Chapter 321: Court Trial (2)
Yang Xi looked at Pan Rong and said:
"Vice Marshal Pan, since this person said so, let's listen to it together. ”
Pan Rong had no choice, so he snorted and turned his head away, ignoring Yang Xi no more.
"Then who are you going to expose?" Yang Xi looked at Ma Bin and asked.
"It's the deputy marshal who is going to be exposed!" Ma Bin replied categorically.
"How can this be reasonable, open your mouth to slander this handsome, how can this handsome tolerate you!"
Pan Rong didn't expect Ma Bin to poke and poke his name like this, not only was he annoyed and angry. He also thought that Yang Xi had set up a game today, but he didn't expect it to be so direct. Pan Rong stood up as he spoke, drew his saber, and pointed it at Ma Bin.
Pan Rong's advisor was also here, and seeing his performance like this, I was afraid that everyone would be suspicious, so they hurriedly said to Pan Rong:
"The deputy marshal is a little restless, this person is just a fool, how can there be any real evidence, we will listen to him first, and then deal with him is not too late, if he is a bunch of nonsense, there will be no complaints if he wants to deal with him heavily. ”
Pan Rong had already wanted to kill Ma Bin, but the strategist's reminder made him calm down suddenly, insert the accessories back into the sheath, snort and sit down again, and stopped talking.
Pan Rong's performance fell in Yang Xi's eyes, just as he and Li Yi had calculated. He smiled lightly,
"Vice Marshal Pan is really broad-minded, and Ben Shuai really admires it. But now that he has pointed to the marshal, we will have to see whether he is slanderous or true. ”
Yang Xi deliberately said the last few words slowly, and sure enough, Pan Rong's face was not very good, but he believed that he should not have any handle for Yang Xi to grasp, so he was still relatively calm.
Yang Xi retracted his gaze and looked at Ma Bin,
"Since you dare to correct Vice Marshal Pan, what evidence do you have?"
Everyone looked at Ma Bin, only to see him take out a booklet from his sleeve and present it to Yang Xi with both hands.
"Marshal Qiyu, this is evidence of their greed for military rations!"
Yang Xi's personal entourage resulted in the booklet in Ma Bin's hand and presented it to Yang Xi. Pan Rong's heart suddenly pinched, when was it left to someone to handle, or was it forged by someone else to frame him.
Pan Rong thought about it carefully, and felt that everything should be extremely private, and there should be no mistakes. Just as he was thinking about it, Yang Xi had already quickly flipped through this booklet, and he was surprised to find that this booklet was not the one that Li Yi showed him at that time, and there were some weapons and baggage in it in addition to military rations. Yang Xi was suspicious, he didn't know where the booklet in front of him came from, he took the booklet and groaned slightly, his brows furrowed, and Pan Rong was worried in his heart, what was written in it, why Yang Xi's expression was not relaxed, could it be that he didn't achieve the purpose of moving to himself.
"Vice Marshal Pan, take a look for yourself. ”
Yang Xi handed the booklet to Pan Rong,
When Pan Rong saw the results, he was shocked, and the booklet recorded in detail the time and quantity of each batch of military rations and military quartermasters, how much the quartermaster deducted, how much he gave to himself, etc., not to mention all the contents in it, that is, one was enough to make his head drop.
He rolled his eyes, tore the booklet to shreds, and threw it on the ground, Yang Xi was in a hurry, but he didn't expect Pan Rongtang, the deputy marshal, to use such a rogue trick.
"It's simply unreasonable, the marshal of the army's accounts can naturally check one by one if he wants to check, why let such a person slander the marshal. ”
Pan Rong tore up the booklet, put his mind at ease, there was no physical evidence, and he was suddenly arrogant and angry at Yang Xi. Yang Xi's mind hadn't eased up for a while, and he only heard Pan Rong's strategist say:
"Marshal, don't blame the deputy marshal for being impulsive, it's really a forgery in this booklet, no wonder the marshal is angry. ”
"How do you know it's fake?" Yang Xi knew that it was wrong, but he couldn't say that he had seen the real thing, so he could only pretend to ask.
"Since Ma Bin said that he had recorded it for several years, he just saw the new ink fragrance of the booklet, and at first glance, it was written temporarily, so this person's words are not counted, and I hope that the marshal will be aware of it. ”
Yang Xi was thinking about how to deal with it, but he heard Ma Bin below say:
"What does the military advisor mean as long as this booklet is old, it can prove that he is not lying?"
"I ......" Before he could speak, he saw Ma Bin take out another booklet from his sleeve, the surface of which had been worn in many places, and it looked like an old thing.
"Marshal, look. ”
Yang Xi read it and found that this booklet was still different from the original, but it looked like it was some years old, and the content was exactly the same as the torn one.
"What do you mean by that?"
"The marshal also saw it just now, if he took out this book just now, then now it is probably a fragment on the ground, how can he prove the innocence of his humble duties. ”
"Last year's Mid-Autumn Festival, the imperial court gave each person a pound of meat and a bottle of wine, which was deducted into half a pound of meat and half a bottle of wine, and the rest went to the deputy marshal's mansion. How does Vice Marshal Pan explain?" Yang Xi read out a piece casually, and this time he didn't dare to give the booklet to Pan Rong again.
Pan Rong naturally knows this matter, every time there is a reward in the imperial court, he will only give half of the soldiers, keep half of the next half for himself, and divide the rest for his cronies, but this time, what Yang Xi said is that it is all into his own pocket.
"Marshal Qiyu, the last general is wronged, I never care about these things rewarded by the court, they are all distributed by the people below according to the head, why do you accuse me of taking half of it at this time, it is really a disaster from the sky, and the last general does not know. ”
Pan Rong simply put the responsibility on the people below and asked Yang Xi to investigate again, as long as he left here, Yang Xi couldn't do anything about him.
"Quartermaster!" Yang Xi ordered, how could Yang Xi let him pass the test so easily.
Not long after, the quartermaster, who was Ma Bin's boss, was brought up.
The man heard that Ma Bin, who was under him, reported that Deputy Marshal Pan had embezzled military supplies, and after coming up, he glared at Ma Bin hatefully, he and Pan Rong still had some kinship with him, so he didn't buy Yang Xi very much, and Pan Rong, who was on the side, was in a cold sweat, how could such an eyeless guy let him take care of such an important matter.
"Ben Shuai asked you, how did the pound of meat and a bottle of wine given by the Mid-Autumn Festival last year be missing half of it in the hands of the sergeant, and where did you get that half. ”
"The lowly wishes, the lowly posts are distributed according to the heads of each battalion, and they dare not hide their secrets. ”
The man quickly knelt down.
"Ma Bin, what do you say?" Yang Xi turned to Ma Bin.
At that time, according to the instructions of the quartermaster, the villain transported half of the things to the deputy marshal's mansion, which was received by the butler Zhou in the deputy marshal's mansion. At that time, it was said that there were not enough people in the house, and he asked the lowly rank to help transport it to the warehouse in the back house. ”
"Back house?"
"The house is not in the camp, it is on Guanxi Street in Qingcheng City. ”
The color on Pan Rong's face changed, those things must still be in the private house he bought, and it was impossible for him to let Yang Xi search it, even if the number was not right, he still couldn't run away from the charge of embezzling military salaries.
"Vice Marshal Pan, why don't you go to the mansion to prove your innocence." ”
Yang Xi said slowly, looking at Pan Rong's face, he was very happy.