Chapter Eighty-Nine: Ignorance of Current Affairs

The selection in the barracks could not be completed for a while, and Zhou Yu still had a lot of things to do, so he left Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin in the barracks to continue to complete the reorganization of the army. He took Dian Wei and Guo Jia back to the city. And the original Yangzhou Taishou Han Xuan's actions were very fast, and it only took one day to move out of the Taishou Mansion and vacate the house for Zhou Yu. Cheng Yu had already arranged for someone to move Zhou Yu and their luggage in, but when he asked people to check, he found that this Taishou Mansion actually had a secret passage to the outside of the city, but Han Xuan didn't say it, which shows that Han Xuan, the old boy, seems to have a little other ideas!

"Did Han Xuan and Zheng Bao say anything when they left?" Zhou Yu sat in the Taishou Mansion and listened to Cheng Yu's report, after he pondered for a while, he felt that Han Xuan and Zheng Bao would definitely have the next move, and it seemed that he needed to be careful.

"Gong Jin - I personally think that in order to stabilize the situation, it is recommended to send someone to monitor them, and if they have other premeditated plans, then let them regret coming to this world." Cheng Yu looks like a literati, but after getting along, he feels that Cheng Yu's killing is decisive, as long as there is an obstacle, he will mercilessly take it away.

"Okay - don't worry about Zhongde, I'll arrange someone to do it myself! Now for the time being, you and Guo Jia are the chief secretary and gong cao of the Taishou Mansion respectively, and all matters in Yangzhou can be discussed by the two of you, as long as Yangzhou is built solid. I don't know anything else, so I'll be in charge of recruiting talents! When Zhou Yu was in Luoyang, he arranged for Shi A to form an organization for espionage, assassination, surveillance, and concealment, and he named this organization Shadow. Since Shi A talked to Zhou Yu once in Luoyang, he chose to break out of his master's control, he wanted to break out of his own world, Zhou Yu took the cottage in Mangdang Mountain as a stronghold of the Shadow to hand over Shi A, and asked Shi A to train a group of elite Shadow to lurk in advance to obtain the information Zhou Yu wanted. This time Zhou Yu came to Yangzhou to be a guard, and the shadow sent someone to Yangzhou in advance to lurk, according to Zhou Yu's instructions, the shadow people are usually and ordinary people, and their identities must be kept absolutely secret, it may be a businessman, a buddy, and an aunt who buys vegetables...... He is completely following the model of the Ming Dynasty Jinyiwei to build the shadow organization, and the shadow in the future will be a nightmare for every prince.

"Gong Jin, you are really lazy, as soon as you arrived in Yangzhou, you as the chief official spread your hands and didn't care about anything, it seems that you are using me and Zhongde as coolies. Alas - what a miserable life! Guo Jia just beat his chest when he heard Zhou Yu finish speaking, which made Zhou Yu and Cheng Yu despise Guo Jia.

"Hmph-Fengxiao, don't be unconvinced! Whoever told you to mix under my hands now, I have to let you find some work, or you won't have to worry about my wine every day! And now that I am the Taishou of Yangzhou, you Guo Jia and Guo Fengxiao should bow your head and do things, otherwise I can ask someone to arrest you and beat you or punish your Yulu. When you kid has nothing to eat, don't cry with me...... Hey, hey..."Zhou Yu smiled grimly.

"Anyway, I don't have anything to eat and I don't have to rely on you—I don't care about those! Who's afraid of whom-" Guo Jia was like hob meat, completely indifferent to Zhou Yu's threat.

"Guo Fengxiao, you are so shameless-"

"Shameless—what can you do?"

“......”

Zhou Yu said that he was speechless, jokes are jokes, he knows that Yangzhou is such a state that it is impossible to show the talents of Guo Jia and Cheng Yu, and now he can only catch them first to make up the numbers, for Han Xuan and Zheng Bao just left a sentence to accept Zhou Yu's suggestion, and after continuing to stay in Yangzhou, the figure disappeared. It seems that these two people still have certain thoughts in their hearts!

Not far from Yangzhou City is Jianye County, Jianye County is close to the mouth of the Yangtze River, where there are many merchants and fishermen who come and go, and it is also a relatively wealthy place. The Zheng family is the big family here, half of the fertile land near Jianye County belongs to the Zheng family, because Zheng Bao is the general Zhenwei of Yangzhou with heavy troops, and the former Taishou Han Xuan is the uncle of the Zheng family, so no one dares to provoke the Zheng family in Yangzhou. The Zheng family's mansion compound was built next to the Jianye County Guard's Mansion, and the Zheng family's gate was built one end higher than the gate of the County Guard's Mansion, but because Zheng Bao was the general of Zhenwei in Yangzhou, the county guard of Jianye County could only turn a blind eye.

"Dad-I'm a bare pole now, I didn't expect to damn Zhou Yu depose my military power as soon as he came to Yangzhou, where did this kid pop up and how did he choose such a good time?" Zheng Bao sat in the lobby of the Zheng family with an angry face and said. Zheng Bao's father Zheng Qian sat in the lobby of the Zheng family, and there was Han Xuan, the former Yangzhou Taishou, Zheng Qian was sitting quietly drinking tea and listening, Han Xuan looked like he wanted to speak and stopped, Zheng Bao gritted his teeth and couldn't wait to eat Zhou Yu alive.

"O virtuous son-in-law! What do you think—" Zheng Qian waited for Zheng Bao to finish complaining before he said unhurriedly.

"Father-in-law, the son-in-law thinks that the wood has become a boat, and the current officialdom is rich, although Zhou Yu spent money to buy an official in Luoyang, but I think it is better to send someone to investigate the background of this kid first, I found that the eunuch who came to deliver the decree this time seemed to have some meaning to stammer Zhou Yu. According to my guess, Zhou Yu must be the son of a certain official in Luoyang City, it is possible that he came to Yangzhou to gild, if this is the case, we will find someone to take this line, let him live such a term peacefully, as soon as the term expires, this Yangzhou Taishou is still ours, and we have also done a favor. This is a hypothetical situation, and the other situation is that he has a background in Luoyang City, but we first visited the capital to make it clear that he bought the official of Yangzhou to occupy this land, then we have to take some measures. This time, Zheng Baoquan and I were disgraced, my official position was gone, it was taken back by the imperial court, and Zheng Bao's military power was gone, I was tired of him! I didn't expect that I, Han Xuan, wanted to delay the time for a few days, but this kid played a trick on me - in a word, revenge must be avenged, and money must be spent! Han Xuan said a big push, just to find out Zhou Yu's background before starting, for fear that if he accidentally provoked someone like the royal family, wouldn't the old birthday star eat arsenic and think that he would live a long life!

"Hmph-Dad, who has my Zheng family been afraid of in this Yangzhou territory, and those who dare to give our Zheng family eye medicine have not yet been born, so it is better for me to take a group of people into the Taishou Mansion in the middle of the night to chop Zhou Yu clean, just as the imperial court ordered to arrest the rebels of the Taiping Sect, and put all the blame on their heads, when the time comes, we can not only kill Zhou Yu but also get the members of the Taiping Sect to exterminate the Taiping Sect, so it can be said that it will kill two birds with one stone! It's much faster than his brother-in-law's-" Zheng Baoke can't wait so much time, it will take more than 20 days to send people to come and go at the earliest, and it may be possible to encounter emergencies for up to a month.

"The virtuous son-in-law's plan is safe, but it's a little slow! It will take about a month to come and go to the capital at the earliest, and I don't know what the result is when the news comes, if it's good news, then we are all happy, if it's bad news, the other party has already used this time to deploy everything, and then we will resist again, it will be self-defeating. And Bao'er is too impatient, as the saying goes, knowing oneself and knowing the other is invincible, more than 300 of your county soldiers have been beaten by more than 100 guards of the other party, presumably the other party's guards are elite, although you are still General Zhenwei, but you don't even have a decent soldier in your hand, how can you win by sneak attack, the secret passage in the Taishou Mansion is a secret weapon that can kill the other party by surprise, and it is not appropriate to use it at this moment! Zheng Qian touched the beard on his chin and said.

Han Xuan didn't say anything, Zheng Bao was a little unhappy, he stood up and said, "This doesn't work, that doesn't work - old man, you have to say a feasible way, why don't we Zheng family shrink our heads and live behind closed doors." ”

"Haha-stinky boy, are you going to make your dad a shrunken turtle? Aren't you the son of a tortoise? First sit down and listen to your father's words, according to your brother-in-law's method to send a team of reliable people to the capital to explore Zhou Yu's reality, and then prepare me a heavy gold Bao'er to accompany me to Dongting Lake, where a group of water bandits recently appeared, robbing and killing some passing merchant ships, plundering the coasts of Yangzhou and Jingzhou. I heard that the leading bandits like to wear a brocade robe, and the flag is also made of brocade, and they play brocade sail thieves on both sides of the Yangtze River. Dad planned to let them deal with Zhou Yu and loot the coast of Yangzhou to distract Zhou Yu and make him unable to govern Yangzhou with peace of mind, but we were secretly preparing to launch a fatal blow when the time came. When the time comes...... Hmph-" A sinister smile appeared at the corner of Zheng Qian's mouth.

"Sure enough, Jiang is still old and spicy-father-in-law, it's more appropriate for me to take a trip to the capital, at least we need to do something in the capital-" Han Xuan couldn't help but applaud, it was still his father-in-law who thought about it thoroughly, and it was much better to spend money on others than to come by himself. He has to go to the capital in person, even if Zhou Yu can't afford to provoke him, he has to arrange another fat shortage for himself by the way, after all, he is still an alternate guard.

"Okay—the virtuous son-in-law brings enough silver, and we'll go our separate ways—"