Pan Shiyi's work was indeed fruitful. According to Pan Shiyi's recollection, after Su Jin led the troops and left, Song Xiang was responsible for the city's defense. Pan Shiyi assigned the remaining more than a thousand Xiang soldiers, but at that time Yangzhou City was still in a state of chaos.
During the respite period after the turmoil, some disturbances will occur from time to time, so in addition to the guards in the four cities, it is also necessary to deploy troops to patrol the city. High-speed updates
The originally small number of men and horses was divided into five or six places for use. In addition, the box soldiers were not made of iron and needed to change shifts to rest and recuperate. Therefore, one can imagine the shortage of personnel.
Yangzhou City is such a big city. When a dozen patrol teams were placed in the city, they were almost immediately like a few drops of water falling into a lake, submerged without a trace. The two armies guarding the four city gates were also equipped with two hundred people each from the original standard.
The number of guards in turns has been reduced to an unprecedented one hundred men, which means that there are two shifts of fifty people each day and night; and these fifty people are even stretched at the city gate, not to mention patrolling the city wall, inspecting the comings and goings, and
Some related matters.
Pan Shiyi was very worried, and the Xiang army soldiers complained about their daily hard work. At this moment, someone came to the door and solved the urgent need. This person was Guo Pinchao, the general magistrate of Yangzhou.
Guo Pinchao never left the yamen for inspections, but that day he suddenly came to patrol the city gate. Although the Yangzhou Xiang Army was not directly under Lord Tongpan, after all, he was a subordinate in terms of official position, so Pan Shiyi received him carefully.
During the chat, Guo Pinchao praised the Yangzhou Xiang army for being able to endure hardships and be able to respond to the urgent needs of the state government during special times and stick to their posts to guard the people, but at the same time he sighed that this was not an option.
Pan Shiyi felt something in his heart and could not help but complain a few times, so Guo Pinchao immediately proposed a solution.
"I plan to organize the inspection and arresting officers of each yamen and organize a temporary army. In addition to the necessary manpower of the yamen, I can gather more than a hundred people. In this way, these people will be divided into two teams and take turns.
What do you think about replacing the Xiang army on duty in the four cities so that the brothers in the Xiang army can take a breather?"
Pan Shiyi almost knelt down to Guo Pinchao. Being able to provide manpower at this time was a help in times of need, so he agreed wholeheartedly. Although the motley army composed of patrol officers and police officers was not a regular army, it was very useful for such an errand as guarding the city gate.
It was still easy to do; and Guo Pinchao also took the initiative to ask these people to replace the night defenders, because there were more people coming and going during the day, and the government officials had never done errands at the city gate for fear of making mistakes; and at night they only patrolled the city.
Gate walls, fire prevention, theft prevention, theft prevention and climbing over the city walls, the motley army can definitely handle such things.
Pan Shiyi was naturally deeply impressed by Lord Guo Tongpan's foresight, so after discussing the details, he carried out the operation once that night. That time, he replaced the midnight guard at the east gate. Everything went smoothly. In the next few days, various people
The city gates were guarded in turns, and there were no major mistakes.
Pan Shiyi also made a special trip to Tongpan Lord's mansion on East Street to express his gratitude to Shangguan for his thoughtfulness.
Su Jin felt bright after hearing this; the fox's tail was exposed, and he was on duty at night. The guards were not Xiang troops, but miscellaneous troops organized by Guo Tongpan. Guo Tongpan was Feng Laohu's number one trump card. Nothing was wrong here.
Strange.
"Do you have any records of replacement duty here?" Su Jin asked.
Pan Shiyi said: "Of course there are. They are all archived in the duty barracks at the city gate. The number of people entering and exiting every day, goods, duty records, number of people, and affairs are all recorded."
Su Jinyi clapped his hands and said: "Come on, this is a matter of course." After saying that, he reached out and took out the reinstatement document and handed it to Pan Shiyi and said: "Congratulations to Commander Pan on his reinstatement. From now on, you and Nai brother Pan Jiang will jointly command Xiang."
Jun, Brother Nai has been busy doing other things during this time, so you have nourished me."
Pan Shiyi quickly thanked him and said in confusion: "The envoy is asking these questions, but did something go wrong during the shift change?"
Su Jin smiled and said, "You are very quick in your responses, and I did not hide it from you. I suspected that Feng Jingyao took advantage of the fact that the night post was not on guard duty to transport all the stored grain out of the city and hide it, but you didn't know anything about it.
"
Pan Shiyi was so frightened that he quickly knelt down and apologized. Su Jin said: "You don't know their conspiracy, how can I blame you, but you can't escape the involvement. Now take me to check the records. I want to know who was there in those days."
Stand guard at the city gate."
Pan Shiyi said angrily: "These rats actually took advantage of this opportunity to frame our Xiang army for injustice. I am humble enough to take you to check the records to see if it is the gang of grandsons who are evil-hearted and help the evildoers. I just don't know which city you want to check."
Door records? Which day’s records should be checked?”
Su Jin thought for a moment and said, "Is the nearest county near Yangzhou Tianchang?"
Pan Jiang and Pan Shi Yijun nodded and said, "It's just Tianchang, and we have been together for less than forty miles."
Su Jindao: "Which way do you think is more secretive and safe from Yangzhou to Tianchang?"
Pan Shiyi said: "Tianchang is in the northwest of Yangzhou. There is an official road from the west gate to the north gate. However, the north gate official road passes through the mountain pass at the west end of Shugang Mountain. There are few villages and towns. In terms of privacy, the only one is the north gate; and the west gate official road
The road is the way you set out to Bagong Mountain. The official road is easy to walk and there are many people."
Su Jin said: "Then go to the north gate to check the records first. The time is between November 26th and December 2nd. This is when Yangzhou learned that we had captured the Bagong Mountain bandits.
There was news of retrieving the food, but we did not return to Yangzhou, so it must be one of those days when we wanted to smuggle it in."
Everyone nodded. It could only be that at this time, they got the news that the food had been snatched back. Feng Laohu here must have known that the black market had to be temporarily closed, and the food envoy would definitely search for food in the city because of the imperial court.
The deadline of November 20 has passed. As long as the hoarding of grain is found, the hoarders can be arrested in accordance with relevant regulations.
Everyone rushed to the north city like a gust of wind. The small military camp near the city gate was where the gate guards usually rested. They would eat and drink here during shift changes, and military affairs were also taken care of here.
The city guard's surname was Ma. When he saw the special envoy coming with the two commanders, Ma Dutou hurried over to greet him, setting up a stool and pouring water. He was very busy.
Pan Shiyi said: "Stop working so hard. Bring us the duty records from last month and this month. Your Majesty will have a look at them."
Ma Dutou hurried into the barracks, and soon he came with two soldiers and a military official holding a lot of brochures.
Su Jin frowned and said, "So many?"
Ma Dutou smiled and said: "My lord, no matter how big or small, we need to record everything here. Even if you knock over the old woman's basket of eggs, there will be a few scratches on it and a few intact.
Why was it broken, who caused it, how to deal with it, etc.”
Su Jin thought to himself: "Isn't this a fucking running account?" He took the records and rummaged through them one by one. What's annoying is that these Qiu Ba gang didn't even number them. This one is from the first to the second day of junior high school, and that one is from the first to the second day of junior high school.
Jumping to November 15th and 16th, Su Jin was sweating and finally had to mobilize everyone to search among a pile of records.
So a bunch of old men stuck their butts out and dug around on the ground with their fingers as big as bear paws, trying to find records corresponding to the days like loaches, which looked ridiculous.
Finally, after a lot of hard work, all four records between November 26th and December 2nd were found.
Su Jin quickly took it over and opened it, but as soon as he opened it, he was suddenly covered in sweat. The words on it were dotted with ink, and they were written quite powerfully, but Su Jin didn't even know a single word.
Su Jin sighed and said, "Who usually kept this record?"
The minister hurriedly stepped forward and said: "The villain is dedicated to recording, the brothers dictate, and the villain records."
Su Jin glared and said, "Your ancestor opened a medicine shop?"
The minister smiled and said, "In this humble family, there is a tofu grinder."
Su Jin said: "Then why is this word written like a prescription for medicine in a drug store? I am afraid that others will recognize this word, but it really belongs to you."
The minister was so ashamed that he quickly took it and said, "I'll read it to you, little one."
Su Jin sat down on the wooden stool and sighed: "Wang Mazi writes and Wang Mazi recognizes it, that's all."
The minister smiled and nodded, put his hand to wet his mouth with saliva, pulled out the first one, and began to read.