In the northwest of the Forbidden City, there is a series of Hubo, from north to south are Jishuitan, Shichahai, and Taiye Pond. Taiye Pond is divided into three parts from north to south, also known as Beihai, Zhonghai and South Sea, Xiyuan is on the west bank of Beihai and Zhonghai, and south of Xiyuan is Taifu Temple and other yamen.

On the shore of Zhonghai Lake in the West Garden, a group of martial artists sat in groups of four or five, basking in the sun and enjoying a leisurely time.

With the palace halls of the Forbidden City in the distance, and the lakes and mountains and pavilions in the distance, the beautiful scenery makes everything look so harmonious. However, if you get closer, you find that there is no harmony at all, and there are complaints one after another.

"Damn, the instructors went out to enjoy one by one, but they didn't let us go out here, Lao Tzu has been in Beijing for so long, haven't you had a good time?" Li Yanzhi lay on the grass on all fours, complaining loudly.

"What is there to visit outside, this Xiyuan is the best place in Beijing, isn't it enough for you to see?" Cao Bianjiao sat cross-legged on the ground, rubbed a short knife with a piece of cotton cloth, and replied casually.

"Hey, Mr. General, the most beautiful thing in this Beijing city is not the lake and mountains, but other places," Li Yan turned to the side and said to Cao Bianjiao mysteriously, "Have you heard of the Eight Hutongs?" ”

Cao Bianjiao glanced at him and said lightly: "Isn't it a kiln?" What's there to shop about. ”

Li Yanzhi laughed and said: "The kiln is different from the kiln, I heard about it when I was in my hometown......"

Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Cao Bianjiao: "I see that you are not tired yet, and you still have the energy to think about women." ”

Li Yanzhi lay on the ground all of a sudden, as if all his strength had been drained away, and sighed.

"I'm just addicted to it, and now I'm just washing the woman in front of me, and I can't play. Alas, when will such a hard life come to an end, when I was admitted to the Wujin Soldier, I thought that I would be happy to come from now on, go to the army to be an officer, and then go to the battlefield to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions. I didn't expect to be confined here to practice all day long, more tired than usual martial arts practice, it's better than death! ”

Cao Bianjiao said disdainfully: "This is bitter? You think it's good to go to the army, that's the real bitterness! Do you know how ferocious Jiannu is? Have you ever heard how cruel the battlefield outside the gate is? Life in the army is really hard, and I always have to worry about whether I can go home alive. Now we are just practicing, we can eat enough every day, what else is there to suffer? ”

"It doesn't matter if you practice, but those instructors are too bastards, relying on the fact that they are princes, they beat and scold us at every turn, and they don't treat us as human beings at all!" Zhou Yuji, who had been lying silently, couldn't help but say.

"Yes, when standing in a military posture, he was whipped, and when he walked in the queue, he was also whipped, and he was ruthless one by one, Chen Junzhe just argued a few words in the morning, and was beaten with a full twenty military sticks, and his buttocks were all broken, and he couldn't get out of bed for at least half a month, which is obviously a life!" Zhou Yuji said indignantly, Chen Junze was a martial artist in his outpost, but he could only watch Chen Junze being beaten, and there was nothing he could do.

"What makes Lao Tzu most unhappy is that these bastards deduct money and food! When I first came to Xiyuan, how good was our food? There is fish and meat in Dunton, now what? Haven't eaten meat in a few days? Training so big every day, don't let you eat well! Huang Degong shouted loudly.

"I heard that Your Majesty has allocated enough money to the new army, have they all been greedy?" Li Yanzhi also added fuel and vinegar.

As a result, complaints arose for a while, and the martial artists were venting their dissatisfaction with Xu Xiancun and the honorable instructors.

Cao Bianjiao listened quietly and did not interject. Because he knows that now at least everyone can still eat enough and eat meat buns, and the soldiers in the border army, except for the family team around the general, it is difficult for other soldiers to even eat enough, and now everyone's food is actually better than that of the family members, what can not be satisfied?

However, Cao Bianjiao did not speak, because he knew that these martial artists were all from wealthy families, and the so-called poor scholars and rich martial arts could not support the consumption of martial arts training due to poor family conditions. Take Li Yanzhi, who has the most ordinary family conditions, for example, he has hundreds of acres of land at home, and there is a dyeing workshop in Jiaozhou City, because it is not a material for studying, so he practiced martial arts and took the road of martial arts.

"Since everyone is dissatisfied with the instructors, why don't they join forces to ask for an explanation?" Suddenly, a clear voice sounded, breaking everyone's complaints.

The warriors turned their heads to look, and it was a young man of seventeen or eighteen years old, dressed in a fish and dragon suit, with fair skin and a handsome face, who appeared among them at some point.

"Ask for the law, how to ask for it? They are the head of the Jinyi Guard, the prince of the prince, and the people trusted by His Majesty, we are just ordinary martial artists, how did we do them? Huang Degong shouted.

"Who are you?" Zhou Yuji asked cautiously. The person who accosted him was obviously not a Wu Jinshi, why did he appear here, this is Xiyuan, a forbidden place in the palace?

"Your Majesty!" Cao Bianjiao suddenly knelt on the ground and shouted loudly.

From the moment the young man suddenly appeared, Cao Bianjiao was carefully observing, he saw the brocade-clothed guards faintly flashing not far away, and saw several eunuchs standing quietly not far away. can appear freely in Xiyuan, and there are a large number of brocade guards and eunuchs around him to follow and protect, and he is only seventeen or eighteen years old, that can only be a person, today!

This sudden appearance turned out to be the emperor? The other martial artists were stunned, and hurriedly knelt behind Cao Bianjiao, and shouted in unison: "The minister knocks to see Your Majesty!" ”

Zhu Youzhen smiled slightly: "Get up." ”

The warriors got up one after another, standing around Zhu Youzhen at a loss. It's broken, it's broken, the emperor heard all the complaints just now.

Wang Chengen walked over quickly, put a brocade pier on the grass, Zhu Youzhen sat down, waved his hand, "Everyone sit down, don't let me look up at you, my neck is uncomfortable." ”

The warriors laughed and sat down on the grass.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I have heard what you just said, some complain about the beating and abuse of the instructors, some complain about the worse and worse food, and suspect that the funds have been embezzled.

Let me say, these things are easy to solve, you can set up a soldiers' committee, select people with prestige to represent everyone, and negotiate with the instructors to solve problems when encountered. Zhu Youzhen smiled.

Soldiers' Council, what is this? Negotiate with Shangguan to supervise Shangguan, can this work? All the warriors looked at each other.

Zhu stopped from the inspection to the end, chatted casually, comforted him, and then left.