The willow house is located in the cheap shop on the south side of the inner city, and most of the people who live here are pro-army, and the Kyowei of Gongwei Kyoto is the upper straight guard, to put it mildly, there are 26 guards under the upper straight guard, but although the brocade guard is also among the 26 guards, it has its own jurisdiction.

This change stems from a change that took place after Emperor Wuyang recaptured the Northern Lands from the Northern Barbarians.

Therefore, although the Jinyi Guard is called a pro-army, there are actually the remaining 25 guards who are also pro-army. There are more than 100,000 people in the upper and lower guards, and they are all pro-soldiers who belong to the emperor alone. As for the Jingying Forbidden Army, the military force that also defends the imperial capital, it belongs to the category of the military, and it is the imperial capital that is guarded, not the emperor alone.

The houses in the cheap square are basically contracted by the upper guard, but those who can buy houses here are at least more than 100 households, and even more than 100 households for several generations can have the ability to buy, after all, it is not easy to live in this inner city.

Today is the first day on duty, and the Li family seems to have expected that Liu Xin will return early, so he waited there early, but Liu Xin is more inclined to this aunt to arrange eyeliner in a certain place, and when she finds herself back, she comes out to greet her in advance.

Liu Xin got out of the car, Senior Brother Cheng drove the carriage, fulfilled his responsibilities as a housekeeper, and went to the side gate to settle down, so Liu Xin came to the main gate alone, and saluted to the Li family with a smile:

"Liu Xin has seen Auntie, why is Auntie at the door?"

Li Shiyan smiled, and said with a calm atmosphere: "Today is Liu Xin's first day on duty, I instructed Uncle Cheng to bring you back in advance, you have worked hard in the past few days of mourning, and now that the funeral has been completed, we should give you the wind and dust." ”

Liu Xin knows that in this era, martial arts practice has become a trend, and there are more people who have seen life and death, but there are no lengthy rules in the past, and once the funeral is over, how to live the life has to be lived.

However, Aunt Li's mood is really changing quickly, if it weren't for the information in advance, Liu Xin would have thought that the Li family and his uncle were emotionally discordant.

However, the Li family is not from a small family, and has a relatively high degree of acceptance of reality, and has now entered a new role state.

After all, Liu Xin had only known this Li family for four days, so he was not familiar with it, so he smiled and took the lead in entering the courtyard.

The second courtyard of the willow house is a living room, with a cross courtyard on each side, which is used to house guests, and each has three independent small courtyards.

Sanjin is the backyard, which is also two cross-courtyards, each with five independent small courtyards, one of the Li family lives in the east cross-courtyard, and the other five aunts live in the west cross-courtyard.

Liu Xin had been guarding the mourning hall a few days ago, and while he was making the final handover with Lao Liu Baihu, he hadn't chosen his room yet. There are three bedrooms and a study in the main courtyard of the backyard, and the Li family originally lived in one of those three bedrooms, and after Liu Xin moved in, she took the initiative to move to the cross-courtyard.

Now Li began to ask Liu Xin which room he wanted.

Liu Xin thought about it, and decided to live in the second courtyard, let people clean up a room and come out, and he still left the backyard to his aunt and a few aunts.

Li persuaded from the beginning of dinner to the end of dinner, Liu Xin still insisted, and she reluctantly accepted.

After dinner, a meeting began in Liu's house, and all the maids, servants, and several aunts came out to meet Liu Xin one by one, and Liu Xin found that the number of people in this house was not less than his own hundred households. Aunt Li and the maids, servants, and grooms who were closely cared for by each aunt added up to fifty or sixty people, as well as other bookkeepers, housekeepers, cooks, doctors, and so on, all of whom lived in the side rooms in the front yard, where there were only seven or eight side rooms, and there were so many people.

The main thing is to let these subordinates know Liu Xin, the new owner of the Liu Mansion, the Li family's arrangement can be described as comprehensive, Liu Xin doesn't have to do anything, just sit there and wait for a person to come up and salute. Senior Brother Cheng was standing beside Liu Xin, he was the chief housekeeper of the Liu Mansion with a special identity, and the Li family couldn't have imagined that this Steward Cheng would become Liu Xin's henchman so quickly.

After finishing everything, Liu Xin asked someone to change a room in the second courtyard into a study, and specially asked Senior Brother Cheng to supervise it personally. At present, he can only go to the study in the backyard, that Lao Liu Baihu is a martial artist, and there is basically no need for a study in the house, but now this study can be used to the fullest, and Li soon found that Liu Xin stayed in this house for the longest time except for the bedroom turned out to be this study.

Liu Xin entered the study, first stretched his body, and said with a little distress: "Dealing with the affairs of this family is more difficult than dealing with the same number of bandits!" ”

Senior Brother Cheng followed behind, closed the door of the study, and said with a smile: "The Li family is actually good, she has a brother in her own family, and she is completely protected by the Liu family, and now she can mix it up." If there is no Liu family, she will have to suffer, so now that she recognizes the reality, it can be regarded as helping you sincerely. ”

Liu Xin sat behind the bookcase, hugged his hands around the back of his head, and nodded in agreement with Senior Brother Cheng's words:

"It's best to have an aunt at home to take care of it, but at dinner today, in addition to persuading me to move into the backyard, she also asked me a lot of personal things, what is she going to do?"

Liu Xin was very puzzled by this question, so he asked Senior Brother Cheng now, Senior Brother Cheng looked at Liu Xin in a daze at first, even if he was a housekeeper during the meal, he couldn't go to the table, so naturally he didn't know about it, but now that he knew, he couldn't help laughing.

"You're smiling!" Liu Xin felt some kind of conspiracy from Senior Brother Cheng's smile, so he was a little annoyed.

Senior Brother Cheng held his stomach, holding back his breath not to laugh too loudly, and waited until the laughter eased before slowly explaining in Liu Xin's cold face:

"This Li family is really anxious, in order to have a good relationship with you, she is going to find you a daughter-in-law!"

“......”

"Hahaha!"

"Don't laugh!"

"Heheha!"

"Hey, forget it, it's also good to get to know some people through my aunt's relationship."

"Do you really have this plan, or do you really want to find a daughter-in-law, you are not young anymore, in this imperial capital, those younger than you may already be prosperous."

"Senior Brother Cheng, you have been married in the imperial capital for so many years, have you ever had a child, why don't you have time one day, I can see my niece and nephew?"

Liu Xin's counterattack was invisible and deadly, Senior Brother Cheng's smile froze suddenly, and then coughed violently, and then stopped mentioning the stubble.

After the two of them were emotionally stable, Liu Xin also began to talk to Senior Brother Cheng about business.

I took out the map of the inner city of the imperial capital, and drew several circles on it, all of which were the locations of the hundred households and the thousands of households of Jinyiwei, and there were some lines between the virtual and the real, with many different meanings, and countless annotations. On the back of this map, there are also some names, as well as the information that this name represents, its meaning, etc.

Zhu Houzhi, commander of the guard, age... Address... Experienced... Speculative character....;

Wang Zhongjie, the commander of Jinyiwei, ,.......;

Dai De'an, the commander of Jinyi Weinan Town, and the commander of the Tongzhi ,.......;

Wei Fuchuan, Jinyi Weinan Town, Fusi Qianhu ,.......;

Kou Gang, Jinyi Weibei Town Fu Si Commander Tongzhi ,.......;

Liu Licheng, Jinyi Weibei Town, Fusi Qianhu ,.......;

......

"Senior Brother Cheng, this map, as well as these lists and intelligence, must have paid a lot of price. You and you have worked really hard! Liu Xin suddenly said this seriously, and Senior Brother Cheng's face was also gloomy.

He seemed to remember something, and his face couldn't help but have memories and pain:

"The imperial capital has always been the center of politics, and it is also the Shura field of secret spies, in this imperial capital, the secret spies of various large and small forces emerge in an endless stream, the number of people is amazing, and the countless intelligence networks that are intertwined are also layered on top of each other. The price we pay is not small, but it is also necessary, you are now the user who bears these costs, and you should be responsible for their payment! ”

Liu Xin's face was solemn, and his hands pressed on the map were also slightly forced, and he said seriously:

"I will work hard to prevent the hard work of my brothers from flowing in vain!"

Senior Brother Cheng was relieved, then let out a sigh of relief, and said quietly: "Now is not the time to remember this. Your goal is to expand your influence and power here, and I am here to help you! Now we need to think about how to go from here. ”

Liu Xin propped up his chin and fell into thought, and after a long time, he looked down at the names one by one, and then said slowly:

"Since you have become a Jinyi guard, you naturally want to be the emperor's help, and do something that the emperor wants to do, but it is inconvenient, or there is no way to do it for the time being. Only by gaining the trust of the emperor can you get the fastest promotion. I don't plan to take refuge in either side, even if it will help a lot in the short term, but in the long run, there will be a lot of constraints. Since I can't take refuge in these people, and I can't rely on my own strength, I can only change my backer. ”

"Who do you want to be your backer?"

"Wenchen is mostly a person with a knife behind his back, two sides and three knives, the first thing I want to eliminate is this group of people. Eunuch... Since Emperor Xuyang ascended the throne, this Dongchang has undergone great changes, and now it has been implicit but not sent, which is a little unpredictable, but the name of the eunuch party is not good, although it is somewhat attractive, but forget it. Liu Xin began to scrutinize one by one, first of all, he excluded the two forces in Jinyiwei.

"You don't think about the East Factory? In fact, I also wanted to recommend you to choose the East Factory, which is different from the past. Mi Yusong is on the throne, this is not a simple eunuch, he and the current Emperor Xuyang are brothers! Supporting Emperor Xuyang to ascend to the throne of God, he has made great contributions, and he is the most trusted person of the emperor! ”

"Although Mi Yusong is not an ordinary person, but Dongchang is a force in the imperial city after all, it is not pleasing to contact, and it is still that problem, the word eunuch party, it is too easy to attract ridicule, I can see it now, there is no good person in the Holy Sect, and he clearly suggests that you go to join the eunuch party, and he is righteous and awe-inspiring, and he doesn't know how to arrange ridicule afterwards!"

"......" Senior Brother Cheng looked innocent, isn't this what he is talking about?

Liu Xin snapped his fingers and continued: "On the side of Martial Emperor City, although it is relatively easy to break through, I am not a disciple of his Martial Emperor City, even if I can join, the upper limit is visible, not enough to reach the level we want to achieve." I really care about the commander of the Jinyi Guard, Wang Zhongjie, which side he is leaning towards! ”

Senior Brother Cheng asked a little puzzled: "Wang Zhongjie must be the emperor's person, this person has not had much contact with other forces on weekdays, and he lived in a simple place, and he was once the commander of Emperor Xuyang's personal guard, so he is naturally loyal." Although there is some greed, none of the officials are clean! ”

Liu Xin shook his head and said, "Wang Zhongjie is greedy, but he is a little too greedy. If I were the emperor, of course I would allow the people below to be greedy, but like Wang Zhongjie, if it is too much, I as the emperor will definitely not tolerate it. If I'm going to use him, I'm going to have to beat him up and get him back to what I can tolerate. But now Wang Zhongjie has obviously exceeded the emperor's tolerance, but he still lets it go, I don't believe that the emperor is so blind, even the things that the secret investigation team can find, can't the emperor find out? Mi Yusong in Dongchang is not very powerful, can't he find out? ”

Although Senior Brother Cheng understood a little after listening to this, he still had doubts:

"Then doesn't this Wang Zhongjie know that the emperor has dealt with him like this? He is the commander of Jinyiwei, even if Jinyiwei's internal friction is great, he can't be underestimated, what Mi Yusong can do, he may not be able to do it! ”

Liu Xin smiled and said: "There are some things that I can't see clearly when I am in the game." Thinking of this, I think that Wang Zhongjie will be a better breakthrough! ”

"Where do you want to command? That's impossible, your qualifications are far from enough, and how much effort you need to do to get to this point! Senior Brother Cheng felt that this suggestion was completely unreliable.

Liu Xin also nodded and said:

"It's hard of course, but it's still possible. But the first thing to do is to improve your qualifications, to enter the eyes of the emperor, so that you can say the rest of the matter. ”

"What are you going to do?"

"Of course, it's to prove yourself, it's very human! However, this depends on the great help of all the senior brothers! ”

Senior Brother Cheng nodded mechanically, Liu Xin's words contained too much information, and he was also a smart person, but Liu Xin's thinking jumped, and Senior Brother Cheng was spared for a while. But he soon understood that the so-called great help naturally relied on the means of the covert investigation team.

There are many talents in the imperial capital, no one is stupid, and the people Liu Xin has to deal with are all dragons and phoenixes among people, and it is far from enough to stand out in this group of people.

"But now there is no good opportunity to show myself, so I can only come to something out of the way and beat my reputation out first!" Liu Xin seemed to have thought of some plan, and smiled very brightly.

The next day, he went to the Qianhu Office on time to order, and then went to the Baihu Office, and saw that several general flags had not sorted out the information of the people of the Baihu House, so he called a small flag at random and ordered him to take him out to patrol the streets.

In fact, Jinyiwei's street patrol is not to ensure the safety of a place, that kind of thing is done by Jingzhao Mansion. Jin Yiwei's street patrol is actually just for the word oil and water.

Because although Jinyiwei's Yulu is the head of the 26 guards, unlike other guards, Jinyiwei has raised a huge number of spies in addition to himself, and these people are the root of Jinyiwei's detection, but the court will not give these people Yulu, so Jinyiwei needs to earn it himself.

How to make money, after more than 200 years has formed a practice, that is, street patrols.

Jinyiwei went to the street to protect one side well, and the people of this side were grateful for this, so they naturally had to have some filial piety. This is what the 100 households of Wenxuanfang are doing.

The little flag officer took Liu Xin to visit a few shops, and the pockets carried by the two lieutenants behind him were full, because it was close to noon, so the little flag officer found a restaurant. When he was on duty, he stipulated that he couldn't drink alcohol, but he didn't say that he couldn't drink tea and eat, so the little flag officer called the shopkeeper of the restaurant very familiarly, and said something softly, and the shopkeeper nodded again and again, and secretly looked at Liu Xin.

Liu Xin didn't care about this look, because he was dressed in a fish and dragon suit, with a few captains, they were also eye-catching, and the restaurant had a lot of customers at noon, and it was basically full, and these diners immediately lowered their voices at the moment when Jinyiwei appeared.

Nowadays, although ordinary people are not afraid of Jinyiwei, they are still somewhat afraid. However, the sound downstairs was small, and the voice on the second floor came down faintly.

Liu Xin, as a martial artist, has deep internal strength and excellent hearing, and when he listened carefully, he found that in the private room upstairs, there should be a group of scholars talking about it.

Liu Xin smiled meaningfully and slowly walked up to the second floor, the shopkeeper and the little flag official naturally didn't notice anything abnormal, Liu Xin was supposed to go up to the second floor for dinner, so he didn't care much.

Liu Xin asked several lieutenants behind him to find a compartment by themselves, and then instructed a lieutenant to do something, and he slowly came to the noisy compartment, only to hear the heroic voice of the scholar inside:

"Brother Shiyang's words are not right! The factory guard is not separated, during the Ming Yang Dynasty, the eunuch party was in chaos, and this brocade guard was a knife in his eunuch hand. ”

"No, no, no, Brother Jingyi, during the Mingyang Dynasty, how many righteous sons did the big eunuch in Dongchang accept, and the commander of the Jinyi Guard was also one of the righteous sons of the big eunuch. Saying that Jinyiwei is a sword of the eunuch party, I don't agree. ”

"Two, two, what's the point of arguing about whether this factory guard is a family, they are all lackeys! Nowadays, although the reputation of this Dongchang is not obvious, and Jinyiwei is also a rule, but since the beginning of the Kangyang Dynasty, the status of my literati has begun to decline again, which is the key! ”

"Yes, immediately build the country and govern the country, how can there be a group of reckless warriors to govern the country in peacetime, and now the governors of the provinces, none of them are my ministers, sigh and sigh!"

"Brother Zizhang's words are to the point, governing the country depends on the four books and five classics, and the sage once said that my generation should continue to learn for the saints and open peace for the world. But now they can only do some clerical work, and those ways of governing the country are useless! ”

"Brother Jingyi's words made me feel emotional, so I wanted to write a poem...."

"Brother Longchang is so literate, so literary!"

"Prizes, prizes!"

"Brother Longchang's poem will inevitably be remembered for eternity in the future, and with the spread of this poem, of course, there are also things we get together to discuss today, maybe it can also become a beautiful conversation!"

"Yes, Brother Longchang's poem is well done!"

"Hahaha, it's just a feeling, a feeling!"

Standing at the door of the compartment, Liu Xin smiled, the little flag officer had already come to him, whispered a few times in his ear, and then Liu Xin's eyes lit up, and he sighed in his heart, it was really effortless!

Then he pushed open the door and strode in, and sure enough, there was a lot of wine inside, and several scholars had drunk a lot.

Because a person suddenly broke in, the six scholars in the room were all on the spot, they all drank a lot, their eyes were confused, and they didn't find what Liu Xin was wearing, one of the tall scholars was stunned for a long time, and then asked with an unhappy face:

"Who are you?"

Liu Xin smiled, gave the six people a bright smile, and said:

"I'm just a sunny cheerful... Jinyiwei! ”