With Yang He's order, several soldiers outside the tent entered.

"Wait!" Liu Qi suddenly shouted: "Yang He, you little Qianzong, you dare to arrest the imperial court officials, are you going to rebel?" ”

Yang He smiled: "What? Lord Liu wants to shield this person? Or is it that Lord Liu and Han Chuming are in the same group? ”

Liu Qi was originally in the dominant position, and he didn't want Yang He to say a few words, but he turned against the customer, and several people looked at each other, and they didn't know what to do.

Yang He shook his head and smiled: "Lord Liu, you are a Beijing official, and you have nothing to do with Jianyu at all, this person personally admitted that he knew Sun Degong, and the adults also heard what he was doing. ”

Liu Qiyan nodded silently when he heard this, turned his head to look at Han Chuming and said, "Lord Han, what else do you have to say?" ”

"He's spewing blood, he's framing his own official." Han Chuming shouted.

"Is it a false accusation, all of you are people who understand, and there are records here, we remember what we just said clearly." Yang He said with a smile.

Turning his head to look at Liu Qi, Yang He smiled and said, "By the way, Lord Liu, shouldn't we let Lord Han draw a bet." ”

At this time, Xu Fang said: "Whether Han Chu's fate is a traitor or not is not something we can decide, and when we return to Beijing and report to the emperor, we will have the emperor's ruling." Let's not mention this matter for now, let's talk about the military salary in Quang Ninh City. ”

Yang He nodded: "Okay, but you won't let this person who is suspected of being a traitor and spy sit here and listen, right?" ”

"This ......" Liu Qi hesitated for a moment, looked at Han Chu and said, "Lord Han, look at ......"

"Humph!" Han Chuming stood up, glanced at Yang He coldly, and turned around and walked out of the tent.

Yang He waved his hand: "Look at him, don't let him run away." ”

"Yes!" Several soldiers answered.

"Presumptuous! It is inconclusive whether Lord Han is a traitor and a spy, and you dare to arrest the imperial court officials! Xu Fang shouted.

Yang He sneered: "Lord Xu, if Han Chu's fate is a traitor, because I let it go because of my negligence, will Lord Xu take this responsibility?" ”

"What do you have to do with this official!" Xu Fangdao.

Yang He smiled: "You have to take care of something." ”

"Okay, Mr. Yang Qian sent someone to watch it." Liu Qidao.

"Your Excellency is wise!" Yang He hugged his fists.

Liu Qi waved his hand: "Let's talk about the vacancy later, you first talk about where the military salaries in Guangning City went." ”

Yang He smiled and said: "Don't hide it from your lordship, I have never seen the military salary of Guangning City. ”

Liu Qi said angrily: "You dare to fool this officer, this official has already found out that you have given ten taels of silver to each of the soldiers. If you don't get the salary of Quang Ninh City, how can you have the money to give the soldiers a bounty? ”

Yang He said with a smile: "My lord is talking about this money, that's right, we gave ten taels of silver to each soldier, not only did we give a reward of silver, but we also bought tens of thousands of acres of land for the soldiers to settle down." However, we did not take the money from the treasury of Quang Ninh City, but from the rebels. ”

After a pause, Yang He continued: "At that time, we entered the city to quell the rebellion, and the rebels saw that they were invincible, so they abandoned the city and fled.

Later, Jianguo attacked the city on a large scale, Luo Zongbing led the soldiers to fight bloodily, seeing that the reinforcements were delayed, and the defenders of Guangning City had lost most of them, Luo Zongbing ordered the withdrawal of troops, before the withdrawal of the army, Luo Zongbing told the brothers to fight bravely to kill the enemy, to be rewarded, let us reward the brothers with the silver snatched from the rebels, and let us properly settle the families of the fallen soldiers.

Lord Liu, what's the matter? Is this money the military salary of Quang Ninh City? We don't know that, we took it from the rebels. ”

Xu Fang said when he heard this: "Even if this silver is stolen by you from the rebels, it is also the military salary of Guangning City, how can you dare to divide it privately?" ”

Yang He smiled when he heard this: "Lord Xu, you seem to have made a mistake, right?" You should say this, if we hadn't defeated the rebels desperately, the money would have been robbed by the rebels and handed over to Jianyu. ”

Smiling, Yang He continued: "Lord Xu, if the rebels hand over the silver to Jianyu, do you dare to ask Jianyu for this salary?" How? We snatched the silver back from Jianlu, and it became a military salary? ”

Suddenly, Yang He restrained his smile and said in a cold voice: "Even if this silver is a military salary, shouldn't the soldiers of Guangning fight bloodily?" Do you know how many prisoners we killed in Quang Ninh? How many brothers died?

In addition to money, have you ever thought about those of us!

You keep saying that it is your duty to defend the land, and we are defending the land, but what about your reinforcements? Xiong Jingluo and Governor Wang promised us at that time that we would hold out for a few days, and they would reinforce us after reorganizing the army and horses, but because of a villain like Han Chuming, who was greedy for life and afraid of death, he ignored the territory of the Ming Dynasty and the life and death of our border soldiers!

We only have 3,000 people, and you are not satisfied if all of us are dead! ”

"Wait a minute......" Liu Qi waved his hand.

Blink of an eye at Xu Fang and Xing Shenyan, Liu Qi continued: "Mr. Yang Qian, you just said that Xiong Jingluo and Governor Wang asked you to stick to Guangning City?" ”

"Exactly, if it weren't for the orders of Xiong Jingluo and Governor Wang, how could General Luo stay and stick to Guangning City?" Yang He said.

Liu Qi looked at Xing Shenyan and said, "Lord Xing, Xiong Jingluo and Governor Wang asked General Luo to guard the city, do you know about this?" ”

Xing Shenyan looked at Yang He, sighed lightly and said: "Don't mention this matter, Lord Xiong and Lord Wang ordered General Luo to stick to Guangning, but in the end, they didn't send reinforcements after listening to the words of a villain like Han Chuming, and saying it would only chill the defenders." ”

Liu Qiyan nodded lightly when he heard this.

After thinking about it, Liu Qi smiled and said: "Black Ginseng General, Zhang Guerrilla, come, please take a seat, Mr. Yang Qian, you also come and sit." ”

Yang He hugged his fists: "Your Excellency is here, how can you have a humble seat." ”

Liu Qi waved his hand and smiled: "Mr. Yang Qian is young and promising, and he is very sensible." ”

"Lord Xie praises, he acts recklessly and recklessly, and his words are unprovoked, if there is a collision, I hope that your lordship will be Haihan." Yang He bowed and saluted.

"Young man, it's normal to be a little aggressive, the two adults said yes?" Liu Qi said with a smile.

Xu Fang and Xing Shenyan smiled when they heard this: "What Lord Liu said is true. ”

Liu Qi nodded, and smiled at Yang He: "Mr. Yang Qian, what you just said is reasonable, if it weren't for your vow to fight the rebellion, the salary would have been obtained by Jianyu, and you snatched back the silver money from the rebels, naturally it can't be regarded as embezzling military salaries, and this matter will be shared for you after returning to Beijing." ”

"Thank you, sir." Hei Yunhe and Zhang Ming were busy first.

Liu Qi smiled and said: "As for the matter of eating empty quotas, although you are trying to motivate the soldiers, it is not a reason to eat empty quotas after all, and the imperial court should investigate and deal with it." ”

Yang He pondered for a while and said, "Lord Liu, please forgive me for taking the liberty of asking, does the imperial court want an army that can really fight, or does it want an army that is only numerous, but will collapse at the slightest touch?" ”

"What do you mean by that?" Liu Qi asked.

Yang He said: "If the imperial court wants to build a truly combat-effective army, then reduce the number of troops and use the money to raise 100,000 or even 150,000 soldiers to raise 50,000 soldiers. ”

"Fifty thousand soldiers? Do you think with 50,000 soldiers we can defeat Jianyu? Do you know how many cities we have to defend in Liaodong alone? Liu Qi asked.

Yang He smiled: "Many cities originally did not need to be guarded, and on the way back to Guannei from Guangning City, I saw that there were many guards in the imperial court, and I thought that most of these guards were useless, and raising those soldiers was just a waste of military salaries." ”

"Oh? So what do you say about the decorations? Liu Qi asked with a smile.

"From Ningyuan to the first line of Shanhaiguan, all the guards in the middle are furnishings." Yang He said.

"What? From Ningyuan to the first line of Shanhaiguan, all the guards in the middle are furnishings? Liu Qi exclaimed.

Yang He nodded: "Yes, if you can't hold Ningyuan, then all the guards along the way can't stop the army of Jianjiao, and Jianyu can even ignore these guards, and you can drive straight into the city of Shanhaiguan." If you can block the captives in Ningyuan, then these guards are even more useless. ”

"You mean that as long as you garrison an army in Ningyuan, you can stop the captives?" Liu Qi asked.

Yang He said: "If you simply defend, then as long as you strangle Ningyuan, you can block the captives, but if you want to recover Liaodong, you must build a forward base in the area from Songshan, Jinzhou to Luyang." ”

Liu Qi said with a smile: "The courage is not small, you actually want to recover Liaodong, it seems that you are advocating an attack?" ”

Yang He shook his head: "In the current situation, we can only defend, stabilize the existing defense line, and train elite soldiers." Then Xu Tu can attack. ”

Liu Qi looked at Yang He carefully for a while, and nodded slowly: "No wonder Luo has always promoted you to be President Qian when he was dying, and he is indeed a bit far-sighted. ”

Turning his head to look at Xu Fang and Xing Shenyan, Liu Qi said, "What do you two adults think?" ”

Xing Shenyan said with a smile: "Mr. Yang Qian, this official really admires you, just one sentence, and then changed the conversation." ”

Yang He said with a smile: "The humble position has not changed the topic, the humble position means that if the imperial court wants an elite army, then our army is two thousand five thousand in real numbers, six thousand in imaginary numbers, and if the imperial court must have real numbers, then we only have two thousand five hundred people." ”

After a pause, Yang He said with a straight face: "But the number we have reported is not only the current 2,500 people, but the rest are soldiers who died in Xiping Fort and Guangning City, and the imperial court must issue a bereavement pension, according to their military salary, and at least three years." ”

Liu Qi looked at Xu Fang and said, "Lord Xu, you are in charge of the affairs of the Qing army, what do you say?" ”

"This matter is categorically impossible! As soon as this example was opened, everyone followed suit, how could the imperial court afford it? Xu Fang shook his head and said.

"What does Lord Xu mean, these people died in vain?" Yang He said coldly.

"There must be a bereavement pension, but it can't be given as you say." Xu Fang shook his head and said.

Yang He shook his head: "Lord Xu, do you know why the soldiers are reluctant to fight the battlefield?" They can't even get the money for their lives, and if they die, their families will have nothing to live on, who do you want to fight to the death? ”