choke element

The imperial court has rules, and there are established rules in the officialdom. When the status reaches the level of Marshal Dongmian, he is already a pillar of the Kaifeng imperial court in one direction, and the procedures are even more complicated.

On weekdays, new and old officials alternate, identity checks are required, confirmation of many links in various government offices, and explanations of various military and political matters, as well as the handover of household registration, military personnel, and materials, etc., many procedures have to be gone, at least It also had to be busy for more than half a month, and dozens of official documents were circulated with Kaifeng.

Now that there are police on the front line in Xuzhou, the people who are responsible for staying behind in Guide Mansion are even more critical, and non-confidantes cannot take on this heavy responsibility.

This Zhao Wang Wanyan Honglie is ready to take over the entire Guide Mansion on the spot with an order?

Is this requirement normal?

unusual.

Marshal Wanyan has acted recklessly since he entered the city, and everything he does is not in compliance with the rules.

Right now, the Xuzhou frontline is still fighting fiercely, but he came to Guide Mansion to seize power with a shining knife.This pair of food is really bloody and ugly.

But those who know the business feel that this situation is normal.

It is because for a hundred years, the rules of the Dajin Kingdom have never been the rules of the nobles of the Dajin; the military and political system of the Dajin Land cannot completely restrain the conflicts among the important officials of the Yan family.

Although the name of Zhao Wang Wanyan Honglie, none of the officials had heard of it.But the Kaifeng court has only been established for more than half a year, and from time to time, Jurchens escape from the north, and every now and then there will be an extra nobleman in the court, and the emperor will often bestow high-ranking honors on him in order to compete for orthodoxy with Zhongdu.

Everyone knows about this.

Perhaps it is precisely because this kind of nobleman has not long established himself in the imperial court that the methods of fighting for power are extremely fierce?
This time when the new official took office, the first thing he did was to rush to the general manager's mansion, killing several of Marshal Wanyan Bi's cronies without any scruples, and took his family and relatives into one place. It can be seen that Master Wanyan Honglie is They came for Marshal Wan Yanbi.

Anyone who stands with Marshal Wan Yanbi must die.

What else can everyone do besides being obedient?
Mistakes and omissions in the procedures can always be resolved if you take your time.Now if anyone raises objections, does he want to die?Right now, inside and outside the Chief Steward's Mansion, there are still people suffering from injuries of varying degrees, who are wailing, shouldn't they have quickly dealt with the situation and called in the medical officer for help?

At present, with Xu Fu as the leader, all the small officials all bowed to answer.

A group of people just came out of the manager's mansion just now, and now they are going back in a row.After a while, many servants came out with orders from their masters, and separately notified their colleagues on duty elsewhere to rush to the General Manager's Mansion to flatter the new Marshal.

Some of those notified arrived immediately, some tried to leave the city and rushed to Xuzhou to report, and some hid at home shivering.

However, at night, the local officials could see that this Zhao Wang Wanyan Honglie was obviously from the army and was full of meritorious service on the battlefield. He was not familiar with specific government affairs.

He asked where the warehouses in the city were, and only sent his elite cavalry to take over, but he was not in a hurry to count the supplies; on the contrary, he was very concerned about the situation of the officers and soldiers left in the city, and called their officers to inquire about the city defense arrangements.

In addition, he would not touch any correspondence documents or money books.

The crowd accompanied him until the evening, when the defense of the entire city was under control, and the newly signed grain shooting army and town defense army in the city also gathered in the city barracks, waiting to be assembled, he waved his hand:

"The battle in the direction of Xuzhou is unknown, and there will still be a lot of time to borrow from you. Let's go, and go to rest in peace! After a few days of work, I will invite you to drink!"

The crowd breathed a sigh of relief, they didn't even dare to be a prince, dozens of people lined up at the front of the hall, bowed and said goodbye.When he was about to leave, he saw several places in the city bursting into flames.Due to the direction of the wind, a puff of smoke was pouring into the general manager's mansion. Guo Ning was caught off guard, choked a few times, and coughed repeatedly.

This kind of fire is by no means naturally generated. Someone must have lit the firewood specially, and maybe even sprinkled grease to help it burn!
The subordinates who followed Guo Ning into the city were all alarmed, all of them drew their knives in their hands, and put on guard.

Guo Ning choked and coughed, and was secretly surprised.He turned sideways, lowered his voice and asked, "Why did four or five flames start up all at once? Old Xu, you've gone too far!"

Xu Ting sighed: "Duke, I only let someone set fire to it, the one in the stable at the back of the manager's mansion, and I asked Ni Yi to watch it personally, don't let the fire spread..."

The two of them immediately understood what had happened, and both began to curse.

Seeing the two big figures in the hall whispering in their ears, their faces became more and more ugly, and several people who were saluting under the hall secretly cried bitterly.

Previously, the officials were arrested and interrogated in the general manager's mansion. These people were worried that their own hands and feet in the money and grain books would be revealed, so they waited for the opportunity to let the servants inform the family and quickly destroy the relevant records.

At this time, the news of the new official's appointment has not been publicly announced, and ordinary people in Guide Mansion are spreading rumors of true and false news, and the atmosphere in the city is strange.The family members didn't know the depth, and they were afraid that the action would not be fast enough, so they simply set fire to avoid future troubles.

If one family does this kind of thing, then two or three families will follow suit.

Guo Ning was about to find an excuse to control these officials, so he asked Xu Yu to send someone to set fire to him beforehand, but unexpectedly he was thinking of going with these people.

In an instant, flames blazed everywhere in Guide Mansion.The cries of the people for help, the gongs specially used to warn of fire and water, and the noise of the crowd running around all sounded; the small half of the city was full of people, reflecting the fire in the night sky.

Guo Ning immediately dispatched people to put out the fire, but they were outsiders, and they inevitably stumbled.Fortunately, the officials were very cooperative in fearing that the fire would spread and burn their belongings.

Guo Ning reorganized two thousand-strong town defense troops on the spot, opened the treasury again, and issued rewards to encourage them.Xu Ting personally led them to work for more than two hours, until the next morning, the fire was finally suppressed, and the restlessness in the city gradually subsided.

Ni Yi came back from the outside and reported to Guo Ning in a low voice: "Using the search for the arsonists as a cover, another 320 people have been arrested, and they have all been gathered in the east side courtyard. Because some people resisted with weapons, another hundred people were killed. In addition to the two city walls, the key to material storage and transportation and the city defense hub determined before entering the city are already in our hands."

"Are there any casualties among our people?"

On this trip, Guo Ning brought a total of over two hundred fine riders along with him.Among them, apart from the dozens of cavalry under Peng Yibin's command, the others were all his confidantes and retinues, who had attended military academy and made meritorious service on the battlefield.

Ni Yi chuckled: "How dare these people confront the heavenly soldiers of the imperial court? Even if someone resists, they are not our opponents. After half a day, none of our people died, only three were injured, all of which were minor injuries. One of them accidentally startled his horse, and was hit by burning wood when passing through the fire, and burned his palm."

Guo Ning nodded: "Go and tell the soldiers secretly that you must be more careful at this time, cheer me up and shut up. If we succeed, everyone will be rewarded. If we don't succeed, whoever is wrong , cut immediately."

"As ordered."

Ni Yizi went to remind his partners.

Guo Ning put on the face of King Zhao and took stock of the losses overnight in the manager's mansion.

News gathered from all over the place one after another, and a granary, a money bank, and two stables were burned in total, causing heavy losses.Another branch directly under the Kaifeng Armaments Administration, which specialized in providing weapons and armor to the army, was burned down. Even the officials and more than a dozen craftsmen in charge of this department were all burnt to charcoal, and no one was seen alive. with.

The amount of lost materials was quite large, and Kaifeng's Ordnance Department was also involved. This is no small matter.If Guo Ning is really King Zhao from Kaifeng, he might be able to handle big and important cases, and follow the vines to draw a bunch of people.

He certainly has no interest in handling the case right now.Taking advantage of this loss, he made a heartbroken gesture and cursed furiously for a while; then he ordered several key officials not to leave, and stayed in the general manager's mansion for the past few days, waiting for subsequent inquiries; With the two newly formed thousand-man teams, they took over the city defenses of the inner and outer cities.

At the moment when Xuzhou is fighting, taking over the rear central city defense has its own particularity.If Guo Ning did this from the very beginning, it is inevitable that some people will have doubts, but now he is using the banner of cleaning up the officialdom and putting an end to villains, even the military officer Wan Yanbi single-handedly can't refute.

Guo Ning was not worried at all about whether the two thousand-man teams could obey Xu Xuan's command.

How shrewd and capable the leader of Ding Naval Records Department is, it is really easy to handle these local soldiers.

Around noon the next day, a group of cavalry rushed out of Guide Mansion from the west.

As they approached the city, they saw that the four gates were tightly closed and the city was heavily guarded. When they approached the city gate not far away, someone in the city shouted: "Who is here?"

"Wanyan Wuli's marching army has thousands of household servants, as the outpost of our army, requesting to enter the city!"

There was a moment of silence in the city, and a rope hung down, and a basket was hung on the rope.

The person who spoke before shouted again: "The position of the job, I have to be on guard, don't blame thousands of households! Please also take the letter and print it out, so that we can go to investigate."

Pu Hu felt a little unhappy, but he also knew that the military law was strict, so he put his letter seal into the basket.

After a while, a gap was opened in the gate of the city, and a group of native soldiers came out and lined up with wild goose wings. The person who had spoken earlier held the letter seal in both hands and handed it back: "Qianhu, the letter seal inspection is correct. However, you are not allowed to enter the city."