In the Daimyo's Mansion, Liang Zhongqiu looked at the letter in his hand, and his face turned blue and white for a while.

200,000 taels of silver, if you don't die, you will be robbed in your own daimyo's mansion, who will believe it?

There is also the fact that he has an army of 150,000 in his hands, will anyone think that this is the precursor of his rebellion, and there are even Jiang families in Longmen Mountain in Hedong who have come to ask if they want to start an incident.

How can Liang Zhongqiu have the courage, the first place to rebel is strong, there are people who are stronger than him, and the first to carry the flag is bound to be the target of everyone.

"Fang Jian has been gone for so long, is there no news yet?" Liang Zhongqiu asked uneasily.

"My subordinates will take a look again." A general couldn't go out, turned over on his horse, and went straight to the ferry where the legendary silver was robbed.

A flat-bottomed boat docked at the Qingjiang ferry, and the troops on all sides were on strict alert, separating the surrounding ships from afar. Fang Jian, the general judge of the Daimyo Mansion, was not yet thirty years old, tall and thin, with long and narrow cheeks grayish-white, and a pair of sly and bright eyes that sparkled at every corner of the ship.

"Do you mean that the robbers took advantage of the night to scuttle the great ship and carry the silver from the bottom of the water? These boatmen, they all killed? ”

A forbidden soldier nodded and said with a grin: "That's right, but you've asked seven or eight times, why do you have such a bad memory." ”

Fang Jian didn't bother with him, his expression was a little gloomy, and he said in a condensed voice: "This official will go back and report to the chief soldier, everyone, please take a break here." ”

"You have to go and come back quickly, the battle ahead is tight, and this money must not be delayed."

Fang Jian snorted coldly, turned around and left.

Several forbidden soldiers gathered together and muttered, "He can't see it, right?" ”

"it, see what he does."

The marchers waited lazily in the sun with their arms crossed, and a few of them simply went to the deck as they were comfortable.

The General Soldier's Mansion, Fang Jian walked in quickly, looked left and right, and after seeing Liang Zhongqiu, he said angrily: "Lord General Soldier, this is a ghost trick set up by the imperial court, and it has turned to harm us." ”

"Oh? How so? ”

Liang Zhongqiu stepped back from the left and right, stood up and asked.

"There are always more than 30 people who died, all of whom were killed by sharp blades, and they were killed with one move. Let's ask if you dig a boat to steal silver, where did you come from to kill people so calmly, and the people in the forbidden army said that they were all their comrades, but the lower officials repeatedly observed, and each of those soldiers did not have a sad look on their faces, but was very relaxed. On the other hand, the deceased's palms have no calluses, and they don't look like soldiers who hold and practice every day. There were strangulation marks on their hands and feet, and they were blue after death. Xia Guan speculated that these people were just Bianliang prisoners they brought, and they were all wearing heavy yokes, maybe they were originally death row prisoners! ”

Liang Zhongqiu's face became more and more ugly, he looked at Fang Jian, and said in a low voice: "Don't talk about this matter to outsiders..."

"My lord! Do you really want to pay these 200,000 taels? Fang Jian's face was incredible, this matter must not be widely publicized, let the truth be revealed.

Such a clumsy trick is to take away 200,000 silver, and it is too unreasonable to take the people of the Daimyo's Mansion seriously, is it really that the Daimyo's Mansion is full of wine bags and rice bags?

Liang Zhongqiu lowered his head, and his voice was a little sluggish, "Two hundred thousand is not much, you can't lose a big one because of a small one, and give Chen Shou a thief an excuse to sanction our Daimyo Mansion." ”

Fang Jian was stunned in place, the dignified chief soldier was so cowardly, no wonder Chen Shou bullied him again and again, this was too bloodless.

In a hurry, Fang Jian didn't hold his fists, and directly brushed his sleeves out.

Liang Zhongqiu stretched out his hand, wanting to keep it, but the words came to his mouth but did not say it.

After Fang Jian left, Liang Zhongqiu paced back and forth in the room, his face cloudy.

"Fang Jian... When he is angry, will he go around talking nonsense? If the people in the Daimyo Mansion knew that Chen Shou harmed me in this matter, would everyone still obey me? ”

"Fang Jian himself has been so disrespectful, over time, what prestige do I have in the Daimyo's Mansion?"

Liang Zhongqiu stomped his feet and thought hatefully, why he couldn't understand himself.

Chen Shou just wants to force me to rebel, so that there is a reason to accept my military power, how can I let him get his wish.

Thinking of this, Liang Zhongqiu's eyes gradually darkened, he coughed lightly, and a few guards came in.

"Build a family and extinguish the mouth!"

"Yes!"

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The reward for the army was robbed, and within a few days, the Daimyo Mansion in charge of the case sentenced Fang Jian's family to be killed.

There are more than 30 members of a family, and in the corpse mansion, there are different opinions about who the murderer is, but they are unknown.

For a time, the people of the Daimyo Mansion were panicked, and many officials were cautious and did not dare to speak.

The water vapor of the canal brought by the cold wind seemed to have lost the noise of the past, and a middle-aged man on the river landed from the boat and rode a horse straight to the Yamen of the General Army.

"Xue Duoshou, please sit down and serve tea."

Liang Zhongqiu smiled cutely, but Xue Liangping, the helmsman of Caoyun, had a hint of foreboding, where did he receive this kind of courtesy here in Liang Zhongqiu.

In the past, he couldn't even enter the door, so he could only give gifts in the outer courtyard, and after putting down the silver, he had to be driven away like a fly.

If you are courteous to others, you will have something to ask for, and if something is abnormal, there will be a demon. Xue Liangping is an old man, and he doesn't know about this, so he didn't rejoice because of it.

"The chief soldier is called, I don't know what to order?" He has some numbers in his heart, the robbery of the silver and the destruction of the general sentence are all major events in recent times. I was called this time, and most of it was related to this incident.

The transportation of the Daimyo's Mansion has lasted for more than 100 years, when Taizu dug a canal in order to recover Youyan and took the homeland of Youyun in one fell swoop.

Since then, the canal has survived and has fed countless people on both sides of the river for more than 100 years.

Xue Liangping has one hundred and ten big ships, and there are no less than a thousand men who follow him to make a living, and they are also the heroes of one party. However, they all relied on the Daimyo's Mansion, so they were very deferential to Liang Zhongqiu.

"The bounty of the bandits in Wuqing County was robbed, you know about it, right?"

Xue Liangping nodded and said, "The villain has already ordered to cooperate with the government in investigating the case." ”

"That's what I'm talking about, 200,000 were robbed, and you can't get rid of it." Liang Zhongqiu pinched his throat and said.

Xue Liang stood up calmly, "Lord Commander, what do you mean by this?" Didn't you say that we had committed this heinous crime? ”

"I'm just saying, you're going to have to get involved." Liang Zhongqiu snorted coldly and said, "This canal is your territory, so many people have died on it, and so much silver has been lost, you want to push it clean, can you push it?" ”

Xue Liangping's heart was full of anger, and he held back his anger and asked, "What does Lord General Bing mean?" ”

"The court has stolen 200,000 taels, you take 100,000, and I'll find a way for the rest." Liang Zhongqiu gently fiddled with the blue and white bowl and said unhurriedly.

His tone was very flat, as if these silvers were suitable for the men who should run for luck.

Xue Liangping knew that it was useless to say more, so he hugged his fists and said: "Please give your grace for a few days, and the villain will go back and make it up and send it to the adult." ”

"How many days do you want?"

"Ten days."

Liang Zhongqiu slapped the table, immediately turned his face, and scolded: "The court is urging day by day, you let me wait for you for ten days?" One hundred thousand taels of silver is just a drop in the bucket for you, and you must send it to me tomorrow, otherwise you won't take a boat from the Daimyo's Mansion in the future." ”

Xue Liangping clenched his fists in a muffled voice and said, "The villain knows." ”

He walked out of the general army yamen with steps, only to see the sky in the distance clear and high, the sun shining, and the spring was bright.

Behind him, there was the sound of Liang Zhongqiu and the concubine laughing, accompanied by a few words of laughter and ridicule.