When Hsu Fengnian left the meeting hall, he felt a chill. He looked up and found that it was an unexpected autumn rain. The large red lanterns hanging in the corridor emitted a soft yellow glow.
Hehe, Miss Hehe and Xu Ying in the red robe followed behind the young vassal king. On the way down the stairs to the second hall, Xu Fengnian suddenly stopped. He waited until the two girls came to his side, one on the left and one on the right. He raised his hands high and put them on top of their heads to shelter them from the rain.
Along the way, there was still a lot of people in the middle of the night. A counselor holding an oiled paper fan walked quickly from the back hall to the military office. After seeing this rare warm scene, he hesitated for a while and gave up the idea of giving the umbrella to the young king.
On both sides of the corridor in front of the meeting hall, there were six departments: soldiers, officials, households, rites, punishment, and works. Now Yang Shenxing, the deputy provincial governor of Beiliang Road, was in charge of the military office. Li Gongde, the administrator, was on duty in the official office. Bai Yu, the governor of Liangzhou, was temporarily in charge of the household office. Although Mr. Bai Lian had a governor's mansion in Liangzhou City that he took over from Tian Peifang and also kept a government office in Mount Qingliang, Bai Yu obviously wanted to focus on Beiju City in the future. Whether it was for the battle of Liang Mang or to get rid of the shadow of the deputy administrator, Song Dongming, Bai Yu's ruling skills were beyond doubt. Not to mention a small household office, he could even skillfully control a government office in Liyang City. Chancellor Wang, who temporarily left the Academy, was in charge of the rites room. Song Changsui, the head of the School of Mohism, continued to perfect Beiju City as the deputy supervisor of the construction of Beiju City. No one sat on the first transaction in the torture room. The two departments, Yangying and Fushui, each had a spy leader with a strong resume.
After the main hall on the central axis, there was a second hall with a plaque "Summer Seeking Hall" hanging. It was very strange. The residences and palaces of the world's monarchs were all summer resorts.
The main building of the second hall was the signing room in the middle. The young King's study was also next door. However, compared to the unparalleled elegance of the Wutongin of Mount Qingliang, it could be said to be extremely simple and crude. The books stored there were also the files of the Beiliang Frontier Army.
Apart from this, the Liangzhou Left and Right Cavalry Army, the Liuzhou Long Xiang Army, the Iron Stupa, the White Feather Light Cavalry, and many other elite border armies outside the Liangzhou Pass also had their own barracks here. There was also the Youzhou Infantry Division, the Four Prefectures General Division, and the Fourteenth Lieutenant Division. They all had their own yamen to facilitate the smooth transmission of military orders. The plaque hanging above the three halls, "Hall of Contemplation", was taken from Li Yishan's words, "A thousand years of merit requires the most contemplation." The couplet also came from this Tide-listening Pavilion strategist's famous words, "I came here because I was fated with the common people. I want to have a clear conscience, even if I die, I have no regrets. " More than twenty military counselors were stationed here, while the remaining thirty or so Bai Yi aides, who wore the imperial seal ribbon, were on duty in the main hall's sixth room, they could come and go as they pleased. These blue-robed men's path of advancement was similar to that of Liyang's Imperial Examinations and Jinshi, but their duties were more like provincial officials in the Privy Council. The military counselors' roots came from the Liuzhou Provincial Governor's mansion. Yu Luandao, before entering Youzhou as a cavalry general, had a similar role. His position was low and his authority was high. This was the creation of one of the Prime Ministers of Liyang, Song Dongming. In the first battle of Liang Mang, people related to this role also appeared in the Beimang border army. Not only did they pacify a large number of grassland bigwigs, they also greatly increased the military strength of the Southern Dynasty's border army. This was the work of the Imperial Tutor of Beimang, the Taiping Decree.
Hsu Fengnian walked all the way to the Fourth Hall at the very back of the mansion. This was where he and his family lived. The Hall of Thought was separated from the Fourth Hall by a wall of flowers. There were more than ten rooms on the left and right. The corridors, lintel, and beams looked ordinary, and the material was definitely not the wood of the imperial family like sandalwood. However, upon closer inspection, one could see that they were ingenious and the carvings were exquisite. It was said that the Administrator Li Gongde had used the style of the Gangnam-do courtyard as a reference. Jiang Ni, Hehe, and Xu Ying lived here. If Xu Beizhi stayed in Beicheng, he would definitely have a place. As for the others, perhaps only Yuan Zuozong and Chu Lushan, the two adopted sons of the old Liang Prince, had the qualifications to live here. This kind of thing had nothing to do with one's official rank or military merit. As a transport envoy, Xu Beizhi quickly went south to Lingzhou after hanging the horizontal board in Beicheng. In his words, when he was done with this, he would be busy for a while. At that time, the young King felt guilty and wanted to comfort him. However, just as he finished saying that he did not know whether to say it or not, Xu Beizhi, who was also the transport envoy and Deputy Jiedushi, bluntly said, "Then don't say it." This made the new King Liang, who had good intentions, feel sullen. However, he got used to it.
When they arrived at the Fourth Hall courtyard, Hehe went into the house and took a brand new oil paper fan. She pulled Xu Ying, who was dressed in a red robe, and jumped onto the roof. The two of them huddled under a small umbrella and whispered.
The night was quiet and the autumn rain was long. Hsu Fengnian saw that Jiang Ni's house was pitch-black. He thought that she had already fallen asleep. Since he was not sleepy, he moved a chair to sit under the eaves. He leaned forward and reached out to catch the raindrops falling from the roof.
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