The first yamen on the south side of the inner street of Xi'an Gate in the imperial city is the salary division in the 24 yamen of the internal officials. It seems to be just a small place that manages the supply of firewood and charcoal in the palace, but every winter in the palace, more than 20 million catties of charcoal are used, and everything is taken from here, so it can be regarded as a high-status yamen. However, all this is not as good as the holy decree that has just been issued before, not long ago, this Ming Dynasty factory guard's newly built insider factory was located in this salary department.

In the old days, several warehouses for storing red basket charcoal and horsewood were vacated for use as prison cells, and among those who were strong enough to carry firewood and charcoal, Qian Ning selected dozens of them to be used as internal factory servants. These are all brought up by him, and he can't be said to be loyal, but he is as light and dexterous as his fingers. At this moment, he walked to the front of a room, stood for a moment, and then asked the little fireman who was watching the chalk, "Are you still honest?" ”

"Lord Hui, I'm already honest." The little fireman glanced at the locked door, then lowered his eyelids and said, "He scolded very hard at first, and then the little one scared him, saying that there is nothing to kill and humiliate when he enters the inner factory. Carefully carry ten or eight toilets into it, let him taste it! ”

Most of the scholars and doctors looked down on the eunuchs, and the eunuchs, except for a few people who respected the scholars, most of them also looked down on these civil officials who kept talking about one set of words. Therefore, Qian Ning heard this little fireman say this, raised his eyebrows, didn't say anything, and after ordering someone to open the padlock, he entered the house with his hands behind his back.

It is said that it is a prison cell, and the houses here in the inner factory are all warehouses and reconstructions, and there are not a few prisoners, so it is naturally not as gloomy as the edict of Fusi or Dongchang in Beizhen. It's like the house where Li Mengyang is locked up now, there are three full rooms, separated from the inside and outside, and hung with thick cotton curtains, but there is not much furniture at first glance, but it is no different from an ordinary house.

"It's kind, and I still have time to compose poetry in this place."

Qian Ning entered the east house, stood behind Li Mengyang for a while, and found that he was splashing ink on a piece of paper by himself, and a seven-word poem must be completed overnight, so he said a word without smiling.

Seeing that people didn't react at all, he sat down on a chair next to him, sat with his feet crossed and looked east and west leisurely, and then said: "If you want to say that you are not wronged, you are a small foreigner from the fifth grade, and you have concocted such a chalky thing with one hand, and you have to go to the chalk book and Fu Que, and finally Liu Jian Xie Qian is the first to Shi, and the Han language is also rolled up and rolled up, and it is too unfair for you to hide in the household department safely." ”

"Fair? Do you know what fairness is? Li Mengyang was annoyed at this time, and after dropping the pen, he turned around, glared at Qian Ning viciously, and said: "If you want to be fair and have the ability, you can take down all the officials and chalkers of Fu Que before, unless you can overturn Yuan Fu, who led such a thing in the first place!" You don't let go of the upright military attache and don't know how to cherish the good achievements of the past, and you actually go to follow Liu Jin behind a eunuch and wagging his tail, a shameless villain! ”

didn't want Li Mengyang to be so sharp and sharp in this position, Qian Ning was suddenly furious. He used to be a person who had been coldly regarded for many years, but now although he is very popular, he will not rashly teach a lesson, and his eyes turned and he sneered.

"I'm a shameless villain, but what can you scholars do, when there is a change in the frontier, you will only point fingers and blindly command behind you, and if you are defeated, you will share the credit, and if you are defeated, you will be pushed to the top of the tank! It's like you, but you're sharp-tongued, how do you think you could get out of the way when you impeached Shou Ninghou before, it's not because the emperor who is still too chalky muttered that Shou Ninghou was doing too much, otherwise you think that the queen mother of the queen would be able to give up at that time? Beating Shou Ninghou on the street, you seem to be majestic, but if Shou Ninghou didn't give you a daze, so many people watched from the side, do you think you can get out of the way? ”…,

Speaking of this, Qian Ning saw that Li Mengyang's hair was trembling with anger, and then he said meaningfully: "It's like taking you to prison this time, do you think that Gonggong Liu is really going to take you under the knife?" What kind of thing are you, a guy who knows how to talk about people, Liu Gonggong can turn you into powder with one finger, even if you make an example, you are not qualified enough!

It's useless to be a scholar, but this scholar is also divided into three, six, chalk and nine, let me tell you the truth, Gonggong Liu has taken a fancy to your friend Kang Hai. He is the champion and a fellow villager of Gonggong Liu, and I heard that Wencai is good at hard work and has real materials, so Gonggong Liu just wanted to lead him to the chalk gate to work. You also wrote that note yourself and passed it on, thinking I didn't know. Tut, my inner factory has a limited number of prison rooms, and the people who are locked up are all important people, and there is no spare place to lock you up, as long as Kang Zhuangyuan is willing to come to the door, you can go! ”

After saying this, Qian Ning didn't look at Li Mengyang, who was blue-faced, and turned his back and left. When the door was locked again, he glanced back at the dead room, and then chuckled disdainfully.

It just so happened that Li Mengyang and Xu Xun didn't have any friendship at all, so he didn't have to scruple to offend Xu Xun. Helping Liu Jin do such a thing, he will be more comfortable in the inner factory in the future, and he is not afraid of the eunuchs who are not afraid of the salary department playing tricks, and this son will be able to be stable. The avant-garde commander of the government army seems to be good, but how many people are in charge and how much power he has, how can he compare to calling for wind and rain in the inner factory, everyone has to respect! He still has a shallow foundation, and neither of Xu Xun nor Liu Jin can be offended!

Isn't Li Mengyang just a sharp-tongued character, would he be afraid of this kind of character? If he said such a thing today, the kid who thought very highly of himself would inevitably have a big fight with Kang Hai because of this, so that Liu Jin could not only gently and skillfully take Kang Hai under his door, but Kang Hai might also be dead, and he could be regarded as a meritorious contribution. Otherwise, according to his previous personality, he would have hit the big-eared melon seeds just now.

Humming a small tune in his mouth, he happily returned to his signing room. He has never been very good at copywriting, and now he has only passed the materials he has sent a little, and he can finish it at a glance. At this moment, when he was picking up a document about the relationship between a man in the household department and considering whether to do another vote, there was a knock on the door outside, and he ordered to come in, and then a middle-aged eunuch entered the door.

Recognizing it as Liu Jin's closest confidant, the celebrant and attendant Wang Ning Qian Ning immediately stood up: "Oh, it's the prince, why are you here in person?" ”

Wang Ning smiled and greeted Qian Ning, and then took out a note from his sleeve: "Lord Qian, this is your charcoal in October, November and December this year." He handed over a slip from the Red Luo Factory with both hands, and when he saw that Qian Ning was a little stunned after taking it, he explained, "The emperor is sympathetic to the courtiers, so the family of this minister of civil and military affairs can receive red charcoal as a rule." Now you are in charge of the inner factory, so Liu Gonggong said that you can make an exception. ”

Seeing that Qian Ning suddenly realized, he added a few more words: "Lord Li, the cabinet assistant, and a cadre of scholars, military attachés, and several favored nobles, such as Pingbei Bo, there are always twenty or thirty people who have this honor, Lord Qian, you have a better winter." Red basket charcoal is no better than those ordinary goods fired by the folk charcoal factory, smokeless and tasteless, warm and forbidden, 100 catties a month, enough for your family. ”

After Qian Ning thanked him, he personally sent Wang Ning to the door. Although a hundred catties of charcoal may not seem to be worth a few dollars, it is something for the palace. He is now in the Salary Division, how can he not know the gold of this red basket of charcoal? So, he gathered the thin piece of paper in his sleeve and turned around to go back to the house, when a small fireman came running at the other side. …,

"Lord Qian, the emperor summoned you to enjoy the snow by the Taiye Pool in Xiyuan."

This kind of beautiful thing of appreciating the snow and plum blossoms has always been the favorite of literati and ink writers, Qian Ning thought that he knew all the words, read a few crooked poems, and was immediately happy and stunned when he heard the words. I followed the little eunuch all the way to the Ning Cui Pavilion on the edge of the Tai Liquid Pool, and saw that Zhu Houzhao was not in the pavilion, but was in the snow outside, with a pair of boards tied to his feet, and two wooden sticks in both hands, and Xu Xun on the side was also dressed in the same way, he was stunned for a long time, and couldn't help but ask suspiciously: "Your Majesty, what is this?" ”

"It's the skis that Xu Xun brought up, and I look better than what others have made up in the past. What are you still doing in a daze, hurry up and put on that pair of skis, just now Liu Jin Gu used them to try all of them, Liu Jin said that you are a military general, you might as well try it, Xu Xun also said that you are chalky...... What is a good balance, it should not be as bad as them! ”

Xu Xun saw Qian Ning hurriedly put on the snowboard, so he lightly tapped the ski poles, and after a beautiful arc, he chalked to Zhu Houzhao's side. After checking that the little emperor's various equipment was correct, he led the emperor to the ice surface of the Taiye Pool, which had been confirmed to be completely frozen, and he skated demonstratively for a while, and then returned to Zhu Houzhao's side.

Although Xu Xun's skis with their heads arched inward on both sides are somewhat different from those that Liu Jin and others got from Liaodong in the past, Zhu Houzhao is playful by nature, and has tried skiing before, and his initial actions are a little clumsy, but he has mastered the balance between them, although he does not come and go like the wind like Xu Xun, but the speed is also very fast. After sliding a long lap with a chalky face, he turned around and saw Qian Ning accidentally fall on the ice, he immediately laughed, slid back with a little snow pole, and looked at Qian Ning with a condescending smile.

"I can't learn your ability to open a bow left and right, but I didn't expect that your ability on the snow is nothing more than that!"

"The emperor smiled......"

The ice surface of Taiye Pool was frozen tightly, and now this place was the most slippery, Qian Ning took the boss's strength to stand up, and seeing that Xu Xun also followed, he smiled and made a demonstration, so he followed intently. Finally, he has always been very quick to get started with everything, and gradually he has some appearance, but he still can't catch up with the two in front of him. Seeing that Xu Xun led Zhu Houzhao and disappeared in a flash, he chased after him for a while, but finally simply turned around and slid back, and arrived in front of Liu Jin after a while.

"Father-in-law Liu, did the emperor learn this before? Although this pool of liquid is frozen, what if there are any ice holes......"

Liu Jin stretched his neck and looked at the two small black dots left in the compartment over there, and said angrily after a while: "It was the emperor who said that he wanted to ski, and found a few skis in the library in the past, but they were all rotten and rotten. On the pond, our family has asked the avant-garde people of the government army to try it in pieces, and the ice surface is indeed frozen. To say that the few who accompanied the emperor to ski in the past have been transferred elsewhere, otherwise how could our family specially ask people to call you here, didn't they want you to shine? ”

Brilliant turned into ugly, and Qian Ning was quite helpless. However, he also knew that this was Liu Jin's kindness, seeing that the old guy was wearing a thick mink fur, but he was still so cold that he shrunk his hands, he couldn't help but persuade people to go to the Ning Cui Pavilion to roast the fire, but Liu Jin didn't agree, and he could only let it go. After a full two quarters of an hour, he saw Xu Xun and Zhu Houzhao turn out from the north of Qionghua Island one after the other, and hurriedly greeted Liu Jin together.

"It's cool, it's good, it's good, Xu Xun, why did you bring the third mate into the palace!" …,

"Your Majesty, this thing has other uses besides play! In this snowy day, this thing is stronger than horses outside the plug, and the sentry detectives and so on are the most useful, if it weren't for Cao Qian mentioning it, the minister wouldn't have thought of doing this, and in a hurry, naturally only made three pairs. ”

Xu Xun sighed as he spoke, secretly thinking that when he was preparing to send Cao Qian and Xu Yanche Qi Jiliang out of Beijing, he couldn't help but think of skis, and thought that he could use this thing to give others an accident, who knew that Cao Qian immediately said that in front of the Yansui army, it was common for horse-drawn sleds to transport military rations and military supplies on heavy snowy days, and the sentinel teams in the army to the big side and the second border often used skis. Moreover, according to legend, this was learned from the Mongols, but compared to the Yima Pingchuan outside the Seychelles, the opportunity to use this thing in the Guannai is limited. Of course, the arched head and the raised chalk side of his own are certainly more advanced than the humble skis of today, but the craftsmanship is much more troublesome.

Just like the three pairs brought to the little emperor today, from the selection of materials to the handwork, it takes a lot of time and time!

"Oh, this can still be used for war?" Zhu Houzhao's eyes flickered for a while, and finally he said undoubtedly, "In this case, let the five hundred people with knives in the avant-garde of the Xiyuan Mansion Army have a pair of hands, and they will learn to ski in this Xiyuan first." This thing might be useful when you go on a different day! ”

Before Xu Xun could speak, Liu Jin was the first to respond: "Your Majesty, leave this matter to the slave and maid, and you must complete the things as soon as possible." ”

Since he had played and had fun, Liu Jin took over the matter of making these skis according to his own wishes, Zhu Houzhao happily returned to Ningcui Pavilion, and gave everyone hot tea, and warmed his body with a cup of belly, he looked at Liu Jin and said: "Liu Jin, I heard that you sent someone to check the old accounts in the household department again?" These were postponed for a while, and Gu Dayong and Qiu Jucai reported two big cases to me, one was that the two Huai Du transferred salt to resell salt without authorization, and he had already sent Luo Xiang to investigate; The other case was found out by Du Jin, the eunuch of the Linqing Banknote Pass, and the banknote customs were taxed separately from the northbound cargo ships, and the chalk was full of personal chalk. To say the least, the two cases involved tens of thousands of taels of silver, so you should quickly transfer some veterans to and from these two places. ”

Liu Jin was immediately surprised when he heard this, although he was also tempted by this big fortune, but it was his prestige to settle the accounts of the household department, and if he gave up halfway in a hurry, it would also damage his prestige. After hesitating for a moment, he was about to answer, but Qian Ning on the side had already answered first: "Your Majesty, if there is an account discrepancy in the treasury of the household department, it will not be tens of thousands of taels of silver, but at least more than 100,000 or even hundreds of thousands of millions. The matter of the two Huai and the banknote is better to ...... from other places"

"Yes, the slave maid just said that these two things were reported by the East Factory and the West Factory, so let us do it." Qiu Ju immediately picked up the conversation, but said with a smile, "I heard that the inner factory has turned the bottom upside down in the household department, so it is better to continue to investigate and find out until the truth is revealed, and we will naturally take care of these small things." ”

If Gu Da, who had always been close to Xu Xun, opened his mouth, it would be fine, but Qiu Ju was busy taking care of things, Liu Jin was immediately alert, glanced at Qian Ning and said: "Your Majesty, the matter is very important, it is better for the three factories to send elites to Lianghuai and Linqing Banknote Customs to investigate." There is a coercion on each other, so as not to listen to and believe partially, and the chasers will make irresponsible remarks after this case is handled! As for the household department, the slave maid is to take stock of the old files, not to talk about checking the accounts, this meal has to be eaten one bite at a time, how can the slave and maid be so impatient? ”

Liu Jin suddenly changed his mind, although Qian Ning wanted to persuade him, but he knew that he would offend people if he spoke again, so he could only keep silent. Sure enough, Zhu Houzhao immediately nodded with satisfaction and approved the matter, and then said thoughtfully: "By the way, I met Mrs. Shouninghou in Renshou Palace this morning, and Mrs. Shouninghou mentioned that Li Mengyang, who was impeached in the past and beat Shouninghou on the street, was imprisoned by you?" ”…,

Hearing the three words Shou Ninghou, Liu Jin was stunned for a moment, and then said cautiously: "Yes, the slave maid happened to find out that there was something wrong with the accounts of the household department, and it happened to be the ...... that Li Mengyang should be responsible for."

"Mrs. Shouninghou is very angry, let me help Shouninghou breathe a sigh, it is best to send people to some poor mountains and bad waters to be chalk officials, even the queen mother has a lot of complaints about this Li Mengyang." Zhu Houzhao hadn't heard much of Li Mengyang before, let alone any good or bad feelings, but the queen mother's face still had to be given, so he thought for a moment, and then said, "In this way, lock him up for a few days, and then demote him." I originally wanted to pick a place with poor mountains and bad rivers for him to go, but that's it, he was a Beijing official from the fifth grade, so he was demoted to the Shanxi Buzheng Department to be an experience, lest someone say that I was demoted to his official because of the queen mother! ”

Shanxi? Shandong, Shanxi, Huai and Nanzhili, Zhejiang, these are all shortages! However, the seven-product experience is indeed depreciating......

Although Liu Jin hated Li Mengyang as a mere pawn and dared to make waves, the bigger purpose was to hear that Kang Hai was full of literary talents, and wanted to use this to envelop people under his command, and then demote Li Mengyang far away after the thing was done.

Unexpectedly, Zhu Houzhao actually knew about this matter, and because of Mrs. Shouning Hou and Empress Dowager Zhang, Chrysostom made a ruling, and he suddenly had a feeling that stealing chickens and rice would not be lost. But the emperor said everything, and he couldn't refuse, so he laughed and agreed.

Others didn't have much feeling about the little emperor's sudden attention to a small person, but Qian Ning couldn't help but glance at Xu Xun, seeing that he was standing there as if he was nothing, and chatting with Gu Da lightly, he remembered that Wang Shouren had thought that he was dead, but he finally degraded out of Jingchalk City, and he couldn't help but have a thought.

Could it be that Xu Xun intervened? But people like Li Mengyang are lonely and self-appreciative, and it is difficult to make him grateful for saving him, in other words, even the people who can offend the masters in the field can show their temperament, why is Xu Xun doing so hard?

said that it was to enjoy the snow, but Zhu Houzhao did not have the leisure and elegance of poetry, and had just slipped through the snow, so he simply ordered people to set up a target and ordered the arrow in the snow. It was just a normal competition, but because Zhu Houzhao took out a sable leather shoulder from Liaodong as a color head, and he ended up in person, Qian Ning had to muster a lot of energy. Sure enough, although Xu Xun has been soaking in the barracks these days, his archery skills have improved, and Zhu Houzhao has also achieved good results, but after all, he is not as good as his practice of shooting since he was a child.

As for the other people, they all took a suitable situation, and did not dare to compete with Emperor Xu Xun, and after the last reward, Zhu Houzhao smiled and took off the horn slope wrench in his right hand and handed it to Xu Xun casually.

"You lost to me a while ago, but I didn't expect you to catch up again. How do you use this red sandalwood wrench? It's still easy to use the horns, and this reward is given to you, so you don't have to say that you sent three pairs of skis into the palace at that time, and accompanied me to practice skiing and archery for a while, but in the end I didn't get any color. ”

"The emperor laughed, is the minister such a calculating person?" Xu Xun naturally took off the red sandalwood wrench in his hand and replaced it with the one given by Zhu Houzhao, and then said with a smile, "If the emperor is interested next time, we might as well try skiing archery." It's inconvenient to ride a horse in the snow, so it's time to change the way! ”

Hearing Xu Xun say this, thinking of his clumsy performance on skiing today, Qian Ning's heart moved, but his face was not moved at all. When he dispersed, he saw Xu Xun waving at him, and hurriedly stepped forward.

"What do you command?"

"Let me ask you, why did Gonggong Liu suddenly remember to ask Li Mengyang?"

Qian Ning glanced at Xu Xun, and saw that he was really a little puzzled, he thought about it, and then said respectfully: "Gonggong Liu just said because he knew that the Han script was drafted by him, so he was angry. Now that the emperor has sent people out of Jingcha City, Gonggong Liu can only stop temporarily. ”

"Oh, I see." Xu Xun nodded casually, and then smiled, "Then you go, go to Lianghuai and Linqing, pick a few proper people, don't fall for the prestige of your new yamen." ”

Waiting for Qian Ning to retire and leave, Xu Xun frowned thoughtfully. Kang Hai had already shown him Liu Jin's post, and he understood that Liu Jin was actually a drunkard, and he used such a method to attract talents. If Qian Ning really doesn't know about this, it's fine, but if he knows...... [To be continued, this text is provided by]. If you like this work, you are welcome to ◣◥ to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, your support is my biggest motivation. 】