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At the beginning of April, Wu Wangsheng and his wife and all the officials rushed to the Sanli Changting Pavilion outside Wangdukang City early in the morning to practice for Zheng Yuming.The people of Kangcheng had known for a long time that the mission of their country was going to Hojing to worship. On the day when the mission left, Kangcheng became an empty city, and all the people gathered outside the west gate to see them off.

There are not many officials who follow Zheng Yuming to worship the emperor, only Gongsun Pan, the director of the Department of Education, and Wu Mu, who is already the director of the Department of Commerce.Gongsun Pan went to Haojing this time, one for official business, and the other is to visit relatives by the way.

Gongsun Pan is a native of Haojing, his parents are dead, and there are only two elder brothers in the family.Gongsun Pan's family is small, and when he decided to serve Wu, he was brought to Kangcheng from Haojing with the help of Wu's merchants for reunion.

There is a limit on the number of people in the pilgrimage to the emperor. The number of pilgrimage groups and guards cannot exceed 2000. When the pilgrimage mission arrives outside the capital of the emperor, only 300 people are allowed to enter the city, and other entourage can only be stationed outside the city.

There were only a dozen officials in the pilgrimage mission of the State of Wu, plus Zheng Yuming's personal bodyguard Daniel, doctors, guides, waiters, craftsmen, a total of more than a hundred people, and the big wolf dog Wood.

There were [-] escorts, of which [-] were palace guards, and [-] were the Dragon and Tiger Army that Chu Chaohui had just trained for half a year.Whether it is the palace guards or the dragon and tiger soldiers, they are all warriors selected from a hundred, and their horses, weapons and armor are also the best equipped.These [-] soldiers can be said to be the essence of Wu soldiers.

Hundreds of members of the mission and [-] elite escorts, plus thousands of people who came to see them off, crowded the Sanli Pavilion in Cannes.Zheng Yuming entrusted Yu Kui and Wei Ren with some important matters before he bid farewell to Wu Wangsheng and his wife, boarded a four-wheeled carriage and set off for the Northwest County of Wu State.Chu Chaohui waited in front with his own [-] bodyguard cavalry, and he would escort the mission to the throat of the Zhao-Wu border.

The country of Wu has convenient transportation, and the mission arrived at Qucheng, the county town of Northwest County, in the evening of the second day.Huo Sizhong, the head of the county, and the military chief of the county city Zengyou heard the news and waited to greet him in the suburbs.

Zheng Yuming hasn't seen Huo Sizhong for more than three years. The childish boy in the past has become a young man with thick eyebrows and big eyes.After dealing with administrative affairs in Northwest County for more than three years, Huo Sizhong's temperament became calm.When this steady young man saw Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui, he couldn't maintain his calmness and turned back into a boy in the valley.

"My lord! Sizhong greets the two lords!" Huo Sizhong saluted, with tears in his eyes.Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui have publicly declared that Huo Sizhong and the three are adopted sons and adopted daughters, but they have not asked them to change their surnames, nor have they asked them to change their titles.

"Sizhong, I haven't seen you in three years. You've grown a lot taller." Zheng Yuming pulled Huo Sizhong up and compared his height. He found that Huo Sizhong was over 170 centimeters tall, which is considered tall among the average height of Wu people.

"Not bad, very strong." Chu Zhaohui patted Huo Sizhong on the shoulder.

"It was Wei Qing who forced me to practice boxing every day to keep my body healthy." Huo Sizhong looked a little uncomfortable.

Chu Zhaohui stared at Huo Sizhong twice after hearing the words.

Huo Sizhong used to take care of Mu Mu, and when Mu Mu saw Huo Sizhong, he was so enthusiastic that he jumped on Huo Sizhong's body.

"Where's Wei Qing? Didn't come at the throat?" Zheng Yuming looked around.

"My lord, Wei Qing is waiting for the two lords at the throat." Huo Sizhong explained to Zheng Yuming while making out with Mu Mu.

Zheng Yuming nodded to express his understanding. The chief of the garrison cannot leave his garrison at will.

Seeing that Huo Sizhong had met Zheng Chu, Zeng You hurried forward. "I have met two adults before!"

Zheng Yuming was slightly taken aback when he saw Zeng You, Zeng You's appearance changed more than Huo Sizhong.

Zeng You is nearly 30 years old and was born in a bandit. He is not tall and thin.Today's Zeng You is not vertically long, but horizontally long.Zeng You is no longer a thin man, but a fat man, and his skin has turned whiter a lot.

"General Zeng, it seems that the Northwest County nourishes people. Sizhong has grown a lot taller in the three years since you have been here, and you have grown from skinny to fat and white in the three years since you have been here!" Zheng Yuming joked with Zeng You. Laughing out loud, only the corners of Chu Zhaohui's mouth curled slightly, but there was no smile in his eyes.

Zheng Yuming made a pilgrimage to the capital of the emperor this time, and planned to stay in Northwest County for three days for inspection. After three days, he would visit King Zhao's capital and go to Haojing with Zhao Xuan.

That night, the mission stayed in Qucheng, and Huo Sizhong prepared a dinner for Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui. All dignified people in Qucheng had to be invited. It was the first time they met the two powerful figures in Wu.

After three years of development in Northwest County, the fruit trees have become forests and bear fruit, and the ripe fruits are processed into pulp, jam, and fruit wine and sold all over the place.The fruit wine used in today's banquet is a local specialty.

The local nobles either opened factories, or planted, or did business, and their wealth increased compared with three or four years ago.Life was easier than before, and people's hearts became more stable. Seeing Zheng Yuming's enthusiasm, these profitable nobles took turns rushing forward to toast.

The alcohol content of the fruit wine was not high, so Zheng Yuming would not refuse anyone who came. When the number of glasses was too high, Zheng Yuming couldn't stand it. He turned around and wanted to ask Chu Chaohui to help bring the wine, but found that the person sitting next to him had left at some point.

"Daniel! Where did the general go?" Zheng Yuming asked the bodyguard standing behind him in a low voice.

Since Zheng Yuming was assassinated, Daniel has formed a habit, as long as Zheng Yuming is not alone with Chu Chaohui, Daniel will accompany him like a shadow.

"The general said he has something to do, wait for him to go back to his residence." Zheng Yuming was talking to the nobles of Qucheng when Chu Zhaohui left.

"Oh!" Zheng Yuming was a little confused, not knowing what urgent matter Chu Zhaohui had to deal with in such a hurry.

The study room in Zeng You's mansion was brightly lit, and outside the study room stood an elite soldier who was unfamiliar with Zeng You's mansion.All the people in Zeng's mansion were driven away from the surrounding area of ​​the study.

"Zeng You, how did you become a bandit?"

In Zeng You's study room, Chu Chaohui was sitting on a mahogany chair, rubbing a pair of jade biscuits with his hands.The jade bi was picked up by Chu Chaohui from the bookshelf to play with.The furnishings in Zeng You's study are very expensive, and these are the dowry of Zeng You's wife.

"I'm telling you, General, I'm a bandit who went to the mountains to become a bandit when he had nowhere to go." Standing in front of Chu Chaohui, Zeng You's forehead lightened slightly, and when Chu Chaohui suddenly called him back to his home from the banquet, Zeng You had a bad feeling.

"Being helpless, who is making you helpless?" Chu Chaohui put the jade back on the desk.

Zeng You was a little puzzled, Chu Chaohui knew his details, why did he have to ask again today?

"It's the lord of the farmland of Zeng You's family, and that lord forcibly took over the fertile land of Zeng You's family."

The good land was opened up by the Zeng family themselves. Without the good land, Zeng You's family members died of hunger and disease one after another.

"Hate?" Chu Zhaohui asked lightly.

"Hate! Of course I hate!" Zeng You hated the lord's aristocrats, but the lord had private soldiers, so Zeng You couldn't take revenge empty-handed. In the end, in order to survive, he ran to Ulsan and became a bandit.

"After the Ulsan army captured the royal capital, I dealt with a group of nobles, including the one who caused your family to be ruined." Chu Chaohui charged them all with treason, and they were all Yi Ji. Dr. Jiang, the adoptive father of King Wu, confessed that Chu Chaohui exchanged the lives of Dr. Jiang's family members in exchange for Dr. Jiang's cooperation. King Wu's concubine was dragged into the water by Dr. Jiang and lost his inheritance qualifications.

In fact, the lord who caused the ruin of Zeng You's family took a neutral position when Yi Ji made trouble.After Chu Chaohui found out that the lord was a stubborn conservative, he charged him with treason without hesitation. The lord himself beheaded, his family was dispersed, and his property was nationalized.

"I know! I am grateful!" Zeng You whimpered.

Chu Chaohui stood up, looked down at Zeng You: "Do you think Chu is avenging Zeng You for you?"

Zeng You was stunned: "General..."

"No!" Chu Chaohui shook his head: "This person is too cruel to the common people in the fief, if he is not eliminated, he will only continue to harm the common people."

Zeng You nodded: "The general did the right thing. Those who harm the common people should be dealt with."

Chu Chaohui's expression changed, he took out a few pieces of paper from his cuff and threw them in front of Zeng You, yelling, "Zeng You, you have worked in Qucheng for three and a half years, and you did all these things!"

Zeng You squatted down to pick up the paper and looked at it carefully. After reading it, his forehead began to sweat: "General! Zeng You has never done these things!"

On the paper are farmers around Qucheng accusing Zeng You of forcibly buying their fertile land.

Chu Chaohui's face was ugly: "Zeng You, I knew about this at the end of last year. Before the Prime Minister and I came, we sent someone to investigate clearly. It is not your fault to buy by force!"

Zeng You breathed a sigh of relief.

"Although this matter was not done by you, it has something to do with you!" Chu Zhaohui stared at Zeng You with a complicated expression. Zeng You was a general he liked very much.

Zeng You was stunned, and after deep thought, his face turned pale, and he fell to his knees with a thud: "Yes... Is it the work of a low-ranking wife?"

Chu Chaohui sighed: "That's right, it was your wife's family who did this, and your husband's family's behavior is the same as that lord who ruined your family!"

Zeng You's face turned red and then pale, he gritted his teeth and said, "General! I'm going to divorce my wife!"

Chu Chaohui shook his head: "What does this have to do with your wife?"

"My husband's family is like this, and it's because of their humble position." Zeng You has now understood the reason.

"That's right, your husband's family dared to act like this because of your power, General Zeng!" Chu Zhaohui nodded slightly, and Zeng You was finally not confused.

Zeng You fell to the ground: "Great general, it's the last general who missed the point!"

"Your father-in-law's oppression of the people will be dealt with by the criminal court according to the law. But Zeng You, although you did not do this, you have an unshirkable responsibility. You must be punished!" Chu Chaohui pondered.

"Please deal with it, General!" Zeng You kowtowed to Chu Chaohui.

Chu Chaohui sighed slightly, and decided to give Zeng You a chance to reform himself: "You were kept in the dark about this matter, I can forgive you once, but you can't stay in Qucheng, you should be transferred to Su Pingyuan at the same level. The Tiger Tribe there has recently been on the verge of attacking the residents of the Su Plain twice, and you will be the military commander of the Su Plain in the future, and you will be dedicated to subduing the disobedient tribes around you!"

"Thank you, General, for your kindness!" Zeng You's eyes turned red, but Chu Zhaohui still defended him.

"Zeng You, don't divorce your wife if she's done nothing wrong, just take her to the post and stay away from your husband's house!" Chu Zhaohui turned back and ordered before leaving.

"No!" Zeng You nodded in agreement, he and his wife were more affectionate.Taking his wife away from Northwest County, the father-in-law's family will no longer be able to use his former power to do illegal things in Qucheng.According to the laws of the state of Wu, Zeng You's father-in-law was estimated to be sentenced to two years of hard labor.

When Chu Zhaohui returned to the place where he stayed, Zheng Yuming was already lying on the bed.

"Zhaohui, where have you been?" Zheng Yuming lay on the bedside watching Chu Chaohui take off his clothes, swallowing while watching, Chu Chaohui's figure is really masculine.

Chu Chaohui threw himself naked on Zheng Yuming: "I went to do something!"

"What..." Zheng Yuming's question was swallowed up by Chu Chaohui, and he had no time to ask further.

The night temperature in Qucheng is very cool in April.Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui's dormitory atmosphere was very lively, and after more than an hour of excitement, Zheng Yuming surrendered and lay down on Chu Chaohui's body to pant.

"Yu Ming, our team has started to form!" Chu Chaohui stroked Zheng Yuming's back, and told about Zeng Youzhang's annexation of the land by relying on his son-in-law's power.

"You are here to deal with this matter?" Zheng Yuming sighed, it came so fast, Zeng You is their direct descendant.

"Don't worry, with me one day, Team Wu's mainstream will not be occupied." Chu Chaohui assured Zheng Yuming.

Chu Chaohui sent training officers throughout the army, and the training officers paid special attention to the changes and ideological education of officers and soldiers. The establishment was not under the jurisdiction of the army, but directly under the General Office of the Military.Chu Chaohui controlled the army very strictly.

Zheng Yuming kissed Chu Chaohui hard. Without the support of Chu Chaohui's army, Zheng Yuming's ideas and reforms would not be able to proceed smoothly.Chu Chaohui is Zheng Yuming's reliance.

"Isn't this kind of thank you too lightly? Let me give you something more affordable." Chu Chaohui laughed, turned over and held Zheng Yuming down.

On the second day, Zheng Yuming climbed into the four-wheeled carriage with frivolous steps, lay down on the four-wheeled carriage and arrived at the throat city.