Inside the palace of the city guard.

The messengers on the ground floor have no separate place for official business and rest, only a spacious compound at the back, and several very dilapidated low houses for public use.

But as a bad head, it is different, the five poor heads each have a separate room behind the main hall, which is usually used to deal with official business or rest, and the one owned by Zhao Zong has not been there for a long time before.

After Zhao Zong's old age and dark injury, he basically didn't come to the hall to stay, but his room was still cleaned on weekdays, and it was still clean, and now after many years, this room has ushered in a new owner.

Chen Mu stood at the door, looking at the room.

The room was small, with only a long horizontal table stacked on top of each other, and a clean tea set, and behind the table was a yellow wood chair with a small piece of the chair knob, but it did not affect the practicality.

Both the tables and chairs are clean and dust-free, and the bluestone floor is free of mud.

It's not spacious, but it's clean.

Such an assessment should be very pertinent.

Zhao Zong stood next to Chen Mu, put his hands behind his back, and said with emotion: "Those of us who practice martial arts, wear out qi and blood, even if we don't fight with others, we will always accumulate some old and dark wounds, and when we are old, we can't suppress it, so we will have a seizure......"

As he spoke, he touched the table with a little reluctance, in these nine articles, no one in the City Guards Division is older than him, including the Poor Division Min Baoyi, if it weren't for the deterioration of his physical condition, he could hardly fight with others, and he was also reluctant to resign from the position of the poor head, and now he can temporarily retain the identity of the poor head and stay in the City Guard Division as a teacher, which is also a satisfactory result for him.

Originally, he planned to get in touch with Ren Yan, a rising star, sell his favor in advance, and when he stepped down a few years later, he would be able to retain some power according to his feelings, but Chen Mu's appearance was beyond everyone's expectations.

And after learning from Wang Fu and others that Chen Mu was personally mentioned by Xu Hongyu, the chief secretary above, Zhao Zong immediately stopped all his thoughts, and at the same time, he suddenly realized that Min Baoyi and Chen Mu suddenly called each other brothers.

"This method of grinding skin and refining the flesh is also harmful to the body?"

Chen Mu listened to Zhao Zong's words and asked thoughtfully.

Zhao Zong smiled and said: "Yes, whether it is grinding the skin or practicing the flesh, it is to temper the body in various ways, supplemented by medicine, which is naturally detrimental to the body, both want to practice martial arts and want to live a long life, how can there be such a good thing in the world, I now have a needle sting pain in my back every day, that is, the dermabrasion method used to practice when I was young is too focused on the effect, and it has great damage to the body, but sometimes it is inevitable that I can't help myself, and it is good to practice, how many people want to practice martial arts, and there is no way out." ”

Chen Mu listened to Zhao Zong's words, and thought of the golden jade skin grinding method that Xu Hongyu gave him.

At that time, Xu Hongyu mentioned that the effect of this method may not be the fastest, but it is more gentle and peaceful, and the damage to the body is less.

"Okay, it's time to tell you everything you said, I should also go, if there is anything else, you can ask Wang Xian, Qin Bei and a few of them." Zhao Zong slowly withdrew his hand, nodded at Chen Mu, and walked outside.

"Old Zhao walks slowly."

Chen Mu watched Zhao Zong leave, then slowly came to the table, picked up a few books on the table and took a look, but it was a map of the neighborhoods in Jiutiao, as well as some documents such as population statistics.

Putting down the booklet in his hand, Chen Mu came to the window and looked out, at this time the drizzle had stopped, just as the rain had passed, and a ray of sunset shone into the house along the window, and in the afterglow, you could see Zhao Zong's distant back, as well as many errand servants gathered in the distance, each of them was talking about what had just happened, and the shock in their eyes still lingered.

The promotion difference was no surprise to Chen Mu, but he didn't expect Min Baoyi to be so resolute, it was only a day's work, Xu Hongyu just said hello here, and the replacement had already been done directly.

Even.

Even his blue clothes, waist tags, etc. have not been made yet, and they are still being ordered.

But from now on, he is already the leader of the nine strips, and he is in charge of the part of the people that Zhao Zong originally managed, with a total of thirty or forty people, and if he feels that there are not enough people, he can also continue to recruit some from the outside.

The low-level errand is like this, recruit at will, evacuate at will, and within a certain number, the errand can call the shots.

He looked back at the room again.

Chen Mu turned around and walked out, and when he came to the hall outside, he met Qin Bei who walked out together.

"Chen Tou."

Qin Bei looked at Chen Mu with a somewhat complicated look in his eyes and greeted Chen Mu.

Chen Mu had always been an errand under him before, and suddenly he climbed into the relationship of the chief messenger, not only promoted to the errand, but also became Min Baoyi's guest, which made him inevitably feel awkward in his heart.

This is different from Ren Yan, as soon as Ren Yan came to him, he has been taking the initiative to help, and it has been more than half a year, even if he is poorly promoted, he has to call him 'Brother Qin', but Chen Mu jumped up all of a sudden, and became a character who was on par with him, and even could suppress him, this awkward feeling lingered in a short time.

"Qin Tou."

Chen Mu also arched his hand, he didn't have any special impression of Qin Bei, when he was doing things under Qin Bei, although Qin Bei was lukewarm to him, he didn't deliberately feel sorry for him, so he was also very calm and calm.

After all, Qin Bei is a person who has been a bad man for many years, and quickly suppressed the awkwardness in his heart, and said: "Congratulations to Chen Tou's ascension, if you are free in a few days, I will invite Chen Tou to have a drink, and Chen Tou will appreciate it." ”

"Definitely, definitely."

Chen Mu responded with a smile, and then walked out.

Come outside.

Some of the errands scattered in the courtyard saw Chen Mu coming, and they first paused, and then reacted, and saluted Chen Mu one after another:

"Lord Chen!"

Compared to Qin Bei, they are much more nervous, after all, they used to work in the same hospital as Chen Mu, even if they have no intersection after so many years, they have at least talked about one or two behind their backs, plus everyone felt that Ren Yan's promotion was a certainty before, everyone used to slap the horse, but now it is Chen Mu who is suddenly on the rise, and it is inevitable that he is worried in his heart.

"Get up."

"I'll take over the errand, I'm not familiar with it for the time being, you can still do things according to the routine after you wait."

Chen Mu said casually to the group of errand soldiers.

"Yes."

Many officers responded.

Then Chen Mu crossed the crowd and came to the outermost side, Liu Song and Li Tie were standing here, the two saw Chen Mu coming, but for a while they lost the easy-going and comfortable way they used to be, and greeted Chen Mu with some restraint.

"Why are you so reserved?"

Seeing this, Chen Mu said half-jokingly.

But Liu Song still replied cautiously: "Your Excellency has been promoted now, it is over the Dragon Gate, we ordinary people, how dare we dare to hold it up in front of you, you can just have something to order." ”

In this world, although the world is chaotic, the more this is the case, the stricter the hierarchical rules are, and now Chen Mu is already a bad head, even if he 'folds and hands over', he still calls the two of them 'elder brother' like in the past, then they don't dare to respond, you must know that Chen Mu and Qin Bei and others are now treated as equals, if this title is seen by Qin Bei and others, then how to think, it is undoubtedly a disaster for them.

"I have redrawn the list from Lord Chasi, and you have been assigned to my charge, from tomorrow you don't have to patrol the streets, just stay in the hall and listen to my dispatch."

Chen Mu also looked at Liu Song and Li Tie Zhengse.

The two have been friends with him for several years, although they don't talk about it deeply, but after all, he is the most well-known messenger in the City Health Division, and now that he has been promoted to the post of errand, he still needs a few cronies to do things.

As soon as these words came out, some of the other errands all threw envious looks at Liu Song and Li Tie.

Guarding the hall and obeying the dispatch, that is to say, from the ordinary patrol squad officer, to only need to help Chen Mu with errands, obey Chen Mu's dispatch of the close difference, although it is not a promotion, but this treatment is completely different.

If you follow a bad man, you will become a cronie of the bad man, and you don't have to participate in those troublesome patrol affairs in the first place, and you don't have to go to the night patrol every two months.

"Thank you, Lord for appreciation!"

Liu Song and Li Tie were also pleasantly surprised when they heard this, and thanked them repeatedly.

Although the two of them had been whispering just now, wondering if Chen Mu would take care of the old relationship and promote the two of them after he became a new leader, he was apprehensive in his heart, and now that the dust has settled, he is naturally happy to thank him.

Chen Mu nodded slightly, then said no more, and left the City Guard, leaving behind a group of officers with complicated eyes, or envy or sigh looking at his disappearing back.

……

The news that Chen Mu took over as the head of the city guard division in Jiutiao spread very quickly in Jiutiao, and it was known to all parties in just half a day, after all, the people who lived in Jiutiao were the forces that dealt with the most on weekdays, except for the gang, which was the city health department.

If it's just an errand officer, then it's nothing, there are not dozens of errand officers in the city guard division in a year, there must be more than a dozen, but the difference is different, there are only five in total, if you offend one, it is still very troublesome, not to mention that it is rumored that Chen Mu and the messenger Min Baoyi are very close, so it is even more necessary to be cautious.

The above is the reaction of some of the squires and gangs in the Kujo Sato area.

And out of Jiutiaoli, sitting and watching the entire Nancheng District, it is a different scene.

Night falls.

Nancheng District City Health Division, here is still brightly lit.

In a spacious, clean hall somewhere, a fair-skinned man sat at a table, holding a document in his hand.

He is He Mingxuan, the deputy chief of the Nancheng District City Health Department, his status is second only to Xu Hongyu, and even his origin is no worse than Xu Hongyu.

"Kujo-ri...... Chen Mu...... It's kind of interesting. ”

"Twenty-two years old, with his own comprehension of the sword momentum, he is indeed a talent, no wonder Xu Hongyu will take care of it, but the Yu family is now worried about internal and external troubles, and he still wants to continue to support and cultivate his cronies in the City Health Division, I'm afraid it is not so easy."

He Mingxuan showed a sneer, and put the page in his hand on the candle flame and burned it.

Ordinary people don't know the origin of Xu Hongyu, and they are relatively unfamiliar with the surname 'Xu', but a little powerful people know that Xu Hongyu's mother's surname is Yu, and she follows her father's surname and is the descendant of the Yu family in the inner city.

The battle between the He family and the Yu family over the City Guard Division is no longer a matter of one or two years.

The division of the city guard, the branch division of one mile has nearly 200 people, and the entire Nancheng district has ten li, together with the general division of the city guard, this is nearly 3,000 people, and the other three urban districts in the southeast and west are not much different, with a total of nearly 12,300 people.

Such a large number of manpower is undoubtedly not a small number, even if the quality is not comparable to the elite of the private soldiers cultivated by each family, but because of the relatively large number, coupled with the orders that occupy the imperial court, they can do many things openly, if they are concentrated in the hands of one party's forces, it will inevitably be a threat, and each family will contain each other.

Xu Hongyu has only been the chief secretary for two years, and although she is in a high position, there are not many descendants under her command who can be trusted.

Chen Mu showed some talent, entered Xu Hongyu's eyes, and was tentatively designated by Xu Hongyu as a future descendant to be cultivated, and he was naturally on the rise in the small nine, but there were many people who did not want to see Chen Mu grow into Xu Hongyu's helper.

"Well, it's a small mistake, I haven't practiced the quenching method yet, and it's not worth my personal 'care'."

He Mingxuan thought for a while, then called someone over, gave a few commands, and then picked up the tea cup with a calm face and slowly tasted the tea.

Xu Hongyu has offended a lot of people in the past two years, he only needs to reveal Chen Mu's affairs a little, and then sit and drink tea, and after a few days, someone will naturally do what he wants to do for him, even if Xu Hongyu is angry afterwards, he can't find his head.