"Lord, you see that this is the latest newspaper sent by the Yuanmeng Imperial Court."

Xiangyang City, in the study of the General's Mansion, knew that Zhang Shihua attached great importance to the overall situation of the world. So after getting this latest report from the Yuanmeng Imperial Court, Li Wu couldn't help but send it to Zhang Shihua as soon as possible.

"Yes! Chahan Timur, a native of Shenqiu, Yingzhou, and Li Siqi, a native of Luoshan, Xinyang Prefecture, rebelled with the rebels, and made meritorious contributions to the thieves, and awarded Chahan Timur Zhongshun Doctor, Runing Mansion Daru Huachi, and Li Siqi knew Runing Mansion. Zhang Shihua read this sentence in the newspaper, and he had a general understanding of the history of the late Yuan Dynasty, and his originally calm heart couldn't help but make some waves with this news.

"Chakhan Timur, a native of Shenqiu, Yingzhou. Shenqiu people, Shenqiu? Don't...... Damn it! As if he suddenly remembered something, Zhang Shihua couldn't help but slam the table in front of him angrily.

"Lord, you ...... What's wrong? Seeing Zhang Shihua like this, Li Wu, who sent the newspaper to Zhang Shihua, couldn't help but be taken aback.

"It's fine." It's just that I hate that I had no eyes and didn't know that I let go of a big fish for nothing.

After suddenly remembering that the 'Mr. Li' who fought against him in Shenqiu was most likely Chakhan Timur, Zhang Shihua couldn't help but feel a depressed feeling of regret and broken intestines.

So now although he says that it's okay, looking at Zhang Shihua's face now, he definitely knows that things are not so simple.

However, Li Wu didn't dare to ask more about this.

After all, the more time passes, the heavier Zhang Shihua's prestige will be in the hearts of these people. So when he saw Zhang Shihua getting angry, even a close person like Li Wu, who followed Zhang Shihua every day, couldn't help but be frightened, where did he dare to talk more.

Damn, how did I let such a big fish go. What the labor and management thought at the beginning, they ...... "Hey! ”

Looking at the newspaper in his hand, and then thinking that he had let go of a figure no less than Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhang Shihua, who became more and more depressed the more he thought about it, couldn't help but sigh deeply.

"Ah Wu." He sighed depressedly. After supporting his forehead with his hand and rubbing his temples fiercely, Zhang Shihua couldn't help but turn his gaze to Li Wu again.

"The last general!" Seeing Zhang Shihua's gaze sweeping, Li Wu, who knew that Zhang Shihua was in a bad mood now, couldn't help but kneel down on one knee and answer the order.

"Ah Wu, you should call Yu Junda to me immediately, I have something important to tell him."

"Yes, the last general obeys!" When Li Wu heard this, he couldn't help but be ordered to retreat as soon as possible.

And it wasn't until he stepped down that Li Wu thought about Zhang Shihua's abnormal behavior just now, and Zhang Shihua now had something important to tell Yu Junda, a guy who specializes in intelligence. I couldn't help but vaguely guess that Zhang Shihua's abnormal behavior should have a major relationship with the Tartar named Chakhan Timur.

However, after these thoughts were born, they were once again entered into his heart.

What Zhang Shihua wants Li Wu to know, he Li Wu will know, and if he doesn't want Li Wu to know, he Li Wu will never know. And this is the most important reason why Li Wu has been able to serve as the commander of the pro-guard for so long.

……

Two quarters of an hour later, Yu Junda, who was a thousand households, couldn't help but come to Zhang Shihua for the first time.

"The last general, Yu Junda, meet the lord!" In the study, when he saw Zhang Shihua, Yu Junda couldn't help but push the gold mountain and bow to Zhang Shihua like a jade pillar.

"Alright, let's excuse me." Zhang Shihua said, waved his hand and let him stand up.

Although Yu Junda is now in charge of the intelligence department under Zhang Shihua. But because this so-called intelligence unit, the 'Dark Guard', has just been established, not long ago. So Yu Junda's rights and position are actually very low. Therefore, now, he does not have the qualifications to sit and talk to Zhang Shihua like Zhao Ziyu or Guo Yu. And Zhang Shihua didn't let him sit down.

After all, the ancient intelligence services and secret services, in order to ensure their purity. These kinds of departmental organizations are isolated from outside forces, they are only responsible to their founders, and all their rights come from the founders.

So whether it is today or in the future, Zhang Shihua wants to kill him Yu Junda, but it is just a matter of one sentence.

And in such a very unequal situation, how dare Yu Junda sit and talk to Zhang Shihua; How could he sit and talk to Zhang Shihua.

After all, strictly speaking, like Yu Junda or Secret Guard, it is just a tool in Zhang Shihua's hands.

And for this, Yu Junda himself also understands. So after he took over the position, he adapted to the position perfectly. Because Yu Junda is an ambitious person in his bones, he knows that as long as he does this job well and shows enough loyalty, then his efforts will be rewarded enough.

"Lord, I don't know what the Lord is going to come at the end?" According to Zhang Shihua's instructions, after getting up from the ground, Yu Junda couldn't help but ask.

Hearing his question, Zhang Shihua paused, looked at him and couldn't help but say: "That's the case, I need you to send someone to Ruyang Mansion now to find out a person's intelligence news for me." That person is called Ashi Badulu, and he has now become the Daru Huachi of Ruyang Mansion appointed by the Yuanmeng Imperial Court. ”

"I'll give you a month, and after a month, I hope I can see a sufficiently detailed piece of intelligence, do you understand?"

"Yes, the last general understands. The last general is willing to make a military order, and he will live up to the trust of the lord. When Yu Junda heard this, he immediately made a loud guarantee.

Seeing him like this, Zhang Shihua nodded silently. Then he waved his hand, and he couldn't help but let him retreat.

When he stepped back, Zhang Shihua couldn't help but unfold a map on the table.

Looking at this map of the territory of Yuanmeng, he was silent for a long time, and finally couldn't help but sigh, "Hey, the situation in this world is really getting more and more chaotic." ”

……

Time passed slowly, and in the blink of an eye, I couldn't help but reach the twentieth day of the lunar month.

And from this day on, the officials of the attached black-clothed army, big and small, were finally able to rest after being busy for nearly a year.

According to the holiday arrangement of the Ming and Qing dynasties in the later generations, Zhang Shihua prepared his officials to 'seal' for a month this time.

After all, since the beginning of the year, Zhang Shihua's generals and officials have been busy, and there has been no holiday for the whole year. Now that we can finally have a relatively stable year, it's time to compensate them.

So even his soldiers, Zhang Shihua prepared a lot of food and wine for them, so as to treat them.

Of course, because the New Year is approaching, the middle-aged flavor of Xiangyang City can't help but become stronger and stronger.

Although it is said that in the past year, Xiangyang can be described as a series of disasters. But fortunately, the two most important seasons of the year, spring ploughing and autumn harvest, have not been greatly affected. Moreover, after Zhang Shihua took Xiangyang as his governing place, the tax revenue in Xiangyang was reduced and the abnormal prosperity brought to Xiangyang City.

Therefore, after a year, most of the people of Xiangyang also have some surplus wealth in their hands. So this year, compared to previous years, it is still better.

Of course, for the vast majority of ordinary people, the Chinese New Year is to buy new clothes and buy some New Year's goods.

Like later generations, fireworks, red lanterns and so on, but only large families consume them.

But at this time, there are many big families in Xiangyang City. Although it is said that the original big families in the city have dissipated except for the two families of Lin and Lou. But don't forget that there are also those high-level generals under Zhang Shihua.

Although they can only be regarded as nouveau riche compared to others. But as Zhang Shihua went to war, the generals who got a lot of loot later. For more than a year, all of them are quite wealthy.

Therefore, under the simple thinking of these people who 'have money, they must show off well', Xiangyang City suddenly became much more lively.

However, unlike them, Zhang Shihua was not so extravagant, and at this time he only roughly dressed up his general's mansion. And did not use the money in the public treasury to buy lanterns and decorate the streets.

After all, the black-clothed army's exploits were created, and such a flashy face project is really not interesting.

In Zhang Shihua's mind, instead of doing this, it is better to take out this money to do some practical things.

Therefore, starting on the day of the lunar New Year, Zhang Shihua asked Li Wu and others to distribute the cotton clothes or food that had been prepared long ago to some poor people in the city in the name of condolences.

Although it is difficult to fundamentally solve their problems with Zhang Shihua's behavior, Zhang Shihua's behavior has undoubtedly won praise from the people of Xiangyang.

Of course, there are also some people who say that Zhang Shihua's move is just to 'sell his reputation and reputation'. But this kind of person is a very small number after all, and the facts are there, Zhang Shihua is not afraid of other people's evaluations, and naturally he doesn't bother to pay attention to these clowns.

In addition to this 'little thing' that Zhang Shihua himself didn't care much about, what moved Zhang Shihua even more was actually the behavior of his wife Guo Weier.

After becoming pregnant, Guo Weier, as Zhang Shihua's wife, mobilized the maids who knew how to needlework in the house to sew more than 200 pairs of military shoes for Zhang Shihua and the black-clothed sergeants.

In this regard, Zhang Shihua couldn't help but be moved by a kind of 'if you have a wife, what more can a husband ask for'.

So after he neutralized these soldiers who had made meritorious contributions to the military shoe army, these soldiers couldn't help but feel glorious.

So much so that except for Zhang Shihua himself, none of the remaining soldiers who received shoes were willing to wear them.

……

Time passed day by day in precious peace, and in the blink of an eye, it couldn't help but reach the 29th of the lunar month.

That night, in Xiangyang City, as long as the civil officials had a position above the seventh grade, and as long as the military attaché had a position at the level of a thousand households, they all came to Marshal Pingzhang's Mansion at the invitation of Zhang Shihua.

It is said that a full-fledged hundred-household official is already an official from the sixth grade. But there is no way, there are too many generals under Zhang Shihua, if you count the level of 100 households and deputy 1000 households, it is estimated that there will be five or six hundred generals alone.

And with Zhang Shihua's Marshal's Mansion in Xiangyang City, even if it is doubled, it is impossible to hold such a large-scale banquet.

So it can only be limited in this way. But even so, tonight, there were still fifty fewer people in the position of Qianhu, and the number was still much more than that of civilian officials.

But there's no way around it. After all, under normal circumstances, a territory as large as Zhang Shihua is just to maintain three households with a scale of 7,000 people.

But now, the number of soldiers and horses stationed near Xiangyang City alone has reached 40,000, and the total number of troops under Zhang Shihua's command has even reached 73,000. It is not uncommon for military generals to have so many more military officials than civilian officials.

But even so, the current clerks under Zhang Shihua do not have 'rare things are expensive' at all.

The status of civilian officials is still inferior to that of military generals. After all, in this world of great controversy, the regime established by Zhang Shihua is still centered on his black-clothed soldiers.

However, at this stage of the creation of the meritorious cause, there is no big contradiction between the military general group and the civilian official group, and the two are also in the honeymoon period of cooperation.

Therefore, after seventy or eighty generals were invited to Zhang Shihua's marshal's mansion, the two chatted and talked with each other, and they seemed very harmonious.

"Lord Heizhang has arrived!" Waiting for all the generals to arrive, accompanied by Li Wu's singing, Zhang Shihua, who was dressed in a purple robe and hung a sword on his waist, couldn't help but step out surrounded by several armor-clad guards.

"I'll wait to see my lord!" The name of the monarch and the minister is certain, and all the generals in the courtyard, including Meng Haima and others, will naturally no longer call Zhang Shihua Pingzhang. So when they saw Zhang Shihua coming out, these people couldn't help but get up from their seats one after another and bow respectfully to Zhang Shihua.

Yes, there is Zhang Shihua alone at this time. It is said that on this occasion, Guo Weier, who is Zhang Shihua's wife and the mother of a group of generals, will also attend.

However, Guo Weier is now more than eight months pregnant, so it is naturally impossible to attend at this time.

"Haha, okay, you don't have to be so polite, tonight is a time for me to be happy, so hurry up and take a seat." Saying this with a smile, Zhang Shihua lifted his robe, and couldn't help but sit in his seat.

And the generals in the courtyard, after seeing Zhang Shihua sitting down, and then thanking him in unison, couldn't help but get up one after another.

"From the beginning of the year to the present, all the monarchs have worked hard for a whole year, so you must not be so restrained. Come on, let's have a drink for tonight's beautiful day and happy hour. In order to open up the atmosphere, Zhang Shihua, who was sitting in the main seat, smiled and picked up his wine glass.

When everyone in the hall heard Zhang Shihua's words, they smiled and said all kinds of deplorable words, and they all picked up their wine glasses.

Therefore, after drinking a few large glasses of wine in various names, the people who gradually opened couldn't help but bring this banquet to a climax.