Chapter 700: Hunger Strike
On this day, the sun was gray, and the sky seemed to be shrouded in a thin black veil, which looked a little dull.
Minglan was wearing a thick coat of fox fur, but he still couldn't stop the cold wind from rushing straight to his neck.
Chen's mother said that in such weather, it should snow tomorrow and the day after tomorrow.
Minglan received a negotiation letter sent by Mu Jinghua, and put it aside for two days without care, once it really snowed, the heavy snow blocked the road, and it was difficult to go out, so he temporarily decided to go to Muyang Hou's Mansion.
Because last time, she and Chu left to attend a banquet in the Jin Palace, and encountered an assassin chasing and killing, this time when she went out, Chu Li arranged eight secret guards to protect her.
Hao Hao soup soup, swaggering through the market.
When I arrived at the Muyang Hou Mansion, I happened to see Mu Li come out, and with him was Lu Mingcheng, the son of Jian'an, and when he saw Minglan getting out of the carriage, Mu Li hurriedly greeted him and said, "It's so cold, why is my cousin here?"
Minglan smiled, "I'll talk to my uncle about something, but my uncle is in the house?"
Mu Li nodded, "Father has just come down from the court, he is writing a recital, and he will go to the barracks in a while, my cousin has something to do, so hurry up, otherwise I will have to run for nothing." ”
These days, Muyanghou is very busy.
The treasury is empty, the salaries of the soldiers are tight, and the imperial dining room has just freed up a lot of greedy ink, which is now in the hands of General Chu.
Originally, Muyang Hou didn't plan to find General Chu to divide hundreds of thousands of taels, who would have thought that the generals of the Queen Mother's party would hit this idea, General Chu was rich, but the soldiers under the other generals had no money to pay, which was unreasonable.
The queen mother and her party harbored evil intentions, and the prince and the emperor knew that how could they let the military salary fall into their hands, and now the top priority was to find a way to take back the military power of the soldiers under the Yongguo Mansion.
The prince motioned to Muyang Hou to also go to General Chu to ask for military salary, but General Chu didn't give it, so Muyang Hou directly robbed it, anyway, something happened, and there was Wang Ye's support behind him.
At that time, Mu Yanghou was not the only one present, and Muyanghou's move made them misunderstand who would go to who grabbed the military salary, and they also followed.
It is also rare for such generals to fight for the salaries of the soldiers.
Since you fight, you will inevitably get hurt.
Muyang Hou is fine, one of the two generals has a broken arm......
This matter made trouble in the council hall, and the emperor ruthlessly counted down Muyang Hou, and Muyang Hou innocently pulled the prince out as a shield, "The prince said, if General Chu doesn't give it, he can grab it directly." ”
The prince said calmly, "The minister and the Marquis of Muyang are joking." ”
Muyang Hou, "......." ”
The prince changed his words and said, "But since Muyang Hou is serious, something happens, and the minister bears it." ”
Yong Guogong stood up and said, "General Chu has a lot of military salaries in his hands, and the treasury can't allocate any money, so General Chu should give a little to General Zhou and them, how can they swallow it alone?"
General Chu said, "The military salary given by the emperor is only 400,000 taels, and it will be gone if it is given to Muyang Hou." ”
Yong Guogong's face changed, "How can it be that there are only 400,000 taels?!"
According to his calculations, there are at least more than 1.3 million taels.
General Chu said, "Does the Duke of Yongguo suspect that this general is greedy for ink, the emperor gave the minister 1.6 million taels, everyone knows this, and there are only 1.2 million taels in the box at the palace gate." ”
Well, what General Chu said is reasonable.
Yongguo Gong also looked at the emperor and said, "Your Majesty, there are definitely more than 1.2 million taels in that big box, at least two million!"
The prince looked at Yong Guogong and said with a smile, "How much money is in that big box, I haven't counted it, General Chu carried it directly to the barracks, and the king was present at the time, Yong Guogong is so sure that there are more than two million taels, could it be that he has evidence in his hand?"
Does Yong Guogong have evidence?
He really does.
The ministers who stuffed the silver tickets into the box sent a small servant to hand him a post, and it was written two, which represented 20,000.
But can he show such evidence?
This is not self-defeating!
If you are not greedy for ink, will you stuff silver tickets into a big box with a weak heart?
Those ministers support him, if Yongguo Gong sells them all, will there still be ministers in the court who support him?
There is no evidence for this.
Yong Guogong almost bit his silver teeth and said, "The emperor said that day that it must be filled with 1.6 million taels!"
The emperor nodded, "I said this." ”
But he said, it doesn't mean that it will really be done, no one expected that there would be people throwing copper plates into it, those good deeds of the people, the emperor was moved, afraid that the people would lose confidence in the court, so this matter was done, and the box was also taken away by General Chu.
can't come up with evidence, isn't that what the prince and General Chu said is how much?
The excess was given to Muyanghou, they wanted to get a piece of the pie, but they couldn't get out.
Yong Guogong was unwilling, and asked those generals to find the emperor to cry poor, and the emperor had a headache and said, "Okay, don't fight, the treasury is empty, and the military salary for General Chu is still deducted from the imperial dining room, and after two months, the treasury will have money, and the first one will be allocated to General Zhou." ”
Originally, Yongguo Gong also planned to let the treasury deduct six or seven hundred thousand taels to him, but the emperor blocked this with a word.
The emperor said that the treasury had no money, and he would delay it for two months, did the household department dare to say that he had money for Yongguo Gong?
Before, General Chu didn't go to the household department to get military salaries, and the household department pushed and pushed, and a few days ago he said no, but now he has it, isn't this itchy?
made a fuss, except for cheapening Muyanghou, it was not cheap at all.
400,000 taels is not much, but it also solves the urgent need, Muyang Hou has to calculate how to make the most use of this money, plus Minglan married Chu Li, the relationship between Muyang Hou and General Chu is getting better and better, not afraid of others provoking, Mu Yanghou feels that General Chu's way of governing the army is excellent, and from time to time he goes to him to learn martial arts and the art of war.
This day is very fulfilling, but the back house is too bad.
Ding's person who loses him, Muyanghou will be severely punished, but don't forget, Ding's back has Mrs. Mu to support her, as soon as Muyanghou mentions divorce from his wife, Mrs. Mu is looking for death and life, Ding is her maiden daughter, and she was married in her face, so if she goes back, she will be slapped in the face.
As long as she lives for one day, she will never allow Muyang Hou to have the idea of divorce his wife, one day, she kicks her legs, closes her eyes, she doesn't care what he loves.
But Mrs. Mu has a hard body, Minglan died in her previous life, and she is still alive and well.
Divorce and punishment are all things like striking while the iron is hot, at this time, if you don't pursue it, you will go back and bring up the old things again, but it has become a dignified seven-foot man in Muyanghou who is holding on to the inner house.
But this time, Muyanghou was determined to divorce his wife, and Mrs. Mu forced her on a hunger strike in order to show that she was not talking.
Muyang Hou has a good way of governing the army, but when it comes to the matter of the back house, he is anxious.