"Embezzling Lao Tzu's silver taels, but asking Lao Tzu to admit his feelings, what kind of truth is this?" As soon as Ren Siqi said this, a hundred Daishan soldiers followed him at the same time and slammed the spears and muskets in their hands into the ground. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

A hundred weapons collided with the ground at the same time and made a loud noise, and the frightened Gu Xing's face changed greatly, and beads of sweat couldn't stop flowing down his cheeks. The evil spirit of the elite soldiers on the bloody battlefield is not something he can bear.

"This, this, Xia Guan really can't be the master! It's always been a practice! Gu Xing wiped the sweat stains on his forehead with his sleeve, and although he was scared in his heart, he gritted his teeth and refused to let go.

"Uncle, you are also a person in the officialdom, so you naturally know the rules of officialdom. It's an exception for the lower officials to pay you a full eighty percent! ”

Ren Siqi naturally understands this bad habit of the Ming officialdom, whether it is the food and salary allocated to the army, or the reward and silver for military exploits, it will never be fully allocated. Instead, a part of it was divided up by the officials and scribes who handled it up and down. The reward received by the Daishan army for killing the enemy this time was 150,000 taels of silver, and it was impossible for such a large sum of silver to pass through their hands without intercepting a part of it.

And although Gu Xing is Ambassador Cang, it is only one of the links, and the silver he was greedy for in the end can be left to him for a good achievement.

If the silver is allocated to the Daishan Army, it means that many people's financial routes will be cut off, and this consequence is unbearable for Gu Xing, the small ambassador of Jiupincang. So although Ren Siqi gave him great pressure, and despite the extreme fear in his heart, he still gritted his teeth and refused to agree.

"Good, good, very good!" Ren Siqi smiled angrily, "I've never seen such a cheeky person, greedy for ink and silver. Do you think the knife in my hand is not good? ”

"Although the official position of the lower official is small, he is also a nine-rank civil official appointed by the imperial court. Uncle, although your status is much higher than that of the lower officials, you are not the direct subordinate officials of the lower officials. Whether the lower officials are guilty or not is naturally decided by the Yangzhou Mansion and the Governor, but it is not your unauthorized disposal. Gu Xingqiang stood up straight, his eyes looking directly at Ren Siqi.

"When the battle is about to begin, what is so troublesome, some small things, why should the superintendent personally ask." Ren Siqi said lightly: "Come on, pull him outside, and execute him for the crime of embezzlement of military salaries!" ”

"Yes!" After receiving Ren Siqi's order, Xiong Er immediately stepped forward with a cruel smile, grabbed Gu Xing's arm, and fell to the ground. Two soldiers of the Daishan Army rushed forward and tied Gu Xing tightly with ropes.

"Uncle Su, I am an official of the imperial court, and you have no right to dispose of me!" Gu Xing struggled and shouted at Ren Siqi.

The guards of the treasury cowered and did not dare to step forward, seeing their commander tied up with ropes and dragged out.

"Uncle Su, if you kill the imperial court officials like this, you will not allow the entire Yangzhou officialdom!" Gu Xing's voice came from afar, and Ren Siqi just sneered.

Integrate into Yangzhou officialdom? Ren Siqi has never thought so much, the officialdom of Daming has long been incorrigibly corrupt, and Ren Siqi has too late to hide with the officers and soldiers of the Daishan system, for fear of being infected, how can he take the initiative to integrate.

If you rely on these bureaucrats to defend the city, Yangzhou will only fall early!

"Bang bang bang" Several successive gunshots rang out, and Gu Xing's shouting outside came to an abrupt end.

"Do you want to end up with him, too?" Ren Siqi asked the other personnel of the treasury coldly.

"Uncle, we'll do it for you, we'll do it." Gu Xing's deputy stood up tremblingly, and immediately arranged to pay the reward of the Daishan Army in full.

A large number of silver ingots were carried in boxes and moved to the courtyard, and personnel from the logistics department of the Daishan Army were counted by them. It is then loaded onto a mule cart.

150,000 taels of silver, weighing more than 10,000 catties, enough to load eight carts.

On the street outside the treasury, a circle of people surrounded Gu Xing's corpse and pointed and discussed.

"This person tried to embezzle the bounty of my Daishan Army, and was killed by the order of Uncle Su." Xiong Er stood beside the corpse and said to the crowd of onlookers with a high spirit. Since he killed people in public, he naturally had to explain the reason for the killing.

"Well done! Well, these corrupt officials should have been killed a long time ago. One of the people applauded.

"Yes, I know about corruption and extortion on weekdays, and I don't dare to do any good thing."

"Do you know, just this Gu Xing, his family has opened two silk shops and a pawnshop, and his servants and mothers add up to more than twenty or thirty people."

"Oh my God, where did he get all that money!"

"It's not corruption, he is in charge of Yangzhou's treasury, and he has a lot of oil and water."

"Corruption is greed, dare to be greedy to the head of the uncle, you must know that the uncle is a person who kills seven in and seven out of 100,000 soldiers, isn't this the old birthday star drinking arsenic and looking for death!"

Regarding Gu Xing's killing, the people talked a lot, but they overwhelmingly thought that the killing was good.

The Daishan army just fought a big battle and killed thousands of Eight Banner soldiers, and dared to embezzle the reward of such a meritorious hero, didn't it live to the end?

So when Ren Siqi walked out of the gate of the treasury after the handover, the people on the street applauded unanimously. When the Daishan army returned to the city in victory, many people had seen Ren Siqi and knew that this was the hero who led the army to kill thousands of Tartars.

Ren Siqi smiled and clenched his fists and threw his hands around, causing the people to applaud one after another. If you want to hold Yangzhou, it is not possible to rely on the government represented by Shi Kefa, and the only people who can rely on it are hundreds of thousands of people in Yangzhou.

As long as they are all mobilized and organized, even if there are millions of Qing soldiers, there is nothing to fear!

At this moment, the prefect of Yangzhou, Ren Minyu, hurried over. At a glance, I saw Gu Xing's corpse outside the treasury gate.

"Uncle Su, how can you be so reckless! Unauthorized killing of officials is a felony! Ren Minyu roared angrily.

"What kind of unauthorized killing of officials, it's just for the sake of Lord Fuzun, you are just a moth, and you are not worth a dumb person." Ren Siqi understated.

"You, you, you!" Ren Min pointed at Ren Siqi angrily and was speechless. He really wanted to say that it was officialdom practice to withhold the reward money, and it was not Gu Xing's intention to embezzle, but he couldn't say it in front of so many people anyway.

Although there are almost no officials in the Ming Dynasty, there are no officials and no greed, and the ways of corruption are also strange, and the interception of military salaries and rewards is only one of the ways that everyone acquiesces to. But corruption is corruption, and no matter how good you are, you can't refute it!

Ren Siqi glanced at Ren Minyu coldly, ignored him anymore, and took everyone back to the camp with Yinliang.

As soon as Ren Siqi and the others left, the onlookers also dispersed, and only the pale-faced Ren Minyu and his servants were left in front of the door of the treasury.

What can I do? How to explain to Mr. He? Ren Minyu was very embarrassed, it turned out that the killed Gu Xing turned out to be the brother-in-law of He Gang, a staff member next to Shi Kefa! (To be continued.) )