Zheng Yunming then explained how he had intercepted the Mongol army in Shashi since the beginning of the war. How was the remaining cottage almost broken by Shi Tianze's army. After receiving the warrant from the Governor's Office, how to oversee the army to break the enemy in Wulipo was told to him one by one.

Wei Liaoweng couldn't help smiling and nodding, all the way from Lin'an, the front-line battle reports he received were intricate, and it was impossible to distinguish between true and false. There are war reports that De'an's rebels, dissatisfied with the Mongol bullying, have rebelled, and have captured the Mongol marshal Tachar and the rebel leader Chang Jin, and are waiting for the official army to advance.

There are also war reports that Chang Jin led the rebels to lead the Mongols to attack around Jinghu in Huaixi, and the banners of the rebels were seen in many places. It is also said that the places north of the two counties of Zhijiang and Yidu have been occupied by the Mongols, and the Mongols are preparing to cross the river with swords and axes.

Meng Hui of Huangzhou sent information that Zhao Fan had broken the Mongol cavalry at the west gate of Xiangyang and that the corpses of the Mongols were floating everywhere on the Han River.

Later, He Yuanshou, the commander-in-chief of Huguang, reported again: What Meng Heng said was not true, and the Mongols still posed a serious threat to the second city of Xiangfan.

Some people say that the Mongols demolished the city walls in Zaoyang, used houses to make siege equipment, and planned to spend the summer in Zaoyang, and then continued the attack.

All kinds of reports of unknown truth and falsehood seriously interfered with Wei Liaoweng's combat deployment, and it was not until today that he got the battle situation personally narrated by the general in front of him, and the situation in Jinghu suddenly dissipated like a fog, clearly displayed in front of Wei Liaoweng's eyes.

He asked eagerly, "Do you think Xiangyang is safe now?" ”

Zheng Yunming thought about it for a moment and said cautiously: "The disciple doesn't dare to guarantee that Xiangyang is foolproof, but at least from the current point of view, the main force of the Mongols is gradually shrinking. After a autumn of strategy, they themselves also suffered a lot of losses, and blindly attacked Xiangyang without replenishing their troops, and the disciples thought that the Mongols would not be without a plan. ”

"What we should be wary of is the situation in Xiangyang City."

Wei Liaoweng said: "I have quickly dispatched Li Hu, the commander of Zhenjiang, Wang Fu, Yang Fuxing, Zhao Sheng and other subordinates to rush forward to rescue Xiangyang. Only the official of the Imperial Infantry Military Division, Wang Jian, supported the troops and respected himself, stayed in many ways, and urged him several times by letter, but the progress was still slow. ”

Zheng Yunming persuaded: "The local officers and soldiers have been arrogant for a long time, and it is already a stubborn disease to support the troops, so you don't have to be angry. I don't expect anything big to happen in Xiangyang in the near future. ”

"I hope so," Wei Liweng was about to say something, and suddenly coughed rapidly.

Zheng Yunming hurriedly beat his back while gently smoothing his chest.

Wei Liaoweng, who had finally calmed down, rested on his seat for a while before he spoke: "If you have anything to report, just report it." ”

"Can be your body"

"Don't talk nonsense!" Wei Liaoweng shouted: "If you don't report something, it's the most hurtful thing for me!" ”

Zheng Yunming took two steps back, confessed his guilt, and said, "I have come to see the superintendent for a few things. ”

So he first truthfully reported the alleged rape of the people by his subordinate sergeants to Wei Liaoweng.

Wei Liaoweng said without hesitation: "A confession alone is not enough to believe, I will take this person down first, and when you come back to Yingzhou, we will try the case between the three parties, and the truth will not be difficult to find out."

Sure enough, everyone who has been in the officialdom for a long time saw through He Yuanshou's tricks at a glance, and He Yuanshou couldn't use any tricks in front of the superintendent.

Zheng Yunming also said: "I am in a hurry to build the army, and the shogunate has not yet been established, and the generals must personally handle the correspondence and paperwork, which is very troublesome, so I especially ask you to add a few staff members to me to deal with some clerical and miscellaneous matters." ”

Wei Liaoweng tilted his head sideways and thought for a while, and suddenly smiled: "You said that you need Zhang Liang, Chen Ping, and Xiao He, I can't find it for you, there are indeed a few good candidates who are good at copywriting." ”

He instructed left and right: "Invite Liu Kezhuang here." ”

Zheng Yunming thought for a while and exclaimed: "Liu Kezhuang, could it be that Liu Qianfu who is famous for his poetry and writing?" ”

Wei Liaoweng said with a smile: "Exactly, Qianfu has been convicted and degraded for ten years, and he has only recently been reappointed as the editor of the Privy Council, this time I supervised Jinghu, and the imperial court asked him to follow him to do some clerical records, he has more than ten years of experience in the shogunate, and he is the most proficient in dealing with these things." ”

"If Liu Qianfu can handle these official documents, it will naturally be the most wonderful." Zheng Yunming is not a compliment, Liu Kezhuang's poems are unique even in the Southern Song Dynasty, where poetry flourished.

Zheng Yunming contemplated: "Sigh that the years have passed, and the fame has not yet been established; When scholars get old, opportunities come. Make General Li, meet Emperor Gao, what is the way of the Marquis of Wanhu? ”

Wei Liaoweng nodded and said: "He always talks about having great ambitions and no chance, but today I gave him such a chance, see what kind of credit he, the flying general, can make in the curtain of you, a young scholar?" ”

"I'm afraid that Mr. Liu wrote too many poems and neglected the work of the scribes." Zheng Yunming was discussing when he suddenly heard a voice outside the cabin saying: "Writing poetry is crazy, and writing official documents must be considered, the two are not contradictory." ”

It was Liu Kezhuang, who was now serving as the editor of the Privy Council, who had traveled in Jianghuai and Lin'an for more than ten years, and he couldn't hear the accent of his hometown of Fujian when he spoke.

"Mr. Zheng is worried that your copywriting skills are slow." Wei Liaoweng said with a smile: "Qianfu, show your hand to Uncle Mou." ”

Liu Kezhuang bowed to Zheng Yunming, turned to the governor and said, "Just ask the chief manager to ask the question." ”

"There is no need for anything else." Wei Liaoweng said: "Just take the case that the chief manager is encountering at the moment as the title, and write a report to my governor's office." ”

As he spoke, he told Liu Kezhuang in detail about the sergeant's rape of a woman.

Liu Kezhuang sat down, opened the inkstone, unfolded the scroll, polished the ink with his left hand, held the pen with his right hand, and listened attentively to Wei Liaoweng's words. Yun Pen flew and wrote on the official paper.

As he boasted, with a wave of a thousand papers, the pen walked the dragon and snake, and in less than a stick of incense, a sprinkling report was written under Liu Kezhuang's pen.

Zheng Yunming took the undried newspaper and read it carefully, only to realize that Liu Shiren had not traveled in the Jianghuai curtain for many years in vain.

The newspaper was full of the words "regret" and "painful", which seemed to be extremely disgusting for this immoral crime, and also promised to deal with the case strictly, let the prisoners be punished, and let the people be angry, as if they were shouldering all the responsibility.

But if you dig deeper, there is no intention in the report to admit that the crime was committed by your own sergeant, but what is emphasized at the beginning and end of the article is that the facts of the case are not yet clear, and it is necessary to organize human and material evidence and conduct multi-party investigations, and you must not ignore the clouds.

Even in the article, he insinuated that He Yuanshou and others "although it is not the affairs of the camp, they are willing to help each other uprightly", "they got the woman's oral confession, but they didn't know where they were", "the prisoner was categorical, and the chief manager of the yamen didn't know about it", which obviously means that He Yuanshou is nosy and doesn't say anything, and the whole incident is very likely to be unilaterally framed by him.

Although Liu Kezhuang heard this lawsuit for the first time, he had already seen a lot of cases in the Southern Song Dynasty army that framed each other and fought between the army, and he knew He Yuanshou's trick at a glance. The person who took the traitor, and did not need to be examined by the woman, and did not need to be identified by the victim in person, but only brought it to the peak to report it with a few confessions, not really wanting to maintain military discipline, and even more, it was not to put the criminal to death, all they wanted was to drive the Tulong army out of Yingzhou City.

Zheng Yunming was extremely surprised, although Liu Kezhuang's name was in the textbooks of later generations, he did not know the Tao after crossing over, but he met Liu Kezhuang only today. Liu Kezhuang came from Lin'an, and it can be said that he didn't know anything about Jinghu, but in the narrative of a few words from the governor and the minister, he clearly grasped the essence of this matter.

Zheng Yunming, who only has a vague concept of officialdom, needs such an experienced staff.

He bowed down to Liu Kezhuang and said sincerely: "Fang is my speech, if Mr. Liu does not give up, please come to Jinghu to help me." If Zheng Yunming can get the assistance of his husband, it will be like a rutted fish suddenly getting clear water, and he will swim happily without hindrance. ”

Wei Liaoweng also said: "There is Shenzhou in the northwest of the man, Ping Rongce, today's exhibition, now is a good time for the Qianfu to show his strategy, Zheng is the son of the Qing Zhigong, open-minded and straightforward, is your best master, don't miss this opportunity." ”

Liu Kezhuang bowed down and thanked him, and said: "I was convicted of my words and was idle by the imperial court for ten years, and now I have just been reinstated with such a warm invitation from Zheng Guanren, how can it not be a blessing for three lives?" ”

He bowed down to Zheng Yunming and said, "If the head of Meng does not give up, Liu is willing to drive for the tent!" ”

"That's right." Wei Liaoweng was obviously very satisfied with the combination of the guest and the host: "One of you is a scribe who is famous for poetry and writing, and the other is a scholar who mistakenly joined the army. ”

"I wish they were a little more murderous." Zheng Yunming sighed: "Although the country has fought for three hundred years, there is only tyranny in the army, but there is no courage to kill the enemy. That's where my biggest headache lies. ”

"Deeds must be believed, words must be fruitful, merit must be rewarded, and mistakes must be punished. It will motivate them to fight the thief. Wei Liaoweng said, and suddenly remembered a person: "I have a person here who is your old acquaintance, and there is a set of methods for governing the army, so it is better for you to be invited into the shogunate as well, and it will definitely come in handy to assist you in managing the army in the future." ”

Zheng Yunming casually agreed, but he had doubts in his heart: Who is the person he knows who is still under the tent of the Governor's Mansion?

Wei Liaoweng raised his hand and ordered, "Go and invite that gentleman." He said to Zheng Yunming again: "Take advantage of his efforts before he comes, what else do you need, let's report it together." ”

Zheng Yunming took out a document from his sleeve, on which the corresponding terms were densely written in small letters.

"I don't have anything else to ask for, but three more things I want to remind you of."