Li Yanqing also knew that this beauty was a little dissatisfied with him, but he also understood that if it was a gift he gave to others, he would be left alone without looking at it, and he would be angry.

But why wasn't he interested? He thought for a while and probably thought that Cao Yun was still a 10-year-old girl, so he had no interest. If he had known that he was such a beautiful beauty, he would have appreciated her.

Li Yanqing smiled self-deprecatingly, then left the study and headed towards the front yard.

As soon as Cao Yun brought her sister back to the inner courtyard, Cao Jiaojiao broke free from her hand and ran to her room to paste couplets. Cao Jiaojiao is still young and still lives with her parents. She has to wait until she is fourteen years old before she can have her own independent embroidery building.

Cao Yun returned to her study and saw the couplets written by Li Yanqing for her at first glance, which were carefully plastered by her. She felt a little guilty. After all, Li Yanqing wrote two couplets for her and gave her 658 books. With this favor for giving books, she shouldn't be so rude to others.

Although Cao Yun also knew that Li Yanqing was quite honest and did not make things difficult for her to make her happy like other aristocratic families, Li Yanqing did not take what she gave him seriously, and this contempt hurt her self-esteem a little.

She wanted to express her apologies, but the girl's reserve told her that if she did that, she would be even more despised by him. Cao Yun had to sigh and sit in the study in a depressed manner.

She usually doesn't attend the Cao family banquet, not because it is not because it is inconvenient for a woman to show up in public. There was no such restriction on the Northern Song Dynasty. It is normal for young men and women to go out together and have banquets together. It was not until the Ming and Qing dynasties that they began to have great restraint on women's personal freedom.

Cao Yun is born to like quietness but not disturbing. She likes to stay in her study and read quietly, and does not like to go to banquets to socialize.

At this moment, my sister's scream came from the yard, "Come on Dashu Niang! Come on!"

Cao Yun was shocked and quickly got up and ran to the yard. He saw Jiaojiao standing in the yard and looking up at something?

"What a fuss?"

"Look, it's snowing!" Cao Jiaojiao pointed to the sky and said in surprise.

Cao Yun looked up and saw a crystal clear snowflake falling from the gloomy sky. She was surprised and hurriedly reached out to catch the snowflakes. The snowflakes melted when they entered. At this time, more and more snowflakes fell from the sky. Cao Jiaojiao raised her hands and circled on the ground, stretched out her tongue to lick the cold snowflakes, and giggled with joy.

Cao Yun was in a good mood and couldn't help but smile. The little depression in his heart was melted by the crystal snowflakes.

The snow became heavier and heavier, and the sky soon blurred. The first snow in Xuanhe year came on the tenth day of December.

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The heavy snow started in the afternoon and fell for a whole night, and it ended until dawn the next day. The entire capital became a snowy world. No matter the houses, streets, small bridges, trees, etc., they were covered with thick white snow like bubbles. After dawn, the capital became a paradise for children.

There are laughter and laughter everywhere when playing snowball fights, building snowmen, and skiing. However, for the people at the bottom who want to make a living, snowfall undoubtedly increases the difficulty of their lives and makes their work more difficult. Of course, some industries also benefit, such as the ox cart industry in the city, where almost every ox cart is full of pedestrians.

For Li Yanqing, today, he was not affected by the weather. Yesterday afternoon, the palace issued an order to appoint Dazai Fan Zhixu as the supervisor of the Zhijun. Early this morning, Li Yanqing, who had just arrived at the Censorate, received a notice to report to Zuozhenglou, the West Shangshu Province.

The Western Shangshu Province is the old Shangshu Province, located north of the Censorate and outside the imperial city. At the beginning of the founding of the Song Dynasty, the court only retained the organizational system of the Shangshu Province in form, but it had neither power nor the man in charge of the affairs. It was just used as a servant official and had no other way. The Shangshu Province system was in name only.

However, after the Yuanfeng reorganization, power gradually returned to the Sixth Department of the Shangshu, so a new Shangshu Province was built in the imperial city to facilitate the concentration of power. The old Shangshu Province was used as the warehouse of the Shangshu Province and some temporary institutions. This time, the military prison was established for only three to five years. Its nature was similar to that of Yingfeng Bureau in Jiangnan and Xicheng City on Jingdong Road, so the office land was selected as Zuozhenglou of the Xishu Province.

The full name of Zuozheng Building is Zuozheng Building. It is composed of Zhongzheng Building and Right Zheng Building. The building is three floors high and there are nearly 100 rooms around it, covering an area of ​​50 acres.

In the meeting hall on the first floor of Zuozhenglou, officials from the Censorate, Privy Council and Ministry of War have been in place. Currently, there are only nine officials in charge. Each institution has sent one envoy and two deputy envoys. The envoy of the Censorate is Li Yanqing, and there are two other censors as deputy envoys. The envoy of the Privy Council is Li Hui, and the envoy of the Privy Council is the sixth rank of the Privy Council, and the envoy of the Ministry of War is Jiang Ying, and the chief envoy of the Ministry of War is the Langzhong of Fangsi, and he is also the sixth rank of the Privy Council.

At this time, footsteps sounded, and Prime Minister Fan Zhixu quickly walked into the meeting hall. Two followers followed him. Everyone stood up and bowed, "See Prime Minister!"

Fan Zhixu waved his hand and smiled, "Please sit down with all colleagues!"

Everyone sat down one after another. At this time, Li Yanqing was surprised to find that one of the two followers behind Fan Zhixu was actually Qin Hui. Qin Hui also saw Li Yanqing and nodded to Li Yanqing with a smile.

‘Does he want to join the military prison?’ Li Yanqing thought to himself. He was really puzzled. Qin Hui was a master of the Imperial Academy and had no relationship with the military prison. How could he get along with the Fan Zhixu line?

Fan Zhixu smiled and said to everyone: "Even if the military prison is officially established today, he was entrusted by the emperor to serve as governor. I will be responsible for the military prison. Together with all colleagues, I will fulfill the duties of the military prison. The full name of the military prison is called the Military Capital Supervision Office, which is mainly responsible for supervising the logistics and military capital preparation and transportation of this Northern Expedition. The army has nothing to do with us. After the Northern Expedition, the military prison will be retained or disbanded depending on the situation. I will explain the specific rules slowly in the future. Now let me tell you about the composition of the military prison and the main officials."

Fan Zhixu turned around and winked. Qin Hui and another follower immediately took out a large scroll and hung it on the topic board. The scroll was made of plain white silk cloth, with a structural diagram of the military prison on it.

Fan Zhixu picked up a small stick and walked forward and said, "The emperor has approved the composition of the military prison, so this is not a draft, but a formal composition diagram. The chief officer is the supervisor of the military, and I currently serve as the supervisor. There are three supervisors below. Currently, the Censor Li Yanqing, Privy Councilor Li Hui, and the Department of War Jiang Ying, then there are six deputy supervisors. Each supervisor has two deputy supervisors, and there are fifteen supervisors below, and there are also a thousand troops."

Seeing that everyone was confused in their eyes, Fan Zhixu slowly said, "Maybe everyone finds strange, why is there no Three Divisions to be tried? Here I want to tell you that the Military Privy Council does not have Three Divisions to be tried. The reason why the Censorate, Privy Council and Ministry of War participate together is actually a kind of distribution of power. It is not allowed to be the only one of the Ministry of Supervision and Administration. It can also be said to be a compromise. There are three envoys in the Military Institute, the Censorate, Privy Council and Ministry of War. The three departments report to me, each performs its powers and does not interfere with each other. In addition, the Internal Affairs Department is responsible for two chief clerks, one is the Qin chief clerk and the other is Zhang chief clerk. In the future, internal coordination will be responsible for the two of them."

Qin Hui and another follower stepped forward and bowed to everyone. Fan Zhixu smiled and said, "Do you have any questions?"

"May I ask Fan Xiangguo, our official rank," asked Jiang Ying, a doctor in the Ministry of War.

"The official room has been arranged. I will take you there later. Such a large Zuozheng Building belongs to the military supervisory office. How could there be no official room?"

At this time, Li Yanqing asked: "Jiangguo just said that there are still a thousand troops."

Fan Zhixu smiled and said, "The army is necessary. You will go to supervise on the spot. How can you do without an army? Each department has 300 people, and another 100 people belong to the Department of Internal Affairs. The army leaders are designated by you, so that it is easy to command."

"When will we start monitoring?" Li Yanqing asked again.

"We have to wait for the Privy Council to collect information from the military forces in various places. This year, it may be too late. At the earliest, after the Lantern Festival next year, you can set up your own envoys during this period. You can go to Zuozang, Taicang and the military weapon culvert to be familiar with the warehousing situation, understand the storage, transportation, call and other processes of substances, so that you can get started at any time if you receive the case next year."
Chapter completed!