the Ministry of War, has always been very heavy, and it is just