Chapter 252: Luring the Snake Out of the Hole
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"Grandpa Guo, you beat us to Nanjing, are you not ready to ask for us?" Yuan Zongdi asked.
Gu Zhenhua laughed: "Marquis Yuan, do you think Benjue is a person who tells lies?" ”
"Of course not." Yuan Zongdi sneered and said: "Grandpa Guo, I Yuan Zongdi is not a half-hearted person, but after fighting a few battles with An**, I completely understood how to lead troops and how to behave." In the past, it was too child's play to break into the king, if King Chuang could have half of the knowledge of the grandfather of the country, Dashun would not have fallen to the point where it is today......"
Gu Zhenhua smiled and waved his hand, "Marquis Yuan, there is no need to say these things, Benjue has always paid attention to the level of a bowl, no matter who it is, there are meritorious rewards and punishments." As long as the brothers are willing to follow me, are willing to abide by military discipline, and jointly expel the Tartars, Benjue will definitely treat them well! ”
When Yuan Zongdi heard this, the blood in his body also boiled, he had already seen that Li Zicheng was already declining, but Gu Zhenhua was in full swing. People go to high places and water flows to low places, Yuan Zongdi has long had the intention of taking refuge in Gu Zhenhua, but he is afraid that people will not agree.
Finally waited for Gu Zhenhua to let go, Yuan Zongdi knelt on the ground and kowtowed to the ground: "Thank you Grandpa Guo for taking me in, from now on, there will be no Mianhou Yuan Zongdi, only a small soldier under the An ** account, I am willing to start from scratch!" ”
After getting along with Yuan Zongdi for a while, Gu Zhenhua also knew that this person's character was not bad, and he also knew that Yuan Zongdi was one of the leaders of the Thirteen Families of Kuidong.
When Li Dingguo died of illness, in the Central Plains, only the Thirteen Armies of Kuidong still insisted on resisting the Qing Dynasty. For the land of China, they have fought for decades!
"That's good, General Yuan. This time, you take your headquarters to Jiangnan first, and as long as things are done, your subordinates will form a regiment. Starting from the regiment commander, General Yuan, don't you feel wronged? ”
"No grievances, no grievances!" Yuan Zongdi hurriedly said. He had an account in his heart. An **'s position does not seem to be high, but there are more than 1,000 tiger soldiers in one regiment. Compared with the Dashun Army, it is simply one to ten, and it is much more beautiful than his so-called Hou Ye.
"Grandpa Guo. The humble post immediately went to Jiangnan. ”
Gu Zhenhua has nothing special about playing this hand, to put it bluntly, it is a trouble, and it is inconvenient for An ** to come out, and he can't pull out people for the time being. simply let Yuan Zongdi and them rush to the front. Gu Zhenhua is manipulating behind his back. It's also in line with his style of acting.
Yuan Zongdi with 5,000 men and horses is still the first wave, and there are more to come, and the chips must be increased little by little, and he is not afraid that Nanjing will not give in!
"Grandpa Guo, Nanjing has sent a Qincha." Fang Jianming suddenly said hurriedly.
"Qincha, who is it?"
"I heard that his name is Yue Qijie, who is Ma Shiying's henchman, before we sacrifice prisoners to the capital. He's out! ”
Gu Zhenhua laughed: "What's the matter, he is still going to investigate Benjue?" ”
Fang Jianming smiled: "Grandpa Guo." It's not so slow, I think Ma Shiying should have informed him early, and this guy was also very polite, just saying that he was coming to visit your injury. ”
"Nope!" Gu Zhenhua waved his hand without hesitation and smiled: "You just tell him, Benjue needs to recuperate quietly, and he won't see anyone!" ”
"Grandpa Guo, you don't see rabbits and eagles."
"Hahaha, wrong, I don't scatter eagles when I see rabbits. As the so-called meritorious master, even if we have to come over this time, Nanjing's suspicion of us will only deepen. Benjue doesn't have time to talk to them, and from now on, I'll have to pretend to be sick for a long time! ”
"Grandpa Guo, you still have to pretend, then we must not die of exhaustion?"
Of course, Fang Jianming only dared to slander, compared to Wu Kaijie, even if he was a little busy, he didn't have to go back and forth. Wu Kaijie was just after the fifth day of junior high school, and was driven away by Gu Zhenhua and asked him to go to Nanjing to assist Zhang Jinyan.
At this time, Wu Kaijie was indeed as Fang Jianming expected, he was so busy that he couldn't get along.
After Zhang Jinyan took over the second assistant, the first thing he did when he took office was to look for grain everywhere, but he knew very well that there was not much grain in Henan. To appease so many rogues, if you want Henan to survive the summer grain harvest, there are at least three million quintals, which is also the task given to him by Gu Zhenhua.
However, Zhang Jinyan took people to take stock of the warehouse, and it turned out that the surplus grain in Nanjing is only 500,000 quintals, plus other warehouses, and the grain that can be obtained at a time is only 800,000 quintals, which is simply a drop in the bucket.
In an instant, Zhang Jinyan was on fire, his cheeks were swollen, although he was in power, he couldn't do things, so he couldn't eat and walked away!
However, Ma Shiying, Ruan Dacheng and others all pretended to be turtles with shrunken heads, intending to see Zhang Jinyan's laughter.
However, Zhang Jinyan is not so easy to succumb, not to mention that there is Gu Zhenhua's support, so everyone will simply fight to see who wins and who loses!
Zhang Jinyan hurried back to the mansion, and after walking in, he heard the abacus beads on both sides crackling and ringing.
On the right are all seventeen or eighteen-year-old eunuchs, and on the left are sixteen or seventeen-year-old young people, all of them are flying with ten fingers, and others can't even look at the beads. It didn't take long for someone to take the accounts one by one and send them to the table.
Sitting on the table were Dai Ying and Wu Kaijie.
Wu Kaijie said with a smile: "Father-in-law Dai, I really didn't expect that there are so many little fathers-in-law who are proficient in abacus in the palace, which is really unexpected." ”
"Hahaha, the whole world is not the king's land, if you want to talk about it, it belongs to the royal property the most, and the accounts are the most troublesome. If you don't have a bunch of iron abacus, you don't have to be counted by those ministers outside! ”
Dai Ying said: "Speaking of which, our family is a little surprised, how can the Duke of Ji Guogong have so many iron abacus in his hands, it seems that it is slightly better than the palace one!" ”
Wu Kaijie smiled proudly: "What kind of person is Grandpa Guo, he thinks about everything in front of others." Many of these teenagers came out of the An** Youth Battalion, they have flexible brains, and it's a bit of a waste to be a soldier to fight, so they are all cultivated according to their temperament, and naturally there are also those who specialize in accounting! ”
"Hahaha, Grandpa Guo is really far-sighted, which is admirable."
While he was talking, footsteps sounded, and Zhang Jinyan walked in quickly.
"Lord Jifu, why are you sweating all over your head, let's drink some tea!"
Zhang Jinyan didn't answer, grabbed the teapot, and poured it into his stomach, not paying attention to Sven at all.
Wu Kaijie smiled narrowly: "Strongman, don't drink anymore, there is Jingyanggang in front!" ”
Zhang Jinyan drank most of the pot, then stared at Wu Kaijie and sneered: "This official is to be the one who fights the tiger together, do you have a magic weapon?" ”
Wu Kaijie picked up a stack of lists and respectfully put them in Zhang Jinyan's hands.
"Please look at the old hero!"
Zhang Jinyan took the list, looked at it at a glance, looked at it, his eyes widened, and finally slapped the table fiercely.
"Bastard, bastard, how can Daming have such a bastard official?"
It's no wonder that Zhang Jinyan is angry, according to calculations, Taicang should have at least 15o million quintals of grain, and now there are only 8o million quintals left, half of which is missing, and whoever it is, can't help but roar, especially at this juncture of the war!
"Lord Zhang, you are in a hurry to catch fire first, take a look down!"
Zhang Jinyan hurriedly looked down, and suddenly his eyes widened again: "This, how could this burn 300,000 quintals?" ”
Wu Kaijie said with a smile: "If you look at the front and back, you will know, they first said that the warehouse was damaged, the rice was damp, and it should be replaced with new rice." Seven batches of grain were sold to the merchant at a discount, totaling 300,000 quintals. Then he asked the imperial court to allocate money to buy grain and make up for the warehouse, but after the new rice was bought, less than a month later, the warehouse caught fire, and 300,000 quintals of grain were burned! ”
"There's a problem, there's definitely a problem!" Zhang Jinyan couldn't help but say: "How can there be such a coincidental thing in this world, food is not as good as other things, even if it is over-fired above, there is nothing below, how can it all be burned!" ”
At this time, Dai Ying also smiled and said: "Lord Zhang really understands, I can't hide it, our family has already sent people from Dongchang to investigate, and this batch of grain was not damp in the first place." They deliberately misreported and then sold the grain to the merchants at a low price. After asking the imperial court to buy it back from the merchants at a high price, they made hundreds of thousands of taels back and forth. But these grandsons were not reconciled in the end, and they didn't buy back the grain, but set a fire and let them make a lot of money! ”
"Damn, they're just joking about state affairs, isn't there anyone in charge?"
"How? Mr. Zhang, ten years ago, Nanjing's rice was two taels of silver a load, and the price of grain soared in the past two years, reaching five taels of silver, and even when the first emperor was martyred, it reached ten taels or even fifteen taels. Fortunately, Ji Guogong won several battles, people's hearts were stable, and food prices were lowered. ”
"Ten taels and one quintals, three hundred thousand quintals, that is, three million taels of silver, these dog officials, they are too greedy! Is there still a court in your eyes? By the way, what about those officials, aren't they participating in the Gong of the Thistle, a top two, why are they so corrupt, but no one is staring at them? ”
Dai Ying smiled slightly: "Lord Zhang, it seems that you have been absent from officialdom for a long time, haven't you heard of it, now in addition to Bing Jing and Tan Jing, there is also Mi Jing." The ministers of the Manchu Dynasty can get the filial piety of the grain merchants, plus the Lu rice of the imperial court, they don't have to worry about eating and drinking! ”
To be honest, Zhang Jinyan also knows a thing or two about these bullshit things. But when it was really in front of him, he was still furious.
"Father-in-law Dai, Counselor Wu, since this official has been entrusted by the grandfather of the country, he can't ignore it, he is bound to open up this fraudulent case, if the rats are not removed, the soldiers are not full!"
Dai Ying and Wu Kaijie both nodded: "Master Zhang, what do you say I should do?" ”
Zhang Jinyan thought for a while and said: "Let's not catch one or two corrupt officials and get a few grain merchants, I think we should lure the snake out of the hole and design a trap to let them obediently show the fox's tail." ”
Zhang Jinyan is an old fritter, Wu Kaijie and Dai Ying are both conspirators, and the three of them got together and muttered and came up with a brilliant idea.
The three foxes are ready to join forces to trap people! (To be continued......)