"Boy, don't think you'll be so brutal with martial arts. To tell you the truth, it is difficult to enter this gate and then try to go straight out. What we have here is the means to deal with your hard bones. Xiao Qi, who smiled cruelly, came to Xu Ying's side and reached out to tug at the stainless steel chain on her handcuffs. In his heart, he was thinking about picking the dirtiest cell for this white-faced scholar with fine skin and tender flesh, and tortured him.

Xu Yingxiu raised her eyebrows, and was about to scream angrily, when she suddenly heard someone under the corridor far away asking in a deep voice: "Why is there any noise?" Then there was a sound of low footsteps, and a tall figure came in front of the two men.

Xu Ying saw the other party's posture, her heart sank, and she said secretly: This person's martial arts are not weak, but I am afraid that it is three points stronger than the guy surnamed Zhao.

Under the light, I saw this burly man with eagle eyes and high nose, eyes like electricity, a sharp chin, a few short whiskers under his chin, and his appearance was like a high-roller in the green forest, wearing a gorgeous shirt with a light gold color.

When "Xiaoqi" saw this person coming, he bowed his head and said, "My lord, this kid is arrogant. Xia Guan thought ......" Before he finished speaking, he saw that the big man waved his hand slightly, hurriedly closed his mouth, and waited aside.

The gold-clothed man glanced at Xu Ying coldly, and his heart sank, and his intuition was told by his intuition that this scholar in mustard cloth had martial arts, and his master had a great background, and he was not an ordinary knight. Stretched out his hand to pick up the register on the table and looked at it, he couldn't help but sneer, and secretly thought: Zhao Qingfang, who belongs to Jinyi Wei, the "wood" word guard, a small school captain, can also capture such a skilled character alone? It turns out that the Jinyi Guard has commanded the following envoys, which is the Yamen of the Fusi of the North and South Towns, and then the five guards named after the five elements of "gold, wood, water, fire, and earth", "wood and water" belong to the Nanzhen Women's Division, and "fire and earth" belong to the Fusi of the North Town.

Xu Ying saw that this person's martial arts, bearing, and clothes were all different from ordinary brocade guards, and her heart sank, and she saw a flying fish with wings on the back embroidered with a red silk thread on each of the other party's cuffs, and with the swing of the sleeves, it was as if it was swimming in the water vividly. With a shock in his heart, he remembered what his father had told him before, the official rank and clothing of Jinyiwei, and suddenly couldn't help asking: "Are you the Tongzhi of Nanzhen Fusi, Cao Wenbin?" ”

Cao Wenbin was slightly shocked when he heard this, turned his head, and asked, "Who are you?" At this time, he had completely concluded that the path of the scholar in front of him was by no means simple, otherwise he would never be able to know what his official position was from his clothes alone, and even call his name.

Xu Ying smiled and said, "Isn't it written on that?" Yu Ying, could it be that you can't read or write? ”

Cao Wenbin snorted coldly, and said coldly: "In this way, only the aggrieved Fangjia stays here." After that, he summoned two subordinates and said in a deep voice: "Take him to the Tianzihao cell on the side of my study and detain him, and he will not be tortured, so that he can be taken care of." ”

Looking at the back of Xu Ying who was far away, Cao Wenbin picked up Xu Ying's long sword on the table and flicked his fingers lightly. Suddenly, he said coldly to the little flag who was standing quietly: "Find someone to carefully check the origin of this sword." "It turned out that during the Hongwu period, Yingtian was where the Beijing division was located, so it was strictly forbidden for any civilians to bring weapons into the city, except for people in the government and the army, etc., civilians carrying weapons on the street could be condemned as "the crime of going against the party", and they would be killed. All the armory shops in Yingtian City have long been sealed, and the blacksmith shop is also strictly forbidden to create any weapons. Even people in the rivers and lakes dare not openly carry weapons to swagger through the market in broad daylight. Cao Wenbin wanted to start with this "murder weapon" to find out Xu Ying's origin.

Xu Ying was in front of this so-called "upper room", and couldn't help but be stunned, only to see that this house was completely made of a huge piece of granite carved from the inside, and couldn't help but be shocked. Inside, what made her even more astonishing was that even the "bed" was carved, and the doors and walls cast in stainless steel were a foot thick, which could not be shaken by human beings. Fortunately, although it was dark, it was quite clean, as if someone was cleaning it often, but it was rarely inhabited.

As a daughter's family, Xu Ying naturally loves cleanliness, and seeing that this place is not filthy, she can't help but feel slightly proud. It turned out that she deliberately guessed Cao Wenbin's identity, just to let him know that he had some origins, so that he had scruples and did not dare to humiliate himself. She knows very well that a person with a high position like Cao Wenbin is by no means a reckless person. It was because of those words that he didn't know where he came from, but he didn't dare to do anything to himself easily. Lying on the stone bed, Xu Ying suddenly remembered ** Bolai, frowned, and thought: Zhao Qingfang, who had captured him just now, asked someone to take back the body. That clumsy boy doesn't have a solution, and it's bad to be caught here. Thinking about it like this, I was a little worried.

However, it was said that after Zhao Qingfang walked out of the Nanzhen Fusi Yamen, he went up to the roof, and carried out light work like a light smoke, and actually went straight in the direction of the palace.

Coming to an alley in front of the palace, Zhao Qingfang looked around at the quiet long street, where there was no one, took off the "school guard" brocade clothes outside, removed the gorgeous clothes inside, and then wore the "school guard" clothes inside, covering the gorgeous clothes. As soon as he raised his hand, he tore off the delicate human skin mask and put it into his arms. Revealing a handsome pale face with a bookish atmosphere, but slightly bloodless, he strode towards the palace.

The bright lights in front of the Hongwu Gate in the south of the palace reflected his pale golden flying fish suit, and the emerald green flying fish on his sleeves were also lifelike. Except for the color of the flying fish pattern on the sleeve, the clothes are the same as Cao Wenbin, who is the same as "Jinyi Weinan Town Fusi".

Entering the gate is the outer city of the imperial palace, and there is a central axis from south to north in the Hongwu Gate, that is, the imperial road. All palaces and imperial institutions were grouped along this central axis. At the end of the royal road is the Outer Five Dragons Bridge.

Zhao Qingfang crossed the Outer Wulong Bridge along the royal road, and then passed through the noon gate, which is already the inner imperial city also known as the "Forbidden City".

Zhao Qingfang showed a waist card made of jade all the way, and after entering the palace, it was unimpeded all the way, and after dozens of patrolling brocade guards, he came to the "Wuying Palace" west of the "Jinluan Palace".

Under the illumination, the "Wuying Palace" is surrounded by lights and the top of the hall, with three steps and one post, and five steps and one sentry are full of "Jinyi Guard" guards.

Zhao Qingfang came to the square in front of the gate of the "Wuying Palace" and waited quietly. The "brocade guards" who guarded them were the subordinates of the most elite "golden" guards, and they were not under his control.

About a moment later, only a slight sound of footsteps was heard, and a middle-aged man with a white face, a slightly fat body, and a eunuch costume in his forties came to him, smiling at him, and said in a slightly sharp voice: "Lord Jiang, at this moment the emperor is summoning someone, I am afraid that you will have to wait a little longer." ”

It turns out that the so-called "Jinyiwei" captain "Zhao Qingfang", the real identity is one of the two giants of the "Jinyiwei" with the same name as Cao Wenbin, and the official residence is from the "Jinyiwei" of Sanpin, the commander of the Beizhen Fusi, Jiang Xian.

Jiang Xian heard Xue Jing, the eunuch in charge of the imperial study, say this, and felt slightly surprised in his heart. It turned out that at this time every night, he had to go to the imperial study to meet the "Hongwu Emperor" Zhu Yuanzhang, but today's emperor summoned other courtiers at this time, which is extremely rare. Although he thought so in his heart, he just said "um" in his nose, indicating that he knew, and his eyes didn't even glance at it, this chief eunuch who served Zhu Yuanzhang in the imperial study every night.

Xue Jing came out at this time, because he wanted to be close to the prominent figures in this "Jinyi Guard", but he didn't know that the other party was so arrogant, safe and not to beat himself in the eyes, so boring in his heart, and he didn't dare to attack, so he forced a smile and walked into the hall in a gray manner.

It turned out that during the Hongwu period when Zhu Yuanzhang was in power, the eunuch Mo said that he interfered in national affairs, and even his life was very poor. When serving Zhu Yuanzhang, if he was a little careless and committed a long face, he would also die miserably, without any actual power at all.

In the imperial study room in the "Wuying Palace", there are three stacks of feet high on the wide desk, and on the rosewood chair behind the desk, there is an old man with a medium stature and a slight fortune, wearing a golden five-clawed dragon robe. It was Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty. I saw that his temples were white, a horse face was full of wrinkles, a nose and slanted eyebrows, his chin was like a shovel sticking forward slightly forward, his appearance was extremely peculiar, and his tired eyes looked coldly at the person standing a foot away.

I saw that this person was thirty years old, wearing a cyan scarf, wearing a pale blue robe, simple and generous, medium but slightly thin, black hair, handsome appearance, a pair of Danfeng eyes under the sword eyebrows, and an angular mouth closed.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the young man in front of him who was teaching in the countryside, and said with a pleasant face: "Fang Xiaoru, three years ago, Wu Shen, a scholar of Dongge University, recommended you to me, after you were recruited to Beijing, you were ordered to compose two poems "Lingzhi" and "Nectar" in Fengtianmen, and I still remember it vividly. ”

"I wonder what Your Majesty wants to inquire about?" Fang Xiaoru owed slightly.

Zhu Yuanzhang sighed lightly, and said lightly: "Last year, the court and the central government were involved in the case of reselling 24 million stone of official grain because of Guo Huan, the head of the household department, and Li Yu, the political secretary of Beiping. ”

When Fang Xiaoru heard Zhu Yuanzhang say this, he couldn't help frowning deeply and said: "Your Majesty has vigorously rectified the rule of officials, punished corrupt officials, and reduced the burden ......of the people. After a slight hesitation, he still said: "But this case is too big and the punishment is too heavy, from the household department to the bottom of the prefecture, prefecture, county, and tens of thousands of people." There are no people who have died unjustly, and they have failed to overkill. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang snorted coldly, his eyes burned, and he suddenly asked: "At that time, the prefect of Jining, Shandong, Fang Keqin, your father." And Song Lian, who served as the crown prince's concubine, your teacher, also died of overkill? ”

Fang Xiaoru heard Zhu Yuanzhang say this, and couldn't help lowering his head, his body trembled with excitement, and his nails were already deeply sunk into his palms.