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Zeng Zhen quickly found out the ins and outs of the crossbow by following the string of numbers, and she reported to Li Mao alone: "The crossbow was made by the Second Ordnance Institute in January of the eighth year of Yuanhe, and was distributed to the Sabre Army on the right wing of the pro-army in April, and it was lost in the battle at the Shannan command post, and a total of six were lost that day. Sugar Hua"

Li Mao said: "That's all"

Zeng Zhen said: "That's all I can find, a total of seven planes were lost that day, two of which were confiscated and returned by the Security Bureau in July and February 9 of Yuanhe 8 respectively, and the outer number was rubbed out, and no bottom number was found. ”

Li Mao said: "Two of the seven lost machine crossbows were recovered, and four of the remaining five appeared at Fengle Station at the same time. Tell me what that means."

Zeng Zhen said: "The subordinates of Fengle Yi know very little about it, and they dare not comment on it. ”

Zeng Zhen's coldness made Li Mao unable to lift his spirits, so he nodded and said, "Thank you for your hard work." ”

Zeng Zhen saluted out, and Shi Kong said: "Manager Chang is here." Li Mao got up and walked out of the conference hall, and Chang Mu Cang exchanged glances, the two walked to the courtyard together, and stood still in the water pavilion near the water, Chang Mu Cang said: "The lost five machine crossbows were bought by a man named Wang Bai through the black market, he hid one at home, and the other four were given to four hired killers. ”

Li Mao said: "What kind of person is this?"

Chang Mucang said: "Wang Bai is a pseudonym, his real name is Ma Bai, he was originally a quartermaster of the Fourth Division stationed in the Military Material Institute, and was later expelled for embezzlement of public funds, after which he opened a trading house in Xiguan, Dongzhou, ostensibly to run a wool business, but actually to make a profit by reselling salt and iron coupons, he has someone to take care of, the business is very good, and he made a profit of about 100,000 yuan last year alone. ”

Li Mao said: "Who is the person above him?"

Li Mao asked knowingly, this Ma Bai is Ma Hedong's nephew, he became the quartermaster of the Fourth Division at a young age, the first supervision bureau of the Zuo Division, responsible for supervising the military and political system to learn of its corruption clues, think that the matter is important, dare not be arbitrary, Xie Biao made a special report to Li Mao, and only intervened in the investigation after getting Li Mao's approval, because the matter involved Ma Hedong, and in the end, it was also held high and lightly, and only one Ma Bai was disposed of and the case was hastily closed.

Chang Mucang did not answer Li Mao's question directly, but said: "Those four assassins were all hired by Ma Bai with a lot of money, and there are people and physical evidence in this matter, and he cannot deny it. ”

Li Mao sighed helplessly, smiled bitterly, and said to Chang Mucang: "When Shixiong was besieged under the city of Tiezhou, he did not move, forcing me to change generals before the battle, and many people persuaded me to take him down afterwards, but I let him go, Liaodong can have today, he has great achievements, they are all old brothers who started a business together, I really can't bear it." Transferred him to be the deputy envoy of training, on the surface, he was demoted by half a level, but the training envoy is the head of the Jin Dutou, he is far away in Pyongyang, and the training hall in Liaodong is not yet in his position as the deputy envoy, and he complains that Zhang Shengru and Mei Lianqing are empty of him, Zhang and Mei are both honest people, you do it well, make achievements, why don't they buy your account"

Li Mao took a deep breath to relieve his suppressed anger, and then said, "I thought that if he was given a step down, he would be able to restrain himself, what should I do." ”

Chang Mu Cang said: "He is very careful in his work, if he deals with it publicly, he can only deal with Ma Bai, and if he doesn't get it right, he will repeat the mistakes of Zuo Si." ”

Li Mao said: "It's been an old brother for many years, can I not give him another chance if we just part ways like this?"

Chang Mucang was silent for a long time, and Fang said: "Tomorrow, the officer training center will hold a mid-term competition, please ask me to make a comment." Dashuai is usually most concerned about the training of the students, and I think this comment is the most appropriate for Dashuai to do. ”

Early the next morning, Li Mao suddenly appeared at the mid-term martial arts competition of the officer training center located in the west of Liaodong City, which immediately caused a sensation. The officer training institute is the cradle of middle and lower-ranking officers in the Anton Army, and Li Mao not only personally serves as the chief instructor, but also lets the cadets of the officer training institute act as his right guard every time there is a big ceremony, which is extremely honorable.

It is not new for Li Mao to come to the training center to hang out, and the trainees in the training center have seen him more often than ordinary assassins. However, he set a rule for himself: never interfere with the specific teaching of the training center. The mid-term martial arts competition is an important part of teaching, and Zhang Shengru and Mei Lianqing, who presided over the training center, did not send an invitation to Li Mao, but only invited Chang Mucang, the director of the General Staff Office, to come and comment.

In addition to Chang Mucang, the chief of the General Staff Office, who accompanied Li Mao, there was also Zheng Xiaozhang, the head of the Ministry of Military Affairs, and this specification was unprecedented.

The officer training institute is subordinate to the training department, and the training envoy is now concurrently served by Jin Daoan, the military envoy of the metropolitan government, and the actual person in charge is the deputy envoy Ma Hedong and the judges Zhang Shengru and Mei Lianqing. When the distinguished guests came to the door, Pyongyang City, Anyuan Town, Jindao could not show up, and the person in charge of receiving them was naturally the training deputy envoy Ma Hedong.

Ma Hedong had a serious face, a little nervous in front of Li Mao, Li Mao was talking and laughing, at the martial arts ceremony, Li Mao pushed Ma Hedong to be the main seat, and he and Zheng Xiaozhang and Chang Mucang attended to watch, only brought ears to listen, eyes to see, never interfered with the specifics. The competition lasted all day, and ended at dusk, Ma Hedong asked Li Mao to comment, Li Mao said a few words of encouragement, specifically commented by Chang Mucang, after the review, Li Mao reviewed the cadet queue accompanied by Zheng Xiaozhang, Chang Mucang, Ma Hedong, Zhang Shengru, and Mei Lianqing.

In the evening, the Officers' Training Institute held a banquet on the open-air playground, and after drinking more than 100 jars of wine, Li Mao alone drank three jars. After the banquet was over, Li Mao rested for a while, and at midnight he summoned everyone to hold a small meeting in the small conference hall of the training center, Li Mao carefully inquired about the preparations for the "Seminar for Middle- and Senior Generals", and learned that all the work was ready, and nodded with satisfaction.

Leaving Zheng Xiaozhang, Chang Mucang, Zhang Shengru, and Mei Lianqing to finalize the details, they went to the courtyard garden, it was the night moon and the breeze was clear, and the cool breeze was blowing, and the two talked about an hour in the back garden.

At the end of the conversation, the careful Zheng Xiaozhang found that Ma Hedong's eyes were red, as if he had cried, his face was also red and he kept wiping sweat, and the weather was very cool that day, and he didn't feel the slightest bit stuffy at all.

On the third day after Li Mao and Ma Hedong talked, the council hall made a decision: Ma Hedong, the deputy envoy of training, was reappointed as the arrest envoy of the Salt and Iron Yuan and the commander of the tax police corps.

In order to ensure the monopoly of salt and iron and the return of tax granules to the warehouse, at the end of the eighth year of Yuanhe, Li Mao set up two second-level armed forces: the anti-smuggling team of the Salt and Iron Institute and the tax police corps.

Whether it is the arrest envoy of the Salt and Iron Yuan or the commander of the tax police corps, the status is not as good as the training deputy envoy, but from another point of view, this position is much more affordable than the training deputy envoy, everyone knows that the tax inspection bureau and the salt and iron institute are two well-known Feishui yamen. Not only is there a lot of oil and water, but it also has a lot of power.

Not only did outsiders not understand Li Mao's arrangement, but Chang Mucang and others, who were specifically responsible for investigating and handling the Fengle Yi assassination case, were also in the clouds.

This strange thing is like a strange wind, which comes and goes without a trace.

After Ma Hedong was demoted, the post of commander of the third division was vacant, the third division was stationed in Shanhaiguan, the position was very important, the main time of the acting commander Shikong was in Liaodong City, and he could not be controlled from time to time, after careful consideration, Li Mao transferred Huang Renfan, the deputy commander of the former Fourth Division, to Shanhaiguan, took over as the commander of the Fourth Division, and appointed Gao Su as the commander of the Twelfth Division and the history of the Assassin of Bezhou.

3,000 Gaojia troops then left for Bezhou to inject fresh blood into the 12th Division.

Some people are worried that Gao Su secretly colluded with the Bohai State and betrayed Liaodong. Li Mao said: "Gao Su is at most arrogant, he will not collude with the Bohai Sea to harm me, although I have lost a Bezhou, but I can protect the northeast border unhindered, and the calculation is still worth it." ”

After the king of Bohai, Da Shimu, sat on the throne of the king, he secretly made peace with the Jin people and supported their invasion of the northeastern border of Liao, so as to contain Li Mao and negotiate terms with Liaodong.

Huang Renfan led the 12th Division to meet the attack, but he was defeated repeatedly. The guerrilla warfare in the mountains and forests of the Tatar people was more difficult than that of the Muwei people, and even the Fifth Division of Changmucang was very difficult to deal with, while Gao Su had dealt with the Tatar people for many years and had rich combat experience.

However, Li Mao also saw that Gao Su was a very autonomous general, and his family power was very large, and if he sat in Bezhou for too long, once he took root, he would not be able to control it. Li Mao followed Chang Mucang's advice and left his parents and close relatives in Liaodong City, and only allowed him to take his wife to Bezhou to take office, hoping to contain him with family affection.

Gao Su lived up to expectations, and after leaving the town of Bezhou, he won three battles in a row, expelled all the invading Tatar people, and stabilized the northeast border.

In the midsummer of the ninth year of Wonhwa, Kim so-jong staged a mutiny in Gyeongju in an attempt to depose Kim Chong-hee and establish himself, but Kim Do-an intervened to quell the rebellion and depose Kim Chong-hee to Gyeongju, but refused to help Kim Chong-hee purge his power.

In view of the dishonest behavior of Da Shi Mu, the king of Bohai, who secretly instigated the Yan people to invade the border of Liaodong, Li Mao ordered Qin Mo to beat him, and Qin Mo ordered the kidnapping of his favorite concubine Li and demanded 30,000 gold beads.

The reason why he chose to kidnap the favorite concubine of the King of Bohai was naturally Qin Mo's vulgar hobby, but this incident also had the intention of killing two birds with one stone: it not only showed Li Mao the achievements of the right chamber in the Bohai Kingdom, but also showed off his muscles to the King of Bohai.

Da Shi Mu knew that this matter was done by the right wing, but he was helpless, his side, the side of the Manchu Dynasty civil and military, was full of the eyeliner of the right wing, and his every move was under the surveillance of others, and he still had something crooked

The Li family was abducted from the bed of his own bedroom, and it was only an hour before and after he left and received the news, and the right wing used this move to show that they had the ability to enter and leave his dormitory at will, since they had the ability to take away his favorite concubine from his dragon bed, wouldn't it be a piece of cake to kidnap him

The Bohai Palace's so-called impregnable security system is simply useless in the eyes of others, what sense of security do you have at all, your life is not guaranteed, the time to secretly make small moves is not ripe, and the risk is still very great

Da Shimu was shocked into a hot sweat, and then scared out of a cold sweat, so he removed the king's crown scarf, and came to Liaodong all the way to ask Li Mao for help and ask Li Mao to call the shots.

King Bohai learned a lesson and had a good attitude in admitting his mistakes, and Li Mao forgave him for the time being.

Soon after Li returned to the Bohai Palace, Da Shimu was pleasantly surprised to find that she was pregnant, as for whether the child was his own, he counted the time, it may or may not be, which made the Bohai King very distressed for a while.

However, a day later, the King of Bohai figured it out, and the next day at the court meeting, he reported the good news to the Manchu courtiers: in the belly of the widow's favorite concubine, the future of the Bohai Kingdom is thriving, which proves from the side that the widow is fertile, and is worthy of being the lord of a country in this "prosperous country in the east of the sea".

Da Shi Mu rode a dog when he was a child, was bitten by a dog and killed his life, and when he became an adult, there were hundreds of concubines in his family, but nothing came out, and it was rumored that he was infertile, and he was especially criticized after becoming a king.

Such a happy event must be celebrated by the whole country, so the amnesty of the whole country, Wujing is exempt from taxes for one year, and Chang'an asks for the title of the prince.

Li Mao, as the envoy of the vassal, received the recital of the Bohai Kingdom, couldn't cry or laugh, and said to Qin Mo: "Look at the good things you did, people couldn't give birth to a son, but now it's okay, the son is here, and there is a successor to the Bohai Kingdom." ”

Qin Mo said: "But it's also weird, how did it hit the ground off this time, I think it's because the Li family's land is too fat." Shikong was honest: "But I've just been pregnant, how do I know it's a boy, what if it's a girl." ”

Qin Mo said: "It won't be a girl, it must be a boy." He lost his mind and asked: "Both men and women are my species, how is it good to fall into the hands of that guy" Li Mao said: "This still needs to be asked, let your right compartment keep an eye on it, don't let the tanuki change the prince and harm your daughter." Shi Kong didn't understand what it meant to exchange the tanuki for the prince, Qin Mo explained: "It's to exchange a skinned tanuki for my prince who is going to be the king, it doesn't matter if you don't understand, when my son becomes the prince of the Bohai Kingdom, I'll tell you." ”

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