Dou Jianwei personally served Tao Feng a hangover soup.
Tao Feng wiped her face, finally feeling much more awake.
"What's the matter? Why are you in such a hurry?"
Dou Jianwei handed over his confession.
Tao Feng glanced at it and tossed it to Dou Jianwei: "I'm too lazy to look, you tell me."
"yes."
Dou Jianwei then repeated the contents of his confession.
"This is outrageous! Has the Cao family gone mad?"
The Cao family is also related to the Wu family by marriage. Although Wu Aimin has only been transferred here for a few years, the Wu family is a prominent family in Jianming Prefecture.
They have always maintained a good relationship with the Cao family.
The Wu family has always maintained a strong grip on Jianming Prefecture, but it turns out the Cao family is trying to seize power.
But what's the point of seizing power now?
The Wu family was also the de facto head of Jianming Prefecture, a position tacitly approved by the imperial court.
Even if the Cao family seizes power, does that mean they want to establish themselves independently?
Tao Feng was startled. Independent?
Are there few self-reliant people these days?
Tao Feng and Wu Aimin are in cahoots. Once the Cao family seizes power, where will Tao Feng have a place to stand?
Tao Feng immediately ordered, "Leave the rectification here to the county magistrate."
"Let's break camp immediately and return to the prefectural city."
Dou Jianwei was taken aback.
"General, we mustn't rush things. If we don't get things sorted out here now, who knows how many soldiers might rebel?"
Tao Feng rubbed her aching head: "I'm afraid it will be too late, and by then the Cao family will have already made their move in the prefectural city."
"But if things aren't tidied up here, things might be even worse when we go back."
Tao Feng then finally stirred his brain, which had been smudged for years.
"Tell them to quickly rectify the situation, and remember to find all the members of the Cao family and behead them on the spot."
Dou Jianwei patted the general's head, and the general resumed his simple and crude work.
"General, arrest him and interrogate him first. See if you can get anything else out of him."
Over the years, the Cao family has sent many people into the military.
Regardless of whether they are actually working for the Cao family, anyone the Cao family put in there should be arrested and interrogated.
"It's up to you. If you have nothing else to do, then go ahead and do it."
"good."
Tao Feng called over a beautiful woman and asked her to gently massage his head.
Then he asked the guard, "Has Zhao Peng's wine been delivered?"
The guard immediately replied, "I said, Commandant Zhao will personally deliver it to you in a little while."
Tao Feng was satisfied.
He had never tasted such strong liquor before, and it really suited his taste.
Sure enough, Zhao Peng arrived shortly after, bringing two jars of strong liquor.
Tao Feng didn't ask where the strong liquor came from; as long as he had something to drink, that was enough.
"Come, Commandant Zhao, have a drink with me."
Zhao Peng immediately bowed and said, "The outside still needs to be reorganized, General, what do you think?"
Tao Feng waved his hand: "Give the order to your subordinates to do it. You can have a few drinks with me first."
"yes."
Zhao Peng instructed the guards to tell their men to properly reorganize military affairs.
The people Zhao Peng brought were all useful, so they naturally knew how to do things.
Zhao Peng personally poured wine for Tao Feng: "General, come."
Tao Feng downed a cup in one gulp, smacked his lips, and sighed, "I never imagined there was such fine wine in the world."
As he spoke, he picked up a piece of food.
"With wine, food, and beautiful women, if it weren't for the need to go to war, that would be the greatest pleasure in life."
Zhao Peng also drank a glass with him.
Tao Feng drank another cup. Over the years, he had developed a high alcohol tolerance, so even if he drank continuously, it wouldn't be a big problem.
"Commander Zhao, how was the beauty I gave you yesterday?"
Zhao Peng chuckled: "Thank you, General, for bestowing upon me such a beauty."
"Looks like you're satisfied, haha, this is for you too."
As he spoke, he pushed the beauty in his arms toward Zhao Peng.
Zhao Peng quickly dodged.
"General, I'm afraid my back can't take it."
Tao Feng looked Zhao Peng up and down.
"Look at you, you've got quite a bit of muscle. Could it be that you look tough on the outside but are all muscle on the inside?"
"No, no, General, my inner strength is also real, but I need to conserve it for you to charge into battle."
Tao Feng laughed again, pulled the beauty back, and gave her a big kiss.
The beauty nestled limply in Tao Feng's arms.
"Haha, such a beauty, it has to be you, otherwise, I wouldn't be willing to give her away."
The beauty seized the opportunity and said sweetly, "It is my good fortune to have won the general's favor."
With a flicker of emotion in her eyes, her delicate little hand climbed up Tao Feng's waist.
Tao Feng pinched the beauty's slender waist hard: "You've been by my side the longest."
As he spoke, he bent down and fed the beauty a sip of wine.
The beauty swallowed it without any resistance.
Moreover, he appeared quite engrossed in the experience.
"General, this is fine wine."
Her eyes held a seductive glint, and a slight blush graced her cheeks.
Tao Feng suddenly became interested.
He picked up the beauty horizontally and carried her straight to the bed.
Zhao Peng immediately stood up, saluted, and said, "This humble general takes his leave."
Tao Feng ignored Zhao Peng and went to do what she was doing.
Zhao Peng then retreated quietly but extremely quickly.
He felt even more contempt for Tao Feng.
How can someone who can't resist fine wine and beautiful women fight a war?
But that's good, because people like that are easier to control.
As he walked back, he saw soldiers escorting more than a dozen people to Chief Secretary Dou's place.
He asked the people around him, "What's going on with them?"
Zhao Peng's trusted aide immediately replied, "Chief Secretary Dou is arresting the people recommended by the Cao family."
Zhao Peng immediately understood.
It seems that this matter is indeed related to the Cao family, and has been reported to Tao Feng.
At that time, there will inevitably be a fierce battle with the Cao family, which will also be a good opportunity for him to win over people in the army.
Meanwhile, several people rode away on fast horses from Dou Jianwei's place, heading towards Jianming Prefecture.
It took two whole days to reorganize the army's structure.
However, several battalions were merged, and battalions that were no longer fully organized were merged into one.
Cui Pingwei has been promoted to deputy general, which has been approved by Tao Feng and announced.
Zhao Peng specially prepared a generous gift and presented it to Cui Pingwei.
Cui Pingwei found Zhao Peng more and more pleasing to the eye.
"Commander Zhao, my previous battalion is now incomplete. It has been merged with another battalion, but we don't have a commander yet. Please take care of it for now."
This is equivalent to putting Zhao Peng in charge of two battalions.
Zhao Peng was secretly pleased, but he didn't show it on his face.
"Thank you, Vice General Cui."
"No need to thank me, it's all thanks to your ability. I was originally going to transfer you to the front line, but I spoke with the general and said that it would be more prudent for Commander Zhao to be in charge of the central army."
Actually, it was Cui Pingwei who was scared.
It was only after two days of investigation that he learned that so many people had died the night before.
Fortunately, he ran fast, otherwise he would have suffered the same fate as those two captains, being killed.
With Zhao Peng here, that's the safest place.
Zhao Peng was satisfied with the two battalions assigned to guard the central command.
Two battalions, that's ten thousand soldiers.
Once the army is in his hands, he can never give it back.
These soldiers will belong to him from now on.
That is, the commander's troops.
No one should touch it anymore.
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