"Prime Minister Zhu, please go back and tell my master, about the matter of greed, give everyone ten days, no matter how much you were greedy before, you must spit it out all within ten days. Ten days later, a strict investigation began, and if anyone still had greedy money, they would be removed from their posts or killed directly. This must not be allowed to run rampant. ”

"Okay, I'll take care of it. ”

After learning that the problem was in Guyun City, Zhang Zhao and Zhu Linxiao didn't stay too long, and flew directly to Guyun City.

Zhang Zhao walked with a sword, Zhu Linxiao rode on the water dragon, and the remaining ten or so Zhu Jiajun also took the opportunity to rub the water dragon mount.

The distribution of military salaries is generally from top to bottom, layer by layer.

It is first issued from the quartermaster to the heaven-level city, and then from the heaven-level city to the prefecture-level city closest to the target, then the Xuan-level city, and finally the city.

Therefore, there may be mistakes in any link, which does not mean that the heaven-level city must have seized this military salary.

When the two of them came to the heaven-level city, they quickly found the local city lord's mansion.

The people in the city lord's position probably understood what was going on, and after hearing that Zhu Linxiao was going to check the account books, he directly sent someone to find out without saying a word.

Judging from the account books of the heaven-level city, the military salary sent to Guzi City was finally distributed to Emperor City, which is a prefecture-level city.

Just as the two of them were about to leave for the prefecture-level city, the city lord stopped them.

"King, marshal, there is a Moon City within my jurisdiction, and it is the closest to Guzi City. It's been a long time since Tsukijo has contacted us, and we haven't received a reply from our military pay. So I'm surmising that the problem might be with Moon City. ”

"Such a big matter, why didn't you report it to the court earlier?"

The city lord frowned and said, "I also want to give Yuecheng a chance, after all, it's not easy to become a city lord, so I'd rather believe that something else is wrong with him." But the last time I sent someone to Yuecheng to investigate, judging from the information I received, there were inexplicably more soldiers in Yuecheng, and it was estimated that they were going to rebel or join the enemy. The time I gave them was the end of this month, and I would send General Long to send troops there at the beginning of next month. ”

"Okay, you immediately ask General Long to mobilize a thousand cavalry and go to Moon City with us. ”

"Yes!"

Outside the city of Guyun City, a thousand light horsemen had already assembled, and when Zhang Zhao and them came out, they went to the Moon City in the southwest together.

Thousands of miles alone, overnight.

When Zhang Zhao came to Moon City, it was already noon the next day.

Looking at the city wall from afar, there are indeed a lot of soldiers, and they have almost reached one-third of the strength of the prefecture-level city, which is obviously unreasonable for a Xuan-level city.

To their surprise, the other party saw more than a thousand cavalry coming here, and opened the city gate without any hesitation.

Zhang Zhao and Zhu Linxiao and their entourage directly found the City Lord's Mansion here.

After entering the City Lord's Mansion, an elegant scholar walked in front of him. Looking at the golden armor on Zhu Linxiao's body, the scholar guessed the identity.

"Marshal Zhu is here, and he is far away. ”

Zhu Linxiao snorted coldly and asked, "Don't talk nonsense, let me ask you, did you swallow the salaries of the soldiers who died in Guzi City?"

"The two of you came from afar, why don't you go into the house and have a cup of tea?"

As soon as he heard that the other party deliberately avoided the topic, Zhang Zhao knew that the problem must be with the young city lord.

I saw Zhu Linxiao draw his sword in an instant, and said angrily: "The brothers are desperately killing the enemy in front, but you are deducting their military salaries here, are you still human?"

Seeing that he couldn't avoid it, the young city lord then said: "Marshal, you can't say that, the military salary is indeed on my side temporarily, but I just borrowed it, not for private use. ”

"Okay, sure enough, it's you, take it for me!"

A group of soldiers stepped forward and subdued the city lord in an instant.

"Temporary borrowing, how long are you going to borrow it, and will you return it to the families of the soldiers after they have starved to death?"

"Well, Marshal, I'm really borrowing it temporarily, you must listen to my explanation. ”

Zhu Linxiao snorted coldly and said, "Go and explain to the people of Guzi City." ”

"Let me press this well-dressed beast who embezzled the salaries of the imperial court to Guzi City, and I will behead the soldiers in public to give justice to the undead soldiers. ”

"Marshal, listen to me, Marshal!"

Now the problem is clear, it is indeed the city lord of Moon City who embezzled the soldiers' salaries. And Zhu Linxiao, who was angry, didn't give him a chance to explain, so he was directly suppressed.

When Zhang Zhao and Zhu Linxiao came to open the account books, they were both shocked.

Since the second year of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the salaries of all the soldiers in the five yellow-level cities around the Xuan-level cities have not been paid a dime, and now they have been pressed to a sky-high price of 30 million silver taels.

But what shocked them even more was that there was a lot of expenditure details written in another account book.

For example, a series of necessary expenditures such as the purchase of food, the diversion of water, the construction of roads and the strengthening of the city walls, etc.

In comparison with the amount of money spent on military salaries, it even exceeded 30 million taels of silver.

Seeing this, Zhang Zhao suddenly found that there was another book next to him, and after opening it, he found that this was the diary of the young city lord.

"In the third year of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the flood in Hexi flooded thousands of hectares of fertile land, and the application for disaster relief funds of 80,000 taels was unsuccessful. ”

"Are you wrong to blame other people? All the unsuccessful money on this is given out of their own pockets, do you think such a person can do the thing of embezzling military salaries?"

Hearing this, Zhu Linxiao also frowned. It stands to reason that people who embezzle military salaries are selfish, but it is obviously unreasonable that such a selfish person can use his own money for disaster relief.

In July of the third year of the founding of the People's Republic of China, there was a year of drought, famine spread all over a radius of 100 miles, and the victims were as many as one million.

In April of the fifth year of the founding of the People's Republic of China, snakes and demons were rampant, and they applied for 80,000 taels of gold to hire cultivators to eliminate demons, but failed.

In September of the sixth year of the founding of the People's Republic of China, because the collection was not as good as the payment, the contemptible people sold the courtyard of their hometown, totaling 30 million taels of silver, and the full amount was confiscated.

In December of the sixth year of the founding of the People's Republic of China, he applied for an appropriation of 100,000 taels of gold from the imperial court, and obtained 50,000 taels.

Founding.........

"Let's go, let's ask"

In this diary, all the funds he applied for since he became the city lord were only approved once, and it was still half of the money, and the city lord found a way to get the rest himself.

Seeing this, Zhang Zhao immediately decided to ask in person.

As soon as he went out, a Zhu Jiajun said with a solemn face: "Marshal, something is wrong. ”

"What's wrong?"

The soldier hesitated for a long time, then said, "You better go out and see for yourself." ”

As soon as they heard this, the two immediately walked out of the City Lord's Mansion, and when they came to the door and saw the scene in front of them, they were all stunned.