Chai Shao euphemistically rejected Yang Yuanqing's recommendation to recommend him as the general of Ying Yanglang, the scene that happened just now made him still have palpitations, he never dreamed that Yang Yuanqing killed Yuan Shangying so decisively, and he rushed into his military camp to do it, which made people feel incredible.

Thinking of Yang Yuanqing's use of himself, Chai Shao was a little indignant in his heart, in this way, killing Yuan Shangying became his accomplice with Yang Yuanqing, this charge made him jump into the Yellow River and could not be cleared, making it difficult for him to explain to his father-in-law, and his father-in-law repeatedly explained to him when he left, not to participate in the struggle between Yang Yuanqing and Yuan Shangying, but he never imagined that mediation would actually become the same murder.

Chai Shao sighed secretly in his heart, bowed down again and declined: "Humble qualifications, how dare you be a general of Eagle Yanglang, my father will not agree, thank you General Yang for your kindness!" ”

Yang Yuanqing said apologetically: "In fact, killing Yuan Shangying was only a temporary intention, not premeditated, I saw that Yuan Shangying was unprepared to kill him, and it was too late to inform Chai to join the army, I am very sorry in my heart, in order to express my apologies, I recommend Chai to join the army to replace Yuan Shangying, I think seniority is not a problem, he is just a thousand cattle of the King of Qi, and Chai is a thousand cattle of the chalky man, he can be an eagle general, why can't Chai join the army?" Don't postpone Chai joining the army. ”

Chai Shao was also a little moved, Ying Yanglang will be the fifth grade, but his record to join the army is only eight grades, how many years does it take him to struggle, Yang Yuanqing is a palace eunuch, if he recommends himself, he is likely to succeed, should he seize this opportunity?

Yang Yuanqing felt that Chai Shao had been moved, and he persuaded again: "General Chai, the saint will pass through Loufu County in about ten days, I need to report this matter to the saint, at that time, I will recommend Chai to join the army to replace Yuan Shangying, with the relationship between Chai joining the army and the saint, I think the saint will readily agree, Chai joins the army, this kind of opportunity can not be encountered at any time, and if you meet it, you must seize it, this is what the big husband does!" ”

Chai Shao was tempted, this kind of opportunity is indeed not available at any time, he pondered for a moment and said: "General Yang, let me think about it again, I will reply as soon as possible." ()”

"Alright! I await your reply. ”

Chai Shao saluted, and went down, Yang Yuanqing gently threw an arrow in his hand on the table, history Li Yuan can win the world, relying on the support of the nobles of Jilong, even if his arrow can't change the general trend, but at least it can knock out a crack between Li Yuan and the nobles of Guanlong.

"General!"

Yang Dalang walked in quickly, holding a wooden box in his hand, the wooden box was Yuan Shangying's personal belongings, Yang Yuanqing was in good spirits, he suddenly saw a horse outside the tent, so he asked with a smile: "Is that horse Yuan Shangying's?" ”

"Yes! It's a good horse. ”

Yang Yuanqing stood up and walked out of the tent, only to see that the horse outside the tent was one zhang long, black as carbon, without a single stray hair, strong limbs, a rare Yi Zai horse, no less than Shan Xiongxin's black horse, with his intuition about war horses, this horse is at most three years old.

"General, this is a good horse!" Yang Dalang gently patted the horse's back and praised sincerely.

Yang Yuanqing nodded with a smile and threw the reins of the horse to Yang Dalang, "Dalang, this horse belongs to you." ”

Yang Dalang was stunned, he hurriedly waved his hand, "General, I didn't mean that!" ”

"I know you didn't mean that, but I'll give you this horse, your horse is fifteen years old, let it take care of its old age!"

Yang Dalang's war horse has been with him for more than ten years, it is already old, and it is not suitable to charge again, sometimes he also considers changing horses, but he has not been able to find a suitable horse, and he really likes this horse, he gently stroked the mane of the war horse, and his heart was touched by the carefulness of the young master.

Yang Yuanqing walked back to the big tent and continued to look through the things in the box for Yuan Shangying, these were Yuan Shangying's personal belongings, there were not many things, only a few pieces of gold, a dagger inlaid with precious stones, half an ivory medallion, and a booklet.

Yang Yuanqing picked up the booklet, this booklet is cut into the size of a palm with parchment paper in the Western Regions, bound with thread, about a dozen pages, opened and looked at it, it seems to record some more secret things in Yuanshang, the first page reads: 'Taiyuan Wang Xingji Didian' save money 35,000 hangs, with the ivory card can be taken......

Yang Yuanqing picked up only half of the ivory, and engraved the two seal characters 'Wang Xing' on the back, 'It turns out that this is actually a voucher for taking money, 35,000 hangs, this Yuan Shangying should still be quite rich."

His top priority now is to find evidence of Yuan Shangying's embezzlement of military rations, although half an ivory original card can prove a little, but it is not enough, Yang Yuanqing turned his face a few pages again, he saw, on a certain day in a certain month, he took 4,000 buckets of grain, a dozen records in a row, the most recent one was yesterday, 8,000 buckets of grain.

Yang Yuanqing rose up, and he immediately ordered: "Order the grain officer to come to see me!" ”

A soldier led the order and ran away, Yang Yuanqing flipped through the booklet again, the next few pages are the situation of Yuan Shangying raising a few women in Taiyuan City, Yang Yuanqing is not interested in this, and then he turned back is blank, when he turned to the last page, he suddenly found that there was a line of very small handwriting here: 'On the seventh day of the first month', Jinyang Palace took 1,500 sets of armor and '2,000 horizontal knives......

This record made Yang Yuanqing feel a little strange in his heart, not that he couldn't lead the armor from Jinyang Palace, but this record appeared in the hidden booklet of Yuan Shangying's record, which made Yang Yuanqing feel a little strange, and Yuan Shangying's military government only had 1,200 people, and the swords and armor he received obviously exceeded this number, why?

Yang Yuanqing noticed that the word used by Yuan Shang was 'take' instead of 'leading', and the meaning of the word 'difference' was very different.

He put down the booklet, and many doubts made him ponder, is there still some secret hidden in it?

"General, the grain officer is here!" Outside the tent came the soldiers' reports.

"Let him in!" Yang Yuanqing put away the items on the table.

An officer in his thirties walked in, knelt down on one knee and saluted, "Humble Cangcao Counselor Military Marquis Mo Mingzhi See Yang Gongjian ”

Yang Yuanqing looked into his eyes, and saw that he never dared to raise his head to look at himself, his eyes flickered, so he smiled and asked him: "Hou Mo joined the army, I want to ask you one thing, are the armor and weapons of your military government all made by yourself?" ”

Hou Mo Mingzhi was stunned for a moment, this question is a little strange, how can there be a reason to build armor and weapons by himself? Could it be that this is the case with the border Cypriot army?

"Back to the palace supervisor, generally if there is a weapon and staff that needs to be replaced, the first preparation needs to be reported to the Ministry of War, and the Ministry of War will approve it and then transfer it to the Ordnance Superintendent, and the Ordnance Superintendent will send someone to send a new armor, and at the same time take away the old armor, and register the number one by one, if there is a loss, you will be held responsible."

"When was the last time your military government received the armor?"

"About two years ago, before the lowly post came."

Yang Yuanqing already understood one thing, Yuan Shangying should go to Jinyang Palace to get the armor should have nothing to do with his military government, but use it somewhere else, how could he get the armor from Jinyang Palace?

Hou Mo Mingzhi saw that Yang Yuanqing had been silent in thought, so he whispered: "If the palace eunuch has nothing to do, he will resign." ”

"Nope! I've got something to look for you. ”

Yang Yuanqing put down the matter of armor for the time being, he glanced at Hou Mo Mingzhi, and said with a faint smile: "I want to have a good talk with you about food." ”

Night gradually fell, the lights in the tent were lit, Yang Yuanqing worked hard under the lamp, wrote a report to Emperor Yang Guang, about the reason for killing Yuan Shangying, he has verified, in just ten days, Yuan Shangying has deducted nearly 50,000 buckets of embezzled grain, the evidence is conclusive, although he has no right to kill the Wupin Eagle Yang Lang General, but the evidence of Yuan Shangying's embezzlement of food is enough to offset his crime of unauthorized murder in front of Yang Guang.

When Yang Yuanqing finished writing, he took out the parchment booklet again, carefully cut off the last page with a sharp dagger, and tore off the parchment crumbs in the gaps, and then put the parchment booklet and the parchment book into a large oiled paper bag.

The oil-paper bag already contained account books, ivory cards, Hou Mo Mingzhi's confession and other items, Yang Yuanqing carefully sealed the bag and handed it to Yang Dalang who was standing beside him.

"Give this oiled paper bag to Pei Ju, along with this letter."

Yang Yuanqing also handed a letter to Pei Ju to Yang Dalang, Yang Dalang took the oil paper bag and the letter, nodded and said, "Go now!" ”

"Leave overnight, go early and return early!"

Yang Dalang saluted, walked out of the camp tent with a paper bag, he put the items into the horse bag, turned over on the horse, and waved his hand, "Let's go!" ”

The three cavalrymen followed him and galloped towards the north, gradually disappearing into the night, Yang Yuanqing returned to the camp tent, he took out the last page of the parchment that he had cut off, and looked at it carefully for a while, "1,500 sets of armor and 2,000 horizontal swords...... This number is very large, he has an intuition, this matter may be related to the King of Qi, isn't Yuan Shang the personal guard of the King of Qi?

Before dawn the next day, nearly 200,000 people got up at the urging of the overseer soldiers, and were ready to go to work, the attitude of the overseers did not improve, they were still so vicious, a little slower, they were whipped with leather whips, but this time there were a few more rules, if the seriously ill had more than 30 villagers as a guarantee, they could rest, and did not have to go to work, and if the illness was serious, they could cancel the labor and allow their families to take them back.

Soon, the people found another surprise to them, in the past they could only drink a thin bowl of gruel in the morning, but this morning, not only the porridge became very thick, but also two more steamed buns, this change made the people ecstatic, soon, the news brought by the soldiers who delivered the rice spread among the 200,000 people, yesterday afternoon, the palace supervisor Yang Yuanqing killed Yuan Shangying, who embezzled grain, and no one was allowed to deduct their food.

This news made 200,000 people boil, they could eat enough, and they were allowed to take sick leave, which will undoubtedly save their lives, and they will no longer die half like building the Great Wall, and for a while, Yang Yuanqing became a life-saving bodhisattva in the hearts of 200,000 people.

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