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Chapter 244: People from all walks of life

Zhao Ran asked the two newly recruited guards: "Who is this Zeng Ruming? He also wants to join the gang?"

"It is common sense that the abbot's flag is waved on the river, and the four sides respond. I will think that if the abbot raises the banner of justice, people from all sides will inevitably follow him, and this is what Commander Zeng should do."

"Yes, the general also thought that the abbot could meet him. The general heard that when the Three Thousand Battalion's Zhongsi entered the city to rebel, he commanded the envoy and led people to stop it, but unfortunately he failed."

Zhao Ran accepted the advice and returned to the gate of Jinghai Temple. He saw Commander Zeng who was as round as a ball. Even though Commander Zeng was fat, his movements were not clumsy at all. He jumped forward extremely nimbly and hugged him.

He bowed to Zhao Ran by the hem of his clothes, and the five conductors behind him knelt down neatly on the ground. They had practiced it countless times.

Therefore, Zhao Ran recruited the sergeants of the fifth battalion. Under the strong expectation of Commander Zeng, he assigned them a garrison defense area. Each battalion stayed put and waited for orders. So Commander Zeng issued a military deployment order with a serious look on his face, asking him to

The commanders of each battalion in the division entered the camp in an orderly manner according to the camp areas divided by Abbot Zhao. They were on full alert and drilled day and night, waiting for the next general offensive order.

Everything is as if they were conjured out of thin air.

As a result, Zhao Ran had another commander, Zeng, who diligently began to plan military affairs for him.

In fact, what Zhao Ran wanted to recruit the most was the Youye Middle Camp of the Fifth Army Camp stationed at Yifeng Gate. Unfortunately, this guy was just a wallflower, and he was wavering. In fact, it didn't matter that the wallflower was there. Zhao Ran had always believed in using talents in an eclectic way.

I have no disdain or contempt at all, especially since this is not a national war.

However, when the grass on the wall swayed too much and was difficult to control, the battalion commander on the city wall was always wavering. When Hu Dashun personally led two battalions of sergeants to reinforce him, he missed the best opportunity. Zhang Lue, in order to prevent Yi

The big trees on Lion Mountain and Hydrangea Mountain outside Fengmen were burned down, so they had to put away their good intentions and send troops to climb the mountain. In order to prevent the houses in the streets and alleys under the city gate from being destroyed, they pushed the soldiers directly to the base of the wall.

Confrontation, tense atmosphere.

In the evening, Zhao Ran actually saw Shi Weiming, the head of the household department, in Jinghai Temple.

Zhao Ran didn't know about this before Weiming at this time. He was a small head of the household department and a member of the imperial family. He couldn't reach a high-level official like Zhao Ran even if he stretched his neck. Not to mention Zhao Ran's background and friends.

The level of Shifang Jungle Province and the Three Capitals was beyond Shi Weiming's reach.

But three months ago, Zhao Ran got to know this little sixth-rank official through the beautiful operation of Gan Shutong, the Secretary of the Ministry of Revenue. Gan Shutong privately admitted that he had indeed asked the Ministry of Revenue to provide financial support at that time.

The capital's streets were renovated, but Shi Weiming stopped him. He suggested that Gan Shutong pay for the money himself, and it wouldn't be much, and pledged a thousand taels, leaving a big hole. Sure enough, Shi Weiming later found it.

When he had the opportunity, he confided the matter to Yang Yiqing, which set off a wave of impeachment against Gan Shutong and pushed Gan Shutong's personal reputation to its peak.

If not for a series of changes that followed, Gan Shutong would have already joined the cabinet. Therefore, Zhao Ran still admired this person very much. As for some people saying that Shi Weiming betrayed his mentor Yang Yiqing in order to meet his superiors, Zhao Ran did not

I think this is a big problem. Can the "student" named with eyes closed during the imperial examination be called a student? It's just a clique.

Looking at Shi Weiming, who was the same age as himself, Zhao Ran didn't see anything scheming or sophisticated. In fact, what he saw was the same fat man. The fat man squinted his eyes and asked his followers to open two large boxes.

, inside is piled full of snowflake official silver, a total of ten thousand taels!

"The Ministry of Household Affairs has prepared one hundred thousand taels of salary and silver for the army to march to Beijing to quell the rebellion. This is the first batch. It was sent by the lower officials first. Please accept the abbot. Mr. Gan said that the grain and rice in the Fengying Granary in the west of the city were also opened.

To supply the army, please also ask the abbot to send a grain and grain officer to accompany the subordinate to inspect it."

Zhao Ran nodded: "Shang Shu Gan is very thoughtful, everyone in the Ministry of Revenue has worked hard."

He was more interested in how Shi Weiming brought two large boxes of official silver out of the city. When he asked, Shi Weiming immediately laughed: "Today the abbot's flag has just been raised, and everyone in the city is excited. I don't know how many people there are."

If anyone wants to leave the city to work for the army, the lower official can bluntly say that among the thirteen gates in the capital, except for the Yifeng Gate and the nearby Qingliang Gate, the Zhongfu Gate, and the Shence Gate, the lower official can enter and exit at will at the other nine gates.

No one dares to stop it."

After chatting for a while, Zhao Ran asked Zhang Lue to bring the grain and grain officer to take over. When the grain and grain officer saw Shi Weiming, he immediately respectfully called him teacher. It turned out that during the Battle of Baima Mountain, young Shi Weiming was a Jinshi of the Ministry of Household Affairs.

He took the initiative to serve in the White Horse Mountain Army. It took him half a year to master the method of money and food in the army, and another half year to become an expert in money and food. In the following three years, I have led many military scholars and taught how many battalions.

Military attaché.

Zhao Ran pondered for a moment and said: "I see, I have a large army here, and the number of camps is complicated, and I rely on Niu Qianshi to support it. I'm afraid there will be some shortage. Is the commander willing to stay and help me?"

Shi Weiming smiled and said: "Normally, a subordinate would never dare to resign after the abbot has spoken, but there is something Shi said that I don't know whether to say or not."

"The boss doesn't need to be polite, just say what you have to say."

"The hearts of the people in the city are floating, and they look forward to the abbot as much as they look forward to the rain. As long as the abbot gives an order, it can be as short as half a day, or as late as one day, and the city will be destroyed, so it is dispensable at this time. But the abbot also said just now that the camp numbers in the army are complicated.

They do not belong to each other, and the superiors and orders do not act in the same way. If we delay for a long time, chaos will arise from within, and it will be useless to leave Shi Mo behind."

This was to persuade Zhao Ran to advance the army as soon as possible. Zhao Ran nodded: "I understand, thank you very much for your advice."

Shi Weiming's point of view is actually the same as Zhang Lue's military plan in general, which is to win quickly and there must be no confrontation inside and outside the city. The longer the confrontation, the more disadvantageous it will be to the guest army.

The main forces that can fight, Longtan Guard and Wuchang Guard, are guest armies, while the battalion heads such as Liu Wenlong, Li Sanhu and Zeng Commander, who can be called the main army, are out-and-out local snakes, but it is impossible to expect them to attack the city. They

None of these battalion commanders who "raised righteousness" before the battle were Zhu Xianjian's confidants. They were not "taken in" by Zhu Xianjian that day, let alone get the battle formation equipment. Without the battle formation armor, let's not say whether they can match the equipment in the city.

The camp head fought hard, and in a real fight, they couldn't even get close to the city wall.

Zhao Ran's position for them was to wave the flag and shout when the war started, and to help maintain order once they entered the city.

Shi Weiming returned to the city and brought a message from Zhao Ran to Gan Shutong. Not long after he left, Yan Shifan arrived at Jinghai Temple.

Yan Shifan said that as the champion of the Yellow Crown Division of the Xiuxian Ball Competition, he was very sad about the suspension of the competition. He also went to Zijin Mountain Xiangluxuan and Daxiuxian Stadium many times to check the damage. To this end, he was willing to donate 10,000 taels of silver.

Do your best for the restart of the competition.

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