Chapter 84: The Iron Hand of the Chief Head Catcher
Immediately, Yang Tingjian seemed to understand the joints, those people in the cabinet wanted Yang Tingjian to go into the water, and everyone participated in the drifting together, as long as Yang Tingjian received the silver, then everyone would be in the same boat, so that even if Yang Tingjian was Chongzhen's henchman, it was impossible for him to expose himself.
If Yang Tingjian doesn't accept cash, it means that Yang Tingjian is a half-hearted person, and those civil officials must treat Yang Tingjian, a brocade guard, as a class enemy, there is no doubt about this.
Yang Tingjian really dared to accept this silver, even the hundreds of thousands of silver that those ministers had drifted away, Yang Tingjian planned to take out the silver obtained by raiding the house to make up for the drift! So this Yang Tingjian's acceptance of drifting is not a matter at all.
Drifting in the Ming Dynasty is not considered corruption, it can only be regarded as an unspoken rule, everyone does this, at least all the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty think so, only the emperor does not think so, but the emperor is just a person! It does not represent the views and ideas of officials in the world.
After Yang Tingjian received the holy decree, he immediately sent someone to Tongzhou to deliver the letter, Yang Tingjian asked Lu Jianxing to transfer all the horses to a place ten miles outside the Guangning Gate, because Yang Tingjian didn't want others to see his troops for the time being.
Besides, when Yang Tingjian left Tongzhou this time, he had already asked Lu Jianxing to make preparations for the expedition, and the road of more than 20 kilometers could be reached in at most an hour for the new army of Jinyi Wei, who all took four-wheeled carriages.
In the morning, Lu Jianxing sent a red lady with twenty-two four-wheeled carriages, each of which could carry 50,000 taels of silver, almost more than 3,000 catties, and three horses dragged it.
The Red Lady was followed by only a hundred cavalrymen, they were dressed in Gothic plate armor, the silver-white Gothic plate armor shone the eyes of countless people, this rider was completely encased in silver-white plate armor, and even their hands were wearing all-steel gloves.
The most surprising were Cao Shaoqin and Chang Yanxiao, these two people had stayed in the Beijing division and did not come to Tongzhou, and today they were stunned when they saw the equipment of these cavalry.
"Brother Chang, look, our Lord Yang got this plate armor equipment from there, as well as the five-eyed gun...... No, Lord Yang can't favor one over the other. ”
Cao Shaoqin was anxious, and he wanted to find Yang Tingjian to ask for these gothic plate armor to equip his subordinates, but Chang Yanxiao hurriedly pulled Cao Shaoqin and whispered:
"Lao Cao, what time is it, why are you talking after the adult escorts the military salary! At this time, if you go to find Lord Yang, isn't it uncomfortable to find yourself? ”
Cao Shaoqin thought about it, so he didn't go to Yang Tingjian.
"Old! I see that Lord Yang's weapons and equipment are good, and this soldier's Su zhì is also impatient, but I think they can only be regarded as familiar with horseback riding, but they are still far from being proficient in equestrianism, can such cavalry fight? ”
"Lao Cao! This is not something you and I care about, let's take care of our one-third of an acre of land in Beijing! ”
After Yang Tingjian and the Red Lady converged, they immediately went to the household department to receive silver, one million taels of military pay was actually issued to Yang Tingjian's 700,000 taels, and the rest was drifted away, but the outbound documents must be signed one million taels, and Yang Tingjian personally signed and drew the charge to make a count, so Yang Tingjian couldn't even if he didn't want to get on the ship.
After receiving the silver, Yang Tingjian immediately led the convoy to Guangning Gate, and when Yang Tingjian arrived at Guangning Gate, he encountered a head arrester from a criminal department:
"Lord Yang, the lowly position is the chief catcher of the Criminal Department, and he will be ordered by the Lord of the Criminal Department to go to Shanxi with the convoy."
Tie Hand knelt on the ground on one knee, holding a letter in his hand, and the accompanying Jinyi Wei immediately sent Tie Shou's letter to Yang Tingjian.
In fact, Yang Tingjian didn't need to look at it to know that those people in the cabinet were still not worried about themselves, so they sent someone to monitor themselves, which was a bit troublesome, because the purpose of Yang Tingjian's trip was not only to send military salaries, but this iron hand was always catching heads, and it was likely to see some clues.
But can Yang Tingjian refuse the iron hand? No, Yang Tingjian has no qualifications to refuse these people sent by the court bosses at this time.
"Iron catcher, they are all brothers, no need to be polite, let's go together!"
Yang Tingjian nodded and agreed to join the team, but Yang Tingjian had already arranged it in his heart, and when he got to the place, he would clean up your kid.
"Master Xie......"
After thanking Yang Tingjian, the iron hand went to the gate of the city and rode his horse to set off with the team.
When Tie Shou was talking to Yang Tingjian just now, he had already secretly looked at Yang Tingjian. Tie Shou found that Yang Tingjian was a scholar, with red lips and white teeth, and a handsome appearance, which was not at all like the legend!
Yang Tingjian's army slashed the chieftain in the middle of the group, and a move of "Thunder Fury" made more than 100 soldiers in the Beijing camp faint, and after seeing Yang Tingjian himself, Tie Shou didn't believe it at all!
Iron Hand was surprised by the cavalry who escorted the silver, because he was equipped with a different equipment from any of the Ming Dynasty's troops, especially the plate armor they were wearing, which was unheard of in the Ming Dynasty, it was completely full metal armor wrapped all over the body, and even the face was protected by a mask, as well as the five-eyed guns that these cavalry were equipped with, the black and shiny barrel and length were not comparable to the three-eyed guns of the Ming Dynasty, although the iron hands did not believe in Yang Tingjian's high martial arts, but they had a strong interest in these Jinyi Wei new army.
And Yang Tingjian also carefully observed this iron hand, this iron hand is really like his name, his hands are wearing all iron gloves, the whole iron gloves are black and shiny, and at a glance you can know that they are made of stainless steel.
The appearance of the iron hand is the kind of person who can no longer be found when he throws it into the crowd, his appearance is very ordinary and popular, there is nothing special, and such a person will not arouse the alarm of others if he puts on makeup to handle cases.
After the group escorted the twenty-two silver carts for ten miles, an army wearing the same armor appeared in front, standing in a neat line next to the official road, and the weather in December, in Daming, when the Xiaoice River, was already very low.
But these soldiers let the cold wind blow, like clay sculptures, standing there motionless, each small phalanx of a hundred people, a total of more than 30 phalanxes, there was no sound, only the sun and moon flags in the cold wind "sizzle" sound.
The queue of all the squares is very neat, like a neat piece of dried tofu, and the thirty squares are divided into three layers, which is also very neat.
Don't look at their weapons and equipment, just look at this queue to know that this is a disciplined army, think that the military discipline of the Qi family army back then was nothing more than that!
To the surprise of Iron Hand even more, there were eleven infantry phalanxes dressed in Gothic plate armor, and they held halberds more than three meters in their hands, and even the wooden handles were wrapped in iron sheets.
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