Sun Xuan's official clothes were neatly dressed, and he sat in the hall and waited in a refreshing manner, in contrast, Song Nan was much more casual in his household clothes, but this is the majesty of Shangguan, in front of subordinate officials, there is no need for official clothes to maintain his majesty, especially Song Nan today.

Seeing Song Nan coming into the hall, Sun Xuan hurriedly got up and bowed respectfully: "I have seen the commander, on the day of the emperor's special vacation, Sun Mou came to disturb him early in the morning, and returned Lord Haihan." ”

Song Nan waved his hand and said with a smile: "Brother Sun, don't say this kind of thing, I estimate that you will come in the morning, when I leave Beijing to suppress thieves, the huge Jinyi Wei Yamen can rely on you alone, hard work." ”

Sun Xuan smiled and said: "My lord said this, I am embarrassed, I am an idiot to lead the troops to fight, I Sun Xuan was an idiot, I should have followed the adult saddle before and after the horse, but my ability was limited, so I could only try my best to deal with the things in the yamen." ”

Song Nan stretched out his hand to signal to sit down, the little servant served fragrant tea, Sun Xuan took a sip and then lowered his hand and waited for Song Nan to speak, he knew that Song Nan would definitely ask about the affairs of the yamen.

Song Nan put down the teacup and smiled and said: "In Shandong, the Jinyi Wei Yamen of Bazhou and Baoding Prefectures suffered heavy losses in this thief rebellion, how is the reconstruction going?" ”

Sun Xuan had already prepared, knowing that Song Nan was most concerned about this matter, this time the Jinyi Wei Yamen was destroyed in the area where the thieves were in trouble, four thousand households, sixteen hundred households, the loss was indeed not small, when the thieves were suppressed, the casualties of the Jinyi Wei Ti were nearly three thousand, these are the capital of the Jinyi Guard, Song Nanyan can not care.

"Hui Yu lord, thousands of households and hundreds of yamen in various places are in the process of reconstruction, the yamen of the main state capitals have begun to operate, with the reconstruction and relief of the imperial court, the humble post is also on the court, the emperor also issued a decree, let the household department allocate 300,000 taels separately, specifically for the reconstruction of the Jinyi guard yamen and the pension of the casualties, all of which are carried out in an orderly manner; Beizhen Fusihou Zhenfu sat in Shandong, and the day before yesterday he wrote to ask if the adults had returned to Beijing triumphantly, saying that they would not come back for the New Year, and they would only return after handling the affairs there. ”

Song Nan nodded and said: "Then I will rest assured, Hou Dabiao is an anxious man, and he is very desperate, you bring my words to him, let him come back for a few days to rest during the New Year, and rebuild is not a day's work." ”

Sun Xuan nodded and said: "According to the order of the lord, the matter of rebuilding the Yamen's brocade guard cavalry needs to be decided by the lord, and the humble post discussed it with Li Baihu of the inspection team, and wanted to select people from the thieves captured by the imperial court first, but I was afraid that this move would not be in accordance with the rules." ”

Song Nan smiled slightly, thinking to himself, Li Daniu is also full of style now, just a hundred households in the inspection team, but Sun Xuan also has to discuss things with him, the inspection team is responsible for inspecting the identity of the candidates recruited into the Jinyiwei, and the control is very strict, not only to prevent the careful work of mixing into the Jinyiwei, but also to select suitable candidates, and the right is not small; But more importantly, Sun Xuan knew that Li Daniu was his closest confidant, and the people he brought from Ulzhou were even more respectful.

"The rules are not in line, but the court has already set the goal first, but as long as the weapons are disarmed and surrendered, the people will be written off from the thief, although one of the criteria for the selection of Jinyiwei is that there is no case record, but the court has pardoned, it cannot be regarded as a case record. Despite your bold picking, many of the captives were people who had experienced war, and it saved a lot of trouble. Just a little, don't force them, after all, most of them are just ordinary people, and if they want to go home to farm, then it's up to them. ”

Sun Xuan said with a smile: "I don't enter the yamen with brocade clothes, but I want to farm, I don't want such a person with a pimple head, and since the adults have spoken, we can shake off our hands and feet." ”

Song Nan smiled and nodded, raising a glass of tea.

Sun Xuan didn't mean to leave, his expression was a little hesitant, as if he had something to say.

"Brother Sun, if you have something to say, what must have happened?"

"No, no, no, it's nothing, but there's something I don't know if I should report to adults."

Song Nan frowned and said, "What do you mean by whether it should or shouldn't?" If there is something to do, it will be done. ”

Sun Xuan thought for a while and said, "Do you remember an incident you encountered when you were visiting Xiangshan two months ago?" ”

Song Nan raised his head and thought, "Xiangshan? Are you referring to the incident where the guards of the King of Anhua followed me and almost got into a fight? ”

Sun Xuan said: "Exactly, the king of Anhua secretly came to the capital, at that time the lord was busy with the expedition and did not investigate, but the humble decided to secretly investigate, originally involved in the royal affairs, the humble post did not plan to investigate deeply, but the humble duty ordered people to find out the purpose of the prince of Anhua to come to Beijing, felt very strange, and the humble duty felt the need to report to the adult. ”

Song Nan was stunned and said, "What? Does it matter? ”

Sun Xuan said: "It is precisely because I don't know whether it is important that I decide to report to the adult; On the day when the prince of Anhua went to Xiangshan, the lord once said that his guards said that the prince was going to see someone, right? ”

Song Nan nodded and said, "Yes, I guess most of them went to the temple in Xiangshan to meet some high-ranking monk or something." ”

Sun Xuan shook his head and said, "My lord, do you remember that when Wang Yue and Fan Heng of the Inner Court were overthrown, did Fan Heng have a property in the Xiangshan Courtyard?" ”

Song Nan was taken aback, got up and paced: "As far as I know, the Xiangshan Villa was included in Liu Jin's bag, and I didn't investigate this matter deeply, after all, this kind of thing can't be put on the table, why should I be investigated?" Maybe it was with the emperor's permission. ”

Sun Xuan didn't speak, and thought to himself: You naturally don't want to pursue it, isn't the big mansion you live in also Fan Heng's property, and you also took something.

Song Nan suddenly stopped, and said with a somewhat shocked expression: "Brother Sun, do you mean to ...... The prince of Anhua went to Xiangshan not to worship the Buddha and burn incense, but to see it...... Liu Jin? ”

Sun Xuan picked his fingers and praised: "My lord is wise, and I can see through it at one point, and the result I secretly found out is exactly like this." ”

Song Nan thought for a while and said: "But in fact, there is no need to make such a fuss about this matter, Liu Jinquan leans towards the government and the opposition, and it is naturally reasonable for the prince of Anhua to have a relationship with him." ”

Sun Xuan said: "The problem is that the lowly investigation found out that the things they talked about were a little unusual, and the prince of Anhua visited Liu Jin to ask Liu Jin to help him do something. ”

"What's the matter?"

"Lifting the ban on the number of soldiers in the Qingwang Mansion."

Song Nan blinked and said, "What's the matter?" ”

Sun Xuan scratched his head and said: "Don't you know, my lord has adhered to the principle of 'dividing the feudal lord without tin soil, ranking the lords without facing the people, and eating Lu without governing affairs' since Taizu. Although the rules set by the grandfather said that the kings have no responsibility to rule the people, they are allowed to have the right to lead the troops, but since they became the ancestors, the right to lead the troops has been restricted, and only the right to support the palace guards is allowed. ”

Song Nan naturally understood why he would not allow the vassal king to lead the army after becoming an ancestor, Chengzu Zhu Di himself was a vassal king with troops, and it was he who supported the army to seize the throne, and after ascending the throne, he was naturally afraid that other vassal kings would follow suit, so he set this rule, which is a typical thief.

"Are you saying that the prince of Anhua begged Liu Jin to help him with his errands, but the purpose was to expand the personnel quota of the guards of the Qingwang Mansion? What does the number of guards in King Qing's Mansion have to do with him? ”

"You don't know yet, the king of Anhua County was originally a branch of the Qingwang Mansion, after the death of the Qing prince a few years ago, now the youngest son is the title of the king of Qingding, the king of Anhua is his uncle, it is said that he has been staying in Ningxia Town to take charge of the affairs of the Qingwang Mansion."

Song Nan nodded and said: "I see, but then King Anhua came forward to ask for an increase in the number of troops for the Qingwang Mansion, which also makes sense." ”

Sun Xuan said: "Yes, of course, this kind of thing needs the emperor's approval, and the king of Anhua himself was not sure that the emperor would agree, so he asked Liu Jin to help in advance and let Liu Jin blow the wind in the emperor's ear; The emperor has agreed to this matter, and the limit of guards in the Qing Palace's palace has been increased to 5,000. ”

Song Nan frowned and thought about it carefully, "What do you think this means?" ”

Sun Xuan shook his head and said, "I can't guess anything." ”

Song Nan saw from Sun Xuan's eyes that he was secretive, as an official of Jinyiwei, he was extremely sensitive to such things, and he couldn't guess what he meant, but it wasn't that he couldn't guess, but he couldn't say much.

"Is this information reliable?" Song Nan asked.

"I have an old dark chun for more than ten years, and now he is the steward of the Xiangshan Courtyard, and the prince of Anhua carried two large boxes of gold, silver and jewelry to visit Liu Jin."

"Did the emperor promise King Anhua announce it in the court?" Song Nan asked.

"No, this is an internal matter of the royal family, the emperor nodded and calculated, as for how I knew about this, the adults can attack and ask Princess Kangning to know, it is inconvenient for subordinates to say more."

Song Nan's heart was bright, the news from the palace was naturally learned by Kang Ning's hands, maybe when Zhengde announced, there was a palace maid on the side, maybe Kang Ning was around, and he had already taken advantage of Kang Ning's convenience to spread eyeliner in the palace, originally to grasp the movements of the inner court, but even some things in Zhengde's private were also explored. The news network in the palace is directly in the hands of senior officials of Jinyiwei, and it is not surprising that Sun Xuan found out about this matter.

Song Nan paced slowly, he couldn't deduce what this matter would portend, but as a Jinyiwei's sensitive, and it was about Liu Jin, of course Song Nan refused to stop there, if there was anything wrong with King Anhua's move, it would be an opportunity to pull Liu Jin off the horse.

"Send someone to investigate this matter secretly, and send competent people, and you must not startle the snake. King Anhua's fief is in Qingyang, and he lives in Ningxia Town, which is under the jurisdiction of Yang Yiqing, the general system of the three sides. ”

Sun Xuan nodded and said, "I understand that I plan to go there in person after the year." ”

Song Nan snorted and sent off the guests with tea.