Don't ask where people go

In fact, what Fang Zilan didn't know was that Pei Juanqing was really sick in those days.Most of the members of the Pei family are not in good health, and those like Pei Xiaoze are already at the top.Therefore, the documents she sent to the Ministry of Households to wait for approval were not returned at the behest of Pei Jueqing, but by the Minister of the Household Department on his own initiative.

As for why it was done so deliberately, it's very simple to say, since there was such a commotion at the beginning of the new year this year, not to mention the people in the household department, who didn't know that the empress dowager didn't like her?What's more, the empress dowager was born in the Pei family, so it means that the Pei family did not deal with her.Therefore, Shangshu of the Ministry of Households made such a clever move, thinking that he would not give others a handle, but also add trouble to her, and vent his anger for the Pei family, why not do it?
Unexpectedly, when Pei Juanqing was ill, he heard about it and went to the Ministry of Households to inquire about his crimes. In the original words of the Duke of Juan, who had never been to the Ministry of Households for ten years, "Even if you destroy your family to relieve difficulties, you must take Southeast’s account has been filled.” Those who knew the appearance were fine, but those who didn’t know thought that it was his Pei family’s ancestral hall that was destroyed in Southeast.

The Shangshu of the Ministry of Accounting was so frightened that he cleared up the account of the southeast all night. The banknotes of Zhun Zuo just came out of the imperial study, and then the treasury sent the money to the southeast. Say hello.

However, this is not over yet. People from the Su family got the news out of nowhere, and they said something to Pei Juanqing, and secretly communicated with Zhuge Yu, and sent someone to send the silver to the southeast, directly crossing the border. King Rong An, I'm afraid that someone in the middle will steal every penny.

The money in the southeast was finally collected, and the military pay for fighting on the border was really unaffordable.Hubu Shangshu was as big as a bucket facing the snowflake-like documents of the Ministry of War. It happened that the Ministry of Industry also came to join in the fun at this time, saying that there was something wrong with the military workshop, so he put the loach of Hubu Shangshu in boiling water for a while. Leaving aside the layers of skin, she dared not go to the Pei family's side, lest Pei Juanqing would go there again, and it would really destroy the family and relieve the difficulties.

This involved a lot of things, everyone had a ulterior motive, and the relationship between them was also intertwined. As for how much Li Shengxuan knew and how much he had done, no one knew.

Fang Zilan didn't know the interests behind it, so she walked away quite easily.She rushed to Qiluo City with three thousand soldiers and horses from the camp on the outskirts of Beijing.

Vice General Qin followed Fang Zilan and told her about the daily life of the soldiers in the camp, "Everyone has worked hard on the exams in the past two days. Master Fang, are you ready?"

Fang Zilan couldn't stop nodding and said: "It's great, thank you for your hard work."

Vice General Qin smiled honestly, "It's not hard work, it's all about duty. Speaking of which, that boy Shangguan Min is particularly hard-working. He is top-notch in horse riding and archery. He is indeed not bad. Even compared to the deputy generals in the army, he is not inferior."

Fang Zilan agreed: "I also think Shangguan Min is good. He will be promoted tomorrow."

"It seems that Mr. Fang has already decided?" Vice General Qin looked a little curious. Fang Zilan smiled slightly and said: "That's natural. Later, Vice General Qin, you and I will go back to the tent and discuss it with Old Li and Old Cao. , let’s finalize the list of promotions.”

"Okay." Vice General Qin nodded in agreement, and walked towards the tent with Fang Zilan.

The two of them had not gone far when they saw two horse-feeding soldiers with their backs facing them, head to head, whispering something.

Fang Zilan signaled Vice General Qin not to disturb them by making any noise, and the two of them got closer together to hear the conversation clearly.

"You said that Mr. Fang is so partial to Shangguan Min, isn't it because Shangguan Min's father, Shangguan Jing, was killed by her?"

"Shh, keep your voice down, it won't be good if someone hears you."

"What's wrong? Shangguan Min is a young boy. If Mr. Fang is partial, we will all be stepped on by him in the future..."

"If you don't practice your skills when you have time, you'll just be gossiping here. If you don't get stepped on by Shangguan Min, do you still want to be a general?" Fang Zilan's voice suddenly sounded, making the two soldiers tremble. , turned around suddenly and saw that it was her and Vice General Qin, and hurriedly knelt down in front of them.

One of them advised another soldier to keep his voice down and kowtow like garlic, "I don't know that Master Fang and Vice General Qin are here. I know that I made a mistake. I hope you will not blame me."

The other soldier was unconvinced, "As Lord Fang said, we really want to be generals, so why don't you let us have non-commissioned officer status? Why should Shangguan Min step on us? Isn't it because Mr. Fang, are you biased and gave him the rank of non-commissioned officer?"

"You have some courage to dare to challenge me." Fang Zilan snorted coldly, "Since you are not convinced, then I will give you a chance, and you can follow me to the school grounds."

After she finished speaking, she turned to Vice General Qin and said, "Vice General Qin, go find Shangguan Min and take him to the school grounds. Tell him that someone wants to challenge him and ask him to fight with all his strength."

"Yes." Vice General Qin took the order and left. Fang Zilan looked at the two people kneeling on the ground and said, "Let's go."

The challenging soldier seemed not to have expected that things would turn out like this. After hesitating for a while, he stood up and followed Fang Zilan to the school ground. The other soldier saw this and followed quickly, and the three of them arrived at the school ground together.

Vice General Qin and Shangguan Min were already waiting at the school grounds and greeted them when they came.

Shangguan Min tentatively looked at the two people behind Fang Zilan and asked, "I heard from Vice General Qin that these are the two people who want to challenge me?"

"Not bad." Fang Zilan stepped aside and said in a deep voice: "What do you two want to compare with Shangguan Min? Why don't you come and hear it, so that I can make a judgement."

"It's up to us?" the challenging soldier asked suspiciously. Shangguan Min nodded and said, "It's up to you to choose what you want to test."

"Okay, since you said so, let's compete in archery!" The challenging soldier's confident look made Fang Zilan chuckle. "Have you thought about it? Shangguan Min is best at archery."

"Master Fang and Shangguan Min want us to decide what we want to compete with, so naturally we have to decide the rules." The challenging soldier spoke confidently, and Shangguan Min said without hesitation: "Tell me, how do you want to compete?"

The challenging soldier raised his voice: "Each of us has three arrows. Let's compare who can hit the bull's-eye more times. The two of us have six arrows, and Shangguan Min you have three arrows. How about it? Do you dare to compete?"

Before Shangguan Min could reply, Lieutenant General Qin scolded him lightly: "You are using more people to bully less people."

Hearing this, another soldier had the courage to ask, "Master Fang asked us to decide. Does Master Fang mean to keep his word?"

Fang Zilan spread her hands and said, "I have no objection. What about you, Shangguan Min?"