It was already watch time when we returned to the Censor's Terrace. As soon as we entered the gate of the Censor's Terrace, Da Tou ran out of the concierge, "Sir, you are back."

Turning over and dismounting, he asked, "Is the stable ready?"

"It's done, the horses are all settled," Datou said. "The tattoos for the three of us are also ready, but it's too late today to send them away. I will send someone out early tomorrow morning."

He nodded and said, "Don't send famous assassinations to first- and second-grade officials. I will go and visit them in person."

The boss nodded in agreement, followed inside, and whispered when no one was around, "Sir, dozens of officials came to visit in person this afternoon. You were not at home, so I came to greet you."

He smiled and said, "My visit this morning is somewhat sincere, but my visit after the court is over is not so sincere."

"Yes, seeing that you made such a big fuss yesterday and no one showed up, and the court didn't punish you, so I came to visit you," Datou said, lowering his voice, "But most of them didn't come empty-handed.

They were all collected and not put into your residence. They were temporarily piled in the back hall of the court." .??.

"You did the right thing," he said with a smile, "go get me some food and bring it to the court, and I'll take the horse to the backyard first."

Datou responded and went east, leading Mr. Hei to the backyard.

Returning to the backyard, I led Mr. Hei to the temporarily converted stable, which is at the north end of the west wing, very close to the main house.

After entering the stable, I suddenly frowned. This temporarily converted stable was exactly the same as the stable of Baoqing Inn. Not only the feed and concentrate were exactly the same as those of Baoqing Inn, but also the size, shape and placement of the trough and water tank.

The locations are exactly the same. To facilitate entry and exit, the door was removed and replaced with two thick cold-proof curtains.

He took off the reins of Young Master Hei, took off the saddle, and then pointed to the stable. Young Master Hei understood the idea and drank water from the sink first, then walked to the haystack and lay down on his stomach.

After settling in Mr. Hei, he went back to the north main room to take a look. The room had not been cleaned up when he left. After careful decoration by everyone in the Ni family, the originally old and gloomy main room became a bit more elegant and heavy.

He was not used to the sudden glory and wealth, and felt an indescribable awkwardness in his heart. He didn't know what he liked or wanted, but he was very sure that what he had now was not what he wanted.

Back in the courtroom, Datou had returned with the food and was inserting a silver needle into the rice and several vegetables one by one.

"Haha, what are you doing, are you afraid someone will poison me?" I couldn't laugh or cry.

"Your Excellency, you are on the cusp of the storm now, so you cannot take it lightly." Datou said seriously.

"Don't worry, I'm proficient in the art of Qihuang, no one can poison me." He said.

"Okay, okay." Datou felt relieved.

"Let's go to the back hall." Go to the back hall. There is a back hall behind the court hall, which is a place for officials to change clothes and take a temporary rest.

He was shocked when he went to the back hall. He thought that the officials who came to visit would only send some relatively small gifts. He never thought that there were not many small boxes, and most of them were big boxes. The entire back hall had brick and stone floors.

Almost all are filled.

Da Tou brought the food to the back hall, placed it on the tea table, then blew on the fire and went to light the candles on both sides.

"What happened to my stables? Did you do it?" he asked.

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"No," Datou shook his head and said, "I just sent someone to Baoqing Inn to ask what kind of food your mount was fed. Who would have thought that the inn not only sent fodder and concentrate, but also the water tank and trough that the black horse used before.

Moved here."

"I wonder why those two slots are exactly the same as those in Baoqing Inn. After working on them for a long time, they belong to them." I couldn't laugh or cry.

"Yes, yes," Datou nodded, "Hurry up and eat, sir, the food is getting cold."

He sat down to eat, and at the same time said to Datou, "Brother Fu, remember, you and Yang Kai are my friends, not my subordinates, and you should never regard yourself as my subordinates."

Datou nodded and answered, "Thank you, sir. I understand what you mean."

Pointing at the large and small boxes on the ground with chopsticks, "These people are here for the imperial censor, not for me. If one day I resign, they will not know me, but you and Yang Kai don't

In the same way, you were by my side when I was prosperous, and if one day I fell into despair, you would not leave me."

Hearing the words, Datou was very moved, "I am only three and a half feet tall, and no one looks at me seriously. They all treat me as a joke. Only adults treat me as a human being. I really want to follow you all my life and repay your kindness for knowing me."

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Da Tou didn't know that he was suffering from chronic illness and had a limited life span, so he said this. But these words sounded very sad. As the saying goes, when manpower is limited, a miracle doctor is just a miracle doctor, not the king of hell.

Not even the Golden Pill can save this situation.

Lest he notice anything unusual, Datou hurriedly changed the subject, "Sir, while you eat, I will open the box and see what's inside."

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"When I came back, there were already a lot of people waiting outside the house. I don't know which one of them came first. I met them one by one," Datou said, tearing open the paper seal and opening one of the boxes to give gifts.

There are gift notes, usually placed in a conspicuous place. Datou took out the gift note and took a look at it, "This is from the Ministry of Accounts. They sent the salary owed to Yushitai. The silver coins have been entered into the account. There are one thousand in it."

The six hundred taels of silver were the winter charcoal fuel collected by the 140 officials of the Ministry of Household Affairs for the Yushitai."

"I hadn't left when the Minister of Tobe came, but I didn't see him," he said casually, "What was his attitude when you saw him?"

"To put it aside," Datou said, "they blame themselves quite a lot. They only blame themselves for not speaking out for you in the morning yesterday."

"It doesn't matter if you didn't say good things, but did you say bad things?" he asked.

"No," Datou shook his head and said, "I was present at the court yesterday morning, and I didn't see the household department stand up to object."

"Have you ever met the Minister of Household Affairs? Do you think they are pretending to be poor or are they really poor?" he asked.

"We are really poor," Datou lowered his voice. "If there were peace and prosperity, taxes would be sufficient, and the national treasury would be full, the life of the household department would be easy. But now there are continuous famines, and the national treasury cannot make ends meet. We need money but no money, and we need grain but no food. Who will take advantage of the household department?"

Are you serious?"

"Return the money to them," he chewed the corn, "and give them a little less, add two hundred taels, and let them know our attitude."

"Okay." Big Tou closed the box and opened another one.

There is still money in it, which was sent by the Ministry of Rites. It's not much money, only one thousand taels.

The Ministry of Rites was also a Qingshui yamen, so it was not easy to squeeze out one thousand taels, so it was still returned as usual, and an additional two hundred taels were added.

People who come to visit like this are actually expressing a goodwill attitude, showing that there is someone in their eyes. When you are in official circles, you must be polite and considerate. Any disrespect may lead to retaliation.

What Ling didn't expect was that the Ministry of Punishment also sent people to deliver charcoal fuel. Once delivered, there were two large boxes, totaling five thousand taels.

This time, he did not rush to express his position. Instead, he put down his job and looked at Datou, "What do you think is the appropriate way to deal with it?"

"This is just public versus public," Datou said. "They are testing our attitude. If they accept it, there will be private versus private in the future. If they return it, they will know that we will continue to deal with them."

"Keep it." He smiled.

Datou is right, those who can come to visit openly and honestly are from business to business, and it is impossible to give too much. For those Qingshui Yamen who are struggling to live a tight life, they will return a little more, and he has accepted most of the other money.

He has his own plan. During the period when he is in charge of the Yushitai, he must try to make money as much as possible, not for himself, but for the court. He knows very well what role he plays as a Yushi doctor. This is a role that offends people, and it is also

A character who takes the blame. He sings the bad part himself and leaves the bad part to the emperor.

However, he did not accept all of these gifts. He also returned a few of them to the yamen of the officials who opposed his taking over as censor in the court yesterday.

After handling these gifts, it was already the second watch. I sent Da Tou back to rest, and I went to the library at Yushitai.

The Yushitai is responsible for supervising all officials. The library contains a directory of all officials in the imperial court, including those local officials in Daozhou, counties and counties.

Military generals are also among the officials, so they are also included in the military generals directory library.

After all, the Yushitai is not a civil service department. There is no record of the promotion trajectory of officials. However, the Yushitai has records of supervision over the years. At present, he lacks sufficient understanding of the situation of the court officials. He does not even know who belongs to whom, and who is related to whom.

We can't figure out what the relationship is. The top priority is to grasp and straighten out the situation of all the officials in the court as soon as possible.

He didn't know who was reliable, and he didn't dare to ask anyone casually, and the information he got was other people's opinions of these people. If he wanted to thoroughly understand the situation and be fair and equitable, he could only do it himself.

The books in the library are piled up like a mountain. Very few people come to this place. The books on the wooden shelves are all covered with thick dust. Let’s first look at the officials currently in office. This is the first year of Dashun. In the seventh year of Chang’an,

There are about 3,000 officials above grade, and there are about 25,000 local officials in the 15th province. The total number is about 30,000.

These 30,000 people include civil servants and generals, which is the total number of officials at this time.

There are more than 30,000 people, and it is impossible for him to read them all one by one. First, look at the courtiers of the imperial capital. Those who are idle will look at the fourth rank and above, and those who hold important positions will look at the sixth rank and above. The so-called important positions are those who hold military power despite having small official positions.

Since I took a short nap in the afternoon, I was not sleepy at this time, and I didn't light a lamp. I just watched in the darkness all night long, memorizing all the officials who held real power by heart.

After daybreak, I went out to have breakfast, and then summoned the three hundred police officers of my yamen to compete with fifty of them from the martial arts field on the west side of Yushitai.

Naturally, the crowd was no match for him, and they didn't strike hard, but he didn't stop there either. Everyone he fought with was bruised and swollen, and they complained endlessly.

After the victory, he just said that he had enjoyed the fight, and then left a sentence of "continue tomorrow", then left the sad-looking policeman and turned around to leave.

The police officer at Yushitai has been in the war for many years, and his martial arts skills have often been neglected. Once he arrests people in the future, it will easily delay the official business, and he cannot explicitly urge everyone to step up their martial arts training, so he can only use this method to motivate them.

He went back to wash his face and lay down to rest. When Yang Kai came back and informed him about the situation in the morning, he plunged into the library again. This time he was looking at the situation of local officials. The seventh-grade magistrate stopped reading. The little county official couldn't read it.

No matter how troublesome they are, they only look at the fifth-rank civil servants above the governor and the fifth-rank military attachés above the captain Guoyi.

When I came out of the library again, it was already sunset.

Datou was waiting for him again and reported to him the situation of dispatching assassins and the list of officials from various ministries who came to visit today.

After dealing with the matter at hand, he returned to the library. He already had a rough idea of ​​the officials' situation, but he didn't know what their relationship was to each other.

And after reading a lot, he found that he had simplified the problem before. The reason why Yang Fugong was able to control the government was not because he won over the courtiers, but because he controlled the military power. Not only the Shence Army responsible for the defense of the capital was this person

Under his control, all the generals in the major military camps outside Chang'an also obeyed this man's orders. Moreover, although this man was a eunuch, he liked to take in adopted sons. Many of his adopted sons had heavy troops, and some of them were even granted the title of Jiedu.

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Once he takes action in the future, it will not just be a matter of arresting a few civil servants, but a large number of military generals will have to be killed to stabilize the situation. And these military generals live in the military camp, so they cannot rush to the military camp to kill people.
To be continued...