Early the next morning, Zhang Yue went to the hall as usual to inspect the matter, and after dealing with official business, he returned to the back hall to sign the detention room, and asked Li Duoshou to find out the town's household registration and acres, tax income in previous years, and the army's daily expenditure account, and found that there was not much difference between the previous marshals in the town, and it seemed that the salt field was not a day or two old. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The important staff positions such as the judge of the government department, the envoy of the branch, and the marching Sima are all vacant, and there is no suitable candidate for the time being, and many things are put on hold if there is no one to carry them out, and Zhang Yue is not in a hurry.

Just looking at the account book, a tooth soldier came in to report that Wang Yun, the father of Wang Yun, the tax envoy of the salt farm, came to ask for a meeting with more than a dozen relatives of the officials who committed the crime.

Li Duoshou went out for a while, and soon came in to report that Wang Dao agreed to take the lead and persuade the local wealthy families to collect 30% more tax grain this autumn than in previous years, and try to sell the seized illicit salt into grain and provide it to the government office.

Zhang Yue also asked Li Duoshou to find out the previous conviction case file, and reduced the amount of corruption and taxes of Li Yanyu, Wang Yun, Yu Guangliang, Sun Chi and other officials of the Jiedu Prefecture, as well as a criminal on the side of the state government, and reduced the amount of finance and taxes, but the government officials were still sent to Tokyo for final trial, and the families of these criminals had to pay more money to go to the Tokyo Criminal Department and Dali Temple to deal with it, but their lives were probably saved.

In mid-September, Han Hui and Dong Zunzhi brought 5,000 sets of armor by boat from Cangzhou, and the preliminary preparations for the Northern Expedition were already in progress.

As soon as Dong Zunzhi entered the palace, he couldn't wait to ask: "Zhang Xianggong!" My mother's whereabouts, dare I ask you if there is any news here? We only found out a little bit in the Deep State, so it's better to confirm it. ”

"Huh...... There is no definite news yet, but I am contacting a private salt dealer surnamed Zhuang in Youzhou, with this line, people will be able to find it sooner or later, tell me about what you have heard. Zhang Yue smiled and comforted, in fact, Li Duoshou had just gotten the relevant resume of Youzhou Zhuang from Li Yanqiao, and he had only transferred these to Le Pingyang for a few days, and he couldn't get in touch in a short time.

"Yuan Yuanjun inquired that my mother is now a cook and servant in Renqiu, Mozhou, and it is said that it was originally transferred to Yizhou Shilie Xiao Gaoliu for Youzhou in Liao, and later Xiao Gaoliu died in Gaoping, and the family servants were obtained by Mozhou Shilie Xiao Ximo, and the people are still there." Dong Zunzhi said with some excitement.

"Mozhou? If this information is true, and there is a clear direction of the location, things will be much easier! Zhang Yue nodded, and found a military map of Hebei to spread out on the table, Mozhou Prefecture Zhirenqiu is northwest of Cangzhou Qingchi, but the waterways are not connected. From the nearest Qianning Town, there are still 200 miles by land, which is still very risky.

Zhang Yue looked at the map and measured the distance, thinking that his government was still short of manpower, so he raised his head and said: "In this way, you will serve in my Cangzhou government office first, and wait for the right time to think of a way, and you must be foolproof to save people." ”

"This ...... But the last will be the Forbidden Army Guard, can you call it out? Dong Zunzhi turned his head to look at Han Hui, he was under Han Tong, which was equivalent to changing jobs.

"It's okay! How can a son of man not talk about filial piety, my father will definitely understand. Han Hui smiled and supported.

"Look...... Zisheng has expressed his position, and Han Taibao naturally doesn't care! Send someone to say hello another day! Zhang Yue said with a smile, Zisheng is Han Hui's cousin, and Zhang Yue called him like this to show kindness and not treat him as an outsider.

The next day, Zhang Yue also appointed Li Duoshou as the judge and secretary of the Cangzhou Festival, and asked him to pass on Le Pingyang to find Dong Zunzhi's mother as soon as possible; Dong Zunzhi was appointed as the commander of the Jiedu marching army and the commander of the Ya army, and Han Hui was appointed as the envoy of the branch and the tax envoy of the Changlu Salt Farm, so that the government finally operated normally.

Next, the 200,000 stone tax grain on the books, plus the 100,000 stone grain purchased by the seized smuggled salt, began to be stored one after another, and there was a soldier armor in his hand.

On 25 September, the armies arrived in Cangzhou one after another, and the large camp and school yard were set up on the bank of the Fuyang River, five miles northeast of the state city, and more than 20,000 soldiers were stationed.

Early in the morning of this day, Zhang Yue met with the generals of various armies in the Jiedu Mansion, and then surrounded by Yang Xuanli, Le Yanwen and other escort cavalry attendants, he took the generals of various armies to the camp for a review, and saw that the Dingyuan Army of Dongguang County, the Dezhou Ande Army, the Dizhou Jing'an Army, the Binzhou Bohai Navy, and the Cangzhou Qianning Army were all not bad. On the contrary, the 10,000 soldiers of Cangzhou Nanpi Army, Wudi Army, Qianfu Army, and Ya Army appeared to be untidy, and the old and weak were uneven.

As long as the governors who are also in charge of military affairs do not be greedy for money and eat empty quotas, they can generally maintain the quality of their soldiers, and if they are diligent and trained, they can maintain a certain combat effectiveness. Li Yanqi obviously did not know the soldiers and blindly withheld military supplies, so the officers could only eat the empty military rations and even resell them, and the combat strength of the Cangzhou army can be imagined.

Cangzhou's territory is too large, two or three hundred miles from north to south, and it is unrealistic to cut and merge the army, so it can only be divided into small military towns. Zhang Yue immediately ordered that among the ten armies under Henghaijie Town, the veterans over the age of 45 should be sent out of the ranks, and five buckets of grain and rice and money would be sent home to farm, and more than 6,000 soldiers would be laid off at one time that day.

The shortage of soldiers issued recruitment notices and recruited them in all states within the territory of the town, and the more than 10,000 soldiers left behind were trained separately according to the naval division and the infantry cavalry. There are more than 500 warships in the Henghai Navy, and each army of the Navy Division has several battalions, which can be deployed at any time in wartime, but the warhorses are very few, and the Ya Army and the Qianning Army on the border between Mozambique and Win each have more than 1,000 horses.

By the end of October, the troops were fully equipped and the training had achieved initial results, but the combat quality of the various armies was still high, and the three military prefectures in the south and the Qianning Army in the north were still much stronger, and the Cangzhou Fourth Army could not keep up in a short time.

Zhang Yue simply came to a drill, in which the Jing'an Army, the Qianning Army, the Ande Army, the Bohai Navy, the Ya Army, and the Dingyuan Army, which performed well and ranked well, gave priority to changing their outfits.

has been busy with the training of the whole army, and Zhang Yue also sleeps in the barracks at night, mixing with officers and soldiers. That night, Zhang Yue had just fallen asleep, and Yang Xuanli came in with the commander of the patrol outside the camp and handed over a sign with a white moire gold carving pattern carved on it, which was used by paper-level military intelligence agents.

Zhang Yue understood at a glance, took the sign and put it in his arms, praised and sent away the patrol commander, and asked Yang Xuanli to go outside the camp to bring people into the big tent of the Chinese army, but he was a thin and narrow face, looking like a rooster and a dog thief.

As soon as this person entered the tent, he quickly glanced left and right, and immediately knelt down on one knee and arched his hand: "Shi Sanlang, the Hebei Branch of the Military Intelligence Division!" Feng Le Du envoy came to report to the lord, Le Du envoy has found the person surnamed Zhuang in Youzhou, this person is not a smuggling salt dealer, but a big thief in the territory of Liao, often active in You, Ji, Daibei, Hebei area, not only engaged in robbery and robbery, but also do some business, it is said that some border generals of Liao also secretly corresponded, selling the booty obtained from the grass valley on behalf of the seller. ”

"Oh? Interesting! What is this person's name? Does he have any intention of joining Da Zhou? Zhang Yue suddenly became interested and asked.

"This person is said to be from the family of the general school in Youzhou, his surname is Shao, and the Le Du envoy promised him an official position as a military commander, but he was not very interested, and arrogantly said that he would be willing to help if he wanted to lead more than 10,000 troops, and the Le Du envoy did not dare to agree, so he sent the small one back to pass the gift." Shi Saburo replied.

"Zhuang Shao? As long as he really has this talent, he will promise him now! Zhang Yue laughed when he heard this, he is probably also a young and wild guy, but there is such a chess piece just to save a person, it is a bit overkill, I can't help but think for a moment, a complete set of plans and strategies have been formed in my mind, and I nodded and said: "A certain handwritten letter, you let Le Pingyang hand it over to him, if you want to be a general, you have to rely on your ability!" ”