Zhang Shao's mansion is behind Qingliang Temple, and it happens to be the neighbor of the new post house on the wall. The environment here is not good, in the morning and evening in the temple monks ring the bell and chant the sound of the scriptures continue not to say, the surrounding residents are the ordinary people in the market, every day from sunrise to sunset, either the east rooster cries or the west dog barks, and there are the husbands and sellers who pick up the burden of the goods along the street to buy and drink and sell, Huanghuang daytime, it is rare to have a clean time. Zhang Shao is a fat man, he already has dizziness and heart palpitations, after Shang Cheng took office, he asked the Department of Health to relocate the house for him, but he found a few places, Zhang Shao was not very satisfied, so he never moved.

In the chaos of the streets and alleys, with the sound of dogs barking, Shang Cheng arrived in front of Zhang's house. The chief steward of the Zhang family, who had been waiting outside the door for a long time, narrowed his eyes into one eye, greeted him with a smile on his face, bowed his hands deeply, and said with a slight slump: "The commander is here." This morning and evening, I'm still waiting until you don't come......" dragged the folds on the robe for Shang Cheng with one hand, and went to dust the corners of his robe, and babbled in his mouth, "You too, you just came back from the inspection in Fangzhou, and you don't say that you will rest at home for two more days." Although you have good muscles and bones, you also have to work well...... The officials and people of Yanshan are counting on you......"

Shang Cheng threw the reins and whip to the stone, and asked with a smile, "Has General Zhang rested?" ”

"No mile. My lord said, the governor said that he would come tonight, he would definitely come, this is not early in the morning to tell the little one to wait here for him, as soon as you arrive, please go to the inner hall to talk. ”

Shang Cheng stepped up the steps and entered the door, asking as he walked, "How is General Zhang's illness?" ”

The chief steward led the way with a lantern half-sideways, and said, "It's much better than the other day." In the afternoon, you asked Mr. Jiang to invite a doctor to send a decoction and medicine, and my family got better after taking the medicine. ”

Shang Cheng smiled, and didn't take the flattery of the steward seriously. Turning the corner door, he entered the inner courtyard where Zhang Shao lived, and when he looked up and saw the lights and candles in the hall flickering and the sound of people faintly, the steward stopped and said, "Forgive me, the Governor, my lord is talking about official business with people, so I can only send you here." ”

Shang Cheng nodded with a smile, raised his hand to give a soldier on duty a military salute, and walked straight to the upper room. I heard Zhang Shao swallow in the room and said weakly: "...... Don't hurry up yet. When the governor comes, when he comes, you tell him all these things again, and let him see them all the documentary evidence you have brought back......

"What do you want to tell me?" Shang Cheng smiled outside the door.

This cold sentence startled several people in the room, and they all glanced at him. He entered the room with a smile, half seriously and half teasingly, and said, "And documentary evidence? What's going on to make such a big fuss? After looking at it casually, Wen Mu sat respectfully with two men wearing light cyan officers' regular uniforms, and the first Zhang Shao had a sallow face and a thin quilt leaning on a bamboo couch. He grabbed two steps, supported Zhang Shao, who was struggling to sit up and greet him, and said, "Lie down and recuperate." Your body matters! Yiyi is not an outsider, who can use so many false courtesies? Saying that, he nodded to Wen Mu and them, dragged a drum stool on the side of the couch and sat down, took the pu fan at the foot of the couch and gently shook it to drive away mosquitoes for Zhang Shao, and said, "I only heard that you were sick at noon." I said that I would come to see you earlier, who knew when things would stop...... Look, it's all coming to disturb your rest. ”

Zhang Shao's spirit was not very good, half leaning on the couch and pulling the corners of his mouth hard, he smiled reluctantly. He was about to say something, grinning, but only a muffled uh-oh sound came out of his throat.

Shang Cheng saw that Zhang Shao's face was drenched in sweat, and his cheeks were flushed with abnormal redness, and he thought that he had a low-grade fever after heat stroke, so he quickly changed the fan to his other hand, stretched out his arm and took the back of his hand to test his forehead, and then touched his forehead, feeling that the temperature was quite normal, so he was slightly relieved. He lifted the teapot on the table and glanced at it, and said, "I can't drink tea soup when I have heat stroke, and there are shredded green onions and ginger in it, all of which are hair products." He beckoned to a soldier outside the door and instructed, "Go to the stove and say something, boil some bitter tea, don't put anything in it, just crush the group tea." If you want mint, put a little, and if you don't have mint, you can use licorice. Also, open the doors and windows to let the wind down. Then go get a basin of cold water and put it next to the couch. Zhang Shao's personal soldiers were a little embarrassed, and explained in a whisper: "It was the doctor who said don't leave the door open, for fear that the wind will blow and get sicker......

Shang Cheng raised his slap and made a gesture to beat, and scolded in his mouth: "Dog brain! It's windy outside? It's stuffy in this room, so you can't breathe? Look at the hot sweat! Can't you come and close the windows and doors when it's really windy? Get out of here one by one! ”

Seeing the soldiers hurriedly opening the doors and windows, and putting down the fine veil to block the flying insects, Shang Cheng turned his head and saw that Wen Mu and the others were still standing respectfully, so he pointed at the fan and said, "Sit down." ”

Wen Mu knew him well and knew his temper, so he sat down without a smile. The other two officers knew the Admiral in front of them, and had heard some anecdotes about him, but they never expected that there would be such close contact, let alone that the Governor would be so easy-going, and they didn't react in a hurry, until Wen Mu pulled their sleeves and asked them to sit down, and both of them were stunned in their seats.

Shang Cheng saw that the two officers were both fresh faces, so he asked, "Are you both working in the Wei Mansion with Captain Wen?" ”

Hearing his question, the two officers jumped up from their seats with a kick, stepped forward and roared, "Lord Governor, yes!" ”

"Okay, good," Shang Cheng hurriedly waved his hand, "Be quiet!" This is the inner courtyard of General Zhang's house, not a military commander's tent, don't speak so loudly, be careful to scare your family. ”

Zhang Shao exhaled and said: "The two of them are the people left behind in the hussar army, the tall one is Le Huai, and the other one is Wu Ding, and they are both following Captain Wen at the moment. After a pause, he said, "Wu Ding is my brother-in-law......

He introduced Wu Ding like this, Shang Cheng didn't feel anything when he heard it, but Wen Mu and Le Huai couldn't help but glance at Wu Ding. They have been with Wu Ding for a long time, and they have also heard that Wu Ding has a relative in the Health Department, because Wu Ding has never denied or admitted it, so they have always thought that it was a rumor chasing after the wind. Even if there is one, most of those relatives are not great characters, how could they have thought that Wu Ding's relatives were their top bosses!

“…… He was also a man who had volunteered to stay from the hussars. Zhang Shao said.

Shang Cheng looked Wu Ding and Le Huai up and down carefully, and said to them: "Yanshan is a good place, an important town in the frontier, and the north is our enemy of life and death. ”

"Yes!"

After encouraging the two of them a few words, Shang Cheng asked them to sit down, then turned his head and asked Wen Mu: "How are things going when you go to Yandong this time?" Wen Mu went to Yandong to investigate the case of Qi Bald's leakage, and Zhang Shao had reported to him beforehand, so he asked this question. In May, when Li Shen suppressed bandits in Beizheng, he knew that the bandit leader Qi Bald had slipped through the net, but he still falsely reported his military exploits, and as a result, the matter was stabbed to the Wei Mansion, and finally he was forcibly suppressed by Shang Cheng Enwei and Shi. In June, Li Shen mobilized more than 10,000 soldiers and horses in the Yandong area to encircle and suppress the Hao Laodao bandits entrenched in Tiaoshan County in five ways, and in one fell swoop leveled Huanghuazhai and annihilated more than 2,000 prisoner bandits. He wrote clearly in his private letter to Shang Cheng, "The bandit leader is bald and the head is verified", and he also used a wooden box to put a human head and send it to Shang Cheng. The result? The front foot of the imperial court commended the Yanshan military and civilians for "their hearts are commendable and their deeds can be encouraged", and the back foot scolded Shang Cheng to the blood, one by one, someone secretly reported to the six departments of the three provinces, Yanshan's number one habitual bandit, Qi Bald, not only was not exterminated in Beizheng, but still slipped through the net in the battle of Huanghuazhai. The edict of the three provinces pointed directly at Shang Cheng, "The false governor of Yanshan is only responsible for negligence?" He also ordered Shang Cheng to "investigate thoroughly to set the record straight." ”

According to Shang Cheng's thoughts, he didn't plan to investigate. It's not that he doesn't know Li Shen's virtue, as long as someone exposes it, it must be true. What if it can be found out? Removed Li Shen from his post? Joke! Remove Li Shen, who will take the vacancy? Not to mention that he didn't agree, even the Ministry of War wouldn't agree that Yandong was the place with the most intensive military conflict with the Turks in recent years, and there was no experienced, qualified and prestigious general like Li Shen in charge, who could put this heart down? Besides, Qi Bald, a bandit leader with his wings cut off, who is not even as good as a lost dog, dares to show his face, and any local official can dispose of him, so what is there to worry about? What's more, although the tone of the edict of the three provinces was harsh, he felt that this was just a gesture made by the imperial court, and he didn't really want to find out the whole thing, you reported it, we not only reprimanded the governor of Yanshan, but also ordered him to thoroughly investigate the matter, now you have nothing to say......

But he didn't want to investigate, it didn't mean that others didn't want to deal with Li Shen, the Wei Mu Mansion, the Wei Mansion and the Inspection Division, and the three major yamen of the Health Department said in unison, "Check!" ”。 Lu Ji, Di Xu, Zhang Shao, the heads of the three yamen took turns to persuade repeatedly, but in the end he really had no choice but to explain the matter to Zhang Shao. He originally thought that since he had delayed the matter for so long, no matter how stupid Li Shen was, he should wipe his ass clean, who knew that Wen Mu had been gone for more than forty days, and he had really found out the problem......

“…… Qi Bald did escape. At that time, someone told General Li Shen about this, but he was reprimanded. We found the lieutenant, his documentary evidence, and his monogram. In addition, it was revealed that when one of General Li's personal soldiers was drunk, he said that he had put a human head with his own hands, saying that he was going to send it to Yanzhou......" Wen Mu held a stack of documents and talked eloquently, "Not only that, but we also found out that after leveling Huanghuazhai, there were more than 100 taels of gold and more than 700 taels of silver in the warehouse of the inspection bandits at that time, but there were no records of these two items in the booty reported by the right army." We also looked for the soldiers who first seized the bandits' warehouse, and they said that it was later the soldiers assigned by General Lee to supervise it. In addition, the first to attack Huanghuazhai was not the Right Army Ding Brigade, but the Chinese Army Ding Brigade and the current Right Army Xin Brigade, and it was the third battalion of the Xin Brigade that broke the village......"

The Xin Brigade is the third division of Qian Lao, who has only been transferred to the right army sequence for a short time.

Shang Chengba smacked his lips and didn't say anything. He had already known about this from Qian Laosan's letter with words bigger than walnuts. Qian Laosan became a brigade commander, and he couldn't bear to see his old brother Jin Xi still being a sentry commander in Xima, so he took the lead in breaking the village to replace Jin Xi with a messenger who was the deputy commander of the Beizheng Border Army......

He took the documents from Wen Mu's hand and flipped them through, then returned them to Wen Mu, saying, "Thank you for your hard work." In this way, you have put these documents in order, made a list of names, and then wrote a detailed official document, and sent it back to me. As for what will happen to him after handing it over, he did not say.

Wen Mu and Zhang Shao both understood the meaning behind Shang Cheng's words. In fact, this is also a statement, and after the documents are handed over to him, this matter ends here.

Wen Mu still wanted to persuade a few words, but Zhang Shao had already said, "Then be it." Zhaoyuan, you go back to rest first, I still have something to talk about with Lord Commander. ”

Wen Mu: They left. There were only two people left in the house, Zhang Shao and Shang Cheng. Zhang Shao leaned on the bamboo couch, Shang Cheng stood by the door, and the two of them did not speak for a while.

Looking at Shang Cheng's upright back, Zhang Shao was a little emotional. After being in contact with this young boss for a long time, he was also influenced a lot unconsciously, and when dealing with many things, Shang Cheng's approach gave him a lot of inspiration. He's now learning to look at things in the big picture. For example, Li Shen took the lead in battle, and he felt that Shang Cheng's approach might not be right, but it was the only one that could be adopted at the moment, and Yandong must be guarded by a general like Li Shen in order to ensure safety; If Li Shen is removed, then no matter who takes over, it will take a long time to completely control the local garrison and control the situation in Yandong. And what Yanshan lacks the most is precisely time......

It was this question that Shang Cheng wanted to talk to him about.

Attack the steppe one by one and delay the time of the Turks......