Chapter 222: Reason

The soldiers and horses in Shandong Province, the grain and salary are transported from Tongzhou, according to the distance or all aspects, it is more convenient to allocate directly from Jining Prefecture, because the grain in the south is on the back, Jining is just a hub where it is, perhaps in order to control the soldiers and horses in Shandong, the grain and silver allocated by the imperial court are first transported to Tongzhou, and then go south into Shandong for allocation and distribution, and the only way is Jinan Mansion.

Nowadays, the privatization of the army has become more and more serious, and the situation of leading the army is becoming more and more serious, and these large and small military leaders in Shandong are also like this, and the more their own food and salary, the more soldiers and horses can be gathered, and the greater the power. Therefore, when the grain and salary were crossed, Qiu Lei, the chief soldier of Shandong, always looted and seized.

Not to mention the new Li Meng, even Liu Zeqing's grain and silver have been plucked by Qiu Leiyan many times, and in real history, it is precisely because of this that Qiu Lei was killed by Liu Zeqing.

Although Qiu Lei did it unscrupulously, but the military leaders who were detained and looted by him dared not speak out, first, there was only one really famous general in Shandong Province, Qiu Lei, who was the nominal commander of Shandong Soldiers and Horses, and was regarded as a commander, for example, although Liu Zeqing was also a general soldier, he could only be regarded as a miscellaneous number.

Moreover, Qiu Lei is in Jinan Mansion, the second richest place in Shandong, and Dengzhou Mansion, where the army is stationed, is also under his subordinates, and his strength is also strong in Shandong.

The yamen of the Shandong General Military Town, the governor of Shandong, and the yamen of the political envoy are all in Jinan Fucheng, which is close, after all, this greeting is also much more convenient, and many things can be subdued by the governor's yamen, which makes Qiu Lei's actions more and more unscrupulous.

Some time ago, Liu Zeqing was suddenly attacked by thieves and died in it, and Qiu Lei, the chief soldier of Shandong, was nominally a subordinate, but he was also severely reprimanded by the imperial court, and he was disgraced.

Qiu Lei's generation of generals was born, his ancestors were military generals near Nanzhili, and he always looked down on these generals who rose from the bottom in Shandong, and he repeatedly detained and looted.

Liu Zeqing was destroyed, and Qiu Lei, the chief soldier of Shandong, naturally took a fancy to Yanzhou Mansion, the richest territory in Shandong, and stepped up infiltration, not to mention, but also specially prepared to attack Li Meng, a general who was guarding Laizhou Mansion who might compete.

It is extremely ridiculous to say, this salary is the second salary since Liu Qingsong of Denglai Road inspected the soldiers and horses of the Jiaozhou battalion, and the interval is almost two years, and now the various departments of the Jiaozhou battalion are paid, and the soldiers already know that this full salary is paid by Lord Li, and it has nothing to do with the imperial court.

As for those soldiers who were born as bandits, it is even more real, it was General Li who gave him the official position of silver, then he is our biological parents, and he will do whatever he wants.

In this system, the three lectures a day are about the hard work of Master Li in handling private salt in Jiaozhou, the victories fought outside by General Li and the big guys, and the good deeds of the people.

For the Jiaozhou battalion, it doesn't matter much whether there is this food or not, with this money, it is the icing on the cake, and it is not a big deal without this money.

After the chief soldier Qiu Lei deducted the military salary, his generals reported, saying that the soldiers and horses in Laizhou did not react, and when this reply came, he was really proud, and he was so humiliated, Li Meng still had any prestige in Shandong, and there was no reaction, which means that he is a soft egg, and it seems that he can reach out to Yanzhou Mansion.

For Li Meng, this matter of forcibly seizing military salaries is really a good thing that fell from heaven and was inexplicably sent, Li Meng remembered a certain saying in the past, saying that after people get married, good things will naturally come to the door, and now it has really come true.

As a general, no matter how domineering, it is also under the imperial court system of the Ming Dynasty, that Qiu Lei blocked the transportation channel of his military salary, and forcibly seized it, if he wants to take it back, he must be a big troop, Jinan City is the largest city in Shandong, and there are vassal kings in the city, and it is difficult to come to Caozhou again.

It is certainly wrong for the other party to forcibly seize military salaries, but it will not be so big as to make a big move, and when the army engages, I am afraid that it will be aimed at oneself at that time. If it is a text lawsuit, everyone knows the result, and it will definitely fall into the mud and official documents.

But there is such a reason, and it is also the reason for others to take the initiative to provoke the incident, it is enough, as long as there is this reason for being forcibly deprived of military salaries, it means that there must be very deep contradictions between the two sides, at least in the eyes of outsiders, it is strange that there is no conflict between the two sides, between the generals and martial artists, they are all rough people, since there is no fire and merger in the overall situation, some small contradictions must be understood by everyone.

As long as everyone understands and doesn't feel abrupt, after Li Meng got the urgent letter from Zhao Neng, he immediately called Master Ning and others to start arranging.

On the twenty-fifth day of the first lunar month, the envoy sent by Li Meng rushed to the governor's yamen and sent a sincere and sprinkled document to Yan Jizu, the governor of Shandong.

As soon as he saw the letterhead, he immediately had a headache, it was really troublesome, and the general Li Meng asked the governor to uphold justice in his fierce words on the letterhead, saying that the imperial court had not paid Jiaozhou camp food for several years, like a long drought and looking forward to Ganlin, but it was suddenly taken away by the subordinates of Qiu Lei, the general soldier of Shandong, where is the royal law of the imperial court, and where is the livelihood of tens of thousands of children in Laizhou Mansion.

Shandong General Soldier Qiu Lei is already familiar with doing this, large and small army generals are all angry, and even some state and county garrison divisions, every New Year's Day to prepare generous gifts to bribe, and Qiu General Soldier agreed that after the grain and salary transit, leave two or three percent as a draw, do not seize all, the imperial court allocated the army's food and salary actually became a business dealing, ridiculous and sad.

If these generals could have been effective in complaining to the governor's yamen, I am afraid they would not have done such a low-key thing, Shandong is not in chaos, there are constant small chaos, and there are often some bandit and cult activities around Jinan Mansion, and these officials in Shandong Province still count on Qiu Lei to lead troops to protect them. Besides, Qiu Lei, who deducted and looted the military salary, was not stingy, and the governor's yamen and the political envoy were all sharing a lot of profits.

These governors have all received the benefits of the chief soldier Qiu Lei, and since the beginning of the Apocalypse, the civil officials have no choice but to maintain such an arrogant and domineering general, so they are trying their best to maintain the chief soldier Qiu Lei, and it will be over if he can cover up the past, and this Qiu Lei is also one of the largest military leaders in Shandong, and there is no need to worry about losing money if he maintains it.

But Li Meng has a lot of background behind him, he sent a messenger to attend his wedding in the previous paragraph, and after the envoy came back, he said that the wedding was pompous, in addition to the eunuch Liu Fulai, I am afraid that there are many other powerful backgrounds. Such a name-based accusation of the chief soldier Qiu Lei robbing the salaries of friendly troops, if the governor yamen does not solve the problem, I really don't know what will cause trouble.

After reading the letter from the beginning, Yan Jizu couldn't help but feel a little like laughing, he and others were all from the right path, from Jinshi, and the governors who were released after being done in various key departments, and the ability to write was naturally extraordinary, and the hidden meaning could be seen from the subtleties.

The reason why this letter makes people laugh is because although the format of the official document is decent, but the whole text seems to be crying out of a complaining woman, only telling about their grievances, but no evidence can be produced.

Dafan such high-ranking characters are fully considered, Yan Jizu immediately thought, could it be that this Li Meng is just showing his attitude, so as not to make people feel weak, thinking about it, there is only this possibility.

After reading the letter again, I was more and more sure of my thoughts, and my heart was a lot more relaxed, so I called a master, wrote a polite reprimand, and sent someone to the mansion of Qiu Lei, the general soldier of Shandong, to respond to a story. At the same time, he replied to Li Meng, what the letter said was that there was no real evidence, how could he dare to slander the imperial generals, bandits were rampant in Shandong, maybe it was those who did not open their eyes, as the military generals of the imperial court, the bandits should be arrested to avoid the next similar situation.

After Qiu Lei saw the reprimand sent by the governor's yamen, the last bit of worry in his heart also disappeared, and he immediately passed the news to his subordinate generals.

On the tenth day of February in the eleventh year of Chongzhen, Li Meng was busy with affairs, and Li Meng could be regarded as having spent his newlywed honeymoon and began to continue his busy and regular life.

Ordinary people on the salt road who transport illicit salt don't know that the supplies of the various armies under Li Meng's subordinates are basically transported within the controlled territory, and Qiu Lei's people can't grab it if they want to stand on this cheap, after all, they can't blatantly enter other people's territory to do it.

On the 10th day of the first month of February, on the side of Rushanzhai, there were more than 2,000 soldiers and horses carefully lurking behind the hills on both sides of the road, and several officers who led the team were full of excitement, they were the two soldiers and horses stationed in Qixia and Laiyang, and they were the subordinates of Qiu Lei, the chief soldier of Shandong.