Chapter 304: Killing without blood
The six ministries' yamen are next to the imperial city, just outside Chengtian Gate.
The clan mansion, the Ministry of Revenue, the Ministry of Personnel, the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Works, the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Justice, the Imperial Heavenly Supervisor, the Imperial College, the Honglu Temple, and the Imperial Hospital, were crowded together.
In front of each yamen, there were coachmen wearing gray cloth clothes, and the sedan chairmen were also crowded together. They chatted, fucked, gambling, and each waited for their masters.
When Chen Ji came out of the Ministry of Personnel, it was already noon.
An official in the Ministry of Personnel in a blue robe personally sent him out of the yamen and patiently reminded him: "The Yulin Army Governor's Office is right opposite. When you cross this road, there is a plaque 'Yulin Army Governor' in front of the gate. In addition, you have to tell you about the situation of the Yulin Army so that you can know how to deal with it yourself."
Chen Ji bowed: "Please give me advice."
Officials from the Ministry of Personnel said kindly: "It's all my own family, so you don't have to be polite. In the early years, the Yulin Army was organized by five garrisons, with one garrison commanders under its jurisdiction, with five commanders under its jurisdiction, with a total of 5,600 commanders. But later, the Yulin Army was only responsible for the ceremonial guards in front of the front, offering sacrifices to heaven and ancestors, and was used when they met foreign envoys, and it was gradually reduced to two garrison stations, with only two commanders under the fourth rank. Even the position of governor was always hanging in the air, with one commander commander commanding 500 people, totaling one thousand people."
The official continued: "Now that the commander Li Xuan and Li lack people under his command, the Ministry of War plans to recruit people from the capital nearby, but it will definitely not be able to recruit them for a while. Another commander is also your old acquaintance, so I don't need to introduce it. After joining the Yulin Army, just do what he does, and there is no way out."
An old acquaintance?
Chen Ji felt a stern.
The first problem he had to face when he returned to the capital was not the enemy, but the acquaintance.
Where he worked, he was a Yulin Army with a bunch of dandy people.
Chen Ji's mind quickly turned. He used to be just an unknown concubine of the Chen family, so naturally there would be no well-known old acquaintance. There was only one possibility: the commander was a Chen family, so outsiders would think they were familiar with each other.
Who is it?
The owner of the big house, "Chen Lizun", has no children, and is not a person from the big house.
The second house manager, "Chen Lizhi", had two sons. The eldest son "Chen Wende" was appointed as the Minister of Rites and would not serve in the Yulin Army; the second son "Chen Wenren" once served as a hundred households in the Long Live Army... It must be him.
I don’t know if there are any other acquaintances in the Yulin Army, the playboy army?
At this time, the official of the Ministry of Personnel in front of him smiled and said, "The spring is the six-year "Beijing Inspection". Lord Zhang is so busy that he is often not in the yamen. In the lower Ministry of Personnel's "Wenxuan Department" doctor, Zhou Xingwen, if you have something to come to the Ministry of Personnel, if Lord Zhang is not here, just come to me."
The Wenxuan Department's Doctor is responsible for the appointment of officials and the allocation of positions. He is actually the "No. 1 Doctor in the World" and has great power. But this No. 1 Doctor in the World is more kinder than I imagined.
Chen Ji bowed again: "I'm working hard."
After he left, Zhou Xingwen breathed a long sigh and turned back to the office of the Ministry of Personnel.
In the class room, someone said without raising his head: "Lao Zhou, I haven't seen you so diligent on weekdays. A small flag official of the Yulin Army asked you to send it out in person? Which young master is this?"
Zhou Xingwen smiled and did not answer.
But the official behind another table joked: "No wonder you, a nerd, is not as fast as Old Zhou's promotion. You are obviously a Jinshi in the same year, and they have been promoted to the fifth-rank doctor, but you are still the sixth-rank chief."
The official who asked the question before looked up in shock: "Where do you start with this? If you praise him, praise him, and what are you doing to defame me!"
The official who teased him smiled and said, "That boy was not a simple little flag official just now. He was a hero who had just returned from Guyuan. He had more than a hundred lives of the Jingchao thief. But this is not the key. The key is that the news came from the palace that when the small flag official entered the palace to meet the saint, we Lord Zhang asked for him twice for his official request."
"Why is it still a small banner official? With his achievements, it is not difficult to get a hundred households, but a thousand households."
Zhou Xingwen sat behind the desk, took a sip of hot tea, and said slowly: "Your Majesty said, let him first grind his character. How many people can you make His Majesty open this in recent years? One is Mr. Zhang Zhuo and the other is the King of the Kings and the Holy King."
"The King Daosheng has not yet recovered yet. His Majesty said this doesn't mean anything."
Someone sat behind the desk and sneered: "Why didn't Your Majesty say you're going to rub it? Do Your Majesty know who you are?"
The nerdy official who was jokingly looked dark: "I can't do things well, I'll think about these things every day."
Zhou Xingwen shook his head, and it was useless to argue.
But another official did not let the nerd go: "You can't accept this skill. When Lord Zhang was promoted to the document, you all refused to let Luocheng go too far and didn't want to send it, so Old Zhou volunteered to go there. Now, he is the big celebrity in front of Lord Zhang and the first doctor."
The nerd muttered: "Don't be lucky."
Others glanced at him: "The Beijing inspection once every six years covers all officials below the fourth rank of Jinling. The last time the Beijing inspection was abolished, a total of 197 officials were demoted and 67 were demoted. Now that officials from both Beijings mentioned the Beijing inspection, everyone was dismissed, right?"
The nerd was puzzled: "Yes, what's wrong?"
Others continued, "Mr. Zhang was promoted to the left minister of the Ministry of Personnel, so he rushed on the eve of the Beijing Prefecture... It was clearly because His Majesty wanted him to return to Beijing to take over the "Beijing Prefecture". Think about it again, who was the general in charge of the Beijing Prefecture before? The Minister of Personnel, the Chief Censor!"
Before Zhang Zhuo returned to the capital, it was a foregone conclusion that he entered the cabinet.
The nerd was still arguing: "Mr. Zhang has a bright future, what does it have to do with the small banner official?"
Zhou Xingwen put down the teacup and looked out the window. Only a few people noticed that Zhang Zhuo's legitimate son and daughter returned from Guyuan with the little flag official.
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In the warm sunshine, Chen Ji avoided the carriage and horses passing through the long street.
When I arrived at the gate of the Yulin Army Governor's Office, I saw that the gate was open.
More than 30 Yulin soldiers who returned from Guyuan on the school ground were training spears.
Further away, some Yulin soldiers sat in groups of three or three under the shade of the trees chatting. They didn't know what topic they were talking about, but they burst into laughter.
Chen Ji thought for a moment and walked in.
Yu Linjun under the stable stood up and patted his butt, and came over carelessly. Someone shouted from a distance: "Do you still remember me that boy from the Chen family? Hahaha, will Xiao Yingzhouwen remember this in the 26th year of Jianing?"
Chen Ji frowned. This person had obviously seen him.
But who the other party is, he has no clue.
Just when he was at a loss, he saw Qi Zhenzhe rushing out of the second floor building on the edge of the school grounds and waved excitedly: "Master, Master!"
Chen Ji paused and turned to look.
They trot over and pulled him to the covert building.
Chen Ji subconsciously wanted to break free, but when he saw the "acquaintances" beside him, he immediately let him take him away.
As he walked, he said, "Master, I've been waiting for you in front of the gate early in the morning. You have just entered the house to drink tea, and it seems that I'm scaring you. My brother-in-law is here, and he testified for me. I've just entered the house and drank tea."
However, before the two of them walked far, they heard the Yulin soldiers before saying, "Think about it, this is our man, what are you going to do?"
They thought about it and stopped: "Your people? Zhao Zhuofan, grandpas live and die together in Guyuan, how could my master become your people?"
Zhao Zhuofan sneered: "He is from the Chen family. Our commander of the ward, Chen Wenren, who is not ours, who else can he be? Let him say himself, whose person he is?"
Everyone looked at Chen Ji with a burning look.
Chen Ji thought for a moment, turned his head and said, "Where is Lord Li? Take me to see him."
All his eyes lit up: "Let's go, my brother-in-law is in the governor's office."
Zhao Zhuofan's face darkened: "You are with Li Xuan today, I'm afraid the Chen family will not have a place to stay."
Chen Ji turned a deaf ear and asked in a low voice: "What do the Yulin Army do on weekdays? Why are there so many people in the Governor's Office?"
Qi Zhenzhuo smiled and said, "I don't have any serious business on weekdays. I'm a playboy like me... Master, I'm not a playboy now. We used to be named in the Yulin Army, and then went out for a walk. Either go to the Bada Hutongs or go to drink tea and play chess."
Chen Ji was puzzled: "What if His Majesty wants to use the Yulin Army?"
"There are fixed time for worshiping the heavens and ancestors. Your Majesty stayed in Renshou Palace and did not need ceremonial service, and the Empress never left the palace. Even if they wanted to leave the palace, the clan mansion, the Honglu Temple, and the Ministry of Rites would start preparing more than ten days in advance. We will have time to assemble again at that time, and there are very few urgent matters that need the Yulin Army. Look, Chen Wenren will be away today. I heard that he has attended the literary meeting."
All of them sarcastically said, "Only his two brushes are clearly a woman who hooks up with a small family at the literary party, and she really pretends to be elegant."
Chen Ji said curiously: "Everything has run away, who will do the daily things?"
Qi Jingju smiled and said, "There are those poor families who come to do it. We are not short of this errand, but they are afraid of losing the imperial grain of the Yulin Army, so they will naturally work diligently."
Chen Ji looked at the stable, where more than a dozen Yulin soldiers were feeding horses silently, and they were out of place with the others.
He said in a careful manner: "I wanted to tell you yesterday that the little flag officer really made you wronged, but don't worry, if you enter the Yulin Army, you should just be the deputy commander. I will be the deputy commander for you."
Chen Ji turned his head and looked at him. Will the other party have died once in Guyuan and have been taken over by a great figure from the forty-ninth level of heaven?
At this moment, suddenly a man rushed into the gate and shouted, "Where is the Yulin Army?"
Chen Ji and Qi Jingju turned around and looked at each other. He was a little eunuch with a green robe and round neck trotted all the way, holding a yellow ochre hand in his hand and shouting: "The master and the queen, Shen Shi, met the prince of Goryeo, and opened the Ji Hall to welcome him!"
All of them were shocked and said in surprise: "Why is it so sudden?"
He just bragged to Chen Ji that it would be okay if he didn't take the time, and retribution would come soon!
Chen Ji whispered: "How many people need to line up to welcome the envoys of foreign countries?"
Qi Jingju murmured: "Goryeo is a small country, only 360 people... But the Governor's Office now has no 200 people."
Chen Ji thought for a while: "Send a quick horse to find Chen Wenren, where is the literary meeting he participated in?"
Qi Jingju said in a hurry: "Only half an hour is left, it's too late."
However, he thought about it and then gloated: "No, the inner minister must know that there are only 37 people left in our guard now, all of them are here. Moreover, we have just returned to Beijing and it was a day of rest. If you weren't for your Master, you wouldn't have come to the Governor's Office to be on duty. Therefore, if you were not for the punishment, we wouldn't be punished on the head. If it were really a blame, it would be Chen Wenren and the others who suffered... Weird, why is this sudden?"
At this time, Li Xuan came out of the cover in silver armor and whispered: "The inner sword is still so sharp that he can't kill people."
Qi Jingju was stunned: "What do you say?"
Li Xuan glanced at him: "The inner minister will be vindictive. The Silijian gave up a three-year-old tiger with the zodiac sign yesterday, and someone must be buried with him."
On the school ground, Zhao Zhuofan was shouting everywhere: "Get together and wear armor!"
The Yulin Army scattered in the Governor's Office quickly gathered together, but there were only more than 160 people, which was far from 360 people.
Just when Zhao Zhuofan was helpless, another young eunuch in green robe raised his inner minister's handwriting and rushed to urge: "Where is the Yulin Army? Go quickly to the Meridian Gate to wait for the order... Why are you just such a few people? Where are you?"
He asked Li Xuan carefully: "Brother-in-law, are we going? Otherwise, let's go home and have a rest. Let Chen Wenren, Zhao Zhuofan dies more simply."
Li Xuan shook his head: "Where is the responsibility, wear armor and reorganize the army! I don't care about other people, so I can't let the envoys of foreign countries see a joke!"
Chapter completed!