Although at the beginning, Wang Maozhang did not realize the seriousness of the matter, but after Yang Tingshi mentioned the word "rebellion", he naturally understood his previous negligence. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Yang Wu's strict requirements for military discipline have long been deeply aware of him; The attitude towards the generals is not as generous as Yang Xingmi, and many times when the generals make mistakes, Yang Xingmi may laugh it off, but Yang Wu will never let it go easily.

Of course, this can't be said that Yang Wu is a ruthless person, it's just that Yang Wu attaches more importance to the system than his father.

When he wants to deal with someone, he has never done anything that is not taught, and he usually announces the relevant regulations in advance; He will only deal with it when someone blatantly violates his rules.

In fact, Yang Wu did this when he first came out and began to train five hundred soldiers.

At that time, the first thing he did when he took office was to ask the soldiers to memorize military discipline, and even did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to encourage the soldiers to memorize military discipline as soon as possible.

After it is determined that everyone knows military discipline, military discipline is strictly enforced; At this time, even if someone makes a mistake and is severely punished by him, as long as the evidence is conclusive, no one else can say anything.

"Governing the country is like governing the army!" Wang Maozhang recalled that Yang Wu had started training in his camp, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

The stipulation prohibiting generals in the army from privately collecting taxes from the people and disturbing the people was made a long time ago, and it has been repeatedly ordered since then, so it can be said that every general knows about it.

This time, Zhang Chong blatantly violated the rules he had formulated, and presumably he would take this opportunity to severely punish him in order to set an example.

Thinking about this, Wang Maozhang knew that this time it would be difficult for Zhang Chong to pass this hurdle easily. After all, it was not Yang Wu who deliberately dealt with him and fabricated charges against his subordinates, but his subordinates made mistakes first.

For Zhang Chong today, perhaps as Yang Tingshi said, going to Xuanzhou as soon as possible to cooperate with the investigation is his best choice.

As for the rebellion or taking refuge in other feudal towns, not to mention that others did not agree, even Wang Maozhang himself did not agree. If Zhang Chong rebels, it will definitely be a dead end.

Under Yang Ting's persuasion, Wang Maozhang finally decided to cooperate with his actions and sent someone to summon Zhang Chong.

In the barracks outside Guangde County, Zhang Chongzheng led several generals to inspect the army.

In the battle with the Liang army a few months ago, all the troops suffered a lot of losses, especially Wang Maozhang's department, which lost more than 4,000 people in the battle when it was ambushed by Li Si'an.

Later, after retreating from the Suzhou front, the Unified Military Division replenished the troops according to the establishment of each department.

What Zhang Chong is reviewing now is the hundreds of additional soldiers who have been newly allocated to him.

Looking at these soldiers lined up in a neat array, holding their heads high and holding their chests high, not at all like the recruits who had just been recruited into the barracks for more than half a year, Zhang Chong secretly sighed that the training of recruits in charge of the Unified Arms Department was getting better and better.

Although Zhang Chong knew about Chief Chen's impeachment of his lawlessness, he thought that Chief Chen was just a small county magistrate, who had only been admitted to the Jinshi examination last year, and had been serving as a county magistrate for less than a year.

And he was a general in Huainan more than ten years ago, and he has a deep foundation in the army, so I think Yang Wu will not take action against himself because of such a small county order, right?

Of course, although Zhang Chong was unruly, he also knew that Chief Chen was a high school jinshi and was personally appointed by Yang Wu as the person who was the commander of Guangde County. Although this person's status is not high now, he will be reused in the future, so he doesn't want to offend too much, let alone retaliate.

So these days he's always doing what he has to do, and it's business as usual.

However, at this time, a guard came to report, and his immediate boss Wang Maozhang sent someone to summon him to Xuanzhou, saying that there was an urgent matter to ask him.

The news gave him a sudden bad premonition.

Could it be that Chief Chen impeached me? Impossible, Chief Chen is just a small county magistrate, how could he attract Wang Maozhang to ask in person? What's more, although Wang Maozhang has never done anything to collect taxes from the people privately, what he has done Wang Maozhang is clear, and he is also happy to accept the gifts he often gives him.

It's just that if it's not about his impeachment, then what is so urgent?

Zhang Chong couldn't figure it out, so he had to summon Wang Maozhang's messenger for questioning, and only then did he know that it was really Yang Wu who had specially sent someone to investigate the impeachment of Chief Chen.

"Is it really for this? How is this possible? Zhang Chong chuckled in his heart, and then dared to be bad.

Yang Wu personally inquired about this matter, and even sent someone to investigate the matter!

It was only then that he realized that Chief Chen's impeachment was not as trivial as he thought, but a very fatal thing.

So what did he do next? Did he follow Wang Maozhang's orders to go to Xuanzhou, or refused to obey orders?

If he went to Xuanzhou, judging from Wang Maozhang's reaction and attitude, he would definitely support Yang Wu; Therefore, if he obeys the military order to go to Xuanzhou, it will be like a fish leaving the water, and then he can only obediently obey Yang Wu's disposal.

With Yang Wu's character, he will generally behave very leniently when he does not violate his rules, which is not much worse than Yang Xingmi; But once someone violates his rules, Yang Wu will not be punished in the slightest.

If he goes to Xuanzhou, it is really difficult to say what the result will be in the future, and he can only hope that Yang Wu will remember his past achievements.

But if he refuses to obey military orders, it will be tantamount to complicity, and the consequences will be even more serious.

When he thought of the word rebellion, Zhang Chong's heart tightened.

He turned to look at the generals around him and shook his head secretly.

In recent years, Yang Wu has personally led the Huainan army to fight in the east and west, winning a hundred battles, and now he has won the heart of the Huainan army; His generals may obey his orders and join him in bloody battles on the battlefield against the enemy, or they may join him in some illegal deeds to loot the people, but they will never rebel with him.

What's more, rebellion in the here and now is definitely an act of seeking death without any way out.

Guangde was just a small county town, and even if he could persuade his generals to rise up and rebel, they would not be able to resist Yang Wu's next crusade.

And now the two Zhejiang have long been flattened, and Guangde is surrounded by Huainan's territory, and it is impossible for him to take refuge in other feudal towns.

So going to Xuanzhou is the only way out!

Thinking of this, Zhang Chong was a little depressed, he fought for Huainan all his life, and he was born and died to have today's status, but now he may be severely punished by Yang Wu because of the "little thing" of greedy money, and his heart is full of grief and indignation.

But no matter how angry he was, no matter how unhappy he felt, he had no other choice.

A few days later, Zhang Chong reluctantly arrived in Xuanzhou under the escort of dozens of guards, but as soon as he entered the city, he was directly placed under house arrest in Wang Maozhang's mansion by Yang Ting's order conveyed by Yang Wu.

Immediately, Yang Tingshi personally went to Guangde to investigate the impeachment of Chief Chen, and collected relevant evidence and witnesses.

In Guangling City, Yang Wu heard that Zhang Chong had been placed under house arrest in Wang Maozhang's mansion, but he only nodded slightly, indicating that he already knew about it, and did not ask further.

He was not surprised by this result, in the case that Wang Maozhang had no intention of rebelling, it was impossible for Zhang Chong to rebel alone; Even if he rebelled, Yang Wu didn't even need to mobilize the army, as long as he sent Wang Maozhang out of the horse, he could easily pacify him.

Therefore, he believed that Zhang Chong would choose to follow Wang Maozhang's orders to go to Xuanzhou.

"King, now that Zhang Chong has been placed under house arrest, how to deal with this case still needs to come up with a charter as soon as possible! The generals are watching! Seeing that Yang Wu didn't pay much attention to Zhang Chong's matter, Gao Mian reminded on the side.

"Zhang Chong's matter is not in a hurry, let's wait for the results of the investigation from Guangde's side first! When the results come out, let Zhou Yin be responsible for the public trial of the case when the time comes, everything will be done impartially, and Lone will not bother. Yang Wu shook his head and said.

To try Zhang Chong, there needs to be enough evidence to try to make the other generals have nothing to say. Therefore, it is best for Yang Wu not to show his attitude too much before the result is decided.

"Next, let's discuss the policy towards Jiangxi!" Yang Wu continued.

The news that just came from Diao Yanneng that he had successfully persuaded Jiangzhou to assassinate Shi Zhong Yangui, as long as Huainan sent troops, he would immediately fall to Huainan's side.

And even better news is that Tang Bao, the assassin of Raozhou, also sent someone to get in touch with Diao Yanneng and promised to join the Huainan side at the right time.

In this way, two of the eight states in Jiangxi will join the Huainan side.

It's a pity that the remaining six states have no interest in joining Huainan, but jointly organize an alliance against Huainan, among which Jizhou Assassin Shi Pengxuan has secretly defected to Ma Yin.

For this result, Yang Wu also expected a little, after all, what Huainan needed was a Jiangxi that could be completely dominated by Huainan, not Jiangxi, which only owned Jiangxi in name but was actually autonomous as in the previous Zhong Chuan era.

As for Ma Yin, as long as the assassins from all over the country can nominally obey his envoy, so if all parts of Jiangxi join his side, they will be able to gain more autonomy.

Because of this policy, Huainan was unable to provide better conditions than Ma Yin when he was wooing Peng Xuan, Wei Quanyi and others, so he naturally couldn't compete for Ma Yin.

Of course, what Yang Wu didn't know was that Zhong Chuan had actually instructed Zhong Kuangshi a long time ago to ask him to take refuge quickly when Huainan attacked, and not to try to resist in vain, so as not to bring about death.

It's just that Zhong Kuangshi felt that he had worked hard to get the position of the lord of Jiangxi, how could he let it go easily? So no matter how Xu Yanxiu persuaded him, he didn't change his mind.

As for Zhong Chuan, at this time he was already too sick to see things, and now the affairs of Hongzhou are completely under Zhong Kuangshi's control.