Looking at Guo Liang, Zhang Qian's figure disappeared into the night, and Han Qian frowned slightly.
Although Guo Liang, Zhang Qian and others have nothing to do with Xinchanghou Mansion and Wanhonglou, and are closer to Shen Yang, they also have no involvement with Anning Palace.
And as long as they are generals of the Dragon Bird Army, they will not take the initiative to get closer to Anning Palace, nor will they take the initiative to inform Anning Palace.
However, it is hard to say whether Guo Liang, Zhang Qian and others whose power has been evacuated after paying enough attention to the Anning Palace and the Prince's family were secretly recruited or bribed.
Guo Liang was originally the only surviving member of the Dragon Bird Army, but after the third prince took over the Dragon Bird Army, Guo Liang was quickly marginalized, and the few hundred elite men he had left were divided among them by Li Zhigao and the others. It is certain that there is resentment, but it does not mean that it cannot be resolved if the third prince Yang Yuanpu comes forward.
Han Qian thought that this should be the next step for the third prince Yang Yuanpu, but he had no time to think about it at this time. He got on his horse and asked Zhao Ting'er and Yao Xishui to go back to the villa first. At the same time, he informed Lin Haizheng, Zhao Wuji and the others that they would all the scouts. Withdraw.
Since Zhao Mingting directly pulled Guo Rong over to break into the camp, it means that Zhao Mingting will no longer let his subordinates risk climbing over unfamiliar terrain to deliver food to them.
Xiyuan Gate is the western boundary of the Tunying Military Mansion. It was originally just a simple wooden fence as a sign. In the past six months, a ditch was dug to divert streams and torrents into Chishan Lake, and the real boundary with Longhua Port was established.
The ditch is about one foot wide, and a wooden bridge spans it, which can be hoisted at night to isolate the inside and outside.
Guo Rong and Zhao Mingting hadn't come over yet, but a primary school student stood on the other side of the boundary ditch holding Guo Rong's waistband high, and ordered them to lower the suspension bridge.
"This man doesn't look like he is with Mr. Guo." Han Qian climbed up to the Yuanmen archery tower. Hearing the creaking sound under his feet, he was worried whether the Yuanmen wooden tower, which was originally built and defended by Guo Liang, would be affected by strong winds. It fell over when it blew over. Through the tall lantern, I saw the three knights standing on the other side with their horses in their saddles. They were not the people around Guo Rong.
In the late years of the previous dynasty, the Jiedushi envoys who held real power in various places began to openly use eunuchs in their mansions.
The rise of Emperor Tianyou was so sudden that he took charge of the military affairs of Huainan only twenty-five years ago. The first batch of eunuchs employed by the Huainan Jiedushi Palace were all old men who were brought over from the Guangling Jiedushi Palace with Empress Xu of Anning Palace. Then some new people were hired one after another.
This also destined that the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the imperial city was divided into two factions, and the people in the Anning Palace faction, including Guo Rong, were all older.
Even if the factors of An Ning Palace were not taken into account, the eunuchs of the Anning Palace faction also made great achievements in the process of laying the foundation of Da Chu. No matter how scrupulous Emperor Tianyou was, he could not eliminate them when Guo Rong and his group were working hard. .
Although Guo Rong was granted a house outside the imperial city, except for a few elderly eunuchs who had nowhere to go and were running out of energy to serve him, the people around him usually belonged to the House of Internal Affairs and followed him there. The young eunuchs in green who serve in the Linjiang Marquis Mansion; if they want to go out of the city for business, they will also transfer a few guards from the guard camp to follow them.
The three knights holding Guo Rong's belt card and wearing black armor were naturally the guards around Zhao Mingting.
Of course, Li Zhigao could not fail to see such a simple thing. He also knew that Han Qian said this to ask him to show his power to these three arrogant guys.
Li Zhigao winked at the guards around him and ordered the suspension bridge to be lowered. The general behind him, Teng Tengteng, led a few people across the bridge, dragged three people from the other side off their horses, pushed them down in the mud and tied them up.
, and then walked back with the badge of the military commander Guo Rong and presented it to Li Zhigao.
"There are too many little thieves these days, so I'd like to apologize to the three of you first, and then I'll send someone to take this badge to Mr. Guo to verify its authenticity." Li Zhigao glanced sharply at the three people downstairs who had been beaten in the nose, black eyes and swollen during the binding process.
Man, said lightly.
"This place is small, so we will be sent to Matangzhai first." Han Qian lost no time in adding another sentence.
Li Zhigao was a little puzzled, but seeing that Zhou Yuan had been puzzled for a while and seemed to suddenly realize it, he wondered what kind of trick Han Qian had come up with to torment people, and asked his men to do as Han Qian said and take the three people to Matangzhai and lock them up first.
The main focus of Li Zhigao's previous work was to stay with the third prince. While responsible for teaching the third prince, he would also merge the veterans of the Longque Army and increase the strength of the guard battalion to 500 people.
It was only three days ago that Chai Jian was appointed as the deputy commander of the guard battalion and responsible for the security around the third prince Yang Yuanpu. Only then did Li Zhigao free up his hands and turn his focus back to the reorganization of the Longhuai Army; therefore, Li Zhigao's response to the Tunying Military Mansion
The situation is far worse than that of Han Qian, Zhou Yuan and the others.
After half a year of preparation and rectification, Taowu Jitun Camp Military Mansion currently has nearly 2,000 seriously ill people, mainly concentrated in the two villages near the East and West Yuanmen.
This was Han Qian's initial suggestion to Shen Yang. The reason was that in addition to concentrating severe epidemics for easier management, several large seepage wells built for centralized processing of human and animal excrement were also built on both sides of the camp.
Of course, Han Qian also had a hidden agenda, which was to concentrate serious diseases with hideous and miserable looks on the two wings, so as to deter outsiders from prying into the camp.
There are nearly a thousand people living in Matangzhai, all of whom are seriously ill. A considerable number of people drowned. Even now, two or three people die every day. Carrying these three people there will make them feel the pain.
Taowu has a fierce epidemic atmosphere.
The guards around Li Zhigao had been in and out of the camp military mansion many times, and they also knew the current situation in Taowu Ji. They had long known that the water bug epidemic was not contagious between humans and animals. There was nothing to be afraid of when entering Matangzhai, but this
Han Qian didn't know whether the three of them were afraid.
Li Zhigao couldn't help laughing when Han Qian and Zhou Yuan told them the whole story.
It was inconvenient to gallop at night, and Chai Jian was delayed in front. Han Qian accompanied Li Zhigao, and Zhou Yuan waited at Xiyuan Gate for more than half an hour. Guo Rong, and Zhao Mingting, surrounded by more than a hundred people, rushed to the boundary of Xiyuan Gate.
Across the ditch.
At this time, Han Qian, Li Zhigao, Zhou Yuan and others all put on armor, a layer of waterproof tarpaulin soaked in tung oil, tied it firmly with a belt, covered their mouths and noses with dust masks made of gauze, and put on gum
The gloves made by him looked like simple biochemical suits made by local methods. They were ugly and weird, and exuded a strong and pungent smell of paint.
"Why did Mr. Guo come to Taowu so late?" Li Zhigao took Han Qian and Zhou Yuan out of the camp to greet them, then scolded the generals behind him with a straight face, "The three people holding waist cards just now are indeed Mr. Guo.
You bastards are sent here to detain people for what they call spies! Go release them quickly and apologize to them properly."
Accompanying the third prince and his bride into the palace, Guo Rong waited carefully in the palace for a day. He was already quite tired. As soon as he left the palace, he was forcibly dragged out of the city by Zhao Mingting. He felt somewhat resentful because he really didn't know about the Taowu Jitun camp.
Zhao Mingting noticed any flaws in the military government.
Rushing to the camp gate, Guo Rong felt even more horrified to see Li Zhigao, Han Qian and others dressed in such weird ways. Even though the three men under Zhao Mingting had already suffered a lot, he did not want to seek justice for them.
"When I entered the palace today, Your Majesty asked about the situation of the camp. Guo realized that the Dragon Bird Army had been in service for nearly half a year, but it had not even entered the camp. Although His Majesty did not blame Guo, Guo could not be blamed for neglect.
When I was running away, I was in panic, so I invited Governor Zhao to come with me. I thought if there was any errands in the camp, we could help come up with some ideas." Guo Rong calmed down and said in a neutral tone.
"Then please invite Mr. Guo and Governor Zhao to come to the office to speak." Li Zhigao said, signaling his men to take out more than a hundred oilcloth robes and ask Guo Rong and the others to change into them.
These oilcloth robes are made of cotton soaked in tung oil and are mainly used to prevent pollution when collecting and processing human and animal excrement.
Han Qian, Li Zhigao and others were naturally wearing brand new robes. The robes worn by Guo Rong and Zhao Mingting were also new, but Zhao Mingting, Guo Rong's young eunuchs in green and the scouts from Zifangsi were sorry.
They were obviously old robes stained with a lot of filth, and they also gave off waves of stench.
Zhao Mingting looked a little ugly when he saw these people holding back their nausea and putting on their clothes while being careful to avoid being contaminated by the filth outside. However, Li Zhigao claimed that the special anti-epidemic clothes were limited, and he did not want his men to guard outside the gate.
I could only hold back my anger and remain silent.
Li Zhigao also followed Han Qian's plan and had people use special horse cages to muzzle all the horses entering the camp. He also repeatedly ordered: "Never let the horses break free. Once they chew up the food in the camp, they must be muzzled."
The grass and blades need to be slaughtered, burned and buried on the spot."
People can strictly abstain from snails and crabs when ordered to do so, but animals cannot.
To isolate and control the source of the epidemic, large and medium-sized livestock that must be used inside the camp will be strictly caged to prevent them from eating in the wild, and manure bags will be covered to collect animal feces for centralized processing.
These utensils are all ready-made, so when Han Qian and others do these things, it doesn't look like they are tormenting Guo Rong, Zhao Mingting and others with malicious intent.
At the end of the day, all the horses' hooves were specially bandaged with two layers of tung oil cloth. The preparations were done seriously and meticulously, and most of the hour passed.
At this time, the three knights who had sent the message had been released a long time ago. Li Zhigao stepped forward to apologize seriously, but they remained pale and silent.
Although they are all fierce warriors on the battlefield, being locked up in a village with thousands of seriously ill patients who have drowned for the last breath will definitely not feel good afterwards; and the other scouts of the Staff Division, seeing their appearance, do not need to
If you ask carefully, you can guess what scene they saw, and they all consciously distanced themselves at this time.
Zhao Mingting was reminded by Wang Wenqian that he was just suspicious of the situation at Taowuji, but he couldn't confirm anything at all in such a short period of time, so he had to drag Guo Rong over tonight.
Who would believe that he was not worried about the spread of the epidemic at all?
At least he did not dare to let the three scouts who had sent the message to be detained come directly to him, but asked a few words from a distance; he was obviously on guard against Li Zhigao's dirty tricks.
Li Zhigao asked whether he should visit the villages below or go to the military office first to understand the basic situation.
Guo Rong jumped ahead of Zhao Mingting and decided to go to the military office first, thinking that the problem should not be too serious in the office that handles affairs.
Naturally, the situation in the military office is not serious. The four corpses that died in the past two days are still placed in the mortuary. All the night watchmen have been replaced by soldiers infected with the disease, but not particularly serious. Then, before and after the courtyard Several more buckets of human and animal excrement were thrown in, and a faint stench filled the air.
"Thanks to Mr. Shen Yang who forgot to eat and sleep, and sympathized with the affected people, the military government currently has 7,293 soldiers in the army. These are the rosters compiled by the soldiers. However, three to five of these soldiers will die of illness every day. Outside There are still four corpses parked in the mortuary, would Mr. Guo want to take a look?" Li Zhigao asked someone to bring the twenty-five thick rosters compiled by the villagers to Guo Rong for him to check.
Zhao Mingting glanced around the courtyard with sharp eyes, but the sick soldiers in the courtyard had indeed been trained for four or five months, and they had come to the military office two or three times to take turns to see their behavior and interact with them. There is not much difference between ordinary generals and soldiers, except that their faces still have a very obvious sick look and their bodies look thin.
Zhao Mingting suspected that Li Zhigao was trying to hide the truth, but Guo Rong could only accompany them into the camp. He didn't want to go into the camp below in the middle of the night without Guo Rong, the supervisor of the army, to lead the way. What excuse did Zhao Mingting have in front of Li Zhigao to send his people out to gather information?
What's more, the camp was closed at night, and Guo Rong didn't show his face for half a year. Li Zhigao did all the dirty work, and Zhou Yuan and the others were doing it. He didn't make sense at this time, and ordered Li Zhigao to open a camp for no reason. Let him check it out!
