Mi Yang looked at Fa Miao coldly and asked Fa Miao: "Who is the army in Hanzhong?"
Mi Yang's cold question made Fa Miao keenly aware of the murderous intention in Mi Yang's heart.
Fa Miao, who had served as the guard of the Hanzhong army before and was now the military commander of Liangzhou, certainly knew who the army in Hanzhong was.
If Fa Miao remembers correctly, the current military commander is a captain named Deng Xian.
The position of Junzheng originated from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. He was the law enforcer in the military. He had the power to supervise and enforce law enforcement in the army. He had the same position as the military academy lieutenant.
Since Liu Bang established the Han Dynasty, he has always set up this position in the army in order to correct the law and discipline and intimidate the generals.
Although the status of military official is not high, the political tradition of the Han Dynasty has always been to "suppress the important with the light."
Just as Qianshi's military commander, his authority has two distinctive features.
"Unless there is something going on, I will not rule over the commander-in-chief and the generals."
"If you are not a general, you will hear that the general is guilty; if you have less than two thousand stones, you will not be able to follow the law."
From these two records, it can be seen that in the early days, the army was directly ordered by the Han Emperor. Even the Taiwei, who was nominally the highest military officer in the world, had no authority to command the army.
Moreover, when a general is guilty, the army will report to the emperor for punishment. If an officer with less than 2,000 dan violates the military law, the army can directly deal with it according to the military law without asking for instructions.
Of course, the powers of the military officer post have also undergone some changes with the changes of the times.
Especially in the past few decades, the world has been in chaos and the imperial power has been weakened, so the direct superiors of military officials have become the highest officials in various places.
However, the power in the hands of Junzheng has not been reduced at all.
On the contrary, with the frequent wars, today's military officers have the power to arrest even two thousand stone generals as long as they have the support of the highest local commander.
Precisely because Junzheng has such great power, it is difficult to hide the fact that dozens of generals and commanders are taking empty pay in tandem from Junzheng, who has many eyes and ears in the army.
It is even possible that the Hanzhong military commander was a direct beneficiary of this corruption in the military.
After Fa Miao informed Mi Yang of the name of the Hanzhong military commander, he then reminded Mi Yang:
"Deng Xian is Wu Yi's old subordinate."
When Fa Miao's reminder fell into Mi Yang's ears, Mi Yang couldn't help but sneer.
It's Wu Yi again.
Jiubu was another synonym for the tribe in the Han Dynasty.
Thinking about it, Wu Yi must have contributed a lot to Deng Xianeng, who might have collaborated with those generals, to become the military commander of Hanzhong.
However, under Fa Miao's reminder, Mi Yang knew that Deng Xian had a close relationship with Wu Yi, so he decisively ordered Ding Feng behind him: "Go and capture the military officer named Deng Xian and bring him to me."
After hearing Mi Yang's order, Ding Feng immediately walked out from behind Mi Yang, bowed to Mi Yang and then walked out of the hall.
At this time, Fa Miao took the initiative to come out and said to Mi Yang, "I would like to go with my subordinate governor."
Seeing Fa Miao volunteering, Mi Yang agreed to his request after some thought.
After all, Deng Xian was a senior official of Qianshi, and Ding Feng's status was too different from Deng Xian's. Moreover, Wu Yi might come out to support Deng Xian when Deng Xian was arrested.
Therefore, if Fa Miao is the chief officer in arresting Deng Xian, some unnecessary resistance can be reduced.
After Mi Yang agreed, Fa Miao immediately led Ding Feng towards the outside of the hall.
After Fa Miao and Ding Feng left, Mi Yang looked at Lu Yi who was still in the hall.
"Quickly send an order to summon Wang Hong from Hanxing County.
In addition, a hundred members of the old Han Xing tribe were selected for me. "
Mi Yang's voice was as emotionless as before.
After Lu Yi listened to Mi Yang's order, he immediately bowed to Mi Yang and accepted the order.
At the same time, Lu Yi couldn't help but guess Mi Yang's intention.
But even though he was now considered one of Mi Yang's confidants, he still couldn't guess the purpose of Mi Yang's order for a while.
However, Lu Yi knew that Hanzhong might be facing a major purge next.
...
When Mi Yang had just led his army back to Nanzheng, he followed Fa Miao's advice and gave his direct army a long holiday.
But Mi Yang would not be so stupid as to give all the direct troops a holiday.
Mi Yang adopts a rotating holiday system.
As time passed, the army of Mi Yang's direct descendants who took the first round of vacation have returned to their respective posts.
And in the previous period, under Mi Yang's instruction, the city defense of Nanzheng City had been taken over by Mi Yang's direct army.
Currently, there are more than five thousand troops in Nanzheng City who are absolutely loyal to Mi Yang.
Five thousand elites may not be many in a field battle, but if they are used to completely control a city, it is more than enough.
After Fa Miao led Ding Feng to leave the Prefectural Mufu Mansion, he did not go to the county government to find the county magistrate Zhou Tai, and asked him to send county soldiers to cooperate with him in arresting Deng Xian.
He led Ding Feng directly to a military camp in the city, and with the help of a military talisman that Mi Yang had given him before, he mobilized five hundred soldiers from the military camp.
Fa Miao knew the principle of a dog jumping over the wall in a hurry. As a military commander, Deng Xian must have some soldiers in the city.
If Deng Xian jumped over the wall and wanted to rely on the government soldiers to resist arrest, then the county soldiers' combat effectiveness might not be able to suppress him.
In order to control Deng Xian without fail, Wu Yi, who might even come out to support Deng Xian, could only be safe by mobilizing hundreds of elites.
Looking at Fa Miao who calmly mobilized 500 soldiers with his military talismans, Ding Feng truly realized for the first time the status of Fa Miao in Mi Yang's mind.
After all the generals handed over their military talismans, Fa Miao, who was not a general, was still able to "privately hide" a military talisman. This is enough to show how close the relationship between Mi Yang and Fa Miao was.
However, this envious thought did not appear in my heart for long.
Ding Feng looked at the 500 soldiers summoned by Fa Miao, and then at the more than 100 Mi Yang soldiers he led, with a calm look on his face.
Six hundred battlefield elites participated in the operation to capture Deng Xian, which was enough to ensure that the operation was foolproof.
After gathering the 600 elites, Fa Miao did not waste any time. He immediately led the 600 elites with Ding Feng towards Deng Xian's mansion.
Six hundred tigers running quickly on the street caused panic in the street.
After waves of panic, all kinds of frightening doubts suddenly spread on the streets where the six hundred tigers passed.
Who couldn't think of this and provoked Zhou Mu?
Although Fa Miao and Ding Feng acted quickly, they did not find Deng Xian when they led their troops into Deng Xian's mansion and took control of Deng Xian's family members.
Just when Fa Miao suspected that the news had been leaked in advance, Ding Feng pried out Deng Xian's whereabouts from Deng Xian's family.
Conquer the Northern General's Mansion!
After learning about Deng Xian's whereabouts, Fa Miao and Ding Feng looked at each other and left some soldiers to guard Deng Xian's family.
Then they took the remaining five hundred or so tiger warriors and quickly headed to General Zhengbei's Mansion.
So what if Deng Xian is in the Zhengbei General's Mansion?
Once Mu Bojun's fate was announced, no one could save Deng Xian.
...
Just as Fa Miao and Ding Feng led their troops to quickly approach the Zhengbei General's Mansion, Deng Xian was sitting in front of Wu Yi, offering boxes of jewelry with a flattering look on his face.
Deng Xian had not left the mansion for long. He had just arrived at Wu Yi's mansion.
Because Fa Miao and others did a good job of keeping secrets, and the time was short, Deng Xian didn't know what happened in the camp outside the city for the time being.
He didn't even know that his business partners had already been taken advantage of by Mi Yang.
Under this situation, Deng Xian's thoughts were all about how to please the man in front of him.
Deng Xian was both Wu Yi's disciple and Wu Yi's old subordinate. It can be said that Wu Yi was Deng Xian's largest and most reliable political resource.
Deng Xian is a very naughty person. He knows that he is where he is today because of Wu Yi's recommendation.
So after he learned that Wu Yi had been taken away by Mi Yang last night, he immediately came to visit Wu Yi with boxes of jewelry.
When Wu Yi was frustrated, he came to offer his kindness, which could better reflect his loyalty and gain Wu Yi's respect.
As expected by Deng Xian, looking at the boxes of jewelry that Deng Xian brought, Wu Yi, although he didn't care much about money and silk, was happy with Deng Xian's loyalty.
In order to continue to occupy an important position in the political structure of the Han Dynasty, in addition to having support from above, he also needed to have subordinates like Deng Xian to firmly support him below.
Wu Yi, who had been depressed all day, smiled in front of Deng Xian.
No one would dislike such a loyal old member, and such a loyal old member would not have wasted his promotion in the past.
Being satisfied with Deng Xian, Wu Yi subconsciously ignored one thing:
Deng Xian was just a military official, so where did he get so much wealth and material?
Maybe Wu Yi had some suspicion in his mind, but he didn't care.
Wu Yi first asked his servants to accept the gifts from Deng Xian, and then he asked Deng Xian about his life during this period with a smile on his face.
Under Wu Yi's questions, Deng Xian answered them all respectfully.
And in his answers, he also praised Wu Yi and belittled Mi Yang in his words from time to time.
"Although he is a state pastor, the general is the mother and brother of the country, so his status is very noble.
Let's let him be proud for now. Who knows he won't be a general or a minister in the future? "
When Deng Xian said these comforting words, Wu Yi couldn't help but burst out laughing.
Wu Yi smiled and took the initiative to add wine to Deng Xian in front of him. From Wu Yi's actions, it was enough to see how satisfied he was with Deng Xian's words.
But when the two masters and servants, Wu Yi and Deng Xian, were getting along very harmoniously, Wu Ban quickly rushed into the living room with a heavy look on his face.
Wu Yi, whose mood had just improved, suddenly felt very unlucky when he saw Wu Ban's heavy expression.
In addition, Wu Ban's behavior was quite irritable, which made Wu Yi, who always valued etiquette, even more unhappy.
Just when Wu Yi was about to reprimand Wu Ban, he learned some unexpected news from Wu Ban.
After Wu Ban glanced at Deng Xian who was present, he immediately said to Wu Yi: "Fa Miao sent troops to arrest all Deng Junzheng's family members!"
Fa Miao led his troops to arrest Deng Xian's family, which was done in broad daylight, and this matter could not be concealed.
Some officials who lived near Deng Xian and were good friends with Wu Yi immediately sent their cronies to inform Wu Yi after learning about the incident.
From the information they received, they knew that the next step Fa Miao led his army to was Wu Yi's mansion.
Since the number of cronies sent by those officials was small, they arrived at Wu Yi's mansion before Fa Miao.
After hearing the news, Wu Yi was just surprised.
But Deng Xian jumped up from the ground instantly like a wild cat whose tail was stepped on, and asked Wu Bandao with full panic and worry in his tone:
"General, what's going on!"
It was obvious that he was fine when he left the house just now.
what happened?
Wu Ban looked at the panicked Deng Xian in front of him, and he felt angry.
I still want to ask you!
He immediately asked Deng Xian, "What kind of crime have you committed? Now Fa Miao is leading the army to arrest you."
Wu Ban's tone was full of doubt.
Even if he couldn't stand Mi Yang because of his different stance.
But he also knew that with Mi Yang's personality and identity, if Deng Xian had not committed a serious crime, Mi Yang would not have sent Fa Miao to arrest him.
Especially now that Wu Ban knew that Fa Miao was leading the army towards his mansion, Wu Ban felt even more dissatisfied.
This was simply an unforeseen disaster for the Wu family.
When Deng Xian heard that Fa Miao was leading his troops here, he was so frightened that he almost fell to the ground, and the fear on his face became more intense.
Wu Ban didn’t know what he had done, so wouldn’t he himself know?
His first reaction now is that the crime he committed has been revealed.
Even Wu Yi had a solemn look on his face after learning about this.
Like Wu Ban, he looked at Deng Xian with suspicion.
Seeing that his two masters were looking at him with suspicion, Deng Xian, who was panicking, knew that he could no longer hide his affairs.
Besides, the only ones who can protect him now are the Wu brothers in front of him.
So Deng Xian knelt on the ground, cried and told the Wu brothers in front of him everything he had done.
After Wu Yi and Wu Ban finished listening to Deng Xian's cries, Wu Yi stood up in fright.
He colluded with the lieutenant general in the army to eat his salary, and sold the food and grass he had lost to the wealthy families in the city. Either of these two things was a crime worthy of beheading.
No wonder Deng Xian was able to bring so much wealth and silk today.
Wu Yi had guessed that Deng Xian was corrupt, but he didn't expect that Deng Xian was so courageous. He was embezzling food and grass!
Seeing Wu Yi stood up in fright, Deng Xian cried louder. He kept kowtowing to Wu Yi, hoping that Wu Yi could save his life.
Deng Xian's shrill cries continued to float in the hall, which not only made Wu Ban more annoying, but also made Wu Yi feel very troubled.
But he had to save him!
Everyone knows that Deng Xian is his old confidant, and everyone knows that Deng Xian was loyal to him in the past.
If he ignores Deng Xian's cry today, who else will follow him in the future?
And if he didn't have a group of minions following him, how could he sit securely even if he reached that high position in the future?
Wu Yi, who was good at weighing the pros and cons, made a decision in his mind almost instantly.
Although Wu Ban did not have as deep a city as Wu Yi, he still knew the consideration in Wu Yi's heart, so he stepped forward and said to Wu Yi:
"How about letting Deng Xian escape before Fa Miao's soldiers arrive?"
Upon hearing Wu Ban's suggestion, Wu Yi almost slapped him in the face.
Wu Yi pointed at Deng Xian who was kneeling on the ground and angrily yelled at Wu Ban: "He is now guilty, and many people already know that he is in my house.
If Fa Miao arrives with his army and finds that Deng Xian is not in the house, what will Fa Miao think of us, and how will the world think of us?
Do we still need to clear our name? "
Wu Yi's angry rebuke scared Wu Ban and quickly retracted his head.
After angrily scolding Wu Ban, Wu Yi paced back and forth in the hall anxiously. After a few breaths, Wu Yi, who was good at exchanging interests, had an idea in his mind.
Wu Yi said to Deng Xian: "I may be able to save your life, but your family fortune and position will definitely not be saved. You are willing to accept this outcome."
Hearing that Wu Yi had a way to save his life, Deng Xian had no reason not to agree.
He quickly responded to Wu Yi by kowtowing repeatedly.
Seeing that Deng Xian was willing to accept his arrangement, Wu Yi immediately exhaled and said, "Then you will listen to me in everything from now on."
Deng Xian hurriedly agreed to Wu Yi's request.
