The three people who served as the escort of money and grain this time were Wang Chengen, the governor of the left capital, Xu Xianchun, and the left servant of the household department. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Wang Chengen represents the new emperor Zhu Youzhen, while Xu Xianchun represents the eunuch party, and the household servant represents the national treasury.

This time, the money was escorted by a thousand forbidden soldiers, and more than a dozen carriages drove mightily.

Hong Chengchou looked at the approaching convoy, and his heart was full of pride, with this million taels of silver, he could show his skills, rectify military discipline, train recruits, and return the emperor and the court to a warlike division.

When the convoy arrived, Hong Chengchou and Cao Wenzhao led eight generals to greet them.

Although Wang Chengen has no position in the inner chamberlain, he is the closest person to the new emperor, and among the three, he is the leader.

"Princess, Xu Dudu, Lord Gao has worked hard all the way." When he came to Beijing, Hong Chengchou did his homework on the road and knew a lot about the officials above the imperial court.

"Admiral Hong doesn't work too hard for the emperor, the miscellaneous family just sent a trip to the salary, what is the hard work to talk about." Wang Chengen said with a smile on his face.

Xu Xianchun looked at a human head hanging on the camp flag, and sneered: "Admiral Hong is such a great official, this time he took office, he will kill people and sacrifice the flag." "

Hong Chengchou knew that he was doing things for the emperor now, and the emperor was standing behind him, so he did not have a trace of jealousy in Xu Xianchun's ridicule.

"This official is also doing things for the emperor, killing these greedy people for food and salary, just to correct military discipline, if Lord Xu can't see it, you can play the emperor and sue this official." Hong Chengchou said.

Xu Xianchun sneered, didn't speak, and already held a grudge against Hong Chengchou in his heart.

After the conversation between the officials was over, they began to inspect the silver taels, and the forbidden army withdrew from the convoy, and the three battalion soldiers carried the wooden boxes off the carriage one by one, and the commander of the thousand and hundreds of people went up to inspect them.

It took an hour and checked it three times, and came up with a figure that Hong Chengchou didn't want to get, 820,000 taels, a full 180,000 taels less.

When Mr. Qian reported this number again and again, Hong Chengchou and Cao Wenzhao's faces gradually darkened.

"Princess, what the hell is going on? The emperor said that it was one million taels of silver, why was there only eight hundred and twenty thousand taels at this time? Where did the 120,000 taels go? Cao Wenzhao was no better than Hong Chengchou, and directly asked the chamberlain on behalf of the emperor.

Wang Chengen was a little unable to get off the stage, looking at the three major battalions of the general and the soldiers looking at his gaze, he couldn't help but cry out in his heart, he was only temporarily sent down by Zhu Youzhen, from the inner library to inspect and transport to the household department, and from the household department to the three major operations, these two inspections are not in front of him, of course, I don't know why the good one million taels of silver is missing a full 180,000 taels, and suddenly he was speechless, and could only turn his gaze to Gao Juyi and Xu Xianchun: "Two adults, what's going on?" “

Xu Xianchun smiled coldly and said: "General Cao doesn't know, doesn't Admiral Hong still understand, we have mobilized thousands of forbidden troops, so many people, is it difficult to get some hard money?" ”

After Cao Wenzhao heard this, he stepped forward and grabbed Xu Xianchun's official mansion and said: "Relatives and bitter expenses, you dare to talk like this, you are eating the court's money, you have to work for the court, escort money and grain, and dare to fill your own pockets, and many problems in the three major camps are caused by you corrupt officials." ”

Although Xu Xianchun is the governor of Beizhen Fusi and a military attaché, he is a real scholar, and of course he can't get out of being dragged by Cao Wenzhao.

"Cao Wenzhao, you, you are bold, you dare to be so rude to this governor."

"Do you give the 180,000 taels or not?"

Xu Xianchun looked at the forbidden army behind him and said, "Why are you stupid, take down this reckless man for this governor." "The forbidden army followed Xu Xianchun, of course, obeying Xu Xianchun's words.

Dozens of forbidden soldiers drew their swords and walked towards Cao Wenzhao, but the soldiers of the three major battalions were not jealous, and hundreds of them came out of the ranks, standing in front of Cao Wenzhao, holding muskets at the forbidden army.

Everyone is a hot-blooded man, who can stand it, more than a thousand forbidden soldiers all drew their swords, seeing that a weapon fight was about to start, but from the large camp poured out three or four thousand men and horses, armed with spears and knife handles, surrounded a thousand forbidden troops, and because it was the station of the three major battalions, the number of people was increasing, looking at so many people, the thousand forbidden troops were a little frightened, and they did not dare to take a step forward.

The confrontation between the armies and the armies of a country should be a serious political issue.

Hong Chengchou frowned, becoming more and more dissatisfied with Cao Wenzhao, why would he be so reckless and ruin his plans.

Is Cao Wenzhao really just a reckless man, no, if he is really a reckless man who doesn't understand anything, he won't break into such a big prestige in the last time and space, he does this, he has his own plans in his heart, the Tao between civil officials, he knows very well that if he doesn't make this matter bigger, Hong Chengchou will definitely give in, 180,000 taels of silver is a trivial matter, and the most important thing is that these 180,000 taels will make the prestige that he and Hong Chengchou have just established in the camp disappear, and it will be extremely difficult to implement the military order in the future, Hong Chengchou, who is a civil official, didn't think of these things, what he thinks is that with military orders, food, rewards and punishments, he can manage the army well, which is actually right, but there is the most important one Hong Chengchou as a civilian official will never understand that the return of soldiers is more important than anything else, and everything Cao Wenzhao did at this time was for this goal.

"To give or not to give."

"Cao Wenzhao, this is a capital crime, you understand."

"General Cao, let go quickly, otherwise the emperor won't be able to protect you." Wang Chengen, who was standing aside, hurriedly comforted.

Where did the 180,000 taels go, as the high righteousness of the left servant of the household department, he knows better than anyone else, and he can't help but be frightened when he looks at the consequences, what a big political turmoil it should be if it is going to make trouble in front of the emperor.

"General Cao let go quickly, that silver tael, Xu Dudu didn't move a cent." Gao Juyi hurriedly said.

"Hmph, Lord Gao, I see that you are a loyal minister, looking at this Xu Xianchun, you are a big traitor, the silver tael is what he took, Xu Xianchun, you still don't pay it back. You dare to move the money and food ordered by the emperor himself, believe it or not, I will let you be cheap on the spot. “

Xu Xianchun sneered and said: "The silver taels were taken by Ben Du, Ben Du didn't pay them back, do you dare to kill Ben Du?" ”

Does Cao Wenzhao dare to kill, if he dares, he is really a complete reckless man, but even if he doesn't dare to kill Xu Xianchun and let him suffer some flesh and blood, he dare.

A punch hit Xu Xianchun in the face, Xu Xianchun screamed in pain, blood flowed from his mouth, and a tooth fell out.

"You, how dare you beat Bento?" Xu Xianchun's face was full of disbelief.

Cao Wenzhao pushed Xu Xianchun to the ground and shouted: "You still haven't paid back the silver taels?" ”

Xu Xianchun suddenly understood that if he didn't say he would pay it back, he might be beaten, so he gritted his teeth and said, "Give it back." “

The righteous king Chengen, who was standing on the side, breathed a sigh of relief, if Xu Xianchun insisted on being beaten to death, then the two of them would also be affected.

"There is no evidence, come to someone, take a pen and paper."

A general hurriedly handed over a pen and paper, and Cao Wenzhao then handed it to Xu Xianchun and asked him to write an IOU.

Xu Xianchun, the governor of the Northern Town Fu Division, was tortured and tortured others, and he would never have thought that he would be today.

Xu Xianchun gritted his teeth, took the pen and paper and wrote down the IOU.

This army confrontation ended with Xu Xianchun's retreat, and the humiliated Xu Xianchun and Wang Chengen led a thousand forbidden troops to leave the camp.

This confrontation is over, but everyone knows that it is not over yet, a bigger political storm is coming, and the great dynasty meeting in two days is destined to be a dragon and tiger fight.

After Xu Xianchun left, Hong Chengchou, who had a black face, looked at Cao Wenzhao and said coldly: "General Cao, you are simply too reckless, do you know who is behind Xu Xianchun?" If we don't get it right, neither of us will be able to escape this. ”

Of course, Cao Wenzhao knew that Xu Xianchun was Wei Zhongxian's person, but he thought that the emperor summoned him to Beijing and really wanted to reuse him, and he didn't have to worry about these things at all, and his own emperor settled for him.

"Lord Hong is too worried, no matter how big the person behind Xu Xianchun is, he can't be as big as the emperor, the emperor said that if we give us one million taels, it will definitely be the same." Cao Wenzhao waved his hand and said indifferently.