"General, what's the matter?"

Ruoyao ran in from outside, and she was cleaning up the things left by Shen Jia outside.

Wei Qing sat in the war room for an afternoon, and he quietly looked at a large basket of bamboo slips, these bamboo slips, the Tingwei Mansion also has them, the Prime Minister's Mansion also has them, and he, the Changping Marquis Mansion, also has them, there are too many.

"Wu Lin and Song Yujun, have they arrived?" Wei Qing asked with a sad face, then got up and sighed, it was really a wave of unsettled waves, I wanted to rest and rest, but the situation never allowed it.

Ruoyao said: "It's here, actually, it's actually outside, I, I thought you were resting and sleeping." ”

After hearing this, Wei Qing's eyes showed inappropriateness, and he shook his sleeves and said, "Let's go, go and have a look." ”

The two came to the backyard one after the other, Wu Lin and Song Yujun were practicing swords, and it could be seen from Wu Lin's panting appearance that Song Yujun had won several moves in a row.

Seeing Wei Qing coming, the two put down the weapons in their hands, Wu Lin shook his head and said: "General Song's name as the four heroes back then is really worthy of its name, it is amazing." ”

Song Yujun said modestly: "Agreed, hahaha." ”

Wei Qing took Ruo, Song, and Wu to the courtyard and sat down and began to arrange work.

"Military merit is not trivial, and it involves a lot of soldiers." Wei Qing said bluntly: "The prime minister and the imperial doctor have already taken action, and the general has already sent Li Xi to the north, hey!" ”

Wu Lin was also very puzzled, first of all, there was nothing wrong with the military merit commendation of the Tiger Ben Army, because the military merit commendation of the Tiger Ben Army was repeatedly confirmed by Wei Qing, Wu Lin, Li Xi, Song Yujun, Guo Chang and others.

What's more, Wei Qing knew the vote of the Tiger Army, and what Wei Qing didn't count in his heart was the defenders of the border county.

"I don't think Li Guang would do this!" Ruoyao once again remembered the situation of the last time Li Guang criticized Li Xuan.

Wei Qing raised his hand to block Ruoyao's words: "The general also believes in Li Guang, but the battle is under the command of Li Guang, but the reward is reported by the counties themselves, so it is inevitable that there will be mismanagement." ”

"And." Wei Qing wanted to speak again and again, because he thought of a terrible thing, that is, the matter of pulling hatred.

Ruoyao's eyes widened and asked, "What?" Who do you suspect? ”

"Not suspicious of anyone!" Wei Qing looked at the curious eyes of the three and said, "Do you remember the last time Zhao Xin was killed?" His Majesty only rewarded the Tiger Army, and almost everyone in the border county was unhappy. ”

"You say there's someone doing something here?" Wu Lin frowned.

Wei Qing said lightly: "At present, the general can only be so suspicious, after all, this matter is a bit inexplicable." ”

"So, who is that again?" Wu Lin asked again.

Wei Qing couldn't think of it for the time being, so he could only shake his head.

After the war, each county began to count the number of military merits, and then reported layer by layer, a person's military merit report will roughly go through five rounds of publicity, and the success or failure of each person's publicity will affect the evaluation of generals.

It can be seen from this that the reporting and statistics of military merits involve everyone, and if there is no opinion or no report received during the publicity period, within 10 days, the counties will begin to strictly implement the commendation of the money that should be allocated, the reward of the land and the house, and the reward of the beautiful woman.

After the counties and prefectures rewarded the generals and below, the imperial court began to allocate money and evaluate titles according to the situation of the counties and prefectures, and the imperial governor's office was responsible for supervising the entire commendation movement, and the prime minister's office was only responsible for allocating money and goods.

Ten days later,

Li Xi brought back a very serious piece of information from the border county, which made Wei Qing and Gongsun Hong stunned after hearing it.

All the soldiers and civilians in the entire border county were involved in this matter, and almost everyone lied to the claim.

In the border county, this is already an open secret, and the rise of defrauding military merit rewards has formed an industrial chain, and if you can't be knighted, you can cheat money and women and houses, and there is always something that can be deceived.

A combat team actually has benefits for everyone, you testify for me, I testify for you, cheated the bounty and everyone divided it equally, squeezed a pimple and said that it was cut off a tumor, and the following are all so deceitful, and the upper level is afraid.

Li Xi gave an example, Peng Shuo is a guard in the border city, in the border city for more than ten years, it is very hard to resist the Huns, and he contributed his youth to the border defense, but he has not made any gains for decades, let alone returned to his hometown as he originally thought.

The imperial court has nothing to do with these rewards, so he lied about his military exploits with his subordinates, and now he has a big house and a piece of land in his hometown, and the family is living a happy life, his brother has also married a wife, and the officials have it, and the subordinates have more or less received a lot of bounties.

From the bottom to the top, it is even more terrible to arrive at the Taishou Mansion, Shanggu County is too shou to seal the inner marquis, and the answer he gave is that everyone's horses are ridden, everyone has a share, but the Taishou also raised his own objections, the border county soldiers have contributed for decades, the imperial court has not cared about it from beginning to end, the border county soldiers are very bitter, and the Taishou has taken off his clothes, carrying more than 20 knife wounds on his body, telling the case of fighting against the Hu people, although the military merit encourages everyone to kill the enemy, but the soldiers are really bitter.

The matter turned out to be more serious than everyone imagined, and this matter was no longer as simple as simple corruption, but someone deliberately planned to raise it to the level of confrontation between the border county and the hinterland, the defenders and the imperial court, and it affected the whole body.

In the face of such a situation, Gongsun Hong also felt terrible, the peace of the Guannai depends on the protection of these northern Xinjiang soldiers and civilians, in this era when the princes are ready to move, these soldiers and civilians must not be allowed to think of the other side.

In the Prime Minister's Mansion,

Wei Qing and Gongsun Hong had an in-depth discussion on this matter, and the investigation team sent by Gongsun Hong also got the same answer as Li Xi, in the border county, this is an open secret, from the Taishou to the common people, the military and the people are involved.

What worries Gongsun Hong is that due to the large number of people involved and the sensitivity of the group, if Liu Che is angry and wants to punish the crime, then the matter will be troublesome, and the soldiers of the defending army will already be cold to the imperial court.

"Wei Qing, if something like this happens, you are the culprit." Gongsun Hong brought the water on the stove.

Wei Qing's face was not good-looking, and he also looked at the flames of the stove blankly.

Ruoyao asked on the side: "Uncle Prime Minister, what do you mean, why do you have anything to do with the general again?" ”

Gongsun Hong smiled, got up and sighed: "If your generals don't come to a great victory in Dragon City and eliminate King Cumin, I'm afraid these border county soldiers and civilians can still get His Majesty's attention!" ”

Ruoyao suddenly realized, this is like Gongsun Hong will be cold Zhang Tang, and with Wei Qing, he will kill Hong Ping, the reason is the same.

And Ruoyao also remembers that history is written like this, Liu Che does love one and kill another, kill one and love another, it turns out that this is not only the case for individuals, but also for groups.

"If this matter is questioned, these border county soldiers and civilians will definitely think that Wei Qing is provoking again." Gongsun Hongdao.