Madam, protect me!

Zhongshu Sheng.

Zhongshu Sheng was originally a department that issued imperial edicts in accordance with the emperor's will.

Since His Majesty stopped paying attention to state affairs, all the memorials submitted by officials were gathered here. The power of Zhongshu Sheng has expanded rapidly. In recent years, it has become the highest decision-making center in the court.

All memorials of court officials must be approved by Zhongshu Sheng.

All imperial edicts are also issued by Zhongshu Sheng.

In name, Zhongshu Sheng is headed by Zhongshu Ling, and two Zhongshu Shilang are assistants.

But Zhongshu Ling is still the prime minister of the court, commanding all departments in the court, and rarely appears in Zhongshu Sheng.

All matters in Zhongshu Sheng are decided by six Zhongshu Sheren, and Zhongshu Shilang has no objection after reading them. After the seal is used, it is submitted to Menxia. After Menxia Sheng finally passes the review, it can be issued to various departments for execution.

Zhongshu Sheren's official position is not too high. It used to be a fifth-rank official. In recent years, it has been promoted to a fourth-rank official, which is considered to have just entered the ranks of high-ranking officials.

But the power they hold is not small. The promulgation and implementation of most government orders in the court are in their hands.

A Zhongshu Sheren sat in the yamen and opened a memorial.

After glancing at it, he frowned.

This memorial is about the reform of the Ministry of Justice.

Since ancient times, the Ministry of Justice has only four departments. He actually wants to set up another anti-theft department in the Ministry of Justice.

Don't make a memorial if there is nothing to do. Arresting thieves is the responsibility of the Chang'an County Yamen. What does it have to do with the Ministry of Justice?

This official not only wants to set up an anti-theft department in the Ministry of Justice, but also wants to recruit some thieves into it. It's simply ridiculous.

These officials in the Ministry of Justice are too idle on weekdays. They are full and have nothing better to do. They actually submitted such a weird memorial.

I don't know what they think. Do they think that the officials of the Zhongshu Province are as brainless as them?

He has to deal with countless memorials every day. He won't even look at the signature of such a weird memorial. He will just glance at it and send it back.

But it's so weird that he really wants to know who this official is.

He glanced at the name in the lower right corner of the memorial.

Li Xuanjing.

Du Yu was slightly stunned.

He picked up the memorial again and read it again. His idea had changed.

Let the thief catch the thief - this is indeed a new idea that has never been imagined.

On the one hand, it can allow those thieves to make up for their mistakes.

It is inevitable to make mistakes on the road of life. They have not committed unforgivable crimes. It is not impossible to give them a chance to make up for their mistakes.

On the other hand, it can further improve the public security in the city, which is also a good thing for the people.

He is really worthy of being the Dali Temple Minister. This proposal is simply too brilliant.

Du Yu quickly circled a blank space on the memorial with a red pen, signed his name, and then went to another government office. After knocking on the door, he said to a figure sitting behind a desk: "Minister Wang, there is a memorial that needs your urgent review."

The Zhongshu Province has to review a lot of memorials every day. Unless there is an emergency, they are usually reviewed in order.

Zhongshu Zuo Shilang took the memorial and thought it was something important. After reading it, he looked at the opposite side with a suspicious face and asked: "Du Sheren, are you okay?"

He dared to circle such a weird memorial and dared to give it to him for urgent review?

Facing the care-loving eyes of the Minister, Du Yu said helplessly: "Sir, I think this proposal is very good..."

The Minister of the Left stood up and said: "Come on, tell me, what is good about this proposal?"

Du Yu pointed to the name on the lower right corner of the memorial and said: "It's good here."

The Minister of the Left looked at the position of his finger, and after a moment of silence, he slowly sat down and said: "I think about it carefully, this proposal seems to be really good..."

Whether this proposal is good or not depends on who submitted this memorial.

If it was submitted by the Minister of the Ministry of Justice, Du Yu, as the Secretary of the Ministry of Justice, would have rejected it himself.

If this memorial came from the Minister of the Ministry of Justice, the Minister of the Left would politely tell him that this move was not in accordance with the rules after the morning court, and then send the memorial back.

But this memorial was written by Li Xuanjing, the Minister of the Dali Temple.

It's just adding a department to the Ministry of Justice, no big deal.

They don't need the court to pay salaries or set up official positions. They can do whatever they want. There is no need to offend that person for this little thing...

Last time, under pressure, they had issued an imperial edict not to let his son try the case.

This time, if Li Xuanjing's memorial is rejected again, what will happen next is unpredictable...

Let alone them, a small Zhongshu Sheren and Zhongshu Shilang, even Zhongshu Ling, the current Zuo Xiang, has to give that person some face.

After all, Zuo Xiang may not be able to get a gold medal of immunity from death from His Majesty...

Zuo Xiang looked at Du Yu and said unhappily: "What are you still standing there for? Immediately draft an imperial edict to set up a thief arresting department in the Ministry of Justice and send it to the Ministry of Personnel for review. The sooner the better, it would be best if it can be issued to the Ministry of Justice today..."

...

Song Mansion.

While Song Jiaren was practicing sword, Li Nuo was playing the piano beside her.

It's strange that she has such a high talent for martial arts, but she can't even recognize all the characters, but she always likes playing the piano, painting, poetry and songs.

It seems that the less she understands, the more she likes it.

But if you think about it carefully, it doesn't seem strange.

Li Nuo has no interest in poetry and songs, but he dreams of becoming as good at fighting as his wife.

The more a person lacks something, the more he desires it.

In the morning, his wife said she wanted to hear him play the piano.

Fortunately, he met Liu Shang in Dali Temple yesterday and saved him a day of life.

The last time he pretended to be a couple with Li Anning had just passed, and his relationship with his wife was back to normal. She wanted to listen to the music, and Li Nuo couldn't refuse.

In the past, the relationship was not good enough, so he refused if he wanted to.

But as the relationship with her became closer and closer, when he woke up this morning, Li Nuo put one arm on her, and she didn't say anything.

She said she wanted to hear him play the piano, how could he refuse?

However, this is not a long-term solution.

He has now reached a bottleneck in his cultivation, and his life span will only decrease and not increase.

Either he breaks through the realm earlier. Under normal circumstances, his life span will increase at a fast rate, and he doesn't care about one or two days.

Or he can find a way to turn the music into a permanent skill, just like the previous stealing technique, so that he can use it at will in the future without consuming his life span.

However, these two paths are not easy to take.

If you want to break through the bottleneck earlier, you need to do something big.

If you want to make music a permanent skill, you need to capture a large number of people with music skills at one time. They don't need to have top music skills, but there must be enough of them.

If the requirements for merging are not met, the dim portraits will disappear the next day.

When Li Nuo played the piano, Mu'er was beside him, and from time to time she stuffed a peeled orange slice into his mouth.

Ning'er didn't know where she ran away. After giving her a few oranges, she ran away.

Song Mansion, Song Ning'er's exclusive courtyard.

She handed the peeled orange to the woman. The woman wearing a veil turned her head and looked somewhere. From a certain direction outside the courtyard wall, there was a faint sound of the piano.

The woman put a slice of orange into her mouth, closed her eyes, and listened carefully.

The sound of the piano was pleasant and made people feel happy. She was also moved by the music and couldn't help humming an unknown tune, then asked: "Who is playing the piano?"

Song Ning'er peeled the orange and said: "It's Brother Li Nuo. Brother Li Nuo is really amazing. He is so good at painting, playing the piano so beautifully, and he is so beautiful. I envy Sister Jiaren so much. When I get married in the future, I will also find a husband as amazing as Brother Li Nuo..."

The woman wearing the curtain put down the orange in her hand and said: "What a broken orange, so sour, and that broken song, it's not good at all..."

Song Ning'er raised her little face, looking at a loss.

The orange is sweet, and Brother Li Nuo plays very well. Everything is fine, why did the master sister suddenly get angry...

...

Li Nuo didn't go to the Ministry of Justice today.

These days, he has been running around outside all day, and it's hard to have some free time.

He lay on the recliner in the yard, basking in the sun leisurely.

At a certain moment, he felt that the sun suddenly disappeared.

Li Nuo opened his eyes and saw only two huge oranges.

No, not oranges, but Li An Ning was wearing an orange dress today.

She rarely wore the uniform of the Ministry of Justice, but changed into an orange palace dress.

Li An Ning handed Li Nuo something similar to a memorial, but much larger than a memorial. Li Nuo opened it and saw that it was an imperial edict issued by the three provinces to the Ministry of Justice.

The content of the imperial edict was very simple.

The court allowed the establishment of a thief-hunting department in the Ministry of Justice, and allowed them to recruit thieves who were serving sentences into the thief-hunting department, so that they could work instead of serving, and atone for their crimes.

There was no clear explanation in the imperial edict on how to do this.

But this also means that there is a lot of room for them to play.

I didn't expect the court to be so efficient. When Li Nuo went to see his father yesterday afternoon, the imperial edict of the three provinces arrived at the Ministry of Justice this morning.

Li Nuo got up from the chair, walked back to the room, said something to his wife, and went to the Ministry of Justice with Li An Ning.

The two did not take a carriage today.

It sounds easy to set up a robbery prevention department in the Ministry of Justice, but when you actually do it, you will encounter many problems in details.

How to convince the elites of the robbery door to make them willing to work for the court, and how to ensure that they do not run away after they go out, this requires a complete and reasonable system.

He and Li Anning discussed while walking.

It is relatively easy to convince the managers of the robbery door, as long as they are promised certain benefits.

Under normal circumstances, they will be exiled three thousand miles away from their families. It is unknown whether they can return to Chang'an in this life, and whether they can survive these three years.

Joining the robbery prevention department can temporarily exempt them from exile.

At the same time, a sentence reduction mechanism will be established for them.

For each thief caught, one day of imprisonment can be exempted, and ten miles of exile can be exiled. For those who catch the most thieves every month, an additional ten days of imprisonment can be exempted, and one hundred miles of exile can be exiled.

For each day of field work, ten cents can be paid.

These ten coins may not seem like much, but they can be used to improve the food. Each meal can be supplemented with a chicken leg, two eggs, and occasionally some fruit.

The meals of the Ministry of Justice have been cabbage, tofu and radish for ten years. There is no meat. This is the only way for them to improve their food.

As for how to prevent them from taking the opportunity to escape, there is no absolutely effective method.

The two walked and thought.

Under normal circumstances, they would not think of escaping.

Many of these thieves have families in Chang'an. If they work hard and get a reduction in sentence, they may be released from prison in less than a year and reunite with their families.

If you are willing to stay in the Anti-Theft Division, you can get a public office, no matter how big or small, which is better than being a thief.

Normal people know what to choose.

However, to be on the safe side, let the constables of the Ministry of Justice keep an eye on them at first.

Not far behind them.

Because the princess of the fourth realm of the Legalist family is with the young master, housekeeper Wu and several guards don't need to follow too closely.

Not long after walking, housekeeper Wu showed a puzzled look on his old face.

Didn't they say they were going to the Ministry of Justice? When they passed by the Ministry of Justice, they didn't stop...

Hey, hey, hey, just walking, how come they are holding each other's arms while walking?

Li Nuo and Li Anning talked while walking. The system of the Anti-Theft Division was gradually improving. At a certain moment, he suddenly found that the situation around him was a little bit wrong.

The houses here tend to be low and dilapidated, so the Ministry of Justice is naturally impossible to be here.

Li Nuo realized that he was too involved in the conversation just now, and he didn't notice that he passed by the Ministry of Justice unconsciously.

He looked around and felt that something was familiar.

It was normal to be familiar with him, because he and Li Anning had walked this road to buy groceries early in the morning.

He looked down and saw that Li Anning was naturally holding his arm.

Li Nuo paused. Li Anning, who was thinking about some details, was not prepared. He stumbled and almost fell with Li Nuo.

After she stood firm, she looked up at Li Nuo and said unhappily: "What are you doing..."

Li Nuo looked down at their arms.

Li Anning was slightly stunned. After realizing it, she immediately let go of him and said: "Sorry, I'm used to it..."

After looking around, she also showed a look of surprise on her face and murmured: "Why did we get here?"

Li Nuo did not mention what happened just now, and said: "Let's go back. There are still many things to arrange in the Ministry of Justice."

Li Anning looked forward. From here, walking forward one street, it was the small house where they lived at the beginning.

Some memories emerged in her mind, and she said: "Since we are here, let's go and take a look..."

Li Nuo did not say anything and continued to walk forward.

In order to obtain a new identity, Song Yu and his wife had been secretly sent to another place.

In order to prevent them from being retaliated by the remnants of the Thieves' Sect, Li Nuo did not let them move back. He asked Wu Guanjia to give them a sum of money and find a job for Song Yu, which was enough for them to have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of their lives.

After Li Nuo and Li Anning left, this place was empty.

When the two were about to walk to the front of this house, they saw a figure wandering in front of the courtyard gate from a distance.

It was a middle-aged man with an ordinary appearance, wandering around the door, and occasionally looking inside through the crack of the door.

Zhao Wu still doesn't know what happened that night.

He only knows that after that night, he lost contact with the higher-ups.

When he went to the stronghold during the day, he saw several officials standing outside the stronghold.

He didn't dare to get close, and left after watching from a distance for a while.

Later, he learned that all the high-level officials above the head of the Thieves' Sect that night were arrested, and the government launched an operation overnight to almost wipe out the entire Thieves' Sect.

More than 50 of the 60 managers were arrested.

As for ordinary thieves, it is unknown how many were caught.

He escaped because he was not at home that night and stayed with the children.

After surviving the robbery, Zhao Wu felt not only lucky but also deeply regretful.

He regretted letting Xiao Song join the robbers. If he had not joined the robbers, he would not have become the leader and would not have been caught by the court.

How would his wife live in the future without the pillar of the family?

He came here several times in the past few days.

But there was no one at Xiao Song's house.

Zhao Wu sighed, stood under the courtyard wall, took out a bulging purse from his arms and threw it into the yard.

He hoped that his brother and sister-in-law would see the silver when they came back.

Although the money was not much, it was enough for him to live for a while.

Zhao Wu was about to leave, and when he turned around, he saw two figures standing behind him.

They were a young man and woman, the man was handsome and the woman was beautiful. Both of them were dressed in extraordinary clothes, and a noble aura came to his face.

Zhao Wu lowered his head, not daring to look at it again.

Zhao Wu was able to become the manager of the thieves' sect, and his skills might not be superb, but his ability to judge people was his capital for survival.

These two were obviously nobles of high status, not people like them who were at the bottom of society could afford to offend. He lowered his head and was about to leave in a hurry when a familiar voice suddenly came to his ears.

"Fifth brother, how are you..."

Zhao Wu slowly raised his head and looked at the nobleman, with a shocked and puzzled expression on his face, and tremblingly said, "Xiao, Xiao Song?"

...

The door of this house was locked.

But it was not a problem for Li Nuo.

He turned his back to Li An Ning, and as soon as his hand touched the lock, the lock opened.

Li An Ning walked into the yard, looking at everything familiar in the yard, and the memories of the past came to her mind.

Although this dilapidated residential house was far inferior to the magnificent Changning Palace and the gorgeous Princess Mansion, it had a special meaning to her.

Since her mother passed away, she has been the only one living in the huge palace.

Changning Palace is empty and deep, and even the sunlight cannot reach the deepest part of the palace.

The maids always walked hurriedly with their heads down. They had received strict etiquette training. When they walked, they could make no sound. They occasionally gathered together to talk and laugh. When they saw her coming, they would immediately fall silent.

Her entire childhood was spent in silence and darkness.

Although this place is not as good as a room in the harem or the princess's mansion, it carries many of her interesting memories. Compared with the spacious harem and the gorgeous princess's mansion, she actually likes it more.

Here she had her first hand-holding, first hug, first cooking, first time to completely forget the identity of a princess, first time to have the life that a normal person should have...

Unfortunately, everything she had was fake.

The person who would go shopping with her, walk with her, cook for her, and dress her up was fake.

In reality, he would only steal her oranges for other women.

Thinking of this, she suddenly felt a little sad.

She moved her eyes away from Li Nuo's face and said lightly: "Go back to the Ministry of Justice."

After that, she left on her own.

Li Nuo looked at Li An Ning who left without waiting, and a puzzled look appeared on his face.

Did he offend her?

No, he didn't do anything just now, and didn't say anything...

No wonder they say women's hearts are like needles in the sea.

Not only can he not guess his wife, but he can't guess Li An Ning either.

Mu'er is still good.

Happiness and unhappiness are written on her face, and people won't guess. I hope that when she grows up, she won't become like them...

Li An Ning went back to the Ministry of Justice alone.

Li Nuo still had something to solve, and looked at a certain place in the yard.

Zhao Wu stood there, with his head down, his face pale, and cold sweat rolling down his forehead.

This noble man has the same voice as Xiao Song.

Except for the fact that he looks different from Xiao Song, he is no different from Xiao Song in height, body shape, or voice.

And the woman next to him.

In addition to her beautiful appearance, her features are exactly the same as Xiao Song's wife.

At this moment, Zhao Wu had guessed the reason for the destruction of the Dao Men.

They just talked about the Ministry of Justice... It turned out that he was a government official from the beginning.

So, the reason why the Dao Men was destroyed was actually because of him, Zhao Wu...

Li Nuo picked up a cloth bag from the ground, opened it, and saw that it was full of broken silver. The quality of these broken silvers was different, there were new silvers and old silvers, which should have been saved for a long time.

Although he had not known Zhao Wu for a long time, Li Nuo had a good impression of him.

Facts have proved that he is indeed a man of affection and righteousness.

Speaking of which, in addition to Li Nuo and Li Anning, there is another person whose contribution to eradicating the Dao Men cannot be ignored.

If Zhao Wu had not been able to identify people with his eyes, he might have missed this opportunity.

Li Nuo looked at him and was about to speak.

Zhao Wu knelt down with a plop, kowtowed several times, and said: "Xiao Song, Song Shouzuo... No, no, no, this lord, I know I am guilty and dare not beg for mercy, but before going to the government, can I go to a place first..."