"Haha, in the future, there will be two deputy envoys Lao to assist. He said with a smile.

After that, he exchanged pleasantries with some other people who were in charge of the young capital, and the people who were in charge of the jurisdiction, and then took out the party of the quasi-big capital, and let everyone disperse to perform their duties.

In the next few days, Zhou Bo was deeply aware of a problem, that is, he could really hold some power as a majority. He carefully observed that there were more than 3,000 soldiers in the entire Xiying, that is, about six military rooms, which were in charge of six young capitals, of course, because after he was promoted to the capital manager, the original military room of that number was temporarily vacant. Even so, few of the more than 3,000 men would obey the orders of the Daduguan, and almost all of them became the private army of the five Shaoduguan.

This is not difficult to understand, Shaodu Guan is closest to the Yong, and the Yong are not as energetic as the regular army, and the reason why they follow Shaodu Guan is because these officials can bring them some benefits in peacetime. For example, every time grain and grass are transported, there will be some lost surplus grain, and this surplus grain will become an additional subsidy for Shaoduguan, and Shaodu will take out half of the surplus grain and distribute it to his subordinates in order to win over him and fight for himself, or cooperate with himself to withhold these surplus grains.

Distributing surplus food is only one of the benefits, and even sometimes Shaodu will secretly steal a small amount of military rations, which also requires the cooperation of those under him, and then naturally take out some benefits as hush money.

The soldiers of the grain and grass camp have no pursuits, and they will be easily satisfied with the large and small money to dozens of copper plates. And small favors like this, the young managers will not be reluctant.

Shaoduguan maintains such a relationship with the warriors, in fact, to prevent being known by the people above. Now Zhou Bo is the person above, not only can he not hold 100% of the real power. On the contrary, it has become the object of these people's prevention. Therefore, for him, if he wants to secure the position of the majority as soon as possible, he must gain the trust of the people below as soon as possible, and these heart-to-heart measures must be taken carefully, so as not to let Chen Xianzhi and Gao Xue find out and mistakenly think that he has any bad intentions. In the end, it was self-defeating.

His first step was not to rush to establish a good relationship with these young capitals, but to continue to consolidate the C-shaped military room that he was in charge of when he was in charge of the young capital. Since Yang Xiaowu and Wang Gui were executed, there was only one person named Lu Wenju left in the C-shaped military room.

It took him two days to appease this Lu Wenju and let Lu Wenju do his part, and also hinted that people like Wang Gui and Yang Xiaowu who are against him will never let go, as long as they sincerely serve themselves. It ensures that food and clothing are worry-free.

And it happened that Xiying still lacked a young man, so Zhou Bo took the opportunity to promise Lu Wenju a check, that is, you do a good job, and you are doing a good job for me, and the position of this young man is yours nine times out of ten.

Checks need to be cashed, and the bank that cashes them is Zhou Bo himself, he can put the checks out, as for whether to exchange them or not. It also depends on whether the check is worth exchanging or not.

However, an honest person like Lu Wenju was so valued by Zhou Bo. immediately showed gratitude, gritted his teeth and swore that he would not disappoint Zhou Daduguan.

Later, with Lu Wenju's covert cooperation, Zhou Bo learned in advance that several young capital management committees were secretly engaged in some illegal activities of stealing grain and grass and replacing military rations with old rice for rebuying and selling. So he followed these news and unswervingly carried out several late-night surprise patrols, and collided with these young people who did bad things.

However, Zhou Bo did not aim to arrest or rectify these young people. When he was at the scene, he just stared at these people coldly, so that these young men and the guards were almost so frightened that they even urinated out. Every now and then, he would unexpectedly snort coldly, and then flick his sleeves. Without saying a word, he left with the patrol.

Those young people were stunned on the spot, first of all, they were caught by the big capital for doing bad things, and this big capital was in this position not long ago because they fought back against Xu Wenbo's "stealing military food" frame, so they all thought that this time they were in a catastrophe. Secondly, when Zhou Bo just snorted coldly, but didn't say anything, didn't do anything and left, what did this mean, no one could guess and understand.

In the past few days, the young people who were caught by Zhou Bo were all restless and panicked, but soon they found out that it was not themselves who were originally caught, and other people had also suffered, so they immediately wondered even more.

So, in the evening, the five young capitals came to Xifeng Tower near Xiying to get together to discuss what the newly appointed chief was going to do.

"As the saying goes, there are three fires when a new official takes office, will this week be to wait for a few of us to make a mistake, and then come to catch them all?"

"What Fan Duguan said is very true, in this way, Zhou Bo is really a ruthless character. Another young man named Li Bin nodded slowly and said, although he had the same sad face as Fan Haicheng, but there was still a kind of indignant anger in his eyes.

If you want to say that the grain and grass camp oil is a tradition throughout the ages, they are understandable to do this, take 10,000 steps back and say, it is the little oil and water that they steal, and it is irrelevant to the overall situation of the entire Xiying!

Fan Haicheng is a fat man, and he usually has a habit of being lazy and lazy, and often people like him are the most afraid of death. Cold sweat broke out on his forehead, and he said again and again: "What should I do then? Now that we have a handle, maybe............ Maybe tomorrow the man surnamed Zhou will punish us. ”

"Don't panic yet! If Zhou Dadu really wants our punishment, let alone wait until tomorrow, we will be finished this afternoon. At this time, an older young man spoke, his face was calm, and he did not look worried at all, but on the contrary, he showed a little smug and confident.

Fan Haicheng was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly asked, "Lord Xu, do you have any opinions?" The reason why he wanted to use the honorific title of "you" to address this person was because although this Lord Xu had not served as the head of the Shaodu in Xiying for a long time, he was the most qualified and experienced person.

This may be a bit contradictory in understanding, but seniority can also be understood as experience and seniority. This Lord Xu used to be the food and grass steward of the army on the front line. Later, the Song army was defeated by the Jin people all the way, and had to flee to Ezhou with the defeat of the remnants. Later, because he had done the management of grain and grass before, he was sent to Xiying to serve as the young capital.

"If my guess is correct, this newly appointed Zhou Dadu is testing us. Xu Duguan said indifferently, and after finishing speaking, he reached out and picked up the wine glass on the wine table and drank a glass slowly.

"Tempting us, what do you mean by that?" asked Li Bin with a gloomy face. He actually didn't have a good impression of this Xu Duguan, because he had always thought that this Xu Duguan was too mysterious and incompatible with his own people.

The other governors looked at Xu Duguan one after another, waiting for the other party's explanation.

Xu Duguan smiled slightly and said: "New officials always have to do something when they take office, Zhou Dadu can easily bring down Xu Wenbo, and he can also win the favor of Zhai Xuanfu and Li Xuanfu, which shows that he is not an ordinary person." When an unusual person wants to do something, the way he behaves naturally makes it difficult for us to understand. ”

"Lord Xu. You didn't make any sense to say that, why did you want to test us that week?" Fan Haicheng said with some summons.

Li Bin snorted lowly, and said secretly in his heart: This surnamed Xu is playing tricks.

"There are some things, even if I say them, I'm afraid that a few adults won't believe it. But there is one thing I can bet on you, it won't be long before the Metropolitan Governor of Zhou will come to us and solve this puzzle for us. Xu Duguan said without any hurry.

"Hmph, it's still nonsense. Li Bin said very unhappily.

Xu Duguan didn't mean to be angry. He just smiled to himself and took the flask. I poured myself a drink.

The others sighed at each other, their sorrows still hanging on their faces, but they didn't know how to vent them.

After being silent for a while, Fan Haicheng said tentatively: "Or, let's take the initiative to confess to Zhou Daduguan, right?"

"Confession?" The young man named Fang Yuanming was a little surprised, although he had only been in Xiying for two years. However, the petty theft things they do are all traditions that have been passed down from generation to generation in the grain and grass camp, but different people and different time periods have different degrees of doing such things. If you want to confess your sins like this, I'm afraid that everyone will be unwilling.

"Yes. Take the initiative to confess your sins, and beg for forgiveness, maybe most of them will spare us this time in our attitude of knowing our mistakes and repenting. Fan Haicheng nodded again and again and said,

"Then what if most of the weeks don't forgive us?" Fang Yuanming asked worriedly.

"If Zhou Dadu really wants to cure our crimes, then we can't escape the involvement if we don't admit our guilt now! What's more, it is much better to actively confess our guilt than to passively admit our guilt, at least in terms of reputation. Fan Haicheng said earnestly.

Fang Yuanming nodded slightly, pondered for a moment, and felt that Fan Haicheng's analysis was reasonable. He looked at the other young people and wanted to hear what they meant, after all, this matter will only have an effect if everyone decides together.

At this time, Li Bin calmly analyzed and said: "What we are worried about now is not the issue of admitting guilt or not admitting guilt, but what kind of tricks our Zhou Dadu Guan is playing! Zhou Da Du Guan has just been in office for a month, and the five of us have been planted in his hands one after another, don't you think this matter is very strange?"

After Li Bin's mention, Fan Haicheng, Fang Yuanming and another young man suddenly came to their senses, but only Xu Duguan looked unnervous and still drank the wine with great interest. Fan Haicheng and they all feel that there is indeed too much coincidence in this matter, although it is said that the five people all open a small stove in the middle of the night at the third watch, but the time is different, why does Zhou Bo happen to patrol the night at that time every time?

The faces of all four of them became heavy.

Xu Duguan smiled and said: "Who can blame this? Zai Xia was the first to be caught by Zhou Daduguan, and the next day, Zaixia specially reminded a few of you that Zhou Daduguan's new official may have to work hard to rectify Xiying, so that you can restrain yourself for a while, but you are good, you don't take Zhou Dadu in your eyes at all." ”

Fan Haicheng, Fang Yuanming and the other three young masters all sighed one after another, revealing a look of regret.

However, Li Bin smiled coldly and said: "Lord Xu doesn't have a backache when he stands and talks, and the tooth people who take over the resale outside are all ready, do you want us to lose our trust? I don't know if Lord Xu is so confident and indifferent now, is it because after being caught by Zhou Daduguan, he expressed his atonement to Zhou Daduguan and then revealed any news that should not be said." ”

His words clearly showed that he suspected that Xu Duguan had betrayed them. After all, Xiying is a large military battalion, and it is not so simple to steal grain and grass, not to mention that the five of them have always cooperated with the same group of tooth people, and the news is also colluded with each other.

Hearing Li Bin say this, Fan Haicheng, Fang Yuanming, and the other three were all taken aback, this may not be impossible! However, the three of them just stared at Xu Duguan for a moment, and because of the other party's qualifications, they did not open their mouths to ask, but everyone secretly buried a guard in their hearts.

Xu Duguan's face sank, but he still remained calm, and he said: "Since Li Duguan said so, then Xu Mou doesn't want to say anything, so as not to make Li Duguan think that Xu Mou is deliberately covering up." As the so-called clean self-purifying, if Zhou Dadu is in charge of the thief down, I Xu Mou will stay out of the matter, and you can cut me with a thousand knives. ”

Li Bin, Fan Haicheng, Fang Ming and others naturally didn't dare not believe it when they heard Xu Duguan say this. Li Bin's face was slightly resentful, he wished that Zhou Bo would only treat the sins of himself and others, and when the time came, he would see what happened to this surnamed Xu.

Fan Haicheng smiled again and again, made a round, and said, "Lord Xu is angry, Lord Li doesn't mean that. Hehe, now that everyone is in the same boat, naturally they will not slander each other. ”

"It's useless to say anything now, if Zhou Dadu doesn't have the heart to punish us, that's naturally a good thing. However, Xu believes that there will be results within these two days. At today's dinner, Xu Mou's food was tasteless, so he said goodbye first. Xu Duguan said these words indifferently, and then got up and left.

The other four young masters looked at Xu Duguan's back, and after knowing that the other party had gone downstairs and left, they looked at each other, but they didn't know what to say, so they had to sigh and be silent-

However, as this Xu Duguan expected, in the early morning of the next day, Zhou Bo really sent someone to summon five young capitalists and let them come to the back hall of Xiying alone.

"Sit. Zhou Bo was wearing a brand-new metropolitan official uniform, sitting behind the main case seriously, looking concise and to the point, and casually pointed to the seat under the hall.

The five of them glanced at each other, and after they entered the back hall, they also planned to see some Ni Duan from Zhou Bo's face, so that they could deal with it in advance. But it seems that Zhou Bo is like this moment, and there is no way to see his emotions at all. They had no choice but to worry about it, and after thanking the capital, they carefully sat down in the seats under the hall.

Fan Haicheng had an impulse at this time, that is, he immediately threw himself in front of the main case and confessed to Zhou Bo and begged for mercy. However, his heart moved, but his legs did not obey him, and he was still struggling fiercely in his heart. (To be continued.) )