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Chapter 316 Take the initiative to attack and hire people to impeach

Everyone in the official hall in the back hall of the Admiralty's Office is looking at Zhang Cheng. Just now he has talked about the formation of infantry, cavalry, and car battalions. Although the Chinese army will not be established for the time being, everyone is still very concerned about how he will strengthen the guards. .

Zhang Cheng coughed a few times before saying: "The general's guarding the pro-military department has temporarily set up four bureaus, and Chen Zhong is still in charge of guarding the pro-military department. Vice President Qian, to assist Chen Zhong in taking charge of everything.

Bureau A is the sentry cavalry of the Chinese army, with Liu Jinhai as the commander-in-chief. He is in charge of the dispatching of the police post and the detection of the four directions.

Bureau B is concurrently headed by Lin Fangping, and Bureau C is headed by Li Changsheng. These two bureaus are the guards of the Chinese army, and are in charge of guarding the general's official office, travel security, and lodging safety;
Bureau D is the Vehicle Frame Bureau. It is tentatively scheduled to take up the post of general manager of the bureau after Lei Zhancheng recovers from his injury. The bureau is equipped with five sedan cars and four side-car chariots. It is in charge of the general and the old lady and wife Wait for the car to travel, and escort the car.

There are a total of 470 nine guards in the pro-army department, including 18 officers and assistants. The sergeants of the pro-military department only select loyal people with families in each battalion. The team is selected, and within ten days, four bureaus will be formed. "

"Yes, the last general is waiting to take orders!"

Not only Chen Zhong, Lin Fangping, Liu Jinhai, Li Changsheng and others answered the order loudly, but even Wu Zhizhong, Zhang Guangda, Chen Zheng and others also answered the order loudly.

"Wu Zhizhong, Wei Zhice, Chen Zhong, Lin Fangping and others will stay, and the rest will disperse. Let's get busy!"

After the crowd dispersed, Zhang Cheng looked at the few remaining people, and then said: "Old Wu, you have to work harder recently, and choose some armor commanders, team officers, or He is an elite soldier in the army and forms a new army teaching department.

From now on, the new recruits will be trained for three months in the new military camps in Dushi, Yunzhou, and Chicheng, and then assigned to the cavalry, infantry, and chariot camps according to their performance.

Moreover, I think that after the initial formation of the army, you will have to take turns to drill the garrison troops in each fort. These things are all on your shoulders, so the teaching department is your most important task in the near future. "

"Yes, please rest assured, General, Zhi Zhongding will handle it properly."

Zhang Cheng turned his head to look at Wei Zhice again and said, "Zhice, you are now writing a letter to Yu Shangyou, the censor, to briefly inform the general about the attack on Chang'an Ridge, and ask him to help find some friends of the censor, and write a letter to impeach the general. It is a crime of ignoring the law of the country to take revenge for private reasons."

Wei Zhice smiled and said nothing, while Wu Zhizhong was in deep thought. Chen Zhong looked at Lin Fangping who was also puzzled, and said hastily, "General, this... how can I spend my money to invite you?" People impeach themselves?"

Zhang Cheng laughed, and he said: "What a stupid boy, you know the trick, I'm tired, you can explain to him."

Looking at Chen Zhong with a puzzled expression on his face, Wei Zhice first smiled and said to Zhang Cheng: "The general's move is really ingenious!"

Zhang Cheng just smiled and drank tea, Wei Zhice said to Chen Zhong and the others: "Although Xue Liangqing and Wu Youlu committed capital crimes, they are indeed worthy of death, but after all, they are fourth-rank military officers of the imperial court.
The general beheaded these two thieves without reporting to the imperial court, which is indeed against the rules. There are many officials in the court. If they are allowed to play their way, our general may be charged with some terrible crimes. "

"Ah...but that's the case, shouldn't he go to the imperial court to defend himself?" Chen Zhong still had a puzzled look on his face.

"It's ok, but if Shangshu defends himself, he's in a verbal battle with those officials. They are numerous and powerful, and they are very good at this. We are on the edge of the North Road, how can we win?
Therefore, the general took the initiative to attack, and asked the censor to impeach him, so that when the incident happened, he could control the depth and grasp the scale, and only said that the general took private revenge and killed criminal officials without authorization, which became the focus of everyone's discussion Control it within a certain range, so as not to go off track or be used by those who want to. "

It wasn't until this time that Zhang Cheng answered, "This is called taking the initiative to attack. I killed Xue Liangqing and Wu Youlu in order to establish my prestige on the North Road. Killing them will frighten thousands of people. That's what I meant.

However, although the two of them deserve to die, I should not have beheaded them without reporting to the court. I cannot get rid of the crime of killing the court military officer without authorization.

That's why I asked Yu Yushi for help. First, I asked the official Shangshu to impeach Ben for the crime of private revenge, and first define Xue and Wu as criminal officials. In fact, they deserve to die. I just killed them earlier. "

Zhang Cheng looked at the sky outside, and said again: "Let's do this first. After Zhice's letter is written, hand it over to Chen Zhong, and he will send someone to the capital. Also, Fang Ping and Jin Hai, how many of you are there?" Work hard, first select the guards of the pro-military department."

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On June [-], at Xu time, the sky was very dark, and the half-round moon hung westward and slanted in the sky, emitting a dark white moonlight on the earth.

Chicheng garrison He Chongwu had just received a message from Dushi that Xue Liangqing, the commander of the Kaiping Guard, was hacked alive by Zhang Cheng.

When he heard this letter for the first time, he couldn't help trembling all over, feeling terrified in his heart, he felt that Zhang Cheng was like a devil, not only dared to kill the fourth-rank military officer of the imperial court, but also dared to use the death penalty by cutting alive.

It turned out that yesterday he was going to report to the imperial court to impeach Zhang Cheng for killing without authorization, but just after he finished writing the memorial, he received a document from the Ministry of War asking him to fully assist Zhang Cheng in recruiting soldiers and training bravely, and even allowed Zhang Cheng to be in the whole North Road. The recruitment of military households was not limited to Shangbei Road.

After contemplating for a long time, He Chongwu grabbed the already written memorial on the desk case, tore it up without reading it, and sat back in the chair again to write a new memorial.

The wording was no longer as fierce as before, this time he first reported Xue Liangqing and Wu Youlu's collusion with bandits and plotted to kill Zhang Cheng.

Then he said that in order to quickly stabilize the wishes of the army and the people on Shangbei Road, he did not escort the criminal officials to Beijing to wait for the holy order. Although the general Zhang Cheng insisted on beheading on the spot to stabilize the situation, He Chongwu failed to be firm. Stop it, ask yourself the crime.

In fact, in his heart, He Chongwu had a slight liking for Zhang Cheng before, and he needed to make some political achievements in serving in the Beilu Bingbei Dao. He naturally liked a person as courageous as Zhang Cheng.

But Zhang Cheng's actions this time really disgusted him. As Zhang Cheng's status as a general guarding the way, he dared to openly despise the court's laws.

Today he is able to kill Xue Liangqing, Wu Youlu and others without authorization, so it can be inferred that in the future he must be an unstoppable, domineering, and local military leader.

He Chongwu originally wanted to try his best to impeach Zhang Cheng, but after receiving the document from the Ministry of War, he hesitated again. According to the expectations of the current emperor for Zhang Cheng, the appreciation of the cabinet minister Yang Sichang, the governor Chen Xinjia and others, he will definitely defend Zhang Cheng with all his strength. sincerity.

What's more, as a soldier of Chicheng, he failed to prevent this from happening, and he also had a great responsibility. If the court severely pursued Zhang Cheng's crime, he would not be spared, so he re-wrote the memorial.

(End of this chapter)