Chapter 79: You dare to attack me? Do you look down on me?
In the accounting office, Yang Zhengshan was sitting at the desk with a drastic move, while Xu Zhen and others outside the door were looking at each other in bewilderment.

"Sir, there was a shortage of thirty stones of food last month!"

"Sir, there is a problem with the withdrawal of money in May. Thirty rolls of silk were actually purchased!"

"Sir, there are twenty less tendon bows in the warehouse!"

As Yang Chengxu and others checked the accounts, one problem after another was put in front of Yang Zhengshan, and the officials outside the door couldn't help but break out in cold sweat.

Yang Zhengshan narrowed his eyes slightly, "Beef tendon bow?"

"Well, one hundred ox-tendon bows were put into storage in March this year, but now there are only eighty left, and there is no record of any bows leaving the storage!" Yang Chengxu said.

The outflow of arms is a big deal.

If it is discovered, you will lose your head.

Yang Zhengshan glanced at Xu Zhen and others outside the door and nodded calmly.

Xu Zhen couldn't sit still any longer, "Master Qian Hu, please excuse me for a moment."

"What do you want to say? Just say it here!" Yang Zhengshan looked at him with a smile.

"This~~"

Xu Zhen hesitated for a moment, but finally gritted his teeth and approached Yang Zhengshan, lowering his voice and saying, "Sir, this was done by Sir Zhang."

"You didn't participate?" Yang Zhengshan asked.

"No, absolutely not!" Xu Zhen shook his head like a rattle.

Yang Zhengshan was too lazy to pay attention to him and waited quietly for Yang Chengxu and others to continue checking the accounts.

About an hour later, Yang Chengxu and others finally finished checking the account books.

There are many problems, and many of them are very serious. If all are exposed, it will be enough to chop off the heads of these corrupt officials.

"Do you have anything to explain?"

Yang Zhengshan asked indifferently.

Xu Zhen and the others all lowered their heads and remained silent, as if they had become dumb.

"Since you haven't given any explanation, I will take it as an admission of guilt!" Yang Zhengshan continued.

Xu Zhen suddenly raised his head, his eyes full of disbelief.

Plead guilty?

Why plead guilty?
Isn't this a common thing?
What kind of crime is that?

He didn't think he was guilty because they all did the same thing.

Perhaps in his eyes, this kind of thing is very normal.

On the contrary, it is a bit abnormal that Yang Zhengshan is so serious about using these things to make them confess their guilt.

"Sir, do you want to take our lives?" Xu Zhen finally reacted.

Yang Zhengshan shook his head slightly, "It's not that I want your lives, but you have violated national and military laws!"

He was not a person who liked to stir up trouble, and if these officials had people available, he would not mind accepting them.

But he also could not tolerate a group of corrupt officials working under him. He had a lot of things to do in the future and he could not allow a group of corrupt officials to hold him back.

Therefore, based on the principle of "better to have nothing than to have something bad", he first cleaned out all the corrupt officials.

"Aren't you afraid of incurring public wrath, sir?" Xu Zhen was annoyed, his eyes filled with murderous intent.

"Mass anger? Are you the masses, or are those poor soldiers outside the masses?"

"You asked me if I was afraid of offending the public, but I also wanted to ask you if you were afraid of your soldiers rebelling?"

Yang Zhengshan smiled disdainfully. It seemed to be the norm in Chongshan Town for officials to protect each other.

If this happened inside the Guancheng, Yang Zhengshan would definitely not be so rash to reveal it, but this is Yinghe Fort, he is the chief officer of Yinghe Fort, and his right hand is also the superior officer of Yinghe Fort.

Even if he couldn't cover up this matter, Zhou Lan could.

This is the importance of having someone to hold your thigh.

"Capture them!" Yang Zhengshan had already decided to hand these people over to Zhou Lan for processing. "Who dares!"

At the critical moment of life and death, Xu Zhen couldn't help but go crazy.

Before the surrounding soldiers could take action, he actually attacked Yang Zhengshan first.

The long fist was swung, carrying a fierce gust of wind, and hit Yang Zhengshan in the face.

Yang Zhengshan narrowed his eyes slightly, raised his hand suddenly, and slapped him in the face.

This slap was really loud.

A loud snapping sound like thunder spread out, causing everyone who were ready to move to freeze.

The next moment, Xu Zhen fell to the ground like a broken sack.

"You dare to attack me? Do you look down on me?"

Yang Zhengshan really didn't expect Xu Zhen to take action, but after thinking about it carefully, it seemed understandable that Xu Zhen would take action.

If the things they have done are really considered crimes, they will be punished with death or even death.

In this situation, they might as well make a big deal out of it, start a war, and then kill Yang Zhengshan first. This way they would have some room for maneuver.

But he seemed to have underestimated Yang Zhengshan's strength and overestimated his own strength.

Xu Zhen is also an acquired warrior, otherwise he would not be able to sit on the position of deputy captain.

But he is only at the acquired level.

Yang Zhengshan is also at the acquired level, but the gap between the two is still obvious.

"Are you going to take action too?" Yang Zhengshan looked at the officials next to him.

They trembled all over and shrank their heads like quails.

Hands-on?

Do not make jokes.

A good man does not suffer immediate losses.

Taking action against Yang Zhengshan would be tantamount to seeking death. They would rather go to jail or be handed over to the Weisi Yamen for handling.

In that case, they might be able to ask someone for help or use their connections to get away with the crime.

Seeing them like this, Yang Zhengshan sneered, "Lock them all in jail!"

Yang Mingwu and his companions went forward without saying a word and captured all the officials without any hesitation.

Xu Zhen was slapped unconscious by Yang Zhengshan, and Yang Mingwu dragged him away like a dead dog.

However, in doing so, all the officials of Yinghe Fort were wiped out by Yang Zhengshan, and how to manage Yinghe Fort and other garrisons in the future remained a problem.

After Yang Mingwu imprisoned Xu Zhen and others in prison, Yang Zhengshan immediately ordered Yang Mingwu and Yang Chengxu to lead their men to Xiangyuan Fort and Sanshan Fort separately.

Today, in order to welcome Yang Zhengshan to take office, the garrison officers of Xiangyuan Fort and Sanshan Fort also came, and are now being detained in the prison.

Therefore, Yang Mingwu and Yang Chengxu did not encounter any trouble in taking over the two garrisons.

In the following two days, Yang Zhengshan stabilized the tunbu towers under his jurisdiction while gaining a comprehensive understanding of the conditions of all the tunbu towers.

Just as he thought, there were three garrisons, more than twenty fire towers and beacon towers, and the military households in each place lived a hard life.

Especially during severe droughts, the three garrisons were fine as they all had deep wells so water supply was not a problem, but for the watchtowers and beacon towers, water supply became a problem.

Therefore, the second thing Yang Zhengshan did after taking office was to arrange ox carts and mule carts to deliver water to various watchtowers and beacon towers.

As for training the soldiers, now they even have problem getting water, how can they train?

Not to mention Yang Zhengshan, even Zhou Lan is the same.

After Yang Mingzhi and others followed Zhou Lan to Jianning Guard, they were not involved in the military training at all, but instead followed the soldiers to dig wells.

At this time, the situation Zhou Lan faced was even more troublesome than Yang Zhengshan's. Yang Zhengshan only managed three garrisons, while Zhou Lan had to deal with more than a dozen garrisons and more than 100,000 military households.

At this time, Zhou Lan had no time to care about Yang Zhengshan, and Yang Zhengshan had no time to pay attention to the situation in Jianning Wei and Chongshan Pass.

(End of this chapter)