Chapter 910: Changing Generals on the Eastern Front
As the market gets bigger, it will naturally require more and more manpower, especially talents.
Although it cannot be said that these two masters recommended by my father-in-law will be of great use at present, they will definitely be useful in the imperial envoys' field, and they will be very useful.
Because the lower limit of ability of these two people is, at the very least, the level of a normal lifter.
A normal juren can already handle a lot of things in Master Shen's imperial envoy office. If after a period of time, these two people are reliable enough, Shen Yi can even hand over some of the documents in the imperial envoy office to these two people for sorting and processing. , forming an organization similar to a "secretariat" to help him share some things.
Theoretically speaking, Shen Yi needs more scholars.
But these matters are too confidential. You can't just drag a scholar over from the road and let him go on errands. After all, if you are not careful, you may drag someone from the Cleansing Department over.
After arranging tasks for the two people for the next few days, Shen Yi asked Jiang Sheng to arrange accommodation for the two of them, and asked Jiang Sheng to take Song Heng to familiarize himself with the accounts of the imperial envoy.
Although Shen Yi's residence is nominally called the imperial envoy's residence, and it is only the imperial envoy's residence for the governor, in fact, his imperial envoy's residence is the Marshal's Mansion in Huai'an. All expenses and income of the Huai'an army will come from the imperial envoy. Walk through the tent in the camp.
As a result, the accounts of the imperial envoy office are very complicated. Shen Yi now has seven or eight accounting offices, and Zhao Changping assigned them to Shen Yi from the old accounting offices in the household department. Otherwise, Shen Yi would be able to handle only the accounts. I have a headache.
After arranging accommodation for the two of them, in the afternoon, Jiang Sheng did not disturb Li Zhun who was writing the war strategy. Instead, he took Song Heng to the accounting room of the imperial envoy and showed him the account books in the accounting room. .
At this time, only the accounts of the last one or two months have been written in several thick books and piled on the desk.
Jiang Sheng lowered his head slightly towards Song Heng and said with a smile: "Mr. Song, this is the general ledger of the imperial envoy's office for the past three months. You should take a look at it first. As for some subdivided account books, they are too complicated and there is nothing we can do about it at the moment. Bring it here. After you read these, if you want to see the rest, I will get them for you."
Song Heng looked up at Jiang Sheng, and then blinked blankly: "Brother Jiang, did Shi Lang Shen just hand over the accounts to me with such confidence?"
"What's there to worry about?"
Jiang Sheng glanced at him strangely, then realized what he was doing and said with a smile: "Mr. Song, my young master behaves aboveboard and aboveboard. In all the accounts of the Imperial Envoy's office, not a single transaction is shady, and no one can see it." It’s okay, it’s just that the accounts are too complicated, so they need to be calculated clearly to avoid
There is nothing wrong with what Jiang Sheng said. Mr. Shen has been in Huai'an for more than a year, and all the projects of his imperial mission are reasonable and legal, and can be checked.
It's just that some "exchanges" between him and Xu Fu were not recorded in the accounts.
Excluding some of Xu Fu's private accounts, Mr. Shen's accounts can be said to be clean. The only troublesome thing is that there are too many accounts, which is troublesome to deal with.
Song Heng was quite impressed. He bowed his hands to Jiang Sheng and said, "Be taught."
"Brother Jiang, please tell Mr. Shen that the students must sort out the accounts as soon as possible."
Jiang Sheng bowed his head and returned the courtesy: "Thank you, Mr. Song."
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Just when these two masters were working for Master Shen on the imperial mission, Master Shen received a letter from the Xiangshui Camp. After reading it, his face immediately darkened, and without saying a word, he spoke with Several followers rode out of the city on horseback and headed straight for the Xiangshui camp.
Xiangshui County is less than a hundred miles from Huai'an. Shen Yi set out in the morning and arrived at the Xiangshui Camp outside Xiangshui County in the evening. Before his horse could stop, Xue Wei and Su Ding took the Two commanders and a crowd of thousands of households greeted him outside the gate of the camp.
After seeing Shen Yi's mount, everyone knelt down half-kneeling, bowed their heads and said, "Greetings to Mr. Shen!"
With a dark face, Master Shen jumped off his mount, without even looking at these people, and walked into the Xiangshui Camp with his hands behind his hands. The generals looked at each other and could only stand up cautiously and followed him step by step. Entered the camp.
Shen Yi didn't waste any time. He went straight to his tent, grabbed the drumstick placed at the door of his tent, and banged the drum twice.
Then he entered the handsome tent without saying a word.
His appearance frightened even Xue Wei. He first ordered the thousands of households in the Xiangshui camp to gather quickly, then carefully looked back at Su Ding, lowered his head and asked: "General Su, Mr. Shen, this What happened?"
Su Ding opened his mouth, hesitated, but still didn't say anything. He just shook his head slightly: "General Xue, I don't know. Let's go in and we'll find out in a moment."
Soon, there were about ten people standing in Shen Yi's commanding tent, which was the number of generals with more than 1,000 households in Xiangshui camp.
Of course, there was more than one Xiangshui Camp on the Eastern Front, so not all the generals on the Eastern Front were present.
After everyone was gathered, Mr. Shen sat on the main seat, not looking at anyone else, but looking straight at Xue Wei.
"General Xue, when I was in Jiankang, I heard that there were two thousand-household camps in your Xiangshui Camp. The training had slackened. They used to train for three or four hours a day, but later they only trained for less than two hours, or even one. When the time comes, I cry out the heat and complain endlessly."
"Sometimes when it rains, you can't even go out, right?"
When Xue Wei heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief. He quickly lowered his head and said, "Yes, Mr. Shen, you sent your followers to deliver a letter to the general. The general has already punished them according to your instructions."
Shen Yi looked calm: "How did you punish me?"
Xue Wei scratched his head and said: "I fined two thousand households of them two months' salary, and each of them was hit with twenty boards."
Shen Yi gave him a cold look: "In my letter, I asked you to handle it by yourself. I was too trustworthy. This is how you handled it?!"
"Before I returned to Jiankang, I personally warned you and Ling Su, as well as all Qianhu, not to slack off in training!"
"Now it's not just slacking off, it's simply quitting practice!"
Mr. Shen suppressed his anger, looked at Su Ding again, and said angrily: "General Su, you are the commander. Apart from Xue Wei, you are in charge of the entire Eastern Front. What do you say?"
Su Ding's face turned pale. He knelt down directly on the ground, lowered his head and said: "This general is incompetent and has neglected his duties. Please punish Mr. Shen..."
"You are not negligent in your duty."
Shen Yi took a deep breath and said: "It's because you are a monk halfway, and these acting commanders, as well as these thousands or even hundreds of households are not convinced by you. It's hard for you to offend them, let alone It’s a good way to offend Xue Wei, isn’t it?”
Su Ding knelt on the ground, lowered his head and said nothing.
"Xue Wei!"
Mr. Shen gave a low drink.
Xue Wei was stunned. He never imagined that his boss would be so furious because of such a "little thing", so he also knelt down and called Mr. Shen.
All the generals behind him knelt on the ground.
Shen Yi looked at Xue Wei with disappointment on his face: "Why are you protecting them?"
"Is it because you think training doesn't matter, or...because they and you are both from Taizhou Prefecture?"
Hearing this, Xue Wei was so frightened that his scalp was numb, and he knelt on the ground, not daring to say a word.
"Is it because they killed Japanese pirates with you?"
Xue Wei's face turned red and he kowtowed to Shen Yi three times. His forehead was a little red. He lowered his head and said: "Mr. Shen, the last general..."
"It's hindering... it's hindering the old feelings."
This fierce general who fought bravely on the battlefield was stuttering when he spoke.
He bowed his head deeply, with tears in his eyes: "This subordinate is wrong..."
Shen Yi stood up, looked at the generals who were kneeling on the ground, and said coldly: "You are not wrong, it was me who was wrong. I looked down on you."
"I know what you are thinking in your heart. You just think that the Qi people have withdrawn their troops and there will be no more fighting between the two countries. There will be no problem in defending Huai'an for a year."
"In that case, why are you still training so hard?"
"Yes or no?"
No one dared to speak.
Master Shen sneered and was about to speak when someone from outside cautiously broke in, half-knelt in front of Shen Yi, lowered his head and said: "Mr. Shen, He Qianhu and Zong Qianhu are kneeling outside to apologize and want to see you... "
These two thousand households were the protagonists of this incident. Because they were slapped, they were still resting and did not participate in the account upgrade.
Mr. Shen narrowed his eyes and waved his hand: "Go and tell them that their general has finished dealing with them and this matter has nothing to do with them. Let them..."
"Go wherever you need to go."
Having said this, Shen Yi turned around, looked at Xue Wei and Su Ding who were kneeling in front of him, and said expressionlessly: "Xue Wei, from now on, you are no longer the commander of the Eastern Front..."
Xue Wei knelt on the ground, his body trembling and he did not dare to move.
All the other generals, including Su Ding, raised their heads at the same time and looked at Shen Yi, with expressions of disbelief on their faces.
"Su Ding..."
Mr. Shen said expressionlessly: "From now on, you will take over the position of the Eastern Front general, Xue Wei..."
"I will serve as a commander for the time being and serve under your command."
As he spoke, Shen Yi looked at the generals behind Su Ding.
"If there are people who fought against the Japanese army and don't obey you."
Master Shen took a deep breath.
"Let them come to me. If they don't even accept me, they only accept General Xue..."
Shen Yi looked around at the crowd and sneered: "That's great. Then Shen can only form another Huai'an army to compete with you."
After saying that, Shen Yi snorted and turned around to leave the handsome tent.
But Su Ding was still kneeling on the ground. At this moment, he had not recovered yet.
After a while, he swallowed and looked at Xue Wei aside: "General Xue..."
Xue Wei's eyes were red and he didn't say a word. He just kowtowed to Su Ding with a plop.