Although Zan Wanshou's ship was not seriously damaged, it was still full of holes. Yu San asked him to move a Pili Army ship and sent sailors to control the official ship. After everything was ready, the group continued to go upstream to Jiading Prefecture. In order to prevent the enemy from attacking again, Yu San sent the ship Pili Army to explore the road first, and then continued to move forward after there was no abnormality ahead. Although this method of sailing was safe, the speed was much slower, and it took two days to reach Jiading City. The defenders of Jiading City had seen Zan Wanshou's flag from a distance, and a group of officials had been waiting at the dock. As soon as the ships docked, they rushed up and welcomed Zan Wanshou into the city.
Yu San, Zan Wanshou and Hou Xing were in the same boat. The three of them talked a lot on the way. When Hou Xing asked about his relationship with Yu Xing, Yu San replied with a serious face that they were not distant relatives or clansmen, they just had the same surname. He also pointed out ruthlessly that the greed and corruption of Yu Xing and his son were indeed the scum of the Yu family and had corrupted them. The reputation of the surname. Yu San's outspokenness surprised and deeply admired the two of them, and they felt that Yu San was someone they could get along with. "Birds of a feather flock together, and people divide into groups." Yu San is so upright and upright. It can also be inferred that Ouyang Xuan, whom he admires very much, is not as bad as Yu Xing said, at least he is not the same person as Yu Xing and his son.
Yu San reminded Zan Wanshou that although Yu Xing went to Chongqing Prefecture, he had been running Jiading Prefecture for many years, so there must be many factions and forces involved, so he should proceed with caution. According to his judgment, the person who attacked Zan Wanshou must be inextricably related to the Jiading navy or the Mongolian forces. Although the captured firearms were far more sophisticated than the Pili weapons, they were far beyond what ordinary water bandits could make, and their performance was even far better than the firearms of the government troops outside Xichuan. Apart from the Pili Army, the only ones who could manufacture these firearms were Yazhou, Jiading and their subordinate Meizhou, except for the Liu Heima Division of the Sichuan Mongolian Army. Yu San actually reminded Zan Wanshou that according to the logic of "who benefits the most, who is the most suspect", the attacker may be someone from within the Jiading Army.
In fact, without Yu San's reminder, Zan Wanshou also judged that there were people in Jiading Mansion who were dissatisfied with him. Only the Sichuan Manufacturing Department knew about his itinerary, and the Manufacturing Department sent a speedboat to deliver the official document to Jiading Prefecture in advance. The Mongolian navy had no activities on the Minjiang River, and although Yazhou had a waterway leading to Jiading, its navy was too weak to organize such a sophisticated mass murder operation from a long distance. After excluding the above two, the biggest suspects are only the dissatisfied people within the Jiading Army. They have the motive and the strength to launch an attack. In view of the dangerous situation and the heavy casualties of the Guards, when Yu San proposed to Zan Wanshou to leave fifty special forces to protect his safety, he agreed without hesitation.
In addition to the dissatisfied people hidden in the military, Zan Wanshou also had to pay attention to the bureaucrats in the government system. Before he set off for Lin'an, important ministers in the DPRK reminded him that he should not rush into government affairs after taking office in Jiading, especially the handover matters. Regarding the shortage of military food, finance and taxation, we should not press forward step by step. If we really cannot turn a blind eye, it is better to "reduce big problems to small ones." According to the Song Dynasty system, after a new official takes office, he needs to hand over official seals and affairs with his predecessor, and conduct an on-site inventory of the population of soldiers under his rule and the money handled by his subordinates. Since the government is corrupt and no one is corrupt, how can these figures be accurate? Therefore, after taking office, many new officials only conduct an incomplete inventory of the accounts to cover up deficiencies and contradictions. As a result, the official account numbers are very gratifying, but the actual population, soldiers, money and materials are less than half, or even only 20 to 30%.
The important officials in the court reminded Zan Wanshou out of good intentions. "A strong dragon cannot suppress a local snake." Every year, there are new officials who are upright and upright. After taking office, they act impartially, but they are either driven away or even killed. Those local gangsters are inherently powerful, and even have a background as bandits, and they often kill officials who don't collude with them. After all, "taking someone's money is like killing one's parents", which is really a sworn enemy. Although the imperial court would send troops to suppress such acts of killing officials and rebelling, these local snakes often fled into the mountains and forests. The large armies that suppressed the raids often took several months to reach, and they had no choice but to retreat when their food and grass were exhausted.
As soon as Zan Wanshou arrived in Jiading, he announced at the reception banquet that the handover of government affairs would mainly focus on checking the books and no longer waste a lot of time on physical objects. He originally thought that subordinate officials would applaud and even be grateful for this, so as to quickly win over a group of loyalists. All the Jiading officials showed no emotion about this, either on their faces or in their hearts, because they felt that this was an official practice and it should be like this. If Zan Wanshou really wanted to order an on-site inventory, he would be making an enemy of everyone. Not only would his orders to verify the population and inventory money and grain not be carried out, he would also become a public enemy of the Jiading officials and become a traitor to everyone.
Giving up the on-site inventory was only the first step for Zan Wanshou to succumb to the unspoken rules of officialdom, and it was really a helpless move for him to do so. The accompanying scribes suffered heavy casualties in the attack, and there was no trustworthy manpower to carry out government affairs. If you pretend to be someone else, let the local officials in Jiading investigate themselves? You can also use your toes to imagine what the result will be. What's more terrible is, what if we check for a deficit? Yu Xing has been in charge of Jiading for many years, and the shortcomings calculated are definitely related to him, or even because of his corruption. As a subordinate, Zan Wanshou had no strength to challenge Yu Xing, his immediate boss, let alone bring him down. Many of the bribes Yu Xing received from the Lin'an royal family and many high-ranking officials in the court were this money.
It would be unwise to declare war on corrupt elements before taking control of Jiading. In these troubled times, only hard words with fists will work, so Zan Wanshou decided to control the army first. Jiading Prefecture has five counties under its jurisdiction, Meizhou has four counties, plus Jingyan County in Longzhou under actual control, and minus Pengshan County under the control of the Perak Army, there are still nine counties under its jurisdiction. According to the official population register and military inventory, the nine counties of the second prefecture (prefecture) have a total of 150,000 households and 600,000 people, a civilian population of 370,000, and an army of 21,000. Of course, Zan Wanshou knew that the figures could not be taken seriously. The actual population and soldiers were only 70% or even less of the above numbers at most. The above data from the Perak Army Staff Office estimate the population to be 400,000, the civilian population to be 270,000, and the number of active soldiers to be between 8,000 and 10,000.
Zan Wanshou decided to inspect various prefectures and counties under his control. On the one hand, he wanted to understand the situation on the spot and be fully aware of it. "Only by knowing the enemy can you fight a hundred battles without danger." If you don't know the general situation of the soldiers, money and food in hand, you will definitely lose the battle. If he loses the battle, it will be difficult for him to gain a foothold in Jiading; on the other hand, he will show closeness to the officials and subordinates of the prefectures and counties and the junior generals in the army, increasing their favor, making the prefecture and county chiefs and lieutenant generals threaten him. They have scruples in confronting themselves. After the reception banquet, he once left the navy general to ask if there was anything abnormal about the ships and artillery. Unexpectedly, as soon as he opened his mouth, the navy general said that a small school and his subordinates had deserted in the past few days, and took away the boats and firearms, completely distancing himself from the attack. Hou Xing went to the navy to investigate the situation. The generals and soldiers remained silent, claiming that they did not know about the matter.
