Although Yan Chengze couldn't look at this kind of torture method, he didn't want to put himself in it for this, as a priest in the workshop, he couldn't afford to provoke his superiors.

Yan Chengze was silent for a while, and then said calmly: "Even if it's a lesson, don't let people stand in the cold wind in single clothes and be cold, today's wind is not small." ”

Xiaoqi Lu Shanhe said with a wry smile: "It's not that this is despicable, it's really that Li Zhongqi's family is in difficulty, so he even pawned his winter clothes out, and now he has no money to redeem them, so he can only bear it."

But please rest assured, the priest is a brother who eats in a group, and we don't plan to kill him. Da Zhuang, go out and call that stubborn man in to roast the fire. Tell him that for the sake of the priest, we will spare him and ask him not to be so open-mouthed next time. ”

A soldier standing farthest away from the brazier quickly agreed and ran out of the small door beside Yan Chengze.

This small flag made Yan Chengze feel a little more relaxed in his heart, he took out 5 coins of silver from his sleeve pocket, threw it to Lu Shanhe and said: "It's freezing this day, buy a sip of wine for the brothers to warm up." ”

Lu Shanhe took the silver and immediately grasped it tightly in the palm of his hand. He smiled all over his face, and complimented Yan Chengze with his hand: "In the sixth room of the former military governor's mansion, only you can remember us poor soldiers from time to time, when you become an experienced adult, we poor soldiers can have a better life." You bastards, what are you doing there, hurry up and thank the priest, are you there to be a wooden pole? ”

Several sergeants immediately bent down and saluted, and thanked Yan Chengze in a jagged voice. Yan Chengze waved his hand and said: "Okay, I won't hinder you from baking the fire, Lu Xiaoqi, you come out for a while, I still have something for you to do." ”

"Uncle Wu Jing's house was crushed by snow last night and half of the greenhouse in the flower garden collapsed, and the housekeeper of the Bofu today informed me and asked me to find a few people to clean up the flower garden and repair the greenhouse by the way. You find 5 or 6 people, go to Uncle Wu Jing's house early tomorrow morning, and get this done for me, understand? Yan Chengze stood outside the door of the ear room and whispered.

Lu Shanhe, the little flag who bowed his head and bent down beside him, kept nodding his head and responded: "Judge Yan, please rest assured, I will arrange for people to go back in a while, and I will personally take someone to repair this conservatory in Bofu early tomorrow morning..."

"Lord Xiaoqi, Lord Xiaoqi, it's not good..."Da Zhuang, who had just run out, stumbled into the door and shouted to Lu Shanhe in a low voice, interrupting the conversation between the two.

Seeing the slightly unhappy expression on Yan Chengze's face, Lu Shanhe reprimanded loudly: "What's wrong, I can't even speak, what happened?" Could it be that Li Zhongqi fainted? ”

"No, it's Your Majesty who has arrived at the door." After Da Zhuang was reprimanded by Lu Shanhe, he immediately stood at the door with his head down and whispered.

"Your Majesty?" Lu Shanhe stood there, still unreactive, and repeated. Yan Chengze's reaction was much faster, he pushed away Da Zhuang who blocked the door of his ears, and rushed out in a few steps.

Lu Shanhe also suddenly came to his senses, he hurriedly followed, and when he passed by Da Zhuang's side, he didn't forget to instruct: "Bastard, don't stand there stunned, go and call everyone out of the room." ”

Lu Shanhe stepped out of the high threshold in a few steps, and he suddenly saw Yan Chengze standing on the steps outside the door, and seemed to be a little stunned.

When Zhu Youzhen led people out of the right gate of Chang'an, Wang Shide, a Jinyi guard guarding the door, immediately followed behind Chongzhen with a team of followers.

Out of the right gate of Chang'an, go south along the red wall, is the official residence of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, and the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies is a row of large mansions facing the red wall.

When Zhu Youzhen walked in front of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, he found that the Ming Military Headquarters that he thought was heavily guarded was actually a row of houses with closed doors. The entrance has not even been cleared of snow, only the footprints of pedestrians.

Only beside the stone lion in the second mansion stood a shivering guard in thin clothing.

The soldier was about full strength fighting the cold, and it wasn't until Zhu Youzhen and the others walked in front of him that he recognized that the emperor was coming.

When Li Zhongqi was thinking about kneeling down to salute, Zhu Youzhen walked a few steps quickly and supported him, not letting him kneel on the snow.

Looking at the frozen and blue soldiers in front of him, Zhu Youzhen's face was very ugly, if the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were treated like this, who would defend this dynasty with their lives?

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, the villain just failed to recognize His Majesty's arrival in time, and he really deserves death." Li Zhongqi said with a shudder, he was a little frightened in his heart, and he didn't know if the emperor would blame him for not recognizing him in time.

Zhu Youzhen didn't speak, but silently untied the cloak on his body, using bright yellow silk as the fabric and lining the cloak with fur, which was soft and warm and light to wear.

When Zhu You unchecked his cloak, there happened to be a gust of cold wind, which made him shiver.

A group of entourage, including Wang Chengen, did not understand what the emperor wanted to do.

Zhu Youzhen did not hesitate, and wrapped the cloak in front of the soldiers who were a little sluggish in their reactions.

Li Zhongqi was suddenly shocked, he didn't dare to push Chongzhen away, nor did he dare to dodge Chongzhen's actions, so he could only keep pleading guilty.

Zhu Youzhen didn't pay attention to it, but while tying his tie, he said to him gently: "It's freezing this day, and it's not to torture you by letting you stand guard outside the door." This is the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, the heart of my Ming army, if the heart of the army is not protected, then is there any hope for this country?

But it was my fault to let you dress so thinly and guard the heart of my Ming army. So you don't have to confess your sin, you don't have any sin. It is my duty that you stand guard here, so that you are not attacked by the cold wind when you stand guard. ”

Li Zhongqi looked at this young man who was not much older than his younger brother, his eyes were a little moist, and he couldn't say a word in his throat, but his hand holding the barrel of the gun was squeezed tighter.

After Zhu Youzhen helped the soldier in front of him tie his cloak, he looked at his bloody face, and immediately patted him on the shoulder with satisfaction, and praised: "What a good soldier." ”

Wang Chengen finally reacted at this time, he quickly untied the cloak on his body, sent it to Chongzhen and said: "Please put on the cloak of Weichen, the cold wind is biting today, Your Majesty should take care of the dragon body." ”

Several eunuchs behind Wang Chengen also stepped forward to persuade together, and Zhu Youzhen pushed away the cloak handed over by Wang Chengen.

When Zhu Youzhen was about to say something, Yan Chengze finally reacted from the scene in front of him, he hurriedly took a few steps down the steps, and knelt down to Chongzhen to salute.

Zhu Youzhen took a closer look at an official kneeling on the snow, wearing a green plate-collared shirt and a small flag in the avant-garde.

This time, he didn't stretch out his hand to help, but let the two of them kneel in the freezing snow.

"Are you a junior official of the former Military Governor's Mansion? Are you the little flag in the avant-garde? Zhu Youzhen repeated the confirmation before waving them to get up and speak.

"Let's take me in, the former military governor's mansion, who is on duty today?" Zhu Youzhen asked casually as he walked towards the gate.

Several soldiers guarding the gate, under the command of Lu Shanhe, opened the closed middle gate to welcome the emperor into the governor's palace for inspection.

The movement in front of the former military governor's mansion had already alarmed the attention of the other neighboring military governors' mansions, and when Zhu Youzhen entered the former military governor's mansion, the other four military governors' mansions hurriedly sent people to inform their own officials. On the other side, several officials who stayed behind in the highest official positions of the Governor's Mansion put on their court clothes and ran to the front yard of the former Military Governor's Mansion to wait, and the emperor might summon them.

The governor's office of the five armies, not counting the official positions of the title, is still set up in each governor's office, two governors on the left and right, a number of governors know the same thing, a number of governors have a number of affairs, and one person has experience in the department, and there are several things in the capital.

However, it snowed heavily last night and was windy this morning, so most of the officials were lazy and did not go to work.

Zhu Youzhen originally wanted to be angry, but looking at the thin layer of dust on the public case in the middle of the lobby, he suddenly lost the motivation to get angry.

What is a place that has been cut in power and used to provide for the elderly, and requires these nobles to actively go to work every day? Ran to the Governor's Mansion in a daze?

Zhu Youzhen had no choice but to order Wang Shide to investigate several other governors, and found that the former military governor's mansion was not the worst, except for a few wardens, there was not even a single official in the Chinese military governor's mansion.

Zhu Youzhen then summoned them one by one for questioning, and found that most of them did not know what authority the Governor's Office of the Five Armies had, that is, they did not even know their own duties, and they all knelt on the ground to defend themselves, saying that they had always acted according to orders, and if there was no order, they would do things according to the precedents, and they would never dare to make the slightest mistake.

However, the former military governor's office secretary still has some knowledge, and he can talk a few words about the construction of the project.

This is also because at this time, most of the soldiers in the capital camp under the jurisdiction of the Governor's Office of the Five Armies have become free servants of the palace, nobles, and ministers. Whether it is the repair of the three major halls, the repair of the mountain mausoleum, the repair of the mansions of the nobles and ministers, the repair of the yin houses of the ancestors, or the repair and maintenance of the city walls and streets of Beijing, they are all the soldiers of the Beijing camp under the name of the Governor's Office of the Five Armies.

Over time, although the governor's office of the five armies forgot how to command the battle, it raised a group of masons.

Xue Lian, Marquis of Yangwu, Li Chengzuo, Marquis of Fengcheng, and several other nobles who led the capital governor's mansion hurried over after hearing the news.

Zhu Youzhen had lost interest in talking to these nobles at this time, he just sat in the hall and said two things to these nobles with an expressionless face.

First, there must be guards standing guard in front of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, and the guards of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies must set up a separate formation, no longer on duty separately, and accept the management of the Jinyi Guards stationed at the West Gate of Chang'an.

The second was to check the distribution of food and winter clothes to the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies and the soldiers in Beijing, and Wang Shide, a thousand households of Jinyi Wei, supervised on his behalf.