Chapter 49: Blood Star Shines at Night (1)
Xia Mu glanced at Zhu Xizhong, who had a gloomy face, and secretly wondered in his heart, this warehouse is a place to store a military ration, guarded by the Gyeonggi Guards, and the Jinyi Guards never get involved in it, why did the two sides fight?
Jiajing's face was not very good-looking, and he looked at the sweaty little eunuch kneeling there below, and asked, "Why is the conflict?" β
The little eunuch didn't dare to hide it, so he had to tell the cause of the incident from beginning to end.
Xia Mu's face was ugly when he heard this, and when he saw that the cause of this incident was actually himself, he couldn't help but secretly complain, and hurriedly knelt in front of Emperor Jiajing to ask for guilt.
Emperor Jiajing saw that Xia Mu automatically pleaded guilty, so he punished him to personally deal with the brawl incident, so he asked Huang Jin to prepare a uniform and went to Xiyuan to meditate.
Princess Ning'an was originally a strong and competitive person, but since the queen died in the fire, she has become the person who manages the harem. can be used to being powerful, but today he has lost face by the summer curtain, how can he be willing? Thinking that she was committed to marrying the princess, he made excuses, so he was dissatisfied, and pulled Yun Guifei away angrily.
Zhu Xizhong saw that he and Xia Mu were left in Yuntai, and hurriedly asked, "Why did this Jinyi guard go to the storage warehouse to get relief grain?" β
Xia Mu smiled bitterly: "Grandpa Guo doesn't know, in the Sulou case, Xu Jue, the fifty percent of the soldiers and horses, secretly resold the disaster relief grain to the Japanese slaves, and the way to smuggle it was through the hands of the Gyeonggi guards in the warehouse, Xu Jue was dismissed and placed under house arrest, I sent someone to the warehouse to get grain, I didn't want Zhao Xing, the commander of the Gyeonggi Guards, to rely on Yan Shifan's brother-in-law, so he didn't return the remaining disaster relief grain, but instead filled the public grain of his Gyeonggi Guards!" What's even more infuriating is that they replaced this year's Yu Lu with pepper noodles! β
Zhu Xizhong's face became more and more unsightly when he heard this, so he had to say to Xia Mu: "This matter is not easy to make a big fuss, and the case of Sulou will continue to be investigated, and the gang of Japanese slaves harboring in the back must be killed, otherwise it will be a hidden danger sooner or later!" β
"The subordinate officials should handle it properly." Xia Mu hurriedly clenched his fists and bowed.
Zhu Xizhong nodded with satisfaction, only took two steps to think of something, turned around and said: "I will have a birthday banquet in two days, and when the time comes, you come to my house, let's have a drink." β
"When the lower officials arrive, the people will arrive!"
Sending Zhu Xizhong away, Xia Mu didn't dare to delay for a moment, and when he got out of the noon gate, he saw that Luo Kedi was already waiting outside the door.
Xia Mu angrily took the horsewhip and scolded angrily: "I can't be idle all day long, I, the governor of Jingying Rongzheng, have not yet taken office, but I am like an idler, I can only bear to go to Dongchang and the military department to manage the military camp?" I'm being hollowed out! β
Luo Ke helped Xia Juan to get on the horse, and hurriedly got on the horse himself, and said with a smile: "Brother doesn't have to be angry, the 12th regiment camp is there to let them make trouble, the military department and the East Factory both want to arrest the power of the people, but in the end they don't give my brother the final say, we will drag it out, wait for my brother's wedding to be held, and go after winter and spring." β
Xia Mu was not angry, but sneered: "They are a bunch of idlers, where do you have to be idle with your brother?" I'm afraid that even the wedding will be remembered by others, and they will recruit me into Princess Anning's mansion to be a concubine, once I become a concubine, I will be a relative of the emperor, where else can I be a big official? I don't know which bastard's turtle grandson said good things about me in the princess, which caused the princess to recruit me! β
Luo Kedi laughed when he heard this: "My brother is handsome and capable, and it's not a good thing for the princess to like it?" β
"You kid, you're poor, let's go quickly, I don't know what happened to those grandsons when it's late."
This Gyeonggi Guard Army was originally subordinate to the forbidden army, but later Yan Shifan issued a charter, and it was divided out of the forbidden army, and the grain was also eaten separately, and all military salaries were taken from the warehouse.
This storage warehouse is located in the east of the imperial city, Zongbu Hutong, on weekdays is heavily guarded, and no one dares to go, but it can also be called a door-to-door bird.
But early this morning, it was very lively, close to the land and water wharf of the outer port of the capital, and all the peddlers and pawns went to see the excitement.
The summer curtain came to the square in front of the warehouse, and took a look at the horse, good guys, this is all in time for the night market gathering, only to see a mule and horse cart parked in the east and west, mixed with a lot of porters with baskets and burdens, and it looks lively there.
In the distance, Zhao Xing, the commander of the guard army in military uniform, mixed with several stewards in the East Factory, laughing and talking, and in the distance, Xue Hua, who was also a member of the Qianhu position, scolded on the side, and the boys of the guard army fought back, shouting and coaxing into one, which made people faint.
Xue Hua saw that Xia Mu was coming, so he hurriedly squeezed out of the crowd, saluted towards Xia Mu, and told the truth of the matter: "My lord, I don't know, we came to ask for the remaining part of the disaster relief food sold by Xu Jue, but as soon as we came, we ran into the stewards of Dali Temple and the various departments and yamen making trouble. The reason is that a few days ago, Yan Shifan asked the household department to send a letter to the yamen in Beijing, telling him that Taicang silver was vacant, and the monthly silver of civil and military officials in Beijing this month was paid by pepper and sumu in kind. The big officials naturally don't say that there is no shortage of silver at home, but those small and medium-sized officials are waiting for the day of the payment every month, and the oil, salt, sauce and vinegar gifts are still exchanged for various entertainments, all pointing to this piece of silver to spend, seeing that the silver of the white flowers has turned into pepper and sumu, whoever touches this, even if he has a cotton strip, he will rub out the sparks and make trouble. But our Jinyiwei only asked for food, and didn't care about this, but Zhao Xing didn't give it, but gave us ten sacks of pepper, and said that it was replaced. But this pepper powder is not fucking food, and the victims in the outer city can still make soup and drink it? β
As soon as Xia Mu heard this, the anger in his heart rose, so he got out of his guts, kicked over a cart with pepper in front of him, pulled out the embroidered spring knife, and scolded: "A bunch of poor dogs who eat and drink, make a noise here, and the dogs who don't want to go to prison will roll out of Lao Tzu and cool off!" β
With an angry roar, the brocade guards pulled out the embroidered spring knife with a brush, and the stewards of the major yamen all shrank their necks and made way of the way.
Xia Mu walked in with a blue face, and saw a white-faced man in a military uniform, laughing with a head of the household department, and he didn't take him, the governor of Jingying, Rongzheng and the envoy of the Beizhen Prefecture in his eyes.
Xia Mu sighed and asked, "Xu Jue resold that batch of disaster relief grain privately, and there should be 50,000 left of 100,000 quintals, which are piled up in your warehouse, what?" Could it be that you still dare to swallow the relief food privately? β
Zhao Xing said "oops", and said with a strange smile: "God is here, who dares to steal your Jinyiwei's stolen goods, I did have 50,000 quintals a few days ago, but unfortunately, there was a famine in Jiangxi, and I should have given it all, and now I only have pepper, otherwise the adults will also come to a seven**sack of pepper to relieve the disaster?" β
Said I, Zhao Xing, laughed to himself.
Xia Mu just didn't make a sound, looked at the heads of the yamen and sighed and took pepper to use as silver, I don't know how this month will pass.
I think it was Yan Shifan who took the Taicang silver elsewhere privately, causing the household department to not be able to issue the silver this month, so the pepper replaced it. But Li Mo, an old thing, only cares about his three divisions of the trial, and must not offend Yan Shifan, let him make trouble, anyway, he doesn't think it's a big deal, the old Yan Song is not in Beijing, and the little Yan Song naturally went to the house to expose the tiles, this matter came to the emperor, Yan Shifan naturally couldn't eat and walk, he Li Mo watched the show, but he suffered the petty officials.
Thinking about it, Xia Mu turned around and knocked on the storage door, only to see that the door that was originally open at the time of the hour, and saw that an hour had passed, and only one or two were paid. And the generals in the square are also gathering more and more, and it just so happens that it is hot and unbearable under the poisonous sun today, and there is a fire in the stomach, so some martial artists scolded me word by word:
"Who the hell eats shit and obscures Wang Ba'er, and came up with such a bad idea of pepper and sumu."
"Yes, Lao Tzu has eaten the emperor's grain for thirty years, and the first time he encountered such an evil thing, he can eat pepper noodles with rice!"
"In these years, our generals have worked hard, and we didn't expect to get a few rewards, but now it's good, we can't get the silver, and even the silver has become pepper."
"Hey, there is a toad jumping out of the embroidery room, and it is evil to God."
"The nine-headed bird in the sky, the underground capital guy, the evil is still to come!"
was discussing like this, when suddenly there was a commotion in the crowd, and only one martial artist was seen.
This man was very arrogant, with a broad face and a fat body, a pair of thick eyebrows pressed against the two bulging eyes, two ears to attract wind, and his upper lip turned up, full of anger, hoeing and mourning.
"Wang Ba thing, don't give Lao Tzu food and silver today, Lao Tzu demolished your turtle stuff alive!"
When Xia Mu heard this, his brows furrowed, and he turned his head to look at it, and he was a great chimpanzee.
I saw that this person had a pair of black boots with yellow silk on his feet, and on his body was a five-grade military attache uniform embroidered with a gold silk texture.
Just by dressing up, I know that this person is a hereditary military attachΓ©, and his ancestors are in the shadow, and he has a great background.
Xue Hua saw that Xia Mu didn't recognize this person, so he hurriedly said: "This person's name is Wu Xiong, and he is the official in charge of grain in our Jinyi Weibei Town, and he is a deputy Qianhu, and this position is a five-grade official rank. Such an official, if he is in the capital of another province, may still be a person, but in the capital, it is nothing. But this Wu Xiong is different, his uncle entered the palace as a eunuch, and he won the trust of the eunuch Li Fang, who was the master of the celebrant seal, so he became the head of the Anning Palace, and now he has been promoted to the steward of the Qianqing Palace. Two years ago, when the back door was opened, he was transferred to the department in charge of grain. Coming to the warehouse today to receive the discount was originally an errand in his part. β
At this time, Wu Xiong swaggered over, and when he saw that everyone stopped talking for a while, he said: "What is there to be noisy about, I just have to take the food today, and you can just give it, and if you don't give it to you, you will reward you with a 'dumpling' to eat today." β
"Oh, Lord Xia didn't speak, how old are you, came out to shout?" Zhao Xing scolded angrily, "When our Gyeonggi Guards are vegetarians, are you still afraid of your Jinyi Guard?" β
Wu Xiong didn't like it when he heard it, his eyes widened, and he was about to go up and cut people.
Xia Mu's face sank: "Dog things of no size, eat too much and go wild here?" Don't get out of here! β
Wu Xiong hadn't seen Xia Mu, the living king of Yama, before, but this time, he saw it, where did he dare to speak, and hurriedly went down.
Xia Mu looked at the pepper noodles in his hand, this is not a thing, he promised the knife meteor, to get some food for those victims in the outer city, seeing that Xu Jue, the king of the eight, has fallen, and the disaster relief food has a way out, but this happened again.
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