These words completely blocked the idea of the commander of the Mingtong Guanwei, and he hurriedly persuaded Inspector Sun to change his mind, but where could the iron-hearted Inspector Sun listen? No matter what he said, he directly denied it, which made the commander of the Mingtong Guanwei particularly embarrassed, and he had to retreat in order not to leak any flaws.

At the same time, the governor of Ming and Shaanxi in Xi'an Prefecture on the other side: Feng Shikong, he was very surprised after receiving the reply from the soldiers!! Immediately slapped the table and shouted, "Who's coming?" Quickly go and spread the news that the general army of Shaanxi is coming to the government, and the official has something to ask him. ”

So the soldiers hurriedly ran down to the barracks to invite the Ming Shaanxi general soldiers, knowing that the governor must be inquiring about the war, so he behaved calmly and calmly, picked up the Wanli helmet and came to the palace, and saluted the governor of Ming Shaanxi, and was asked rhetorically: "Why did Inspector Sun withdraw the troops for no reason this time?" Could it be that he deliberately let the rogues go? Still is......? ”

At this moment, the general soldiers of Ming Shaanxi felt that he was intentionally or unintentionally attacking Inspector Sun with words, so he changed the topic and said: "At that time, the Li thief was surrounded by our army and was about to be destroyed, but our army did not have enough food to eat, followed by insufficient logistics and ammunition, and encountered heavy rain, so he withdrew his troops and came back to replenish supplies. ”

After all, the battle line of the Eastern Expedition was a little long, and it was understandable that the materials were not enough, and it did rain heavily before, so he believed his words and let him retreat, and when the Ming Shaanxi General Army left, the deputy envoy of the Ming Shaanxi military garrison: Yu Qitao, came over and whispered, "Lord Governor, the lower official thinks that Inspector Sun is not simple!" There are not only majestic talents and strategies, but also seven divisions of heavy troops, the trust of His Majesty, and the thousands of acres of Tongguan Wei Liangtian, if the Governor is to unite with the Liukou, then the consequences are unimaginable? On the contrary, even if he doesn't go along with them, then he still has great power, and if he doesn't urge him to go on the expedition as soon as possible, I'm afraid he will inevitably become a second He Renlong? ”

After being persuaded, the governor of Shaanxi in the Ming Dynasty immediately raised his vigilance against Inspector Sun, and in case of emergency, he also sent the deputy envoy of the Ming Shaanxi Supervision Army: housewarming Gao, carrying the governor's holy order to Tongguan Wei and quickly urging Inspector Sun to go out again to attack Li Thief.

In addition, in the Tongguan Acropolis, Inspector Sun is worried about whether the grain is sufficient, whether it needs to be transported from all over the country? Therefore, he deliberately set off to take the four generals of the Qin family to the granary to inspect, only to see the Mingtong Pass guard who supervised the military rations: Gao Jinnan, a little nervous, he hurriedly went out to greet Inspector Sun and saluted him, and Inspector Sun saw that he was sweating profusely and looked in a trance, so he asked, "This governor is here to see the military rations in the warehouse, hurry up and lead the way." The frightened Mingtong guard wiped his sweat, and led Inspector Sun to watch all the way in front, and saw that the granary was full of grain, which made Inspector Sun happy, and he said happily, "Yes, you are still loyal!" So many food and guard commanders actually said that it was not enough for our army to eat~! ”

Before he finished speaking, Inspector Sun suddenly looked at a grain bag, he felt that this bag seemed to be a little protruding? He motioned to the Ming Qinzhou Guards to go over and take a look, this move frightened the Ming Tong Pass guards even more nervous, and his body kept trembling, and a lot of cold sweat broke out on his head.

The Ming Qinzhou guard who walked to the front of the belt stretched out his hand (Zheng ~) and pulled out his saber to stab into the bag, and when he just stabbed in, the Mingtong Pass guard opened his eyes and looked at the bag carefully, as if he was begging for something? The eyeballs kept staring at that side, and at the moment when the knife was pulled out, the guards of Mingtong Pass in the distance closed their eyes and did not dare to look.

I only heard the general soldier of Ming Qinzhou laugh and said, "Hehehe, Master Inspector, this is all good rice grain?" There are no impurities at all. Hearing this, the suspenseful heart of the Mingtong Pass guard let go and breathed a sigh of relief, but the next scene immediately made him nervous, Minggu Yuanwei suddenly suggested that Inspector Sun separate the grain to store, after all, some soldiers are northerners who like to eat wheat, and some soldiers are southerners who like to eat rice, if they are not separated, it will cause the soldiers to be hungry, so Inspector Sun approved this request.

However, the guards of Mingtong Pass immediately stepped forward and said, "Hey! Master Overseer, I don't bother you about this little thing? It's good to let the lower officials deal with it. But Inspector Sun, who had always been paranoid, didn't listen to him at all, and directly pushed him away and asked the soldiers to check the food in the bag.

It turned out that many grain bags in this granary were filled with sand and soil, and the real rice and wheat accounted for less than one-third! Inspector Sun, who learned the news, was angry, pulled out his knife angrily, turned to look at the guards of Mingtong Pass, and asked, "Where is the grain?" Where have they gone? Say it. ”

At this moment, the guards of Mingtong Pass hurriedly knelt down and begged for mercy: "Lord Inspector, spare your life!" Tongguanwei has had no food income for three years! The previous one was just to use some miscellaneous grains to confuse the officials, and the little one who knew that he was wrong and asked the overseer to forgive him? Just when Inspector Sun raised his saber and was about to swing it, the general soldier of Ming Lintao blocked it with his saber and comforted him, "Master Inspector, the last general thinks that this matter is not so simple, even if he can be inspected by the officials and officials, what about the experience?" It's impossible to cheat the experience of entering the ledger, right? Hearing what he said, Inspector Sun felt that there was some truth, and immediately decided to go to the Experience Division to find out.

At the same time, the new Shun king also discussed the march plan in the military camp, and the Shun army Zuo Fu proposed that they should be annihilated in one fell swoop while the Ming army in Shaanxi was recuperating, otherwise there would be endless troubles, and the generals such as the governor of the Shun army, the Shun army Xiangjing Weizuo Weiwu General also thought so, but the new Shun king said, "This time the Ming army encircled and suppressed the base camp, although it was successfully defeated and repelled by the Ming army, but after all, our army also lost some soldiers!" The current strength of our army alone is not enough to destroy Sun Chuanting, if we can contact the eight kings to send troops to assist, then the Ming army will not be worried? ”

But what makes King Xinshun a headache is who to send to contact the eight kings? If the generals sent this time are not close to the Eight Great Kings, or they are not able to convince him that many may lead to the failure of the alliance and be besieged by the Ming army, so King Xinshun deliberately selected messengers among the generals of each battalion, and there was no suitable object to choose from, only the defense envoy of Jingmen of the Shun army: Ma Shouying, he used to be the leader of the Eight Great Kings, so it was only appropriate to send him to persuade the Eight Great Kings to borrow troops to help, In order to appease the Jingmen defense envoy of the Shun army, the king of Xinshun specially gave him a hundred taels of gold and a thousand horses of silk and satin, so that the defense of Jingmen of the Shun army was desperate to ask for help for himself.

Sure enough, after the Jingmen defense envoy of the Shun army personally came forward and wrote a letter to persuade him, the eight kings still obeyed his words and ordered the general Pingdong to send 30,000 soldiers and horses to cooperate with the battle, and the king of Xinshun mobilized 250,000 troops to go north to enter the territory of Xi'an Mansion of Shaanxi Chengxuan Political Division, and directly attacked Tongguanwei.

On the other side, Inspector Sun had just walked on the street when he saw billowing smoke floating in the sky, and the general guard of Mingtong Guan shouted loudly when he saw this: "Inspector, look, the experience division is on fire?" As soon as the words fell, Wu Junzhen and Ma Wei also ran over and led the soldiers to put out the fire with buckets, but the fire was too big to be extinguished quickly! Inspector Sun could only watch the Experience Division being surrounded by a sea of fire, and the fire was gradually extinguished after half a pillar of incense, but the Experience Division in front of him had been burned to ashes, and the generals shook their heads helplessly and felt strange for this sudden fire? And Wu Junzhen found a few half-burned account books next to the plaque?

So he walked over, picked up the account book, patted the fire on the book, and opened it casually, but accidentally saw that the account book was written (Chongzhen's grain record in September of the sixteenth year of Chongzhen) clearly recorded that the total income of Tongguan Wei grain last month was 100,000 stone, not counting the tax of good land, a total of nearly 230,000 stone, just when Wu Junzhen carefully looked at the account book, the general soldier of Mingtong Guan Wei came over and asked, "What are you looking at?" Wu Junzhen, who was taken aback, hurriedly turned his head and handed over the account book, and said, "Look, Lord Commander, Tongguanwei's monthly income and grain are so much, but why was our military food not enough before?" Could it be that there is an error in the record of the Experience Division? ”

The general soldier of the Mingtong Guanwei who reacted immediately thought that it was very likely that the commander of the Mingtong Guanwei was a ghost? After all, he was the only one who stayed in the city during Inspector Sun's expedition, and when he thought that the guards of Mingtong Pass were his subordinates, all the questions were basically explained, and after the matter was reported to Inspector Sun, he was so angry that he immediately shouted, "Where is the person?" Hurry up and arrest Zhang Eryou to the governor. The Ming Dynasty Yi Xiaoqi behind him was ordered to go, and Wu Junzhen also took Ma Wei to follow.

However, the commander of the Mingtong Guanwei, who had already known that the matter would be exposed, had already packed up his things and fled to the mansion of the wealthy merchant in the north of the city, and the commander of the Mingtong Guanwei who pretended to be a Confucian sitting in the lobby drinking tea, the rich businessman: Gu Qingyuan, immediately strode out, and when he saw Zhang Eryou in disguise, he immediately made Gu Qingyuan laugh on the spot and asked, "Commander Wei, what are you going to do?" The sitting commander of the Mingtong Guanwei put down the teacup and said, "I have already pumped out half of the grain in the Tongguanwei granary, and sent someone to send it outside the city, and now the grain is outside the house. ”

When Gu Qingyuan heard him say this, he guessed that he must have something to threaten him? Next, the commander of the Mingtong Guan Guard really spoke: "Can you take out the note that you helped me ascend to the guard commander before?" As long as you give me the note, then from now on our accounts will be written off. ”