Since the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, because of the flooding of the Yellow River and the inconvenience of guarding, the sentry horse camp on the mouth of Montenegro has undergone several migrations since the eighth year of Xuande-1--Today's Montenegrin City was rebuilt in the Chenghua period, with a mixture of stones and loess rammed, hundreds of stones of grain can be stored in the warehouse, and there are more than 300 sergeants in the sentry horse camp, but that is only the number on the register, and the actual personnel are only one hundred and fifty or sixty.

Because of the trust of the general soldier Jiang Han, Qiu Yue asked a few subordinates to take Xu Xun to Zhenyuan Pass first in the middle of the road the day before, and he rushed back to Ningxia Pingyu Qianhu to transfer grain, Xu Xun climbed the Great Wall in the evening of the day, he was finally able to rush back to the Black Mountain camp to do something. Although he had already guessed that the deficit in the warehouse was probably not trivial, however, when he forced Ambassador Nie, who was in charge of the warehouse, to open the door of the granary, he still instantly turned pale when he saw the bags of grain that could be counted no matter how he looked at it.

"Lord Qiu, this Black Mountain Battalion has been relocated many times, and the grain on the books is very different from the actual original, and now this situation is like this since the previous one took over."

Ambassador Nie explained like this, and he and Deputy Chen Qianhu, who was stationed in the Black Mountain Battalion, glanced at each other, and the latter did not hurry up and added: "That's right, General Qiu, we don't dare to say half a lie. If you don't believe it, you can go and inquire, we transport the grain from Yuanguan in this town every month, and we don't dare to lack their rations. ”

"Don't dare to skip their rations? According to the rules, this warehouse has 600 stone of grain, which is enough for the registered sergeants on the Zhenyuan Pass to support it for four months, but how many people are on the Zhenyuan Pass, and how much is the difference between this one, you must know best in your hearts! ”

Even if Jiang Han has asked people to urgently transport grain up, it can be transferred from Pingyu Qianhu is originally short of grain and grass, and from Ningxia City, the two hundred and forty miles of road is not easy to walk, and it will take at least seven or eight days to transport it, Xu Xun's exploration must be completely revealed. Although Xu Xun came suddenly this time, he has seen a lot of chaos and shortcomings in Ningxia Town, and it may be better to have one less. But as a result, there is not even a hundred stone of food here!

"General Qiu, that's not what you said!" Although Qiu Yue is a guerrilla general in Ningxia, and his grade is more than his own deputy Qianhu, but Chen Deputy Qianhu thinks that his sister-in-law is the wife of Li Zeng, the eunuch who is now guarding Ningxia, and he is naturally a little tough in the face of Qiu Yue, "The loss of this grain has always been large, and the grain has been stored for a long time and is indispensable for corrosion and mold, this bad old grain is not a small number, besides, this is not a deficit of a lowly person......

"That's enough, you go and explain this to Pingbeibo who was ordered to patrol the border when the time comes!"

Moldy? Since the end of last year, it hasn't rained much in Ningxia, where is the mold?

Faced with those two clever bastards, as well as the hole that could not be filled in a short period of time and could not be explained clearly, Qiu Yue no longer bothered to look at the faces of Deputy Chen Qianhu and Ambassador Nie of Cangchang, so he simply hurried to Zhenyuan Pass with his men and horses. As soon as he left like this, Deputy Chen Qianhu suddenly laughed angrily.

"It's just that he was born as a pawn, and he was lucky to climb to his current rank, and he dared to play tricks in front of Lao Tzu? Qin Chaping Beibo, who is this scared, the dignified son of heaven and close ministers, come out to patrol the border is to shake the majesty, not in Ningxia City to enjoy the taste of up and down, run to the Black Mountain camp town far pass to blow the wind and eat sand, eat enough to hold on! ”

Ambassador Nie was a little weak after all, and couldn't help but say to Deputy Chen: "If you are not afraid of 10,000, you are afraid of what happens, the General Military Mansion will not be okay to send General Qiu to find us, it is better to be prepared!" ”

He didn't believe it, but Deputy Chen Qianhu hesitated for a moment, then nodded and said: "It's okay, in this way, let the next person prepare two hundred sacks, and go to the neighborhood early tomorrow morning to load two hundred bags of soil, and mix them at the bottom, almost you can be confused, even if Pingbei Bo really comes, the saddle horse is tired on the way, at most you have to go." By the way, if this master really comes, he is used to seeing wealth and nobility, and he will definitely not be rare and ordinary, find some of the best of our pickled bacon, as well as the wild medicinal materials of wolfberry that are special products in Helan Mountain, and find some good tea, but it is better than our tea leaves.........,

When Qiu Yue arrived at Zhenyuan Pass with dozens of sergeants, the night was already dark. Thanks to these cronies who are used to following him at night, there is no accident of stumbling along the way. Knocking on the door of Zhenyuan Pass, he went straight to see Xu Xun first, and learned that this person was actually from Zhenyuan Pass to the west to the end of the section of the Great Wall to Helan Mountain today, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart, and felt more and more that this person was not talking about this patrol, but was here to be serious. For a while, he thought about the situation on the side of the Black Mountain Battalion, and finally decided not to report it for the time being, and wait for Xu Xun to see it with his own eyes.

Early in the morning of the next day, Wei Sheng couldn't help but laugh when he saw Qiu Yue and dozens of sergeants from Ningxia Town hugging Xu Xun and his party in the direction of the Black Mountain Camp. An old soldier on the side knew what was going on, and couldn't help but ask: "Master Wei, every time the Black Mountain Battalion sends grain, it is short of two catties, and I heard that there is not much food in the warehouse at all. ”

"What's my business? Those black-hearted seeds, we are bleeding and sweating in the front, they are deducting our food and salary in the back, they have eaten enough for so many years, and now they have to spit it out for Lao Tzu! Wei Sheng snorted viciously, and then said word by word, "Although that Pingbei Bo is young, he is also an understanding person, and letting Qiu Yue, the Ningxia guerrilla general, go to the Black Mountain Camp to fight the front station first, is to give him a chance to make up for these gaps." But if he can't make up for it, it means that it is a big mess, and if he sacrifices his identity as a messenger, then no one dares to say half a word again! Hey, don't talk about Qiu Yue, except for those of us who know the roots, I'm afraid even those officials and masters of the General Military Mansion didn't expect that the gap in the Black Mountain Battalion is so big! ”

It has not been a day or two since the warehouse of the Black Mountain Battalion was empty, and although Deputy Chen Qianhu and Ambassador Nie had given orders, the two hundred sacks had already been prepared. But on the morning of this day, before they had time to gather the people to put them in the warehouse in sacks and put them in the warehouse to pretend, a young sergeant rushed into the signing room of Deputy Chen's Qianhu in a panic.

"Master Chen, it's not good, it's ...... outside. Hundreds of people came from outside, saying they were ...... It is said that Qinchaping Beibo is here! ”

"How is this possible!"

Deputy Chen Qianhu stood up suddenly, and saw that Ambassador Nie's face was also like ashes, and he only now understood why Qiu Yue, a guerrilla general, had to rush to the Black Mountain camp in a hurry, obviously to whitewash the peace, so that this place could survive this Qincha's visit in peace. On the one hand, he secretly hated Qiu Yue for only saying half a sentence, so that he had no preparation at all, and on the other hand, he was worried that it was too late to even load soil at this time, and it was not easy to pass this hurdle at the moment, but the next moment his eyes caught a glimpse of the panicked Ambassador Nie. In an instant, an idea popped into his mind.

"Lao Nie, you go to the warehouse first to arrange the arrangements, and make some thefts look like they're stolen, whether you can fool the past or not depends on this one!" Seeing that Ambassador Nie was still a little hesitant, Deputy Chen Qianhu patted him on the shoulder and said, "I sent two boys over to help you, and I am delaying ahead." Don't worry, as long as you can roughly fool the past, Qiu Yue has no foundation after all, and he will not demolish this scene. Even if I go back and fight for relegation and punishment, as long as my sister-in-law is still there, there will always be a chance to recover! ”

"Okay, I'll arrange it!"

Ambassador Nie didn't have any other good opportunities after thinking about it, so he could only grit his teeth and agree. As soon as he left, Deputy Chen Qianhu summoned two henchmen and soldiers, whispered a few words to them, and then straightened his clothes and said to the sergeant who had just come to report: "Go out and order all the soldiers and horses, and go to the camp gate to meet the Qin Cha!" ”

After a day and two nights in Zhenyuan Pass before, Xu Xun came to the Black Mountain Camp at first glance this time, and saw that although the clothes of the upper and lower people were far neater than those of Zhenyuan Pass, at least they were older, and they were a lot more young and strong in their twenties and thirties, but they did not have the spirit of being happy and knowing their fate. But he is not a person who judges people by their appearance, and this thought was temporarily suppressed after a turn in his heart. A short time later, an officer in his early forties ran up to salute, followed by a large number of sergeants who came forward and saluted in disarray, and he could not help but compare them again. ..., those at least forty or fifty sergeants in Zhenyuan Pass are at least better than the guys from the Black Mountain Battalion in front of them in terms of momentum!

"Get up!"

Xu Xun saw a group of people get up in a mess, followed by the officer and came forward with a smile on his face, and he pulled the reins without waiting for him to open his mouth and said bluntly: "Where is the warehouse, lead the way!" ”

Deputy Chen Qianhu folded his stomach to welcome him, but who thought that he didn't say a word, so Xu Xun directly blocked his words. Although he was bitter in his heart, he still said with a smile on his face: "Pingbei Bo has worked tirelessly to come to our place, so you have to take a sip of tea before going to the warehouse, right?" There is nothing else to produce in this place of Montenegro, but there are the best wolfberries, even if they are not as good as those superb tribute teas, but with the local mountain spring water, they can quench thirst and quench fatigue......"

"Then let them get ready, and come back from the warehouse to drink again!"

Seeing that Xu Xun was actually inaccessible to oil and salt, Deputy Chen Qianhu couldn't help but grit his teeth. But seeing that Xu Xun had already ridden his horse inside, he had no choice but to pull out his legs and chase after him quickly, and then said with a smile: "Then Pingbei, please wait a moment, Ambassador Nie, who is in charge of the warehouse, will come in a while." He's getting older, and his steps can't help but be slower......"

I rushed to Zhenyuan Pass before, because there was nothing to see after dark, Xu Xun just called Wei Sheng to inquire about the garrison of Zhenyuan Pass and the situation of receiving the enemy over the years, but Wei Sheng was very familiar with it. At this moment, since Deputy Chen Qianhu said that he would wait for Ambassador Nie in the first warehouse, Xu Xun thought for a moment and nodded, and then asked, "I heard that this Black Mountain Camp was not here originally?" ”

"This ......" Deputy Chen Qianhu was willing to come to this bitter place back then, or because Li Zeng told him that he didn't have to be coerced by his boss here, and he had a lot of money, so he had never inquired about this. At this moment, he saw Xu Xun staring at him sharply, and for a while he only felt cold sweat seeping through his vest, and suddenly he had an idea, and immediately pointed to an old soldier next to him.

"Back to Pingbeibo, Xu Zongqi is the person who has stayed in the Montenegrin camp for the longest time, and he knows all the ancient and modern origins."

Seeing that Deputy Chen Qianhu actually pulled himself up to the top tank, the general banner with frosty white hair and beard was stunned for a moment, and then said in a difficult voice: "Back to Pingbeibo, Xuande eight years, because the Black Mountain Mouth Whistle Horse Camp was flooded by the flooding Yellow River, so he chose another high ground nearby to build a camp. In the thirteenth year of orthodoxy, Ningxia Jiuyu, the river broke the Hantang Dam, the Black Mountain Camp and the border Ruji and other passes, most of them were destroyed, and after the renovation, they moved south compared with the original place. In the fifteenth year of Chenghua, because of the fear of the invasion of the frozen prisoners of the big river, they built a border wall from the Black Mountain camp to the southeast until Huamachi......"

Xu Xun didn't have much expectations when he saw Deputy Chen Qianhu like that, but when he found that this boss Qi was actually right, as if he had really witnessed several changes in this Black Mountain Battalion, he couldn't help but be gradually moved. At the end, he was about to open his mouth to ask, but Deputy Chen Qianhu immediately replied: "Uncle Pingbei, Xu Zongqi is a talent in our Black Mountain camp, although it is not good to fight, but he remembers the documents of the General Military Mansion or the will of the imperial court clearly." ”

"Yes, a talent."

This sentence of evaluation of Deputy Chen Qianhu only felt that it was just Xu Xun's casual praise, but Chen Xiong, who knew Xu Xun's temperament well, knew that this Pingbei Bo was indeed moved by the heart of employing people. After all, most military households only finish the errand in front of them, who will have nothing to remember these useless things? Therefore, when Xu Xun couldn't wait, and ordered Deputy Chen Qianhu to lead the way to the warehouse, he instructed a personal soldier beside him: "Go and find out the resume and details of the general banner just now." ”

The warehouse of the Black Mountain Camp is the highest place in the entire Black Mountain City, and since it can pass a large cart, it is natural to be able to walk on horseback. However, when Xu Xun saw the flat drying field and the warehouses from a distance, he saw a small school stumbling out, and when he saw their group, he immediately fell to the ground with weak knees. ..., "Chen Ye, Ambassador Nie...... Ambassador Nie, he committed suicide by hanging himself from a beam in his room! ”

Hearing this, Xu Xun's first reaction was to go to see Qiu Yue. Seeing that the Ningxia guerrilla general's complexion suddenly changed drastically, he immediately took his eyes to look at Deputy Chen's Qianhu, and his heart immediately brightened, and he galloped out as soon as he shook the reins. When he reached the door of a barn where several sergeants poked their heads open, he jumped off his horse and strode in. Sure enough, at the corner to the north, a rope hung from a wooden beam on the roof, and a middle-aged man hung from it.

"Old Nie, Old Nie!"

Deputy Chen Qianhu rushed in at this time, and after shouting two words in his mouth, he suddenly turned around and shouted loudly: "Come on, come on, quickly put down Ambassador Nie!" ”

"Don't move!"

Xu Xun suddenly opened his mouth and snorted, and then turned his head to look at the stunned Chen Deputy Qianhu, glanced at Qiu Yue again, and ordered in a deep voice: "Immediately count the grain storage, seal all the account books, and then check every military household in the Black Mountain Battalion according to the military registration and grain book." In addition......"

After a moment's pause, he pointed at Deputy Chen's Qianhu and shouted, "Take this person down!" ”

Deputy Chen never expected that Xu Xun would not even let down Ambassador Nie, who was hanging there with a terrible death, so he issued such a series of orders, and what he didn't expect was that the last thing was to take down himself. When the two guards came up and grabbed him, he couldn't help but defend loudly: "Uncle Pingbei, I really don't know anything about my humble position, this warehouse has always been managed by Ambassador Nie......"

"Shut his mouth!" After this order was given, seeing that a guard didn't know where to find a ball of rags and stuffed it directly into Deputy Chen's mouth, Xu Xun glanced around at the few dumbfounded Black Mountain Battalion sergeants, and asked word by word, "How did Ambassador Nie die, who of you dares to tell the truth, a reward of one hundred taels of silver, and a promotion to one level." If no one can say why, then Ambassador Nie died strangely before, just a few of you were the first to find out that this Black Mountain Camp is a military camp, and I don't need to report it to the imperial court, so I will directly behead Ambassador Nie, an official of the imperial court, and show them to the public! ”

Xu Xun suddenly thundered and took down Deputy Chen's thousand households, and then dropped such a generous reward and severe punishment, Jiang Bin behind him only felt that his eyes were swaying, and he realized a little why such a young man, who was less than half his age, could actually mix well in the capital. And the mood was even more agitated Mo Feng, although he had made a bet with Wei Sheng last night, saying that the shortcomings accumulated by the Black Mountain Camp for many years would definitely not be able to cover it, but seeing this change with his own eyes, he still couldn't help but clench his fists fiercely.

However, compared to these two, Qiu Yuefang was the most shocked person. The power of the Qin Cha to cut first and then play is only a fiction and drama, and the officials sent by the imperial court every year to count the grain reserves and inspect the border are at least one or twenty, at most, the corrupt and perverted the law will participate in the performance one by one to wait for the holy judgment, and almost no people are killed on the spot. Even if this is a military camp, you must know that there is no war at the moment, if the DPRK and China make a noise, even if Xu Xun is deeply favored, it will be a trouble.

Seeing that several sergeants were all stupid and didn't speak, Xu Xun said with a calm face: "My patience is limited, and I will give you ten breaths of time, if no one is willing to tell the truth after ten breaths, then you will be to blame!" ”

As soon as these words came out, the junior colonel with his own cronies read aloud: "One, two, three......"

When the number reached seven, there was finally a sergeant who couldn't bear it, he almost rushed forward with a roll, knelt down and knocked his head a few times, and shouted with a cry: "Pingbei Bo spares his life, it's not about the villain, it must be that Chen Ye heard that you suddenly came, panicked, and ordered someone to kill Nie Ye to kill him, pretending to hang himself!" They are in a group on weekdays, and they don't know how much military rations they have stolen to fill their pockets, and even the uniforms and other military supplies have been deducted a lot of ........."..., as soon as he came out like this, the other two sergeants also kowtowed again and again, swearing that they had nothing to do with this matter, and it must have been done by the two cronies of Chen Deputy Qianhu, and in an instant, the spearhead was concentrated on the remaining two sergeants with dead faces. Seeing Xu Xun Nali looking over, the two of them suddenly collapsed to the ground, and then they both kowtowed and begged for mercy.

"Uncle Pingbei spares his life, it's all made by Chen Ye......"

"The granary of this Montenegrin camp has never been full, and it is all sold to local rice shops, and then a batch of old grain is put into the warehouse. And there are too many vacancies in Zhenyuan Pass, so more than half of the grain can be deducted......"

Listening to these scrambling arguments and heads, Xu Xun looked coldly at Deputy Chen Qianhu, who was pale with rags stuffed in his mouth, and suddenly untied the sword of the Son of Heaven that was tightly wrapped in blue cloth before today's departure, solemnly untied the sword and handed it to the accompanying colonel, and put the sword of the Son of Heaven on his waist, and then ordered: "Gather all the sergeants from the Black Mountain battalion here, I have something to say!" ”

When they were lining up at the gate of the camp to greet Xu Xun just now, the sergeants up and down were just afraid of his status as a chaplain, but at this moment, they gathered at the gate of the granary, and saw that their deputy Qianhu Lord was actually tied up and thrown on the ground like zongzi, and next to them were five dejected sergeants kneeling, even though the news of Ambassador Nie's suicide had already spread throughout the camp like a whirlwind, they still had a sense of shock in their hearts.

"I, Xu Xun, was ordered by the emperor to inspect the borders, and originally did not inspect the grain reserves, but the reason why I went to the Black Mountain Camp to check the warehouse was because this is the biggest guarantee for Zhenyuan Pass. Unexpectedly, before I saw a grain in the warehouse today, I saw a murder first! ”

Seeing that the sergeants were silent, he suddenly raised his voice: "What's even more ridiculous is that this murder case is actually two bold guys who eat black and black, for fear that I will come, and the warehouse fraud case will occur, one will kill the other and then fake it as suicide, intending to let the other take the blame!" It's bright in broad daylight, do you think I'm Xu Xun blind? ”

As soon as he drank this suddenly, he saw that many people were shrinking their heads, and only a few people showed relieved expressions, so he didn't open his mouth again. After a long while, I saw two or three junior colonels running over quickly, and when they got closer, they knelt down on one knee and saluted and said, "My lord, the grain has been roughly weighed over the scales, a total of ninety-seven stones, and ......."

He suddenly raised his hands flat above his head and said, "It's all like this." ”

Xu Xun looked at the handful of brown rice that couldn't be seen at all, and glanced at Chen Qianhu, who was curled up in a ball of horror on the ground, and suddenly pulled out the sword of the Son of Heaven with his right hand. In front of everyone's eyes, he walked up to Chen Qianhu with an expressionless face, and when he saw him shaking his head desperately, as if he wanted to defend something, he suddenly stretched out his left hand and took out the gagged rag.

"Pingbei Bo spares his life, the humble position is just the first offense, and he won't dare next time!" Deputy Chen Qianhu clearly saw the murderous intent in Xu Xun's eyes, and felt more and more frightened in his heart, and hurriedly changed his words and said, "These lowly and lowly positions are willing to accompany them as they are, really, the lowly sister-in-law is the Ningxia town guard eunuch Li Gonggong, he can vouch for the lowly position......"

However, before he could finish speaking, he saw Xu Xun suddenly take the sword up, and then he felt a tingling pain in his chest. Looking down and seeing the half of the sword exposed, and the blood that quickly smeared from his chest, he couldn't help but stay there, and it took him a long time to struggle to ask the last three words.

"Why?"

Xu Xun didn't answer him at all, but ordered in a deep voice: "Come on, show Chen Zhan, the deputy thousand households of the Black Mountain Battalion, and the two murderers, and use the general flag Xu Lingming to act as the deputy thousand households from now on!" ”

If it weren't for the fact that killing people is easy, but cutting off the head is a technical job, he would have cut off the head of this dog thing right now and kicked it as a ball!

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