Chapter 78 Taking Office

Time passed slowly in Yang Zhengshan's eagerness. Three days later, Zhou Lan sent someone to deliver the official robe and official seal.

The seventh day of August.

Yang Zhengshan left Linguan Fort with Yang Mingwu, Yang Chengxu, Yang Minghao, etc., as well as fifty soldiers.

The soldiers in Linguan Fort were all trained by him, and it was he who established the dignity for himself.

More than fifty people, including Yang Zhengshan and others, rode horses and soldiers, fully armed, escorting grain trucks, and walked out of Linguan Fort in a mighty manner.

The military households in Linguan Fort went out to see each other off one after another, watching Yang Zhengshan leave with admiration and joy.

Yinghe Fort is located on the bank of Yinghe River. This Yinghe River is much wider than the nameless river at the foot of Lingguan Fort Mountain, but it has dried up and only a few small puddles remain.

The entire Yinghe Fort is much larger than Linguan Fort. It is more than 400 meters long from east to west and 200 meters wide from north to south. The wall is about ten meters high. The outer wall is covered with bluestone. As the defense officer's station, Yinghe Fort's The scale is much larger than other forts, and the strength is also higher than other forts.

When Yang Zhengshan led his team to the east gate of Yinghe Fort, the gate was already full of officials who came to greet him.

Several of them had a relationship with Yang Zhengshan.

Deputy Qianhu Xu Zhen, Qian Shu Qian Wanshu and others have all been to Linguan Fort before.

At this time, Xu Zhen looked at Yang Zhengshan who was riding a horse with a livid face. As for why his face was so ugly, the reason was that Yang Zhengshan had taken his place.

Originally, when he heard that Zhang Zhongxiang was going to be dismissed, he thought that he could take over the position of defense officer of Yinghe Fort. For this reason, he went to Jianning Guard to make a lot of connections and spend a lot of money. As a result, he just When I returned to Yinghe Fort, I received news that the person serving as the defense officer was Yang Zhengshan.

In his eyes, this was simply stealing his official position.

In fact, he thought wrong. Zhou Lan dismissed Zhang Zhongxiang just to make room for Yang Zhengshan. He thought he could win the position of defensive officer, but he didn't know that everything he did was in vain.

Of course, he didn't know this. He only knew that Yang Zhengshan had taken away his official position. It was strange that he had a good face.

Xu Zhen had a dark face and said nothing, and the others were also silent and had bad words. A group of people stood in front of the door silently, watching Yang Zhengshan approach.

"Greetings to Mr. Senhu!"

Everyone worshiped in unison.

Yang Zhengshan glanced at everyone and nodded slightly, "Excuse me!"

Currently, as a defense officer, he has a deputy Qianhu, a town governor, four hundred households, and two trial hundred households, which is obviously not enough officials for a thousand households.

But considering that there are only more than 400 soldiers under his defense officer, we can understand why there is a shortage of so many officers.

Although Xu Zhen felt unhappy, he had to calm down now. He took a step forward and said, "The government office has packed up. Sir, please come!"

Although in his heart he looked down on Yang Zhengshan, a weakling, he still couldn't go too far on the surface.

That's right, in his eyes, Yang Zhengshan is a jerk.

They already knew Yang Zhengshan and knew that Yang Zhengshan was just a farmer before. Although Yang Zhengshan had joined the border army twenty years ago, at that time Yang Zhengshan was just a big-headed soldier.

Yang Zhengshan glanced at him, the dissatisfaction was written on his face, how could Yang Zhengshan not see it.

Of course, he wouldn't care about Xu Zhen's dissatisfaction.

Before he came here, he had never thought about having a good conversation with these guys who were just eating corpses.

Most of the reason why Chongshan Town's armaments are depleted is due to the inaction of the top officials, but the military affairs of Yinghe Fort are in disrepair, and the responsibility lies with the officials in front of them.

The former defense officer Zhang Zhongxiang must bear the main responsibility, and Xu Zhen, the deputy Qianhu, cannot escape the blame.

As far as he knew, the Deputy Qianhu had done a lot of bad things in Yinghe Fort, including enslaving military households, using public weapons for private purposes, impersonating air wages, etc. Xu Zhen was involved in all of this.

Especially for pretending to be free of charge, all the officials in Yinghe Fort are involved.

You must know that in Dusi Yamen, there are more than 800 soldiers under the jurisdiction of Yinghe Fort, but in fact there are only more than 400. In other words, the 400 soldiers are all transparent people, and the food and salary of the 400 soldiers have all gone to these officials. pocket.

Yang Zhengshan ignored Xu Zhen at all, turned around and said to Yang Mingwu behind him: "Mingwu!"

"My subordinate is here!" Yang Mingwu immediately responded with clasped fists.

"Go!"

Yang Zhengshan said lightly.

Immediately, Yang Mingwu led the soldiers with two small flags into Yinghe Fort.

The layout of Yinghe Fort is similar to that of Linguan Fort. The government office is in the center, the residences of military households are located behind the government office, and in front of the government office is a spacious training ground.

However, unlike Linguan Fort, the official office of Yinghe Fort is much more sophisticated.

The entire government office is built with blue bricks, and there are two east and west courtyards in the backyard of the government office, with more than thirty rooms, which is more spacious than Yang Zhengshan's house in Guancheng.

This was obviously built by Zhang Zhongxiang himself. No, it might have been built by the previous defense officer.

Anyway, no matter who built it, it is now cheaper for Yang Zhengshan.

Yang Mingwu didn't care at all about the faces of other officials, and led the soldiers directly into the government office. He first took care of all the main facilities such as the government office's study, accounting room, warehouse, and granary.

There are three things that a new official should do when he takes office. Yang Zhengshan said that he does not need three things, he only needs one thing.

Let’s burn all the moths in front of us first.

Seeing Yang Zhengshan's actions, the faces of all the officials changed.

What does this mean?

Show off your power?

Still going to cause trouble?

They didn't know what Yang Zhengshan was thinking. In their opinion, it didn't matter who became the defense officer. It was just a matter of changing the person to be honored.

In the fort, many soldiers and military households secretly looked at Yang Zhengshan and his party who entered the fort.

Their eyes were very complicated, with expectation, disgust, and numbness.

Yang Zhengshan walked into the government office without looking away, but he observed the military households.

Their sallow complexion and ragged clothes showed that they were not having a good life.

Their numb or disgusted expressions showed that they were very dissatisfied with the officials, and even hostile.

In this state, it was simply wishful thinking to want to win the battle.

Yang Zhengshan didn't go to the study and the meeting hall first, but went to the account office first.

"Check it!"

He said lightly, and Yang Chengxu and others immediately took out the account book and checked it.

Any government office has its own account book to record the income and expenditure of silver, money and grain.

Of course, there are fake accounts.

But fake accounts have loopholes and cannot withstand inspection.

In the past, everyone was thinking that everyone would be happy. Even if the higher-ups came to check the accounts, they would just give a little tribute and it would be dealt with.

So the accounts of Yinghebao were not very strict.

There was no need for Yang Zhengshan to do it himself. Yang Chengxu and others looked through it and found many problems.