【Lewen】. Alas, for you to read wonderfully.

At dawn the next day, Li Yanqing and his entourage left Xingtang County in 30 ox carts and returned to Zhending County, where they were going to meet with the officials of the Transit Department today, and they would leave tomorrow at the latest, and return to the capital before the 10th day of the first month to hand over the report to Xiangguo Fan Zhixu, and then the reports of the three supervision envoys would be combined and handed over to the Son of Heaven on the 20th, and the time was very tight.

It can be said that their on-the-spot inspection has ended so far, and the officials and soldiers are exhausted by the high-intensity supervision for ten consecutive days, Li Yanqing sympathizes with the soldiers, and specially rents 30 ox carts so that the soldiers can also sit on the ox carts to rest.

The ox cart was walking very slowly, slightly bumping, and Li Yanqing sat alone in an ox cart Part of the first draft written by Wang Zao, the deputy envoy for auditing and supervision, most of the first draft was written by him, but there were some warehouses where Wang Zao took people to inspect, and this part of the first draft was written by Wang Zao.

If there are no problems with the audit, he starts writing a formal report.

The first draft of the inspection report alone was more than 50 pages thick and more than 35,000 words, and he will slightly reduce it to 20,000 words to form a formal report.

After reading this report, Li Yanqing knew why Xuanhe's Northern Expedition against Liao, which began in the third year of Xuanhe, was so badly defeated, not only because the soldiers' combat effectiveness was weak, but also because the real reason was logistics, and he hastily dispatched troops without preparing for the Northern Expedition.

The deep-seated reason for the poor logistics is the decline in the national strength of the Song Dynasty, the unrestrained enjoyment of the Son of Heaven Zhao Ji made Wang Anshi's great wealth accumulated since the reform of the law squandered, and the rebellion of Fang La seriously damaged the source of taxes in the Jiangnan region, and the continuous wars in recent years have exhausted the various stocks of weapons accumulated by the Ordnance Supervisor, it can be said that the Song Dynasty decided to march north when the national strength was the weakest, without the support of strong national strength, how could this battle be won.

His report came at the right time, and he hoped that his report would be like a basin of cold water, which would cool down the minds of those fanatical clamoring for the Northern Expedition from both the government and the opposition, so that they could recover a little bit of their senses.

At noon, the ox convoy arrived in Zhending County, the soldiers got off one after another, Li Yanqing also got off the ox cart, at this time, a group of officials came out of the city, the leader of the official was Wang Xiao of Zhending County, he smiled from afar: "Welcome Li Yushi back, you Yushi inspectors have worked hard." ”

Li Yanqing also smiled: "This time is really troublesome Wang Zhixian, today is the last day to disturb, tomorrow morning we will return." ”

"No problem, I'm ready, please come with me!"

At this time, Wang Gui wanted to lead the troops to the front to open the way, but Li Yanqing stopped him and shook his head at him with a smile, this is the core city of Zhending Mansion, there is no need to face the enemy again.

A group of people followed the county into the county seat, the pavilion is not far from the city gate, covering a large area, enough to accommodate more than 300 people, Wang Xiao also specially arranged more than 20 people to serve them, the supervision of the imperial history is the nemesis of the magistrate, the whole of the Zhending Mansion is terrified and looking forward to their early departure.

Although the Song people did not have the habit of eating lunch, the pavilion still arranged a sumptuous wine and food for them to wash the dust, even ordinary soldiers could eat big fish and meat, Li Yanqing was washing his face, at this time, Mo Jun hurriedly came over and whispered: "Wang Zao is gone!" ”

Li Yanqing was stunned, "Wasn't he there when he entered the city?" ”

"I saw him when I entered the inn, but now I don't know where he went?"

Li Yanqing's face was a little ugly, he had repeatedly said when he set off this morning that he was not allowed to act without permission after arriving in Zhending County, but this Wang Zao still ignored his own ban.

Mo Jun hesitated and said: "All the supervision papers are with him, and I am worried about whether he will ......."

The supervision manuscript is very important, it can be said to be the original evidence, which has the signatures of the supervisor and the warehouse man, because Wang Zao is the deputy envoy, and according to the convention, the manuscript is generally kept with him.

Li Yanqing also realized that something might happen, he turned around and walked towards the courtyard where Wang Zao lived, and when he walked into the yard, he saw Wang Zao's entourage, this is Wang Zao's domestic servant, responsible for serving the master on the journey, he saw Li Yanqing come in, his face was a little panicked, and he hurriedly wanted to dodge.

Li Yanqing stopped him and asked, "Where did Wang Yushi go?" ”

"Qi Li Yushi, my master has gone to visit relatives."

Li Yanqing frowned, and ordered: "You go and get it back immediately!" ”

The entourage waved his hand again and again, "The villain doesn't know where the master's relatives are?" Can't find him. ”

Li Yanqing snorted and walked directly into the room, Wang Zao's bundled luggage had just been unpacked, Li Yanqing didn't care, and rummaged through his luggage directly, and the entourage lowered his head next to him, not daring to say a word.

At this time, Li Yanqing found a leather bag containing official documents, he opened the bag, and inside was a thick stack of supervision manuscripts, he flipped through them, all the manuscripts were there, and Li Yanqing was relieved, if this manuscript was lost, Liang Fangping accused him of nonsense to the imperial court, and he couldn't come up with evidence.

Although this Wang Zao's words and deeds were annoying, he did not dare to overdo it.

"When Wang Yushi comes back, tell him that I have urgent use of these documents, so I'll take them first!"

Li Yanqing took the black leather bag and walked away.......

In a single room of a very famous teahouse in Zhending County, Wang Zao was squinting and enjoying the beauty of the tea prostitute to give him tea, leaving the capital for half a month, and experiencing the attack of mountain bandits in Cizhou, Wang Zao has long been tired of this supervision, and is no longer looking forward to returning to the capital all the time.

The person sitting opposite him is Liang Fangping's confidant Cui Mi, he is not the first time to see Wang Zao, both of them are from Hejian Mansion, more than 20 years the two were classmates of Fuxue, and entered Beijing to participate in the imperial examination together, Wang Zao was admitted to the Jinshi, but Cui Mi failed to return to his hometown.

It was precisely by virtue of this special relationship that Wang Zao accepted Liang Fangping's 5,000 yuan as soon as he arrived in Zhending Mansion, and he had a short mouth and a short hand, so Wang Zao had to violate Li Yanqing's ban to meet Cui Mi as soon as he returned to Zhending County.

Cui Mi was very patient and waited for Wang Zao to drink tea, and then waved his hand to let the tea prostitute go down.

"The results of this inspection should be very unfavorable to Liang Dujian!" Cui Mi stared at Wang Zao sharply.

"You should know it!" Wang Zao smiled faintly.

"There will definitely be a little bit of discrepancy between the accounts and the facts, this is mainly caused by a hundred years of accumulated malpractices, which official dares to say that he is completely innocent?" Cui Mi understated.

"In that case, there's no need for Brother Xian to look for me."

Cui Mi sneered, "I'm afraid that Li Yanqing will make something out of nothing and slander us out of thin air, so Liang Dujian wants to know the truth." ”

Wang Zao bowed and said, "Before I said this, I wanted to know if the mountain bandits in Cizhou were sent by you?" You tell me the truth! ”

"You're thinking too much, how can the dignified Hebei two roads have a transfer envoy and a second-grade high-ranking official of the imperial court have something to do with the mountain bandits, isn't it a joke that this kind of self-surrendering identity is spread out?"

"But we found out that the leather armor of the bandits came from the military warehouse of Zhending Mansion, how do you explain it?"

Cui Mi took a sip of tea and said: "Maybe what the people below have done, it must have nothing to do with Liang Dujian, I will go back to reflect this matter, and ask the Dujian to check the truth, but I can assure my brother that the attack on Cizhou has nothing to do with the Dujian." ”

"Alright! This matter is put aside for a moment, what do you want today? ”

"I want your watchpapers!"

Wang Zao was startled, and hurriedly shook his head, "I can't do this, and besides, the manuscript is in Li Yanqing's hands, and he doesn't believe it." ”

"You are the deputy envoy, according to the convention, the manuscript should be in your hands!" Cui Mi still asked aggressively,

Wang Zao's face was a little ugly, and he said for a while: "If there was no attack on Cizhou, maybe the manuscript would have been in my hands, but when the attack happened, Li Yanqing suspected that we had internal ghosts, and he didn't believe anyone anymore, and the manuscript was always in his hands." ”

"It's really not in your hands?"

Wang Zao has also been in the officialdom for 20 years, although he is greedy for money, but he is not confused, he knows that Li Yanqing is behind Liang Shicheng and Cai Jing staring at this case, he will not be stupid enough to ruin his future for thousands of dollars, so he will definitely not give the other party the supervision manuscript.

Of course, this is not how firm Wang Zao's mind is, it's just that he refuses to do loss-making business, if the other party is willing to exchange 100,000 yuan with him, he is likely to agree, and he just gives him 5,000 yuan to want the manuscript, he Wang Zao is not so cheap.

"It's really not in my hands, I don't need to hide it."

Cui Mi showed a very disappointed look on his face, he also hoped to take away the draft and give Li Yanqing a salary, but he didn't expect this idea to fall through.

"And what can you give me?" Cui Mi asked again.

Wang Zao took out a stack of papers from his arms and put it on the table, "These are some important contents of Li Yanqing's report, and I think you should also need them." ”

Li Yanqing's supervision report is a top-secret report, which will not be provided to the local government, but directly handed over to Xiangguo Fan Zhixu, and the first draft of this report was written by Li Yanqing and Wang Zao, Wang Zao could not see the part written by Li Yanqing, so he copied a copy of the part he wrote.

Cui Mi looked at it and felt that the content was a little too little, only a few thousand words, and he asked with some dissatisfaction: "Is it just that?" ”

Wang Zao was suddenly unhappy, and said coldly: "Give it to you, I have already taken a big risk, this matter is over, I hope you don't look for me again." ”

After speaking, Wang Zao drank all the tea in the cup, got up and left.