Lu Jiude slandered Liu Jun for raiding and annihilating the surrendered Fifth Battalion of the Revolution in order to grab merit, which was a very serious attack, and Liu Jun would never allow such a basin to be buckled on his head.

Yehe Battalion.

"Master Hou, the battle is successful." Director Wang Kun was full of spirits, he was appointed to supervise Yunyang Town, and as soon as he arrived in Yunyang, he got 10,000 taels of silver, and then went out with the army to fight, and it was easy to sit on a ship along the way. Then followed Liu Jun to achieve a great victory in Yehe at once, annihilating the five battalions of Gezuo in one fell swoop, capturing and beheading five thieves, and capturing tens of thousands of people.

What a feat.

Lu Weining was not far behind, and said, "Master Hou has a good command, and the soldiers fought bravely to kill the thieves, and finally won a big victory, I am very happy." ”

The two eunuchs performed well in this battle, and they kept following Liu Jun closely, and even in this pursuit, they did not stay behind, and followed closely behind on horseback. During the battle to break the enemy, the two eunuchs even fired more than a dozen shots with handguns, and they also personally killed a few bandits who could not escape.

Eunuchs are also famous, and Liu Jun thinks it's good to use these two eunuchs to deal with Lu Jiude.

Liu Jun smiled and praised the bravery of the two eunuchs first, and said that he would personally show their performance and results in killing the enemy to the emperor. Then Liu Jun said, "This time, we broke the five thieves, and the harvest was not small." More than 3,000 horses were captured in good condition, and thousands of mules and horses were captured. In addition, some gold, silver, jewellery and other items were seized. ”

"The preliminary estimate is at least 500,000 taels." Liu Jun raised his eyebrows and smiled at the two eunuchs.

When the two eunuchs heard about such a large amount of loot, their eyebrows immediately danced.

"That's how I plan to do these trophies, first make up 100,000 taels of silver and present them to the Jingshi to your majesty, what do you two think?"

"Should, should." The two eunuchs didn't dare to say no at this time. They had just come out of the capital, and they knew that the money would not be given in vain. The emperor will be very happy to receive the 100,000 taels of silver.

"In addition, the soldiers fought hard and there were many casualties, and we also had to give some as rewards and pensions. What do you two think? ”

"Should, should." Although the flesh hurts, the two eunuchs are quite reasonable.

Liu Jun saw their reactions in his eyes and smiled, "I'm going to give 10,000 taels each to Gonggong Cao and Gonggong Wang." ”

"Should, should." At this time, the two of them were already laughing a little reluctantly.

"In addition to these, most of the rest are some grain, cloth, calligraphy and painting, jewelry, horses, weapons, etc., which still need time to be realized. For the time being, I can only give two people five thousand taels each. What do you guys think? ”

Hearing that there were only five thousand taels, Wang Kun and Lu Weining were not so happy, after all, they had heard that there were 500,000 worth of loot, and now they have only 5,000 yuan.

"Actually, I should have been able to take out more, but the two of you didn't know, I had previously reported that the loot was worth 500,000, but later I learned that the thief had taken 200,000 out of it and gave it to Lu Jiude. After Lu Jiude received this big gift. He believed that the five thieves of Gezuo were going to surrender, and transferred the soldiers and horses intercepted in the east back to Luzhen Pass. The thief almost broke through. ”

As soon as the two eunuchs heard that Lu Jiude alone took a gift of 200,000 taels of silver, their faces turned purple at the moment. is envious and jealous, the two of them won a big battle, and they could only get 5,000 as a result, and Lu Jiude died as a eunuch, and he didn't do anything but took 200,000.

"How can it be!"

Liu Jun saw that the two of them were really furious. He smiled secretly in his heart and continued, "Originally, if Gonggong Lu accepted the gift in order to lure the thief, it would be okay, and he would turn it over to the court when he turned it over." But now as far as I know, Father-in-law Lu not only concealed the 200,000 taels of bribes he received. Or even impeach us. ”

"Impeach us, why, why?" Wang Kun said angrily.

Father-in-law Lu said that he had already relied on his three-inch incorruptible tongue to successfully make the five thieves of Gezuo surrender and recruit peace, and let the thieves and bandits lead the team out of the mountain to surrender. He said that in order to seize the merits, we ignored the fact that the 5th Battalion had already surrendered, and led our troops to raid the 5th Battalion of the Left, which had already laid down its weapons, and brutally killed and surrendered. ”

"Reverse black and white, he dare!"

"He has already done this, and sent someone to the second governor of Mei Li to sue us, and at this moment, there is also a fast horse with his impeachment note galloping to the Beijing Division."

Lu Weining slapped his palm on the table angrily, "The old dog dares to do this, he accepted bribes and opened the net, causing the thief to almost escape, so that the Hui almost fell short." Fortunately, Hou Ye and I desperately intercepted and pursued, and fought to the death to annihilate the bandits. The old dog actually dared to beat us up and frame us, and the old man was going to fight with him. ”

"Yes, fight!" Wang Kun was also angry. One is that he was framed, and the other is that Lu Jiude took 200,000 gifts of silver.

"I heard that Lu Jiude has a wide range of connections in Beijing, but I'm afraid that His Majesty will mishear one side of the story, and not only will we lose this credit, but maybe we will be convicted. At that time, our loot is estimated to be taken away by Lu Jiude, while the things are still in our hands, I am the master, and the share of the two fathers-in-law will be given to you immediately. ”

"No, this time it must be with the old dog. The old dog has a relationship in Beijing, and our family is not unrequited. Let's write a letter to Grandpa Cao immediately! ”

Lu Weining also said, "I wrote a letter to the prince. ”

"If you don't kill this old dog, our family won't be surnamed Wang in the future!"

Liu Jun hurriedly said, "It would be great if the two fathers-in-law could help move Father-in-law Cao and Father-in-law Wang to help clarify and testify for us in front of Your Majesty." In this way, I don't want my share, and I will divide it among the two fathers-in-law, 5,000 taels each, even if it is used to dredge up the relationship. ”

"Ouch, how can this work?"

"The two fathers-in-law don't have to be polite to me, as long as they can help clarify things, then we will take down Lu Jiude, and let him spit out the gift he swallowed, and we will divide it then."

"Then it's settled." As soon as they heard the words 200,000 taels, the two eunuchs couldn't move their legs.

"Don't worry, Lu Laogou dares to fight with us without his own strength, this time not only to let him spit out what he swallowed, but also to let him die without a place to be buried."

After the two finished speaking, they each hurriedly went back to write letters to their back-ups in Beijing, Cao Huachun and Wang Chengen.

Liu Jun sat down, poured himself a cup of tea, tasted it slowly, took out some silver and gave it to the two eunuchs, and immediately drove them to bite Lu Jiude. He didn't even have to come forward, he had them go up and bite.

Although Liu Jun has many definite evidences in his hands. But he was a military minister who led the troops and a minister and eunuch, and even if he won, he would lose points in front of the emperor. He didn't plan to come forward now and let the eunuchs bite themselves.

After a while, Liu Jun called his own soldiers, "Please invite the generals of each battalion and the soldiers to come to discuss the matter." ”

The generals and the soldiers arrived, and it was already dark. A butter candle was lit in the tent of the Chinese army.

There were two large rows of tables in the big tent, a makeshift simple bench with a simple bench. The colonel's staff officers were divided into two sides, and there were large plates of horse meat on the table, all of which were slaughtered and wounded. On the battlefield, there will be no waste, after the wounded horses are slaughtered, the large pieces of stew become the dinner of the whole army.

"Why aren't the two fathers-in-law here?" Someone asked.

"They're in trouble, and the overseers aren't here today. Let's have dinner with our brothers of the nine-headed bird. Although it was after the great victory, it is still on the battlefield, according to the rules of the army, no alcohol is allowed, and everyone replaces wine with tea, casually. Liu Jun said with a smile.

"After a big victory, I was happy without wine. It is all the Hou Ye's command and judgment. Lead us to this great victory. ”

Liu Jun stood at the top and said with a smile. "This great victory, to judge the merit, that night is the first merit, they found out in time that the bandits planned to escape, and they have been keeping an eye on the bandits."

Secondly, Feng Sheng's cavalry battalion and Deng Yuan's teaching battalion also performed outstandingly. After receiving the order, they galloped all the way to the front of the bandits, successfully prevented the enemy from escaping, and with two battalions of men and horses, they blocked and intercepted the enemy bandits' escape, and routed the bandits' front army. Afterwards. He also pursued and defeated the fleeing thieves, drawing a perfect stroke for our victory. ”

"Of course, the rest of the battalions did the same. Later, the military achievements of this operation will be summarized, and those who have made meritorious contributions will be rewarded. ”

"Now, I will replace the wine with tea, and I will toast everyone first."

"Hey!"

The nine-headed birds raised their glasses happily, although the cup was tea, but they also drank it very happily.

This time, the annihilation of the Fifth Battalion of the Revolution and the capture of a great achievement, it is inevitable that everyone will be promoted to the ranks, and as usual, they will definitely be able to get a large amount of reward, there is no reason to be unhappy. Not to mention, a large amount of booty was also seized this time, of which there were more than 5,000 intact war horses alone, and all the family funds saved by the Fifth Battalion of Gezuo over the years were taken away by a nest of nine-headed birds.

Previously, the cavalry battalion was limited by the shortage of war horses, and only two thousand were allocated. Now that he has a war horse, Feng Sheng, the commander of the cavalry battalion, his first plan is to fill his cavalry battalion.

"Don't give me Lao Feng to rob anyone, these war horses are all from our cavalry battalion."

However, not many people bought his words, and Deng Yuan of the teaching camp immediately jumped out and shouted, "Why don't you say that the credit for this time is all yours?" The war horses are all yours, more than 5,000 war horses, not afraid of dying? We need a thousand horses for the training camp, and a thousand for no more. ”

The other battalion generals all slapped the table, you want a thousand, he wants eight hundred, that one also wants five hundred, and it's a mess.

Feng Sheng was in a hurry, he still planned to fill the number, if he added a thousand cavalry, each of them would have two horses, then he would have to have two thousand war horses. If everyone wants it, these 5,000 horses are not enough.

"You, Zhang Guodong, you fucking are from the baggage battalion, what kind of war horse do you want. Didn't you also seize thousands of mules, and you can lead as many mules as you want, and let's join in the fun. ”

Zhang Donggou was not happy, "Why can't our baggage battalion ask for war horses?" I plan to form a cavalry division in the battalion to be responsible for reconnaissance, escort, and liaison. ”

"We don't have to scale up at night."

Looking at this chaotic appearance, Liu Jun shook his head and patted the table, "Don't fight, these war horses give priority to meeting the full strength of the cavalry battalion, pull out two thousand horses to the cavalry battalion, and add five hundred, this time they also lost some horses." ”

"Of the remaining three thousand war horses, two thousand will be drawn to the training battalion, and the other one thousand will not be collected by five hundred horses at night, and the rest will be drawn to the officers of each battalion as mounts."

There is no objection to this result, and the war horse is divided. Thousands of mules were quickly divided, most of them to the baggage battalions, and the various infantry battalions were also given a batch of mules to be used to tow the artillery in their battalions.

As for the other trophies, knives, guns, bows, arrows, and armor, most of them are tattered goods that the nine-headed bird can't look down on, and Liu Jun plans to transport these things back to Hubei and sell them to squires and merchants everywhere, which can be regarded as waste recycling.

As for the other gold and silver treasures, there are quite a few of them, which are the treasures accumulated by the Revolution against many years of plunder, and if they can be realized, it is estimated that there will be as many as one million. Liu Jun plans to discount 100,000 taels to Chongzhen, and then the eunuchs and officials in Beijing will also take care of it, plus Wang Kun and Lu Weining, and they will also send some to Mei Zhihuan and Li Changgeng, and these will also be prepared for 100,000 taels.

The rest is counted as the military expenditure of the nine-headed bird.

wants to give away 200,000 taels at once, it's not that Liu Jun is rich and extravagant now. But after passing through Zhu Dadian and now Lu Jiude, Liu Jun knew that he had indeed climbed a little faster, and many people were already a little jealous, and as soon as there was a conflict of interest, they would immediately pounce and bite.

If you can use silver to solve this trouble, Liu Jun is willing. He knew that it was actually a cost, a necessary cost. The silver that was given out before, especially the silver given to Chongzhen, was well rewarded.

Bribes can be given not only to eunuchs, but also to greedy ministers in the court, even those who are ostensibly loyal, and of course, bribes can also be given to the emperor.

Mei Zhihuan and Li Changgeng quickly arrived at the Yehe camp with hundreds of horsemen.

After personally listening to Liu Jun's report on this operation, and personally interrogating several bandits, it was proved that the five thieves had bribed Lu Jiude before to deceive his trust. And afterwards, Lu Jiude actually bit back.

"How unreasonable!" Mei Zhihuan was furious.

"Call Lu Jiude, Shi Kefa and the others immediately!" Mei Zhihuan was furious, "This official wants to hear what explanation he has in the face of this evidence!" ”

After receiving Mei Zhihuan's order, Shi Kefa, Lu Jiude, Mou Wenshou, Huang Degong, Liu Liangzuo and other Jiangbei officials came.

As soon as they arrived, Mei Zhihuan immediately brought the witness up and asked him to confront Lu Jiude in public. The evidence is ironclad, and in the end, Lu Jiude was still hard-mouthed, and kept saying that Liu Jun grabbed the merit and killed and surrendered, and the angry Mei Zhihuan asked Shang Fang to take out the sword, take him down, and detain him.

Shi Kefa faced Mei Zhihuan's questioning, saying that he had no prior knowledge.

Later, Mei Zhihuan sent people to arrest Lu Jiude's subordinates, searched his residence, and sure enough, he found the property that the bandits had given to Lu Jiude, boxes of gold bars and silver ingots, and many jewels, worth 1440,000 taels.

"Take a bribe of 200,000 taels, and what about it, investigate, continue to investigate." Facing the boxes of gold, silver and jewelry, Shi Kefa, Mu Wenshou and others had nothing to say. They did prepare to recruit the bandits with Lu Jiude, but they didn't know that Lu Jiude actually accepted a bribe of 200,000 taels from the bandits.

Soon, the investigators pulled up the radish and brought up the mud, and found a lot of evidence of Lu Jiude's corruption and bribery, and also found a large amount of money and stolen goods from his residence in Fengyang, which was enough to have as much as 6,700,000 taels of property, including a large number of land properties, land deeds, mansions, houses, shops, etc.

"Your Majesty at once." Mei Zhihuan faced these reports on the ground, and only said a word coldly. Ps: It's the middle of the month again, the book is also on the shelves for January, and the subscription has been growing, thank you for your support, brothers who have a monthly pass, support it! (To be continued......)

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