More than a month later, the assassination case of Komatsurin was announced to have been solved, and no less than 1,000 people were implicated in the case and executed, including more than 300 people with names, surnames, and official positions. Duyu Marquis Yan Su and Li Mansion Chef Zhu San were punished as the culprit, and the assassin Ni Ren was still at peace despite his death, and his body was beheaded and then chopped into meat sauce with an axe.

Li Mao, the deputy envoy of the Qing Navy and the Qing Navy, was promoted to the deputy envoy of the Jie Du and the Inner Courtyard Army and the Soldiers and Horses because of his meritorious service in rescuing the Jiedu Envoy, and he was also the deputy envoy of the Soldiers and Horses, but the gold content of the Deputy Envoy of the Inner Courtyard Army and Horses was much higher than that of the Qing Navy. Like the deputy envoy of the Qing Navy, Li Mao's deputy envoy of the Inner Court is only a post, and his own position is still that of the Jiefu Guard.

Jiedu Charge Ya is in charge of the affairs of the house, and has the right to inquire about every detail, and in Ziqing, a non-Jie Du makes confidants and cronies unable to fill it, which is subdivided into a post and a full-time guard. Li Mao took the post and often served as a close general to the official, expressing his closeness, but he was not actually in charge of affairs in the house, Li Mao took the festival when he was the town envoy of Gushan Town, at that time he did not say that he was in charge of the house, and he did not even enter the gate of the Jiedu Embassy.

The full-time guards are different, and they are in charge of their own affairs in the government according to the division of labor.

It is still a mystery to Li Mao how many guards there are in the Jiedu Embassy, and there are sixteen people he can know, twelve of whom are in charge of the government, and there are four full-time officials including him, all of whom are Xue Yingying, Li Changshan and Li Yacheng. The name of the capital is the commander of the Zhuab Ya, but in fact he only has the power to take the lead in the work, and the Zhuab Ya only obeys the orders of the Jiedu envoy.

Li Mao resigned from the post of steward of Komatsu Forest and replaced Gao Mu as the picket discipline officer of the shogunate, such as Jiedu, Observation, Zhidu, Yingtian, and Oshifan. Those who picket the discipline of the army are the marquis of the army, and those who picket the discipline of local officials have a master book in the county, a record of things to join the army in the prefecture, and a patrol officer at the provincial level. The imperial court also regularly or irregularly dispatched inspectors to inspect the imperial history, and the independence of Ziqing was very strong, and the majesty of the imperial history of the imperial court could not shake the heads of Ziqing officials. For this reason, as early as the last years of Li Zheng's administration, he created the post of picket discipline officer to replace the supervision of the imperial history, picket the discipline of officials in 12 prefectures and 72 counties of Ziqing, and investigate and handle major and vicious cases under the authorization of Li Zheng.

Because the powers and responsibilities of the picket officer (picketing discipline officer) are the same as those of supervising the imperial history, all those who serve as this official are invited by the presiding officer of each prefecture to confer the imperial history position, depending on the level of seniority, to serve the imperial history, to serve the imperial history in the palace, or to supervise the imperial history.

Li Mao's official is the left Jin Wuwei right middle marquis, is under the seventh grade, this time and made a great contribution, Li Shigu for his performance to award the post of serving the imperial history, serving the imperial history from the six products, is considered to be the return of Li Mao's life-saving grace.

Promoted, political status and living conditions have improved, but the status of the picketers in the shogunate is not high, and they can barely sit at the same seat with the inspectors and other subordinates, but the status and power are not completely synchronized many times, although the status of the picket is low and the power is very heavy, Li Mao's predecessor Gao Mu ranked fifth in the military government, but his power overshadowed the deputy envoy, the marching Sima, the Duzhi soldiers and horses, and the Duzhi Ya, etc., and became the actual second person in the Ziqing Jiedu Embassy.

One of the very important reasons is that he also holds the position of picketer, after the assassination of Xiaosonglin, the capital of Yaxue Hero, the Marquis of Duyu Yan Kun and the internal army soldiers and horses, and the deputy envoy have the right to investigate, but Li Shigu authorized Gao Mu to lead the investigation and handling of the case, the reason is that in addition to Gao Mu is his confidant, the main reason is that Gao Mu also holds the position of a picket, and his status is independent and detached.

Gao Mu took the opportunity of investigating the assassination of Xiao Songlin to eliminate dissidents and consolidate his position as the number two in the Jiedu Embassy. Now it seems that his position is extremely consolidated, and the entire Ziqing can't find a second person to replace him.

Gao Mu was promoted to the patrol envoy of the various armies for his meritorious service in handling the Xiaosonglin case, and became one of the core decision-making levels of the Ziqing military and government. At this moment, there is no doubt that the power of the picket officer is too heavy, and he does not want to give his opponent an excuse to slander, so he takes the initiative to resign, and at the same time solemnly promotes Li Mao to Li Shigu.

Li Mao has a shallow foundation, a clear background, strong ability, and has the merit of the Savior, has been fully trusted and appreciated by Li Shigu, and will be reused in the future, Gao Mu did this not only to sell Li Mao a great favor, so as to consolidate the secret alliance relationship that has been formed between the two, but also to avoid the core key positions falling into the hands of political enemies, and bring threats to themselves. It's a win-win-win-win

And for Li Shigu, it is taboo not to reward merit, Li Mao sacrificed his life to savior has been rumored, if he does not reward him, who will be willing to die for him in the future? Moreover, with Li Mao's qualifications and ability, he is not only worthy of serving as a picket, but also not becoming a hidden danger, with Gao Mu's prudence, he is willing to solemnly recommend to him, indicating that the relationship between the two is not very close, so he agreed.

Li Mao is also a picket officer of the five shogunates, but there is no duty room, the picket is concurrently held by other shogunates, when Gao Mu is also a picket, he works in the judge's room, Li Mao has a duty room in the small pine forest, but the military government has no place to live. Li Shigu asked the secretary Chen Jingsheng to clean up a few rooms for him, Chen Jingsheng was very dissatisfied with Gao Mu's use of the small pine forest case to remove dissidents, and his attitude towards Li Mao, who was recommended by Gao Mu, was also very cold, he asked people to clean up a few rooms where the sundries were stored, painted them, and handed them over to Li Mao after separating the road wall from the secretary's room. Chen Jingsheng entered the shogunate because of his talent and learning, and his status in the shogunate was detached, and he was a figure acceptable to all factions.

Li Mao was implicated for no reason, and he couldn't tell the bitterness. Li Shigu heard that Chen Jingsheng only gave Li Mao three rooms, so he smiled and asked Li Changshan to come forward and allocate a two-entry small courtyard belonging to the Inner Courtyard Army to Li Mao. Li Mao now has a decent place to stay.

There is no plaque at the door of the picket office, and there is no other sign, it looks deserted, Li Changshan specially assigned four guards to take turns to be stationed in the twelve hours of the day, and Xue Yingying also assigned four guards to be stationed in the gatehouse to listen to the call.

Pickets are not set up officials, but temporary envoys, like many other envoys, have the right to recruit assistants to form the shogunate to exercise their duties, according to the practice of the Ziqing shogunate, the public shogunate with heavier powers and responsibilities (the so-called public shogunate is the envoy sent by the imperial court such as the Jiedu envoy, such as the Jiedu judge of the Jiedu Envoy, the observation of the observation of the envoy, etc.) can set up their own bureaucracy, and the hired bureaucracy is commonly known as the private shogunate, although it cannot be like the public shogunate to request the imperial court to confer officials, but there are also a number of registered in the shogunate system, When the conditions are ripe, they can be transferred, and they can even be transferred to public officials.

Although the status of the picketer is not high, the power and responsibility are very heavy, and he can set up his own staff according to the rules. Li Mao hired Zheng Xiaozhang as the head of the firm, Hu Nanxiang as the important member, and Qingmo and Mo Qi Shentong as the driving officials, and initially set up his own team in the heart of Ziqing.

The official was promoted too quickly, but Li Mao's mind was clearer than ever. At the beginning of his tenure, he locked himself in his room and spent five full days reviewing the case files left by his predecessors. The position of picketer was created in the late reign of Li Zheng, when Ziqing's power reached its peak, dominating 15 states, with 120,000 troops and 8,000 horses, making it the first feudal town in the world.

At that time, the imperial court in Chang'an had not yet risen from the ruins of the Anshi Rebellion, and in the face of Li Zhengji's expansion, he could only let it go, blindly appeased, invincible outside, long-term internal worries, the soldiers were famine, morale declined, and the bureaucracy was full of ills.