Wu Xiang was slightly surprised, he thought that Jiangzhou was not close to the Beijing Division, and it was impossible to know much about the situation of the Jiangzhou Metropolitan Division, so when he laid off the redundant troops this time, he included some officers and soldiers in the regular army who did not listen to him into the scope of retrenchment, but he did not supplement the vacant posts, and at present, in essence, the number of regular troops in the Jiangzhou Metropolitan Command Division was far less than 10,000, and the number of vacant personnel reached nearly 3,000 people, and the empty salary of these 3,000 people was an astronomical amount in a year, which was enough for him to earn a lot of money, and he deceived Gao Huaiyuan and did not stay in Jiangzhou, thinking that Gao Huaiyuan did not have time to take care of this matter, so he said that his Jiangzhou Metropolitan Division had 12,000 soldiers, and suddenly heard Gao Huaiyuan's questioning, Wu Xiang immediately stood up angrily. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

A bunch of nonsense, this is someone slandering and despicing his duties, there is no shortage of soldiers in the Jiangzhou Metropolitan Division, and all armies are in full strength! Please be careful! Although Wu Xiang was nervous, he was still stiff-mouthed at this time and refused to admit that he was eating empty salaries.

Gao Huaiyuan's smile gradually solidified on his face, and he nodded to Li Ruohu beside him, and Li Ruohu immediately handed him a fold.

Gao Huaiyuan picked up this fold, sneered while looking at it, and after reading it, he closed it and slapped it lightly in his hand, and said to Wu Xiang: I originally wanted to give General Wu a chance, if General Wu answered truthfully today, then this official had no intention of pursuing it anymore, but General Wu did not do this, and still insisted that your Jiangzhou garrison army is full, since this is the case, then this official can't tolerate you!

Come! Take Wu Xiang down to this official!

After Gao Huaiyuan read what was written on this piece of paper, when he scolded Wu Xiang angrily, he immediately yelled, and Wu Xiang was arrested.

Wu Xiang didn't know what was written on the piece of paper that Gao Huaiyuan was looking at, but he also knew that the big thing was not good, but he held that he had a prestige in the army, and there were people in the court who supported him, so he immediately jumped up and shouted: Who dares! Prime Minister Gao, although you are high and powerful, but you can't be so arrogant, I am the commander of Jiangzhou appointed by the imperial court, how can you arrest me with a word? What's more, why do you say that I am not paid? How dare you order me to be arrested without evidence?

He shouted, but the tall guards present did not listen to his shouting, Li Ruohu waved his hand, several strong men pounced, and pressed Wu Xiang to the ground without saying anything, and immediately wiped his shoulders and put his arms together with ropes to tie them firmly.

This frightened the deputy capital of Jiangzhou, and quickly knelt down to intercede for Wu Xiang, and even Meng Heng couldn't help but want to persuade him.

Gao Huaiyuan stopped the people who wanted to persuade him, and waved the piece of paper in his hand and said: You don't need to say more, I have received a secret report, Wu Xiang violated the yang and yin this time, and when the Jiangzhou Metropolitan Department took advantage of the redundant army, he actually set aside a large number of posts for him and a group of cronies to eat empty salaries, and fill their pockets with the food and salary of the imperial court. It will be a scourge, and we will never allow such people to remain in the army!

Jiang Botao, let me ask you, you are the deputy commander of the Jiangzhou Metropolitan Command, what I said is the truth? If you tell the truth in public, I can open up to you, otherwise the official will also punish you for the same crime!"

Where did this Jiang Botao dare to deny, he immediately knelt down and replied: Qi Gao Shu Xiang, this matter is indeed the case, General Wu did lay off some regular soldiers, leaving more than 2,000 posts for him to eat empty salaries, this matter is small and wrong, and I hope that Gao Shu will forgive!

As soon as Wu Xiang heard that his heart was finished, he immediately scolded this Jiang Botao, he now knew that this time Gao Huaiyuan went to Chuzhou, and it turned out that he was going to clean him up here! This is simply a feast!

Wu Xiang, what else do you have to say? Gao Huaiyuan then asked Wu Xiang.

Wu Xiang knew that everything was over at this time, so he turned his heart to Gao Huaiyuan and said: Phew! Your surname is just a yellow-mouthed child, I think I Wu Xiang has been working in the army since he was a child, for so many years, he has resisted the Jin army, and he has gone through dozens of battles before he was promoted to this capital system, and you are just because you know today's saint, so you have soared to such an extent, and you don't put us and other veterans in your eyes at all, since you have found out today, it is considered my bad luck, with your behavior, sooner or later it will make people angry and resentful, and you will not die well!

Syllable! After Gao Huaiyuan heard this, he slapped his palm on the wine table, the cups and plates on the table jumped up, Gao Huaiyuan said angrily: You are a bold and reckless greedy general, and you still don't repent when you die, and insult me! This official is indeed not as qualified as you, but this official has never been greedy for a penny in the army, we are in the army to protect the family and defend the country, joining the army is not a place for you to be promoted and rich, come to someone, drag this thief out to this official, fifty canes, lock in a heavy flail and send it to the Beijing Division, verify his guilt, and hand it over to Dali Temple for disposal!

So a dry iron guard immediately dragged Wu Xiang out, and he was directly knocked down outside, and a big stick fell, beating Wu Xiang's skin and flesh, and then locked the heavy flail and sent him into the prison.

Looking at all the officials at the banquet were silent, no one dared to persuade them, and the wine couldn't be drunk, Gao Huaiyuan hugged his fists and said to the officials present: I'm really sorry, this official should not have swept everyone's interest when he came here this time, and he was offended! But because of the urgency of time, this official had to make this decision and solve the matter of Jiangzhou here, Jiang Botao! You temporarily take the post of Jiangzhou Commander, and immediately replenish the soldiers of Jiangzhou Commandery, if this incident happens again, see if I don't immediately escort you to the Beijing Division for punishment! When I come back from Lizhou Road this time, I will go to Jiangzhou to check on the situation of your exercises, if it is still like now, you can watch it yourself!

That Jiang Botao was so frightened that he was sweating profusely, and hurriedly threw himself down to receive the order, promising that such a situation would never happen again, and that he would definitely strengthen the training in the army and never disappoint Gao Huaiyuan's expectations.

Also, Lord Zhang! Let me ask you, why hasn't the Chuzhou Capital Court been handed over to the Ministry of War until now? Is it possible that you don't want to do what you are told? After Gao Huaiyuan repelled this Jiang Botao, he turned to Zhang Zaixian, the prefect of Chuzhou, and asked him about the Duzuo Academy.

This Zhang Zhifu also immediately became nervous, and quickly got up and said: The lower officials don't dare, the affairs of the court have been delayed because of some trivial matters, and tomorrow the official will personally handle this matter, and ensure that it is handed over to the military department within three days, and ask Prime Minister Gao for three days! Xia Guan will never dare to delay any longer!

Gao Huaiyuan didn't want to force him too hard, so he nodded and said: Okay! I'll give you three more days, and the capital must be handed over, otherwise, I will definitely visit you in the court!"

This Governor Zhang immediately agreed, and then wiped his sweat and retreated, and the banquet came to an end.

When a group of idle people left, Gao Huaiyuan also returned to the post house, and Meng Heng, Huang Yan, Yue Kun and others also followed to the post house and sat in a pavilion in the backyard with Gao Huaiyuan.

Ha ha! Boss, you're really majestic today! Give these guys a dismount, for the sake of the hospital, the eldest brother has consulted with them many times, but they have pushed back and refused to hand over the hospital, today the boss As soon as you arrived, these people were scared to pee their pants, which was really relieving! Ha ha! Huang Yan still looked cynical, and laughed as soon as he sat down.

Meng Hui and Yue Kun also laughed, and Yue Kun smiled: Today, I saw the third brother cleaning up that Wu Xiang, and I was even more happy, we have long heard about the affairs of the Jiangzhou Metropolitan Division, but there is no evidence, there is no way to participate in that Wu Xiang, I didn't expect that the third brother was in Beijing, but he had insight into local affairs, and he would do that Wu Xiang when he came here, so let's see who dares to disobey the yang and the yin!

Only Meng Heng shook his head and said: I said third brother, I am very dissatisfied with you! This time, you went to the Northern Expedition to Li Quan, but you only invited the fourth brother to go with the army, but my second brother and I couldn't touch the edge, you are a little biased! This time you went to Lizhou Road, and you couldn't just take the fourth brother alone, shouldn't you think about it and let me go to Lizhou Road with you?

Yue Kun was interested when he heard this, and immediately shouted: "That's right! The third brother is really unfair, the last time the Northern Expedition only took the fourth brother, but he didn't take me there, this time no matter what, you have to take me with you, otherwise I won't do it!

Gao Huaiyuan waved his hand to let them sit down, and then said with a smile: This matter will be said slowly, let me ask you, have you done everything well during this time?

Meng Hui immediately replied with a smile: You can rest assured that we have collected a large number of skilled craftsmen in the army and localities, and we only need to hand over the capital to the military department to supervise it, so that these craftsmen can be handed over to the capital to replace those craftsmen!

In addition, you asked the people of Huada to set up a martial arts hall in the army, which is indeed a clever move, in the past, we could only rely on our own exploration to learn martial arts, or we could only study, but now after the establishment of the martial arts hall, some people with lofty ideals can be gathered together to specialize in learning martial arts, so that the quality of our army officers can be greatly improved!

The Chuzhou Metropolitan Commander's Lecture Hall has been set up a month ago, and the three brothers published the military books to teach these martial arts hall martial arts students to study, at the same time, we also selected some experienced generals to teach them, and find some scribes, for them to interpret the military book battle strategy, and I and the second brother and the fourth brother will often teach them the way to control the army, the strategy of defending against the enemy, in short, about the march and war, we will gradually teach these martial arts!

Gao Huaiyuan nodded and then asked: Then how many martial arts students are recruited in the martial arts hall of the Chuzhou Metropolitan Division?