Zhao Siwen's eyelids drooped, but he sighed softly in his heart, and said secretly: "What a stupid question you asked!" Lord Dong wants to clean you up, how obvious the reason is! ”

was confronted and offended by the young officer like this, but Dong Ce was not angry, just smiled slightly, looked at him and said: "This official is your superior, you are a subordinate official of this official, you talk to the official like this, to be honest, if the official really wants to clean you up, he can now order someone to drag you out and beat you with dozens of military sticks, even if you don't die, you will be crippled." ”

"However, the official will not beat you, or even scold you. Because the official knows that it is indeed a bit unauthentic for the official to do this, and it is not so fair to you, so you just spoke to the official like that, and the official put up with you! But the official only put up with you this time, and the official only explained to you once, after the explanation, the official will not have any more nonsense, if you still dare to talk nonsense, then ...... You're welcome! ”

When he said the previous words, his face was still smiling, which made people feel like a spring breeze, and when he said the back, his face became cold. His sudden change in expression also made those angry generals and subordinate officials of the Yamen feel a chill in their hearts, and their anger has decreased a lot.

They suddenly realized that this was a big man who could really decide their fate, and their anger didn't seem to have much effect on the Lord Dong in front of them.

The young officer, who had spoken disrespectfully, turned even pale.

Dong Ce said: "You didn't make a mistake, even if you made a mistake, this official just came, I don't know what kind of mistake you made?" But you have a big mistake, that is, you are Huang Wan's subordinate officials, I will tell you directly, Huang Wanwan's subordinate officials of the Yamen, none of them can be trusted! ”

"This official was appointed as the general of Beidong Road, to make a career, my people, I have to use my hands, they must be loyal to me, loyal to me, do their best for me, I can rest assured."

"And I don't have the time or the interest to choose from among you one by one, to see who is able to do things and who can't, who is faithful and who is unfaithful, who is dedicated and who is disobedient...... The official didn't have time to look at and guess these. Therefore, this official, simply fire all of you and replace all of you with the manpower of this official. ”

Dong Ce paused, then stared at them, and asked word by word, "How is it?" Is this reason enough? ”

After Dong Ce finished speaking, there was a sudden silence in the lobby.

Dong Ce's words were truthful enough, without any shirk, and directly explained the most fundamental reason. And it is precisely because of this fundamental reason that after he said this, there is no room for any change in this matter.

"Go, go! Stop dwelling on this matter, it's useless to dwell on it. ”

Dong Ce waved his hand.

The subordinate officials of the general yamen lost their souls one by one, but in the end, they could only reluctantly accept the fate given to them by Dong Ce.

There's no way, who calls people generals and they are subordinate officials! Because of this identity, Dong Ce can directly appoint and dismiss them. And if it is someone else, it may not be so convenient, for example, Zhao Siwen, the garrison of the Victory Fort, although he is also Dong Ce's subordinate, but if Dong Ce wants to remove him, he must have the consent of the Shangguan.

The vast majority of these dismissed generals and subordinate officials of the Yamen did not leave, but chose to stay here to see. They also want to wait and see, hoping to have a chance to get another errand, after all, if they leave with those severance money, it has nothing to do with this army, and their past positions and status. In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, they didn't want to give up everything they had in the past, so everyone would rather stay without money and wait for the opportunity.

Anyway, they have made a lot of money in the past, even if they don't get any money for a year or two, and they don't have any other income, they can still live a good life. Not to mention, Dong Ce may not be paid to them.

In their case, it can be regarded as suspension with pay.

This is something that can't be helped, and Dong Ce doesn't want to deal with them as soon as he comes up, after all, Dong Ce will fire all of them as soon as he comes up, which will not only offend people, but also have a certain impact on his reputation, which may cause some people in Datong Town to be dissatisfied with him. But Dong Ce had no choice, and in the future, Dong Ce gave orders, and those who directly executed those orders were the subordinate officials of these generals and yamen who were responsible for the implementation of the orders. Therefore, the subordinate officials in the general yamen must be their own people, and they must be the kind of people who can do things and be loyal to him at the same time, and do their best to do things for him.

Obviously, most of these people who left were afraid that they would not meet Dong Ce's requirements, and Dong Ce really didn't have time to delay with them.

When these people left the lobby, Dong Ce set his eyes on Zhao Siwen and the others.

As soon as everyone came into contact with his gaze, they couldn't help but lower their heads, and they were also a little worried, not knowing how this general would treat his people.

"Alright, alright."

Dong Ce waved his hand and smiled: "Don't worry, this official won't do anything to you." ”

When everyone heard this, they were a little relieved.

After that, Dong Ce asked Zhao Siwen about the specific situation of Victory Castle.

Fort of Victory is not the kind of castle that is next to the side wall, that is, the Great Wall, and the nearest distance from the side wall is about two or three miles, so the Fort of Victory is not divided into sides. That is, Fort Victory is not directly responsible for any section of the Great Wall. The kind of military fort that is like a split side is very close to the side wall, that is, only a few dozen steps, so there will be a split edge.

Two miles to the north of the victory fort is the Zhenqiang Fort, and the Zhenqiang Fort is twenty-two miles away.

Originally, since there was the Beidong Road, and the staff general of the North East Road was stationed in Fort Victory, Fort Victory had no garrison, and it was directly the general who managed this military fort. But in the Chongzhen period, during Huang Wan's tenure, there was another official position of garrison of Fort Victory. The reason is that Huang Wan is a person, although he is very greedy for ink and loves to seize power, but he is a master who is not willing to do things at all, and he doesn't even bother to deal with the affairs of Victory Castle. So, Huang Wan asked the officials to set up a garrison of Fort Victory to be responsible for the specific things in Fort Victory.

And since you have such a garrison, of course, you can't help but give someone some men, so the army in the Victorious Fort is divided into two parts. Some of them belonged to the generals under Huang Wan's direct supervision, and the other belonged to the soldiers of Fort Victory.

Zhao Siwen said it, and Dong Ce roughly understood how many soldiers belonged directly to Fort Victory.

In the Victory Fort, in addition to Zhao Siwen's garrison, there is also a general surnamed Zhang. In the entire Victorious Fort soldiers, the relatively high-ranking ones are Zhao Siwen and Zhang Jiang, and the others are some low-level officers.