Chapter 123 Fog
Each page contains detailed records of Zhou Ren's origin, experience, family situation, etc.
Although some places are not very detailed and there are errors in some places, this does not prevent Yang Zhengshan from understanding him.
Because the mistakes are all insignificant places.
By the time he finished reading the booklet, cold sweat had formed on his forehead.
What does this mean?
The Lord Guard actually investigated him!
And he also checked him thoroughly.
"grown ups!"
With a pop, Zhou Ren knelt down directly.
At this time, Yang Zhengshan stopped writing in his hand, raised his head, and looked at him with an indifferent expression.
"Want to die or live?"
His voice was very plain, but in Zhou Ren's ears it was deafening.
Zhou Ren touched his forehead to the ground, his body shaking like a sieve.
"Little one, little one, I want to live!"
Yang Zhengshan nodded slightly, then stood up, walked out from behind the desk, and reached out to pull him up from the ground.
"It's easy to live if you want!"
“I don’t know if you’ve ever heard that word!”
He didn't wait for Zhou Ren to answer, and said to himself: "The prefect who destroyed the family, the county magistrate who destroyed the family."
"My guard is neither a prefect nor a county magistrate, but I can destroy families as well as families!"
This was a feudal society, and the power of power was far more powerful and terrifying than in modern times.
Moreover, this is a world of martial arts, where powerful personal force sometimes overrides law and morality.
In front of others, Yang Zhengshan did not dare to say that he had power, but in front of Zhou Ren, he had the ability to control Zhou Ren's life and death.
After Zhou Ren heard this, his whole body went limp. Even if Yang Zhengshan pulled him, he was still kneeling on the ground with his legs limp.
"Sir, spare my life!" he said tremblingly.
Yang Zhengshan drooped his eyelids, his expression still indifferent.
He can't control Xu Wanfu for the time being, but if he wants to control Zhou Ren this time, it won't be a piece of cake.
Just an official without rank.
"It's not difficult for you to live, as long as you tell me everything you know and tell me everything!"
Yang Zhengshan naturally would not take Zhou Ren's life, and Zhou Ren's life was worthless.
What he wanted was Zhou Ren's understanding of Anyuan Prefecture City.
When he first arrived, Yang Zhengshan couldn't figure out the situation in Anyuan Prefecture City at all. Let alone Anyuan Prefecture City, he couldn't even figure out the officials under the garrison office.
Only by knowing yourself and the enemy can you be victorious in every battle.
His eyes were completely dark now, he knew nothing, couldn't see through anything, so what could he do?
Therefore, he needs someone who understands the garrison office and the city of Anyuan, and Zhou Ren is undoubtedly the person who can best meet his needs at the moment.
At this time, Zhou Ren also came to his senses, and he wiped the cold sweat from his forehead tremblingly.
"Excuse me, sir. I will tell you everything I know."
"Very good!" Yang Zhengshan showed a faint smile and walked back behind the desk.
"Let's talk about Cao Han first. Is he really just being accused of being corrupt?"
How could Zhou Ren dare to hide anything at this time? He said directly: "My lord, Cao Han was indeed convicted of corruption. Three months ago, many officers and soldiers suddenly came to the Guandu Si Yamen in Chongshan. They claimed that Cao Han conquered the East China Sea last year. Shi Tanmo, a member of the Hu tribe, deprived his army of food and wages and captured Cao Han. "
Yang Zhengshan nodded, he knew this, "In addition to embezzling military rations and deducting rations, what else has Cao Han done?"
Zhou Ren looked at him confused, "What do you mean, sir?"
"I want to know something that others don't know." Yang Zhengshan said.
Zhou Ren became nervous and quickly lowered his head, not daring to look at Yang Zhengshan again.
"Why don't you want to say it?" Yang Zhengshan's voice became cold.
"No, no!" Zhou Ren quickly denied, but he still didn't say anything.
Yang Zhengshan was not in a hurry and just looked at him indifferently.
Feeling his knife-like gaze, Zhou Ren's heart seemed to be clenched tightly by a hand.
He was hesitating, he was struggling.
After a long time, he said: "Sir, these things are just speculations. I was not involved and don't know the specific situation!"
"Say!" Yang Zhengshan said.
Zhou Ren swallowed his throat and said bitterly: "I suspect that Cao Han had colluded with the Hu tribe in the East China Sea before!"
"What!"
Yang Zhengshan stood up suddenly and looked at him in shock.
Collaboration with the enemy!
grass!
This is a great thing!
"Do you have any evidence?" Yang Zhengshan asked in a deep voice.
"No, little one!"
Zhou Ren shook his head like a rattle and said, "But I have seen several people suspected of being from the Hu tribe come to Cao Han, and Cao Han often requisitions grain."
"What's wrong with requisitioning grain?" Yang Zhengshan asked.
The money and food for the garrison office is divided into three parts. One part comes from the Military Bei Dao Yamen, which is responsible for the money and food for the soldiers. The other part comes from the General Shogunate or the Wei Si Yamen. If you want to use the soldiers under the garrison, the General Shogunate and the Wei Si Yamen The yamen need to allocate part of their food and salary first.
This involves changes in the food and salary of the soldiers. For example, soldiers stationed in the fields do not have food and salary. They only have the harvest from the fields, and the forts have to take a part of their harvest for daily consumption of the yamen at all levels.
The soldiers responsible for guarding the city have food and salary, which is provided by the Bingbei Road Yamen. If they go out to fight, the soldiers will have more food and salary.
The Garrison Office often requisitions food and grass, either from the garrison, or from the military preparation road or the Weisi Yamen. This should be a common thing.
"Sir, Cao Han did not transport food and grass to the city, but to the outside of the city. And he never used the soldiers in the Yamen. The soldiers he used were all those I had never seen!" Zhou Ren said.
Yang Zhengshan felt a little swollen.
Transporting food and grass outside.
Where did this food and grass come from?
It must not be from the Garrison Office. He had seen the accounts of the Garrison Office before. Although there were many problems, the expenditure of large quantities of food and grass was traceable.
And those soldiers Zhou Ren had never seen, which means that those soldiers probably did not belong to the Garrison Office.
In Anyuanzhou City, besides the Garrison Office, where are there a large number of soldiers?
Other Yamen may have some runners and strong men, but they definitely cannot find hundreds of soldiers.
What does this mean?
This means that there is an unknown army hidden in the city.
Coupled with the cellar in the backyard of the government office, Yang Zhengshan had a rough idea in his mind.
Someone in Anyuanzhou City is providing food to the Donghai Hu people, or maybe not providing, but selling.
Purpose?
It's nothing more than making money.
Cao Han will definitely not surrender to the Donghai Hu people. Compared with Darong, the Donghai Hu people are barbarians. Cao Han is a nobleman. As long as he is not stupid, he will not rely on the Donghai Hu people.
So he did this just to make money.
Selling food outside the pass, the profit is estimated to be several times higher, enough to make people go and take risks.
And there must be more than just Cao Han involved in this.
Cao Han can't handle such a big thing.
"It's really a big pit! I just don't know who brought me here and what they let me do?"
"Changping Hou Liang Chu? Governor Lu Chongde?"
"They all seem possible!"
Yang Zhengshan thought secretly in his heart.
"Zhou Lan must know something, but she didn't tell me anything!"
Suddenly, a person appeared in his mind.
Lv Hua!
He had only met Lv Hua once, that time in the General's Mansion.
Yang Zhengshan's first impression of Lv Hua was that this guy was too handsome.
The second impression was that this guy was difficult to deal with.
But this second impression was formed after he heard a lot about the Secret Guard.
In addition, Zhou Lan had told him about the Blood Blade before, so Yang Zhengshan kept a distance from the Secret Guard.
But now thinking back, Yang Zhengshan suddenly felt that he was inexplicably sent to Anyuanzhou City, and it was very likely that Lv Hua was behind it.
"Does he want me to investigate Cao Han's treason?"
"No, I don't know Anyuanzhou City at all. Even if they want to find someone to investigate, they shouldn't find me."
"And they haven't contacted me, they can't let me mess around alone!"
Yang Zhengshan didn't expect that Lv Hua's purpose was to make him a troublemaker.
Lv Hua's purpose of taking down Cao Han was to alert the enemy, and his purpose of transferring Yang Zhengshan to Anyuanzhou City was to completely muddy the waters.
At this time, Anyuanzhou City was still peaceful, but under this peace there was a very large force hidden. This force had been selling all kinds of materials to the Donghai Hu people for the past 20 years, including food, salt, iron, cloth, and even military intelligence.
The Donghai Hu people were able to recover in 20 years, and this force contributed greatly.
The most important thing is that this force is well hidden. For 20 years, even the Secret Guards did not find any abnormalities. It was not until the Donghai Hu people invaded the border that the Secret Guards caught some clues.
But now it has been nearly two years, and the Secret Guards still have not figured out this force.
Lv Hua is a very patient person. He knows that facing such a force that has been hidden for more than 20 years, he must not be careless.
Before finding out the key figures and key evidence of this force, they cannot investigate it in a big way.
So he needed to make the situation in Anyuanzhou City chaotic, so that this hidden force would lose its footing and expose its true colors.
Yang Zhengshan naturally couldn't figure this out, and now he just felt that his head was twice as big as two.
It was as if there was a fog in front of his eyes, making him see everything vaguely.
"What about Xu Wanfu?"
Yang Zhengshan couldn't figure it out, so he could only withdraw his thoughts and continue to ask Zhou Ren.
"Lord Xu!" Zhou Ren paused and said, "Lord Xu has been a thousand commander for ten years!"
This sounded a bit incoherent, but Yang Zhengshan knew that this revealed a very important information.
Xu Wanfu has been a thousand commander for ten years, and Cao Han has only been the garrison of Anyuanzhou City for five years.
Then the question is, does Xu Wanfu know what Cao Han did?
Xu Wanfu is a thousand commander, and his task is to defend the city. If there is an army hidden in the city, would he not know?
Or this army is hidden in the garrison.
