The female assassin subconsciously looked out of the courtyard and walked over with her shoulders on her shoulders.

She was still dressed in the same nocturnal outfit, and after a night, the thin silk shirt and trousers had been dried, and the texture of the fabric was still very soft, so as not to expose the curves of her body.

The female assassin squatted down in front of Yang Fan, looked at him and said, "Why did you get up so early?" ”

Yang Fan brushed his teeth and said vaguely: "Because I am the owner of this workshop, I should be on duty this month, and I will go to open the workshop early in the morning." ”

The female assassin was surprised, "Are you a fangding?" Fang Ding originally assisted Wuhou in preventing theft, how can you ...... but he steals. ”

Yang Fan scratched his head and said, "This question...... It's really hard to answer. You say that officials should love the people like sons, but there are so many greedy and cruel officials who treat the people like dogs? ”

"Hmmm! I don't see it, you stupid ...... You guys have a point. ”

The female assassin thought for a moment, nodded, and looked around the empty courtyard before asking, "Are you alone in your house?" ”

Yang Fan said: "Yes, I was exiled to the South China Sea with the Kunlun merchant ship when I was a child, phew! Phew! Didn't come back until adulthood. Bah! It's been less than a year since I arrived in Luoyang City. ”

The female assassin frowned again, and said suspiciously: "You lived overseas as a child, and less than a year after returning to Datang, you became a native of Luoyang, and you also became a fangding of the Xiuwen Workshop?" ”

Yang Fan glanced at her and said, "Don't you know how easy it is to get a household registration in our Datang?" ”

The female assassin was dumbfounded, she knew that Yang Fan was telling the truth.

During the reign of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, the population of the Central Plains was more than 46 million, but during the Tang Gaozu period, the population of the whole country was only more than 15 million, a sharp decrease of two-thirds.

It is true that because of the chaos in the world at the end of the Sui Dynasty, many people died, but the number of people who died in the war was actually very limited, and more people died not on the battlefield, but because of the secondary injuries caused by the war---- the destruction of agriculture. At that time, the number of people dying of hunger was dozens of times greater than that of those who died in war.

But even so, the population of the early Tang Dynasty would not have plummeted to such a huge extent, and the main reason for the sharp decline in population at that time was due to the concealment of household registration. During the war, peasants were displaced, disrupting the original hukou system. After the world stabilized, many peasants had taken refuge in the wealthy and became slaves or tenants, and it was very difficult to count the population.

Over the years, the imperial court has continued to increase population statistics, and the system has been much improved in the early years, but there are still many loopholes to be drilled, so it is not very difficult to conceal the household registration or to get a household registration.

"What's your name?"

The two of them were silent for a while, and suddenly spoke together, as soon as this sentence came out, Yang Fan laughed, but the female assassin didn't think it was funny, she strained her face, stared at Yang Fan with a pair of clear eyes like water, and Yang Fan saw that her laughter was indeed very low, so she restrained her smile and introduced herself: "My name is Yang Fan, ranked second, everyone calls me Yang Er or Erlang, I don't know what the girl's name is ......."

The female assassin groaned for a moment, then replied, "My name is Tian Ainu. ”

Yang Fan was surprised: "Your surname is Tian?" What a big surname."

The female assassin shook her head and said, "No, I don't have a surname. My name is Tian Ainu, my name is ...... It's called heaven, love, and slave! ”

Of course, there is nothing unusual about the name Tianainu, and at that time women usually did not have big names, only small characters. The empress of Emperor Wen of Wei Cao Pi was called Queen Guo. The empress of Emperor Liu Zhi of the Han Dynasty was called Deng Mengnu. The empress of Emperor Liu Fuling of the Han Zhao Emperor was called Shangguan Xiaomei. And the eldest grandson of Emperor Taizong of this dynasty is called Guanyin.

Most of the queens are from famous families, and their milk names are still like this, and the milk names of folk women are even more strange. But how is it possible that women without names are common, and people without surnames are ......? Yang Fan didn't ask too much with interest, he knew that there must be an unknown secret hidden in this girl, maybe just like him. …,

Yang Fan had no intention of discovering other people's secrets, so he smiled and said, "God love slave!" What a nice name! Do you want to brush your teeth, I please! ”

Tianainu's bright gaze was first focused on his toothbrush with curled bristles, and then the moth raised his eyebrows again, and then looked at him. Yang Fan laughed and said, "Of course not, I still have a few new toothbrushes." ”

Yang Fan got up and walked into the room, and after a while, he took out a brand new toothbrush, and took out a water scoop and scooped half a scoop of water. Yang Fan handed the scoop, toothbrush and green salt to Tian Ainu and introduced, "Huh! This is Luoyang Xiuwenfang Ma's toothbrush, exquisite workmanship, first-class quality, four squares and eight towns, well-known. ”

The red sun rises in the east, leaping above a cloud on the edge of the sky, and from the gaps between the clouds, the golden sunlight is projected onto the divine capital Luoyang City. In the small courtyard of Yang Fan's house, a man and a woman, holding a scoop and a clay pot, squatted face to face, brushing their teeth in the sun.

"I need a set of clothes, phew, bah, ......"

"Cheng, wait a while to open the door, I'll find you a set of clothes and come back, bah, bah, ......"

"Xiexie, phew!"

"No thanks, I don't have a gang at home, I'll bring you some food back, we have a Jiangjia noodle soup shop in our workshop, the soup noodles are chewy, the soup is clear and flavorful, four squares and eight towns, there is a good reputation, bah, bah, bah, ......"

"That's right...... Actually, I'm not too hungry......"

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Early in the morning, not long after the doors of the shops were opened, a few people dressed in civilian clothes and riding horses under their crotches hurriedly walked on the road to Xiuwenfang.

If anyone recognized them, they would be surprised to find that among these people were Tang Zong, the commander of Luoyang, and Qiao Junyu, the military officer of the Criminal Department. It's really not easy to get these two people to walk together early in the morning, and I don't know if there is a big case that caused a sensation in Nine Cities.

Luoyang Wei Tang is about forty years old, with a wide mouth, thick eyebrows and heavy eyes, and a thick black beard under his chin, which looks very majestic. At his age, when a man's physical strength and spirit are at their peak, he wears a robe on his body, and the curves of his chest and arms show that his figure is burly and strong.

The person on the horse on his left hand side was Qiao Junyu, who was also a middle-aged man in his forties, his figure was thinner than Tang Zong's, his cheeks were wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, and the shallow wrinkles added a bit of elegance to his Qingqu face.

Riding a horse next to him was a beautiful young man in a brocade robe and jade belt, this young man was half a head shorter than Qiao Junyu, wearing a jade-colored collared robe, a seven-star belt around his waist, a scarf on his head, a pair of shallow waist black silk shoes under his waist, his figure was very slender, he was only twenty-eight years old, his face was handsome, and his eyebrows were like swords.

Tang Zong rode his horse forward, and said in a deep voice: "Qiao joined the army, Luoyang has a population of one million, and there are a mixture of fish and dragons, it is really difficult to find a person, and the court is not allowed to engage in a big battle, isn't that embarrassing?" To be honest, even if I ask Yang Langzhong to preside, I don't have much hope! ”

Qiao Junyu sighed softly, and the crow's feet at the corners of her eyes became denser.

To find someone in the huge Luoyang City, how difficult it is, how can he not know, not to mention, he has to do it quietly, he can't make the city full of wind and rain, this is really too embarrassing, but......

Qiao Junyu glanced to the side, and saw that the beautiful young man in the jade robe and brocade belt who accompanied him was already sinking like water when he heard this, and his heart couldn't help but tighten, and he hurriedly said, "That person is injured, this is an obvious sign." The prisoner disappeared in the area of Xiuwenfang, so let's take Xiuwenfang as the center and search around. If Luoyang Mansion does not have enough manpower, you can mobilize the Wuhou and Fangding in each workshop on the spot, and let them search the alleys and alleys! ”…,

Tang Zong complained even more when he heard it: "Joe joined the army, you said it easily. At the foot of this Son of Heaven, a random old man in a fishing suit by the stream may be a certain Shangshu waiter who is Zhishi Rongxiu, and a random young man who is bowing in the alley may be a relative of the emperor. A small Buddha nunnery, a small Taoist temple of the benefactor, maybe it is which prince and prince, check, how to check? Flip, how to flip? ”

Qiao Junyu carried the beautiful young man next to him from the corner of his eyes, seeing that "he" was becoming more and more gloomy, he couldn't help but secretly complain in his heart, but he couldn't stop it: "This Tang Zong has been enforcing the law for many years, and he has seen a lot, and he can be regarded as a figure who has seen the world, why can't he see the identity of the woman next to me, this is an internal guard, even if you can't see her identity, can't you see that she is Yi Hai and Ben?"

How can the things assigned by the internal guard be shirked. Although the Xie Muwen and Miss Xie who came to the door were just a Guoyi lieutenant in the internal guard, even if they were the servants of the Criminal Department and the Shangshu of the Criminal Department, they didn't dare to ignore her. What is an internal guard? It was a sword in his hand today.

If this sword wants to kill, there is no need for interrogation, no need to be detained, and no charge is even required, that is the right to be cut first and then played, didn't you see that as soon as this Xie Duwei arrived at the Criminal Department, even Zhou Xing and Zhou Shilang treated her as a guest, and immediately arranged for me to send her to see Yang Langzhong, and Yang Langzhong was personally responsible for the case, Tang Shaofu, Tang Shaofu, what is wrong with you today? ”

He didn't know that Tang Zong, as a lieutenant of Luoyang, was in charge of Luoyang justice, and he was also an official who had long known about the existence of Meihua's internal guard.

At this time, Tang Zong pretended not to know, and deliberately complained to her. There are a number of public servants in Luoyang Mansion, with such a few public servants in Luoyang Mansion, managing such a large city, managing millions of people, and being busy every day, is it easy? As a result, the internal guard came to a random person, and instructed him to mobilize a large amount of manpower, so who will be responsible for the daily security of the entire Luoyang City, and who will bear the chaos if there is a mess?

Tang Zong pretended to be confused and vented his dissatisfaction to the internal guard. The woman dressed as a man, Xie Duwei, seemed to notice that he was complaining to himself, and raised his sword eyebrows, and was just about to sneer at him, when a few beggars suddenly ran up to the side of the road, and said in a pretentious manner: "A few noble people are pitiful and pitiful, give some food...... P: Ladies and gentlemen, vote for it!