In front of the lobby of the Survey Department, six large black lacquer coffins were lined up in a row.

　　These were the six large ash coffins with six-inch boards that the young eunuchs had finally purchased last night after knocking on doors all night.

　　Last night, the heads of the six guards who died in the battle had been sewn up with silk thread by master craftsmen, leaving a thin red line on their necks.

　　They changed into clean battle robes, cleaned their bodies, and lay quietly in the coffins, covered with silk quilts with copper coin patterns, with gold ingots stacked on their heads, silver ingots stacked on their feet, and thick copper coin paper money in their hands.

　　A team of guards stood in the yard and bowed to Lu Yi when they saw him.

　　With these six coffins as a foundation, the guards had a clear mind about following Lu Yi.

　　It was worth it to be treated like this after death.

　　The six colleagues who died in the battle used all the best quality items on the market. The guards asked themselves, if they died in the Yulin Army, their families would not be willing to give them such good things.

　　Lu Yi paid for the good things for his brothers who died in the battle, which proved that this chief officer was generous and had feelings for his brothers. Working with such a leader, you can feel at ease and not afraid of dying without a place to go.

　　Lu Yi stood at the door of the lobby and stared at the six coffins lined up in a row.

　　He felt very uncomfortable.

　　First, because of the fire last night, these guards died for him, and he had a strong sense of guilt.

　　Therefore, he must do a good job in the affairs of his brothers after their death, as well as the pensions for their families, etc.

　　Second, he has a bit of obsessive-compulsive disorder and is very sensitive to numbers.

　　The three neat and tidy teams of one hundred people were so neat and uniform. Suddenly six people were missing, and they must be made up.

　　Someone has to go to the headquarters of the Palace Guard to keep an eye on them. If there are people from the underworld who want to come and seek refuge, they must be quickly dragged in.

　　There was a commotion outside the door.

　　Hundreds of people just attacked the garrison, which caused quite a stir. The officials from Yushunfang have already arrived.

　　The guards threw the bodies to the Yushunfang Ling Yamen and asked them to collect them; those who were injured and maimed were handed over to the family members of the Palace Guard who were stationed in Yushunfang, and asked them to send them to the secret prison to wait for orders from Yu Changle.

　　After a busy period, the guards under Lu Yi entered one after another and lined up in the courtyard.

　　A captain who was in charge of the nearby neighborhoods of the Palace Guard stationed in Yushunfang came in, greeted Lu Yi, and led his men away.

　　The heavy door closed, and Lu Yi bowed to his subordinates standing in the yard.

　　"Okay, this is Ah Hu, my brother, and we will be one of our own from now on. Ah Hu has some connections in the streets of Gaojing, and knows a lot of people. From now on, he will be the eyes and ears of our Yushunfang Survey Division on the streets."

　　"Write a letter to the headquarters, and buy Ah Hu a set of clothes for the guards, and get a batch of ivory tokens of the ground ghosts. For the time being, get a thousand copies."

　　The guards who came from the Yulin Army did not respond to this. The

　　twenty young eunuchs had been specially trained by the inner court, and they knew what they were doing, so they were shocked by Lu Yi's big hand - the Yushunfang Survey Division had just been established, and Lu Yi could recruit a thousand ground ghosts?

　　The ground ghosts under the Shougong Supervisor are not something you can just find a few young hooligans to take on.

　　They must be familiar with the streets, and have certain connections with the neighbors, and be able to get information, collect intelligence, follow and track, and even pry open doors and make holes, hit with clubs, and spread white ash, all kinds of messy means can come.

　　If there is no certain force value, no certain action ability, the Shougong Warden is not a charity, how can it give these ghosts benefits for nothing?

　　Even these ghosts have to give back to the Shougong Warden, and can collect some gray income from the market.

　　This is the ghost who is qualified to be listed in the Shougong Warden and get an identity card!

　　Even if it is a "temporary worker", it is not so easy to do!

　　Being able to recruit a thousand people at once... If Lu Yi is not bragging, then this new celebrity around the emperor is obviously... young, and really has some means?

　　The eunuchs in the inner court are the most discerning, the most capable of following the red and the black, and the most capable of currying favor with the powerful.

　　Twenty little eunuchs looked at Lu Yi with a smile, and their waists, which were originally slightly hunched, bent down a few degrees more respectfully, and responded very respectfully.

　　Lu Yi noticed the subtle change in the attitude of the eunuchs, he nodded, and threw the coarse cloth package in his hand to the ground.

　　The knot on the package was opened, and a pile of well-cast small gold ingots rolled out from the huge package, glittering and eye-catching.

　　Whether it was the guards or the eunuchs, they all stared at the small gold ingots with their eyes wide open, and their bodies stiffened for a moment.

　　"It was my fault that the brothers died in the battle last night." Lu Yi said loudly: "In addition to the pension that the prison should have, the gold here will be given to each of their families.

　　Ten taels of gold came out upon hearing the voice, and knelt on one knee solemnly to Lu Yi.

　　Ten taels of gold is two hundred taels of silver, which is two hundred strings of copper coins.

　　When they were in the Yulin Army, the official pension for the dead in battle was only three years of money and food.

　　According to the military pay of the Yulin Army's big soldiers, it was sixty strings

　　of coins. The pension given by Lu Yi was more than three times the official pension.

　　Moreover, this was extra money given in addition to the official pension.

　　Such a boss is very humane, and it also reveals that Lu Yi is not short of money. He is very generous. Following such a boss, he feels at ease.

　　"For the seriously injured brothers, each person will receive three taels of gold for soup and medicine, and for the slightly injured, each person will receive one tael. For the other brothers, as a boss, I don't have much to offer, so I will give each person half a tael of gold, which is five strings of money. Please have a drink, brothers!"

　　"Bang!"

　　More than two hundred eunuchs knelt on one knee, raised their right fists, and hit themselves hard in the chest.

　　Lu Yi said to the twenty squinting eunuchs, "Your kung fu is much higher than that of ordinary brothers, so you deserve more. Well, take it according to the share of the seriously injured brothers!"

　　The share of the seriously injured brothers is three taels of gold per person, which is sixty strings of money!

　　These eunuchs were previously raised in the deep palace and received strict training from the palace guards. In addition to having enough food and drink, they did not get a penny every month. They were all orphans adopted by the eunuchs. The eunuchs provided them with food, drink, and a chance to survive. And you still want money?

　　It can be said that the pockets of these eunuchs were cleaner than the stone floor of the clean courtyard. As

　　soon as Lu Zhui met them, he gave them sixty strings of cash?

　　This was a lot of money that these eunuchs had never seen in their lives!

　　These eunuchs were all smiling, their backs softened all of a sudden, and they all knelt on the ground, kowtowed to Lu Zhui affectionately, "Oh, thank you, sir. We are willing to die for you."

　　About two hundred guards shouted in unison: "We are willing to die for you!"

　　The archers standing on high sentries also raised their strong bows and crossbows and saluted Lu Yi from afar.

　　At the same time, Bai Changkong, Bai Lang and several guards, rode the "Desert Wind Horse" from Youzhou in the west, crossed the canal, and came to a secluded street in Wuyinfang on the west side of the imperial city.

　　It is worth mentioning that the "Desert Wind Horse" is also a kind of exotic warhorse. They are not as tall and burly as the "Blood Hoof Black Horse", but they have long limbs, run fast, and have long endurance.

　　Compared with the Blood Hoof Black Horse owned by Lu Yi, the Desert Wind Horse runs faster. It can run seven or eight thousand miles at full speed in six hours. Therefore, the price of the Desert Wind Horse is much more expensive than the Star Dog.

　　Of course, Bai Changkong, who is clean-handed, can't have the spare money to purchase the Desert Wind Horse.

　　These mounts were naturally gifts from the wealthy disciples from Youzhou in the west of the Imperial College to honor their teachers.

　　It was a matter of scholars, and it was normal for disciples to honor their teachers with a few good horses .

　　Wasn't this a matter of course?

　　Although Bai Changkong's family had more than a hundred Desert Wind Horses...

　　who let him be the deputy head of the Imperial College?

　　In the Imperial College, there were at least seven or eight thousand princes from Youzhou in the west, as well as wealthy businessmen and sons of aristocratic families. Who of them lacked a Desert Wind Horse?

　　With so many wealthy students, Bai Changkong's family actually had only more than a hundred Desert Wind Horses, which was enough to prove that Bai Changkong was as clean as water.

　　Bai Changkong, with his son and guards, entered a house on this street.

　　The family's file showed that he was a minor official in the Guanglu Temple.

　　If you carefully trace the official's files, you will know that 20 years ago, when the official just entered the Imperial Academy to study, Bai Changkong was his professor, and the two had a formal teacher-student relationship.

　　It is reasonable for a teacher to visit his own student's home, isn't it?

　　Leaving the guards in the yard outside, Bai Changkong took Bai Lang, and under the attentive greeting of the young official, drove straight into the back garden, opened a secret passage from a wing room, and followed the secret passage across two streets to the basement of another house a few miles away.

　　Here, there is a basement larger than the Bai family's underground red sandalwood headquarters.

　　The four walls of the basement are made of huge bluestones, and the walls and floors are three feet thick. It is extremely solid and it is difficult for ordinary people to invade.

　　In the huge space, there are huge boxes stacked one after another. At first glance, there are at least more than 2,000 boxes of this kind, which are three feet long, wide and two feet high.

　　Bai Changkong opened a box casually, and the golden light inside was dazzling, and it was full of exquisitely cast ten-liang gold ingots.

　　Bai Changkong opened several boxes in succession, and each box was filled with gold ingots. In

　　some boxes, the gaps between the gold ingots were filled with a large amount of gold sand.

　　Bai Changkong grabbed a handful of gold sand, and the mung bean-sized gold pebbles kept falling. He looked back at the stunned Bai Lang and said leisurely, "Most of what my father has earned from his hard work for a lifetime is here."

　　Bai Lang swallowed hard.

　　More than 2,000 large boxes, if filled with gold ingots and gold sand, what an amazing fortune!

　　"Is it strange? How many years have I been the deputy president of the Imperial College?"

　　"You should know that Dayin governs all nine provinces and has such a vast territory."

　　"How many sons of princes, how many young men and women from aristocratic families were born in the Imperial College, how many children of wealthy businessmen are trying their best to get into the Imperial College? And those students who graduated from the Imperial College, after they became officials... hehe..."

　　"So, why do you think your father let you brothers stay in the Imperial College and never let you go to other government offices for experience? It was to guard this territory to the death."

　　"The Imperial College belongs to our Bai family. When I die, it will be yours. When you die, it will be your son's..."

　　Bai Changkong took a deep breath, grabbed a gold ingot with a satisfied look on his face, and rubbed it gently on his face.

　　"Take ten boxes and send them to the General's Mansion."

　　"Le Wu, this bastard, has a reputation for doing things for money, so he is trustworthy."

　　"Let's be honest. As long as the money is in place, Le Wu's credit is more trustworthy than 99% of the gentlemen's promises in Gaojing... This guy is a talent!"

　　"Chu Xiu, Chu Xiu? Ha, Wei Shuang can't enter the palace, but fortunately I have a niece whose parents have both passed away and came to me from afar."

　　"How difficult is it to change a name?"