The prefect Zuo Jian is a round middle-aged man, which is extremely inconsistent with his vigorous and resolute style, and in Liu Xin's mind, his image is a senior eunuch with deep eyes and rich ups and downs.

And Zuo Jianzuo's squinting eyes and honest demeanor will make people lose their vigilance at first sight.

At a banquet, Zuo Jian didn't mention anything about Chen Nianji's case at all, but kept praising Liu Xin's young talent.

Because Chen Nianji was originally a person of Jinyiwei, and Liu Xin was a thousand households of Nanzhen Fusi, arresting Chen Nianji and returning to the imperial capital to report on his work became his latest task.

As for the vacancy in Jinyiwei here in Hanzhong Mansion, news has been sent to Xi'an Mansion in Shaanxi Province since Luo Fuxian's death, and it is estimated that a replacement will arrive in the next two days.

However, this is not under Liu Xin's control, after a flattering banquet, Liu Xin is also happy not to have to fight with others, but he is faintly even more jealous of this Zuo Jianzuo.

Even if the plan behind it is not Zuo Jian, the person who can perfectly execute this plan is definitely not an ordinary person, but he is too unaggressive, he is simply pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger.

Fortunately, he will leave Hanzhong Mansion tomorrow, and the situation here has already been sent back to the imperial capital through the post station, and it is estimated that in less than three days, Dai Tongzhi will receive the news.

This time, he took down the righteous son of Qin Guogong, and I don't know if the court will cause turmoil.

Things went unusually well, so that the people in the entire Nanzhen Fusi team were also relieved, they thought that something big was going to happen here in Hanzhong, but they were pressed down before the wind and waves were lifted, so everyone in the post station was also relaxing, drinking and eating and chatting.

After Liu Xin came back, he went to the room by himself, thought about it, and included Zuo Jian in his key place objects, the more he thought about it, the more he felt that Zuo Jian was unfathomable!

At this time, in the prefect's yamen, Zuo Jian sat in his duty room, writing official documents, his face was serious, and his squinting eyes tried to open, revealing the essence inside.

He was arranging the investigation of the counties near Hanzhong, and his task was to quietly control the entire Hanzhong Prefecture.

With more than 800,000 people, Hanzhong Mansion is a rare high-class government, and the land veins are vast, the water and soil are fertile, and there is no flood disaster, so it can be said that it is a first-class good land in Shaanxi Province.

By the time he had finished settling his last accounts and writing his last paperwork, it was late at night.

Zuo Jian got up and walked slowly to the window, looked at the stars in the sky, and muttered to himself:

"Lang Lang blue sky, see the light of day again. Lord Wang, you must do what you promised me, revitalize my Zuo family! ”

The site of Raptor's Mountain

Since being swept through the Raptors Mountain led by Ban Wei, the mountain bandits here were either killed or fled to other places, and for a while the momentum of the mountain bandits could no longer be condensed, and they became a group of stragglers, falling everywhere, waiting for them to be captured by the county officials to get their fate.

And early this morning, suddenly a teenager led a group of people into a certain county office, rescued many mountain bandits who were imprisoned inside, and then traveled several places to rescue many mountain bandits.

At night, the big guys reunited in Raptors Mountain, and there were two or three hundred people.

The boy was dressed in sackcloth, his hair was disheveled, he had a dog's tail in his mouth, and he was still humming an unknown ballad.

After rescuing this group of mountain bandits who were originally going to kill their heads, he ran all the way with people, robbed all the way, and finally brought everyone back to this sad place, and then the young man didn't care about everyone, found a bald tree, climbed to the top of the tree and sat on the branch, and didn't care about everyone with his legs shaking.

"Senior brother, Xiong Er, Siniang, Fifth Uncle, Liulang, Xiaoqi, where are you, I can't stand it, Second Senior Brother is not a human, that's a devil, a devil!"

If Liu Xin was here, he would recognize this young man as Dog San'er, Zhong Feifei. I don't know what path he chose, now he looks like a beggar, and he also leads people to rob the prison, if he is caught, it is a felony to cut off his head.

Just when Zhong Feifei was worried and melancholy, a few respected people were elected among the mountain bandits, came to the tree, and looked at Zhong Feifei respectfully, one of the middle-aged men was shirtless, revealing his strong pimple flesh, and he shouted at Zhong Feifei:

"Third master, third master!"

Zhong Feifei's thoughts were interrupted, and he shouted down angrily: "What a howl, didn't you see that your third master was thinking!" ”

This angry shout caused the crowd to scatter as birds and beasts.

"Really, why did the second senior brother let me be the king of the mountain, I don't want to be the king of the mountain!" Zhong Feifei was lying on the branch in distress, and the second senior brother in his mouth was naturally everyone's second senior brother Du Yuanjin.

For some reason, Du Yuanjin asked Zhong Feifei to take the elite of several secret investigation teams to reunite this group of scattered mountain bandits.

Today is a robbery, tomorrow he will go to rob the dogs, it seems that they are all people who are related to the Chen family on the boundary near Hanzhong, in the past, they relied on the Chen family as a disaster, but now the Chen family has fallen, the trees are falling and scattered, this group of people was ignored by Zuo Jian because they had no oil and water, and Du Yuanjin sent Zhong Feifei to pick it up.

Of course, Zhong Feifei was unwilling, but his small arms and legs couldn't withstand the thick thighs of the second senior brother, so he could only come helplessly.

In the distance, although the group of mountain bandits who survived the catastrophe were hungry, they were all in a good mood, and several people gathered together, and even began to compare the advantages and disadvantages of each cell, and even to discharge the best cell.

Seeing that Zhong Feifei didn't care about them, everyone's voices became louder and louder, and some people said that they were going to get up and dance for a while, although he thought he was boxing, but in Zhong Feifei's eyes, this was a wild boar dancing.

"A group of rabble, it's really tiring to lead a team!" Zhong Feifei retracted his gaze, sighed, closed his eyes, and gradually entered the dream.

When the night was dark and the wind was high and cool, thirty miles west of Hanzhong Fucheng, Du Yuanjin finally got what he wanted in the cool night breeze, took out the red fox fur, draped it on his shoulders, and stood proudly on the mountain, quite a forced-king style.

After standing for this hour, Du Yuanjin, who had finished loading, went down the hillside sweating profusely, put the fox fur into a beautiful box with great dignity, and then said to Chai Junfeng, who was holding the box:

"When you have time to go back, you can help me draw the scene just now!"

In addition to having a nickname of know-it-all, Chai Junfeng also has a nickname that circulates in a small area, called the fairy in the painting, and a Danqing painting is excellent.

Chai Junfeng smiled bitterly, but had to agree.

Then he asked:

"Second Senior Brother, why do we want to withdraw from Hanzhong Mansion, didn't we say that we would be ambushed again?"

Du Yuanjin, who wiped his sweat with a handkerchief, shook his head and said: "Hanzhong is no longer valuable, and it costs money and effort to stay, and it may not be good in the end." It's better to stop the loss in time and invest elsewhere. ”

"And where are we going?" Chai Junfeng looked worried, he had not been under this second senior brother for a long time, but the latter's ethereal style of acting gave him quite a headache.

Du Yuanjin raised his hand holding his handkerchief and pointed to the west.

"The Western Regions?" Chai Junfeng looked surprised, the land is vast and sparsely populated, why don't spies go over?

Du Yuanjin shook his head, and in Chai Junfeng's dull gaze, his lips hooked: "Our goal is to be west of the extreme west!" ”

Some people are destined to be busy this night

A fast horse arrived at the Northern Army Governor's Mansion overnight, and the Northern Army Governor's Mansion was set up in Yan'an Mansion, which was only more than 100 miles away from Yansui Border Town.

The Northern Army Governor's Mansion is twelve hours of office, and there are people on duty all the time, this fast horse was stopped at the gate of the Northern Army Governor's Mansion, and he was directly released when he entered the city with the token in his hand, but this token was not easy to use at the gate of the Northern Army Governor's Mansion.

After the gate guarded the pass, it took a long time for someone to pick it up, this knight had been riding a horse for several hours, and three fast horses were replaced at the post station along the way, the horse was fine, he was about to be wasted, even if it was an old knight, now the crotch should have been worn out.

With his feet apart, he walked into the Northern Army Governor's Mansion with a strange pace, and the one on duty today was Weng Bingliang, the commander of the capital.

Weng Bingliang is an out-and-out martial artist, with five big and three thick, a scruffy beard, and a pair of tiger eyes like copper bells, and he is wiping his treasure knife in the room at this time.

Seeing this person's footsteps, Weng Bingliang knew that he had ridden a fast horse for several hours in a row, and knew that it was an urgent report, so he put down the knife, walked out of the bookcase, and came to this person, spreading his hands to indicate that the things were brought quickly.

But the knight shook his head, and said, "I have an urgent message to see the governor, but there is no letterhead, but it is a verbal message." ”

Weng Bingliang frowned and said, "Who asked you to pass the word?" ”

The knight hesitated for a moment, and when he saw that Weng Bingliang's expression was getting worse and worse, he said, "It's the squad commander!" ”

Weng Bingliang glanced at the knight strangely, this guy is not stupid, but he has been raising his anger for several months, this is what the governor instructed him to be calm in case of trouble.

"Since it's him, it's the same if you have any message to me!"

The knight hesitated, he knew that the person in front of him was the same commander, and the rank was two levels higher than that of the class commander, and the rank was one level higher than that of the commander of the class, and the rank of the senior officer was crushed to death, let alone two levels.

Weng Bingliang is most annoyed by this kind of hesitant person, he hesitates now, is it needless to say later, since you must say it, then you still hesitate a bird!

In the knight's fear and incomprehension, Weng Bingliang lifted it above his head, shook it vigorously, and then threw it to the ground, and the knight, who was already weak-legged, fell to the ground at once and couldn't get up for the time being.

"Whew, be calm in trouble!" Weng Bingliang first comforted himself, and then said with a sneer:

"I just wanted to see if you had water in your head! Now it seems that you shouldn't have entered, so you're still hesitating, tell the old man the message... I! ”

The knight was already frightened, and immediately said the message, who expected that after listening to the message, Weng Bingliang's face suddenly collapsed, and the knight subconsciously moved back.

"Grandma drops! This surnamed class is really in the brain, when is he still interceding for Chen Nianji's kid, no wonder he would do that kind of pickled thing to fill his pockets. Lao Tzu had good things to say for him before, so he should listen to Sima's words, and he had to kill it directly! ”

The angry scolding in Weng Bingliang's mouth made the knight even more frightened, when he set off, Ban Wei had not yet had an accident, and he still did not know that his commander should be convicted and arrested, and he was now on the way to escort him.

"Whew, calm down!" Bursting with a foul mouth to relieve the pressure, Weng Bingliang remembered the governor's point again, and immediately calmed himself down, and then he glanced coldly at the knight lying on the ground, grinning and scolding:

"Get out of here, it won't be long before you see Ban Wei!"

Although the knight was afraid, he remembered the task he had come to and tried to ask, "This... This message: Yes to"

Weng Bingliang waved his hand irritably, and said, "I know, I will naturally pass on such a trivial matter to the governor." ”

The knight was still unwilling, and said, "But... This message needs to be addressed in person..."

"Kiss your mother, Sippy!" Weng Bingliang had already turned around, and when he heard this, he slapped the table, turned around and said angrily: "The governor has already set off for the imperial capital, kiss it back!" ”

The knight didn't know where to get the strength, and when he heard this, he immediately got up, and after hurriedly saluting, he said while retreating: "Genus.. subordinates.."

"Who's your uncle, get out!" Weng Bingliang scolded angrily.

The next day, Nanzhen Fusi's team arrived in Hanzhong Mansion for only two days, and they embarked on the way home. This time, the team increased significantly, because he wanted to take Chen Nianji back to the imperial capital, as well as his henchmen, because they were all crimes committed under his wing, so they had to be brought back together.

Therefore, Liu Xin transferred some of the people of Jinyiwei here, and he had to transfer some more along the way, after all, this person is not a small crime.

Chen Nianji no longer has the domineering attitude of the past, and sits in the prisoner car with his father Chen An, his eyes are full of horror.

Since he woke up, he had spent the last night in the torture room of Hanzhong Mansion, and Nanzhen Fusi had a special skill known to the world, and that was their torture methods. The clever ones in these methods can even let you taste the extreme of human pain, but they will not hurt the root, and you can even walk back by yourself after the execution, but at the time of the execution, you will be worse off than dead.

And there are two people in Liu Xin's team who have such means.

Liu Xin guessed whether it was Dai Tongzhi or the admiral of Dongchang who had already thought of the possibility that there would be now, so he sent these two to come.

In addition to Chen Nianji, several other important henchmen, including his father, also felt this pain, so several new items were added to the already very detailed evidence book.

In Zuo Jian's farewell with a smile on his face, Liu Xin embarked on the return journey. This trip to Hanzhong only took 18 days, much earlier than the previous expected January. The speed of the return trip will not be very fast, and it is estimated that it will be mid-August when I return to the imperial capital.

At this time, in the imperial capital, an urgent express letter of 800 miles and an escort team from Dongchang arrived almost at the same time.

Dongchang Yamen

Yuan Dongxiang placed the pen holder, pen wash, inkstone, paperweight and other objects on the bookcase neatly one by one, facing the same direction, and the distance between each object was almost equal.

After doing all this, and arranging his robe, he strode out of the duty room, and if you look closely, every step of his life is the same.

Since Liu Xin left, his life has returned to order, as soon as he left the duty room, there were three Dongchang scribes next to him lined up in turn, and stepped forward to report to work.

Yuan Dongxiang did not stop and continued to move forward at a steady pace.

"Report to thousands of households, half a month ago in the outer city of the imperial capital of the crowd murder case, Dali Temple and Jinyiwei have submitted the case file, both sides believe that this is the rivers and lakes seeking revenge, and there is a warrior in the Dacheng realm. Although there were no bodies at the scene, there were more than 20 people fighting between the two sides, so it was seen by many people. At present, there is no progress in the arrest of the whole city. ”

Yuan Dongxiang didn't stop walking, and said lightly: "Dali Temple and Jinyiwei are both eating dry rice!" Sent a letter to the king's commander, his inner city of thousands of households can not only focus on the inner city, if the outer city is chaotic, how can the inner city be good! ”

"Yes!" After the scribe finished reporting his work, he left straight away and went to do what Yuan Dongxiang had ordered.

Another scribe made up in time and said: "Lord Qianhu, next month's martial arts competition, the final venue in the imperial city has been arranged, and there is a border defense general who returned to the imperial capital early this morning to report on his work. They are the Duke of Shu and his three generals under the command of the Governor of the Western Army, and 200 guards have been placed in the military camp in the outer city. Niu Shilun, the commander of the Southern Military Governor's Office, with three commanders from Fuzhou, Ganzhou, and Guangzhou, and 200 guards have been placed in the military camps in the outer city. ”

Yuan Dongxiang's feet froze for a moment, and then he resumed his previous frequency, and after a while, he spoke: "After the Wubi is the military conference, so there will be people from the governor's mansions everywhere, you have to pay attention, where everyone has gone, who they have met, what they have said, everything is very detailed, and even how much money has been spent on how many things!" If there is a shortage of manpower, we will transfer manpower from other places! ”

"Yes!"

After the scribe left, Yuan Dongxiang waved his hand to stop the last scribe's opening, and he stopped, as if he was contemplating.

"Xu Zongrang of the Southern Military Governor's Mansion didn't come back to report on his work, and it seems that the south will not be peaceful."

After muttering a word in his heart, Yuan Dongxiang continued to start, and motioned for the scribe to continue.

"Lord Qianhu, the Leng Zhangban and the Gou Zhangban have returned, they have entered the imperial city with the prisoner car, and they are in the Dongchang prison at the moment."

Yuan Dongxiang stopped again when he heard this, and said, "Got it!" ”

Immediately, Yuan Dongxiang's steps accelerated, but the distance between his steps remained the same.

When he came to a large study inside the East Factory, Yuan Dongxiang sorted out his clothes outside the door, and then knocked on the door frame rhythmically.

"Come in." A calm voice came from inside the door.

Yuan Dongxiang opened the door and entered, and then raised his eyes to see that behind the only desk in the study, there was a middle-aged man wearing a cloud crane embroidered official uniform, although his face was cold, there was a confident smile at the corner of his mouth, and the sword eyebrows and starry eyes were the kind of bright eyes that really contained the stars, and at the same time, these eyes were extremely clear, as if they could perceive people's hearts.

Although sitting behind the bookcase, he can still see that his body is burly and straight, and there is an indescribable rhyme around him, as if he is like an immortal, not like a eunuch at all!

"Yuan Dongxiang see the Admiral!"

Yuan Dongxiang saluted extremely respectfully, this was his heartfelt respect, in front of the person in front of him, Yuan Dongxiang felt like a child, who could be easily seen through and manipulated.

And the Dao rhyme on the latter is also the ultimate that thousands of people are looking for on the way of martial arts, the Grandmaster Dao rhyme!

Mi Yusong put down the book he was reading, and when he looked at Yuan Dongxiang, his face was much gentler: "There have been a lot of things these days, and you look a little tired, but you don't have time to practice well recently?" ”

Yuan Dongxiang nodded and said seriously: "There are still official duties under the subordinates that have not been completed, and there is no time to practice!" ”

Mi Yusong shook his head and said: "You are just too serious, there are some things that you can let the following do, you are the one in power, and the one in power does everything himself, it is wrong." ”

Yuan Dongxiang raised his head, only looked at Mi Yusong for a moment before looking away, no one likes to be easily seen through.

"The subordinates just feel that the people below are not capable enough, and they will only drag things out more and more troublesome."

Mi Yusong said with a smile: "So I didn't let you find someone by yourself, if you think it's easy to use and available, even if you have income, I don't have a talent that I can't get in the East Factory!" ”

This is said in a domineering and outward manner, and the tone is also extremely arrogant.

Yuan Dongxiang, as a direct subordinate of Mi Yusong, has been accustomed to this Admiral in the past few years, aside from his eyes that can perceive people's hearts and the grandmaster rhyme that emanates from his body, he is actually a very domineering and outgoing person, and his tone is also extremely arrogant, and sometimes he even scolds His Majesty the Emperor.

Although Yuan Dongxiang wished that he was deaf every time he encountered such a time, it was undeniable that Mi Yusong at that time was very approachable and down-to-earth!

Yuan Dongxiang said: "I met a good seedling some time ago. ”

"Huh?" Mi Yusong suddenly interjected and said, "That's that Liu Xin, what you say, are you blaming me for leaving people to Dai De'an?" ”

Yuan Dongxiang hurriedly shook his head.

Mi Yusong laughed and said, "I know that you and him are quite eye-to-eye, but young people need to be sharpened, after all, the focus of Dongchang is in the imperial capital." Only what has been tempered is good gold, so you have to wait patiently. ”

Because of Mi Yusong's joking words, the atmosphere in the study was much more relaxed, and Yuan Dongxiang also let go: "I'm afraid that in the end, Liu Xin will replace De'an, the acting master is old, and he is not a martial artist, the struggle in that place of Jinyiwei is too strong, I am afraid that he will not be able to hold on." ”

Mi Yusong smiled and said: "Then you can rest assured, the old generation will be able to maintain health, and those troubles will definitely be Liu Xin in the future." ”

The two chatted for a while, and finally Mi Yusong started today's topic:

"How is the investigation of the group fight incident that happened in the imperial capital half a month ago?"

Yuan Dongxiang retold today's report.

Mi Yusong raised his eyes and thought for a moment, and finally said quietly: "The rivers and lakes, the rivers and lakes, there may be wind and waves again, we should be prepared, and when necessary, probe the tentacles into the rivers and lakes to check." Now that the world is unstable, don't let anyone with a heart take advantage of the loophole! ”

Yuan Dongxiang's eyes lit up, and he cautiously said tentatively: "Admiral, have you gotten any news?" ”

Mi Yusong looked at Yuan Dongxiang with a smile: "Your mind is really meticulous, you can see it, that's right, but there is news about Emperor Wu City and the Holy Sect!" ”

Yuan Dongxiang's heart froze, and he suddenly raised his head, this time he didn't realize that he was staring at Mi Yusong's eyes, and a long time had passed.