Since the succession of Xia Qi, the inheritance of Chinese civilization has been changed from the Zen concession system to the hereditary system, this kind of father to son, family world, clan concept has been 3,000 years, for the family, the inheritance of the emperor, and even some emperors, in the selection of the prince to put the prince's heirs within the scope of inspection.

Xu Yixian's meaning is obvious, now that the Jingbei Army has controlled the Jingshi, Li Xingzhi has become the de facto helmsman of the Ming Dynasty, if he does not give birth to an heir as soon as possible, in case of an accident, the more than 100,000 Jingbei Army will collapse.

"Uh...... After returning to Beijing, the prime minister asked the first assistant to protect the media, and married the county lord after the year. ”

Li Xingzhi wanted to tell Xu Yixian that he founded the Jingbei Army not to replace the Ming Dynasty and establish a family in the world, but to establish a fair and democratic country with supervised rights.

In this era when the feudal hierarchy was deeply rooted and the people's wisdom was still not open, it was obviously impossible to rush into a new policy and change the executive, judicial, legislative and military power from the control of the monarch to the control of the state, which would only plunge the country into an endless civil war.

"Thank you Prime Minister for your humble position, so that I have no worries about the 100,000 soldiers of the Jingbei Army!"

Xu Yixian's eyes showed a look of joy, knocked his head down, and said: "Prime Minister, General Shang belongs to all reckless soldiers, where can he use the art of torture, and ask the Prime Minister to command and transfer a few Jinyi Wei Zhenfu who know the name of the punishment to Tongzhou to assist in handling this matter." ”

"What you said also makes sense, the prime minister will pass on the book to Ma Sande now, and he will select a team of brocade guards to be under your control, how to capture the assassins, it doesn't matter what else the prime minister is, the prime minister only needs the result."

Li Xingzhi waved his hand and waved Xu Yixian away.

Tongzhou is only more than 30 miles away from Beijing, and Ma Sande, the commander of Jinyiwei, was also shocked when he heard the news that Li Xingzhi had been assassinated on the way back to Beijing.

Liu Qiao is the envoy of the Jinyi Wei of the Chongzhen Dynasty, in the second year of Chongzhen, the Dongyu entered Kou Jinggi, and Yuan Chonghuan, the governor of Jiliao, was imprisoned for this matter, and Liu Qiao was responsible for the trial of Yuan Chonghuan's crimes.

After Li Xingzhi rebuilt Jinyiwei, because he didn't know much about criminal investigation and interrogation, Liu Qiao, the Jinyiwei Zhenfu Division who convicted Yuan Dudu, naturally fell into the eyes of the new commander Ma Sande, and was reactivated and transferred to Beizhen Fusi to be responsible for criminal investigation matters.

At night, Liu Qiao arrived in Tongzhou, at this time the city of Tongzhou has been under martial law, not only each city gate has a fully armed Jingbei army patrol, but also the city wall is also three steps and one post, five steps and one sentry.

Soon, Liu Qiao was invited into the Tongzhou Zhizhou Yamen by the guards guarding the door, and Xu Yixian, who was sleeping on the ground, heard that the brocade guard had arrived at the Yahua Hall of the Prefecture, and hurriedly put on a robe to welcome him.

"The last general Liu Qiao has seen Xu Changshi!"

Xu Yixian is Li Xingzhi's confidant, although Liu Qiao said that he was the pro-army of the Son of Heaven, but once the Son of Heaven and a courtier, he naturally did not dare to put on a score, and hurriedly made a military salute.

"Liu Zhenfu doesn't have to be polite, I don't know if Ma Shuai has ever told you about the assassination? Could the Niulanshan and Tongzhou City bombings be the same gang? How to arrest the assassin, Liu Zhenfu has a plan? ”

Xu Yixian raised his hand to signal Liu Qiao to get up, and ordered the maids on the left and right to serve tea, he was worried about the assassin's affairs, and he couldn't care about being polite, and threw out a few questions in a row.

"Xu Changshi, the last general already knows all about the two assassinations, whether the case is combined, the last general will not dare to talk nonsense, this can only be known after the assassin is caught, I wonder if Xu Changshi may be sure that the thief is still in the city?"

Due to the cold weather, Liu Qiao traveled all the way, and he was really cold and tired, but this was the first time he had carried out a mission since he recovered, and he was doing things for the prince of Qi Guo, who covered the sky with one hand in the court, and did not dare to complain, he picked up the teacup and ignored the temperature of the water, poured two sips in a row, and then answered Xu Yixian's question carefully.

Xu Yixian said firmly: "The thieves must be in the city, when the West City exploded, the thieves also went to the city to shoot arrows, although the city gate was chaotic at that time, but the official still ordered the cavalry to immediately surround the city, and preemptively controlled the city gates in Tongzhou, and the official did not believe that the thieves' legs could run through the cavalry's horses." ”

"In this way, this matter is much easier, the thieves can go to the city, then naturally it is inseparable from the city defense army, or the general guarding the door was bought by the thieves, Xu Changshi rest assured, the last general has a way to catch the thief, and also ask Xu Changshi to transfer troops to control the Tongzhou military camp first, and then take out the population yellow book of Tongzhou, we will ask the whole city tomorrow to distinguish the foreign population first."

Liu Qiao is an old criminal investigator in the end, and he still has some means to catch the assassin.

"Okay, General Liu rushed to Tongzhou overnight, I want to come hungry, the official has prepared wine and food, you and your brothers drink some wine to warm up, nourish your spirits, and help the official get people tomorrow."

After arranging the diet and living of Liu Qiao and his subordinate Jinyi Guard, Xu Yixian invited Liu Qiao to transfer troops to surround the Tongzhou garrison yamen and barracks with Shang Kexi, who had already entered the city.

Because Tongzhou was captured by the Jingbei Army, the garrison only had more than 200 soldiers, which was used to maintain law and order and guard the city gate.

Li Gang is also a bachelor, and before he was interrogated by Jinyiwei, he explained the events of that night clearly.

It turned out that before nightfall, a few merchants who got off the ship from the Caoguan wharf sent some wine and meat, because the weather was really cold, after closing the city gate, he took his brothers to hide in the city gate building to drink, but a few glasses of wine were down, and he was drunk and unconscious.

"If those merchants were standing in front of you, would you still recognize them?"

Shang Kexi looked at Li Gang, who was frightened and pale in front of him, with a look of disgrief.

"To recognize, to recognize, is to turn to ashes, and the small ones can also recognize them!"

Li Gang nodded repeatedly, but he kept beating the drum in his heart, the prime minister was assassinated in Tongzhou, and he was at the West Gate where we were on duty, and he didn't know if he could save the dog's life this time.

"You stay in the cell, tomorrow with Ben will recognize people, if there is another mistake, Ben will report to the prime minister and kill the nine clans."

Shang Kexi scolded, he was also glad, fortunately Li Xingzhi didn't have an accident, otherwise he, a town general who had been the king of pseudo-Qing Zhishun, would really have no place to stay.

The next day, the officers and soldiers of the Fourth Town, who had been ordered to stay in Tongzhou, went out to block all the streets and alleys in Tongzhou City, and the people in each alley were dragged from their homes to the streets by the soldiers of the Jingbei Army.

Xu Yixian personally took a few clerks, took the yellow book of the population one by one, and identified them one by one by the people who managed the streets, and all the Dingkou who was not in the yellow book would be dragged out of the crowd by the fierce Jingbei soldiers.