"Yes." Zhang Shao said, "Sun Huan arrived the day before yesterday, and he told me about this when he went to Weifu to change officials yesterday. ”

"Where is he now?"

He fell out with Li Shen, so he didn't live in the right army's garrison. I heard him say that he was at the Seat Plaque Station. ”

Shang Cheng frowned and groaned, stood up and said, "This matter is not trivial, I can't just listen to your side of the story. Come! ”

"My Majesty!" Bao Kan, who had been guarding under the eaves of the porch, pushed open a door in response, and did not enter the house, but bowed with his cross arm in front of the threshold.

"Go to the post outside the city to pass the right army Sima Governor Sun Huan here! I have something to ask him! ”

"Yes!" Bao Kan roared and agreed, holding his waist knife and trotting all the way out of the courtyard. Shang Cheng walked slowly to the door, put his hands behind his back, and looked silently at the silent courtyard. Under the scorching sun, the blue stones on the criss-crossing paths in the courtyard are shining white. A few summer cicadas crunched in the lush foliage of two locust poplar trees, screaming high and low. Zhao Shitian Xiaowu was all dressed in military uniforms, his hand pressed the handle of the knife and did not look evil, and he led a group of guards of the Admiral's Mansion to guard the inside and outside of the courtyard respectively.

He stood in front of the door for a long time before he said in a calm voice, "Ji Xian ......"

Zhang Shao had already followed, for fear of interrupting Shang Cheng's train of thought, so he didn't make a sound, and when he heard Shang Cheng call him, he hurriedly took two steps to Shang Cheng's side, hugged his fists and bowed slightly and said, "Commander." ”

Shang Cheng only glanced at Zhang Shao, but he didn't follow. His lips tensed, and the pitch-black pupil of his left eye was hidden behind a half-closed, half-closed eyelid, just looking down in deep thought. After a long time, he exhaled heavily and asked, "Did you send the official document to the imperial court to the Ministry of War or to the three provinces?" Is it 200 miles of urgency, or 600 miles of urgency? ”

Zhang Shao immediately understood what Shang Cheng meant. He couldn't help but gasp, one by one, the blind man actually wanted to chase back the official document? If this matter is discovered by the imperial court, I am afraid that the consequences will not be much lighter than Li Shen's panic report on the battle record! He swallowed his saliva and said a little helplessly, "It's too late." It was a two-hundred-mile express delivery to the three provinces, and it was sent out seven days ago, and at this time the official document was afraid that it had already crossed the Yellow River. He let out a long sigh. Unlike Shang Cheng Li Shen, a "martial" general who started with military exploits in the battle array, he is a "Wen" general who was born by shaking his pen and hard work, and has neither been in charge of the army nor fought a war, and his weight in the eyes of the three provinces and the military department is naturally light, if the imperial court really wants to investigate this matter to the end, the impact on him is actually the greatest One by one Yanshan has just been pacified, the people's hearts are unstable, and the slightest wind and grass will set off a storm, at this time, Yandong needs a character like Li Shen to be able to calm down, so he is because of "negligence" And the punishment he received was definitely heavier than Li Shen's false report. Moreover, Li Shen was knighted not long ago, and it was impossible for the imperial court to severely punish him at this time, which was tantamount to a slap in the face, where is the face of the imperial court? Only he has no foundation and backing in the imperial court and the military department, if the basin is not buckled on his head, where else can he be deducted?

Shang Cheng pursed his lips and stopped talking. He did have the idea of chasing the official document back just now, but since it was impossible to chase it, he didn't think much about it anymore, seeing Zhang Shao's melancholy expression and a little bitter indignation, he was planning how to remedy it in his heart, and comforting Zhang Shao to see the point, things may not be as bad as he thought.

Zhang Shao said ashamedly: "Speaking of which, I am also to blame for this, I should wait for you to come back and then issue an official document, it is because I am greedy for merit......"

Shang Cheng stared at Zhang Shao a little stunned. How so?

Zhang Shao was even more ashamed. He is Shang Cheng's deputy in military affairs, and according to the imperial court system, he cannot directly deliver official documents to the three provinces, but Shang Cheng was still in the field when he received Li Shen's military report. Of course, he was not the only one who did this, Lu Ji and them also carried Shang Cheng behind their backs to report the good news to the imperial court, saying that the Yandong bandits had stopped and disappeared. Lu Ji also asked the Pastoral Office of the Ministry of Health to send a proclamation to all states and counties in Quanwei in the name of the Health Department to inform them of the good news.

Only then did Shang Cheng understand where the good news of the bandit suppression he saw when he was in Zhu County came from. No wonder he felt a little awkward when he saw the proclamation posted by the yamen on the notice board of the county seat at that time, and now he figured out what was wrong - it was obviously a notice from the Admiral's Mansion to the whole guard, but the place where the payment was signed was the seal of the Wei Mu's Mansion.

He didn't blame Zhang Shao too much for this. He could understand Zhang Shao's mood at that time. Who doesn't want to take it the next step? Even a scholar like Lu Ji, who has read the books of sages and sages, doesn't he forget about himself as a commander in order to grab some credit? What's more, the first thing Zhang Shao did after hearing that things might have gone wrong was not to find a way to cover up the truth, but to run to report to himself, which can also explain a lot of things.

Shang Cheng asked Zhang Shao to sit down first, poured him a cup of tea and soup and handed it to him, first praised him with a sentence of "knowing mistakes can improve the great way", and then said to him: "Things are already like this, and it is useless to worry about it now." What's more, there is nothing to worry about, when the sky falls, there are tall people on top of it, even if the court wants to punish people, they must first punish me, the admiral. ”

Zhang Shao couldn't sit still in his seat. He hurriedly stood up and explained that he definitely didn't mean this when he came to Shang Cheng, he just wanted to talk to Shang Cheng about how to deal with this matter.

Shang Cheng spread his hands and asked him, "How do you say to deal with it?" "This is not just a matter for the Yanshan Guard. This matter not only involved Zhang Shao and Li Shen, but also implicated Lu Ji, maybe Di Xu couldn't run away. This is simply a pot of several major yamen of the Health Department; Even if the sky falls, that's just it. He smiled bitterly and said, "The trouble you have caused has to be solved by me." Who made me a false admiral? Fuck it one by one! The more he thought about it, the more he felt a bit of a coward, and the more he spoke, the more angry he felt, and finally he couldn't help but curse a foul word. He is so busy with military affairs and government affairs that he can't sleep well every day, and many times he doesn't even eat three meals a day on time, not to mention the hard work, and the people under him often set up obstacles for him to find trouble, and now he has to wipe his ass for these people, what is he trying to do?

Zhang Shao sat on the chair with a red face and a thick neck, so embarrassed that he didn't know what to say. In this matter, he, Lu Ji, and Di Xu, they really did too badly!

He held back for a long time, and suddenly said: "Look, is this Sun Huan slandering Li Shoude behind his back?" ”

Shang Cheng looked at Zhang Shao dumbfounded. After reacting to the meaning of Zhang Shao's words, he immediately severely criticized his deputy in military affairs. Can't do that! This is absolutely not allowed! Regardless of whether Sun Huan's original intention was a kind reminder or malicious slander, Sun Huan must not be treated like anything without further clear evidence. This is non-negotiable. He said angrily, "How did you come up with such a stinking idea!" ”

Zhang Shao listened to Shang Cheng's lesson with a red face. He also realized that he had said the wrong thing. Just as Shang Cheng said, even if Sun Huan fabricated the facts in order to retaliate against Li Shen, he couldn't talk about this matter in this tone, it was obvious that he was actually slandering Sun Huan behind his back in order to get himself out of trouble......

When it was about to be about the time of unitary, Sun Huan rushed over from the seat of the post.

Things quickly figured out, and Qi Bald did slip through the net. Sun Huan not only pointed out that Li Shen falsely reported his military exploits, but he also said that after Qi Bald escaped from the encirclement of the right army, most likely he went to Hao Laodao, another big bandit in Yanshan.

Shang Cheng asked, "You are so sure, what evidence do you have?" ”

Sun Huan grinned, wiped the sweat on his face and said, "I heard that Qi Bald and Hao Laodao are sworn brothers. When Hao Laodao had just gone up the mountain to gather, Qi Bald gave him a lot of knives. Without the help of the bald people, Hao Laodao's Huanghuazhai would not be able to become a climate. I came from Duanzhou, and I heard people on the road that there are not only Hao Laodao and Qi Bald in Huanghuazhai at present, but also several bandits in Yandong and Yanzhong, who were driven away by the official army and had no way out, so they all voted for Hao Laodao. He wiped the oil and sweat full of slaps on his blue-gray pants, took Zhang Shao's tea soup and drank it dry, wiped his mouth with his cuffs, hiccuped with a sigh, and said, "It is said that there are seven or eight thousand people gathered in Hao Laodao's Huanghua Village, known as 30,000 brothers to the outside world, and he himself is ready to hang up the banner of 'Huanghua King', and Qi Bald and several other bandit leaders are the king's general." ”

Shang Cheng's face was so gloomy that he was about to wring out water. Although Hao Lao Daoqi and his ilk were a disaster before, the Health Department was not full of killings, and although many officials openly supported Shang Cheng's plan to suppress bandits, they still thought that the old method of "suppressing and appeasing and attaching importance to appeasement" was the most feasible. I really should let these people who advocate opening up the bandit net to listen to it, and take a look at the bald man Hao Daoqi who they want to appease and recruit, and now they are already pulling the flag and rebelling!

He twisted the joints of his two hands crackling, walked back and forth in the room twice, breathed a heavy breath, and said to Zhang Shao: "You immediately write a letter for me and tell Li Shen that I don't care about the matter of Qi Bald, but this Yellow Flower King must be arrested." You told him in the letter that this time, if Hao Laodao and Qi Bald ran away again, he wouldn't be able to take care of the previous incense affection, and then he wouldn't blame me for being ruthless. ”

Zhang Shao's clerical background was played, and a private letter to Li Shen in Shang Cheng's tone was swept away, and the letter was written, and Shang Cheng read the seal, so he handed it over to the following clerk's office, so that they could handle it immediately according to urgent military affairs.

After these things were done, it was already dark, Shang Cheng sent Zhang Shaosun Huan out of the door, and saw Huo Shiqi turning back and forth at the gate of the courtyard, so he said to the two people: "I should have left you for a meal, but I just came back, and there is something to do at home, so it seems that this meal has to be saved until another day." ”

Zhang Shao smiled and joked, "I remember." The Governor has to remember, this is what you promised. ”

Sun Huan reminded anxiously: "Don't forget what you promised me just now. Li Shen, I don't want to stay for a day, you can help me change places. It's okay to find a brigade to be a brigade commander. ”

Shang Cheng nodded and said, "I'll think about it." I'll get back to you in a few days. ”

After sending the two people away, he went back to the hall and brought a few personnel files sent by Di Xu, and then left the Admiral's Mansion with Huo Shiqi......