Chunze Prison had just killed someone, and he must have been unsettled, so Li Buqi was in a hurry to go back to stabilize people's hearts. When Bianliang's affairs were properly arranged, he was ready to go back to Chunze Prison. Before going back, he entered the palace as usual and asked Zhao Zhen if he had anything to explain, but the emperor repeated the same old tune.

"Don't give up. Nowadays, more and more people have written in unison to call for the Zhenwu army to send troops to eliminate the bandits. It can be seen that the Zhenwu Army is deeply anticipated. I thought that I couldn't let the people down, and I should let the Zhenwu army go out as soon as possible. ”

This emperor is really soft-eared, and Li Buqi had to reiterate again: "Your Majesty, the minister remembers something." The Zhenwu Army is His Majesty's private army, which was set up to guard the test site, and it is unreasonable to send it to suppress bandits. ”

"Heaven is a selfless business. I can't hold a strong army and not eliminate harm for the people. ”

"The minister said last time that the Zhenwu army has not been trained yet."

"However, the Privy Council believes that the sergeants and leaders of the Zhenwu Army were originally selected by the Xiang Army, and they have the strength to fight. And with a command like you, two people who can capture dozens of bandits, a little bit of thieves is not to worry about. But there are also those who think that the new army is flashy and breaks the rules of the ancestors, so I also want to see if they can go into battle. ”

Huh, Privy Council? That's not Han Qi in charge now. They are really good at it, some people say that the new army is strong, some people say that the new army is good-looking, and the success makes Zhao Zhen also puzzled. In this situation, it is really difficult for Li Buqi to shirk.

So Li Buqi said: "The minister said last time that intelligence should be the first thing to catch thieves. The most difficult thing to catch a thief is not to catch the thief with open fire, but to distinguish who the thief is and determine where the thief is, without which the thief cannot be caught? Therefore, the minister suggested that His Majesty should set up a special person to raise the matter of arresting thieves and intelligence. Now that the Department of Thieves has not yet been established, the minister guesses that now the Privy Council does not even know where the thief is, so it will send troops to catch the thief, but where will the thief go? ”

Zhao Zhen listened to Li Buqi's tone relaxed, and hurriedly said, "This needs to be discussed with the Privy Council." He immediately sent an edict for Han Qi and Fu Bi to meet.

Not long after, Han Qi and Fu Bi, two privy envoys, came to the Chongzheng Palace, and the emperor said: "I just talked to Bu Qi about sending the Zhenwu army to suppress the bandits, but I didn't give up but said that I didn't know where the thieves were, and it was useless to send troops, and I don't know if the Privy Council had any information about bandits?" ”

Han Qi immediately said: "The whereabouts of the bandits everywhere are controlled by the local government, as long as the Zhenwu army is sent over, it will naturally be able to be captured in one fell swoop." ”

The Emperor nodded yes. Li Buqi saw that the emperor was confused again, and immediately spoke: "I don't know what the privy council said about how the various officials have mastered the whereabouts of the bandits?" Do you know which village the bandits are in, or do you only know that the bandits are in the state and county? Did you find out the whereabouts of the bandits, or did you only know where the bandits committed the crime? If you only know that bandits are infested in states and counties, it is only one county, not to mention that tens of thousands of troops can surround it, and my Zhenwu army has only one command, and a part of it will be assigned to guard the test site, but there are not so many people to give you rabbits all over the mountains. ”

"If the government only knows the location of the thief's crime, by the time the army arrives, the thief may have run to another road, but the lower officials don't know what to do at this time."

Han Qi immediately said, "The whereabouts of the thieves will naturally be investigated by the government. The proving ground can be guarded by additional troops. Suppressing bandits is a major matter to solve the people's urgent difficulties, why did Li Tiju shirk this? ”

Li Buqi said with a smile: "There are a lot of good things in the testing ground, can the privy council guarantee that the transfer of an army from elsewhere can guarantee that the secret will not be revealed?" The Privy Counsellor dared to assure that the person who made this suggestion to the Privy Counsel did not want to spy on the secrets of the proving ground? If the privy councillor dares to guarantee it, then I will let others guard this testing ground. ”

Who can guarantee this? In particular, high-ranking officials do not have direct contact with the specific units under the army, so how do they know what kind of goods will be sent to guard the test site in the future. So no one raised this question, Han Qi could bully the emperor nine times out of ten I couldn't think of it, but Li Buqi made this matter clear, Han Qi really didn't dare to guarantee it.

Seeing that Han Qi didn't speak, Li Buqi said again: "And it's not that the officials shirked the matter of arresting and stealing, but that this matter is unreasonable." The Privy Council was probably not familiar with the matter of catching thieves, nor was he familiar with the geography of Gyeonggi. The privy council knew that most of the land in Gyeonggi was flat, and there were no mountains and rivers for thieves to hide. Therefore, the big thieves have no danger to rely on, and they are all on the run. In one state today, it may be in that state tomorrow, and if it is not immediately surrounded after discovery, it will be lost the next day. ”

"Xiaguan, may I ask the privy councillor, in this case, if you find the traces of the thief, send someone to report the news, and the Zhenwu army will gallop hundreds of miles to the place where the thief's trace is found, a day or two is not too much, right? What is the Privy Secret's way to keep the thieves in the area until the Zhenwu army arrives? This can't be said to be a delay in the fighter, but a deliberate arson. Shouldn't it be more appropriate to mobilize the nearby forbidden army and the box army to encircle and suppress after discovering the thief's traces? ”

The emperor is actually not stupid, but he is just locked up in the deep palace all day long and does not understand the world. Listening to Li Buqi's reasoning with facts, he also found that the Privy Council's reasoning did not make sense. This, it seems a bit of a dump.

But Han Qi is an important minister, and the emperor still has to rely on him to reform, seeing Han Shumi's face turning pale when he gave Li Buqi a lesson, he hurriedly played a round: "Well, it makes sense not to give up." I will let the Privy Council take a closer look. Well, since that's the case, so be it. ”

Coming out of the Chongzheng Palace, Han Qi, who had mocked Li Buqi, returned to the duty room in a huff. But Han Qi worked hard to cultivate his qi, and quickly calmed down and summed up his experience. Judging from today's events, it is no longer possible to deal with Li Buqi in the same way as ordinary officers - how can ordinary officers have the opportunity to see the emperor from time to time, and they can still debate with the privy envoy face-to-face, and they can be sent to the battlefield as cannon fodder with just a piece of order.

However, Li Buqi's humiliation of Han Qi today made Han Qi more determined to kill Li Buqi, as long as you are involved with the army, the privy envoy has 10,000 ways to kill you; Even if that Zhenwu army is not under the control of the Privy Council, the Privy Envoy will have a hundred ways to kill you.

Here, Li Buqi saw that the emperor no longer mentioned the matter of letting the Zhenwu army suppress the bandits, and obviously changed his mind, so that the Zhenwu army won another training time. He was in a good mood and took Tao Lin on horseback to rush back to Chunze Prison. When I returned to Chunzejian, I had to try new toys, so I was in a hurry, and I couldn't wait.

Running for about twenty miles, there were few pedestrians on the road. Li Buqi saw that there was a forest in front of him, so he took out a small crossbow from his horse bag, put on a wrench and hung the crossbow on the string, and was looking for the birds in the trees on the side of the road to try the crossbow, when he suddenly heard two bowstrings behind the trees on the roadside, and glimpsed two cold lights flying towards him.

He hurriedly shrank his body, hid behind the horse, and heard a wail from the red horse and jumped violently. Li Buqi hurriedly threw off the stirrup and was thrown to the ground. Don't dare to slack off, and climb behind the roadside tree under the cover of the jumping jujube red horse. Seeing that Tao Lin had already urged the horse to rush forward, he shouted "who", and then the small crossbow in his hand was raised, and a miserable scream came from the woods. Then Tao Lin did not stop, and the horse rushed over, and an arrow flew out of the woods to infest Tao Lin's cloak.