Chapter 34: The Plum Blossom Guard's Test Arrow (I)

Early the next morning, Tianxing found Wu Jin, he wanted to take Wu Jin to Meihuawei to go through the formalities, the prince had already seconded the two of them to Meihuawei, although it was only a temporary secondment, but the procedures still had to be handled normally, and the two rode to the imperial city.

On the way, Tianxing slowed down his horse and walked side by side with Wu Jin, he smiled very casually and asked: "Wu Jin, you are transferred to Meihuawei, will the King of Lanling County agree?" ”

Wu Jin smiled faintly, "I'm not from him, why should he agree?" ”

"He actually gave you the precious red-tailed white unicorn, anyone can guess that the relationship between the king of Lanling and you is definitely not ordinary."

"Actually, it's nothing, because my grandfather has saved his life, and he has always wanted to repay him, but he never had the opportunity, so he put this gratitude on me."

Wu Jin knew very well why Tianxing wanted to ask himself, this was a reason for the prince to transfer himself to Meihuawei, to reach the relationship with the king of Lanling County through himself, on the way back yesterday, Li Yan had already told him that he was transferred to Meihuawei because of the Tiger Fu case.

He smiled, and then continued: "I already told the King of Lanling County yesterday that I was transferred to the Plum Blossom Guard to participate in the Tiger Fu case. ”

"What did the old prince say?" Tianxing asked a little nervously.

Wu Jin couldn't help laughing, this Tianxing is very interesting, he actually revealed the prince's purpose so bluntly, when he was in Weiyang County, he was like this, in fact, he was a good person, remembering that Weiyang County himself had shot and injured him, Wu Jin couldn't help but apologize to him in his heart, after all, he was ordered by Chen Zhi at that time.

"The old prince said that he thanked the prince for his help, and he remembered it in his heart."

This is the answer that the prince wants, Tianxing Chang breathed a sigh of relief, he can explain to the prince, Tianxing is in a good mood, and he can't help laughing, "Wujin, I'll invite you to drink at noon!" ”

Tianxing remembered something again, and hurriedly said to Wu Jin: "There is something I want to remind you, you can't talk nonsense in Meihuawei, especially don't mention the prince easily, brother must remember it." ”

"Why?"

Wu Jin was a little curious, "Isn't Meihuawei the prince's territory?" ”

Tianxing shook his head, "How can Meihuawei be the prince's territory, only General Li Yan of the First Army is the prince's person, the second army and the third army, including the general Luo Zhiyu, are all under the command of the emperor, in fact, the embroidered clothes guard is the same, only the first army Shao Jingwen is the henchman of Uncle Shen, which is acquiesced by the emperor." ”

From Tianxing's brief introduction, Wu Jin has a feeling that it seems that the confrontation between the crown prince and the uncle is deliberately arranged by the emperor, they are all like puppets, and all the lines are behind the emperor.

Wu Jin pondered for a while, and then asked: "Yesterday, I heard His Royal Highness the Crown Prince say that General Li Yan is the third person in Meihuawei, and I know that the number one person is the general, so who is the second person?" ”

"You'd be wrong."

Tianxing smiled, "General Luo Zhiyu is actually only the number two person, and the number one person has other people. ”

"Who could that be?" Wujin is a little strange, the general is actually only the second person, so who will be the first person?

"Have you ever heard of a national soldier?" Tianxing asked with a smile.

Wu Jin thought for a moment and said with a smile: "I've heard of this talk of the national warrior, it seems to be a level higher than you shadow warriors, right?" ”

"It's not just a higher level!"

Tianxing smiled bitterly and said: "The shadow warrior is just a high-level warrior, with the sponsorship of the royal family, but the national warrior and the samurai are not the same meaning at all, the national warrior is the personal guard of the emperor and the prince, at least they have been in the palace for more than thirty years, the entire Daning Dynasty As far as I know, there are only twenty national warriors, most of whom are in seclusion, and there are eight national warriors who are serving the imperial court, there are two people around the prince, there are four people around the emperor, and there are two people, one is an embroidered guard, one is in the plum blossom guard, known as Ge Lao, The two of them are the real leaders of the embroidered clothes guard and the plum blossom guard, and they are directly responsible to the emperor, so that the emperor can firmly control the embroidered clothes guard and the plum blossom guard. ”

"I see, if you don't say it, I really don't know, I know it in my heart!"

Seeing that the hour was not early, the two urged their horses to speed up and gallop towards the imperial city.

The palace is divided into two parts, the palace city and the imperial city, the palace city is the residence of the emperor, and the imperial city is the office of the imperial court, the major imperial court yamen of Luojing are concentrated in the imperial city, among which the Taimiao and Shengzong Temple occupy nearly thirty percent of the territory of the imperial city, so compared with Yongjing, the court officials of Luojing are quite crowded and cramped, many temples do not have the official buildings of reading power, but share a yamen with other departments, which is also the place where the officials of the Ning Dynasty complain, for 40 years, the officials have been asking to move the capital back to Yongjing.

With the change of Jin'an gradually no longer taboo, the call to move the capital back to Yongjing is rising again, because most of the high-ranking officials have houses in Yongjing, so there is basically no technical obstacle to moving the capital, in fact, it is a decision of the emperor, according to the news from the Ministry of Industry, there have been officials from the Ministry of Industry to Yongjing to check the building status of the Daming Palace, which makes all the officials full of expectations.

Although the imperial city is crowded, there are still troops stationed, the army stationed in Luojing has a total of more than 300,000 people, divided into two armies of the South Ya and the North Ya, of which the South Ya Army refers to the Sixteen Wei Army and the East Palace Six Led Government Army, Gong Wei Jing Division security, and the North Ya Army includes five armies, including Yulin Army, Longwu Army, Shence Army, Ten Thousand Cavalry Battalion, and Inner Guard Army, a total of 120,000 troops, responsible for protecting the security of the palace.

Except for the 30,000 Yulin Army, which was stationed in Yuanbi City, the other four armies of 70,000 people were stationed in the Imperial City, making the already crowded Imperial City even more stretched.

The garrison of the Inner Guard Army is located in the northeast corner, consisting of the Embroidered Guards and the Plum Blossom Guards, the two armies each have 12,000 people, they have special waist cards, and they are very free to enter and exit the imperial city.

In a moment, they came to the plum blossom guard's military office, the plum blossom guard and the embroidered clothes guard are located in the same huge building, the two guards' military offices are separated by a hundred steps, the door of the plum blossom guard is two black iron doors, the plaque with silver characters on the blue background reads 'plum blossom guard' three big characters, in front of the gate is twelve steps, on both sides of the steps stand twelve burly man, wearing the red background and white plum brocade robe of the plum blossom guard, the waist carries a horizontal knife, majestic.

Tianxing was about to step forward to show his military badge, when General Li Yan walked out and saw them at a glance, "Hehe! I'm saying, why haven't you come yet? ”

Wu Jin and Tianxing hurriedly stepped forward to salute, "Participate in the general!" ”

"You're welcome."

Li Yan waved his hand and smiled: "You guys are here to go through the transfer procedures!" No, I've already done it for you. ”

Wu Jin and Tianxing glanced at each other, this Li Yan was quite enthusiastic, and he actually did it for them, so they didn't have to go in.

Wu Jin smiled again and asked, "Then what do we need to do now, please General Li instruct!" ”

"Come with me, two of you!"

Li Yan brought the two of them into the Plum Blossom Guard, and when they walked into the military office, they could see that the Plum Blossom Guard and the Embroidered Clothes Guard were actually artificially divided into two, with a high wall separating the two guards, including in a huge building, and also made of bricks in two parts, and they did not interact with each other.

"The military office of the imperial city is just our office yamen, it is too narrow here to accommodate our army, our military camp is outside the northern city, there is a big camp there, and ten thousand sons are stationed there."

Li Yan introduced them as he walked, "This is mainly the place where civilian officials work, and all the information of the Plum Blossom Guard is concentrated here, and there is a Plum Blossom Guard Prison under the Houfu. ”

Speaking of this, Li Yan turned around and explained to Wu Jin with a smile: "There are four special prisons in the imperial city, the heavenly prison of Dali Temple, the prison of the Criminal Department, and the prison of the plum blossom guard and the embroidered guard, I won't take you to see it today, and I will go there again when I have time!" ”

He pointed to a row of wooden houses not far away and said with a smile: "You two go change your clothes first, and I'll wait here." ”

A soldier led the two of them in, and after a while, they changed into a red and white plum robe of the plum blossom guard, with a leather belt around their waists, a black black gauze robe on their heads, and a horizontal knife on their waists, which seemed to be in good spirits.

No wonder the prince repeatedly told himself that this person is both wise and brave, and can be reused, from the appearance of this person is extraordinary, there is a very unique temperament, Li Yan heard that Wujin had made Shao Jingwen suffer a big loss, which made him very surprised, now Wujin looks even more heroic after changing into the brocade robe of the plum blossom guard, and his favor for Wujin has increased from five points to seven points, but how about he try Wujin's martial arts in person?

Li Yan smiled and handed them the two silver medals, "This is your plum blossom guard's waist card, you put it away!" ”

Wu Jin took the silver medal, and saw that his silver medal was a little different from Tianxing's silver medal, Tianxing's waist card only had the three words Meihuawei on it, and there was no number, but his waist card had the number of 'zero zero zero nine', which made him feel surprised for a while, why is this?

Tianxing didn't have anything strange, he put away his waist card and bowed down, "Please give orders from the general!" ”

Li Yan glanced at Wu Jin meaningfully and smiled slightly, "Come with me!" ”

He took the two of them to a small school field, Wu Jin looked into the school field, only to see that the school field is about half the size of a football field, surrounded by a two-zhang high wall, the ground in the field is flat, the rammed earth is very strong, not an inch of grass grows, there are twenty straw man targets erected a hundred steps in front of him, and about 100 plum blossom guards are training archery in formation.

Li Yan smiled and introduced to them, "This is our archery test field, no way, the imperial city is too small, there is no racetrack, if you want to run horses, you must go to the military camp outside the city, you can only shoot arrows here." ”

He pointed to the hundred horsemen in front of him again, "Those are the elite of the plum blossom guard who are ready to be promoted to the team, and they are trained here, let's take a look." ”

Li Yan led them to the front of Tiqi, and more than 100 people immediately knelt down to salute, "See General Li!" ”

The movements were uniform and quite imposing, Li Yan smiled slightly, pointed at Wu Jin and Tianxing and said to them: "These two are the new captains of Meihuawei, one is the Shadow Warrior Tianxing, you must have heard of it, and the other is from Donghai County, called Wu Jin, so please ask the two of them to show everyone a hand!" ”

After speaking, Li Yan looked back at the two of them with a smile.

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(To be continued)