When He Anchang was young, he was really enlightened by Huiyang Hou. Although his He family were all upright and upright ministers, none of them had the elegance of his gestures. In the early years, when Mr. He was still in the court, he was too busy to teach while walking. How could he have time to teach the young children in the family? Huiyang Hou Nahui returned to Luyishan Mansion, and the family was full of daughters, so he always hugged He Anchang by his side and taught him how to recognize books with pen and ink.
After Huiyang Hou left, there was Xiao Jin, the only seedling, what he could hear and see was Huiyanghou's demeanor. During the few years he lived in Beijing, many people whispered He Anchang's name in his ears. How many old people said that He Anchang was the one who changed Xiao Huiyang, but this Xiao Jin left nothing but skin, and his temperament and aspirations were not the same.
So asking Xiao Jin to look at He Anchang, wanting to get closer, felt uncomfortable. If you don't get close, it's even more unpleasant in your heart. He returned to Beijing to serve as the envoy of the Beijing Guard, and seeing that He Anchang had become an important official of Zhongshu, he naturally had the idea of chasing this man when he would be able to succeed.
He looks at He Anchang like a younger brother looks at his elder brother, the elder brother he looks up to every year. It wasn't until he went to Qingping and followed Xie Jingsheng to fish and steal every day, that he realized that the word "brother" can also be used as an unscrupulous hooligan. But when he got older, he was able to carry things on his shoulders, and he could hook up with Xie Jingsheng and call his brother long and short. But only He Anchang became more and more restrained.
The taste of it made him sigh a long time, and he could only scold him for being useless. The wild dog ate the sweetened bean paste buns he had been thinking about, and saw that the man was frowning immediately, thinking that he would throw a few more, so he sat at the entrance of the alley and wagged his tail.
When Xiao Jin saw it wagging its tail to please him, he thought of how he wagged his tail in front of He Anchang just now in his mind, he couldn't help becoming angry from embarrassment, whipped his horsewhip in the air, and scolded: "Why are you so cute after eating Xiaoye's buns! Get out!"
The wild dog pinched its tail and ran away. When Xiao Jin saw its timid back, he felt even more annoyed. But he said that this kid was only thinking about his own awkward thoughts, and he had completely forgotten the few lines that Xie Jingsheng had arranged just now.
The horse from the Jingwei Division over there also arrived at the Pingding Palace, Xin Yi fell asleep not long after, Qu Lao had Bai Jiu's life, so he dared not enter to disturb him. He only picked up the person, invited him to have some tea, and told him to go after listening to Xiao Jin's words. After half an hour, there was no movement from inside.
When Mr. Qu entered the door, he still heard the adults coaxing something in a low voice, thinking that this is the son of the world who is lying in bed again. Qu Lao stopped in front of the curtain and said aloud: "My lord, the Jing Wei Division has come."
As soon as Xin Yi heard the sound, the bed was not too bad, so he immediately got up and went to get dressed behind the screen. With no one in his arms, Bai Jiu turned over and sat on the edge of the bed, took out the outer shirt that was placed on one side and covered it casually, stepped out of the curtain and asked, "What's the matter."
After General Qu delivered his words, Bai Jiu drank tea and rinsed his mouth, and said, "I haven't arrived yet, so it's not worth remembering."
Changed the old general Qu's cup, and said in a deep voice: "The prince is going fast this way." The river pond flooded the Qingping River and blocked the way to Wuhan Foshan. Perhaps the crown prince knew about the call from the capital, so he patiently pretended not to know what to do, took a long detour, walked around Shanyin, and then walked very fast, probably because he got some news from Shanyin.
"The beginning of winter is coming soon, and we are rushing to the annual meeting." Bai Jiu sat down on the chair, and said calmly, "He is in a hurry to come back to clean up people, and he must go to Shanyin."
Du Dao Baijiu started to rise to the top after the big corruption case in Shanyin, and Xin Yi also got it from Shanyin. If there is no trace of Baijiu in Shanyin, then it is impossible. But only Elder Qu knew that Shanyin had something serious going on.
Xin Yi was coming out from behind the screen, and when he passed Bai Jiu's chair, he leaned over. Bai Jiu leaned forward with his head up, and Xin Yi reached out to smooth his back collar. Although Bai Jiu was holding and laughing all the time, this hand just made the coldness in the adult's eyes disappear in an instant. Xin Yi's ears burned, he took a cup of tea on the table consciously, and went to read the file on the couch by the window.
Qu Lao didn't mention the old things in Shanyin again, and stepped back.
Bai Jiu leaned back on the chair, thinking of something. Xin Yi looked at the dossier quietly, didn't listen to anything for a while, then turned his eyes to meet Bai Jiu's narrow eyes.
Bai Jiu smiled, "Have you finished watching?"
Xin Yi nodded, and said slowly: "Is the prince coming back?"
"On the way." Bai Jiu simply came over to sit with him to deal with the case, flipped through the file, and asked, "How about Gu Cheng's murder case?"
Xin Yi closed the paper and said: "Although this case is moral, it is out of line."
The case of Gu Cheng's killing with sticks was caused by the killing of the magistrate of Gu Cheng in his mansion in the thirty-sixth year of Hongxing. The six perpetrators were all the people of Gucheng. This case alarmed Dalan not because of the death of a magistrate, but because of the six people who committed the crime and were imprisoned after the crime. Ten thousand people saw him off when the prison car passed through, and they were praised by the people as righteous men. It was not the fledgling Zuo Kaizhi who presided over the case, but Jiang Bozhou, Zuo Kai's mentor. The case brought out that the magistrate of Gucheng disregarded human relations and robbed his sister-in-law by force, and levied government taxes to occupy people's land. In Gucheng, it can be said that he did all kinds of evil, and everyone hated him. However, Jiang Bozhou copied the prefect for tax corruption and returned the land to the people first, and then beheaded the six perpetrators, which aroused public anger. Jiang Bozhou has always been tough all his life, but this case has caused people to criticize him indignantly. In just three years, he passed away at the memorial, and since then Zuo Kaizhi took over Dali Temple.
This case is not difficult to judge, but it is difficult to convince everyone. It is true that Jiang Bozhou enforced the law for the government and enforced the law strictly. But the people of Gucheng have been suffering for a long time, the magistrate only covers the sky with one hand, and the lawsuits are difficult. If they were not pushed into a desperate situation, how could they choose a dead end? Bai Jiu singled out this case for some reason.
Xin Yi continued: "The people's anger is really not about Mr. Jiang, but about the supervision of the government system. Dali Temple handles the case, and what it wants is a word of law. It means that the principles and laws are not correct, and the foundation of the country is unstable. Therefore, the six people must be executed." He straightened his brows, and said again: "But local officials, the Inspectorate is difficult to supervise and judge the system. The local rank suppresses people, and the power is concealed. This is a trip to raise tigers, but it has lost the chains to restrain it. This is an oversight by the central government. The prefect commits evil, and the Inspectorate patrols and supervises local officials every year, but only stays for a few days before returning. Thinking that this local snake nest is criss-crossed, it can pass the inspection for a few days. After this case, the imperial court increased the number of patrols time, but it is useless. If you don’t want to check, you can’t find anything even if you leave it for ten years.”
Bai Jiu kept listening, and after he finished speaking, he handed him tea. Xin Yi took the tea to moisten his throat, and said, "The extension of the investigation was suggested by the East Palace, and Master Zhang didn't stop him?"
"Zhang Taiyan was powerless. The prince has never been close to him, and the emperor also wanted to keep the prince in the limelight, so he agreed to this proposal at the end of the case. Later, the prince gradually stabilized, and many people were admitted to prison when the investigation was extended. This matter gradually Not to mention."
"It's not a state matter." Xin Yi pursed his lips and said, "It's more like a family matter."
Because of this, the Inspectorate has gained the attention of the central government, and spends more than half of the time in the local area every year. The superiors sent supervisors, and the local authorities had to show some respect, and once they came and went, they became familiar with each other, and this became a greasy job. Everyone fights for it, not for supervision, but for the benefit of their hearts. It is ordered to make money in a grand manner, can the Inspectorate not take out something to honor the crown prince? I'm afraid that the local thorns are still thorns, but they have become other people's thorns and the crown prince's thorns.
"Jin Yiwei, Jin Yiwei has the power of military and political patrols, has your lord checked it?"
Bai Jiu scratched across the pages of the dossier with his fingertips, and said, "Yes, only twice."
"Only twice?"
Bai Jiu raised his eyes deeply, "One time was Hong Xing's 51st year, and the other time was still 51st year."
Xin Yi was keenly aware that there might be a story in it, but Bai Jiu's narrow eyes suddenly bottomed out, and he didn't know whether he should ask or not. Thinking about Huoguang for a moment, he remembered what Bai Jiu said before, that he entered Beijing in forty-seven years, but Xiao Jin and others all said that he entered Beijing in fifty-one years. My lord has never mentioned this period for four years, I wonder if it is... a taboo.
"The current Jinyiwei is no longer the pivot of the former dynasty." Bai Jiu smiled and said: "The emperor has gradually reduced the Jinyiwei since he ascended the throne for 20 years. The important matters of the palace and the court were also handed over to the Jingwei Division, and the military and administrative patrols can’t be done without the emperor’s direct order. Now the flying fish patterns and the knives are rusted.” He paused with his fingers and asked: “If you want how?"
Xin Yi was taken aback for a moment, and then said: "Rectify the inspectorate, re-screen important inspectors, and assign them to local inspectorates. They will be replaced every year without any delay. There will be inspectors directly under the supervisor, and random inspections will be made from time to time. An atmosphere of chaos."
Bai Jiu laughed a little too much, "Where do people get transferred once a year? If you only rely on the people from the Inspectorate, who can be sure that the next reincarnation is not an old friend? There is a supervisor directly under the emperor, and there is a suspicion of being biased. Those who are directly under the leadership have the worry of bribery. In order to eliminate the local atmosphere, Dalan, the nineteenth city, the three major prefectures and the three feudal lords, if this method stops the locality, what will the chief envoy and the prince do? How about grabbing it with one hand and getting entangled in the rhizome?"
Xin Yi was speechless, and Bai Jiu changed the topic, "But if you imagine that the emperor is just and strict, the court is full of incorruptibility, and factional disputes have nowhere to go. The principles and laws are clear, and the law is strictly enforced. You must try it."
Xin Yi was silent for a while, then lowered his eyes and said, "That's not the case."
Bai Jiu reached out and rubbed his hair, "It won't always be like this."
The emperor has been the emperor for nearly sixty years. He was entrusted to the Zhang family of the former court when he was still in the womb, and he was carried by the imperial concubine to listen to the government when he was a baby. He didn't participate in state affairs until he was nearly twenty years old. Now that the crown prince has been in office for more than twenty years, he is unwilling to abdicate. He is determined to sit on the dragon chair. He thought so, but is the prince willing
Xin Yi raised his hand to embrace Bai Jiu's hand, plunged into the file, and sighed, "Never mind him."
Bai Jiu lightly scratched the back of his neck and said, "Let's stop here today."
Xin Yi hummed, hearing the sound of rain outside again, immediately raised his head and said, "The river pond is about to flood again."
Bai Jiu tapped his forehead and said with a smile, "Nonsense."
Xin Yi also laughed, and the two of them turned to other topics without mentioning it. He only said that after the lights were turned off at night, Bai Jiu suddenly had a dream.
Dreaming back to the time when he went down the mountain to travel when he was young, he was still a sick child, and it was the first time he went out. Someone went with him, and the two went to Beiyang. The man went to lead the horse, and he saw a handsome young man grabbing a straw grasshopper and running in front of him, followed by a crying and wrinkled little stutter, shouting "Three, three brothers" all the way.
That would be the time when he was the thinnest, and the clothes on his shoulders were afraid of crushing his body. Because I have been in the house for a long time, I don't often laugh because I am sick. Just looking at the pitiful look of that little stutterer, he smoked grass by the side of the road, and randomly made something for this noisy and annoying little stutterer.
The hand that was handed out was thin and pale, and also gloomy.
I don't remember if this little Jieba was scared to cry by him, but I just remember that the person who brought the horse back hadn't come to him, and Xiao Jieba rushed over as if he saw his mother, hugged the man's white shirt and greeted him with tears and snot. The little boy who had run far away also circled around, with his hands behind his back, acting like a cat honestly. The man always wiped Xiao Jieba's face with his hand holding a pen and ink, and hugged Xiao Jieba to coax him. A handsome man rode a horse from behind, came over and took the little stammer from the man's hand and hugged it to his shoulders, and brushed the hair from the man's ears with his hands down.
At that moment, the tenderness and affection surpassed everything around him, he could see it clearly, and there was no turmoil in his heart because of the relationship between the two, but a kind of envy.
The man nodded to him, and the man looked up at him. He broke a root of grass, and casually bit it in his mouth. The young man refused to show any envy on his face, and only used the arrogance of his eyes to cover it hastily.
At that time, he envied that person for being able to return home, envied that person's brothers and parents, and even envied that person's unspeakable secret affair. He envied that man everything, until the heavy snow in fifty-one years.
When Bai Jiu woke up, there was some pain between his brows, and he was still holding Xin Yi in his arms. He lowered his head to see that Xin Yi was soundly asleep, clinging to his arms peacefully. Bai Jiu caressed his temples, and finally stopped feeling uneasy in his heart, filled with overflowing warmth, warming his cold chest back to life.
Bai Jiu leaned closer and called his name in a low voice. Xin Yi was sound asleep, but kept humming in response. Bai Jiu sucked the corner of his lips for aggression, and Xin Yi responded half-asleep and half-awake. Only now was Bai Jiu satisfied, and she didn't let her hug her loose.
What he longs for is nothing but single-mindedness, and what he envies is nothing but fireworks in the world. God has never given him these two things, only Xin Yi can be regarded as his heart, and it is worth a thousand mountains and rivers. It's a pity that Xin Yi fell asleep and didn't know what happened, and missed the time to talk about the past.