Because of martial law, the two deputy envoys of the city bureau could not perform their duties, and the generals on duty were in a mess without a leader, Li Mao ordered the drums to rise to the seat, gathered the generals, and instructed: "The city is enforcing martial law, and the people have not seen this battle not long after the city was built. ”

Li Mao was taken away by Zhang Zhongqing in the public court that day, and there has been no news, and the generals of the city bureau thought that something had happened to him, and now that he had returned safely, he opened his mouth to do such a big thing, and he didn't realize that he had the backbone in his heart. Confucius official Zheng Xiaozhang reminded: "If there is no order issued by the military academy, I am afraid that it will be very inconvenient. Li Mao was immersed in drafting a notice, and when he heard this, he didn't raise his head, and replied casually: "The city bureau and the military academy are originally one family, and martial law is to govern the people, not the officials of the city bureau, so it doesn't hurt you to go." As he spoke, he had already drafted the notice, handed it to Hu Nanxiang, the secretary in charge, and instructed: "Polish, copy thirty copies, and print them out." ”

Li Mao's writing is average, writing things has always been straightforward, a notice of Anmin is only thirty-five words, Hu Nanxiang read it once, corrected a few typos, adjusted the word order, and transcribed a copy for Li Mao to review, Li Mao glanced at it, and drew a pen with a pen. When recruiting the officials of the city bureau, Li Mao insisted on using young and literate scholars, although he was slightly higher, he had the potential to be tapped.

Hu Nanxiang was exiled from the south to Caozhou that day, with no food and clothing, and was destitute, so he went to Gushan Town to apply, asking for 20 yuan a month, and Li Mao was admitted immediately after the interview, and it turned out that Li Mao's original choice was not wrong, and Hu Nanxiang has now become his most effective assistant in the city bureau. The younger generation in the city bureau can write a few strokes, Hu Nanxiang gathered people, read the notices twice, thirty notices have been transcribed, cross-proofread, Hu Nanxiang finally checked the final draft, with the seal.

At this moment, Li Mao had finished telling the generals, and everyone walked out of the gate of the city bureau with a few notices trembling.

Outside the gate, there is a team of knife players, Li Mao broke out of the original township, broke into the city bureau, the patrol soldiers had already reported the news to the street patrol general, the son will send people to report where he came, and gathered the crowd to block the gate of the city bureau in case of accidents.

The generals and academicians of the city bureau were waiting for each other, looking at each other, all of them were cowardly. Li Mao shouted: "Get out of the way." "The horse rushed out of the gate, and the horse was so fierce that the soldier did not dare to use his bow and crossbow or spear without an order, and he did not even have the courage to use the next thistle, and he was thrown into disarray.

Zhang Qi shouted and rushed into battle, taking the lead to break out, the street patrol general did not dare to stop Li Mao, but he was not afraid of Zhang Qi, drew his sword and ordered to stop, and everyone said: "Zuo Zhonghou ordered me to go out on business, and the military academy is under martial law to control the people, how can it be controlled by my own family?" The general couldn't answer, and everyone rushed forward with a shout, and the street patrol general was anxious, grabbed a bow, pulled the arrow, and threatened: "Go further, I'll release the arrow." Zhang Qi patted his chest and shouted: "Your own people kill your own people, you are so capable, I take off my armor here, and I kind of shoot at this." ”

Zhang Qi said that he took off his armor on the street, and the street patrol did not receive the order to kill the forbidden person, and saw that Zhang Qi was a deputy general, so he did not dare to make a mistake. Seeing that there was loosening, the officials of the city bureau shouted again, and immediately broke through the encirclement.

Li Mao Pegasus broke into the military courtyard, compared with two days ago, the military courtyard was heavily guarded, if facing a great enemy, the horse was not allowed to pass outside the south gate, the two generals galloped to stop Li Mao, one smiled and said: "Deputy Envoy Zhao ordered martial law, and the city bureau envoy must not trespass." Li Mao dismounted and threw the reins of the horse to another cold-faced general, and said: "It is the people who are strictly forbidden, how can their own families also prohibit it, is this martial law or someone intends to rebel?" ”

This is very serious, the two generals did not dare to take it, the military academy issued a martial law order is very strange, neither the reason is said, nor the promotion hall is announced, the military order is directly issued to each battalion, and the soldiers go to the street to enforce martial law. It is strictly forbidden to prohibit the people and not to prohibit officials, but this martial law decree says that no one is allowed to walk around the streets, and the order, the soldiers are carried out to the letter, but they are muttering in their hearts.

Li Mao had no intention of talking to them, and went straight to the middle hall of the military courtyard, which is the duty room for the military envoy to deal with daily official business, Yu Hualong is not there, Yin Mu is not there, and the deputy envoy Zhao Hede should sit here as a puppet, but Li Mao did not see Zhao puppet, and it was the deputy general Xu Bin who sat in the middle hall.

Xun Bin looked up and saw Li Mao breaking in, he was taken aback, and looked at the two accompanying generals. Li Mao said: "I broke in by myself, I just want to ask Deputy General Lang, why didn't you report the martial law order to the city bureau, is the martial law order in charge of the people, or the officials?" ”

Xun Bin sneered, lowered his head to deal with the public case, and didn't even raise his head, Li Mao flew up and kicked over the public case, and the document flew like a snowflake. Xun Bin retreated in shock, and the left and right guards brushed and drew their knives. Li Mao's eyes did not squint, and he openly did not refuse. When he was stalemate, Shang Helai shouted and stopped, and walked in from outside, he did not wear armor, only wore a casual robe, and turned two walnuts in his hand, and Chen Yangbi, the head of the knife card with him, pressed his hand, and motioned to the left and right guards to take away the bow and knife.

Shang Helai patted Li Mao's shoulder and said with a smile: "This martial law is only for rehearsals, in order to deal with extraordinary changes, you are recuperating at home, so I didn't report you in time, the fault is my brother and me, don't mind my brother." Li Mao breathed a sigh of relief and said: "The martial law order is used in extraordinary times, the intention is to imprison the people, not to let them move around at will, if there is no city bureau to participate, disturb the people's uneasiness, but lose its original intention, Deputy General Lang issued the order I can't even get it, what kind of fame?" ”

After martial law, it was Ma Junzi's general Dong He's idea not to give Li Mao and the city bureau an order, and he was lying down with an arrow, and there was a fire in his heart, but he couldn't say it, so he only hummed angrily.

Dong He defended: "This martial law was a pre-rehearsal, and the city bureau made him bedridden to recuperate, so he was not notified. ”

Li Mao said: "I'm in good health, do you want the city bureau generals to follow the rehearsal?" Dong Hepi smiled and said: "That's natural, the family doesn't speak two words." ”

Shang Helai laughed and said to Xun Bin: "Immediately pass the order, and the brothers of the city bureau will all be allowed to go." He also discussed with Li Mao: "The brothers of the city bureau go to the various squares to settle the people, and the gates, city gates and streets are still patrolled by the military academy, but they are just rehearsals, so don't care about it so clearly." Li Mao said: "This also makes it, but the city defense battalion still has to fulfill the responsibility of patrolling the streets." Shang He said: "That's natural, rehearsal, haha, it's going to be like that." ”

The goal has been achieved, Li Mao said goodbye and left. As soon as he turned around, the smile on Shang Helai's face disappeared for a moment, and the walnuts in his hands gurgled. Dong He took the opportunity to say: "This person's heart is broken, I can't see it." Shang He said: "He is Lao Wen's life-saving benefactor, and it is not appropriate to get rid of him at this time." ”

Zhao Jingye, the banner in the front hall who had not spoken, snorted and said: "The city defense camp is in the hands of Ma Hedong and Chen Lan, what tricks can he make without a single soldier in his hands?" Let him stumble for a few more days. ”

When he went to the military academy, although Li Mao achieved his goal, he also had a regret, that is, he couldn't meet Zhao Hede, and his plan needed Zhao Hede to cooperate. Because of this, Li Mao had to take the risk to meet Wen Cheng, he rode straight to the Wen Mansion, ignoring the tail behind him, and entered through the main gate of the Wen Mansion in a bright light.

The city bureau and the military institute have close official contacts, and Li Mao came to find the clerk for a reason, but at this juncture, he came to see the clerk, which still surprised the clerk, but the person had arrived at home, and the clerk didn't dare to say anything, he glanced at Li Mao several times, and wanted to say something to him alone, but Li Mao didn't seem to see it.

Wen Cheng has Shang He Lai's eyeliner by his side, which Li Mao knows well, for the safety of Wen Cheng, he refuses to meet with Wen Cheng in private. It's just that in this way, a lot of words have to be said around, but fortunately, the two have been friends for a long time, and they have already had a tacit understanding.

In order to cover his departure, Qingmo began to swagger around the city, sending a car of fresh vegetables to the judge of the Military Supervision Court in the morning, and sending Han Si's family out of the city in the afternoon. The soldiers in charge of following him were dazed by him, and gradually relaxed.

Qingmo seized the opportunity to find the entrance to the ditch in Fengdafang, and the family who smashed it with money was forced to cooperate with him.

After Qingmo sent a cart of fresh vegetables to Zhou Hong from the Military Supervision Academy, Zhou Hong sent his godson to give Li Mao a box of snacks in return, and brought a message along the way, Zhou Hong told Li Mao that according to the exact news he got from the Yunzhou Military Supervision Academy, Yin Mu had been taken back to Chang'an by an angel, and Yu Hualong had been placed under house arrest by Li Shigu, and it was absolutely impossible to return to Gushan Town. After Yu Hualong became the deputy envoy of the Ziqing Pinglu Army, Li Zhenke, the former deputy envoy, was released as the envoy of Cao, Pu and Yan to command the armies of the three states and deal with the increasingly fierce rebellion of the displaced people.

Li Zhenke is a famous general of the Pinglu Army, and at this time he took the rank of deputy envoy to serve as the envoy of the three states, so why he came, Li Mao knew it, and what he was looking forward to now was that Yang Yuanyin, the commander of the Pinglu Army stationed in Caozhou, could agree to his request and send an envoy to Gushan Town as soon as possible.