The news that the imperial court had sent an envoy from Lin'an soon spread throughout the camp of the selected generals.

The officers and men of various armies who did not know why had a lot of discussions about this, but they did not understand the essentials.

But soon they understood that the selection of the general camp was actually aimed at them, and the 41st forbidden army that came to the selection general camp was actually aimed at them.

Without exception, the commanders of each forbidden army were summoned to the camp one after another within two days, and the three high-ranking officials sent by the imperial court took turns to ask questions.

From the time they received the summoning order for the selection of generals at the station, to the selection of generals and colonels of each army participating in the selection of generals, and then asked about the journey, food, drink, and supply from the garrison to the Wuzhou election general camp, and then asked about their life and training in the election general camp, the timely selection of generals and challenges, and the issue of receiving and supplying grain and grass.

After summoning the commanders of each army, the three envoys randomly entered the barracks and randomly counted ten soldiers according to the roster.

At the end of the two days, the three envoys supervised and checked all the accounts of the general camp again, but if they had any doubts, they recorded them in the book, and waited for Yang Congyi to come back and explain.

On the fourth day, Yang Congyi finally hurriedly returned to the general camp from the mountains, and he didn't have time to freshen up, so he only changed into a clean coat and came to the camp to meet the three envoys who came to Lin'an.

"Yang Congyi, the former deputy envoy of the Xiaguan Palace and the deputy marshal of the general camp, has seen the three envoys, and the lower officials have been in the mountains for a long time, and they have not been able to meet them from afar, so I ask the three adults to forgive their sins!"

Yang Congyi stood in front of Zhang Fu and three other officials of the DPRK and China, raised his hand and saluted, very respectfully.

The three of them looked at Yang Congyi's strange clothes and the slightly tired expressions of the dusty servants, and they had their own thoughts in their hearts.

"Yang Congyi, we have been waiting for you for four days in the general camp, and we don't care about waiting for you for an extra hour. Are you unkempt and clumpy, are you trying to complain, or are you showing that you are dedicated to the public? Put away your tricks and don't have to be pretentious in front of us! ”

Zhang Fu didn't eat this set at all, just glanced at it, and he decided that Yang Congyi was complaining about hardship and pretending to be pitiful, he hated this kind of person the most in his life, and he was directly and ruthlessly exposed.

Lord Li and Lord Huang looked at Yang Congyi and did not speak.

"Your Excellency! Since the adults can't see the lower officials like this, let the lower officials go back to the camp to clean up, and come to see the three adults again. ”

The other party is a high-ranking official in purple, with a high position, where does Yang Congyi dare to refute, saying that he is coy, that is a coy posture.

"What kind of system does a dignified court official, like a beggar along the street, become! It's time to change! ”

Zhang Fu didn't look at it in a blink of an eye.

Yang Congyi raised his hand in response and left quickly.

"There is no truth in the truth!"

Zhang Fu looked at the door where Yang Congyi had left, with a look of disdain on his face and righteous indignation.

"I'm afraid my lord has misunderstood, his appearance will not be less than five months of wind and sun, and he can't pretend to be it. The only thing clean on his body should be the coat. ”

Master Li couldn't look at it, and couldn't help but open his mouth to defend Yang Congyi.

"Oh, Master Li thinks Yang Congyi wasn't in disguise just now?"

Zhang Fu turned his head to look at Master Li, questioning.

"The adults misunderstood, and the lower officials also inferred from common sense. Xia Guan was a county lieutenant in his early years, and one year there were many natural disasters, thieves were everywhere, and a group of thieves were so bold that they went to the city to kill people and seize goods, injuring dozens of lives, and then ran into the mountains, and the county government could not solve the case for a long time, and the impact was very bad, so the state government issued a strict order, and the group of murderers must be arrested and brought to justice within a period of three months, otherwise all the county officials should be dismissed. Under tremendous pressure, Xia Guan had to personally lead the catchers into the mountain, which lasted more than two months, almost running all over the mountain, and finally found the thief's nest and arrested them. Xia Guan still remembers that when we returned to the city that day, we were treated as beggars and displaced people, and when we returned to the yamen, we were stopped and interrogated by the officials on duty for a long time, not to mention the magistrate who came to hear the news, I didn't speak, he didn't recognize me at all. Although Yang Congyi was not as embarrassed as Xia Guan back then, he couldn't do it by faking. ”

Master Li recalled the past, and his eyes shone with a different light.

"If that's the case, it's old and clumsy."

Although Zhang Fu still had doubts, he actually believed most of them in his heart.

He raised his glass to tea, and the left and right sides continued to check and reconcile the messy accounts.

"Xiaguan Yang Congyi, I have seen three envoys!"

After more than half an hour, Yang Congyi came to visit again.

I saw that he was dressed in a clean plain clothes, and his hair was neatly combed and tied on the top of his head, but his face, although he had shaved off his beard, was still the color of earth, and he could not be washed.

"Yang Congyi, this official has been waiting for you for a long time."

Zhang Fu stared at Yang Congyi carefully and looked at it, and finally admitted that he was wrong to blame him before, but he was a prince in the imperial history, how could he admit his mistake and make amends to the sesame junior official, and it was his great luck not to continue to pursue it.

"Your Excellency, in the past few days, there is a team of generals in the mountains who are challenging the selection of generals, and the place where the two sides are fighting is far away from the temporary camp in the mountains, which delays the precious time of the adults, and the next official is guilty! Be willing to be punished! ”

Yang Congyi is very cautious and respectful, the three people opposite are all people who can go to court and see the emperor, their status and status, I don't know where they are higher than him, how dare he not be cautious in the current extraordinary period.

"I have no power to punish you, nor will I punish you for it. You are the deputy commander of the election general battalion, and you are in charge of all the affairs of the election general battalion, right? ”

Zhang Fu no longer dwelled on the question of how long he had been waiting, and went straight to the point.

"Yes. The lower official is the deputy envoy of the palace division of the selection of generals, the original election of the general is the responsibility of the palace division of the military case, has always been operated by the palace division alone, but this time the selection of the general is different from the past, in the way of actual combat challenges, to gather more than 40 forbidden troops in one place, a large number of personnel, due to the special matter, the imperial court appointed the king of Pu'an County as the commander of the general camp, the lower official as the deputy marshal, by the subordinate to specifically supervise the selection of the general camp, the organization of the selection of generals. Before leaving Lin'an, the commander of the palace commander Yang told the lower officials, according to the previous rules, the king of Pu'an is only the nominal commander, he will not interfere in any affairs of the general camp, if he is willing, and the court agrees, he may go to the general camp to take a look, if he is not willing to leave Lin'an, he will naturally not appear in the general camp, so the matter of the general camp is still in charge of the palace department, specifically the court specially set up a temporary general division to preside, the general selection division is the palace front division is commanded by the palace master Yang concurrently, the deputy envoy is served by the lower officials, And the commander of the capital made Lord Yang have a heavy responsibility and cannot leave Lin'an, so the affairs of the Wuzhou selection of generals and battalions are actually decided by the lower officials. Coming to Yiwu for seven months, the lower officials did not dare to have the slightest relaxation, single-mindedly, all their minds were on the election of generals organized by the imperial court, and they did not dare to say that they were hard, and the lower officials only wanted to select excellent young generals with cultivation potential for the imperial court and the Great Song Dynasty, and complete the errand handed over to the lower officials by the imperial court. The lower officials know that their ability is limited, and after coming to Yiwu, they can only work hard, work hard, do not seek merit, but only want to live up to the expectations of the court, and live up to the huge amount of money that the emperor and the court painstakingly took out! ”

Yang Congyi said and spoke, tears flowed in his eyes, he was really exhausted in the past few months, and his grievances poured out in front of the three envoys who came to Lin'an.

His monologue surprised the three adults very much, they saw his infinite grievances and anxieties from the inside out, and seemed to see that he had not been easy for half a year.

How is it in the mountains, the three adults can't see it, but the forty forbidden troops in the general camp train every day, even if they come to the general camp to inspect, the training of the soldiers has not been interrupted for an hour, which is not known how many times stronger than the forbidden army stationed in various places, and the money and food allocated by the court and the emperor seem to be used in a part of the actual situation at present, and there is no waste.

The boy doesn't flick when he has tears, but he hasn't reached the sad place.

Seeing that Yang Congyi couldn't help but shed tears, the three adults did not continue to ask questions, waiting for each other to stabilize their emotions.

Yang Congyi raised his sleeves to wipe away the tears on his face, and quickly adjusted his mood.

"If the three adults have any other questions, just ask, the lower officials know everything, and they will fully cooperate with the three adults."

"Okay, since you just talked about the money and grain allocated by the emperor and the imperial court, then I want to ask you, you know that the treasury is empty, the imperial court is in financial difficulties, and the emperor has to allocate the funds for the selection of generals from the inner treasury, so why are you extravagant and wasteful of 160,000 yuan, and whose pocket does this money flow into?"

Lord Huang held the account book in his hand and immediately asked.

"I don't know what kind of expense the adults mean by wasting 160,000 yuan?"

"Money borrowed from the land and money for resettlement. Who received this money, you have to explain it to us. ”

"My lord, this money has been distributed to the villagers. The place where the Shuai Camp is located is called Jiangkou Village, and there were more than 120 people living in the past, and the Xuan Jiang Battalion lent money to borrow their land to build the Shuai Camp, barracks and school yards here. ”

"Borrowing land? You were ordered by the imperial court to supervise the construction of the general camp, this is a major matter of the imperial court, whose land you can't use, why do you need to borrow money? ”

"My lord, the election of the general camp is indeed a major event of the imperial court, but the election of the general camp to Yiwu has no foundation, if the people have been arbitrarily requisitioned for several generations of land, I am afraid that not waiting for the election of the camp to be completed, it will provoke a rebellion of the displaced people. Moreover, the land needed to build the camp is very vast, it occupies a lot of fields and houses, and the number of people involved is several thousand, and the number of people involved is even more incalculable. The school yards and barracks that adults saw were all fields and sheltered houses for the local people to survive half a year ago. ”

Lord Huang was powerless to refute, if thousands of people were forcibly driven away, anything would really happen.

"Just like that, more than 1,000 people, it won't take 160,000."

Zhang Fu immediately asked, there are more than 1,000 people, an average of more than 100 per person, which is indeed outrageous.

"And listen to the lower officials and settle accounts with all the adults, if it is not reasonable, the lower officials are willing to accept the guilt!"