Chapter Forty-Third: Imperial Appointment, Holding Power (6)
The House Secretary has arrived at Qi Xunjian's house and explained Wei Chong's plan to him in order to ask him to serve again. After the inspection was dismissed, he was often depressed. Seeing the good news that the official was reinstated, he readily agreed.
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The clerk originally thought that Wei Chong would waste his time there, and was about to rest and wait for a while, but unexpectedly he heard the sound of horse hooves and Wei Chong ran in.
"It seems that both officers are easy to talk to! You have finished talking so quickly." The clerk said with a smile.
Wei Chong's face flushed with anxiety and he stamped his feet: "Oh! That officer Yan is really putting on a good show!" He hurried to Inspector Qi and asked for a bowl of tea.
Wei Chong moistened his throat and said to the two men: "This officer from Yan is openly trying to withdraw his troops, but secretly he is inciting his troops to make a big fuss in front of me. What do you think I can do?! He wants to kill Wan Dang."
It doesn’t matter if I lose the prestige or the prefect Ye’s face. Damn it, it doesn’t matter if you involve me in this. It’s really a bloody misfortune for eight lifetimes...” He was so angry that he trembled all over and threw the lid of the tea bowl to the ground.
The clerk lowered his head to pick it up: "Master Wei, don't be angry...it's important to have an idea."
"If the man surnamed Yan is unwilling, why not go to Officer Zhang and ask him if he can withdraw first and let my soldiers go in." Inspector Qi came up with an idea.
"No," Wei Chong immediately rejected the proposal. "Since the prince of the county has requested that the troops be withdrawn at the same time, and officer Zhang himself can't make up his mind, why should he still be allowed to resist the order?"
Inspector Qi suddenly became speechless.
"I have another plan," the secretary of the household office gently covered the tea bowl, "aren't those two officers temporarily assigned to patrol duties? We can't send another patrol officer, but we can send a deputy.
Well! Let’s pretend to be the prefect
In the name of the police, I will forcefully send the inspector Qi, and let Ye Yongjia take the blame when the time comes. Although this guy is at odds with you, I'm afraid he doesn't want to see those soldiers messing around at the yamen gate. In addition, he doesn't understand the feelings of the department.
Qi Inspector must be reinstated!"
"What a plan!" Wei Chong said and pulled Inspector Qi up, "It's too late, let's go back to the inspection office now!"
Just as the two officers looked at Qi's inspection troops in confusion, Secretary Wei next to them coughed a few times and pointed to Qi's inspection at the foot of the stairs: "Yan, General Zhang, the magistrate has not yet decided on the matter of withdrawing troops.
, so I sent this person here to take up the post of deputy inspector, and first station the officers and soldiers here."
"Okay, okay!" Officer Zhang didn't know what to say, so he just clapped his hands for a while.
"Officer Yan..." Wei Chong looked at him out of the corner of his eye.
The latter showed displeasure and said coldly: "Okay, let's go."
After getting permission from the officers, Inspector Qi bowed to the three men and ordered the soldiers to go.
Seeing that there was no one around, Officer Yan spoke up and said sternly: "Secretary Wei, what are you doing? You heard this this morning, we all planned to withdraw, but the soldiers were not happy, so how could Yan leave?"
What do you mean when you say you have to wait a moment without using any disrespectful words and forcefully send a deputy inspector? Are you going to drive us away?"
Wei Chong stared with a pair of innocent eyes: "This is the prefect's personal order and has nothing to do with the villain; the villain is just an errand boy, who knows the deeper meaning..."
"Ye Yongjia..." Officer Yan clenched his fists and muttered to himself.
Ye Yongjia got up early as usual, changed into his official uniform, and rode to the Yamen on horseback.
As soon as he arrived on the street in front of the government office, he saw that the people were not going in the direction of the government office, so he stopped one person and asked, "Why don't we all go around?"
The people panicked and replied: "A group of military lords kicked the door of the government office and shouted inside. Who dares not to avoid it?"
Ye Yongjia frowned, knowing the danger, so he hurried forward and rushed forward.
When he arrived in front of the yamen, there were indeed thirty or forty soldiers patting the iron gate in front of them, taking turns shouting and cursing, and making a mess. He quickly jumped off his horse, pushed aside the crowd, and asked, "Whose soldiers are you?"
They all turned their attention to Ye Yongjia, with fear on their faces and did not dare to speak out.
Only their immediate superior, Officer Yan, still shouted: "Mine!"
"Have your people stop," Ye Yongjia glanced around, "Let's go in and talk."
"Please take a seat."
Officer Yan sat down on Ye Yongjia's chair, "Sir, I told Secretary Wei that the soldiers under my command were causing trouble and that the withdrawal of the troops would have to be postponed for a longer period of time. I didn't say a word 'no'; why did I have to force the officers and soldiers to come here?"
, causing embarrassment to us."
Ye Yongjia said: "This matter was done by Secretary Wei. I don't know about it. You go and tell him."
Officer Yan was very dissatisfied: "Sir, Secretary Wei asked me to ask you, but you kicked me back. I have to give you an explanation, right? I am following Yue Gong after all!"
Ye Yongjia was about to defend himself when he heard a clerk knocking on the door, so he turned around and asked, "What's the matter?"
"Belongs to the King of Wanjun."
He was trembling with excitement: "Come in."
The clerk opened the door, handed Ye Yongjia a piece of paper, and whispered a few words. Ye Yongjia nodded and rolled the paper into his sleeve.
He felt refreshed, and was no longer so indifferent to Officer Yan: "General Yan, I'm sorry. I will help you solve it, and you will be satisfied! Go back, tonight!"
This inconsistent attitude made Officer Yan stunned. He made a few promises and walked out of the room in confusion.
"Have you chosen the person?" Ye Yongjia asked the clerk behind him.
"You arranged for Jiang Tianjiang to inspect."
"After the curfew, let Officer Zhang withdraw his troops, and then send Chiang Kai-shek to inspect and take over. Don't let anyone take advantage of it."
"I understand, little one."
"withdraw troops!"
Wei Chong, who lived in the wing, heard Officer Zhang's fierce shout and was so frightened that he rolled out of bed. He got up and groped in the dark for clothes to wear, but when he heard the orderly footsteps of the soldiers outside, he knew to evacuate.
When I went there, I didn't even wear a coat, walked barefoot on the cold stone road, and hurried to find Qi for inspection.
"Why did you withdraw without making any noise?" Inspector Qi was shocked, "Could it be..."
Wei Chong saw his hesitant look and hurriedly pushed him: "It's nothing else! Get the paper quickly, I'll write to the king why I chose you... for inspection!"
"I didn't grind the ink..."
Wei Chong was furious: "Then grind it quickly!"
Just as Inspector Qi was about to sharpen his ink, he heard another burst of hasty footsteps.
"You're back again?" Wei Chong's head was covered with beads of sweat, "Let me take a look!"
He cautiously walked behind a tree and saw groups of people running towards the main hall, and these people he had never seen before.
Wei Chong pinched his lips and looked at everything in front of him in surprise.
Until a man walked into the hall surrounded by officers and soldiers, pulled out a chair, and sat upright in the moonlight, his armor shining brightly.
"King Wanjun wrote an official document this morning, ordering Officer Zhang to withdraw from the Inspection Department first. Later, after being favored by the prefect, he chose me as the new Inspection Inspector. Everyone, please call all the officials in the department to meet with the new officer.