The First Auxiliary Road from the Imperial Examination

Chapter 1095: Missing the Minister

"Minister Sheng, this is the account book we collected from the island. It records the materials and personnel we collected. Please take a look."

At the first moment of the morning, Sheng Yuan had just met with the person sent by General Rong to report the results of the battle, when news came from the direction of the island.

Sheng Yuan looked at the five or six half-foot-high record books and couldn't help but marvel at how well his cousin Lu Sheng led the army. Look at the efficiency of his subordinates! He turned General Rong into ashes in seconds without making a sound.

"Is this the Cen Yu mentioned in the previous report?" Sheng Yuan flipped open a book with portraits marked on it, and what came into his sight was a gentle-looking girl.

"It is indeed this person."

After hearing the soldier's reply, Sheng Yuan's eyes wandered over the portrait for a while, but he didn't find anything familiar about the man's appearance. He closed the book and asked, "Where did this man go after that? Did anyone follow him?"

When the sergeant heard the question, his face suddenly showed a bit of strangeness: "There are indeed people who are following her, but wherever she goes, it is the retreat of the Qizhou families involved in the island forces.

Our people tracked and captured him all the way. We gained a lot, but we also lost the person.

Thinking back, it seemed like the girl was leading us all this way, just to catch those fish that slipped through the net."

"How many great families are there in Qizhou?" Sheng Yuan saw that this was the only useful information about Cen Yu, so he simply put him aside for the time being and turned his attention to a booklet labeled "Former Qi Dynasty Great Families". "With such a thick list, I'm afraid that all the families in Qizhou will be included in it. Can you spare so many people to control them?"

"Fortunately, the garrisons of the Qizhou counties and the Internal Guards are still quite useful, and they can still help each other."

Sheng Yuan casually flipped through the registration records of several aristocratic families and found that each family page was marked with the words "Industry to be investigated". He understood it after a little thought.

It seems that these families are extremely wealthy, and the garrison is unable to count them for the time being.

"I will read the account books in detail soon, but... before you set out to sea, I have made a request. I wonder if you have found any traces of Yang Wennong, the left assistant minister of the Ministry of Revenue, on those islands?" "I am incompetent." The sergeant bowed his head and saluted. "We sent people to copy the portraits drawn by the assistant minister himself and handed them to the deputy commanders in charge of the raids on the islands. If anyone finds any traces, we will definitely look for them."

"Didn't find it?!" Sheng Yuan's eyes widened in shock, "This is impossible?!"

"In fact, according to the speculation of my subordinates, there is another possibility for the disappearance of Minister Yang!" The soldier hesitated for a moment, but finally said it in a low voice.

"you mean?"

"I and others are just guessing. It's possible that those people at sea are ungrateful to Minister Yang."

The soldier gritted his teeth and said directly: "Those pirates have no fear. If they really throw Minister Yang into the vast ocean, even if we have a large number of people, I am afraid it will be difficult to find any trace of him."

Sheng Yuan probably guessed that this person was going to say this, but she didn't expect that hearing it with her own ears would still bring her a huge shock.

  Just out of the river and into the sea again?! Minister Yang can't be so miserable?!

Sheng Yuan felt that such a tragic guess was not quite true.

"That's my guess, but I'd like to trouble you all to pass on the message to each other and keep an eye on it. If Minister Yang is lucky enough to return, it will be a great contribution from you all."

"Subordinates obey orders!"

……

At the hour of Mao, Sheng Yuan, who was about to take a nap, stood up from his desk when he heard hurried footsteps outside. He looked up and saw Xiao Yao running over, reporting excitedly, "Miss, our people picked up a big fish from the dock!"