"Hurry up, hurry up, ask you to count the money, and it's not to send you to the battlefield to fight, why are they all slow," Liang Chao has now resumed his identity as a hundred households in brocade clothes, and is commanding loudly there.

That's right, he is counting these silver that has already been loaded onto the ship and ready to be transported back to the capital under the supervision, speaking of which, many people have doubts, that is, for such a thing as counting silver, Zhang Fan will actually let his subordinates do it, and those who know this matter are a little incomprehensible to Zhang Fan's decision, and those who have a good relationship with Zhang Fan will worry that Zhang Fan's subordinates will steal from him; And those who have nothing to do with Zhang Fan, or some people who are unhappy with Zhang Fan will discuss it in private, this is Zhang Fan's deliberate behavior, and what he did is just silver.

But no, now that Zhang Fanren was standing on the dock, and Qi Jiguang was standing next to him, he was very worried that there would be a situation of self-theft.

"I said, Lord Zhang, I'm not saying that your subordinates will do some unsightly things," Qi Jiguang looked at the people who were going in and out of several boats with some frowns, and said, "It's just that you need to know that people's hearts are unpredictable, and with so many people, who dares to guarantee that nothing will go wrong, and if something goes wrong, although I understand that it can't be your reason, but other people won't think so, when the time comes, the remarks attacking you will inevitably appear, although I can also see that you are not a person who will favor your subordinates, But now that this person has a lot of hands, it will be very difficult to find out when the time comes,"

Qi Jiguang can be described as a good heart, he has been training and fighting for more than 20 years, what kind of things have not been encountered, similar things have naturally happened, but, for such a long time, Qi Jiguang has not found a very effective solution, so far, what he has thought of, the more able to solve the problem is that if anyone makes a similar mistake and refuses to admit it, then the team of that person will be punished together, although this kind of continuous punishment has been since the Qin Dynasty, has always been criticized, but it is undeniable that it is indeed a more effective method, and the most important thing is that Qi Jiguang has no better way to do it except for this method.

"Lord Qi don't worry, Zhang Fan has already considered it here," Zhang Fan said with a smile, "Although these silver pieces have been cast into different silver ingots by different people using the standards of different money banks, but in the final analysis, there are not many money houses in these three provinces that can make those officials look good, besides, before these silver were on the ship, they were all weighed, and now, just ask someone to go up and count them."

"It's not that I haven't thought about what Lord Qi said just now, but after thinking about it, it also made me think of a way, although it is not very accurate, but I can still deal with it for the time being,"

"Oh, what can you think of, let's hear it," Hearing Zhang Fan say that there was a way, Qi Jiguang immediately became interested and hurriedly asked.

"Actually, it's very simple, only two people on each boat are enough," Zhang Fan said, "Before these two people get on the boat, they must rank their names, and they must write them down personally, and when they finish counting, they will be ordered to leave, and when they arrive in the capital, these silver are going to go into the treasury after all, and someone will inevitably come to count them, if something happens, just check which boat it is on, find the two people who are in charge of the inventory at this time, and do some investigation, You can see who it is,"

"Well, this method is not bad," Qi Jiguang nodded after listening to Zhang Fan's words.

"Alas, actually, this method is not a good way," Zhang Fan suddenly frowned again, "If the missing silver is not noticed, it is estimated that no one will come to ask, but if the time comes, the difference is too big, then it will be troublesome, after all, these silver are to be submitted to the treasury, in case there is too much mistake, the court and His Majesty will investigate it, how can a small subordinate be able to bear it, and in the end, he will have to carry this black pot himself,"

"Well, that's the same," Qi Jiguang said, "but now it seems that this is what you can do at the moment, don't be too extravagant, it's much easier than leading troops," Qi Jiguang joked.

"By the way, Lord Qi, I will get on the ship and set sail back to Beijing later, when will Lord Qi leave," Zhang Fan asked suddenly.

"I guess in my heart, it should be tomorrow," Qi Jiguang said, "The 1,000 men and horses left behind have been prepared, and they will be brought by a thousand households under my command to supervise the repair of those Fusang people, but there are still a lot of things in my camp to pack up before they can go on the road, and tomorrow morning will be about the same,"

"In this way, Zhang Fanke will go back to Beijing one step ahead of Lord Qi," Zhang Fan said with a smile.

The day before yesterday, Zhang Fan received a message from Longqing, the meaning was very simple, showing that Zhang Fan and Qi Jiguang were praised, and then Longqing also agreed to Zhang Fan's plan to let those Fusang prisoners of war do hard labor and repair the city, and the intention was to ask him to finish his work and return to Beijing as soon as possible.

If you say it, this will is very ordinary, and there is nothing out of the ordinary, but there is something unusual about Qi Jiguang in the back, originally, it is understandable to let these Fusang prisoners of war repair the city, however, since they are prisoners of war, then someone has to watch them, to say this, there is no problem, but this time, Longqing didn't know why, he actually said clearly in the holy decree that Qi Jiguang would meet Jizhou at the same time, Leaving 1,000 soldiers of the Qi family army to be responsible for guarding the prisoners of war, when it is completed, these soldiers of the Qi family army will meet Jizhou again.

When they first saw this will, Zhang Fan and Qi Jiguang were both a little inexplicable, I don't know why Longqing had such an idea, and they didn't agree too much with this matter in their hearts, after all, this is simply obvious, the current emperor does not trust the generals and soldiers in Jiangnan, and now even the guards and prisoners work for this kind of thing, they have to work for the Qi family army who is thousands of miles away to do it for them, people, after all, are dignified, and Longqing does this, it is simply in front of the whole world, slapped the entire Jiangnan military force.

At the beginning, the two of them thought that this was the idea that Longqing had a hot head for a while, but then, the two felt that this was not the case, Longqing did this for another reason, and it was true, the reason why Longqing did this was mainly because the military strength in the south of the Yangtze River was too poor, and Qi Jiguang was stationed here before, although it only relied on his Qi family's army, but it was also reasonable, and now that Qi Jiguang has been transferred, it seems that there is a return to the state that everyone can bully in the past. This time the Jiangnan War is very illustrative, the army of 5,000 people died outside Songjiang Mansion because of the unwise behavior of the leading generals, and then, in the face of the Japanese who were backward in number and equipment, the soldiers in Jiangnan paid the same price to annihilate them, and after Qi Jiguang arrived, facing a place with the same number of people and all of them were Fusang's regular army, he only paid the price of less than 100 casualties to annihilate the enemy army, how could Longqing not be angry about this kind of thing.

In the final analysis, Long Qing's decision was not so much not to give face to the soldiers in the land south of the Yangtze River, but to make them feel ashamed and motivate them, but Zhang Fan and Qi Jiguang both felt that Longqing was a bit overdone, especially Zhang Fan, he was afraid that this would bring Qi Jiguang some trouble in the future, Qi Jiguang also understood it in his heart, but he never disdained this kind of thing, and he would not say it.

"My lord, the inventory on the ship has all been completed," At this time, Liang Chao walked over and reported to Zhang Fan, "It's just ...... It's just ......" Liang Chao seemed to have some unspeakable words, and his eyes looked at Qi Jiguang beside Zhang Fan from time to time.

"If you have something to say, Lord Qi is not an outsider," Zhang Fan ordered directly before Qi Jiguang could say anything to avoid.

"Yes," Liang Chao replied and said, "This time the inventory is out, and it is less than the last time it was brought on the ship,"

"Less, how much," Zhang Fan heard him say less, so he was naturally very concerned and immediately asked.

"Less...... There is probably ...... less. More than a thousand taels," Liang Chao said.

"Huh......" Zhang Fan heard it, this is a sigh of relief, more than a thousand taels is definitely a huge wealth for ordinary people, but compared to the tens of millions of taels of silver that he wants to escort back to Beijing now, it is really not even a fur, suddenly, Zhang Fan has an urge to smoke Liang Chao, he was shocked just now with such silver, it is really worth fighting.

"My lord, do you want to send someone to investigate," Liang Chao saw that Zhang Fan did not have a seizure, but he looked at him viciously, and he hurriedly said without knowing the reason.

"Check, check who," Zhang Fan asked rhetorically, "It's been a few days ago, and now it's all about things, the emperor urged me to go back quickly, not to mention that the trip was delayed for more than a thousand taels, if this is checked, there will be a lot of delays, and it is not worth this thousand taels,"

"Then let's go and prepare to leave," although Liang Chao was scolded by Zhang Fan, he didn't have an unhappy expression on his face, and hurriedly went to prepare.

Seeing Qi Jiguang smiling on the side, Zhang Fan said helplessly: "It seems that this kind of thing can't be avoided,"

"This is also a helpless thing," Qi Jiguang said, "In that case, I will say goodbye to you here, and we will see you again in the capital,"

"Goodbye," Zhang Fan said to Qi Jiguang with his fists clenched.

After leaving the capital for nearly three months, when he was about to board the ship, Zhang Fan looked back again at the Jiangnan where many things had happened, he turned around a little reluctantly and boarded the ship.