"Sister-in-law, is Brother Chong at home?" Zhao Bufan walked into the military compound, saw Lin Niangzi sitting in front of her house sewing clothes, and greeted her with a smile from afar. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Here, every day I hold the military book, today on vacation, he also locked himself in the room to read the military book, shouldn't the uncle be in the command department at this time? Why did you come back?" Lin Niangzi is gentle and virtuous, even if she speaks, she is soft and weak, if she is not in frequent contact, it is difficult to imagine that she will be a strong woman with a strong heart.

"I have something to discuss with Brother Chong!" Zhao Bufan nodded with a smile and walked directly into Lin Chong's house.

He was close to the Lin family, so he didn't have to shy away from anything, and came directly to the small study, but saw Lin Chong sitting leisurely on the recliner, completely immersed in the military book, so focused that he didn't even feel it when he came in.

"Brother Chong! I have something to tell you!"

"Hmm, Brother Extraordinary is here!" Lin Chong hurriedly put down the military book, looked at the sky outside the window, and said suspiciously: "You have been very busy in the past two days, if you have any orders, just send someone to inform me, why did you come back to me at this hour!"

Zhao Bufan sat on the chair with a smile, shook his head and said: "Here's the thing, now that I have been promoted to the governor of Yantou Village, and Luo Shen has also died, then the commander and deputy commander of Dongzhai are vacant, and I am about to play the imperial court now, and let you and Brother Zhishen hold these two positions respectively." But you and Brother Zhishen's merits are comparable, and their abilities are also comparable, each with its own characteristics, since everyone is a brother, so I will leave this choice to you. ”

Lin Chong understood, almost without hesitation, and said directly: "Let Zhishen be the commander!"

Zhao Bufan smiled bitterly: "But Brother Zhishen has to let you be a commander!"

Lin Chong's face calmed down.

"My humility is not only brotherhood, but also from the actual situation, we have no cavalry in Yantou Village, all are garrisoned infantry, and Zhishen is from the heavy infantry battalion of the family army, whether it is the martial arts of foot combat, or the control of the infantry, he is stronger than me, I am a cavalry after all, when I was the head of the teaching in Tokyo, it is also the martial arts of the cavalry!

Lin Chong's face was very insistent, Zhao Bufan was silent for a long time, nodded and said: "Okay, what you said is also reasonable, then I will report to the court according to this, besides, what do you think of Zheng Ming's ability? Is it competent to be a deputy commander? I think it's okay, I want to hear your opinion!"

"He has good martial arts skills, and he has rich experience in leading troops, and it is more than enough to be a deputy commander, and most of the deputy commanders in the forbidden army are not as good as him!"

Zhao Bufan said with a smile: "Well, then arrange for him to go to Xizhai to be the deputy commander, there will be a change of guard over there, and the original commander and deputy commander will be transferred!"

Lin Chong also knew about this, and said happily: "So, that urgent pioneer Suo Chao of the Daimyo Mansion can really be transferred?"

"That's right! The appointment document has been passed to me this morning, and Suo Chao will be the commander of Xizhai in the future!"

Lin Chong was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth: "This is good, in the future, our Yantou Village fierce generals will gather, train the elite soldiers well, and definitely become a sharp knife against the Liao State!"

Zhao Bufan smiled, didn't say much about this, and then talked to Lin Chong about some things in the army, and hurried back to the command department.

He wrote four letters, one to Li Miao, the governor of Bazhou, one to the Privy Council, one to the Ministry of War, and one to Cai Jing.

The first three letters are necessary procedures, and the last letter is to allow the arrangement to be fulfilled quickly, Zhao Bufan knows very well in his heart that if Cai Jing does not come forward, the Privy Council headed by Tong Guan will definitely not approve any of his recitals. He sabotaged Tong Guan's plan several times, and it can be said that he and Tong Guan have stood on the opposite side, and there is no room for relaxation at all.

As for sending a letter to the Ministry of War, it was entirely because the official system of the Great Song Dynasty was too complicated, and the Ministry of War was one of the six departments of the three provinces. Such a situation was very common in the Great Song Dynasty, in this era, the overlap of the rights of officials can be called the most in the ages, interests and rights are tilted, and several changes and reforms have failed to fundamentally solve the problem!

Zhao Bufan wrote a good book and sent two sentry horsemen to send Cai Jing's copy first with an expedited amount of 800 miles, and the other three places were only limited to half a month, so as to catch a time difference, so that Cai Jing could know the situation first, so as to make arrangements.

Three days later, the pioneer Suo Chao rushed to Yantou Village alone to take office, Zhao Bufan also set up a banquet for him to pick up the wind and wash the dust, although the surface is calm and calm, but he is very excited in his heart, now there are Suo Chao and Zheng Ming in the West Village, Lu Zhishen and Lin Chong in the East Village, in the face of the Liao generals in the future, finally no longer have to be restrained.

At the same time, Zhao Bufan also stepped up his planning for the military and political management measures of Ping'an Village, intending to show his strength, but on the fourth day of Suo Chao's appointment, Detective Zhu of the Imperial City Division suddenly came to the Command Department and found him in a hurry.

"Zhao Zhizhai, I need you to send someone to help!"

Zhao Bufan wrote the document unhurriedly, and only then did he raise his head when he finished writing.

"Why did Detective Zhu have time to come over today, weren't you investigating my 120,000 guan recently?

"I did suspect you earlier, and I suspected where you came from 120,000 yuan to buy land, but now I have found out that you are the apprentice of Lu Junyi, the richest man in the Daimyo Mansion, and I am afraid that the money was given to you by your master, and there is no evil trace of you in the mouths of the people, and most of your monthly income is used to help the poor people, such a person cannot be very bad!" Detective Zhu said eagerly.

Zhao Bufan smiled, got up slowly, walked around the table and walked to Detective Zhu.

"Detective Zhu praised me so much, it seems that this time the matter is very urgent, if it is a business matter, then I will definitely do it!"

Detective Zhu said bluntly: "I need Lin Chong, who is strong in martial arts, to go to Xin'an Prefecture with me to save people!"

"Xin'an Prefecture? It is now occupied by the Liao State, I am afraid that this matter cannot be agreed, I have no reason to let the soldiers under my command be in danger, this is not their duty!" Zhao Bufan decisively refused, the danger of going deep into the Liao Territory was too great, and it was impossible for him to agree.

"I understand, but now it's 100,000 urgent, those two people have the evidence of collusion with the generals of the border pass in their hands, because they were betrayed by traitors, they were captured, and now I am left with a detective in this Bazhou, and I can only ask for help from your garrison!"

"I see!" Zhao Bufan finally understood why he was in such a hurry, but he still shook his head and refused: "I can't do anything about this matter, if I really send Deputy Commander Lin to accompany you, let alone save people, I'm afraid you will also put your lives into it, everyone has their own responsibilities, since they have been arrested, with the current situation, they do not have the conditions for rescue at all, and the chance that they have died is far greater than the chance of being alive, how can they be saved?"

"I understand, but even if there is a glimmer of hope, I will try, if they die, then they need to be re-investigated, I'm afraid it's too late!" Detective Zhu seemed very insistent.

Zhao Bufan looked at him silently, and the doubts in his heart became heavier and heavier: This Detective Zhu, as the inspector of the Imperial City Division, how can he not understand the rules of the intelligence system than me? Could he have deliberately set a trap like this? When Luo Ash died that day, this Detective Zhu was very problematic, and now it seems that the problem is even bigger, could it be that he was a person who was Tong Guan, and deliberately spoke that day to attract everyone's attention, so that Luo Ash could commit suicide, and today he came to lay it out, if so, then his abnormal behavior is reasonable!

Thinking of this, Zhao Bufan finally laughed again: "Detective Zhu, it is impossible to save people, but it is okay to assist you in the investigation, if you believe me, then it is better to tell me the clues you know so far, I will assist you in the investigation, after all, I also know a lot about the collusion between the Liao State and the Song people." ”

Detective Zhu calmed down, looked at Zhao Bufan for a long time, nodded and said: "I am sure that you are a good official, so I can only believe you now, I can't hide it, the two of them disappeared after investigating the clues, and went to the Bazhou rudder of the beggar gang, there are three people in total, two people with evidence in their hands were captured, and the remaining one escaped and came to Yantou Village to report to me, but because the injury is too serious, he has fallen into a deep coma, and I don't know if he can be saved." ”

Zhao Bufan moved lightly, thinking about the truth and falsehood of Detective Zhu's words.

"And what did this unconscious detective tell you? You never told me that he held on all the way to escape, but he fell into a coma when he saw you?"

Detective Zhu nodded: "He is still an inspector during the assessment period, he doesn't know enough inside information, before he fell into a coma, he said that there was a problem with Waqiao Pass and Yijin Pass in the north of Bazhou, and the Bazhou rudder of the beggar gang also fell, and it should have become an important point of contact between the Liao State and the traitor's high-level." Now the beggar gang is falling apart, and it is difficult for the gang leader of Luoyang to restrain everyone, and the Liao State will send troops to the Great Song Dynasty after more than half a month, so it is necessary to find out the traitor before this, otherwise the last invasion of the Liao State will be repeated!"

Zhao Bufan didn't answer, turned his back quietly, and secretly speculated in his heart: This Detective Zhu can say that the Liao soldiers will attack in half a month, which is consistent with the news I overheard that day, and it seems to be a little true, but Detective Zhu also has many doubts, and now it is difficult to guarantee that he is not true and false, false and true, I can't believe it, but the traitor's matter must be investigated, otherwise I, the thousand people in Yantou Village, will not be used. It's better for me to go with him, if Detective Zhu is not a traitor, then I will cooperate with him to investigate, if he is a traitor, then I can also find out the details of Detective Zhu and open a breakthrough from him.

After some thought, Zhao Bufan quickly made up his mind, and resolutely turned back to Detective Zhu and said, "It's impossible to save people, but I can fully assist you in investigating the rebellion and looking for evidence again!"

Detective Zhu thought for a while, nodded and said, "Okay, then you can give Lin Chong an order now, but you must let him listen to me on the way!"

"No!" Zhao Bufan shook his head lightly and looked into Detective Zhu's eyes with a smile. "I'll go with you personally!"