Chapter 171: Candidates

The army of the Shuaifu is leaving, and such a big matter will definitely attract the attention of all parties, and it is not a matter of always hiding it, and it will eventually meet with everyone. So Zhao Yu convened the heads of various departments to discuss the matter and reported the incident, of course, he would not say that he was killed, especially the matter of Jiang Xuan leading the army to Leizhou without getting the commander's order, only saying that Zeng Yuanzi lied about the military situation, and Jiang Xuan, who was temporarily in charge of Qiongzhou affairs, saw that the situation was urgent and did not ask for instructions, so he was deceived. However, its recovery of the land of Sanzhou can be regarded as a credit to the Shuai Mansion, so it will not be investigated for the time being, and will be dealt with together after the matter is clarified.

As soon as the news of being castrated by Zhao Yu for the second time was announced, everyone talked about it, some wanted to send troops to fight, and some wanted to be impeached. Fortunately, he had already passed the anger with Ying Jieyan and agreed on a response plan. After some arguments, they basically agreed to Zhao Yu's approach, and adopted the strategy of defending as the offensive to solve the matter, so that the marshal's mansion could avoid splitting and end the infighting without bloodshed.

Next, when Zhao Yu proposed to lead the 'condolence group' to Leizhou, he was unanimously opposed by everyone, and resolutely disagreed with His Highness to break into the 'wolf's den and tiger's den'. This made him very helpless, Leizhou is now the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, and the rear army led by himself is stationed, but it is difficult to get the support of everyone, if he wants to personally lead the army into battle in the future, it is estimated that they will die to the end. It is no wonder that people say that the emperor is the most powerful prisoner in the world, and the imperial palace is the largest prison.

Zhao Yu didn't believe that Zeng Yuanzi dared to be unfavorable to him in front of everyone, and he didn't believe that the rear army dared to betray the Shuai Mansion. Jiang Xuan, as a royal teacher, can't afford to be charged with devouring the lord, I'm afraid that he is the one who is most worried about his safety, and if he has three longs and two shorts, Jiang Wanzai will be able to eat it. Of course, if he wants to go, he won't go to the meeting alone like Guan Gong, he doesn't have the courage or courage. However, everyone's hard persuasion also made Zhao Hao temporarily dispel the idea of meeting Zeng 'wicked' in person.

His Royal Highness can't go to Leizhou in person to 'rejuvenate the teacher and ask for guilt', so everyone in the hall is duty-bound, and whoever is sent there will be enough for Zhao Yu to have a headache. Now that the construction of Qiongzhou is in full swing, Ying Jieyan, as the leader of the military and government, his spokesperson is of course the busiest. Deng Guangjian was directly out, with his character, don't look at what he says now, I'm afraid that he will have to quarrel with people if he doesn't talk for three sentences, and he thinks it's hard to say whether he can come back from Leizhou alive.

The whole army is now at a critical juncture, and Zhao Mengjin, the military secretary, must be inseparable, and sending him there is a sense of conquest, which is easy to cause misunderstanding; Cangsi Cai Wanyi is busy preparing to build a warehouse, storing and distributing materials, and now it is the rainy season, and if he doesn't find a nest for those things he pulls, they will all be moldy, and his background is too low, and Zeng Yuanzi, a person with deep qualifications and who has been in the position of the ruler, is not compatible, and is naturally in a weak position; Jiang Xuan, the chief official of the Cao Division, was not there, and he was in charge of Pan Fang, the deputy envoy, and he was so busy that he hit the back of his head, and he was an adjutant, so it was really like a condolence when he went.

Zhao Yu counted with his fingers, and only Gao Yingsong of the Xian Division was left, but he was busy enough. The emperor is far away in Qiongzhou, either he is degraded, or he is distributed, or there is no backstage, who doesn't have any emotions when he comes to this wild place. Of course, you can't expect them to have Li Gang, Su Shi, Hu Quan, and Li Guang their sentiments and minds, they must have a lot of mixed days and few officials, which yamen is full of backlogs, and only clearing the backlog of cases over the years is enough for him to be busy.

But relatively speaking, Gao Yingsong is quite relaxed, and he has served in the court, successively served as the Guozi Supervisor, the Wailang of the Ministry of Rites, and the expediency of Hanlin, and was later promoted to the Zhongshu Sheren, the Straight Academy, the Waiter of the Ministry of Authority, the Duanming Palace, the Privy Councillor, and the Governor of the Governor's Office. The status and qualifications are equivalent to Zeng Yuanzi, and there will be no such thing as acting according to his eyes. There is also Gao Yingsong before the Yuan soldiers captured Lin'an, the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty fled one after another, and there were only nine people left, and they were one of them.

People all know the saying that being a thief has a weak heart, Zeng Yuanzi fled before the fall of Lin'an City, but Gao Yingsong was not afraid of danger and stood in the court. The two were afraid that they wouldn't say a word when they met, Zeng Yuanzi was half a head shorter first, and his momentum was eight points weaker, so he couldn't be tough at all. In addition, Gao Yingsong, as a prisoner on the South Guangxi Road, has the power of criminal investigation and the power to inspect illegality, and sent him to investigate the disappearance of the messenger and the desertion of the rear army by the way.

If you have an envoy, you have to choose a deputy envoy. This Zhao Yu had already planned it, that is, Zhuang Gongzhe, the head of the Shuai Simin case, the eldest brother of Zhuang Siqi, the commander of the army, and it was justified to use him as a deputy envoy. And their father has passed away, Zhuang Gongzhe as the eldest brother took on the responsibility of managing the family and teaching his brothers, as far as Zhao Yu knew, the Zhuang brothers have always been the eldest brother and the head of the horse, and they are very respectful, his words Zhuang Siqi should be able to listen to it, of course, there will be no harm to the eldest brother, in addition, Zhuang Gongzhe has a calm and forbearant temperament, and despises officialdom snobbery, so Zhao Yu will not worry about being easily bought by Zeng Yuanzi.

After choosing the leader, Zhao Hao, the entourage team, also made corresponding arrangements. He took Chen Fenglin, the deputy commander of the Chinese army, as the commander of the guard, and led a commander of the Chinese army and a commander of the navy as a guard. In addition, in the event of an attack, the mission with a force of 1,000 men was enough to protect itself and wait for reinforcements to arrive.

After arranging the candidates for the mission, Zhao Yu summoned Gao Yingsong and Zhuang Gongzhe separately, and he explained the actual situation of the Leizhou army and informed him of the grim situation that he would face. Their mission this time was to find out the actual situation of Jiang Xuan and the rear army and their attitudes, and to find out about the disappearance of the messenger. It would be best if you could bring the rear army back together, and if there was a change, you would not move, and the first priority was to protect yourself. As for Zeng Yuanzi, he must secretly collect evidence of his illegality, do not startle the snake, and wait for the imperial edict to be issued......

Three days later, everything was arranged, and the 'condolence group' carried 1,000 stones of food, 100,000 yuan of silver, and a batch of medicines set sail for Leizhou. At the same time, the messengers to Canton set out in three ways to ensure that the music could be delivered to His Majesty. The Secretariat also received an order to do their best to ensure the safety of the Shuaifu Mission, and to cooperate with them to obtain evidence of Zeng Yuanzi's illegality, but the transmission of news was changed from one report every three days to one report every day so that they could keep abreast of the situation in Leizhou...... (To be continued.) )