Ten days is fleeting.

Yang Congyi has had a very unpleasant past ten days. Huaining is very different from Taihu County, although he still lives in Yamen, but compared to when he was in Taihu County, it is much worse.

First of all, let's talk about the accommodation conditions, although it is a single room in Taihu County, the room is big enough, and there are not many people living in the yard, spacious and quiet. But after coming to Huaining, the room is small, only a wooden bed, except for sleeping, can not do anything else, don't think about reading and writing, people come and go, just like the city.

Let's talk about the problem of eating, there is a canteen in Taihu County, and if you go to the restaurant every day, you will always have food to eat, and you will not go hungry. In Huaining, although there is also a canteen, but in the meal point, there is always no food, and later I learned that the officials in the yamen always go to guard in advance, and eat first without waiting for the meal.

Several times when he couldn't eat, he also wanted to go and see it in advance, but after seeing the scene of the officials fighting for food, he suddenly stopped.

At this moment, he realized that he Yang Congyi was different from these servants, they were just to fill their stomachs, and he, as a person who came over more than 800 years later, did not have the primitive need to fill his stomach in his bones, even if he wanted to eat to fill his stomach, he should be calm and dignified, not like a beggar who met a soup kitchen. Since then, Yang Congyi has never gone to grab food from them, he would rather go out and spend money to eat, even if it is the cheapest meal, he is as calm as a rich man. But money can't afford to spend it all year round.

What frustrated him the most was the isolation and rejection of him by the Yamen officials, and the disapproving attitude of the Huaining officials. He didn't care what the yamen officials treated him, anyway, he was different from them. And the officials, especially the county lieutenant He, he was responsible for chasing the fugitives, and Yang Congyi assisted, but Yang Congyi went to him several times to discuss the matter of entering the mountain, and he always excused himself, or interrupted Yang Congyi, did not discuss anything with him, and always told Yang Congyi a word, saying that he had his own opinions. As a result, Yang Congyi did not get any useful information from He County Lieutenant several times, and this feeling made him very unhappy.

At the beginning, he still had a certain hope for going into the mountains to hunt down fugitives, and he had thought about it seriously for a long time, since he had encountered a wall many times in He County's lieutenant, he was a little desperate, working with such a Shangguan and entering Tianzhu Mountain, it would be good to be able to save his life, and it was better not to think about arresting fugitives.

In the past few days, Yang Congyi has been able to feel more and more the meaning of Lord Chen's sentence "powerless". Huaining's officials, although they are Lord Chen's biggest official position and the most powerful, but he does not have any force behind him, and everyone else has their own push behind them, and any decision that does not go their way, no one will oppose it on the surface, but there will be people behind their backs, and almost all orders cannot be accurately implemented. Master Chen wouldn't tell him these words, but he could detect them.

Lord Chen trusts Yang Congyi very much and treats him very well, but he is just a small official, and there is nothing he can do about Lord Chen's current situation.

In the past ten days, all the counties have rushed to catch fast, plus Huaining's fast fishing in the mountains, a total of more than 150 people.

This time he entered the mountain, Yang Congyi led the fast catch, and on the day the catcher of each county entered the city, he went to see it, and the result made him very disappointed. After the lesson of the last time the counties caught fast into the mountains and suffered heavy losses, almost all of the people sent by the counties this time were miscellaneous people, and there were very few people who really caught the bandits.

However, what made him feel relieved was that all the people from Taihu County were acquaintances, and they were the people who entered the mountain last time, and the leader of the team was naturally Zhang Zhutou. Originally, Zhang Zhutou wanted to come to Huaining, but unfortunately because Master Li was dismissed, he couldn't do it.

After the arrest of the counties was about to arrive, Yang Congyi convened the heads of the counties and held a meeting to tell them the importance and urgency of chasing the fugitives, and told everyone that this pursuit operation, Lord Chen and the pacification department attached great importance to it, in addition to the counties to arrest quickly, but also mobilized 500 soldiers to assist, please rest assured, there will definitely not be a heavy loss like last time, this time the task is to chase the fugitives back, and the task is completed with a heavy reward.

Originally, everyone was still very worried, but as soon as they heard that there was a heavy reward for the completion of the task, everyone naturally came to their senses, and they wanted to ask what the specific reward was, but where did Yang Congyi know, he could only tell everyone that Lord Chen would not treat anyone who sweated and left blood.

Yang Congyi is a close confidant brought by Lord Chen from Taihu County, so naturally everyone will not doubt what he said. People in positions of authority don't make promises easily, and once they do, they do what they say. Chen Ru is the Zhijun of Anqing, in their eyes, he is the biggest official in Anqing, who else can he believe if he doesn't believe him?

Yang Congyi first gathered the hearts of the people who caught the fast in the counties. He knew very little about the situation in Tianzhu Mountain, and after entering the mountain, the situation was complicated, and all he could rely on was the counties that were also small officials. As for Lieutenant He and the 500 generals, he didn't dare to have too many extravagant hopes, and when the time came, not to stir up trouble would be to burn high incense, judging from the attitude of the high commander and Lieutenant He, he didn't believe that they would not stir up trouble. is really provocative, and he is helpless, after all, the county lieutenant He is an official, and he is a petty official.

He can only manage the catch that belongs to him, and it is not his turn to interfere in other matters, nor is it his turn to speak.

In the sixteenth year of Shaoxing, April 20, it was sunny.

The grain, grass, soldiers and horses are ready, and the auspicious time is chosen.

The arrest was in front, followed by the five hundred forbidden troops, and there were also people transporting grain and grass materials in the back.

The team is mighty and imposing. It's just a little strange in the eyes of the common people, because it was not the elite forbidden army that opened the way in front, but the fast capture of the yamen, and the forbidden army fell behind.

Not far out of the city, County Lieutenant He sent someone to catch up with Yang Congyi and asked him to lead the team to follow the guide, not to make his own decisions. Shangguan had orders, and Yang Congyi could only obey.

After all the men and horses went out of the city and traveled more than 30 miles to the west, they turned to the north again, stopping and going, and before the time of the unitary, the sun had not yet set, and someone rushed to give an order, and ordered to camp on the spot, and go again tomorrow.

Yang Congyi was also helpless, they only traveled less than fifty miles a day, and when they walked a little faster, someone chased after them and asked them to rest on the spot, so when would they be able to enter Tianzhu Mountain. There is no big road in Tianzhu Mountain, wouldn't the brigade march as slow as a snail, if so, the fugitives should not be caught, maybe this is the result they want. Any simple matter mixed with the political struggle between the two factions will become extremely complicated, and Yang Congyi can only feel deep helplessness and sadness.

Since the herald ordered to camp on the spot, he could only lead the team to stop, find a flat and safe place, and let everyone start to set up tents and make fires for cooking.

This time, the only thing that satisfied Yang Congyi was that the supplies were complete, unlike last time, everything was brought by himself.

The 150-strong hunting team was divided into six teams according to each county, each with a catcher leader leading the team, marching and camping, which was not too chaotic.

Yang Congyi brought the capture of the Huaining Mansion, and the original head catcher is now following the county lieutenant He. Huaining's arrest was not convinced by Yang Congyi, the new boss, and he was naturally not happy to carry out the order. Yang Congyi doesn't care about this, the boss who came from the airborne is immediately convincing and hell, Yang Congyi doesn't have too many requirements for them, as long as they don't run away and don't fall behind, it's very good, what he needs is a large number of people, otherwise there are too few people and horses to enter the mountain, and even the waves can't turn one.

Set up camp, before the meal, Yang Congyi summoned the heads of the counties, in terms of experience in handling cases, he is a novice, it can be said that he has basically no experience. Chasing the murderer and catching the thief, the head catchers should have a lot of experience, otherwise they have been chasing heads for five years and ten years, isn't it in vain? He needs the heads of the captors to use their brains, use their experience and wisdom, concentrate their forces, and rely on them to complete the task of chasing down the fugitives.

The heads of the catchers sat in a circle, and Yang Congyi knew them all, so he was no longer polite, and asked directly to the point: "Everyone, you have more experience in handling cases than me, how do you think we should start the pursuit after we enter the mountain?" Where to start? ”

Everyone was silent after hearing this, not knowing whether they hadn't thought about it or hadn't thought about it at all.