On the ninth day of the first lunar month, on the afternoon of the day before the Great Reading, when Shengyan and other important shogunate officials and subordinate officials of the Lingzhou Governor's Mansion gathered in Lingwu Hall, they noticed that in addition to the three shogunate officials brought by Du Shiyi, Zhang Xing, Wang Changling, Gao Shi, and the sword man who had been inseparable for several days, he was a rare and somewhat familiar young man. The others just took a look at it and didn't take it to heart, only Lai Shengyan, who had an excellent memory, finally thought of who the other party was after thinking for a while, and his face changed dramatically, and he couldn't tell what it was like in his heart.

"Huya is my heart, starting from Yunzhou with me, when I left office, I left him there temporarily, and now I have brought him with me after I arrived in Shuofang. I am in charge of all the generals of my house. ”

This is the first time Du Shiyi has introduced Huya to people, and seeing that everyone has no abnormal reaction, he looked at Ye Tianmin who was standing on the side: "You should have seen this young man, but you may not remember it." He is the eldest son of Ye Wenjun, Ye Wenjun has been sentenced to exile, and will be sent to Lingnan soon, he is a son of man to see me complain, although I said that his father deserved it, but I also pity him knowing that his father is not merciful but still filial, plus the Ye family lost its master, and many relatives and friends coveted property, so I allowed him to invite the attendant to follow me. ”

As soon as these words came out, the whole hall was shocked. Lai Shengyan was the first to sort out his mood, and immediately got up and said: "I waited for many years of old friendship to come out of the deceased, but I didn't expect that the innocent child, or the handsome thoughtful. ”

Even though they came and went to Ye Wenjun's house a lot, everyone had only seen Ye Tianmin two or three times at most, so they didn't recognize him just now. After listening to Du Shiyi's explanation, Lai Shengyan took the lead in opening his mouth again, and the others looked at each other, some of them also got up to thank each other, and some of them looked reluctant. During some deliberations, some people often peeked at Ye Tianmin absentmindedly, and saw that this little young man was always standing by the side with a calm face, and couldn't help muttering in his heart. Fortunately, there was nothing too important on today's agenda, and even if I didn't listen carefully, it was not a big deal. When the deliberations were over and everyone was retreating, Du Shiyi opened his mouth and instructed Shengyan: "Ziyan stay for a while." ”

When he came to Shengyan, he had something to say to Du Shiyi, so he immediately agreed. When the others withdrew one by one, he gritted his teeth and was about to speak, but unexpectedly Du Shiyi opened his mouth first.

"I have already reported Ye Wenjun's matter to the DPRK. However, you and others will take the lead and hide the fact that he is pretending to be a letter to King Xin'an, and do not mention it, but only report him for other miscellaneous crimes, although a great storm has been avoided, King Xin'an will inevitably be accused of negligence. So far, I only ask you, if I take your sins, on the grounds that you are the judge of the festival, and the king of Xin'an used to be the humerus, but he has always neglected to observe Ye Wenjun's affairs, please punish and remove you from your official rank, and make meritorious service to the judge of the discipline of the school with a white body, are you willing? ”

As soon as these words came out, the most surprising thing was not to come to Shengyan, but to Ye Tianmin. He only thought that if what Du Shiyi said to him before was not the truth, then it was a few people who came to Shengyan who wanted to throw their father out to curry favor with the new marshal, so as to seek fame and fortune, but what he didn't expect was that Du Shiyi would let Lai Shengyan be punished so harshly! He still remembers that when his father was drunk, he once commented on the martial arts of Li Yi, the king of Xin'an, and every individual was criticized for being incomplete, only when he mentioned that he came to Shengyan, Ye Wenjun's comments were almost flawless and difficult to compare.

It is such a person who has just made his father unrecoverable, and Du Shiyi is going to play and ask him to be punished?

Lai Shengyan noticed Ye Tianmin's staring gaze at him, chewing on the meaning of Du Shiyi's words, where did he not understand the intentions? Since he told everyone that he was aware of Ye Wenjun's forgery of Li Yi's letter, it must be difficult to keep this news secret for a long time, and in the end, after the commander of the DPRK and China learned about it, he would inevitably hate him, and maybe there would be fierce revenge. Before that, Du Shiyi first took the initiative to ask for punishment for him, and then asked him to stay as the judge of Jiedu to serve Shuofang, which was already protection.

What's more, Ye Wenjun was sentenced to exile, and he was cut to an official rank, in the eyes of those people in the DPRK and China, Du Shiyi's new official methods are ruthless enough! Even if the other civil and military forces of Shuofang are temporarily resentful, as long as they are properly pacified, there will be no turmoil. What's more, at least in this way, it will be difficult for others to pursue Li Yi, the king of Xin'an!

If Du Shiyi hadn't found out about Ye Wenjun, maybe he would still be kept in the dark! What's the matter if the official rank is gone? At that time, Yang Jingshu, the governor of Liangzhou, was cut off all his officials due to the defeat of the army, but the Son of Heaven did not order him to inspect the school in white as the governor of Liangzhou?

Thinking of this, he left his seat and bowed: "Thank you for your hard work, I am willing." ”

No wonder Li Yi was the first person to recommend to himself!

Du Shiyi sighed deeply in her heart, and immediately stepped forward to help her up. Seeing that Lai Shengyan, who was in his early fifties, had already had his sideburns and hair, and his forehead was full of deep horizontal lines, he said sincerely: "I'm going to wronged you for a while." In short, after this punishment, if there are still people with other intentions, I will definitely try my best to protect Ziyan. ”

"The handsome side is the grievance. At that time, there will definitely be people who don't understand the hard work of the handsome man who is slandered in the back, and I can't defend it, so I can only do my best to assist the handsome! ”

"People are terrible, but if you don't hear it, you can still do it after so many years as an official!"

Du Shiyi smiled slightly, and then personally sent Shengyan to the door of Lingwu Hall. Seeing that he was in the courtyard and deep again, and then he turned around and strode away, until the back was completely invisible, he asked the person behind him without looking back: "Ye Tianmin, is there anything you want to ask?" ”

Although he couldn't intercede for his father before, but Du Shiyi kept his attendant, and Ye Tianmin was personally sent back by Huya, those old relatives and friends who kept coming to the door to "take care" of their Ye family children, or came to make noise with all kinds of bills and IOUs, immediately disappeared. From this point of view, how could Ye Tianmin not know that Du Shiyi had already done his duty? He just wanted to ask Lai Shengyan face to face, but he didn't have a chance to ask today, but the conversation between Du Shiyi and Lai Shengyan simply subverted all his guesses and understandings, and his whole head was a mess, and he couldn't think of anything at all.

"I don't know what to ......say," the young man shook his head gloomily, and then whispered for a long time, "Instead of asking the handsome, I might as well listen to it myself." ”

"Then it's up to you. It's just the first and only time I have warned you that if what you have seen and heard in the Lingwu Hall is leaked out of half a word, its sin is equivalent to what your father did at the beginning, and you should remember it well. ”

Although there are tiger teeth staring at Ye Tianmin, Du Shiyi does not want to be punished in the future, there is a way to punish the former and the latter, treat the disease and save people, he said ugly things in front, maybe he can prevent negligence in the future. Sure enough, when he turned around, he saw Ye Tianmin bowing in response, with an awe-inspiring expression.

The big parade on the tenth day of the first month of the first month is precisely the strict order of the flag, the solemn appearance of the army, not to mention the absence, not even a single person who is late, which shows the strict organization of the Shuofang army over the years. Du Shiyi was accompanied by everyone in the shogunate, reviewed the military horses, watched the competition, and praised the winners, but what he paid the most attention to was Guo Ziyi, who re-led the pioneer envoy. Seeing that there were less than 300 cavalry in his department, he said thoughtfully: "There are only more than 4,000 horses in the Shuofang army, and although the Jingluo army has the most horses, it is only 3,000, compared with nearly 20,000 horses in Hexi and nearly 12,000 horses in Longyou, which are very insufficient. Today's parade, sure enough, there are too few cavalry. ”

As soon as these words came out, Lai Shengyan sighed and said: "What the marshal said is true, and the reason for this is that His Majesty has strictly ordered the Turkic mutual market horses to be controlled within a certain number. Shuofang has not implemented the tea and horse market before, and it has always been a silk horse market. Silk silk is rare, and if there are too many silk silks imported into Shuofang City every year, the burden of the DPRK and China will be weak. Moreover, the land of Shuofang is not different from Hexi and Longyou, there are more Hu people living together, there was the rebellion of Kang Zhibin in that year, Hu people often raise the price of horses in order to seek heavy profits, plus the land of Helong, Tubo horses are the majority, and the Turks and Zahu are stronger than Tubo horses, so they often ask for two percent higher than Tubo horses, which is even more afraid to charge more. But the biggest problem now is that the Turks have just experienced civil strife, and now Dengli Khan is fighting for power with the second killing, and they are busy accumulating strength, but they are unable to compete with our city. ”

This is a very pertinent explanation, and the others have nothing to add, Du Shiyi suddenly bowed slightly when he heard this. Thinking that he now has a huge enclave hidden on the Turkic side, and the last thing he lacks is horses, and in the Central Plains, the last thing he lacks is tea and silver money, so he said thoughtfully: "Helong, Yunzhou, and Youyan are now all using tea market horses, and the west is surrendered to the city to market each other, why not do this?" As for the matter of making the Turks a horse, I will send an envoy to the Turks as a secretary to the Turks, so as to encourage them to send good horses. ”

Since Du Shiyi said so, everyone was naturally overjoyed, and as for whether it could be done, they didn't mention it in their hearts. Xu Yu arrived at the link of the exercise of bow and horse archery, only to see that each army was brave, about dozens of horsemen out of the ranks, Xu Yu galloped one by one to shoot the arrow target, but only heard the sound of breaking the air continuously, a long arrow across more than 100 steps distance, firmly landed on the arrow target, among which there are many straight hearts. After fixing the target, there are horses running with straw men, and each general is at least fifty paces apart, and each person has ten arrows, so that the number of arrows in the straw man on the final horse wins.

Du Shiyi condescendingly watched the armies win, and couldn't help but be amazed, and at this time, Wu Bo, who joined the army in Lingzhou, said in a scenical manner: "It is true that the marshal praises these brave archers and horses for their outstandingness, but in such a drill, there are not a few horses that are lost every year. There are too many Hu people in Shuofang, and it is often difficult to collect the enslavement, and there are a lot of big and small commotions. The consistent rule is that if you are a little mess, you won't play it, otherwise Shuo Fang will be warned all day long, and the ministers of the political hall will be shocked every day, so that what the judge just said is extremely true, but there is still one that has not been said, Shuo Fang's war horse, the loss rate is very unfilial! ”

It almost confirmed his words, and only heard a terrible neighing of the horse, and Du Shiyi followed the reputation, only to see an arrow accidentally injuring the horse with the straw man. The war horse fell to the ground after neighing, and the arrow was in the horse's neck, apparently it was immediately first aided, and the war horse had no skills.