Chapter 400: Investigate Corruption

In fact, Zhao Ziliang learned the details of these officials and generals in the Hedong Jiedu Embassy before he came, and if he wanted to take office, how could he not know about his future subordinates? This is also the reason why Zhao Ziliang can enter the state too quickly every time he goes to a place.

After some introduction, everyone entered the city and came to the Datong Military Envoy's Mansion that had already been arranged, which is not only Zhao Ziliang's place to deal with official documents and military affairs, but also a place to place his family, the backyard of the Military Envoy's Mansion covers a large area, there are many rooms, and there is a place for practicing martial arts.

Just settled his family, Zhao Ziliang changed into his regular clothes and came to the lobby, the officials and generals were sitting on the chairs on the left and right sides chatting, everyone saw Zhao Ziliang come out, and they all got up and saluted together: "General!" ”

Zhao Ziliang pressed his hand: "Let's all sit down"

"Thank you, General!"

Everyone sat down, and Yunzhou Taishou Ma Sheng, as the highest local official, stood up and said to Zhao Ziliang: "The commander and the two generals Zhang and Gao have been tired all the way, and the lower officials and others have arranged a banquet in the Star Picking Building to replace the commander and the two generals, and also ask the commander and the two generals to appreciate the light."

Zhang Shouyu and Gao Xiuyan didn't make a sound, their eyes looked ahead, they sat on the chair and straightened their waists and didn't move, Zhao Ziliang pondered for a moment and said: "It's okay, it's about to be the New Year, General Ben will go to have a meal with you and get to know each other, let's go."

The officials and generals breathed a sigh of relief, and Yunzhou Taishou Ma Sheng was overjoyed, and said repeatedly: "Please come forward, please go, please please."

Everyone came to the largest and most famous restaurant in the city - Xingxing Building, the shopkeeper of the restaurant had already gotten the news, cleared the restaurant, and took all the shopkeepers and chefs in the restaurant to stand at the door to greet them.

Zhao Ziliang was originally very disgusted by this phenomenon, but this was the first time he came to eat, and it was carefully prepared by the local officials, so he didn't want to reprimand him too much, but he lightly pointed to the restaurant shopkeeper, the guys and the chefs and said: "It's not good to do this, we are here to eat, not to inspect customs and official duties, not in the future, let them do what they should do, I, Zhao Ziliang, am just a junior general under the Holy Throne, and I don't need to put on any score."

Yunzhou Taishou Ma Sheng hurriedly admitted his mistake: "Yes, yes, what the commander said is that the lower officials are not thoughtful"

After admitting his mistake, Ma Sheng immediately waved to the shopkeeper of the restaurant: "Let's all be busy, ready to serve."

The shopkeeper saw that the new Left Wing Soldier and Horse Envoy and Datong Military Envoy turned out to be a small character that had just turned twenty, and he was disdainful, and immediately looked down on it, but he was a little respectful to Taishou Ma Sheng, and pretended to arch his hand and took the guys to get busy.

Under the leadership of Ma Sheng, everyone came to the third floor, there is only one hall here, there is a big table in the middle, the dishes and chopsticks have been placed, everyone is done in order according to the size of the official position, and the shopkeeper took the little two to come up with the wine and food.

After the wine and food were served, Ma Sheng first picked up his wine glass and smiled at the other officials and generals: "Everyone, come on, I will wait for the two generals to pay tribute to Shuai and Zhang Gao."

Everyone picked up their wine glasses and stood up, and Zhao Ziliang held the wine glass and pressed his hand: "Sit down, sit down, don't stand up, drink a glass together, this cup is also the general's thank you for your hospitality."

Everyone was happy, and they said that this young boss was not so difficult to get along with, and then the officials and generals let go, pushing the cups one by one, and drinking red-faced.

When the banquet was about to end, Zhao Ziliang put down the wine glass and chopsticks, wiped his mouth with a white napkin, and everyone couldn't help but put down the chopsticks and wine glasses when they saw him like this, waiting for him to speak.

Zhao Ziliang looked at everyone and said: "In normal times, you can treat me as a friend, talk to someone, and chat about it, but in official and military affairs, this general will never deal with things vaguely. It's almost the New Year, and before the New Year, the general doesn't want to find you unhappy, but after the year, the general must inspect the customs defense, the drills of the various armies, military regulations and discipline, weapons, armor, bows and arrows and other equipment and maintenance in the army, as well as the hoarding of grain and grass, and the state affairs have all been dealt with before the year, and the cases accumulated before the first month of the year will be dealt with before the fifteenth day of the first month of next year at the latest, and it can't be a matter of coping, if the number of troops and equipment does not meet the regulations of the imperial court, I hope you will find a way to solve it as soon as possible. But if you want to fool and deceive General Ben, General Ben can tell you that you can be deceived once, but you can't be deceived twice, sooner or later you will be exposed, and at that time, don't blame General Ben for turning his face and not recognizing people, no matter how capable you are, no matter how much power you have here, no matter how hard your backer is, when General Ben wants to kill someone, he will never move a rescue soldier for you, and when your rescuer arrives, your head has already landed, and after killing you, General Ben will fight with your backer in the ring. If you want to try, just let the horses come, and General Ben will set an example for others with your head! ”

Everyone was shocked by Zhao Ziliang's understated words, and the change in everyone's face was too exciting, and they all said in their hearts that they were not okay just now? How can this say that turning the face is turning the face? The young man is really unstable, and he thinks that one is one out!

After the banquet dispersed, everyone left with their own thoughts, Cui Jinrong, the Taishou of Shuozhou, Gu Tongming, the military envoy of Qilan, Wu Tiande of Yunzhong, Wei Bingyan, the Taishou of Ulzhou, and the captains of Shuozhou and Ulzhou counties all rushed back immediately, and they didn't know if they were frightened by Zhao Ziliang's tone, or if they simply didn't want to stay here.

Zhao Ziliang really kept his promise and did not inspect official affairs and military affairs before the New Year, which made the officials of the three states and the generals of the Lan Army, the Datong Army and the guards in the clouds secretly relieved, but he secretly sent more than half of the servants to disguise themselves as various identities to investigate the actual situation of the official affairs of the three states and the military affairs of the various armies, and even some of the guards of Zhang Shouyu and Gao Xiuyan were sent out to help collect news.

Zhao Ziliang's family finally spent a reunion year together this year, plus Zhao Hu's nephew, this year was very lively, and the Chinese New Year's Eve set off firecrackers until midnight.

After the New Year, his nephew Zhao Hu was full of sixteen years old, seventeen years old, his body completely grew into an adult, born with a powerful body, practicing the qi mantra given to him by Zhao Ziliang, and constantly soaking and bathing in medicinal soup Peiben Guyuan, in the past few years, his strength has even surpassed that of Brehan, and he has not fallen behind at all in the battle with Zhang Shouyu and Gao Xiuyan.

This kid doesn't have much interest in reading, and he doesn't have any talent in this area, he only read four books "Book of Songs", "University", "Mencius", "The Mean", under the teaching of Mr., he barely knows more than 3,000 words, can read and write, but let him write articles, chant poems, even if he drives ducks to the shelves.

Zhao Hu has no interest in reading, and Zhao Ziliang has no other way, since this kid wants to enter the military with martial arts, Zhao Ziliang can only find him some military books for him to read, and at the same time strengthen his teaching in martial arts, equestrianism and mounted archery.

Just after the New Year, Zhao Hu came to Zhao Ziliang and said, "Second uncle, I want to enter the army for training."

Zhao Ziliang was looking at the investigation report collected by Hu from all over Sanzhou, and when he heard this, he raised his head and said: "No, your body has not grown yet, and it is not appropriate to enter the army at this time."

Zhao Hu was anxious: "Why not, didn't you join the army at the age of fifteen, second uncle?" It's not like I'm a general."

Zhao Ziliang shook his head and said: "Back then, your second uncle had no way to join the army, otherwise your father would have to join the army, now we don't need to join the army at such a young age, and when your body grows up next year, the second uncle will let you enter the army for training, this year you give me another year of good training, if you practice well this year, your potential will increase greatly, and your strength and martial arts will improve much faster than others in the future, and your potential will be much deeper than others, understand?" ”

Zhao Hu immediately said: "Second uncle, let me enter the army next year for training, this is what you said."

Zhao Ziliang waved his hand and said: "I said it, what I said counted."

Zhao Hu left satisfied.

After the fifteenth day of the first month of the Shangyuan Festival, Zhao Ziliang began to officially enter the state of dealing with official business, the first thing to check is the government affairs and finances of Yunzhou, in the eyes of the ancients, the cumbersome account books, in Zhao Ziliang's view, it is not too simple, at a glance, Zhao Ziliang only took half an hour to check all the accounts in Yunzhou Mansion, and found a lot of problems.

Next, Zhao Ziliang checked the case files he had handled in the past few years, and also found many problems, many of which were perfunctory and hastily closed, and some were obviously unjust.

It only took half a day for Zhao Ziliang to check the Yunzhou Mansion, and Zhao Ziliang sat on the stage and looked at the Yunzhou Taishou Ma Sheng who was in a cold sweat below.

"Hehe, Ma Taishou, you are really fooling the official, in the past two years, there have been a total of 452 large and small cases, including 128 criminal cases, and all the other civil dispute cases, the official has carefully checked it, at least one-third of these cases were closed in a hurry, and there are 22 criminal cases that were tortured into tricks, can you give General Ben an explanation?"

Ma Sheng took out a handkerchief and kept wiping the sweat beads on his forehead, his lips trembled, but he didn't know how to explain.

Zhao Ziliang took out a large number of account books and put them on the desk with a smile: "In the past two years, General Ben has carefully calculated the account books of Yunzhou Mansion, and there is a difference of at least 450,000 yuan, where did the 450,000 yuan go?" ”

With a "plop", Ma Sheng knelt on the ground with a pale face, and shouted: "The general spares his life, spare his life, this money is not taken by the lower officials alone, the lower officials only took 100,000 yuan at most, and the other part of the money was taken by the small officials and officials below, and the big head was ・・・・・・ by the ・・・・・・."

Zhao Ziliang shouted and asked, "Who took the big head?" (To be continued.) )