In Yuqing Tower, Shi Wenyi directly booked the entire restaurant. In the Jinyiwei Yamen, almost all officials with more than a thousand households came to congratulate Li Huan.
These people can be said to be the most well-informed. Li Huan went to the palace to meet the emperor in the morning, and it didn't take long for a decree to be passed down from the palace. Naturally, these people got the news immediately.
Anyone who is not a fool can realize that Li Huan is valued by the emperor, and he will surely rise to the top in the future. Even if he replaces Shi Wenyi and becomes the commander of the Jin Yiwei, it is not impossible.
Although it was difficult for these people to curry favor with Li Huan in front of Shi Wenyi, these people showed great enthusiasm and toasted to Li Huan one after another.
Even the commanders and colleagues who were higher than Li Huan, although they were not so explicit, they still showed their closeness.
Li Huan really felt the benefits of power. He wanted to enter the capital and enter the Jinyiwei Yamen. He had looked up to him. However, once he was favored by the emperor, it seemed that he had many more friends in an instant.
The crowd dispersed, and Li Huan, who was sent back to his residence by his subordinates Chen Yao and Ma Ming, lost his drunken state in an instant and seemed much more sober.
Forsythia, who was about to prepare sobering soup for Li Huan, saw Li Huan sitting up with clear eyes and couldn't help but was stunned for a moment and said: "Master, it turns out you are pretending to be drunk."
Li Huan smiled and said, "If I don't pretend to be drunk, I'm afraid I will really get drunk."
Forsythia brought warm water, took a wet towel and handed it to Li Huan: "Young Master rarely drinks alcohol on weekdays, why did you drink so much today?"
The smell of alcohol on Li Huan's body was really too obvious.
Li Huan wiped his face, and his mind was somewhat clearer as he was a little groggy due to the surge of alcohol. "Your son, I have been promoted to the third rank. Do you think it is worth celebrating?"
Forsythia was stunned for a moment, then she realized what she was doing and exclaimed: "Master... Master, have you been promoted?"
Forsythia is not an ordinary girl who doesn't know anything. Although she is a maid, she is really regarded as a daughter by Feng and Li Xian. In addition, she studies and reads with Li Huan. Although she is not a talented woman, she is
I have also read many books and gained some knowledge.
Hearing Li Huan say that his official promotion was to the third level, Forsythia couldn't help but think about it secretly, and suddenly looked up at Li Huan and said, "So the young master is now the Jinyiwei Town Envoy, an official from the fourth level?"
Li Huan nodded and said, "Not bad."
Forsythia said almost instinctively: "Then we don't have to worry about anyone trying to take advantage of Langqiyu again!"
Hearing what Forsythia said, the smile on Li Huan's face faded and he said slowly: "Whoever wants to make plans for Langqiyu Island should first ask me if I agree."
At the same time, Li Huan was thinking about when to send people to the Jinyiwei Qianhu Station in Fujian to find the Jinyiwei Qianhu and ask who was the one who plotted against the Li family in the first place.
As the saying goes, the hatred for killing one's father is irreconcilable. There is revenge and there is resentment. I didn't have that strength before, but now some accounts need to be settled.
That night, Li Huan suddenly ascended to a high position and was thinking about avenging his father. He tossed and turned until late at night before falling asleep.
It was just dawn. Although Li Huan said he had only slept for a few hours, he woke up on time. The sound of Forsythia making breakfast could be vaguely heard outside.
After riding for an hour, Li Huan practiced his sword skills again. After breakfast, he went straight to the Jinyiwei Yamen.
Although according to Zhu Houzhao's words, the Jin Yiwei guards and close troops were almost useless. Li Huan only thought that Zhu Houzhao was exaggerating. However, when he got the list of guards and close troops, he did not name them for verification. As a result, several commanders and colleagues commanded the general affairs and suppressed the governor.
Even Qianhu officials came to him to plead with him as if they had agreed.
Li Huan really didn't expect that the bodyguards and soldiers who were known as the emperor's personal soldiers could become the targets of these people's free wages.
The number of guards and soldiers on the list was as many as three thousand, but looking at the attitude of these senior Jinyiwei officials who were eating their pay, Li Huan suspected that if he finally checked according to the list, he could summon half of them, which would be considered too many.
Recalling that Zhu Houzhao specifically told him to reorganize the guards and troops when he was leaving, Li Huan felt that it was absolutely impossible to say that Zhu Houzhao didn't know that the guards and troops were eating empty pay.
Shi Wenyi walked into the side hall and watched Li Huan staring at the stacks of directories. He sighed softly and said, "Don't you think it's incredible? The royal guards guarding the personal army and the barrier protecting the emperor can have such a serious problem.
A situation of empty pay.”
Li Huan raised his head and looked at Shi Wenyi without saying anything, while Shi Wenyi sat opposite Li Huan and said: "When the water is clear, there will be no fish, whether it is the Shenji Camp, the Fifth Army Camp, the Three Thousand Battalion, or the border army or the local guard station."
, where is there no case of empty pay?”
Seeing Li Huan's lack of reaction, Shi Wenyi added: "As the saying goes, it doesn't freeze three feet in a day. During the reign of the former emperor, the imperial guards were suppressed by the civil service group, and their strength shrank significantly. The number of guards and soldiers was even less than a thousand at the minimum. These
The literati would rather the Jin Yiwei eat the free wages of the imperial guards than see the Jin Yiwei's strength increase. Several commanders also tried to increase the number of imperial guards, but before any action was taken, they would be suppressed by civilian officials. Over time, the imperial guards would be suppressed.
This has become the current situation.”
Jinyiwei is responsible for supervising all officials in the world. It can be said that he is born to be the opposite of civil and military officials.
It is a bit exaggerated to say that the Jin Yiwei has harmed the people. Think about the countless corrupt officials who have been directly or indirectly taken down by the Jin Yiwei over the past hundred years. It is conceivable that the Jin Yiwei's power expands, and the last thing they want to see is the court.
All the civil and military officials above the hall.
Seeing Li Huan deep in thought, Shi Wenyi patted Li Huan on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Brother, this burden is not light at all!"
Looking up at Shi Wenyi's leaving figure, Li Huan couldn't help but think a little. Was Shi Wenyi's coming to tell him this a kind reminder, or did he have other plans?
But no matter what Shi Wenyi's purpose was, one fact was there, that is, the job Zhu Houzhao gave him was not as easy to handle as imagined.
For the whole morning, Li Huan sat in the side hall, as if he had fallen into trance, not knowing what he was thinking.
In the Jinyiwei Yamen, the side hall where Li Huan was located seemed to have become the focus of everyone's attention. I don't know how many people were paying attention to Li Huan's every move.
Sitting opposite Chen Ke was a burly man with an extremely imposing aura. Judging from the official uniform he was wearing, he was actually an official from a thousand households.
Zhao Yi glanced at Chen Ke and said: "Master Li was your subordinate before, but you should tell me whether the governor can reorganize the bodyguard army this time!"