Take the system back to the Northern Song Dynasty

Chapter 65 Official business
News about the military and government affairs of the Song Dynasty spread slowly, but news about entertainment and gossip spread quickly.

The Bianjing city (the capital), which had been quiet for a while, became lively in the summer of the first year of Daguan, and there was an alternative and strange story "Lanruo Temple" in many tea houses.

This was nothing in the Song Dynasty, but because of the intense political struggle a while ago, in the seesaw between Zhao Tingzhi and Cai Jing, officials at all levels seemed to be watching flowers on horseback, and they followed and changed repeatedly, making the entire Da Song The environment is more tense.The academies are ignored because of their special status, but the control of speech in entertainment venues is particularly strict.

As a result, the entire capital city was relatively quiet.

But now with Cai Jing's return to prime minister, politics is gradually loosening up.At this juncture, with the gradual thawing of political trends, the unusual and rare story of "Lanruo Temple" in various tea houses entered the capital, and it occupied the tongues of almost every storyteller in a short time.

Including Fan Lou, the most high-end entertainment place in Song Dynasty.

In addition, Taoism, which has almost the status of a state religion in the Song Dynasty, coincides with the No. 30 generation of Tianshi Taoism who advocates continuing to go to Beijing to pray and congratulate Cai Xiangye for his reunification.

The leader Zhang Jixian, who used to learn Fengshui from gods and ghosts, said one more sentence in response to the occasion, "Cai Xiangzhi's comeback, "Lanruo Temple" became popular in Beijing, it is really an addition to the occasion."

Cai Jing may not believe in the theory of ghosts and gods, but there was a villain Zhao Tingzhi in the past who made trouble, which coincided with the star change leading to his dismissal.This time the situation has turned around, and the comeback seems to be, but the teahouses were not enthusiastic at the beginning, as if they were afraid to speak and dare not restore the looseness of speech, but it was suddenly reversed because of the sudden popularity of "Lanruo Temple".

In this regard, although Cai Jing knew that Zhang Tianshi was a monster talking nonsense, he also responded to the situation and reluctantly agreed to the auspicious rhetoric in "Lanruo Temple".

This is incredible. There are rumors that Prime Minister Cai specially sent someone to find three volumes of "Lanruo Temple" and bring them to the house to read.

The rest of the old masters watched coldly, they never read Xiaobaiwen, and "Lanruo Temple" is an out-and-out Xiaobaiwen.It was also rumored that they didn't hate Cai Jing, but hated Zhang Tianshi out of shit. In short, they thought that no matter whether it was the emperor or the prime minister, what they were most afraid of was having these monsters around them...

"Zhao Yasi!"

Amidst the rough yelling, a big man with a scarred face walked into the office.Surprisingly, Cai Wenji was with him?
Zhao Cheng felt it was very strange, and he didn't know how to offend Cai Wenji. She looked malicious, including that pungent pair, who also pouted.

Zhao Cheng ignored the man, and said to Cai Wenji, "What's the matter, Miss Cai?"

"It's okay, let's take a look." Cai Wenji's attitude was relatively cold.

Of course he couldn't drive her away, so Zhao Cheng looked at the scar-faced man again and said, "Is something wrong with Dong Du?"

In principle, he is not from Guichi County, but belongs to the Xiang Army, which is considered cross-system.The "Huangbian Village" stationed in Guichi County.Where is the relatively important official road connection, extending in all directions.As for the role, this Dutou named Dong Jianwu is roughly equivalent to the role of Li Guanghuarong, the young man in Water Margin.

Huangbianzhai was not the standing barracks of the Chizhou Xiang Army, so Dong Dutou and his subordinates were stationed in Guichi County, so the command power was in the hands of Guichi County, and the money and food relations were also in Guichi County.Of course, the right to life and death is more in Guichi County.This is the characteristic of the Northern Song Dynasty that civilian officials decide people's life and death, and no matter how high the military officer's official position is, he has no such right.

Of course Zhao Cheng cannot decide his life or death, nor is he his leader.He's just a literati, and at the same time the Deputy Secretary-General of Pei Zhi County who decides Dong Dutou's life and death. Logically speaking, given Dong Dutou's courage, he shouldn't have spoken loudly to Zhao Cheng like this?
"Why is Commander Zhao silent? What is the reason for the delay in allocating money and rations to our department, as well as maintenance costs for the archers?" Dong Du asked.

Cai Wenji looked at Zhao Cheng quietly.

Zhao Cheng casually flipped through the pages of the file at hand, "Dong Du, please sit down, don't worry."

"Someone was ordered to take seventy archers to garrison the Yellow Border Village, but there is not so much time to delay. The official road is at an important point, and traveling caravans are going south and north, that is a matter of priority."

Dong Du raised his voice a lot after he glanced at Cai Wenji.

Zhao Cheng stared at him for a while and said, "Let me draw a diagram for you, and you will know the reason."

"My old Dong can't care about these many twists and turns. If you can't explain clearly, you can talk to the county official!" Dong Du felt a little angry.

"Go out and turn right, he's taking a nap."

At this point, Zhao Cheng didn't want to talk to him anymore, and looked down at the file.

According to the last time this guy asked for 50 taels of urine, Cai Wenji thought he wanted to collect money. After all, the new "official" and new policies may be because after Zhao Cheng took office, everyone bullied him for being a young, cowardly and down-and-out scholar. Kouzi had no banquet and no money, which is why Huangbianzhai's money and food were not approved.

According to the rules of the Song Dynasty, the Xiang army was stationed in Guichi County, and they "eat" in Guichi County, and the money and food expenses went to Guichi County's finances.

Zhao Cheng is either a decision-maker or a deputy secretary-general.It is common practice to allocate the cost of repairing bows and arrows and the money and food of soldiers, which will not change every period and is a fixed amount.But the rule is that without the documents signed by Zhao Cheng, the master book will never open the warehouse, because even though it is a routine, he is afraid of taking responsibility.

There was a stalemate at this point, Dong Du really didn't have the guts to talk to Pei Zhixian, so he had to look at Cai Wenji.

Cai Wenji hesitated for a moment and said, "Then we might as well see what icon he wants to draw. It shouldn't take as much time as asking Mr. Pei."

Dong Du frowned, but he had no choice but to be patient.

Zhao Cheng pulled the self-made small blackboard over, drew some icons with white ash, and drew some arrows and so on.

"?" This surprised Cai Wenji, but she didn't expect that this kid's painting skills would be so rough, it could be regarded as unsightly, but she just had to watch patiently.

While drawing, Zhao Cheng muttered something: "In August of the second year of Chongning, on the hillside of Bali near Huangbianzhai, the mutilated corpses of a woman and a ten-year-old girl were found. The person in charge of the case, Liu Qishan, was the head of the criminal squad. He was identified as Beast attack. But now Wu Zuo has left Guichi County."

"In November of the third year of Chongning, the corpses of four traveling merchants were buried in a ravine nine miles away from Huangbianzhai. They were found. The person in charge of the case was Huang Gan, the head of the criminal squad. The property disappeared, and it was determined to be a bandit attack."

"In February of the first year of Daguan, the bodies of two women were found on the riverbed west of Huangbianzhai. The person in charge of the case, Lu Bantou, determined that they were murdered by bandits..."

Zhao Cheng talked while drawing, and finally pulled the arrows of the three incidents together to the three characters "Dong Dutou" in the middle, and said: "The timeline has no obvious rules and connections, the sponsor of the case has no contact, and the author has no contact But the common feature is that they are all in the Huangbianzhai defense area, and they are all in the period when Dong Dutou was stationed?"

At this point, Dong Dutou and Cai Wenji couldn't help but change their colors.

(End of this chapter)