Chapter 173: It's a Big Pit

Lu Lian is a speech official, his mouth is naturally extremely sharp, and he is very good at avoiding the important and light, many of the problems he said about Kang Longji are generally only about the part about Kang Longji, even if it is complicated, he can attribute the responsibility to Kang Longji in a few words.

He said five things in one breath, and he didn't take a breath in the air, Zhou An admired it in his heart, and listened to it with relish.

It's interesting!

Because Zhou An knew what Lu Lian would do, the better Lu Lian behaved at the moment, the more interesting he felt.

"More than half a year ago, Emperor Shendu died, but Kang Longji did not mourn secretly, and he was not allowed to wear plain clothes in the palace, and the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty did not know how to control the dragon and bintian, and did not perform the ceremony of crying and mourning, so it was because Kang Longji controlled the power in the palace and acted arbitrarily, which was disloyal, unrighteous and disrespectful...... "Lu Lian is still saying.

This matter is related to the Empress of Shendu, the reason why Kang Longji did not mourn at that time was to successfully ascend the throne of Princess Nengtai, if he did not do a good job at that time, Wu Xukuan was likely to directly rebel, and may even tamper with the edict of the Empress of Shendu and directly support a puppet emperor.

"Also, the mutiny and rebellion of the Baijiang Army this time are all due to Kang Longji's evil deeds!" Lu Lian said again.

Zhou An suddenly became much more energetic, and finally got to the point.

He knew that Lu Lian's impeachment of Kang Longji must be related to the rebellion of the Baijiang Army, and it must have a relationship, otherwise no matter how much he impeached Kang Longji, he would be easily dismissed by the empress.

However, Zhou An really wanted to know what "black spots" Kang Longji had that could be related to Bai Jiangjun?

You must know that the Baijiang Army was indirectly controlled by Wu Xukuan, it was Wu Xukuan's soldiers, they rebelled, saying that it was because they couldn't eat enough or something, it was all nonsense, Wu Xukuan couldn't treat them badly, the Baijiang Army played the slogan of the Qing Jun's side, it was even more nonsense, it really wanted the Qing Jun's side, it was not Qingkang Longji, it was also Qing Wu Xukuan!

Kang Longji and Bai Jiangjun have nothing to do with each other, how can they be involved?

"More than a month ago!" Lu Lian's voice was high, and he paused again before he quickly continued, "The Ministry of War has asked the Ministry of Household for a batch of silver, a total of 5.6 million taels, part of which is used to purchase winter clothes for the 400,000 soldiers of the Zhongzhou Army, and the other part is used to repair the Sifang Barracks of the Zhongzhou Army, of which one million taels is even more clearly stated, to be used to repair the Baijiang Barracks, the Baijiang Barracks are in disrepair for a long time, and they should be overhauled...... Because the matter involved a huge amount of money, the household department played the matter and asked the Holy Lord to decide. ”

"But this fold was directly returned by Kang Longji! Kang Longji ignored the hardships of 400,000 Zhongzhou soldiers to protect their families and defend the country, so that 400,000 Zhongzhou soldiers suffered from freezing and starvation in this cold winter, and the soldiers were not well clothed and fed, and their morale was low, how could they defend the country? The Baijiang barracks are in disrepair and leaking everywhere, but it was better in early winter, and it is useless to make a fire in the house in the depths of winter! They were cold and hungry, and they were resentful, so they rebelled! ”

"All of this is because of his Kang Longji's arbitrary and arbitrary behavior, taking advantage of the power of the Holy Lord's approval of red, and acting indiscriminately, so that the Baijiang Army rebelled helplessly, and the Holy Lord, the eunuchs misled the country!!"

Lu Lian shouted out at the end, it was very infectious, if Zhou An didn't know the inside story, maybe he would have doubted Kang Longji because of this.

And the last thing Lu Lian said is indeed there.

The household department did go to the fold and asked the empress if she should give the money.

But this excerpt was not approved by Kang Longji, but by the empress herself.

When this excerpt was approved, Zhou An, Kang Longji, and the empress were all present.

Zhou An is the eunuch of the inner court, although he usually does not do the work of the eunuch of the pen, but as long as it is an important twist and turn, he has basically seen it, and he rarely goes to the yamen of the ceremonial supervisor in recent times, but more than a month ago, he still often goes.

Because the empress is very diligent at present, the empress is personally approved, and Kang Longji is sealed.

That's the way it is.

There is almost no need to discuss this matter in detail, it is impossible for the empress to agree, the excerpt is already very problematic, it costs 5.6 million taels, and the time to ask for money is very coincidental, it just happens that a batch of tax silver was sent to the capital.

Although in recent years, natural and man-made disasters have continued in Donggan, and many places have been exempt from taxes, but most localities still have to collect taxes, but they are not as much as in previous years.

Generally speaking, as long as the local tax money arrives in the capital, it will not be long before it has to be transported out, and most of it is used for disaster relief.

Therefore, the Dongqian treasury has always been a small amount of money, not an ordinary emptiness.

However, the local government transported tax silver to the capital, because Dongqian was too big, and the speed of transporting silver could not be fast, which made it possible to transport tax silver from places far away from Qianjing City, and usually had to walk on the road for several months.

When the fold was played, it was just a batch.

What a coincidence!

Moreover, it will not take 5.6 million taels to repair the Sifang barracks of the Zhongzhou Army and buy them winter clothes, especially in the repair of the barracks, you must know that the place that costs the most to repair the house is not materials, but manpower, wood is not valuable, it is all over the mountains, and the real place to spend money is to hire people, but for the army, do you still need to hire people?

The army has its own craftsmen, and how much can it cost 100,000 troops to repair their own houses?

It takes a million taels to repair the Baijiang Army camp alone, which is the same as nonsense!

There are really too many slots in the Hubu excerpt, and everyone knows that whether it is the Hubu Shangshu or the Bingbu Shangshu, they are all Wu Xukuan's people, they all joined forces to let the empress approve the silver, and wanted to transport 5.6 million taels of silver out of the capital, how could the empress agree? !

That is tantamount to sending money to Wu Xukuan, and it is difficult to say where Wu Xukuan will use this money.

Lu Lian actually used this incident to blame Kang Longji for the rebellion of the Baijiang Army, and he was also dizzy, because the empress was present as a party, she could directly say that she approved the excerpt.

……

There was silence in the hall for a while.

"Lu Aiqing, about the money that the Ministry of War wanted, I know, but you misunderstood this matter......" the empress spoke.

"Holy!" Lu Lian took a step forward and said loudly: "This matter is not a misunderstanding, the secretary of the household department and the secretary of the military department can all testify for Weichen!" It was he, Kang Longji, who knocked the fold back, so that the Baijiang army rebelled because of cold and hunger! ”

Zhou An suddenly felt that something was wrong.

Lu Lian was a little strange, the Emperor of the Children could explain this matter clearly at once, why did Lu Lian still press on step by step? What is the use of the military department and the household department to testify? The excerpt was approved by the empress, not Kang Longji.

The empress waved her hand, shook her head again, and said, "No! This matter ......"

"Holy !!" Zhou An suddenly shouted, interrupting the empress's words.

His eyes had widened.

Something was wrong with him!

This Lu Lian...... It's really a big hole!