"Quick, surround the inn, you can't let any of it go!" After Li Hongyu and his party entered Black Mountain Town, a burly Qianhu in the lead gave an order to the cavalry behind him.

Since Li Hongyu's identity is kept secret, it is up to the burly Qianhu to be in charge in public.

This thousand-household name is Niu Lei, who participated in the battle of Shimen Mountain, and was only a hundred-household at the time, but because of the accumulated military exploits, he directly crossed the deputy thousand-household and was promoted to a thousand-household.

Li Hongyu followed behind Niu Lei expressionlessly, his current identity is Niu Lei's subordinate, so naturally he can't behave sharply, so as not to cause accidents.

After all, Ganzhou City is close to the Western Regions, and the personnel are complicated, once Li Hongyu's identity is leaked, it is inevitable that there will be people with bad intentions.

For the enemies of the Ming Dynasty in the Western Regions, if they can capture or kill the Taibao of the Ming Dynasty, it will definitely be a very happy thing.

Li Hongyu came to the Western Regions this time under the banner of escorting the prison army to the Western Expeditionary Army to take office, and the identity of the supervisor was an imperial historian of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and Li Hongyu's forbidden army soldiers were his guards.

The so-called prison army is naturally a character made up by Li Hongyu, and one of his guards pretends to be a guard, and the guard looks decent when he wears the official robe of a civilian official.

Anyway, the Ming Dynasty has always had the habit of sending eunuchs to supervise the army, although the Emperor of the Apocalypse likes to use eunuchs, but generally speaking, there are more cases of civilian officials supervising the army.

Because Li Hongyu's subordinates are five big and three coarse, pretending to be eunuchs is not like anything at all, and he can't really take a eunuch with him, so he turned the prison army into a civilian official.

The status of the prison army is noble and should not be reckless, so he stayed in Ganzhou City and did not come to Black Mountain Town with Li Hongyu.

Although there are often troop movements in Shishan Town's vicinity of Ganzhou City, it is the first time that the people in the town have encountered such a cavalry town with strict military discipline and strict behavior.

In particular, these cavalrymen wore military uniforms of different styles from the Shaanxi Xingdu Division's army, which attracted the attention of the people in the town, and they flocked to the streets to watch the excitement, pointing and discussing at those forbidden cavalry, secretly guessing their identities.

Soon, the vanguard of the forbidden cavalry arrived at the inn in the town, and quickly surrounded the inn three floors inside and three layers outside, prohibiting anyone from entering or leaving.

Not only that, the cavalry of the forbidden army also confiscated the weapons of the Zhang family and the right guard soldiers of Ganzhou in the courtyard of the inn, and ignored their arguments, and took Steward Zhang, Yang Baihu and others into custody.

"Princess, why are you here?"

Li Hongyu quickly followed Lei Lei into the courtyard, and saw Zhu Huiyuan in the hall, who was dressed as a man, and was relieved to see that Zhu Huiyuan was safe and sound, and stepped forward with concern and asked, "They didn't hurt you, did they?" ”

"No, how can these thieves hurt this palace!" Zhu Huiyuan smiled and replied disappreciatively, she knew that Li Hongyu would come to save her as soon as possible.

"Gong ...... Princess? ”

Zhang Ergongzi, who was curled up on the ground sideways and was looking at Li Hongyu and the others suspiciously, suddenly went blank when he heard this, and looked at Zhu Huiyuan with a shocked face, how could the princess come to such a bitter cold place in the northwest?

"My lord, what should I do with this person?" The next moment, a scene that surprised Zhang Ergongzi appeared, Niu Lei, who was wearing a thousand household costumes, actually bowed his hand to Li Hongyu, who was wearing a hundred household costumes, glanced at him and asked for instructions in a deep voice.

"This person already knows the identity of the princess, and sends someone to watch him, and it is strictly forbidden to contact anyone."

Since Zhang Ergongzi, who was beaten into a pig's head, failed to take advantage of Zhu Huiyuan, Li Hongyu didn't want to make a big deal out of it, so he said after a deep sigh.

Niu Lei waved his hand when he heard this, and the two cavalrymen stuffed a ball of rags into Zhang Ergongzi's mouth to prevent him from shouting, and then dragged him out with his arms and a whining sound from his mouth.

"What the hell is going on?" After Zhang Ergongzi was taken away, Li Hongyu asked Zhu Huiyuan without doubts, the person who went to report the news did not know the reason for the incident, only knew that Zhang Ergongzi wanted to be unfavorable to Zhu Huiyuan.

"Back to Li Taibao, this second son of the Zhang family is a local tyrant, thinking that we are rich businessmen who came from other places to do business, so they came to blackmail, using both soft and hard, intimidation and threats."

Hearing this, Lu'er, who was standing behind Zhu Huiyuan, couldn't help but say angrily, "The princess naturally won't pay attention to him, but he actually saw the princess's daughter, so he spoke lightly and was ordered by the princess to teach him a lesson." ”

"This person is bold and reckless, it seems that he does a lot of things to bully men and women and do evil things on weekdays!" Li Hongyu's brows immediately frowned when he heard this, and he knew that this second son of Zhang must be very angry in the local area.

"Li Taibao, according to the news that the maid inquired, the Zhang family is a local wang family, half of the land in the town belongs to their family, and the elder sister of the Zhang family is the mother of the commander of the right guard in Ganzhou, and the two families have a close relationship, and no one dares to provoke the Zhang family in the local area."

Lu'er was deeply impressed by Li Hongyu's words, and said coldly, "Those soldiers outside are the people of the Ganzhou Right Guard Yamen, if the princess falls into their hands, the consequences will definitely be unimaginable." ”

"Don't worry, princess, this official will definitely seek justice for you."

Li Hongyu's eyes flashed when he heard this, and then he bowed to Zhu Huiyuan and said solemnly, although Zhu Huiyuan called him "Brother Li" in private, he would definitely be respectful to him in front of outsiders.

"Since Li Taibao has spoken, then the palace is waiting for good news." Zhu Huiyuan smiled when she heard this, which can make the Taibao of the Ming Dynasty worry about it, and you can be regarded as a bad luck for eight lifetimes in this Zhang family.

"By the way, princess, why did you come to Ganzhou? Does the emperor know about this? Li Hongyu doesn't care about the Zhang family, although the Zhang family is the overlord of Black Mountain Town, it is not worth mentioning in front of him, and he now wants to know if Zhu Huiyuan sneaked over.

"I left a letter to the imperial brother and the queen mother, saying that I wanted to come to see the scenery and people of the Western Regions, and the imperial brother naturally knew about it." Zhu Huiyuan flashed her bright eyes slyly when she heard this, and replied with a smile.

Li Hongyu suddenly had a bitter smile in his heart when he heard this, Zhu Huiyuan really came secretly from Emperor Chongzhen, which made him feel a little headache.

He naturally knew that Zhu Huiyuan came to the northwest to see him, but Zhu Huiyuan was a dignified princess of the Ming Dynasty, how could she leave the capital and be in danger, after all, the northwest is not a peaceful place like the capital, and God knows when an armed conflict will break out.

"Princess, Taibao, Zhang Yaoxiang, the gentry of Montenegro Town, Zhang Yuanwai, came to visit."

When Li Hongyu was thinking about how to explain Zhu Huiyuan's matter to Emperor Chongzhen, a cavalryman came quickly to report that this Zhang Yaoxiang was the father of Zhang Ergongzi, the famous Master Zhang of Black Mountain Town.

Zhang Yaoxiang had been paying attention to the progress of the situation in the inn, and suddenly heard that the cavalry of the forbidden army from the capital had surrounded the inn and controlled Steward Zhang, Yang Baihu and others, and immediately realized that something was wrong, and knew that Zhang Ergongzi had hit the iron plate this time, so he didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly came to inquire about the news.

Don't look at Zhang Yaoxiang's martial arts in Black Mountain Town, he knows very well that there are many people in this world that he can't afford to provoke, and this time Zhang Ergongzi met obviously one of them.

"He came just in time, and it saves the official from sending someone to arrest him."

Li Hongyu saw Zhang Yaoxiang, sneered and then ordered Niu Lei in a deep voice, "Arrest him, and send someone to raid his home, he just does evil on weekdays, and he actually ran into the princess, it is really an unforgivable crime!" ”

Niu Lei bowed to Li Hongyu when he heard this, walked away quickly, and arranged the house raid according to Li Hongyu's instructions.

"Li Taibao, is this something wrong?" Zhu Huiyuan is still a girl after all, and when she saw this, she couldn't help but ask, feeling that Li Hongyu was a little heavy, after all, it was Zhang Ergongzi who offended her, and she didn't want to implicate others too much.

"Princess, the Shaanxi Xingdu Division is the rear of the Western Expeditionary Army to conquer the Western Regions, but now the Shaanxi Xingdu Division, which has 100,000 troops, only has half of the troops, and it is already thankful that the old, weak, sick and disabled can get forty percent of the usable soldiers."

Li Hongyu knew Zhu Huiyuan's worries, so he pondered for a while and then said, "The situation in the northwest is complicated, and it has always been a place for the royal army to be used, but now the commander of the Shaanxi Xingdu is very disappointed, so the official wants to take advantage of this matter to rectify the Shaanxi Xingdu Division and make it a solid rear of the Western Expeditionary Army!" ”

"Don't worry, the princess will not implicate the innocent, and if the people of the Zhang family are not guilty, the official will release them." As he spoke, Li Hongyu bowed to Zhu Huiyuan and comforted him.

"I see!" Only then did Zhu Huiyuan understand Li Hongyu's intentions, and her face couldn't help but show a look of sudden realization, it turned out that Li Hongyu's target was Shaanxi Xingdu Division.

Obviously, the Zhang family's misdeeds in Montenegro Town must be related to the indulgence of the local guard yamen, and the capital and the executive capital of the Ming Dynasty not only manage official and military affairs but also manage local civil affairs, and must have secretly colluded with the Zhang family to support the Zhang family.

Therefore, as long as Li Hongyu wants to investigate, then the dirty things of the local guard yamen, especially the right guard of Ganzhou, will definitely be exposed to the world, and Li Hongyu will be able to attack the Shaanxi Xingdu Division.

In Li Hongyu's opinion, the capital divisions and the Xingdu divisions in the Ming Dynasty have now reached the point of complete rectification, but this matter is too involved, even if the Emperor of the Apocalypse is alive, he will not be allowed to do so.

Because this is bound to make the military affairs of the Ming Dynasty fall into a turbulent period, which is not what the emperors are willing to see, especially now, there are rebellious people in the Ming Dynasty, and there are Houjin tigers eyeing the outside, and the army must not be chaotic.

Li Hongyu's idea is just the opposite, instead of dragging this matter down and making the Ming army in various places weak in combat and embarrassing in the future, it is better to take advantage of the fact that the situation in the Ming Dynasty is still stable and make up his mind to reform the Ming army, otherwise the matter will get worse and worse.

With the death of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, reforming the army of the Great Ming Guard became a luxury in Li Hongyu's eyes, because the young Emperor Chongzhen was simply unable to cope with the chain reaction brought about by this incident, making the situation worse and worse.

However, Li Hongyu can attack the Shaanxi Xingdu Division, after all, the Shaanxi Xingdu Division is the rear of the Western Expeditionary Army, and it is located in a remote place in the Ming Dynasty, Li Hongyu has sufficient reasons to rectify the Shaanxi Xingdu Division, and at the same time, it will not trigger a big backlash from the court.

Of course, although Li Hongyu is the Taibao of the Ming Dynasty, he has no intention of changing the cantonment system, which will inevitably cause an uproar in the court, but he has a flexible method.

The reason why the local guards of the Ming Dynasty will gradually erode is because the power of the guards yamen is too great, not only the military management yamen but also the civil affairs management agency, which makes the military attaches of the guards and yamen do whatever they want.

Therefore, Li Hongyu was ready to reduce the pressure on the yamen of the guard, and only gave him the power of military management, and handed over the management of civil affairs to the Shaanxi Xingdu Division for unified deployment.

In other words, the military households belonging to the guards of the Yamen of the Shaanxi Xingdu Division will no longer be managed by the local guards, but will be handed over to the military attachés sent by the Yamen of the Shaanxi Xingdu Division to the various guards.

In this way, the military attaches of those guards could not exploit and squeeze the military households, and this was the biggest contradiction in the local guard offices, and it was precisely because the military households were exploited by officers at all levels that they fled and were passively trained, so that their combat effectiveness became weaker and weaker.

The matter of the second son of the Zhang family this time gave Li Hongyu an excellent reason to take action against the Shaanxi Xingdu Division, as long as he took the opportunity to find out the dirty things in the various health offices under the Shaanxi Xingdu Division, then he could rectify it in a grand manner.

(End of chapter)