Chapter 393 Cui Shao's Thoughts! (Thanks to the book friend Wuhuangapersistenceatenacity for the reward!)
Ye Mingsheng refused the temptation of troops this time and reduced the Fengzhou Army's 150,000 troops by nearly half. In Cui Shao's view, this was indeed a great thing that benefited the country and the people. But at the same time, he also saw that Ye Mingsheng had evil intentions in this matter. Ye Mingsheng wanted to use the excuse of disarmament to further gather the military power that was originally scattered in the hands of the local faction and concentrate all the power in the army in his own hands...

As a veteran who has been immersed in politics for decades and has rich experience in political struggles, Cui Shao can see at a glance that Ye Mingsheng's concentration of military power is just his first move. If Ye Mingsheng succeeds in this move, then Ye Mingsheng will successively seize power over land, personnel appointments in the government, and other powers to attack these aristocratic families.

By then, the gun will be completely in Ye Mingsheng's hands. No matter how powerful the local faction is in the government, they will be at the mercy of others!
Therefore, in order to avoid this situation, Cui Shao must oppose Ye Mingsheng's disarmament plan. In order to achieve his own goal, Cui Shao deliberately arranged the birthday banquet for the elders of the Cui family out of thin air. He took this opportunity to contact other families and generals who were also unwilling to have their military power weakened by Ye Mingsheng. He united these people and pulled them together to prevent the implementation of Ye Mingsheng's disarmament plan.

After igniting the atmosphere of the meeting, Cui Shao can start the specific work of this meeting. He will assign tasks to everyone and tell you what to do, how he should cooperate, and how to correctly put pressure on Ye Mingsheng.

Politics is an art of compromise. Cui Shao did not want to completely break up with Ye Mingsheng. After contacting Ye Mingsheng, he knew that Ye Mingsheng had the courage to overthrow everything and risk his life. He also did not want to lead the local faction and Ye Mingsheng to fight a civil war in Liaoyang, where order had been restored.

What Cui Shao wants is to fight with Ye Mingsheng without breaking him, so he has to control the intensity of the pressure. If the intensity is too light, Ye Mingsheng will not care, and may even make a misjudgment, thinking that their family is weak and can be bullied, and he wants to pick on the weak. But if the intensity is too heavy and Ye Mingsheng is completely enraged, then things will go to a point that no one wants to see...
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Early the next morning, Ye Mingsheng, feeling refreshed, walked out of the courtyard under Bai Yuanyuan's reluctant gaze. At a glance, he noticed the guards around him. There were a lot more of them than when he came yesterday. Seeing this, Ye Mingsheng frowned slightly and walked into the carriage prepared for him by Ye Kui and others.

Ye Mingsheng's carriage looked very ordinary from the outside, without too many luxurious decorations. At first glance, it looked no different from the carriages used by normal wealthy families. However, the cost of Ye Mingsheng's carriage was equivalent to that of ten ordinary carriages.

In order to make Ye Mingsheng safer and have a better riding experience when riding in a carriage, the carriage that Ye Mingsheng is riding now was specially made by the Artisan Camp. Hundreds of top craftsmen spent several months to make it and presented it to Ye Mingsheng.
The wood and steel used in the carriages were carefully selected. Except for being unable to withstand artillery fire, they could basically withstand the shooting of all firearms currently equipped by the Great Zhou army, such as the Po Lu Gun and the Wei Yuan Gun.

In addition to the breakthrough in materials, the craftsmen in the Artisan Camp also worked hard on the chassis of the carriage and made many improvements, so that even when the carriage was traveling on hilly terrain, Ye Mingsheng would not feel too much bumps when sitting inside...
As the coachman waved his whip, the carriage carrying Ye Mingsheng slowly drove towards the Ye Mansion under the protection of hundreds of personal soldiers.

At this time, Ye Mingsheng in the carriage did not have time to feel the comfort of his carriage. Instead, he rubbed his Qingming acupoint and said helplessly to Ye Kuixun, who was riding a tall horse and guarding not far from the carriage:
"Who did Shen Jianzhong send to assassinate me again?"

Hearing Ye Mingsheng's question, Ye Kui lowered his voice and said:
"Your Excellency, Director Huo has received news that after Shen Jianzhong knew that Your Excellency was preparing for a military parade to celebrate, he recruited a killer who had retired from the Supervisory Department to organize the assassination. It is said that this person's name is Liu Baoshan, and he once had a nickname called Yama King in the Supervisory Department. It is said that all the targets he targeted died violent deaths..."

Ye Mingsheng was not interested in the killer named Liu Baoshan after hearing this. He interrupted impatiently:

"Huo San, Wang Xuecheng and the others, can't they help a little and kill Shen Jianzhong? And dig out all the bastards lurking in the Supervisory Department?"

Listening to Ye Mingsheng's words, Ye Kui outside the carriage lowered his head and kept silent. Although he was in a bad mood, he complained but Ye Mingsheng knew in his heart that his teacher Shen Jianzhong was not just a figurehead. The Supervisory Office, as the official spy agency of the Great Zhou Dynasty, had been surviving and developing in Liaoyang since the Great Zhou Dynasty opened up this territory, and it had a history of two hundred years.

And it has only been more than a month since Ye controlled Liaoyang. In such a short period of time, he wanted to uproot a spy organization that has been rooted in Liaoyang for 200 years. There are only two possibilities. One is that the Third Prince Huo has become a god, and the other is that the Supervisory Department is full of good-for-nothings...
But the reality is obvious, it is neither of the two situations!

When he realized that the defeat of the Zhenwu Army was inevitable, Shen Jianzhong, as one of the five pacification envoys of the Supervisory Office, did not flee in a hurry by boat like Wang Muzhi, but simply burned all the confidential documents of the Supervisory Office at its Liaoyang headquarters, and then led the Supervisory Office into a latent state.

After Ye Mingsheng came to power, in addition to appeasing the local faction, he also allocated a large sum of money to the Coordination Office, and asked the Coordination Office led by Huo San and Wang Xuecheng to fully investigate the spies of the Supervisory Department and make sure to eliminate the remaining influence of the Supervisory Department in Liaoyang as quickly as possible.

The two directors of the Coordination Office were naturally surprised by Ye Mingsheng's expectations and the allocated funds, but they also felt unprecedented pressure!
Ye Mingsheng is a leader who approves funds happily. He is not the kind of person who wants you to produce milk but not to eat grass...
(End of this chapter)