Chapter 237 Deducting commercial taxes and buying war horses privately
"The cavalry that was originally transferred has been training outside the city, and as for the people and horses of Nadu, who have no horses, these days, they have gathered more than 300 war horses and are practicing equestrianism in the military camp outside the city. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info" Zheng Dongting scratched the back of his head and said with envy.
After a while, he lowered his voice again, "Dashuai, these days, there are few sporadic Mongolian Tatars who have crossed the pass, I bought all their war horses, and I didn't let the cavalry brigade know, and now I calculated, I also detained more than 50 war horses, this handsome man came over, just take them away, right?" ”
"What?" Guo Sheng looked back in surprise, "Where did you get enough money for horses?" ”
As he spoke, he seemed to think of something again, and his eyes gradually sharpened, "You can't do that unconscionable thing, right?!" ”
In the past, he worked as a military household, so he naturally knew what the habits of the Ming army were, killing good people and risking merit was commonplace, and it was okay to rob the goods of passing merchants, and they were generally destroyed and destroyed.
"Nope!" Zheng Dongting hurriedly waved his hand, "The last general is to use the commercial tax that is withdrawn from the head, and the purchase is temporarily deducted, and each horse is recorded in the book with the army. ”
"Confused!" Guo Sheng hated the iron and steel, and looked at Zheng Dongting with a look of wholeheartedly thinking about himself, and argued, "Dashuai, your personal guards, now you can't even find twenty war horses, if you want me to say, the lord is also biased, and he only equips the cavalry brigade, I heard that those new muskets can only be sent to the teaching brigade, and our first brigade is raised by the stepmother?" ”
"It's naturally good that you have this heart, but now everyone eats in the same pot, and you and I are still divided?" Guo Sheng has no good way to deal with such a dead brain, Zheng Dongting was picked up by him, is it possible to throw it out and deal with it by military law? "By the way, does the overseer in the army know?"
Zheng Dongting thought that he was moved, and hurriedly patted his chest and said, "Liu Chengren is ******** in the soldiers team below, where is the time to take care of this?" Dashuai just rest assured, make sure that no one else knows. ”
"Hmph," Guo Sheng was dumbfounded, "You go back and sort out the roster of war horses and send it to the cavalry brigade, and you dare to act rashly with the silver of the commercial tax, you are really bold!" Isn't it when military law is in vain?! ”
"Don't mind," it will be Zheng Dongting's turn to be dumbfounded, "The silver of the commercial tax, go back and make up for it by the generals of the 21st Battalion, but I didn't embezzle it myself, isn't it all for our brigade." "He's thinking about it and letting the brigade make up for it.
"Put away your angry daughter-in-law's rotten face, do you think this thing is easy to fool?" Guo Sheng finally got up, "It's a shame that you don't use public weapons for private use, and some said, but the lord has already set up a special silver to buy horses, and you are a violation of military law by taking commercial taxes to buy war horses, so are you reasonable?!" ”
When he choked on this, Zheng Dongting's face suddenly changed, but with a little grievance, "Aren't I doing this for everyone." ”
"Shut up!" Guo Sheng saw that he was going to refute, and immediately became angry, "If it is dealt with according to the Military Justice Department, I am afraid that you will not be able to keep the position of the battalion, you have to mention this matter again, these war horses, immediately send me to the cavalry brigade station, just say that I am in a hurry, I asked the Mongolian Tartars to buy it, and then ask the clerks of the cavalry brigade to issue an account book to fill the gap in the merchant tax, as for your problem, when the whole brigade is compared, I will worry about you!" ”
"Huh?" When Zheng Dongting heard this, he was immediately dumbfounded, and he was reprimanded for begging for good deeds, but he was reprimanded, and now if there is something wrong with the whole army, I am afraid that if there is something wrong with this posture, I will have to get rid of the current position.
"I'll write this down for you first, and when Dabi loses again, you can go down and be a big soldier!" Guo Sheng mentioned angrily, "There is no king's law, and you do your own thing, if there are people like you in the begging army, can you still make the trip?" Can you still fight against the imperial court? ”
Thanks to Zheng Dongting being his close subordinate, he knew that he didn't deliberately find trouble to beat himself, and when he saw what he said so seriously, he suddenly became anxious, "Dashuai, I also made an unintentional mistake, please be gracious and spare me this time." ”
Guo Sheng looked left and right, and he was also sad, "This matter will happen sooner or later, and it will be revealed by me, it is better than those supervisors to expose it, otherwise once it is reported, the lord will be angry that I don't report it, I'm afraid that I will be angry at that time, and you won't even be able to keep the head of the item!" ”
Seeing that what he said was so serious, Zheng Dongting didn't dare to say more, so he could only stand aside dumbfounded.
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"How can it be!" Li Jing raised the paperwork in his hand and slapped it heavily on the seat.
Li Fugui, who served as the secretary of the Supervision Department of the whole army, finally raised his eyebrows again, originally he thought that he was pushed by Li Jing to the end, and there was no possibility of a comeback, and he didn't want Li Jing to pull him out and put him in the position of the Supervision Division, which can be regarded as a high authority.
Thinking that his power was all given by Li Jing, and he had no other ability, he had no objection to any of Li Jing's decisions, and now he also followed, "The lord, this kind of people, for public and private use, only have the interests of their own group of people, sooner or later they will turn their backs on the lord and leave, and if they are not severely punished, it is not enough to warn the whole army!" ”
Li Jinghan glared at him, "What are you supervising the department doing, such a big thing, there is not a trace of movement." ”
When Li Fugui heard this, he was immediately stupid, why did this fire still light on him, and hurriedly got up to accuse, "Lord, I don't know what is going on, besides, these days, I am busy reorganizing the army, attracting soldiers to obey the lord, and I haven't paid attention to other things." ”
"If so, what do you want?!" Li Jing was angry, "The partial head pass is the most important pass, the place where the army of war horses are purchased, why don't you take strict care of it, and even ask the guard to embezzle commercial taxes privately for the purchase of war horses, supervise and supervise, is this how you fool me?!" ”
"This," Li Fugui still wanted to defend one or two, but was rudely interrupted, "Pass the order, go down to the 21st Battalion of the Biaoguan Battalion, and be fined for three months, in order to set an example, if there is a next time, it will be severely punished according to the military law!" You are the same, as a senator of the army, you did nothing, fined for one month, and cut off dividends. Zheng Dongting was removed from his post and retained, and he will be punished after discussion! ”
Li Fugui saw that he was angry and decided, and he didn't dare to come out with half of his anger, so he could only admit punishment, "Yes!" ”
"This Zheng Dongting, who gave him the courage to embezzle commercial taxes without permission, and the local officials, should they let him do anything wrong?!" Li Jing pointed the finger at Liu Tianwen of Shen Cewei again, "How are your manpower?" ”
Liu Tianwen didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly went out of the ranks, "Lord, all places are recruiting, but there are conflicts with the recruits of various armies, which is somewhat unsatisfactory, and the bias pass is even more far away, and the people and horses I sent are not yet in place, and I am afraid that I will not be able to monitor the officials for a while." ”
"Well," Li Jing couldn't deny it, he recognized this statement, after all, the establishment of Shen Cewei was still short, and he couldn't be strong, but in Li Fugui's eyes, he was wronged, thinking that he had only taken over the supervision department for a few days, and it was his turn, how could it not be beneficial.
It's a pity that he didn't even dare to refute a word, so he could only let Li Jing continue, "The secret agents in the army and the local government must be in place as soon as possible. ”
Not long after he became an army, such a thing happened, fortunately it was not for private use, for his own welfare, otherwise he might have to hang one or two heads this time, Wei Xiaobao and Liu Tianwen glanced at each other, and quickly nodded yes.
"My lord, the trading company sent someone to report that the bronze mirrors brought a few days ago were all sold out, and the Guo family business begged to take five more treasure mirrors and send them to Beizhili." As he was talking, Huang Sihua excitedly waved the official document in his hand and came in and said loudly.
"Oh? I'll take a look. Seeing other things, Li Jing directly waved Li Fugui back, and then took the official document and looked at it, and was immediately happy, "This time there is a sum of money, and I instructed the Logistics Department to allocate five hundred taels of rewards to the Gewu Institute to motivate the craftsmen, and the rest of the silver should be put into the treasury first." ”
After thinking for a while, he called Huang Sihua, who was about to leave, "You take it a little, leave this official letter behind, hand it over to Li Denggao, let him list the details, and see how much money is needed, you are responsible for this matter for the time being, and you must not delay the expansion of the whole army's war horses!" ”
Huang Sihua followed Li Jing for several months, and now he finally asked for an important errand, and immediately left excitedly, and took a look at the official document in his hand, it turned out to be a Mongolian Tatar trying to take refuge, that is, he was deflated, but he thought that it was better to have an errand than to be idle, and he was happy to go to the logistics department.
"What are these Mongols doing today? Even close to the Great Wall camped and grazing, thousands of people, once the chaos started, I am afraid that the border will not be peaceful again. Li Jing waited for him to leave before he sighed from the two spy leaders beside him.
The dark line in Wei Xiaobao's hand finally played a role, "Lord, this is also a matter of no way, according to our spies' report, the Hetao is now a pot of porridge, most of them are bullying the small department, and the small department can't gain a foothold, so they can only run towards us, and there are even more people who go to Yulin and Jingbian, and it is estimated that the court is also in trouble at the moment." ”
Liu Shouwen asked himself if he had joined Li Jing's army, but he had not made an inch, and now was just an opportunity, so he hurriedly said, "Actually, why should the lord worry, these Mongolians pretend to take refuge in us, just to use our grain to survive the winter, and in the spring of next year, it is estimated that they still want to go back, but we are different from the imperial court." ”
"Let's talk about it," Li Jing wanted to find a way to recruit a group of Mongolian Tatars, but this remark revealed a little bit of tone, and the people below made a fuss, after all, a whole tribe and a lone Mongol are not the same thing, who knows if they will rebel again after they are accepted.
Liu Shouwen cleared his throat and analyzed, "This group of herdsmen, although it is a part, but most of them are old and weak, women and children, and those who can fight are nothing more than a thousand people, we just divide their leaders, set up new people in their tribes, and move their tribes into the customs to take them as hostages, although Shanxi is poor, but look at who it is, there is more bitter cold outside the Saiwai, this group of people has seen prosperity, there is food and drink, and they may not be willing to return to the past!" (To be continued.) )