"So, is it just an accident?"

Zhou Huai'an, who had returned to the mansion, asked; While looking at the newcomer's little crisp face, he was forced to the foot of the wall by the round bear wolf dog with his tail up, and stood on the flower stand and raised his front paws in surrender, and let out a humming cry for help to the surroundings.

"It's not entirely an accident, there are two groups of suspicious people who are hunted down this time, one of which is a fake tea merchant who mixed with the local Huainan spies. However, the other group is an outlaw murderer who was accidentally disturbed. ”

Yang Shigu, who was emaciated, was reporting.

"Oh, what's going on here."

Zhou Huai'an was slightly surprised.

"These murderers are mainly from Hedong and Henan, and they usually use jugglers as disguises, and they are divided into several gangs to walk around the local area for a long time. This time, they all gathered together and arrived near Gangneung to perform, but they had other bad intentions. ”

Yang Shigu said more and more seriously

"Although most of them were killed on the spot, according to the preliminary confessions of several people who have been captured, most of them are recalcitrant criminals who have been ordered to kill people, and they have committed a lot of crimes in their hands and are afraid that there will be few or more lives.

Yang Shigu paused here and said pleadingly

"Now the Metropolitan Governor is the future and safety of the great cause of peace, and his every move is noticed by the world; Please also take care of yourself, don't have another chance to take risks with others. ”

"Old Yang, you're right. I'll be mindful and cautious naturally. The rest will be left to you. ”

Zhou Huai'an's advice is like a stream. Then I saw Yang Shigu want to speak and stop and then persuade again:

"With all due respect, if the Metropolitan Governor can have an heir, it will undoubtedly be able to greatly calm people's hearts, and there will be no slightest movement, and there will be more than one rumor and criticism."

"Of course, I know it."

Zhou Huai'an couldn't help but smile bitterly and responded, it was not the first time he had heard similar persuasion, but even Yang Shigu said so. It shows that this matter has been valued and cared about by many people.

It's just that although those under him are eager to stuff all the women of appropriate age who can think of their wives, daughters and sisters around them into their side as a bed warmer and a pregnant body; But in a certain inertia and moral cleanliness of modern people, he really can't find a random girl without knowing each other.

And after Yang Shigu received the order to say goodbye and left. Hongyao'er walked out from behind the evasive screen, and gently pushed the aggressive bear and wolf dog with the hair pump to the side, picked up the small crispy noodles that had been washed and tied with a royal blue bow, and said to Zhou Huai'an:

"But it's a slave who shouldn't be casual and put Lang Jun in danger."

"No, it's just an accident. There are still no problems with the corresponding security measures, and it is quite fun to go shopping with Yao'er,。。 Speaking of which, I'm actually a burden to you. ”

Zhou Huai'an stretched out his hand to hold her in his arms, and rubbed his face that could be broken with a bomb and said with relief.

"Lang Jun is always like this."

Then, she couldn't continue to talk properly, because Zhou Huai'an lifted the hem of her embroidered ruffled skirt and held her silk stockings.

And the little crisp face in her arms seemed to echo, and it seemed to demonstrate to the aggrieved bear wolf dog who was rubbing at her feet, rubbing her trimmed paws and making a humming sound.

After spending some time to calm down this delicate and sensitive girl, Zhou Huaian thought about it and asked someone to send a recent routine case report from the Social Investigation Department; After looking at it, I found that I seemed to have underestimated the influence and chain reaction of the spread of the "Four Wishes of Taiping".

During this period, not only did the number of people who came to invest increase several times, but there were even some businessmen and wealthy families who moved their families to relocate; Even the patrol teams in the cities and the patrols in the countryside discovered and captured many snoopers of all kinds.

Among them, the number of suspects under the control of the Social Investigation Department alone is several times greater than in the first half of the year, and the number reached more than 100 last month.

Immediately, Zhou Huai'an asked someone to bring the personnel usage table of the anti-rebellion meeting. After the previous rounds of adjustment and combing, mainly the exchange of personnel in different places, the regular meeting of work experience exchange, and the random selection of military personnel for assistance (supervision), and other supplementary rules were promulgated, the corresponding casualty rate and deviation ratio also decreased significantly.

With the onset of winter, there are about 1,000 members of the "three detachments" who have completed their phased tasks and returned to repair and standby from hundreds of purging and transformation teams in Shannan, Jiangxi, Hunan, Xichuan, and other places. It can be temporarily transferred to strengthen the strike-hard action in this batch of rectification key areas.

In addition, it was when the arrest of potential suspicious elements was met with armed resistance this time, and the patrol team and the people of the fang district were inevitably a little unable to catch them, and almost let these suspicious people who were good at leaping and climbing escape. On the contrary, it is the newly equipped Yu Hou Division's internal security team, and it shows overwhelming lethality when it suddenly engages the enemy.

Therefore, Zhou Huaian also considered another question, whether to strengthen the means in this regard. At present, the focus of the Taiping Army's military construction is to expand the base of potential reserves and directly manage the labor force through enclosing land and establishing cantonment areas and administrative areas. I don't need to say much about that.

For example, there is such a chaotic situation today, and the external nodes of Xuan, Run, Yuzhou, and Dengzhou controlled by the Taiping Army are exiled people who want to come and defect. So, just expand it step by step.

The other is to improve the combat effectiveness of military equipment by using firearms as far as possible without increasing the number of troops. Of course, the so-called pre-firearms mean that throwing firearms (explosive bombs, fire oil bombs) that are relatively inexpensive to produce are equipped with a much larger proportion than projectile firearms (guns, etc.).

After all, at present, the production areas that can produce suitable steel materials for firearms are mainly limited to Nanhai County, and those that are processed into qualified guns and gun bodies, so the current production capacity can only give priority to equipping artillery that can be used in a centralized manner in the direct sequence.

However, only a small number of directly subordinate and veteran units are equipped with experimental long and short firearms, which are used as polemic training for military training. Moreover, at present, most of them are mainly transitional three-eyed guns and short guns, and other standard equipment that are easy to process and easy to use;

Therefore, relying on the saltpeter imported from Tianzhu and the sulfur that may come from the Japanese country in the future, the various gunpowder products/explosives developed and extended will also be one of the largest heads of military production.

It is the so-called truth that you don't know if you don't check, and you are shocked when you check. In the following days, the large-scale search and arrest set off inside and outside Gangneung City was like a flood of sediment, and many cows, ghosts, snakes and gods of all kinds were suddenly pulled out of the radish and mud.

Among them, the identities are also incomprehensible: there are not only spies from the borders of Shanxi and Dongchuan, but also eyeliners from Huainan and Jiangdong, and there are also suspects from the back of the Guannai or Huaixi Rebels, but their identities are hidden; There was even a personal representative from Shi Fu, the envoy of the probation army (Xu Si).

For a time, among the scholars gathered in many local halls, all kinds of discussions were stirred. Naturally, some people associate it with previous deeds, and the worried classes criticize it.

"This metropolitan governor has always used cool official methods, and has repeatedly taken it as his mission to eradicate the powerful and giants. But it reminds people of some familiar ancient allusions in ancient times. ”

"Don't you hear the stories of the previous cool officials of Zhidu, Zhang Tang, Zhao Yu, Ning Cheng, and Yizong in the early Han Dynasty. If my generation wants to engage in it, don't we need to be cautious and cherish ourselves. Otherwise, it will be a disaster for the dead at every turn. ”

Some people disagreed, and refuted:

This is a fallacy, when he shouted out a hundred wastes to be revived, Emperor Jing Yizhi was too guarded in Jinan, and killed nearly 100 families with the powerful surname of the Lu family in three years, and the local rule was not left behind; Then he dropped out as a lieutenant in the Northern Army, and severely punished the lawlessness of the magnates and royal relatives. It is one of the foundations for the rule of Wenjing inaction. ”

"In the Han Dynasty, there were Wang Wenshu, Jian Xuan, Yin Qi, and Yi Zong, who were famous all over the world, and the surname Haoqiang trembled; Not to mention that all county officials must eradicate the surname of Hao and the number of big clans during their tenure as the performance appraisal of the transfer, and the country will rule the world with great governance, and finally call for strong death. ”

"If the governor of the capital has the benevolence of Wenjing and the majesty of the Han Dynasty, what if my generation is a cool official who makes this stepping stone for him? Today's world is in turmoil when people of insight come forward, if you are blindly timid, cherish your life and worry repeatedly, how can you keep up with this unprecedented trend of change. ”