After the whole family was swept away, I lay down flat

Chapter 245 Chang’an Vanguard’s Defection

Haitang waited until the next morning when he went to the Second Hospital for morning exercises, and then heard the information he overheard from his brother Hai Jiao.

The Zhenguo Government secretly sent people to block Du Boqin's communication channels with the outside world. Unless he himself went to deliver the message, not a single word would be known about the good deeds he had done in Chang'an City and the arrest of a group of accomplices, ears and eyes. It spread to the ears of the Sun family in Beijing.

Maybe this kind of blocking method can only be sealed for ten and a half days. As the New Year is approaching, there will be countless people in Chang'an City visiting each other's relatives before and after the year. There is no guarantee that there will be people who are willing to be Du Boqin's messengers, and the Zhou family can seal it off. It is impossible for a Du family to block all external communications, but it can buy ten days and a half, which is enough.

Next is the work of Haixi Cliff. He wanted to find evidence of Du Boqin's crime from the Chang'an Vanguard's accounts over the past ten years, so that the Shaanxi Dusi could successfully convict him and remove him from the position of commander in a fair and just manner. Even if the Sun family knew about it afterwards and asked the Ministry of War to order to handle the case, it would be impossible to clear his name.

Of course, it would be great if Du Boqin could be kept in Chang'an forever and completely eliminate the possibility of his escape.

He has been in charge of the Chang'an Vanguard for many years, and it is necessary to send a reliable commander to clean it up in order to avoid future troubles.

As for the candidate for the new commander, General Saturday's term has expired and he is currently at home. He has not yet decided on a new position. However, he is younger and has slightly lower qualifications. The Duke of Zhen hopes that he can have more experience in the border town. In the next year, improve your ability to lead an army on your own.

In addition, there are the Minzhou Guard Commander and the Yan'an Guard Commander, whose background, achievements, and qualifications are all outstanding enough. The former is a descendant of the Tang family of the Duke of Zhenguo. His term of office has now expired and he is on his way back to Chang'an to report on his duties. The latter's term of office is about to be completed and he comes from a family of generals in Chang'an City. His relatives and friends have already come forward to speak out for him. No matter which commander was finally appointed, Duke Zhen Guo was very satisfied.

After listening to her brother's narration, Haitang asked curiously: "Is this what I overheard last night? Grandpa and my cousin actually discussed the candidate for the new commander of the Chang'an Vanguard?"

Hai Jiao coughed lightly and touched his nose: "Grandpa and my cousin didn't actually discuss this... In fact, some of the news I just mentioned was told to me by grandpa last night, and some of it was told to me by me when I was outside yesterday. I just inquired about it. I just didn’t have time to tell you, so I’ll tell you now.”

Haitang blinked: "Grandpa, did you look for you last night? I thought you went to bed directly after returning to the house. Grandma urged you to rest as soon as possible, but you still have time to do other things?"

Hai Jiao chuckled and said, "After my cousin left, grandpa called me over. When he said something, grandma would not reject it even if she was unhappy."

Hai Xiya asked him to come over to talk so late, naturally it was to settle accounts. Haixi Ya now has official duties and is very busy every day. Even if he took over the task of checking the accounts of Chang'an Qianwei, he would not be able to take the job to the Yamen. Time was limited, but there were many account books. In order not to delay the government's plan, Hai Xiya had no choice but to bring his grandson to work.

Hai Xiya will do the main accounting work himself, but before that, Hai Jiao can handle the sorting and analysis of the account books first. He had done similar work when he was in Suzhou Guard, and he did it well, with high accuracy and efficiency. Hai Xiya ordered his grandson to summarize and sort out the account books sent by the Zhenguo government at home every day. After he got home and had dinner in the evening, he could start calculating the accounts directly.

Hai Jiao also recommended himself to his grandfather, and he was even willing to help with settling accounts. This was not only to relieve my grandfather who was busy with official duties, but also to gain as much information as possible about the Chang'an vanguard and help the Zhenguo government convict Du Boqin as soon as possible. Hai Jiao said: "Although I never worked in an accounting office in my previous life, because I had studied for several years and was smarter than other spies, I was often asked by my seniors to reconcile accounts with Jin Yiwei. Jin Yiwei used public funds to support us who couldn't see it. Guang’s spies often use various excuses to manipulate the accounts. I’m very familiar with this!”

Jin Yiwei manipulated the accounts to make money to support the spies, and it was for official business. Could this be the same thing as what Du Boqin did in Chang'an Vanguard?

Haitang looked at her brother speechlessly, and then changed the subject: "Where did these account books come from? Du Boqin can't hand over the account books obediently, right? He has been in charge of Chang'an Vanguard for so many years, hasn't he even replaced his accountants?"

"How is this possible?!" Hai Jiao said, "If he hadn't been sure that the accountant was his confidant, how could he have dared to do so many tricks? He even used the money from the guardhouse to support those messy soldiers!"

But Du Boqin's foundation in Chang'an Vanguard is still a bit shallow. If the former commander was not his father-in-law, and he only had a daughter from his original wife, he wanted to train his son-in-law to be his successor, and took care of him a lot, I'm afraid he wouldn't be there yet. It is so easy to secure the position of commander.

Chang'an Qianwei's accounting office is basically run by two families in turn. This has been going on for nearly a hundred years from generation to generation. Even if successive commanders have their own accounting rooms, they cannot completely kick out the people of these two families. Otherwise, they will definitely encounter many obstacles in their work and it will be difficult to implement the orders.

After Du Boqin became the commander, he first used his connections to find a good position for the eldest son of one of the family members in another guard station, and successfully sent him away from the Chang'an vanguard. Among the remaining members of his family, The old ones are old and the young ones are young. Naturally, there is no way to fill the vacancies, so Du Boqin took the opportunity to place his own confidants and seize the power of the accounting room.

As for the other family, the children of this generation who served in the Jinwei were originally only doing auxiliary work, but were snatched away from their full positions by Du Boqin's henchmen, so he was able to calm down and was willing to do odd jobs in the accounting room. He works carefully, is discerning and knowledgeable, never talks too much, and knows how to treat guests and give gifts to build relationships. He seems to be an honest coolie who works hard and never complains. After Du Boqin's confidants observed him for a while, he was happy to ask him to do some trivial and tiring work so that he could enjoy his leisure time. He then told Du Boqin that he had already caught the person and there was no need to kick him away.

Du Boqin believed it to be true, and was happy to leave such a pretense in the accounting room, just to say that he followed the avant-garde tradition of Chang'an. No one would have thought that they had already kept an extra thought. Ever since he took up the position of commander and placed people in the accounting room, he had kept a backup copy of all the accounts he handled and hid them at home, just in case.

Now, with the Duke Zhen's order, not only some of the military attachés in the Chang'an vanguard who had submitted to Du Boqin but had not yet become his confidants secretly turned against him, but even the children of the aristocratic families who worked in the accounting room immediately gave away the account books that had been hidden for many years and gave them away in full. Arrive at the Zhenguo Palace. The Zhenguogong Mansion sent the things to Haixiya's home through Xie Wenzai's hands.

In addition, Ambassador Cang, who was looking at the warehouse of the guard house, and the stewards and craftsmen of the bow and arrow workshop, had already begun to take stock of the inventory and losses over the years; the experienced and governor responsible for the paperwork began to sort out the past documents; the commander who was not Du Boqin's confidant began to sort out the past documents; His personal soldiers were managed separately from other ordinary soldiers and found various reasons to restrict their actions.

In just three or two days, Du Boqin felt as if he had lost control of the Chang'an Vanguard. Except for the confidants he had won over in private, even his father-in-law's former subordinates, who used to obey him, no longer obey his orders. He obviously still has so many cronies in the guardhouse, but he seems to be unable to do anything.

At this moment, he clearly realized that he thought he had completely mastered the Chang'an Vanguard, but in fact it was just his illusion.

(End of this chapter)