The Ming Dynasty has twenty-four yamen in the inner court, namely twelve prisons, four divisions, and eight bureaus.

These internal affairs were in charge of customs duties, salt mines, weaving, porcelain, munitions, palace use, and even the construction of some state fortifications. It is not too much to say that it is half a money bag of the Ming Dynasty.

Before the Jiajing year, the 24 yamen had always been controlled by eunuchs close to the emperor.

But since Emperor Jiajing was in power, Longhushan was enshrined as a state religion, and the situation has changed dramatically.

The Weaving Bureau, the Maritime Safety Bureau, the Salt Mine Supervision and other functions and powers were successively controlled by the Heavenly Master, and later the Tiqi was restructured, and the eunuchs were in charge of the palace honor guards, guards and other errands, which were also taken away by the Taoists.

In the third year of Wanli, the establishment of the Heavenly Master Dao Taiyi Pavilion announced the complete end of the hot time of the celebrant eunuchs. Today, four-fifths of all these Yamen offices, which are in charge of the country's economic lifeline, have fallen into the hands of Heavenly Master Dao.

However, the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and there are always some fat and lacking military and political yamen, controlled by eunuchs.

For example, tea and horses.

Today's tea and horse supervisor, named Chai Xuan, entered the palace at the age of six, worked as a mine supervisor in Tianjin, and was transferred to Shaanxi Tea and Horse Division seven years ago, and is now escorting a group of southwest tribute horses to Beijing.

It is no wonder that Li Yan's demon horse flying thunder was saved by Chai Xuan's fleet.

The day has just been sunny, and the big ships in the harbor have screens outside the cabins, and there are excellent singing and dancing outside.

Chai Xuan had no beard, wore a gauze crown, and wore a white loose cotton robe. Twisting a chilled grape in his hand, he is slapping his thigh and humming at the moment:

It's hard to get rid of the spring in the chaos

There are resentments in the ground

It is my little Chanjuan

Choosing a Door......

Suddenly, a thunderous noise hit the horses and boats behind, and Youling's leather drum board was broken, and Nene didn't know how to pick it up.

Chai Xuan also walked away, he threw the grapes on the plate sullenly, and glanced at the people beside him: "Sixth son, what's going on behind the scenes?" It was really a day of trouble yesterday, I let the stables go and see, just cleaned for a night, why is it not good to get up early in the morning? ”

The six sons came over: "Godfather, I went to ask yesterday, two days ago, didn't the next person catch a sick horse." ”

"Oh, there's such a thing."

Chai Xuan had the impression that he glanced at it from a distance, the horse's fur was scattered, his hooves were trembling, his lips and teeth were vomiting blood, and he looked very miserable.

Liuzi continued: "Since this sick horse entered the stable, it may have brought in some kind of illness or plague, and the horses on the horse boat behind him neighed day and night, and they did not eat forage......

When Chai Xuan heard this, he was anxious: "Ridiculous! Rubbish! We're betting on the tribute horse who entered Beijing, and it really made this bad horse sick, how many heads do you have?! Don't let anyone pull the plague away! ”

The sixth son made Chai Xuan shrink his neck: hurriedly said, "I took the horse away last night, and pulled the sick horse to the bottom of the bilge, it stands to reason that it is fine, and the horse has stopped." ”

Chai Xuan's face eased at this time: "Tell the next person to take a look." By the way, my "Jade Rouge" wasn't in the same boat as that bad horse, yo, no, I have to take a look. ”

The jade rouge in Chai Xuan's mouth was a precious foal given to him by Gan Ning Tusi when he first took office.

He has been raising jade rouge for seven years, and he loves this jade rouge on weekdays, and he loves his daughter so much, he expects this horse to pay tribute, please the emperor of God, and transfer himself back to Beijing on an errand.

As he spoke, he stood up, grabbed his shoes and walked out. I was bumping into the sherds who came in with a blank face.

"Great, sir, forgive me! Forgive your sins! ”

When the horse keeper saw Chai Xuan, he knelt on the ground with a plop, kowtowing like pounding garlic.

Chai Xuan gasped, bumped into Youling, who was singing, a few steps over, and pulled the horse stable's neck collar: "What's wrong!" ”

The horse breeder's teeth bumped: "I, I didn't look at any of them, the strange horse that the officers and soldiers fished up, and the tiger roaring of our family, the fourteen Zhu, and all of them, were bitten to death." ”

Tiger roar, fourteen Zhu are all horse names, they are the best horses that can be counted in this batch of tribute horses, Chai Xuan almost didn't get angry when he heard it, he pinched the horse stable's neck viciously: "Where is my jade rouge?" Where's my jade rouge! ”

"Jade, Jade Rouge ......"

The stables were afraid to speak.

Chai Xuan threw the stables away, tore open his sharp voice and shouted, "Let the boat go!" Hurry up and release me on the boat! ”

The soldiers from the official office put down the grasshopper boat, and Chai Xuan led people to hurriedly get on the horse boat behind.

……

The origin of this matter is also simple, when the demon horse flying thunder was fished up, the demon poison in his body, cold and hungry, naturally looked sick.

The errand stable's family, several generations of horses, when he saw this sick strange horse sailing, he felt very good.

Although the soldiers on the ship did not take it very seriously, he led the horse to the carriage and took care of and fed it, and slowly, the flying thunder also improved.

It is also strange to say that since the flying thunder entered the horse compartment, the tribute horses immediately screamed miserably and loudly, and top famous horses such as Tiger Roar and Fourteen Zhu were also restless.

Last night, the stableman was instructed that the firewood supervisor on the ship ahead was blaming him, and that he must pacify the horses. In desperation, he had no choice but to stuff the flying thunder into the cramped and simple cabin.

It's okay at night, who would have thought that early in the morning, Feilei suddenly went berserk, and more than a dozen soldiers couldn't stop him, so he broke into the carriage and bit him to death, kicking several tribute horses to death.

When Chai Xuan arrived on the boat, he almost lost his breath when he saw the scene on the boat.

There were seven or eight horses on board that had fallen in a pool of blood, with a large piece of flesh missing from their necks, blurred flesh and blood, with more air in and less out, apparently dead, and the rest of the horses were driven out of the spacious and comfortable carriages, and fled on the deck, in chaos.

The huge carriage was scattered, the trough was also kicked over, the soft grass collapsed, and the black-haired demon horse Feilei neighed with his head raised.

It pressed on the body of the jade rouge, its eyes were red, its nostrils spewed out two white gases, its two hind legs couldn't help but stir, and the snow-white and handsome jade rouge screamed twice from time to time, but it was pressed by the flying thunder and couldn't move.

"I slaughtered you brute!"

Chai Xuan's brain was hot, he snatched the fire gun from the soldier's hand, aimed at the strange horse, and when he clicked the lead, the flying thunder seemed to feel something, he snorted coldly, raised his hooves to avoid the shooting, and rushed towards the crowd with a roar!

The soldiers and generals on the left and right rushed up, and this flying thunder was quite afraid of the officers and soldiers, but it was extremely cunning, dodging the generals' horses, rushing left and right, and dozens of officers and soldiers together with two hundred households could not catch it.

Chai Xuan was a supervisor in the southwest, rode a horse, shot a gun, and was not weak, but this evil horse was still weak in his hands and feet, at this time, he was a little sober, and carefully looked at the demon horse that was like no one on the side, and suddenly said: "Don't hurt him, don't hurt him." ”

The soldiers on the ship became more and more encircled, and the flying thunder became agitated, and the horse's hooves kicked several soldiers to spit blood, and the two hundred households caught the horse in front and back, but let the flying thunder smash and tear the rope alive, but they couldn't hold him.

It took more than 100 officers and soldiers to surround the flying thunder, but in the end it was the horse stable who came, the old tears were crossed, the flying thunder saw the horse stable, his eyes hesitated for a while, the ferocity had just been restrained, and the soldiers were caught in more than a dozen hook locks, so there was no room for resistance.

Chai Xuan ignored the danger, walked forward to carefully examine Fei Lei, and even used his hand to lift Fei Lei's mouth, almost not letting it bite off its fingers.

"Good horse! Good horse! ”

Chai Xuan circled around the flying thunder.

"The eyes are like brown gold, the red mouth and dragon cheeks, the square martingale ears are tight, and the appearance of a dark cloud stepping on the snow! Okay, okay. ”

Chai Xuan danced for a while, came back to his senses and pointed to the stableman: "I want to reward you well, you picked up ten thousand taels of gold for me." ”

Before the stableman could speak, an officer and soldier suddenly came: "Lord Jianzheng, someone has come to visit you with a gift." ”

"Oh. Who is it? ”

Chai Xuanzheng was happy.

"It's Daningwei's Zuo Si Zhenfu, who passed through here on an errand, he said, the dark horse we caught two days ago was his."

Chai Xuan was stunned, and he looked at the sixth son.

The sixth son hurriedly replied: "The godfather asked his subordinates to do it, and his subordinates fished the horses and reported them to the county government in Jiaozhou." ”

"Bastard! Rubbish! ”

Chai Xuan was furious, and slapped Liuzi in the face, Liuzi was beaten, and he didn't dare to cover it, so he had to bow his head softly.

"This, this, this ......"

Chai Xuan raised his eyes and looked around, the boat was full of his own personal soldiers and servants, the entanglement on his face slowly calmed down, pretended to be calm and nodded, and then said to the soldiers who reported it: "Let Li Zhen wait for a while, and the official will arrive later."