Daming heir

The war horse galloped enthusiastically on the official road.

The horses in the Central Plains are always inferior to those outside the pass. Fortunately, the empire still holds the Hetao area, which can continue to supply the imperial court with good horses for combat.

Taiyuan City, as an important town on the nine borders connecting the Central Plains and outside the customs, has never lacked pedestrians on the official roads.

Zhang Hui, who was wearing a strong suit, led the people and drove quickly on horseback.

Just like the Yuan people outside Guanwai longed for the Central Plains, Zhang Hui also had a unique desire for outside Guanwai.

horse.

There are the strongest war horses outside the pass, and there are good breeds that can make those Yuan people run thousands of miles.

Although Zhang Hui is a Jinyiwei, he is also a soldier of the empire, and he also has a strong interest and desire for everything related to war.

In addition to longing for the endless grassland outside the pass and the herds of war horses, Zhang Hui looked up at the outline of Taiyuan City, which had been dragged out beautifully and brilliantly in the afterglow of the setting sun.

A certain research of the Taiyuan Hospital has reached the most critical moment, and I hope that this trip can complete the final and most critical step for the Taiyuan Hospital in Taiyuan City.

As the official of the Hundred Households of Jinyiwei Imperial Prison.

In the eyes of outsiders, Zhang Hui is the devil who climbed up from hell, an executioner who can only cramp and strip bones.

But in Tai Hospital, Zhang Hui enjoyed the highest respect.

Even though he was covered in blood, as soon as he walked into the imperial hospital, those imperial doctors who were used to wearing white coats would always surround him enthusiastically, eagerly communicating with him the latest research results, and the next step. A step where I hope Zhang Hui can help.

This inadequacy and outsider's knowledge also had to be felt, which made Zhang Hui a little more eager for the Taiyuan City that was getting closer and closer.

"After the errands in Shanxi Road are finished, it's time for us Jinyiwei to set up outside the pass."

Zhang Hui is very fast on horseback, but he is exceptionally good at controlling the horse.

The several subordinates who accompanied him were also skilled in riding.

"The biggest problem now is that our people are not easy to show their faces on the grassland. Even though the imperial court has recruited many grassland tribes over the years, these people are not worthy of full trust."

A chief banner officer under Zhang Hui's command explained in a low voice beside him.

Zhang Hui chuckled: "Then choose some young herdsmen who belong to you. Fifteen or sixteen-year-olds look the best. There is a new study at the Imperial Hospital. As long as the method is right, these people can make these people give up on Daming. It is also difficult for the biological parents to change their minds."

The chief banner officer silently closed his mouth.

Everyone in the imperial prison knew that the hundred household officials were not only doing the things they had done in the past for the Imperial Hospital.

It has been a while, what the hundred household officials do in the imperial prison has changed from research on the flesh and blood to an attack on a person's heart.

As the chief banner officer under Zhang Hui's command, he still remembers that the vicious bandit was taken back to prison by him from the Ministry of punishment.

It's only ten days.

The bandit with nearly a hundred lives on his hands has become as obedient as a chicken.

The Chief Banner Officer even watched with his own eyes. Zhang Baihu calmly asked the other party to cut off his five fingers one by one.

And the gangster, without any hesitation in his eyes, took a knife and cut off his fingers one by one.

At that moment, the Chief Banner Officer only felt chills all over his body, and the hairs on his body stood on end.

No one knew what the Hundred Household Officer had done to the bandit during that ten days to make him behave like this and change him so much.

But what is known is that the hundred household officials did not torture the bandit.

But soon, the experiment was stopped.

The chief banner officer vaguely heard that the order came from the palace, and that all written records related to the entire experiment were transferred from Jinyiwei to another unknown place, and all archives were destroyed.

On the other side of the Imperial Hospital, the new and old envoys personally dispatched and communicated with Zhang Baihu for a long time, and even prescribed a prescription for Zhang Baihu, asking Zhang Baihu to take it continuously for a month.

This is something that should never be made public.

When the chief banner officer heard that Zhang Hui was going to use such methods again, he wisely shut up and did not participate in the questioning.

At this time, the team had arrived near Taiyuan City.

Enter the city from the southeast.

Looking up at the towering city wall of Taiyuan, Zhang Hui looked to the northeast.

He raised the arm holding the whip, pointing northeast.

"Yuan thief?"

The chief banner officer looked in the direction and narrowed his eyes slightly: "Probably herdsmen from outside the pass entered the pass to do some business."

Zhang Hui frowned: "After all, the horse outside the pass is even more handsome."

The Chief Banner Officer said with a smile: "If the hundred households like it, the subordinates will buy those horses after they enter the city."

Does Jin Yiwei need to spend money to buy what Jin Yiwei wants?

In particular, this thing is not in Ming's hands.

The answer is obvious.

Said to buy, but also for some good-sounding.

Zhang Hui smiled, shook his head and said, "Go to the city and find a good place to settle down. In the days to come, you need to be careful not to attract the attention of Taiyuan City."

The Chief Banner Officer nodded: "Would you like to contact the Jin Palace? With the secret support of the Jin Palace, it will be convenient for me to wait in Taiyuan City."

Zhang Hui thought for a while, and said, "His Royal Highness's decree requires Jin Wang and Liang Guogong to go north to sit in Datong. The White Lotus Sect can insert their hands into the imperial city of Zhongdu. It is difficult to guarantee that there is no eyes and ears in Jin Wang's mansion. It is better not to contact."

The Chief Banner Officer's eyes darkened.

Although it is now clear that the White Lotus Sect has colluded with Shanxi merchants to do illegal things.

But the other party is in the dark after all, and no one knows who in Taiyuan City is the downline of the development of the White Lotus Sect.

As the confidant of Shanxi merchants in Taiyuan City, the relationship in the city must have been intricate for a long time.

"This article responds to the sky, sending more people to Shanxi Dao."

The Chief Banner Officer said in a low voice.

Right now, in Shanxi Road, apart from them, there are only Jinyiwei hundred households that are on the bright side.

These people will naturally be stared at by the people of Shanxi Road, and they cannot be used recklessly.

Except for these people, they simply couldn't cope with the current situation in Shanxi Road.

Zhang Hui lowered his eyelids, and only after a while did he speak: "The grandson of Chengzuo is here."

The chief banner officer nodded: "This subordinate understands."

At this time, the group had already arrived at the foot of Taiyuan City.

Everyone took out the fake certificates prepared in advance and handed them over to the officers and soldiers under the city gate for verification, and then entered Taiyuan City without incident.

In a short period of time, Taiyuan City was flooded with several forces with different thoughts.

It's just that for various reasons, he kept a low profile and calm.

This makes Taiyuan City, which has already entered the early winter, not look too chaotic, just because the new year is approaching, it makes the streets more festive.

The northwest corner of the city.

A large mansion just a few streets away from Prince Jin's Mansion clearly reveals extravagance, but no one dares to criticize it.

In the middle of the city, the Sansi Yamen of Shanxi Road, the Taiyuan Prefecture Yamen, the County Yamen, and the various departments are scattered all over the place. There are many unexplainable connections with this courtyard in the northwest corner.

Because there is a high gate in the northwest of the city, and the streets that are a little closer, it has become a place where people from the rivers and lakes gather.

Thinking of being selected by a high-ranking family and getting more money, so that I can go home for the New Year.

Those who sing big drum scripts, bamboo board scripts, combs, knives and scissors, medicines, fortune-tellers, and face-to-face people all live on the street, attracting an endless stream of people from Taiyuan City.

Away from the street corner, there was a stall with a few tea tables, burning tea powder, and a storyteller wooed a few guests.

Storytellers are talking about popular books such as "Biography of the Sui and Tang Dynasties" and "Three Kingdoms". The common people have heard a lot, so they are not very curious.

After finishing the article, the husband only got a few pennies in total, not enough for a day's expenses, but he lost the idea of ​​continuing to talk.

Instead, he sat on the side, brewed tea with the tea stand, sipped the tea and rubbed oily beans on his mouth, and looked at the high gate across the street.

"I have been in Taiyuan City for three to five days, but I can't earn a few taels of money. I probably won't be able to return home this year."

Because Zhang Hui had been in prison for a long time, his face looked a little pale. At this moment, he was wearing the storyteller's long gown, which made it hard for people to see the clue.

The tea stall owner folded his arms and looked at the endless stream of people on the street, but few people came to drink tea.

I had a lot of free time, so I just took a look at the storyteller here.

Then the tea stall owner showed a bit of sarcasm: "You have to be able to try your hand at work. Who hasn't heard of "Biography of the Sui and Tang Dynasties" and "Three Kingdoms", and there are many people talking about it. Can you say it?"

Zhang Hui looked over and stared: "I can't say it's good, your tea stall is not good either."

The owner of the tea stall replied, "I have nothing to do. There are seven people in my family who are plowing land. I don't need more or less. Boil water and make tea. A dozen or twenty boards a day are enough."

Zhang Hui stopped talking, if he hadn't accepted half of the old man's daily storytelling, he would have no place to hide his identity.

The owner of the tea stall saw that Zhang Hui was always looking at the noble gate of the Li family, so he said more mockingly: "You still have to be able to say, the long one is "Legend of Stealing the Horse and the Golden Gun", and the short one is "Bao Gongan". Well, I can go to Li's house and say that for three or two months, at the end of the year, I can always earn dozens of taels of silver and go home for the New Year. This Li family needs your little silver. Do you know what is broken silver? Hundreds of taels are called broken silver."

Zhang Hui looked at the owner of the tea stall, and then at the Li family of a Shanxi merchant in the northwest corner of Taiyuan City in the distance.

He snorted and said: "Come to the city, I heard that the Li family has quite a lot of old money, buried in the cellar, and the bottom is rotten."

The tea stall owner smiled and said: "That's not true, what people eat is gold, what they sleep is jade, and the broken silver counts as tens or hundreds of taels."

Between the words, the tea stall owner showed envy after all.

But I also want to taste the taste of the gold and sleep on the jade bed.

Zhang Hui asked: "The Li family of the former Tang Dynasty originated in Taiyuan, but I don't know that the Li family is too far away now, but is it related to the Li family of the former Tang Dynasty?"

The tea stall owner snorted again: "How can it matter, but let them be the imperial relatives of the former Tang Dynasty? Before the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the Li family was nothing, helping the great Yuan to squeeze the people. Wait until we turn around When Daming gained momentum, he turned around to help His Majesty the Emperor. Hearing that he had given a lot of money and food, he was replaced by someone who was not held accountable. Over the years, I don’t know how much money I’ve earned by delivering food to the frontier troops.”

Is this how it is said in Taiyuan city?
Zhang Hui was a little surprised. He didn't remember that when the Ming Dynasty was founded, these Shanxi merchants gave money and food to the court.

"Tell me, can I enter the Li family to tell a book?"

Watching the sky getting late and the crowds on the street getting bigger, Zhang Hui asked softly.

The owner of the tea stall had already started packing up his booth, moved the table to the empty rented yard beside him, and laughed at Zhang Hui for a while while he was busy.

"you?"

"I see it hanging."

Zhang Hui was not annoyed, he got up and sat on the steps under the eaves, still staring at the gate of Li's house across the street in the distance.

At this time, the sky was not yet completely dark, but the Li family was already lit up with bright lights.

The scented candle was lit like money, illuminating the high courtyard extremely brightly.

And in front of the door, there were already magnificently decorated carriages coming from all over the city and stopping in front of the door.

A wealthy and luxurious man dressed in common clothes but brocade inside stepped out of the carriage, and entered the gate of the house under the respectful welcome of the servants of the Li family.

Even night falls.

The tea stall owner had already gone home to bring the group of grandchildren.

On the street, Zhang Hui, who had been disguised as a storyteller since entering Taiyuan City, was hiding in the shadows, behind the endless crowd, watching the Li family's house.

And in the courtyard with flowing water.

For the first time, Zhu Yunwen saw the extravagant style of the rich businessmen in these places.

In the whole courtyard, apart from the most eye-catching flowing water in Shanxi Road, bamboo drainage channels are erected in the whole courtyard, passing through the trees.

The sweet wine flows in the bamboo drainage canal.

Candles bought from the south are lit everywhere, and incense brought from deep mountains and old forests are lit.

Flying in the sky, swimming in the water, running on the ground, all rare birds and beasts, all became the food for people to eat during the banquet.

The lights flickered.

Zhu Yunwen looked at Liu Zongsheng and these Shanxi people, talking eagerly and familiarly.

As for his status as a clan member of the Ming Dynasty, after Liu Zongsheng introduced it to everyone present, he received a burst of praise.

As a result, Zhu Yunqi, who originally wanted to participate in a low-key manner, was assigned a seat near Li Wenxiang, the head of the Li family.

Above, Liu Zongsheng and Li Wenwai let out hearty and heroic laughter.

Then Li Wen said to everyone at the banquet: "Everyone! Everyone!"

Following Li Wenxiang's call, the people present tonight fell silent.

Li Wenxiang blushed, and said: "Recently, I got a few horses at home, which are quite amazing. They have not been trained yet. Tonight, King Xiaoming and the Taibao will come to visit, and the prince will even reward them. The old man is the host, and I will bring these horses out to fight with them. You all look the same."

After Li Wenxiang finished speaking, an ambiguous expression appeared on his face.

During the banquet, everyone also showed wanton laughter.

Zhu Yunwen looked to the left and right, frowning slightly.

This horse seems a bit out of order.

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