After Shen Hao left, Jiang Cheng pushed back all subsequent meetings with guests; he needed to sort out his thoughts and had no desire to deal with various chores for the time being.
Back when he was Households Officer in Fengri City, Jiang Cheng already sensed from every official report that the Xuanqing Guard's upper echelons were spontaneously reshuffling their internal organization, which was evident from the establishment of the Black Banner Battalion.
So Jiang Cheng originally prepared to probe the higher-ups' attitude toward the Black Banner Battalion from a "radical" standpoint. That's why, right after the Li City Black Banner Battalion made a name for themselves, he immediately threw his full support behind Shen Hao, that rootless, drifting nobody.
