A few days later, Zhao Junsheng and his party entered Guangyang County in Yan County and lived in a post house. After another day's journey, they could enter Ji County.

Since entering the boundary of Youzhou, officials and generals at all levels in Fanyang County who have already received the news have been waiting to greet them at the junction. Zhao Junsheng did not deliberately pretend to be aloof, and got along with the officials and generals, accepted their banquets, and secretly observed the local officials. , people's livelihood and military affairs.

That night, Zhao Junsheng sent away the enthusiastic Guangyang county magistrate and other officials, and waited for Guo Yi, who came ten days earlier to investigate the news.

The room was lit with oil lamps, and there were two personal guards with knives standing in the room and in the room.

The door was opened, Li Bao let Guo Yi in, and the door was closed again.

"Greetings, young master!" Guo Yi stepped forward to salute. He has long since lost the image of the glib street thief and rascal.

Zhao Junsheng let go

With a scroll in his hand, he sat upright on his knees and said, "How's the investigation going?"

Guo Yi bowed and cupped his fists and said, "The situation in Youzhou has been basically investigated. Most of the spies under him have mixed into the local caravans and are sneaking into Beiyan and Kumoxi one after another!"

"Then let's talk about the situation in Youzhou first!"

"Yes!"

Guo Yi agreed, and immediately told the situation in Youzhou that he had investigated these days.

"Now Youzhou has three counties and ten counties. General Wu Bing, the prefect of Fanyang County, and the garrison of Jianliang Township, Mao Xiuzhi, were originally Liu Yu's subordinates. Later, he was captured by Hu Xiaguo in Guanzhong. After Hu Xiaguo Hao Lianchang was captured by our dynasty, Mao Xiuzhi He surrendered to our court, and the late emperor was very fond of him at that time, so he directly appointed him as the general of Wu Bing, commanding all the captive soldiers of the Southern Dynasty, and one of his sons was named Mao Faren!"

"General Hengye, the prefect of Yan County, Li Yuande, the garrison lord of the army, was originally the prefect of Yingchuan in the Southern Dynasty, and was later captured by our dynasty! He led 1 Han soldiers under his command! Mao Xiuzhi came to our dynasty not at the same time. It's only a few years, and it's only been two years since he was the prefect of Fanyang County, but Li Yuande has been there for quite some time!"

"General Zhenbei, prefect of Yuyang County and concurrently the garrison master of Kuangping, Feng Da, has 5000 soldiers under his command, more than half are Xianbei people, and the other half are from other tribes! It is actually low for General Zhenbei to be the prefect and garrison chief. As a high-ranking professional, Feng Da has many complaints against the imperial court on weekdays!"

Zhao Junsheng listened to Guo Yi's inquiries and told them one by one. Guo Yi's memory was really good, and he kept talking for half an hour without a pause.

"None of these people is a good stubble, it seems that this time it will be impossible to stay true!" Zhao Junsheng sighed in his heart.

After Guo Yi finished speaking, he took out a stack of white paper from his pocket and handed it over, "General, this is the topographic map of Youzhou's mountains, rivers and rivers drawn by the spies!"

Zhao Junsheng took the map and looked at it, nodded and said: "Good job, next General Liben needs to know every move happening in Youzhou!"

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Chapter 445 Impure Motives

Zhao Junsheng and others continued to march and arrived in Jixian two days later. Li Yuande, the prefect of Yan County, and Lu Xun, the county magistrate of Jixian County, led all the county officials, generals and others ten miles out of the city to meet them.

"Young official Li Yuande" and "Lu Xun" led the officials, generals and school personnel of Yan County to welcome the envoy to Ji County to take up his post! " Li Yuande, Lu Xun and others shouted loudly and bowed their hands to salute.

The governor of Youzhou has always been governed in Jixian County, which is also the most prosperous and most populous city in Youzhou.

Zhao Junsheng had heard of Li Yuande a little bit. He was a general from the Southern Dynasties and once served as the prefect of Yingchuan in the Liu Song Dynasty. The ability to govern the army and command operations can only be determined by the benevolent, and the wise see wisdom.

As for Lu Xun, the magistrate of Ji County, Zhao Junsheng guessed that this person should be from the Lu family of Fanyang.

Zhao Junsheng jumped off his horse, put on a smiling face as much as he could, cupped his fists and said to the officials and generals, "Everyone has come all the way out of the city to meet this general. I'm sorry, I'm sorry! Prefect Li, why don't you introduce the other officials to me?" Generals?"

Li Yuande quickly introduced many officials and military officers behind him to Zhao Junsheng one by one, all of them were quite important figures in Youzhou.

Then everyone got on their horses and headed to Ji County again. Except for the generals and Xianbei officials, almost all the Han civil officials came in sedan chairs, and few of them rode horses. Zhao Junsheng had to sigh that these Han officials were really greedy for pleasure. Well, there were so many horses in the Northern Wei Dynasty that these officials didn't even ride horses.

After walking for nearly half an hour, the group finally entered the city and arrived at the Governor's Mansion.

Li Yuande clasped his fists to Zhao Junsheng and said: "Before the envoy came, Du Shijun, the previous governor and Yangping king, took away all the servants and maidservants in the mansion after he left office. , Zhu Bo and other assistant officials were either transferred or handed in their resignations and left. There was no one in charge of managing the affairs of the mansion. I don't know if it will satisfy you, but if you are not used to it, you can replace it and find a new batch!"

Zhao Junsheng could tell that Du Chao did a great job. Before he left, he even took away all the assistant officials. The military and political affairs of the Governor's Mansion almost stopped completely. Fortunately, he didn't delay too long on the way.

However, Li Yuande decided to prepare servants and maidservants for him on his own, no matter how you look at it, his motives are not pure.

Pei Jin, who was standing by the side, was very unhappy, and said to Li Yuande: "Prefect Li, you are too lenient. You are required to arrange the servants and maids of the Governor's Mansion. When will you be the governor of the Governor's Mansion?" Are you in charge?"

Li Yuande said with a sneer: "Isn't the lower official worried that the mansion will be messy and dusty after the gentleman arrives, and it will be uncomfortable to look at? Wouldn't it be bad if you make the gentleman think that the lower official has no eyesight and can't do things? I don't have any other intentions, I just want to leave a good impression on the envoy, if the envoy doesn't like it, I will just take away the maids and servants!"

Zhao Junsheng waved his hand to Pei Jin, and said with a smile: "Mr. Pei needn't be so angry, Prefect Li is also kind, how can this general not know what is good?"

After finishing speaking, Zhao Junsheng said to Li Yuande: "Prefect Li's kindness, this general is ashamed to accept it! I don't know where are the ài shēn contracts of these servants and maidservants?"

"ài shēn deed?" Li Yuande was taken aback for a moment, and immediately reacted, hesitated, and immediately shouted to an official behind him: "Master Yang, take the ài shēn deeds of these servants and maidservants!"

"Yes!" An official promised, and hurriedly walked over and said, "The ài shēn deeds of the lord, servants and maidservants are all in the office of the government..."

Hearing this, Li Yuande turned his head and glanced at Zhao Junsheng. Seeing that he seemed to be about to get the ài shēn deed now, he had no choice but to say to Master Bo: "Master Yang, don't send someone to get it yet!"

"Oh, okay, I'll get it myself!" Anchor Yang turned around and left after speaking.

Zhao Junsheng called all the officials and generals into the lobby to talk, and the maidservants came in one by one to serve tea to everyone.

Zhao Junsheng briefly asked Li Yuande and Lu Xun about the military and political affairs of Yan County and Ji County. Both Li Yuande and Lu Xun answered fluently, obviously they had done some homework beforehand.

Soon, Yang Zhubo, who went to get the ài shēn deeds, returned and reported to Li Yuande and Zhao Junsheng: "I want to report to the envoy and the mansion, these servants and maids were bought in two batches, and the ài shēn deeds were also bought in two batches. After the approval, the office has been busy with official duties during this period, and the subordinates don't know where they put the ài shēn deeds of some of the servants and maids. For the time being, only these are found, and the rest will be searched carefully after the officials return. Send it again, I wonder if it is possible?"

After hearing this, Li Yuande looked at Zhao Junsheng, and said to Zhao Junsheng: "My lord, these days are spring plowing, and there are frequent official business trips in various counties. Yang Zhubo is not wrong. He misplaced some ài shēn deeds for a while. It is reasonable to find the location, you see..."

Zhao Junsheng beckoned to Yang Zhubo, took a dozen or so ài shēn deeds from Yang Zhubo's hand, looked at them one by one, and said to Yang Zhubo after reading it: "Keep looking after you go back, and take the rest of it tomorrow morning. ài shēn deed sent here, there must be no mistakes!"

"Yes, envoy!" Yang Zhubo hurriedly agreed.

Li Yuande didn't expect Zhao Junsheng to attach so much importance to the àishēn contracts of these servants and maidservants. Seeing that Zhao Junsheng didn't hold on to them, he was secretly relieved, but he was also more vigilant.

Zhao Junsheng told Li Bao: "Since the positions of all the assistant officials in the governor's mansion are vacant, then you go and call the thief Cao, the subordinate governor of the governor's mansion, and all Cao's soldiers!"

"Yes, General!"

After only a cup of tea, all the officials under the Governor's Mansion arrived one after another.

"I'm waiting to meet the envoy!"

Zhao Junsheng raised his hand: "No courtesy, everyone is present!"

"Yes!" The subordinates went to both sides to fight face to face.

Zhao Junsheng looked at everyone, then looked at Li Yuande, Lu Xun and other officials and said: "I heard that the governor's assistant officials were either transferred or resigned. Anxious, this status quo must not continue, the general will make appointments now, since you are all here, let’s get to know each other so that we can handle official duties!"

"Pei Jin, I appoint you as the head of the governor's mansion, Bo, and temporarily act as a meritorious officer. Within three days, we will clean up and check all the account books, grain, weapons, armor and other materials under the governor's mansion, and report to the official after three days. !"

Pei Jin stood up and clapped his hands and agreed: "Thank you for your support, the envoy, I will definitely live up to the envoy's trust!"

Zhao Junsheng nodded, and shouted again: "Dongfang Chen, I appoint you as the governor of the governor's office, and temporarily act as Biejia's post. Within three days, we will check the resumes of the officials and personnel of each county, the establishment of the generals of each garrison, and the roster. Report to this general later!"

The civil and military officials were not surprised that Zhao Junsheng called himself the general. Zhao Junsheng himself was the general of Pingbei. Members, it has been a long process.

There are two types of assassins, one with troops and one without troops.Inspectors who lead the army generally have to be added to the rank of general, and governors who do not command the army only care about civil affairs.

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