The Ming Dynasty had two capitals and thirteen provinces, namely Beijing and Nanjing, and the thirteen provinces were the thirteen provinces, namely the thirteen provinces, namely the thirteen provincial governments.

Although in order to avoid being the same as the Yuan Dynasty, it was not called the provincial government, but was called the Chengxuan Government and the Ministry of Education, such a long and difficult name was obviously not bought by the people, so everyone still distinguished it by the province.

Henan Prefecture is just one of the many prefectures in the Henan Chengxuan Government Department, and there are one prefecture and thirteen counties under the jurisdiction of Henan Prefecture, and Gong County is one of them.

However, this small place looks very special because it is located in the eight tombs of seven emperors of the Northern Song Dynasty.

The people of the villages near the county town also assumed the position of guarding the tombs. For them, the emperors and masters of the previous dynasty were willing to be buried here, which means that this is a Feng Shui treasure land, so the households in the nearby towns were very proud of this.

Although many of them are illiterate, they seem to have a little more profound knowledge than the people in other places. Even the old man in his seventies and eighties often points to a certain piece of land and tells his children and grandchildren that there is the tomb of a certain emperor and master below. Don’t even look at the fact that there is not even a stele pavilion now, it is because he was once stolen by the Yuan people. It was not like this before.

Children and grandchildren will tell their children and grandchildren again, and the story of the imperial tomb has been passed down from generation to generation.

However, all this has changed due to an accident. Now when the locals talk about the Northern Song Dynasty imperial tomb, their first reaction is not pride, but inexplicably horror.

Tang Fan and his team set out from the capital and headed by land to Henan Prefecture.

The Suizhou general Xue Ling stayed in the Northern Fushi Office, and he himself led twenty personal guards, including Pang Qi, to go south with Tang Fan and the others in the name of the imperial envoy.

Although this case is not urgent, life is also at stake, especially theft of the imperial tombs. It is urgent. Everyone rode their horses at first, but after two days of travel, the gap gradually emerged.

The Jinyiwei was a group of big men, with thick skin and thick flesh. After the hellish training in Suizhou, they had already been sharpened to the point of copper and iron bones. Speaking of which, even without the strengthening training in Suizhou, for military officers like them, riding a horse and rushing on the road is a piece of cake.

But the civil servants of the Ministry of Justice are different. Everyone sits in the yamen all day long, and the heaviest work they do is to serve tea and water. Suddenly, for two consecutive days, the bones can be dissipated. What is hard to say is that blisters have been ground into the inner sides of each thigh, and some even have broken skin and bleeding, which is so painful.

As the official envoy of the imperial envoy, Tang Fan naturally had to be the leader and could grit his teeth and persevere no matter what. However, Suizhou soon discovered that these civil servants were not helpful, so he slowed down the pace of the Jinyiwei and took out plaster to apply wounds to Tang Fan and the others.

The leaders could persist, so the two trainees below naturally didn't have to complain about anything. Instead, Yin Yuanhua refused to ride a horse again and strongly demanded to ride a carriage.

The Jinyiwei had long been disgusted with these civil servants, but they also knew that Boss Sui had a good personal relationship with Tang Fan. It is said that the imperial envoy was still living with the old master Sui. Yin Yuanhua was speechless and said that the Yin Yuanhua was unable to speak with Tang Fan along the way. The two of them were obviously not the same as each other. They dared not make fun of the imperial envoy, so they naturally focused the artillery fire on Yin Yuanhua.

This wink: "Oh, some people think they are out for fun and are riding on a carriage. Do you want to put a bead curtain on it? It's like those big girls and little wives, and that's why they cover their faces? They're ashamed before they speak!"

The one followed the strange smile: "How do you know that he is not a young wife? Could it be that you have seen what he looks like without clothes?"

At that time, everyone passed by Guanyi and stopped to rest. Tang Fan and Suizhou were the chief and deputy imperial envoys. Everyone was at ease and were unwilling to even eat with the leader, so they both had a table alone, Yin Yuanhua and two officials of the Ministry of Justice, and other Jinyiwei sat in scattered seats. As soon as the words of the table next to him were heard, Yin Yuanhua could hear them clearly.

He didn't know that these people were talking about him, so he was furious immediately, put the chopsticks heavily on the table, and stood up: "Who are you talking about?"

It would be fine if he didn't stand up. When he stood up, his thighs suddenly became cramped. Yin Yuanhua grinned in pain, which attracted the Jinyiwei to laugh.

Although Tang Fan didn't like Yin Yuanhua, he was the righteous envoy and Yin Yuanhua's boss during this trip. He had to be a leader as a leader, and he could not sit idly by and watch Yin Yuanhua be laughed at like this. He poked Suizhou's arm with the other end of his chopsticks.

Sui Zhou coughed lightly, and his sharp eyes swept towards his subordinates. The latter stopped laughing and immediately buried their heads in their meal.

After dinner, Yin Yuanhua made up his mind to refuse to ride a horse and insisted on taking a carriage to Henan.

The two commanders were equally miserable and looked at Tang Fan with eager eyes.

Tang Fan asked with a strange look: "Are you really going to ride a carriage?"

Before the officers dared to answer, Yin Yuanhua said, "You must ride in a carriage. The subordinates are not as good as adults. There is no title of the imperial envoy. It is important to be comfortable. Don't be afraid of being laughed at!"

He also implicitly mocked Tang Fan for fear of face and suffering.

Tang Fan said: "There may not be enough horses in the next official post. If you regret it after you change to the carriage, you have to keep riding the carriage to Henan."

The more he said this, the more Yin Yuanhua felt that Tang Fan was deliberately making things difficult for him, so he had to ride a carriage.

After saying this, Tang Fan had already reminded him with friendship. If they didn't listen, they would let them go. He asked the official postmaster to prepare the carriage.

The carriage was quite spacious, enough for Yin Yuanhua and two officers to sit in. Yicheng found another coachman for them. When the carriage arrived at the destination, the coachman would drive it back.

The three of them saw that there were soft pads in the carriage, which was much more comfortable than the time they were on the carriage, so they all happily got on the carriage.

As a result, as soon as they drove dozens of miles away, Yin Yuanhua and others knew why Tang Fan had an unfathomable expression on his face after hearing that they had to ride a carriage.

Because this is even more fucking than riding a horse...

After leaving the border of Gyeonggi, the road conditions are worse than those of the other. It is often not as easy to ride a horse carriage than riding a horse, but Yoon Won-hwa didn't expect this and insisted on jumping into the fire pit, so he couldn't even pull it.

He was so bumped that he was almost vomiting blood, and his internal organs seemed to be shifting. The feeling was really indescribable. Whoever sat knows, but he couldn't tell Tang Fan that he wanted to ride a horse again, because even if he lifted it, there was no horse for him to ride...

Yin Yuanhua was about to cry but couldn't cry, and finally tasted the feeling of shooting himself in the foot.

Not only him, but also Cheng Wen and Tian Xuan, were almost regretting their intestines.

After getting confused all the way, I finally arrived in Gong County before the three of them were about to burst out their souls.

Long before the group arrived in Gong County, the county magistrate He had already brought people to the post pavilion next to the official road outside the city and looked forward to it.

"Sir, why don't you sit down and rest?" The county magistrate who was accompanying him to greet him was almost fainted by his constant walking and walking around, and he couldn't help but say.

In addition to the county magistrate and a large and small official in the county government office, there were originally many wise and gentry in the county who wanted to follow him, but they were rejected by the county magistrate He. Now he is in a lawsuit, so how can he have free time to bring these people to show off in front of the imperial envoy?

Facing the county magistrate whom he could trust, County Magistrate He did not hide the anxiety on his face: "Hey, brother, you don't know that the mission is not here to travel around. They are here to investigate the case. After all, something happened to me in the imperial tomb. If I can't do it well, my black hat will not be guaranteed!"

The county magistrate advised: "Sir, it's useless to worry about you now. It's better to cooperate with the bad guys and then clear the things in the bad guys and let them go back and talk to you. Maybe they can turn big things into small things!"

County Magistrate He sighed: "Things can only be done so now. I am really unlucky. I think my ex and ex-exe have left countless messes, but the imperial tomb has been fine. I have to clean up those messes. No one knows this credit. On the contrary, when something happens to the imperial tomb, the responsibility falls on me!"

The county magistrate thought that if anyone did not have a single or two bad things during his tenure, how could he be a peaceful official for life? You are afraid of things and blame others. You don’t think about how to curry favor with the upcoming imperial envoy. What future does it cost to rely on in this way?

But who made him a subordinate? Even though he thought so, he still comforted his county magistrate.

Just as they were talking, a group of people rushed from far to near, with smoke and dust rolling, and it seemed that a carriage was still following behind.

After the two of the county magistrates went out, a minor official came to report that there were imperial envoys in front of him.

"Come with me quickly!" County Magistrate He said hurriedly.

The speed of the carriage was not fast, and the chess in front seemed to be deliberately slowing down and waiting for the carriage behind. After about a quarter of an hour, the people who had already appeared in sight arrived.

Clustered by other Jinyiweis were a young man wearing fifth-rank civil servants' uniforms and a Jinyiwei in flying fish uniforms.

County Magistrate He hurriedly greeted him and bowed, "Mr. He Haosi, the magistrate of Gong County, met the superiors!"

Although I can't tell which one is the right person, it's always right to behave like this.

The official document issued by the Ministry of Justice also stated that the imperial envoy who came was Tang Fan, the doctor of the Henan Qing Lishu Department of the Ministry of Justice. The deputy envoy was Suizhou, the acting governor of the Jinyiwei Beizhenfu Department. However, since the chief and deputy envoy were here, who was sitting in the carriage behind him?

Is it a more important person?

County Magistrate He couldn't help but glance backwards.

But the Jinyiwei next to the civil servant opened a little distance to show the difference between him and the civil servant, and confirmed the speculation of County Magistrate He: "This is Lord Tang, a doctor of the Qing official in Henan Province, and is the official envoy of this trip."

Tang Fanfeng got off his horse and bowed to County Magistrate He: "County Magistrate He doesn't have to be too polite. We will wait for the last few days to go, so why should we find a place to sit down and then explain in detail?"

"Yes, yes!" County Magistrate He came to his senses and hurriedly said, "The officials have prepared the official post and ordered people to prepare hot water for food and food. Please also ask the people to move to the county town, not far from here!"

Tang Fan nodded: "Then please ask County Magistrate He to lead the way!"

When the group arrived at the official post in the city, County Magistrate He had indeed made people prepare everything long ago, and even had clean clothes to change, which was considered considerate. However, because Tang Fan and others had to have dinner and talk with County Magistrate He, they just hurriedly washed up and changed into another set of spare official robes.

After most of the people entered, the carriage that was driving at the end slowly arrived and stopped at the gate of Guanyi.

County Magistrate He was very curious, but he was not used on the right path. He had already made up a lot of versions in his mind, including the imperial envoy who went out to investigate the case and did not forget to bring a beautiful concubine, etc. When he saw the carriage stop, he couldn't help but stop and turn around, wanting to see who was coming out inside.

A hand stretched out from the carriage and slowly lifted up the curtain. County Magistrate He thought to himself that his hand was white enough, but unfortunately, why did he look like a chicken claw and have no beauty at all.

Immediately afterwards, a head emerged from the carriage. County Magistrate He was shocked and realized that it was a man's face, not what he had imagined.

The man looked bleak, his eyes were dull, and there were two black and blue bags under his eyes. He looked very sick. However, seeing that he was still wearing a fifth-rank official robe, County Magistrate He couldn't help but come forward and ask, "I dare to ask, this is also an imperial envoy? He Haosi, the magistrate of Gong County..."

Before he could finish his words, the other party's upper body stretched out of the carriage, as if he was about to get off the carriage, but his face was twisted and he couldn't help but grab the thing beside him to stabilize his body, lower his head and vomit.

What he caught was the already silenced County Magistrate He's robe.

County Magistrate He was looking for trouble and was covered in dirty things. Now he happened to follow Tang Fan and the others to change clothes. Because he didn't bring his clothes to change, he had to endure the sour smell on his body and ran to his own county government office to change. No one dared to approach him along the way. Not to mention how unlucky he was, County Magistrate He was also angry. Who made him curious? The other party was not only a central official, but also a higher rank than him. County Magistrate He could only pinch his nose and think he was unlucky.

As a result, he rushed back to the yamen and had just changed his clothes. He heard that the imperial envoy was looking for him, so he had to hurriedly run to the official post.

After entering the official post, Tang Fan and others had already washed and sorted it out, no longer covered in dust. Although they still looked tired, they were still much more glamorous.

Tang Fan said to County Magistrate He: "I believe County Magistrate He is also clear about why we came."

County Magistrate He hurriedly said, "Yes, but please ask the superiors for inquiries. All the officials know that, but have you not eaten yet? Why not talk about it after you have eaten?"

Tang Fan smiled and said, "If County Magistrate He has not eaten yet, why not sit down and eat and talk while eating?"

County Magistrate He also wanted to take this opportunity to complain to the imperial envoy, so he was more respectful than obedient.

The food in the official post was good. Of course, Tang Fan and others all came from the capital, and County Magistrate He didn't dare to neglect it. Even the chefs were temporarily transferred from the county government and all made authentic Henan cuisine.

Babao cloth bag chicken, braised mutton, and slippery fish fillets, all of which are full of meat.

Sui Zhou and others did not do anything. Even Tang Fan was used to running around immediately and felt that it was okay. On the other hand, Yin Yuanhua and Cheng Wentianxuan, because the carriage was bumpy all the way, had no appetite for eating anything. At the moment, he smelled the meat smell, his face was white, and he couldn't help but cover his mouth and ran out, and he spit it out again under the corridor. Unfortunately, his stomach was empty and he couldn't even spit out bile.

County Magistrate He realized his negligence. These people must be unable to eat big fish and meat because of motion sickness.

Seeing that County Magistrate He was a little at a loss, Tang Fan said to him: "Let me make a few light vegetarian dishes under the kitchen, serve a few bowls of millet porridge, give me one bowl, and give them another table to three of them so that they won't be able to eat it if they smell the smell of meat."

"There is no need to open another table..." Yin Yuanhua walked in and said weakly, "You should just sit here."

The reason why he volunteered to follow Tang Fan here to investigate the case was mainly two purposes: one was to grab the credit and the other was to grab the braid.

Moreover, this was all tacitly approved by Mr. Liang, and the deputy followed him to investigate the case, which was even more legitimate.

Tang Fan naturally knew his little abacus. Seeing that he insisted, he smiled and did not force him: "Okay."

There was only one table in the huge dining room, where Tang Fan, Suizhou, Pang Qi, Yin Yuanhua, He County Magistrate, two officials of the Qing Lisi, as well as the county magistrate, chief clerk of Gong County, and others were all in the next room, which could not disturb the tranquility of all the adults.

Everyone was hungry and didn't bother to talk about business. Seeing that the dishes were served one after another, they gave in a little humble manner to each other, and then they all started to chopsticks one after another.
To be continued...