On both sides of the tall and majestic vermilion gate, hanging sheep's horn lanterns swayed slightly with the night breeze, and several carriages were sorted in order, quietly parked on one side, and several sedan chairs were mixed in, but they did not look abrupt.

The concierge's face was also filled with a smile of joy, and the house was brightly lit, and the maid and the servant were busy running back and forth in an orderly manner by the soft light emitted by the dim lantern.

The house was also filled with a joyful atmosphere, and from time to time you could hear the sound of laughter coming from the main hall.

In the courtyard, several carriages were also parked together in order, and several subordinates were moving the heavy boxes in the carriage under the command of the palace maid Fang Fei.

In the hall, Zhong Qing had a heartfelt smile on her face, looking at the harmony of her father and uncles gathered in the mansion because of her return.

Mother has been busy with her subordinates to help her clean the pavilion before she got married, even if several years have passed, but that pavilion, mother never let outsiders enter without permission, has always been by herself with a nimble maid, personally cleaned up at this time of year.

"Because of the snow some time ago, I thought you would come back a few days late, so your mother slacked off for a few days, otherwise she wouldn't have been so busy that she wouldn't even have the time to talk to you for a while." Zhong Qing's father, Zhong Kang, looked at Zhong Qing with loving eyes and said after coming back, who had always been very happy.

Zhong Mu Yang, who walked in from outside, glanced at Zhong Qing, and then said to Zhong Kang: "You go over to greet the guests first, Qing'er here, you don't have to stay here, most of the half a month is not enough to talk to you." ”

"You old woman, I haven't seen my daughter for a long time, what's wrong with talking a few more words? If they want to come, let them wait. Zhong Kang's eyes widened, looking at his wife and dissatisfied.

But saying so, he got up honestly and walked in the direction of the living room next to him.

Seeing Zhong Kang shake his head and leave, Yang turned around and gave Zhong Qing a warm smile, sat down next to Zhong Qing, took Zhong Qing's hand, and carefully looked at the daughter in front of him through the light.

"In the future, if the weather is bad, don't rush to the road, and it doesn't hurt to stay at night for three or two days. Came back, looking at the liveliness of the house, alas...... But whether this excitement is really lively or fake lively, you can also see it over the years. Yang looked at Zhong Qing lovingly, sighed slightly, and said.

Zhong Qing nodded silently, grabbed Yang's hand, looked at the sideburns that gradually revealed silver hair, and said, "You don't have to be so busy, just leave it to the next person, I remember that you didn't have gray hair last year." ”

Zhong Qing said as she withdrew her hand by the light and began to rub the white hair on her mother's sideburns.

"By the way, come back this time, aren't you...... Do you still want to entertain your uncle and uncle for King Xin? Yang pulled back Zhong Qing's hand to examine her sideburns and white hair, and asked with some distress.

This daughter of mine has always liked to be clean, and she is even more reluctant to pay attention to such things as entertainment, but helplessly, over the years, every time she goes back to Jiankang, she has to deal with those uncles, relatives and others.

Zhong Qing nodded, looked at Yang Shi tilted his head and said relaxedly: "It's okay, I can do it." ”

Yang sighed slightly: "Go with your mother and take a look at your attic, if you are not satisfied, tell your mother." ”

"No need, how dare my daughter be dissatisfied. Are you hiding something from me? Zhong Qing took her mother's hand and asked her mother who was about to get up to sit down again.

When she came back in previous years, her mother was as happy and considerate as she was today every time, but Zhong Qing could still feel that when her mother saw her this time, the worry in her eyes seemed to have something unspeakable.

The mother and daughter sat in the smaller hall, chatting quietly, and from time to time they could hear the voices of the people coming from there, and their father Zhong Kang talking about tomorrow's banquet.

Ye Qing on the other side, seeing that there were already seven or eight wine jugs on the table, but Tao Qian was still unsatisfied, stretched out his hand to summon his man, and asked for two pots of wine.

This move naturally made Tao Qian, who had not enjoyed such a good wine for a long time, even more excited and happy.

Mo Xiaobao stood at the staircase on the second floor and looked around, only to see Ye Qing and Tao Qian, who were sitting in the corner, drinking each other, and walked quickly to the front and said, "Shaoqing, it's basically normal." ”

"Well, sit." Ye Qing pointed to the seat next to him.

"Shaoqing?" It was the first time Tao Qian had heard Mo Xiaobao call Ye Qing in front of him, and he couldn't help but be surprised.

"It seems that you are only in Jiankang and are well-informed, if you are out of Jiankang, you are afraid that you will not know anything now, right?" Ye Qing took a sip of the wine cup, smiled at Tao Qian, who had already begun to confide in Jiankang's officialdom, and asked.

"There has never been anyone in the Imperial City Division who has been able to hold other positions, ...... are you, the young secretary?" Tao Qian now began to understand a little in his heart, why the commander of the Imperial City Division would avoid the officials of Jiankang officialdom after arriving in Jiankang, but secretly acted alone and did not even go to the post house.

"Zuo Shaoqing of Dali Temple." Ye Qing said with a faint smile on his face.

"I see." Tao Qian looked at Ye Qing, and instantly understood completely, and his heart couldn't help but be shocked: the commander of the Imperial City Division was able to hold the position of Zuo Shaoqing of Dali Temple, so it seems that the Emperor Taishang's reuse of Ye Qing is comparable to that of Qin Xiang back then.

Most of the Imperial City Divisions are secretly engaged in illegal activities, and naturally, they will be quite constrained by the laws and regulations, so that when the Imperial City Division is dispatched, sometimes they have to deal with the resistance of the government and the yamen.

But if the hands of the Imperial City Division also have the right to be a yamen like Dali Temple and the Criminal Department, then ...... Tao Qian really couldn't think of it, in this way, who could contain the power of the Imperial City Division, which was almost to heaven.

"No wonder you, the commander, have to act privately after arriving in Jiankang and avoid Jiankang officialdom." Tao Qian sighed helplessly.

"Say, shouldn't Li Mengjian and King Xin be in the same group? How could he arrest his brother-in-law again? Ye Qing put aside the topic of his Dali Temple Shaoqing, and once again led the topic to the matter of the Jiankang Zhong clan.

"Li Mengjian is just a prefect, Jiangnan East Road since Ye Heng was deposed, the prefect and the pacification envoy have not been in the same person, although when Ye Heng was deposed, Li Mengjian served as the prefect of Jiankang for the first time, but there are also people who snatched the post of pacification envoy faster than King Xin. Therefore, Jiankang officialdom seems to be harmonious on the surface, but in fact it is an undercurrent. Tao Qian said with a slight smug expression.

In fact, to put it bluntly, Li Mengjian is still a person who believes in the king, but Yang Jian, the appeasement envoy, is now the person of Han Cheng, the secretary of the ministry, and the transfer envoy is needless to say, he is a person from the historian.

With Zhao Ruyu being transferred back to Lin'an from Chengdu Mansion with a piece of paper, it means that the imperial court will inevitably reuse Zhao Ruyu, after all, Zhao Ruyu's political achievements in Chengdu Mansion are not much better than those of King Wei, who has won the court's appreciation for the governance of Qingyuan Mansion.

And Zhao Ruyu and Han Yanxuan have an extremely good relationship at this time, with Zhao Ruyu being transferred back to Lin'an, the next step is naturally to continue to integrate the Han family's forces above the court.

Zhenjiang, east of Jiankang, rightfully belonged to the Han family after the imperial court transferred the Wuhe Army back, and now, the Han family naturally wants to set their sights on the more prosperous Jiankang, so that the power of the Han family can compete with the Shi family.

Jiankang's original transfer envoy Bai Bingzhong was deposed together with Ye Heng's defeat, and the historian naturally changed another transfer envoy immediately after Tang Siwei's death.

"Do you know where King Shin suffered?" Tao Qian was extremely gossipy, and asked with Guan Zi.

"I don't know." Ye Qing shook his head quietly.

"If you suffer a loss, you will suffer because you trust the Zhong family too much." Tao Qian smiled mysteriously, then looked at the four drinkers and no one paid attention to their side, and lowered his voice and said: "Princess Xin, who you escorted all the way, will return to Jiankang once a year, nominally to visit relatives in her hometown, but in fact, she is helping King Xin recruit and appease the cronies of Jiankang officialdom. Jiankang sentenced Zhong Lin, but it is an important role of the Zhong family in Jiankang officialdom, but who would have thought that this cousin, who was originally the most trusted cousin of King Xin and Princess Xin, is now falling to the Han family. In this way, do you think about it, can the power of the king not be affected? ”

"How do you know that the one named Zhong Lin has secretly voted for the Han family?" Ye Qing asked lightly.

Tao Qian laughed again, and then said: "If you are Zhong Lin and a person who believes in the king, will you arrest Princess Xin's own brother and put him in prison?" Will you put a seal on the mansion of Princess Shin's younger brother? ”

Without waiting for Ye Qing to speak, Tao Qian continued: "What's more, Zhong Ping was still framed by someone and was arrested in prison. ”

"What charges?" Ye Qing asked with his index finger resisting the urge to tap on the table.

Because when he asked Tao Qian what the charge was, Tao Qian's gaze was almost the same time, as if he had known that he would knock on the tabletop, and the rest of the eyes kept staring at the hand he had just placed on the table.

"Tongjin." Tao Qian's expression flashed with a hint of imperceptible surprise, he thought that the young commander in front of him would continue to knock on the table, but at this moment, Ye Qing's actions disappointed him, smiled slightly, concealed his surprise just now, and continued: "The crime of Tongjin seems to be very big, but in the final analysis, it is just to sell some items that are strictly forbidden to sell to the Jin people in the imperial court. ”

"It's not a secret, is it? Even the Shi family, the Han family, the Qian family, and the royal family all have more or less transactions with the Jin people, right? Ye Qing asked calmly.

"Yes, so you said, in the current atmosphere above the court, there are still some ridiculous literati, military generals and ministers, shouting every day that they want to go on a northern expedition, to regain lost territory, and to avenge the two saints. Alas...... It's really ridiculous to be ignorant, how do they know that the officials of my Great Song Dynasty, those high-ranking officials and masters, have a hot fight with the Jin people in private, so they will not stupidly cut off their financial interests and fall out with the Jin people. Tao Qian sighed, being in the Imperial City Division, he understood the situation of officialdom far more thoroughly than the people and literati in the world.

"Even if the Imperial City Division tells the secrets of these major families, I'm afraid no one will believe it, right?" Mo Xiaobao suddenly interjected, and those high-ranking officials who seemed to be worried about the country and the people on weekdays came to his mind.

Even if Mo Xiaobao was wandering the streets and was a little beggar, he always had huge fantasies about the officials of the imperial court, even if his three meals a day were a problem, but in his heart, he still firmly believed that the reason why the imperial court has not had a northern expedition is because the imperial court is planning a huge, earth-shattering counterattack, and when that time comes, the imperial court will inevitably take back the lost territory in one fell swoop and drive the Jin people out of the gate.

So when he first followed Ye Qing, he still had great respect and fantasy for these high-ranking officials, but as he gave Ye Qing more and more errands, saw more and more with his own eyes, heard more and more, and became more and more incredible, completely beyond the scope of his understanding, Mo Xiaobao realized: This world is darker than the middle of the night, and cruel is more cruel than the worst weather on the grassland!

"Everyone knows that they are kind and prosperous, and the well water does not interfere with the river water. But after all, the court is not a place full of peace and light, as the so-called back waves of the Yangtze River push the front waves, a generation of new people replace the old people, if you want to maintain an advantage in the court, you must eliminate dissidents, consolidate, cultivate, and expand your own power. Therefore, the court fights, the ups and downs of the temple will never disappear. Ye Qing also shook his head and said with a wry smile.

"Zhong Ping sent anything?" After sighing, Ye Qing asked again.

During the Song Dynasty, the pacification department was in charge of military and civil affairs, referred to as the Shuai Division; The Transshipment Division is in charge of wealth endowment and transshipment, referred to as Caosi; The Department of Prisons is in charge of judicial prisons, referred to as the Department of Constitutional Prisons; Promote Changping Division to take charge of Changping and lending money valley and other things, referred to as Cangsi.

And Zhong Qing's younger brother Zhong Ping is Cangji's promotion Chang Ping Division.

In this position, trading with the Jin people, I have to say that this Zhong Ping is very courageous and courageous, and he treats this warehouse as his own family a little, and he doesn't take the court in his eyes at all.

"And who's in this position now?" Ye Qing asked again.

"These are all inextricably linked to the city's ship, so the people who are nominated have an excellent relationship with the city's shippers and historians." Tao Qian continued to explain.

This is naturally not difficult to understand here in Ye Qing, King Xin has always been very close to the Shi family, and it is naturally not a problem to use the convenience of his position and his influence to place a promotion Changping in Jiankang.

What's more, King Xin also added insurance for this, that is, Zhong Lin, who is the judge of Jiankang, and with Zhong Lin, who is a general judge, he can naturally cover up the things in the past, so as not to be known by the court.

So once Zhong Lin becomes a breakthrough for others and is bought, the first unlucky person must be Zhong Ping.

(ps: These chapters are not easy to write, according to the plan, these chapters should maximize the contradictions between them, and then pave the way for the next story progress, and also make a real fuse for the protagonist Ye Qing's future career, so it is difficult to grasp.) ）