Pushing open the door, I found that there was a beautiful woman sitting inside with short sleeves and a hat, with a green veil on the hat, and a beautiful woman under the tulle.

When the girl saw someone push the door open and came in, she recognized the man she had been waiting for a long time, and asked angrily, "Didn't you say that you would arrive in the morning?" Why did you come later than me? "The sound is clear and pleasant like a breeze passing through a silver bell.

Zheng Yunming smiled dumbly and asked, "Where is the girl, and why did she come to me?" ”

The girl motioned for Zheng Yunming to sit down at the table, took out a letter from her arms and handed it over.

Zheng Yunming followed the letter with the girl's body temperature, and his heart suddenly became a little blurry. Immediately, his face was slightly red, and he opened the letter and read it carefully.

The person who wrote the letter claimed to be an old friend of Prime Minister Zheng and now lives in Changsha. Prime Minister Zheng Cheng recently made a special trip to bring him a letter, hoping that he could send people to protect his third son who took office in Xiangyang Mansion. But recently, the family's business is really unable to leave, and there are many other things entangled, so he sent his right-hand man Shi Wenhu to protect the son, also known as this person's martial arts, powerful as an ox, and a solid and reliable person without any problems.

Zheng Yunming almost didn't laugh out loud when he held the letter: "Shi Wenhu? You? ”

The girl pouted: "It's not like it?" Who stipulates that women can't be called Shi Wenhu? ”

"The personal guards are different from men and women, how can we live in the same room?"

"Phew, I've already set up the next room, I'll go through the window as soon as there's a wind and grass here, don't worry."

Shi Wenhu stood up, walked to the window and looked at it, then returned to sit down at the table, and said in a low voice: "At present, one of the top spies of the Mongols has been mixed in Xiangyang City. This man is the most important intelligence collector of the Mongols, where he appears, where he will attract the attack of the Mongol army, the legend on the rivers and lakes is that he is the last procedure before the Mongol invasion, the sum of the intelligence collected by the spy network that infiltrated the enemy country before. For the safety of Xiangyang Mansion, he must not be allowed to move around the city at will. So usually in addition to protecting you, I have to take some time to find him. ”

Zheng Yunming slapped the table: "Oh, this is an important matter, you hurry up and do this, if you let go of this powerful character, our Da Song Ke will suffer a big loss, I have stayed well in Xiangyang City, how can someone come to harm for no reason?" ”

"That's what you said." Shi Wenhu jumped up and walked to the back window, turned around and threw over a thing, seeing that thing was coming towards Zheng Yunming's door, Han Shilang stretched out his hand to invite him, only to find that it was a beautifully decorated copper whistle, and a small kingfisher was engraved on the whistle.

When the three of them looked up, they saw that the back window was wide open, Shi Wenhu had already disappeared, and her clear voice came from a distance above the eaves: "When you encounter danger, just blow this whistle~~~~"

"Father has always been serious and cautious in what he says and does, why did he invite such an unreliable little lady to be a bodyguard this time?" Zheng Yunming threw the whistle to Xian'er: "Let's not care about her, wash and sleep!" ”

"It's only been a day, and it's caused a big mess!" Zhao Fan, the envoy of Jinghu Production, slapped the letter in his hand on the table fiercely, "Send someone to arrest that Zheng Yunming immediately, please come!" ”

Zheng Yunming was in the yamen of the transfer department and worked with An Zhi to sort out the summary of the distribution of money and grain. Suddenly, the tooth soldiers of the envoy broke into the door, looking at their straight faces, Zheng Yunming knew that this second time was definitely not a happy event.

"This is the petition received by the envoy department today and the soldiers of the battalions of the Northern and Southern Army, you can take a look at it yourself!" Zhao Fan turned his back and pointed to a stack of letters on the table.

"The soldiers of the battalions who defeated the enemy, were invincible, and brave, and when they heard that the sergeants under Fan Wenbin were given grain and grass in front of the transfer department, the crowd was in an uproar, and they also demanded that they do the same. In front of the tents of the commanders of the various armies, there was a lot of turmoil, and the requests put forward were all for the transfer department to send people to order troops to distribute them. The generals Huang and Li Zhu have already sworn in front of Ben Shuai: If they follow the advice of the soldiers, they will only be officials who are not suitable for the imperial court, and they will return to the field to retire! This is all the trouble caused by you Zheng Yunming! ”

Zheng Yunming had long expected that in a stable and functioning social system, it would not be easy to promote change. But I didn't expect the obstacle of reality to be so hard, and I only changed the law slightly, and immediately encountered a fierce backlash from vested interests.

Huang Guobi and Li Boyuan were both generals who surrendered from the north, and when Duanping entered Luo, they surrendered to the Mongols together as generals under Cui Li, the former marshal of the Jin Kingdom, and launched a mutiny to kill Cui Li, and surrendered from Mongolia to the Song Dynasty again. Therefore, for the Song Dynasty, they were one of the heroes who guaranteed the success of restoring the ancestral tombs, even if the later operation into Luo failed. The Song Dynasty did not treat these generals badly, and let them lead their troops to be stationed in the important places of Jinghu.

For Zhao Fan, the supreme commander of Jinghu who has always been committed to Yanyun, having these people join is a rare help. The defeat in Luoluo a few years ago proved that the local troops of the Song Dynasty led by Quan Zicai and Xu Minzi did not have the strength to compete with the Mongolian field army. In the concept of the Great Song Dynasty monarchs and ministers, these strong men from the north were much more tenacious and capable of fighting than the cowardly southerners. Moreover, these troops were originally stationed in Heluo, and they were familiar with the mountains and geography as well as the customs. Zhao Zhizhi, who was determined to achieve great achievements and wash away the shame of the fiasco in Luo, wanted to appease them even more.

At such a critical time, how could you offend the main generals of the Northern Army because of such a trivial matter as greedy ink?

Zheng Yunming thought of this, he already saw sweat on his forehead, and the matter was not handled well, so it was possible to be dismissed from his official position.

"The matter of releasing grain on the street is indeed a poor consideration by the lower officials, and there is any punishment for the system, and Yun Ming does not dare to complain." Zheng Yunming knelt on one knee and bowed his head to apologize.

"Wait." A person suddenly broke into the hall, and because he was in such a hurry, even the black gauze hat wings on his head were a little crooked. The person who came was Zheng Yunming's boss Li Bodu.

"Tracing the accounts of the Fan Du Commander was originally an order personally issued by the envoy. Therefore, it almost led to a mutiny, and it was precisely because of this order. Counselor Zheng solved this uncaused disaster when he arrived in Xiangyang, and he was guilty of merit and innocence, and now he is condemned. It is clearly said that the rules and regulations of the system and the yamen are not clear, and how to motivate the soldiers to work for the system and make the adults work in the future? ”

Zhao Fan sneered: "What do you mean, all this has become the handsome, isn't it?" ”

"Naturally, it has nothing to do with the handsome, the lower officials just think that this matter needs to be dealt with cautiously, not only to take care of the emotions below, but also to take care of the emotions above" Li Bodu said this, raised his eyelids slightly, and glanced at Zheng Yunming.

Zhao Fan naturally understood what this meant, waved his hand and said: "The truth is true, but it is also necessary to take care of the face of the generals of the Northern Army." The petty officials can't stay in the city anymore, so the Transit Department will find a local job and let the petty officials do it first. In the future, when the resentment is gone, they will find another opportunity to transfer it back. ”

This is the truth of officialdom. After Zheng Yunming thanked him and withdrew, Zhao Fan smiled self-deprecatingly: "This little Yanei was sent out of Xiangyang by me as soon as he arrived in Xiangyang, and he probably couldn't say anything good about me in front of the Qing Zhigong." ”

"I thought that Zheng Guanren would never say anything to you in front of Prime Minister Zuo." A man in the shadow of the tabernacle said.

"Degong, you have been in my shogunate for three years, and you have something to say directly in the open." Zhao Fan said impatiently. The pretense of the literati was a little unacceptable even to him, a son of an official family.

Luo Jian served as a staff officer in the shogunate of the Jinghu Shogunate, and before entering Zhao Fan's shogunate, he also served in the shogunate of several local officials. What the envoy was thinking, he had already guessed eight or nine.

"With your friendship with Zheng Xianggong, it is not just a day. Xiao Zheng Guanren is new to officialdom, if he says a bunch of bad things about you when they meet for the first time, do you think that with Zheng Xianggong's demeanor, you should listen to it? I think that although Xiao Zheng Guanren is young, he is not a stupid person, not only will he not slander you, but will praise you in his family letter for being fair and not showing favoritism. ”

"Not only is he not a stupid person, I'm afraid that this son is shrewd and capable, and he has a strategy in his chest, and he is far better than me and Zhao Kui ten times." Zhao Fan said lightly.

"It's an exaggeration to say that it's ten times better than you"

"It's not an exaggeration at all." Zhao Fan looked at the large number of petition letters on the table: "The generals of Jinghu have commanded the army for several years, and they have both grace and power. It was less than a day before a petty official set foot in this Xiangyang City, and he only did ten words, and he only did one thing, and he easily won the heart of the army. This Zheng Yunming's talent, do you still need to talk about it in detail? ”

Zheng Yunming, who is full of strategy, has no way at all now.

The excited crowd shouted and scolded, shoved, and all kinds of ugly local words burst out like ripe popcorn.

If it weren't for the 1,000 officers and soldiers temporarily deployed by Jiangling Mansion to reluctantly form a human wall to separate the three parties, I am afraid that the current Ezhou City Market would have been full of corpses and blood flowing on the Yangtze River.

Ezhou General Judge Li Gui's eyes were bloodshot, and he said loudly to Zheng Yunming: "From the transfer department, you have an idea!" ”

Zheng Yunming offended the generals of Xiangyang because of the release of grain in person, so he had to be "exiled" to the subordinate counties under Jinghu to temporarily avoid the limelight.

"It just so happens that the miners in Ezhou are making trouble, so you can go to Ezhou to find out the actual situation in the local area for the transfer department, and formulate corresponding countermeasures." Li Zhuan's envoy gave such an order.

His relaxed and happy tone seemed to order Zheng Yunming to go on an outing to the picturesque Ezhou.

But after coming to Ezhou, Zheng Yunming found that this mission had nothing to do with the word easy.