Chapter 2089: No Return for Nothing
Day 11, to be exact.
After Kaiyuan Hou Ji Guan returned home, in the eyes of all kinds of hope and reverence, he was in a good mood for a few days.
Soon, the time reached the time for repayment and ordnance agreed by the fake 'Kaiyuan Hou Ji Guan' that Ye Zhen had illusioned.
On the evening of the tenth day, the high-ranking generals in the garrison, the deacons and housekeepers in the palace, and the shopkeepers of the merchants in the city began to appear in front of the Kaiyuan Marquis Jiguan for something.
I want to remind Kaiyuan Hou Ji Guan that the time is coming.
It's a pity that Kaiyuan Hou Jiguan is like a nobody, and he turns a blind eye.
As soon as the tenth day passed, on the morning of the eleventh day, an inexplicable atmosphere of anxiety permeated the entire Zhengyao City.
The chief housekeeper He Xun was also in a hurry, and the middle and senior officers who had borrowed a large number of spirit stones were also extremely anxious.
I wanted to go to the town guard to ask and urge him, but he didn't have the guts, and he was anxious to ask the big housekeeper He Xun one by one.
As for the big housekeeper He Xun, he didn't dare even more, he didn't have the courage to urge, but he was in a hurry.
However, the most unbearable thing is the two military marshals Jin Jun and Hua Su.
On the tenth night, the envoy of his own town did not say anything, and the two of them did not sleep all night.
On the morning of the eleventh day, Kaiyuan Hou Jiguan still didn't have any intention of returning, and the two of them were anxious.
The two paced back and forth a few laps at the gate of the town guard embassy, and then resolutely walked into the gate of the town guard embassy and asked to see the town guard envoy Kaiyuan Hou Ji Guan.
"Oh, early in the morning, you two military commanders came to see Ben Hou together, but what's the matter?" For the important henchmen he relied on, Kaiyuan Hou Ji Guan had a very good attitude.
But hearing Kaiyuan Hou Jiguan say this, the expressions of the two military marshals Jin Jun and Hua Su changed dramatically.
Kaiyuan Hou Jiguan also asked what was the big thing, the confiscated ordnance, it was a shocking event.
Isn't it pretending to be confused when you ask like this?
"My lord, it's not a subordinate urging, it's really an ordnance matter, the stakes are very high, the more than 30,000 brothers who have been confiscated ordnance have been grounded in the barracks for ten days, and the atmosphere is already a little tense.
If this continues, I am afraid that the bullet will not be able to be suppressed, and there is a possibility that the news will leak, so please return the confiscated ordnance as soon as possible. Marshal Jin Jun said directly.
In the next moment, the envoy of Zhengyao Town, Kaiyuan Hou Jiguan, was dumbfounded, "What confiscated ordnance? What did you do to stop your feet?"
"Huh?"
Jin Jun and Hua Su, the two military marshals, were stunned on the spot.
They thought that their lord was going to be a scoundrel, and while they were busy shouting out against the sky, they also argued, "My lord, we only collected the ordnance on your military order." ”
In order to prove their statement, Jin Jun and Hua Su took out the military order to confiscate the ordnance that day stamped with the seal of the town guard.
After just glancing at this military order, Kaiyuan Hou Ji stood up, stared at the two of them with burning eyes and roared, "You two are so bold that you dare to forge a military order?"
At this time, the two military marshals Jin Jun and Hua Su were completely stunned.
According to their understanding, this is Kaiyuan Hou Ji Guan wants to unload the mill and kill the donkey, and let the two of them be scapegoats.
The two of them came from military backgrounds, and they were not good at stubble, so they stopped doing it immediately, and just shouted at the top of their throats.
"My lord, documents can be fake, but military orders can't be faked. It is stamped with the seal of your town guard, and this military order, when we received it, has been filed with the military judge in accordance with the rules. ”
After speaking, Hua Su, who felt a little inappropriate, added, "My lord, once this ordnance is poked out, it can reach the sky."
You'd better find a way to return it right away.
It doesn't do anyone any good if this thing gets out of the way. ”
"Besides, my lord, you just want me to be a scapegoat, and the above will not approve of it, the collection of more than 30,000 armies, as well as the use of the armory's sky-breaking dragon crossbow, that is not what our two military commanders are qualified to do. ”
Hearing this, Kaiyuan Hou Jiguan's mouth opened, but he couldn't make a single sound.
Jin Jun and Hua Su are right.
This matter, with the two military commanders, can't do it, let alone dare to do it.
But the problem is that he really didn't give such a military order.
Under detailed inquiry, Kaiyuan Hou Jiguan learned what happened the night of eleven days ago, and was immediately scared out of white sweat.
This is ....... It turned out to be true!
The military order, it was really issued by him!
What made Kaiyuan Hou Jiguan even more frightened was that he also learned another thing from the mouths of the two, he borrowed a large number of spirit stones from the entire Zhengyao City garrison officers and merchants, and promised a high interest rate of 20%, not to mention a large number of IOUs.
On the IOU, there is also the seal of the envoy of the city where he is shining.
The dumbfounded Kaiyuan Hou Ji Guan only felt that a stream of hard work rushed straight to his head, making his eyes black for a while.
If that's the case.......
After a few breaths, Kaiyuan Hou Ji took three steps and made two steps, rushed out of the study, and kicked the chief housekeeper He Xun into the study with one kick.
The sheath of the long sword brush on his waist was pressed against the throat of the chief butler He Xun, and the tip of the sword pierced directly into it, and when the blood flowed, Kaiyuan Hou Ji Guan bit a steel tooth with a clattering sound.
"You old minion, say, what did you do with the Great Seal with Ben Hou's town guard without telling Ben Hou? What do you want to do? Ben Hou can treat you well, and you actually hurt me like this?"
As soon as these words came out, the chief housekeeper He Xun screamed and hit the sky, touched the ground with his head, and the blood flowed all over his face.
"How dare the old slave harm the Hou Ye, the old slave is a waste person, if he leaves the Hou Ye, the old slave is no different from a bed bug, how dare he harm the Hou Ye, the old slave is all under the orders of the Hou Ye!"
Hearing this, Kaiyuan Hou Jiguan was also dumbfounded, He Xun is a eunuch, and without him, the Hou Ye, he is really nothing, it is indeed the case.
There's definitely something weird about that.
At that moment, Kaiyuan Hou forcibly suppressed the floating qi and blood, and carefully inquired about what happened late at night eleven days ago.
After listening, a cold breath rushed straight to his head from the soles of Kaiyuan Hou Jiguan's feet.
As if he had lost his backbone, he fell into a chair and softened into a puddle of mud.
Two million six hundred thousand high-grade spirit stones, each spirit stone has an IOU, as well as the big seal of him, the town guard. And 20% interest!
What's even worse is that there are more than 10,000 people who borrow the object of the spirit stone, and all the officers are close to 10,000 soldiers.
If it's just an officer, you can still hold it down.
But those ordinary soldiers Qiu Ba, for a few high-grade spirit stones, can break the blood flow, borrowed so much, if he doesn't pay it back, these killings will make a scene, it is possible.
As a marquis with a fief and a position, he has a lot of money, but he spends a lot of money on wine, and the expenses are also huge.
If you want to fill this big hole, even if you clean up his Kaiyuan Marquis Mansion, you may not be able to fill it.
However, the problem that can be solved with spirit stones is not a fatal problem.
He didn't want to show his face, he relied on some and paid back some of it, and he could always put this matter down for the time being.
But that's not all.
And what about the more than 3.6 million high-grade spirit stones borrowed from so many merchants in the city?
Behind these merchants, there are all the wealthy nobles of the Great Zhou, if he really turns his face and refuses to admit it, these nobles can definitely spray his face, so that he will not have a half-inch foothold in the Great Zhou in the future.
Again, the problem of the spirit stone is only the problem of the spirit stone after all.
Even if the ancestral property of the fief is sold, there is a possibility that it will be returned.
But what about so many ordnance!
That's the most advanced ordnance in addition to the forbidden army installed by the military department, more than 30,000 sets, and the sky-breaking dragon crossbow.
Where is he going to get it?
As for his uncle's departure from Prince Ji Yuan, it's okay not to tell him, but if he does, it is estimated that Prince Li Ji Yuan has the heart to kill him.
Others are smuggling and selling some obsolete or 'damaged' ordnance, which is already bold.
Collecting the garrison's ordnance and then selling it for profit, Kaiyuan Hou Jiguan dared to guarantee that in the entire Great Zhou, this was the only one.
It's amazing!
"Which bastard is cheating Lao Tzu!"
"I'm in the eighteenth generation of your ancestors!"
"What kind of hatred do you have with you, you want to trap me like this?"
.......
Early in the morning, the terrible howl of Kaiyuan Hou Ji Guan resounded throughout the town guard embassy.
In the study, the military brushes Jin Jun, Hua Su, and the big housekeeper He Xun looked at each other, and the cold sweat of soybeans fell down, and there was no blood on their faces.
This matter, although the main envoy is Kaiyuan Hou Jiguan, but if it really wants to detonate the whole sky, Kaiyuan Hou Ji is not happy, and a few of them don't think about it, raid the house and destroy the door, it is all light.......
It is forbidden to sell the ordnance of the garrison of the human and demon battlefield for sale, although it is from the rear, but it is a capital offense to just smuggle ordnance.
If the number exceeds 3,000, it is a tribal punishment.....
......
In this world, there is no impermeable wall at all, and even what happened in the palace of Luoyi in the Great Zhou Dynasty will not take long to spread throughout Luoyi, let alone what happened in a small town guard palace.
In particular, many stewards, deacons, and servants in the town guard palace had a part in this matter.
Almost in just half a day, the news that Kaiyuan Hou Jiguan's investment business failed and he lost all his money, like wings, spread throughout the entire Zhengyao City and beyond.
Just after lunch, the shopkeeper of more than 600 merchants in the city who had borrowed the spirit stone led his men to the gate of the town guard envoy's mansion, waving the IOU of the town guard envoy Ji Guan in his hand, shouting that Ji Guan should return the spirit stone.
However, this is quite light.
The terrible thing is the news from the barracks.
The news that Kaiyuan Hou Jiguan failed in his investment business and lost all his money somehow spread to the barracks.
The non-commissioned officers who were originally confiscated and confined to their armours were in a commotion at this time, and the movement was louder than the wave, especially the low-level officers were unwilling to maintain order, and there was always the possibility of a camp change.
The military marshals Jin Jun and Hua Su had already rushed to play and suppress some of the spirit stones that they had taken out of Kaiyuan Hou Jiguan's own pocket.
As for Kaiyuan Hou Jiguan, at this time, he was anxious like an ant on a hot pot, jumping up and down, hating the guy who pit him to the extreme!