PS: New book period, ask for support. The night is cold, the moon is cold, and the wind is miserable.

In the chessboard alley, the night was spreading, a carriage stopped in the dark, and the only light was the faint candle flame in front of the carriage, faintly sufficient.

At this time, the carriage shook, and there was a man's contemptuous laughter in the car: "Such a beauty, come, come, let me touch it...... Don't be shy...... Hehe......"

"Adult, little girl......"

"Ahh A scream.

"You ......" came to an abrupt end.

In the early morning of the second day, the sun was out, and everyone went out to work, but they saw a carriage parked in the chessboard alley, and there were drops of coagulated blood flowing on the carriage.

The people nearby hurriedly reported to the Shuntian Mansion, and then transferred the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies and the Fusi of Beizhen, and sent the Jinyi Guard.

Just because the dead person is extremely unusual, it is Yu Wenlong, the deputy commander of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division of the Imperial Court.

Yu Wenlong is over forty years old this year, has a fierce wife, and has no children under his knees. The ancients had three unfilial pieties, and no queen was great, which Yu Wenlong wanted to take a concubine, but he was afraid of having a wife at home, so over time he hooked up with a woman outside, and lived in the carriage.

After Yu Wenlong went out last night, he never came back, and when Jinyiwei found the body, he saw that Yu Wenlong was brutally dismembered, and the incisions were all short blades, not like Central Plains weapons.

And what was lost was a map of the defense of Gyeonggi City.

This matter is a big deal, in case this Gyeonggi city defense layout plan falls into the hands of my hand, it will be able to bloody Jinluan and smash the imperial capital in an instant!

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Xia Muche got up early this morning, ate a bowl of two-rice porridge, two eggs, and a small plate of pickles, and then put on the official uniform of Rong Zheng and went to the cabinet.

The Holy Lord asked him to rebuild the 12th Admiralty Regiment, but it was a mess, and there were many forces to contain it, which was a thankless job.

Before dawn today, a message came from the cabinet, and the first assistant Yan Song, the second assistant Xu Jie, and Li Mo wanted to discuss the positions of the battalions of the 12th regiment and battalion, as well as the number of people in the military department and the internal supervision and supervision army.

Xia Mu was still half a minute away from the agreed birthday, and walked into the cabinet courtyard.

The so-called Chen in Shen Out, this is the office time that the cabinet cannot beat, and it has been this time since the capital was set in Beijing.

At the beginning of the establishment of the cabinet, the space was very small, and three or four cabinet ministers were crammed into one room to work. After repeated expansions, it became what it is today.

Xia Mu walked into the cabinet courtyard and saw three small buildings in the distance at a glance, with a flying corner and heavy eaves in the middle, which was spacious and magnificent, and was the office of the cabinet ministers; The small building on the east side of the courtyard is the edict room, the west side is the system house, the south side was originally a gap land, and then because the office space is not enough, during the period when Yan Song served as the first assistant, three major roll sheds were built here, and the cabinet should be assisted by subordinate officials, all moved here.

Xia Mu walked into the office building of the cabinet minister, and there was a lobby in the center, and in the center of the hall was the wooden tablet of Confucius, the sage of Wenzong.

The lobby is surrounded by a long corridor on all sides, and the doors of the ministers' duty rooms are open on the verandah.

The upstairs rooms, some of which are court rooms, and some of which are resting places for cabinet ministers.

Shoufu Yan Song was sitting on the south side of the hall of the duty room at this time, and the window was facing the roll shed, and he nodded with a smile when he saw Xia Mu come in.

And his teacher Xu Jie's duty room is opposite it.

Since Yan Nei Zhishi and Yuan Wei retired to Hanlin the year before last, the duty room has been empty, and the door is locked.

This room was originally a set of one into two floors, with a total of six rooms, confidential rooms, clerical rooms, reception rooms, etc.

When Xia Mu entered Xu Jie's duty room, he saw two handymen cleaning up in the room.

"Teacher!" Xia Mu saluted Xu Jie, he was originally going to marry Xu Xiyi today, but the matter of the 12th regiment camp was tight, so he put it on hold.

As soon as Xu Jie sat down in the duty room, before the internal servant had brewed the tea, a clerk came in and told him that Yan Ge had an invitation.

"Let's go, let's go together!" Xu Jie got up and went over, Xia Mu had no choice but to follow behind him, and walked towards Yan Song's duty room, but he was dissatisfied in his heart: That hateful Yan Lao Bangzi, why didn't he say that he wanted him to go over when he saw him just now? When he entered the Xu Jie's room, he came to tell him again, obviously walking him to play?

Li Mo had been waiting in Yan Song's duty room for a long time, and when Xia Mu came in, he saw him sitting in front of the huge mahogany desk, and he could see that he had arrived at some time, and there were a few folds on the table, which had obviously been read.

Yan Song pointed to a chair at the head of the copywriter and motioned for Xu Jie to sit down, but did not ask Xia Mu to sit. And there are only three chairs in the room, one for Xu Jie, one for Li Mo, and one for Yan Laobangzi, and he has no place to sit if he wants to.

Grandma's, Lao Tzu is standing, standing to eat fast, and you can eat more! Xia Mu kept discussing, just like the vajra, where is the straight pestle.

"In the light, you slept peacefully last night, right?" Li Mo turned sideways, waved his official robe and asked.

"Yesterday, the first night of the new house, I had insomnia." Xia Mu smiled.

"If you can't sleep, you won't sleep, and you can't wake up if you die." The corners of Yan Song's eyes moved slightly, and he teased, "I'm afraid that Lord Xia didn't know about the theft of the Five Cities Terracotta Division and the killing of Yu Wenlong last night." ”

Xia Mu heard the sneering meaning in Yan Song's words, but he really didn't know that something had happened to the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses, so he pretended to be confused and said: "Chengguo Gong went to Nanjing to worship his ancestors instead of the saint, and the Beizhen Fusi was unmanaged for a while, and I didn't receive any news!" ”

"Really?" Yan Song was suspicious, and seeing that Xu Jie didn't speak, he didn't say anything, handed over the fold they had prepared a long time ago, and said to Xia Mu: "Lord Xia, take a look, this is the list of the twelve regiments and battalions drawn up by the three of us. ”

Xia Mu took the excerpt, none of the people on it were known to him, but the water was deep, presumably Li Mo, Xu Jie, and Yan Song had all inserted their own people into it.

The 12 regiment battalions were originally divided by the 12 marquis, for the fen, yao, practice, show the four martial arts battalions, dare, fruit, effect, drum four brave battalions, stand, stretch, yang, vibrate four wei battalions. Accompanied by the commander of the capital, the prison is the minister. Each regiment and battalion is divided into five armies, three thousand, and three battalions of Shenji. At the time, it was called "Choosing the Front".

The regimental battalion was originally a transformation of the three major battalions, which were equipped with firearms and horse chopping knives and were well-equipped.

But now it's different, these 12 regiments have no people, they want firearms but no firearms, a group of recruits are still recruited, military pay is the problem, when the soldiers don't pay the soldiers, who will give you your life!

Before these eight characters were skimmed, this Yan Lao Bangzi wanted to install his own people!

"Since the three pavilion elders have finished formulating, the kid has no opinion, but now the twelve regiments and battalions want no people, no firearms, no money and food, how should this be?"

Li Mo smiled when he heard this: "All the firearms, food, personnel and other issues of the twelve regiments and battalions are under the management of Yang Bo, the secretary of the military department, you go to the military department to find Yang Bo!" ”

Xia Mu almost scolded his mother when he heard it, you guys have all the benefits, so you kicked the mess to Yang Bo, so he went to Yang Bo to ask for firearms and money, Yang Bo didn't swallow him, it's strange!

Xia Mu was angry in the cabinet, and when he walked to the east gate, he saw Xue Hua waiting anxiously outside the door.

Xue Hua saw Xia Mu from afar, hurriedly saluted, and said: "My lord, the deputy commander of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division was killed, the means were extremely cruel, and the more important thing is that the defense map of Gyeonggi City was stolen!" ”

"What!" Xia Mu's face was extremely heavy, he had just taken office and had just taken office to put up such a thing, thinking about it, he couldn't help asking, "What is the Five Cities Terracotta Division for!" The most important thing in the city defense map, how can it be stolen! What about Xu Jue last night? ”

Xue Hua hurriedly told the results of his investigation: "Lord Xu spent the night in the Sulou in Curtain Hutong last night......"

"Sulou again?" Xia Mu was shocked in his heart, and when he mentioned Su Lou, he remembered that Feng Bao, Zhang Juzheng's mansion, said that he was the first to be in Jinlian, and remembered that the whereabouts of the group of ronins in Nanjing were unknown, so he hurriedly instructed Xue Hua, "Go to Su Lou to secretly investigate what Yu Jinlian had to do with Xu Jue, and where did the batch of disaster relief food go in the outer city!" ”

"Yes!" Xue Hua hurriedly led a group of brocade guards to hurry away.

Xia Mu returned home with something on his mind, and Ah Sang hurriedly sent an invitation, saying that it was sent by Xu Jue, the Soldiers and Horses Division of the Five Cities.

Xia Mu smiled knowingly: "This is a mule and a horse, I have to see the real chapter!" Saying that, he opened the invitation, and saw that it was agreed that tonight, Xu Jue would invite him, and Feng Bao would accompany him!

Just after the unitary hour, the sunset hanging on the eaves of the Confucius Temple has been collected one by one. The golden water bridge is a blue wave, and it is gradually hazy. Xia Mu sat in a four-person warm sedan chair and slowly came to the plain building of the curtain alley.

This building was originally said to have been opened in Nanjing, and later moved to Beijing.

Since Zhu Di, the king of Yan, usurped the throne of his nephew Emperor Jianwen, he moved an imperial city to Beijing, but because the imperial tomb of Ming Taizu is in Nanjing, and Fengyang, Anhui Province, where the dragon vein is located, is not far from Nanjing, the emperors of the descendants of the Zhu family, out of respect for their ancestors, at least in name, still retain the special political status of Nanjing.

In addition to the cabinet, a number of government agencies, such as the Zongren Mansion, the Five Military Governor's Office, the Six Ministries, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the General Administration Division, the Dali Temple, the Zhan Shi Mansion, the Hanlin Academy, the Guozijian, the Taichang Temple, the Honglu Temple, the Six Departments, the Pedestrian Division, the Qintianjian, the Tai Hospital, the Five Cities Terracotta Division, etc., all have in Beijing, and Nanjing has also retained a set.

The government where Beijing is located is Shuntianfu, and the government where Nanjing is located is Yingtianfu.

However, the Beijing government is in charge of practical affairs, while the government in Nanjing, except for a few important posts such as the garrison of the military department, the right attendant of the household department of the governor's grain reserve, and the household department of the management of the Houhu Yellow Book, most of the official positions are in vain.

Since the actual political power is in the hands of the Beijing government, most of the government officials in Nanjing are people who have been frustrated in their careers, or they have arranged to come to Nanjing to be an official at the level of "Bird Raising Shangshu" or "Imperial History of Flowers" in order to take care of their ranks.

Therefore, the transfer of officials of the same rank from Beijing to Nanjing is a kind of derogation, and the transfer from Nanjing to Beijing is regarded as a gratifying promotion.

And this Xu Jue is a real Nanjing official who rose all the way from Nanjing to Beijing.

This curtain alley is actually the place of the wind and snow, the dignitaries and nobles enjoy leisure, there are Zen scholars and scholars when they go out, and there are delicious food and concubines when they enter the house.

Playing the piano to the moon, sweeping snow and cooking tea, celebrities and gentlemen dividing rhymes, and beauties accompany wine, it should be said that it is the first-class pleasure in the world. But the people in the officialdom, except for the gray hair urging people to be promoted hopelessly, or the disease is entangled in the body and mind, who doesn't want to run for the future. In the spare time of official business, you can play as much as you want.

Then again, if you don't get a fat shortage as an official, how can you have the capital to have fun.

For this reason, most of the officials in the Nanjing government sharpened their heads and tried their best to get into the way to get along with the powerful ministers in the Beijing government, in order to have someone to help them talk during the provincial inspection.

As the saying goes, if a person is a good official in the court, there is someone behind the chair, so he will not worry about the time when there is no time to operate, and when he is promoted to sit in the fat shortage.

At present, this Xu Jue is such a person, and I don't know how much money he spent to make him move from Nanjing to Beijing?

And tonight, he is going to take a good look here, what is the cat in this Su Lou!