The first wind and rain drifted away

A mansion in the eastern district of the capital, the red lacquer gate is shining, and the big red couplets that have only been around for a few days are pasted on both sides.

There is a plaque hanging directly above the gate, which reads "Qin Ci Wuqing Houfu", which was written and given by the Wanli Emperor in that year.

At the foot of the steps below, there were several strong and arrogant families with waist knives on their shoulders.

A middle-aged man who looked like a steward was curled up and sitting on a stool in a sheltered place under the door and napping.

Suddenly, a dense sound of footsteps came, and a large number of Dongchang fanzi wearing black cedar robes, belt around the waist, black official boots on a white background, and embroidered spring knives hung on their waists appeared at the mouth of the alley in the distance.

All the family members were stunned, and a group of fans came to the front of the house, and the dozing steward had already woken up, and arched his hand with a somewhat wary look, and asked:

"This is Wuqing Houfu, what are you doing here?"

A big stall leader who took the lead ignored the steward, turned his head and ordered: "Everyone follow me in and ask to see Wu Qinghou." ”

Several hundred households responded and led their subordinates to scatter in all directions, dozens of captains went straight to the gate, and the steward of the Houfu hurriedly glanced at one of his subordinates.

The man hurriedly rushed into the mansion, and he stretched out his hand to stop the stall and asked, "This lord, this is the Imperial Gift Wuqing Mansion, and no one else is allowed to trespass, otherwise it will ......."

Before he could finish speaking, a captain behind the head of the stall stepped forward a few steps forward and slapped the steward in the face.

The steward staggered a few steps backwards, bleeding from his mouth and nose, his ears buzzing, and his cheeks bulging instantly.

The steward was suddenly blinded, and in an instant he came to his senses, covered his cheeks and hissed, "Are you going to rebel? ”

"You rebelled, and you don't see who your grandfather is?"

The big stall leader glanced at him with contempt, brushed him away, and strode forward.

The steward and the rest of the family stepped back and stared at them.

The stall leader led people up the steps, and the door suddenly opened, and a middle-aged man in his forties, with a pale face and a brocade robe, walked out of the door, and behind him were several housekeepers.

"A certain is Wu Qing waiting for Li Guorui, what is your intention to break into the mansion?"

"I've seen Wu Qinghou, I am Wang Liangmo, the head of the East Factory, and I heard that Wu Qinghou's family is in difficulty, and he auctions sundries everywhere to get by.

When the factory governor heard this, he was worried, and he was afraid that Wu Qinghou would lose the face of the Son of Heaven, so he asked the villain to send a silver ticket of 10,000 taels for the purchase of Tsinghua Garden. ”

The head of the stall arched his hand casually, which was considered a courtesy, and then took out the silver ticket from his sleeve and handed it to Li Guorui as he spoke.

"Bastard!"

Li Guorui opened his teeth and claws, grabbed the silver ticket and was still on the ground, the blue tendons on his face were exposed, his eyes seemed to be about to pop out, and he roared loudly:

"Just 10,000 taels want to buy the Tsinghua Garden that my Li family has worked hard for two generations, Wang Chengen, this eunuch, is so big, and he is not afraid of flashing his tongue?"

"Bold!"

Wang Liangmo's face changed suddenly, and he shouted: "Cheap bones, your good days are over, the factory supervisor has already let you go, and now he dares to insult the factory director."

Is it really impossible for Dongchang to cure you?

When a certain person goes back to tell the factory governor, strip you of your title, and see what arrogance you have?

Leave! ”

After saying that, he turned around and left, ignoring the silver ticket on the ground that was blown by the wind.

"Are you ......" Li Guorui pointed at Wang Liangmo angrily, and was speechless.

A small Dongchang stall leader, who actually dared to have five or six people in front of him, the marquis, wouldn't he be angry?

"By the way, the emperor asked the villain to tell Wu Qinghou that the price of the capital is expensive, and it is not easy to live for a long time, so it is better to go back to his hometown to live.

If there is less entanglement, the property of Marquis Wuqing in Beijing will also be bought by the emperor in front of his relatives. ”

Wang Liangmo turned his head and said.

"What?"

It turned out to be the emperor's intention, Li Guorui felt that the world was spinning for a while, and he almost couldn't stand steadily, and the steward behind him hurriedly supported him.

"Prepare a sedan chair and go to the palace."

Soon, Li Guorui came to his senses, and he wanted to go to the palace to beg for mercy.

It turned out that without the protection of the emperor, he couldn't even deal with a fan of Dongchang.

At this time, Emperor Chongzhen, who Wuqing was waiting for Li Guorui to see, was not in the palace.

To be precise, he was on his way out of the palace, preparing to inspect the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies.

The military center of the Ming Dynasty, the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies is located on the west side of the imperial road between the Daming Gate and the Chengtian Gate, and the six official offices on the east side of the imperial road are far away.

In front of these units is the Imperial Plaza, which is surrounded by a tall red wall, and the two are only separated by a wall, and they cannot see each other.

Emperor Chongzhen and his entourage set off from Chengtianmen, and stood on the Jinshui Bridge to see the majestic Zhengyang Gate at the end of the red wall.

The square within the red wall, which is also part of the most famous square of the later Celestial Empire, is five or six hundred steps wide from east to west and about 1,600 steps long from north to south.

There was a thick layer of snow piled up on top of the heavy red wall, like wearing a white hat, but the snow on the ground was clean.

In the eyes of Emperor Chongzhen, although the scenery in front of him looked unusually thick, there was a lack of popularity in the empty square.

Lao Wang and three or four eunuchs stood behind Emperor Chongzhen, I don't know why the emperor stayed here, this empty and cold square, there is really no scenery to see.

Suddenly, the emperor's voice was not loud, "I will tear down the red walls on both sides in the future, and parade and raise the flag here." ”

When Lao Wang heard the emperor's remarks, he didn't even blink his eyelids, and still stood with his hands folded and his eyebrows lowered, waiting for the emperor to finish expressing his feelings.

In the past six months or so, the emperor has always had some outrageous words and deeds popping out of his mouth from time to time, and he has gotten used to it.

As the most trusted eunuch around the emperor, Lao Wang may have admonished him in fear at first, trying to make the emperor cautious in his words and deeds and not affect his image.

But by now, the emperor's remarks have been immune to him.

Lao Wang felt that instead of admonishing the emperor to be cautious, it was better to silence the eunuchs serving around the emperor, which seemed to be simpler.

Emperor Chongzhen, who made the decision, felt a little regretful when he saw that no one echoed him.

However, there is no way, although these eunuchs in the hall are intimate, they are the slaves of the Son of Heaven after all, and it is obviously more appropriate to pretend to be blind and deaf.

"Let's go!" Emperor Chongzhen raised his legs and stepped forward.

The Beijing camp is already in hand, and now is a good time to solve the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies.

The predecessor of the Five Military Governor's Mansion was the Dadu Governor's Mansion, which was the institution that controlled military power before Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang was proclaimed emperor.

Comrade Zhu, who was appointed as the marshal of the Metropolitan Governor's Office, deeply understood what a great threat to the imperial throne was from a Metropolitan Governor's Mansion that unified power and controlled the Chinese and foreign armies.

Therefore, in the thirteenth year of Hongwu, Comrade Lao Zhu abolished the Dadu Governor's Mansion and managed the Beijing Division and various health posts with five military governors with equal status.

Lao Zhu set up the system, and Chengzu Xiaozhu improved the system.

As a result, the Governor's Office and the Military Department of the Five Armies were all under the orders of the emperor, and a high degree of unification of military power was completed.

Specifically, the Governor's Office of the Five Armed Forces has the right to command troops but not the right to transfer troops, the Military Department has the right to transfer troops but not the right to command troops, and the Governor's Office of the Five Armed Forces and the Military Department control each other but do not subordinate each other.

However, after the change of the civil engineering bar, with the rapid weakening of the Xungui group, the power of the civil and official group began to expand rapidly, and the civil and military checks and balances system of the Ming Dynasty was gradually destroyed.

By the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the Governor's Office of the Five Armies had lost its political participation and power.

It has changed from a central organ of the military inside and outside the General Headquarters to a subordinate organ that is subject to the military department at every turn and simply carries out orders.

As a result, the result is that no one regards the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies as the same thing.

Especially in the eyes of civilian officials, there is no difference between a general soldier and a pawn.

When the chief officer of the army receives orders from the military headquarters, he must kneel outside the palace.

Occasionally, those who give a salute to the governor will be considered to be ignorant of the general situation.

The reason for this is that the promotion of military generals is not counted by their own departments.

The promotion and dismissal of military generals is in the hands of other civilian officials, so I asked how can military generals be nervous?

Now Emperor Chongzhen has taken back the Wuxuan Division Examination Division, which is to cut off the hand of the civilian clique to the military.

In this way, only by attaching equal importance to civil and military affairs can it be truly implemented.

When the Examination Division and the Military Selection Division are taken back by the Governor's Office of the Five Armies, then this power will be great.

It may not be able to completely change the trend of civilian officials overwhelming military generals for a while, nor can it sweep away the situation of using civil and military forces, but it can definitely make countless military generals rejoice.

Of course, the prerequisite is that some of the decaying nobles must be eliminated and new ones must be brought in who are capable and loyal to themselves.

For example, the flat-headed brother Cao Wenzhao and the heroine Qin Liangyu.

It's just that now they are all training the new army, and they don't have time to pay attention to the affairs of the governor's mansion of the five armies.

These are going to be Emperor Chongzhen himself.

Because, apart from him, there is no way to sort out these nobles.

Under the leadership of Lao Wang, Emperor Chongzhen walked towards his destination.

In front of the former military governor's mansion, a soldier in a single coat was standing guard in front of the door with a spear.

Apart from this soldier, there was not a single guard in front of the door.

After returning from an errand outside, he couldn't help frowning when he walked out of the sedan door and saw the soldiers shivering in the cold wind.

After sending the sedan chair driver, he walked down the steps towards the gate of the former military governor's mansion.

The gate of the Governor's Mansion was closed, and only one ear door was opened on the right side.

Priest Wu walked to the ear door and heard a commotion coming from the ear room inside the door.

He stopped, hesitated for a moment, then walked to the door of the earroom, pushed it open, and entered.

Five or six soldiers were hiding in the ear room around a charcoal basin to keep warm, and the basin was made of inferior charcoal, which caused the small ear room to be filled with smoke and fire, but the temperature was much warmer than outside.

As soon as Wu Liangqing entered the door, he was hit by the charcoal gas and sneezed several times in a row.

The soldiers, who were hiding in the room to make a fire, saw a junior official in his thirties walk in, and immediately stood up.

One of the sharp-eyed ones saw the faces of the people who came clearly in the smoke, and then saluted and said with peace of mind: "It turns out that the priest Wu has returned, do you have any orders?" ”

Wu Liangqing glanced at it fixedly, and recognized that the one who saluted him was the small flag on duty guarding the gate.

After waving his hand to dispense with the salute of several other soldiers, he asked with some unpleasantness:

"What's the matter with that soldier outside the door? On such a cold day, let him stay outside the door, still wearing single clothes? ”

Xiao Qi said with a smile: "Secretary Wu should leave this matter alone.

The one outside the door was a stubborn man, and he said unabashedly that the Zhao Dianguan in the household had deducted food and salary too ruthlessly this month, how could people survive in this cold winter?

When the Zhao warden heard the news, he was quite dissatisfied, so he asked for a lesson from his humble position.

You also know that the Zhao Dianguan of this household is in charge of everyone's food and salary, how can we provoke him?

Therefore, the villain wanted to let this stubborn man blow the cold wind outside, firstly, to let Zhao Dianzhi dissipate his anger, and secondly, to prevent Zhao Dianzhi from continuing to remember him.

Blowing cold wind outside the door is at most a minor illness, but if Zhao Dianguan continues to remember him, it will be difficult to say. ”

Hearing the name Zhao Dian, Wu Liangqing suddenly hesitated.

Although the rank of this Zhao Dianguan is lower than his own, he is the confidant of Shangguan Xue Experience, and he is also the money bag of Xue Experience.

Most of the food and salary deducted by Zhao Dianke went into Xue Shi's pocket.

Although Wu Liangqing couldn't look at this kind of torture method, he didn't want to put himself in it for this, as a priest in the workshop, he couldn't afford to provoke his superiors.

Wu Liangqing was silent for a while, and then said calmly: "Even if it's a lesson, you don't need to let people stand in the cold wind in single clothes and be cold, today's wind is not small." ”

Xiaoqi said with a wry smile: "It's not that this is despicable, it's really that Lin Hu's family is in a difficult situation, so he even pawned his winter clothes out, and now he has no money to redeem them, so he can only bear it."

But please rest assured, the priest is a brother who eats in a pot, and we don't plan to fix him to death.

Da Zhuang, go out and call that stubborn man in to roast the fire.

Tell him that for the sake of Secretary Wu, we will spare him and let him stop being so open-mouthed next time. ”

A soldier standing farthest away from the brazier hurriedly agreed and ran out of the small door beside Wu Liangqing.

This small flag's practice made Wu Liangqing feel a little more relaxed in his heart, he took out three coins of silver from his sleeve pocket, threw it to Xiao Qi and said:

"It's freezing this day, buy a sip of wine for the brothers to warm up."

Xiaoqi took the silver, immediately grasped it tightly in the palm of his hand, smiled all over his face, and complimented Wu Liangqing:

"In the sixth room of the former military governor's mansion, you are the only one who can still remember us poor soldiers from time to time.

When you become an experienced adult, we poor soldiers will be better off.

You bastards, what are you doing there, hurry up and thank the priest, are you there to be a wooden pole? ”

Several sergeants immediately bent down and saluted, and thanked Wu Liangqing in an uneven voice.

Wu Liangqing waved his hand and said, "Okay, I won't hinder you from baking the fire, you come out for a while, I still have something for you to do." ”

"The Hou family of Longping collapsed half of the greenhouse in the flower garden by the snow last night, and today the housekeeper of the Hou Mansion informed me and asked me to find a few people to clean up the flower garden and repair the greenhouse by the way.

You find a few people, go to the Marquis of Longping's house early tomorrow morning, and get this done for me, understand? Wu Liangqing stood outside the door of the ear room and whispered.

Xiao Qi, who bowed his head and bent down beside him, kept nodding his head and responded: "Secretary Wu, please rest assured, I will arrange for people to go back in a while, and I will personally take people to Houfu to repair this conservatory early tomorrow morning." ”

"Oh no, no......"

Da Zhuang, who had just run out, stumbled into the door and shouted loudly at Xiaoqi, interrupting the conversation between the two.

Seeing the slightly unhappy expression on Wu Liangqing's face, Xiaoqi reprimanded loudly: "What's wrong, I can't even speak, what happened?"

Could it be that Lin Hu fainted? ”

"No, the emperor is here."