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Chapter 57 Eat empty pay [Three more]

In Yuqinglou, Shi Wenyi directly booked the entire restaurant, and in the Jinyiwei yamen, almost all the officials with more than a thousand households were present to congratulate Li Huan.

The news of these people can be said to be the most well-informed. Li Huan went to the palace to meet the emperor in the morning, and it didn't take long for the palace to pass down a decree. Naturally, these people got the news immediately.

As long as he is not a fool, he can realize that Li Huan is valued by the emperor, and he will surely be on the rise in the future, even if he replaces Shi Wenyi as the commander of Jinyiwei, it is not impossible.

Although in front of Shi Wenyi, these people were not easy to curry favor with Li Huan, but these people seemed extremely enthusiastic and toasted to Li Huan one after another.

Even the commanders and colleagues who are higher in rank than Li Huan, although they are not as explicit as they are, they also show a sense of intimacy.

Li Huan really felt the benefits of power, thinking that when he entered Beijing and entered the Jinyiwei Yamen, who would have looked at him highly, but once he was valued by the emperor, it seemed that he had many friends in a flash.

The crowd dispersed, but Li Huan, who was sent back to his residence by his subordinates Chen Yao and Ma Ming, lost his drunkenness in an instant, and seemed quite sober.

Lian Qiao, who was about to prepare hangover soup for Li Huan, saw Li Huan sitting up with clear eyes and couldn't help being stunned for a moment, "My lord, so you are pretending to be drunk."

Li Huan smiled and said: "If you don't pretend to be drunk, I'm afraid you will be really drunk."

Forsythia brought warm water, took a wet towel and handed it to Li Huan and said, "My lord seldom drinks alcohol, why did you drink so much today?"

It's because Li Huan's alcohol smell is too obvious.

Li Huan wiped his face, his mind cleared a bit due to the surge of alcohol, "Your son, I have been promoted to three ranks, do you think it is worth celebrating?"

Lian Qiao was stunned for a moment, then she came to her senses and exclaimed, "My lord...Your lord, have you been promoted?"

Lianqiao is not an ordinary girl who doesn't know anything. Although she is a maid, she is really regarded as a daughter by Feng Shi and Li Xian. In addition, she can read and read with Li Huan. Although she is not a talented girl, she is I have also read many books and have some knowledge.

Now when Li Huan said that the official was promoted to three ranks, Lian Qiao couldn't help but secretly calculated, suddenly raised her head to look at Li Huan and said, "So you are now the Fushi of Jinyiwei Town, an official of the fourth rank?"

Li Huan nodded and said, "Not bad."

Forsythia said instinctively: "Then we don't have to worry about someone's idea of ​​Langqi Island again!"

Hearing what Lianqiao said, the smile on Li Huan's face faded, and he said slowly: "Whoever wants to make an idea of ​​Langqi Island, then first ask me if I agree or not."

At the same time, Li Huan was planning in his mind when he would send someone to the Jinyiwei Qianhu Office in Fujian to find the Jinyiwei Qianhu, and ask who was the one who plotted against their Li family back then.

As the saying goes, the hatred of killing one's father is not shared, if there is revenge, there is revenge, and if there is grievance, there is no such strength, but now there are some accounts that should be settled.

This night Li Huan suddenly ascended to the high position and thought about avenging his father, tossing and turning until the middle of the night before falling asleep.

It was just dawn, and although Li Huan said he only slept for a few hours, he woke up on time, and the sound of Forsythia making breakfast could be vaguely heard outside.

After striding horse stance for an hour, Li Huan practiced his saber technique again. After breakfast, he went straight to the Jinyiwei yamen.

Although according to Zhu Houzhao's meaning, Jin Yiwei's guards and guards are almost empty-handed, and Li Huan only thinks that Zhu Houzhao is exaggerating, but when he got the list of guards and guards, he has not been named and verified. The envoy and even the Qianhu officials came to intercede with him as if they had made a deal.

Li Huan really didn't expect that this so-called pro-army guard of the Son of Heaven could become the object of these people's empty pay.

There are as many as 3000 guards and soldiers on the list, but looking at the attitude of these high-ranking Jinyiwei guards, Li Huan suspects that if he checks the list in the end, he can summon half of them, which is considered too many.

Remembering that Zhu Houzhao specifically told him to reorganize the bodyguards when he was leaving, Li Huan felt that it was absolutely impossible to say that Zhu Houzhao didn't know the situation of the bodyguards eating empty salaries.

Shi Wenyi walked into the side hall, looked at Li Huan in a daze at the piles of directories, sighed softly, and said: "Do you think it's incredible. The guards of the imperial guards guarding the army, the barrier guarding the emperor, would be so serious. The situation of eating empty pay."

Li Huan raised his head to look at Shi Wenyi, but did not speak, while Shi Wenyi sat opposite Li Huan and said: "When the water is clear, there will be no fish, whether it is the Shenji Battalion, the Five Army Battalion, the Three Thousand Battalion, or the Frontier Army or the local guards. , where there is no such thing as empty pay."

Seeing that Li Huan didn't respond, Shi Wenyi said again: "As the saying goes, freezing three feet is not a day's cold. During the first emperor's time, Jin Yiwei was suppressed by the civil official group, and his strength shrank greatly. When the number of guards was the smallest, it was even less than a thousand. The literati would rather Jinyiwei eat the empty salary of the guards than see the strength of the Jinyiwei increase. Several commanders have tried to increase the number of guards, but they will be suppressed by the civil officials before they have any action. That’s how it is now.”

Jin Yiwei is responsible for monitoring all officials in the world. It can be said that he is born to stand on the opposite side of civil and military officials.

It is a bit exaggerated to say that Jin Yiwei harmed the common people. Think about the countless corrupt officials who have been directly or indirectly taken down by Jin Yiwei for hundreds of years.It is conceivable that Jin Yiwei's power is expanding, and the last thing he wants to see is the civil and military officials above the court.

Seeing Li Huan lost in thought, Shi Wenyi patted Li Huan on the shoulder and smiled, "Brother, this burden is not light at all!"

Looking up at Shi Wenyi's leaving back, Li Huan couldn't help showing a bit of thought. Is Shi Wenyi coming to tell himself that these are kind reminders, or are there other schemes!
But no matter what Shi Wenyi's purpose is, there is one fact that is there, that is, the errand entrusted to him by Zhu Houzhao is actually not as easy as imagined.

For a whole morning, Li Huan sat in that side hall, as if he had settled down, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

And in the Jinyiwei yamen, the side hall where Li Huan was located seemed to be the focus of the Jinyiwei yamen's attention. I don't know how many people paid attention to Li Huan's every move.

Sitting opposite Chen Ke was a burly man with an extremely imposing manner. Judging by the official uniform on his body, he was actually an official of a thousand households.

Zhao Yi glanced at Chen Ke and said: "Master Li was your subordinate before, but you can talk about it, and see if Mr. Zhen Fushi can reorganize the guards this time!"

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