?At night, the lights in the inner prefecture yamen in Xiyang City were brightly lit. Bazhou Governor Yuwen and his men were still busy. During the reign, Hao Wu Bo led a person to count the household registration, while Bo Zhengtong was helping the governor to search for prisoners' files. Yuwen Wen gave him the task of finding fault. ⊙,

Find any case that can be related to the local powerful Tian family and Lu family, and find a way to follow the clues. The motive is a bit dark, but Yuwen Wen doesn't care about these. What he cares about is that the two old foxes have the ability to sell Xiyang City at any time.

Yuwen Wen did not like to put his safety and his family's safety in the thoughts of others. Tian and Lu families have large areas of mountains and lakes with tenants, and their subordinates are entrenched outside Xiyang City for thousands of times. He could not observe his words and expressions and always please the other party and do not cause trouble for himself, so he should take the initiative in his own hands.

His father asked him to be the governor of Bazhou, which was not a gilded brush qualification, and Yuwen Wen didn't want to be a goalkeeper. He wanted to make a difference, so he could not tolerate two powerful families leaving their control.

What if one day he led his troops outside to fight and ended up selling the family to these old foxes? He didn't want to repeat the tragedy of Ma Chao's wife and children in the Three Kingdoms period.

"Hao Zhizhong, there is no need to hurry up like this. Anyway, it is impossible to go and rest after ordering tonight." He walked to the next door and saw the scene of Hao Wu and his men fighting at night. This Hao Langjun is really hardworking.

Hao Wubo and Xu Shao both came to Bazhou to take office, so they solved the urgent problem. Although Yuwen Wen had expected to be the governor of Bazhou, he did not expect it to be so soon. There were no people in his hands except Zheng Tong, who had newly recruited.

"Encourt, the officials know the right way. Let them rest in a while." Uncle Hao stood up and bowed. This was his first important task after becoming an official, so he didn't want to make any mistakes.

The backyard of the state yamen is a place for the governor and family members to live there. Yuwen Wen has a mansion in the city, so he regards the backyard as a "duty room" and for Xu Shao, Hao Wu Bo and his subordinates to live temporarily. Before they find the house and settle down, this state yamen is a place where they can work and rest.

Xu Shao was busy in the grain warehouse for one night today and sorted out the accounts at the back, so Yuwen Wen didn't want to disturb him. He came to another room to see how his master Bo Zheng Tong was progressing. He saw that this man was very energetic and led several people to read the case file.

Zheng Tong saw Yuwen Wen coming in and was about to get up to salute but was signaled not to do so. He noticed that it was already evening outside the door. Zheng Tong was not afraid to neglect the case with the help of several officials recommended by the Chief Secretary Ren Chong. He was trying hard to investigate the case files to help Yuwen Wen ‘find fault’.

"Zheng Zhubo, it's getting late. Let's see you tomorrow. You guys are also resting in the yamen." Yuwen Wen ordered. Although he was looking for trouble, he was not in a hurry to do this or two days.

Zheng Tong also said that he would rest in a while, and his family followed him to Xiyang and lived in the side courtyard of Yuwen Wen's mansion like Yang Ji. Wang Yue and his wife were like that of him. But tonight he planned to stay in the state yamen for one night just like yesterday to get up tomorrow morning to continue working.

Seeing that Yuwen Wen seemed to be going out, he asked if he would go home. Yuwen Wen smiled and said, "I will go to patrol the city, you can rest early."

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Xiyang City was silent under the night sky, and the streets were dim and there were only night patrolmen walking with lanterns. Yuwen Wen and his group of dozens of people were walking on the streets. To prevent misunderstanding, the lanterns that opened the road were marked with the government mark.

Curfew is a regular official ban in ancient times. Even in Chang'an City, people are not allowed to walk around the streets at will, which is the so-called "night walk". If the soldiers patrol the city catch a collision, it will be troublesome because according to the law, "night walk" means either a traitor or a thief.

It sounds very strict, but in fact it is different for high-ranking officials and civilians. Of course, there are so many high-ranking officials in Chang'an, so under normal circumstances, no one will deliberately "scan the face" to avoid arousing discussions between the government and the government.

As for the city that never sleeps in Tokyo and Bianliang during the Northern Song Dynasty, it is an exception. In most cities in the era, night travel is prohibited, except for a few festivals such as the Lantern Festival. If someone suddenly gets sick or has other urgent matters at home, he can only ask God for blessing.

While walking, they met a patrol team. The other party saw their gang carrying swords at night walking from afar and surrounded them as if they were facing a great enemy. They didn't expect to see the official seal on the lantern. After they knew that they were the new governor, they were even more silent after they patrolled the city.

This is Yuwen Elang who drew his sword and cut blood into a river in Jiangling!

"No need to do this. Thank you for your hard work on the night patrol. Ten cents are considered as midnight snack money for each person." Yuwen Wen said with a smile. He asked his entourage to take out the prepared copper coins and distribute them to the other party. The people who were on the night patrol were overjoyed with the money.

Today, the newly appointed Yang Sima went to the state military camp to find fault and made thousands of old and young men look dirty. They thought that the newly appointed Yuwen envoy was difficult to speak now, but now it seems quite 'affeial'.

Yuwen Wen led the team to continue moving forward. The team performed well just now, so he wanted to reward him. If he was just a nap on the road, he would also like to reward him. Although the curfew was a bit unkind, it still had to be strictly observed.

"The commander, Xiyang City is indeed not as good as Anlu, and Hushao City is also smaller." The team Masada said, and he led a hundred people into the city to station in Xiyang County Duke's Mansion and took turns to Yuwen Wen in batches to prevent accidents. Now the team's comrades are following the patrol city.

"There are only about 5,000 households in Xiyang City, of course it is not as good as Anlu. Compared with Jiangling, it is the light of fireflies and bright moon." Yuwen Wen said with a smile, not at all annoyed by the other party asking him to command the army.

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"Master of the Tian team, if you ask you to set fire, will this fire be better?" Yuwen Wen asked in looking at the rows of houses on both sides of the road. The houses where these civilians live, one after another, not only wooden houses but also thatched houses. From his perspective, they can burn all the fire.

Not to mention the chaos of the fields, setting fires, even if the fire is accidentally removed, it is also very troublesome. Although the government often says to be careful of fire candles, there are always troubles caused by squeezing goods.

Nowadays, the system of lifang in cities has begun to be implemented in various places. Taking Chang'an City, which Yuwen Wen is familiar with as an example, in order to prevent fires, each yard has a fire tower, and there are patrol shops located in it, and all the fire-fighting objects are available.

In this era, there were no fire hydrants and fire water trucks, so once they caught fire and could not be extinguished in time would be a disaster. Xiyang City is not a big resident, but if a fire broke out, most of them would be killed or injured.

They came to a fire-watching building and heard the snoring in the patrol shop outside. After finally opening the door, they were shocked by a group of men wearing armor and swords outside the door. Later, they heard that the new governor Ye Xun had finally come back to their senses.

Yuwen Wen asked someone to go up to Wanghuo Tower to see someone on duty but was already asleep. He looked at the patrol shop and found that water and mud were in the bucket.

There are bamboo poles that put out the flames, and it is barely enough to wrap cloth strips or hemp ropes like mops on the top of the bamboo poles.

The purpose of this thing is to dip water or mud and then extinguish the flames. From the perspective of the future, these fire-extinguishing tools are extremely simple, but they are standard in this era. Yu Wen Wen was barely satisfied with the temporary random inspections, so he didn't care about these people sleeping in, so he asked his followers to give them rewards.

"Sit up for the night. If there is a fire, but I don't know if I delay putting out the fire, I won't blame me for being polite!"

After a temporary random inspection of the firefighter, he did not continue to check the next place, but led people to the nearest north gate to check the access control. The world, whether north or south, whether in the capital, prefectures or counties, implement strict access control systems. The city gate is closed and no one is allowed to enter or exit unless there is a special situation, so as not to intrude or escape.

After the city gate is locked, it will not be opened on the morning of the coming day at the prescribed time. Yuwen Wen's night patrol is to see how the access control system in Xiyang City is implemented. The guards at the north gate are OK. Although the soldiers are napping, they are at least at the edge of the city gate instead of missing people. Although the sentries on the city tower are not very vigilant, they are at least at their posts instead of slipping under the city to shelter.

As the new governor, Yuwen Wen was the first time to patrol the city at night, so he was very reluctant to pay the reward. After walking around the city, he found that the access control was normal. He also did a round of money and the boy dispersed several cents of money.

Even if an ordinary family raises a watchdog, they have to feed their bones. Yuwen Wen is not the group of brainless officials and gentry in the Ming Dynasty who did not take the soldiers seriously and forced them to join the army or even defect to the enemy. The more famous one is the Wuqiao mutiny in Shandong, which was forced out by a chicken.

He originally planned to go to the arsenal and grain warehouses, but after thinking about it, he would just forget it. The two places in the daytime were just tossed by their own people. Now he came to make trouble again at night, so he decided to give up.

"Master of Team Tian, ​​think about it with your subordinates after you go back, what should you do if you want to attack the city, and what should you arrange it if you want to beware of attacking the city." Yuwen Wen's patrol this time was not only for paying money, but also considered learning from the lesson that Yongyang City was caused by a fire in the city that almost burned the granary.

Effective fire prevention is a big project. The first thing involved is the demolition of "illegal buildings". His current focus is on the powerful, so he has no energy to toss about "strong demolition" for the time being, but the basic warning and fire protection system must be implemented.
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