Jia Ke talked with Fan Kang for a whole day. It was not until late at night that Fan Kang had dinner at Jia Ke's house and then said goodbye to Jia Ke.

Jia Ke reluctantly grabbed Fan Kang's hand and said, "Sir, if there is any place to live when you first come here, why not just stay for one day and leave tomorrow?"

Fan Kang shook his head and said: "Now I have found an abandoned government office in the city. Although it is dilapidated, it is still habitable. I will clean it and find all three classes of government officials, and then I can work. I am in the lord's office.

I'm afraid that living here will attract criticism. If anything happens, my lord, just call me. Don't let a small thing cost you a big thing."

Jia Ke reluctantly let him go, and did not return to the study until Fan Kang could no longer be seen.

As soon as Jia Ke returned to the study, he ordered Wei Kun, who was monitoring Fan Kang, to be called.

Wei Kun actually returned to the garrison mansion yesterday, but Jia Ke was drunk at that time and did not have time to summon him.

I chatted with Fan Kang for another day today, and I didn’t have time to see him until now.

When Jia Ke saw Wei Kun this time, he still looked like an honest man, but his clothes had turned into silk.

Jia Ke looked him up and down. He looked like a small businessman who operated with integrity. No one would have thought that he was Jia Ke's personal soldier.

Wei Kun felt a little uncomfortable being looked at by Jia Ke, and quickly kowtowed to Jia Ke to say hello.

Jia Ke didn't embarrass him, just let him get up, and then asked directly: "What is Mr. Fan doing these days? Who is he in contact with?"

Wei Kun answered honestly: "On the second day after you left, Mr. Fan went to the home of Gao Hong, the Jiedushi envoy, and stayed there for about an hour before going home. He stayed at home for the next few days.

He didn't go either. Then one day he was summoned to the Jiedushi Mansion and was appointed as the magistrate of our Kaiping Town. After that, he waited at home until the army set off, and followed the army to Kaiping Town. Other than that, there was nothing

Nothing special."

Jia Ke didn't care about other things. When he heard the name of Jun Jiu Gao Hong, his face couldn't help but become solemn.

You must know that the military sacrificial wine is not an ordinary official position. The full name of the military sacrificial wine is military division sacrificial wine, which is equivalent to the current chief of staff of the military region, and now it can only be held by the confidants of the Jiedushi.

Is there any relationship between Fan Kang and Gao Hong? Or it has something to do with Jiedushi. Are the strategies he mentioned deliberately guiding him? Let him go astray. Or directly guide him to rebel, and then be annihilated by the imperial court.

When I came to Bianguan, the only one I had conflicts with was Wang Tao. What kind of interactions did Fan Kang have with Wang Tao's military advisor? What was there that I didn't know about.

After listening to Wei Kun's words, Jia Ke couldn't help but feel doubtful in his heart. It seemed that he had to be suspicious of people and employ them, because now he was walking on the edge of a cliff every step of the way and there was no room for any mistakes.

Jia Ke turned around and said to Wei Kun: "Your friends are now all hundreds of households. Do you know this?"

Wei Kun thought that Jia Ke wanted him to become a hundred households, so he nodded excitedly. If he became a hundred households, it would be the first time that his family had been an official for generations.

Seeing his excited expression, Jia Ke couldn't bear to say the following words, but there were still some words that he had to say, "Cough, cough, that Wei Kun, you know that I have a dark opinion of the people around me now.

You are the most talented among us in terms of intelligence. So, I think you should not be a member of this family. I will arrange another errand for you. What do you think?"

Wei Kun is a very smart man, otherwise he would not have been able to follow Fan Kang for such a long time without him noticing. After hearing Jia Ke's words, he understood that Jia Ke wanted him to continue doing intelligence work.

Wei Kun thought for a while, being in charge of intelligence matters is not less powerful than being a member of the Hundred Households, and he will be the uncle's confidant in the future, so why not? So he expressed his position in front of Jia Ke: "Uncle, don't

If I am asked to be a hundred households, I will not do it. I will do whatever the uncle asks me to do."

Jia Ke saw that this boy was still very smart. Why was there such a big gap between his appearance?

Jia Ke said: "I won't let you be a hundred households, but I won't let you go back to be a big soldier. From now on, you will be directly responsible to me alone. We will set up a department specifically responsible for gathering intelligence and hunting down spies. Name

I have already thought about it for you. You will be called the secret guard. You will be the first leader of the secret guard. From today on, I will give you two hundred taels of silver per month for activities. You can recruit people to work now. If the money is not enough for you,

Talk to me again."

How could Wei Kun be reluctant when he heard that he was asked to monitor all the officials in Kaiping Town and the Tatar spies? How much power would this have?

At this time, Wei Kun's eyes flashed with vivid light, and he firmly assured Jia Ke: "Don't worry, uncle, I will take care of this matter now. I will organize this unit in the shortest possible time and let him get involved as soon as possible."

action."

Jia Ke nodded with satisfaction and said to him with a smile at night: "You don't have a lot of personnel or funds now. Your main task is to monitor the entire Kaiping Town. If there is any trouble, report it to me immediately."

Wei Kun repeatedly promised that nothing would go wrong. Jia Ke was very satisfied and let him go down. After Wei Kun went down, he looked at his back and smiled mysteriously.

After Wei Kun left, Jia Ke thought carefully in the room. In this way, he had two lines of intelligence sources, Wei Kun's secret guards and Tang Kuai's intelligence organization.

These two lines must allow them to restrain each other, or even fight each other. Only in this way can Jia Ke control the situation. Just like Bald Jiang controlled the military and central unification.

Jia Ke is very satisfied with this arrangement. In the future, these two people will be his two dogs. Guards will always be by his side.

Early the next morning, Jia Ke sounded the gathering drum again and summoned officials from more than a thousand households in Kaiping Town to the lobby of the garrison.

Before the three-way drumming was finished, everyone had arrived. The lobby was full of generals in neat military uniforms, but there were only two civilian officials. One was Fan Kang, the new magistrate of Kaiping Town, and the other was Chen Xi, the chief secretary of Kaiping Town.

After the three-way drum was played, Jia Ke came from the back hall to the lobby of the garrison house, where he sat in the middle. All the generals paid homage together. Jia Ke lowered his head and looked at them. It was just that those people had generally been promoted to one level. They used to be

Hundreds of households are now thousands of households, vice-thousands of households.

Jia Ke said expressionlessly to the generals below: "The new soldiers had a day's rest yesterday, and I think they're about the same. This guy is getting lazy the more he rests. And the weather is getting colder and colder now. If we follow the rules of previous years,

The routine of everyone is staying indoors. I’m afraid I won’t be able to start training until next spring. This can’t be done. From tomorrow on, everyone will train together. According to the method I will give you, start training bit by bit from the beginning.

The new recruits are trained to be the same as the old veterans."

As soon as Jia Ke finished speaking, Chen Xi stepped forward impatiently and said, "No, sir, if we start training in winter, the consumption of our soldiers will inevitably increase greatly. According to the food given to us by the imperial court, we may not be able to survive the next time."

Put out grain."

Jia Ke frowned and asked, "Why is there not enough? How do we distribute our food now?"

Chen Xi quickly replied: "Sir, because we are at the border, the food is distributed in full. The daily ration for each soldier is one and a half liters (the division has 400,000 people, which is about 6,000 shi of rice per day). The average is 1.5 liters per person.

), if the whole army trains together in winter, such a small amount of food will not be enough for the soldiers."

Jia Ke asked, "Why didn't this happen the last time we had 2,000 people?"

"Sir, we still had a lot of grain stored in the warehouse last time. A large part of this grain was secretly stored by the previous households."
Chapter completed!