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Tianjin Prefecture.

Li Yun is particularly busy today and has many things at hand.

He came to Tianjin Prefecture from Daxing Prefecture yesterday and left the mansion in a hurry this morning. He planned to go to Sanchakou River Port to inspect the construction progress of the new wharf.

If everything goes well, he will summon Du Gang, who transports grain from the sea, when he comes back, and urge them to prepare their ships to prevent them from being damaged by ice after the port is frozen.

In addition, they must also coordinate with local officials to recruit sailors from various places for placement and training.As soon as next spring begins, the imperial court will definitely send people to inspect the drills. If anything goes wrong by then, it will not look good on everyone.

These two things are obviously business, but in fact they are related to the military preparations in northern Xinjiang.In the past few months, there have been constant rumors that Genghis Khan is about to lead his army back to the grasslands. The three recruitment departments in the north are particularly eager to urge military resources.

The money and food from the imperial court came and went like water. The total amount seemed huge, but if there was more here, there would be less there.The discussion in the court on how to distribute the money has yet to come to an end.But this year and the beginning of next year, we must give what is definitely due and cannot delay it.

Something went wrong here.That's why Li Yun took this special trip.

Sure enough, this day's trip didn't go smoothly from the first step.The dock at Sanchakou was obviously very well reported on the paperwork. A quick look at the dock revealed that the construction progress of the dock was much slower than expected, affecting many freight shipments nearby.

Li Yun summoned some officials on the spot and inquired about the reason for the delay.

First, he was the foreman of a certain organization. In autumn, he interfered with the inspection of Liukou Town. He was arrested and has not been released.As a result, the foreman's relatives and friends incited the ignorant people, and hundreds of people went to the inspection department every day to cause trouble, abandoning the key roads they were responsible for building.

If it lasts for three or five days, it will get cold.The terrain of Tianjin Prefecture is humid and humid. When the weather gets cold, unless the people are forced to do so, no one is willing to stand knee-high to the waist at all times, making it difficult to continue construction.Since the road is blocked, nothing else can be done.

In the blink of an eye, more than ten days later, the official responsible for supervising the work here was impatient and reported the matter to the Criminal Division.

The things that make the Criminal Division nervous are different.What they feared was that the ignorant people would be incited to cause trouble under the emperor's nose.After they were involved in this matter, the conflict between the town inspector and the powerful foreman turned into a document war between several unrelated yamen, while the Criminal Division focused on several people in the civil service. A prick.

When Li Yun arrived at Sanchakou, he was surrounded by several officials. Everyone expected him to come forward to judge right from wrong.But they didn't want to think about it. The expansion of the wharf would have affected the material transfer at Sanchakou. Now there are so many ships waiting on the river, and the last batch of millions of grains before the river freezes is just for unloading. Who cares about right and wrong?

If it delays the supply of grain needed by Northern Xinjiang and affects the war, who will bear the responsibility?Whose head to chop off?

Aren’t you, a large group of people, afraid of death?

According to Li Yun's intention, he would like to kill a few leaders, and then dispatch all the chaotic officials and replace them with capable people from his own left and right departments and Qun Mu's subordinates.But he also knew that this was unrealistic.

The world has changed so fast in the past two years. The imperial court itself has been in ruins. The number of people promoted from the military system is not enough, and it has to continue the various messes left by the previous dynasty.With messes everywhere, it is inevitable that bad people will be active among them, and this kind of bickering between all parties will always be inevitable.

It just so happens that many new situations correspond to new operating procedures.Even if the superiors want to intervene, it's not that easy.Not to mention Li Yun, Yelu Chucai was also worried about the new situation, new departments and new powers every day in Zhongdu. It was just that he paid attention to the magnanimity of the prime minister and wanted to maintain the dignity of the court's laws, so he easily kept it secret.

Li Yun could only cheer up and gathered three heads and six sides on the pier to perform a carnage.The relevant parties were forced to figure it out and know what to do, and they had to watch them write documents on the spot and send the terms to the respective administrative offices for archiving for continued compliance.

By the time the next solution was roughly arranged, it was already dark.Under the dim moonlight, the soldiers lit torches and surrounded him back home.

Counting from the time I left in the morning to the time I returned late at night, seven hours had passed.Such busyness was the norm for many upstart officials in the Zhou Dynasty.These pawns who were once worse than dogs, the crow-mouthed old scholar who was wanted by the court, the Khitan people who were destined to lose real power because of their status as nobility of the Liao Kingdom, the treacherous prime minister who was scolded by the Manchu Dynasty as treacherous sycophants, and the second-generation treacherous ministers, I work very hard for a new goal, and I have to work hard.

At the entrance of the mansion, the butler came out to welcome him and waved from a distance: "The husband is back! What do you want to eat today?"

This housekeeper talks carelessly, and if he were to come from a family that had been a serious official for generations, he would probably be kicked out immediately.But Li Yun felt very comfortable facing him.

It was all because this steward was an old soldier who had followed him to the northeastern hinterland in his early years. He injured his leg due to the cold and had to retire.Li Yun deliberately kept him as a housekeeper in the mansion because of his reliability.The ancients said that there are three-rank officials in front of the prime minister. Although Li Yun is not the prime minister, his position among the ministers and ministers is crucial. No matter what the housekeeper said, he is also a seventh-rank official, and his life is very comfortable.

As for the level of his housekeeper, Li Yun didn't care.He has been traveling around for many years, while his wife is the Queen's handkerchief and is stationed in Zhongdu every day. This Tianjin mansion has always made do with things.

"Anything will do. I'm very thirsty. I have hot wine. Bring me a pot... or two pots!"

Li Yun shouted.

After entering and dismounting, most of the people who came to look after him were old soldiers.Li Yun yelled at their uncles and brothers for a while, chatted for a while, and suddenly sneezed several times, spittle and snot flying everywhere.The old soldiers all said, "Thank you for your hard work, Mr. Lang, please go inside and warm yourself by the fire."

Li Yun entered the room, and another attendant held a heavy lock box, placed it on the desk, and bowed away.This lock box is very strong and is specially used by the Secretary of General Affairs to deliver confidential information to senior officials.It was delivered to Li Yun at noon today, but he hadn't had time to read it yet.

Li Yun took out the key from his arms, opened the lock box, glanced at today's documents, and couldn't help but smile.

It turned out that the Di newspaper said that the emperor's trip to northern Xinjiang had achieved the expected results.The emperor only used more than [-] people to go deep into the grassland to retrieve Lu Shu, and by the way, he forced more than [-] thousand households in the eastern grassland to surrender.

The reason why it was so smooth naturally stemmed from the emperor's military strategy, but it was also inseparable from the Mongolian leader Belgutai who led the army to confront the emperor.

This guy first captured countless forest people who had fled into the grassland and organized them into a strict army, intending to use this army that cost no money and could never die to frighten thousands of households in the eastern part of the grassland.As a result, this army collided with Zhou's imperial army and immediately fell apart.

Then this guy became impatient and secretly sent a signal to mobilize a group of knights who were bribed by him in the crowd of five casts.Let them take advantage of the frontal fight, secretly cut into the rear of the Zhou army, and take the commander's head directly.The Zhou army brought hot air balloons and telescopes with them on this trip. The Mongols' method of finding flaws and gaps based on the speed of the cavalry had no chance of success.Besides, this kind of trivial skill could not scare the emperor.Given the emperor's aggressive character, it would probably be a happy event if someone rushed forward to seek death.

What's ridiculous is that the more than a thousand cavalry were still far away from the Zhou army, but they were intercepted by Wu Tiao, who led thousands of households, and killed them all by chopping melons and vegetables.

Thousands of households are watching the show and waiting to reap the benefits.Who would have thought that Belgutai would use such underhanded tactics to force them to bleed on the battlefield?The more unexpected it is, the more irritable they will be once it happens.And once you get angry, your reaction will inevitably be outrageous.

On the orders of members of the Golden Family, a large group of cavalry who fought with Han'er from the Central Plains were killed by them in full view of the public.They say they are loyal to the Golden Family and Genghis Khan, but who else believes them?
Belgutai fled in embarrassment, and I am afraid that he will never be able to reach the eastern part of the grassland again.Of course he was smart but was misled by his cleverness, and these thousands of households with five casts were also smart but misled by their cleverness.

Those Mongolians could have decisively decided the outcome, but they chose to play tricks... If they got away with it, wouldn't they have made a mistake for themselves?

While putting away the newspaper, Li Yun heard the sound of arranging dishes, chopsticks, and cups outside the study.

After a busy day, he was indeed thirsty and hungry, so he quickly put away the lock box and went out.Only when people went outside did they realize that the person who entered the outside room of the study with a large plate of wine and food was not the original cook, but a young girl.

The little girl has bright eyes and white teeth, and is very good-looking. She wears the ordinary clothes of a servant, but she has a vague special charm of Xiaojiabiyu.

Li Yun couldn't help but take a second look, and suddenly asked: "Where are you from?"

The little girl was timid and did not dare to raise her head and said, "I am a native of Tianjin Prefecture."

"Why do you come here to work?"

"Dad worked for the gentlemen at Sanchakou Wharf, but he was wrongly sued. My mother and I worked as envoys and earned a monthly salary."

Li Yun nodded.

The little girl poured wine for Li Yun, but Li Yun didn't drink it and stared at her up and down.

At this age, daughters are in love and tend to be shy.Feeling that Li Yun's gaze was scary, he nervously grabbed the hem of his skirt, wanting to leave but not daring to leave, with a look of panic on his face.

After a long while, Li Yun said: "Okay, you don't have to wait. It's getting late, go and have a rest."

His voice was very kind, but the little girl ran away as if she were running away.

Li Yun drank and ate like the wind blowing away the remaining clouds.When my stomach is full, the night watchman's drum beat has already spread into the room.It was dark outside the window, but there was light on the ground reflecting towards the sky.From his position, he couldn't see any bright spots, but there was no need to guess, there must be several business districts where Jinwu couldn't help but be still brightly lit.

Li Yun sneered.

He has been through life and death over the years and has come up with a very important lesson.There are very few coincidences in the world. Once you think anything is a coincidence, nine times out of ten, there is a deliberate push behind it.

In the past few years, he has become more and more powerful, and all kinds of people have tried to establish friendship with him, and they have never stopped offering benefits.Earlier, because of his wife, some people thought that he liked charming and older women, so he secretly procured promiscuous women, causing a lot of trouble.

At this time, it was probably that when he went south in the name of Jia Sidao, his deeds of traveling in Hutianhudi in the Southern Dynasties were exposed.A thoughtful person made special inquiries and thought he had grasped the private preferences of the ministers, so he arranged for such beautiful girls from the south of the Yangtze River to appear in front of them.

It is really difficult for a few retired soldiers to deal with such intrigues.It seems that this mansion is so infiltrated that it is better to transfer some people from the left and right departments to stay here permanently.

As for this girl, Li Yun really likes her appearance.Judging from her confused look, she probably didn't know what she was going to do here.But Li Yun asked her casually, and she immediately mentioned Sanchakou Pier. Li Yun didn't believe that no one had mentioned it in advance.

Li Yun stood up and went back to the inner room, took out the newspaper and read it again.

Previously, the emperor suddenly decided to use troops in Northern Xinjiang. With an order, soldiers and horses from all over Northern Xinjiang were preparing for war, and Zhongdu and other places also responded.

The emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty was about to conquer the world. Since he suddenly had a brilliant idea, the officials could only cooperate and there was no reason to hinder him.In order to prevent the war from prolonging, the amount of human, financial and material resources that needed to be prepared was extremely huge, and all the warehouses on the Yuhe River were involved in allocating food.

After winter, the sea surface freezes, and sea and water transportation will not restart until next year.There is also little water in various rivers in winter, and the only ones that can transport large amounts of grain to northern Xinjiang are Yuhe Caocang.The route passes through Yuheliukou, goes down along Lugou River to Sanchakou, then turns into Luhe River, and then to Tongzhou, takes the overland route through Juyongguan.

But judging from the feedback to the center, the deployment in several places was not smooth.In terms of food, the disputes between the various parties at Sanchakou Wharf are one of the main bottlenecks.

Li Yun came here to solve the problem.He cut through the mess quickly, regardless of right or wrong. He first ordered the dock to resume operations and rush to transport food.But at this time, a lovely maid came to his home, and this maid's family was involved in the lawsuit at the dock...

Li Yun didn't think too much at first.But now he suddenly had doubts.

Someone wants to muddy the waters!why is that?
Could it be that someone is blocking the transportation of food to northern Xinjiang?
Could it be said that some people hope that the emperor will lose the war in northern Xinjiang?

What kind of thief dares to do this?

Li Yun's anger surged.