When Zhao Zhiliang arrived at the Ministry of War, except for Jiang Wenbin, who went to the Anguo Mansion, all the officials from top to bottom had arrived.

Not only the officials of the Ministry of War, but General Zhenguo had also brought several officers of Jin Lingwei to the scene, and the incident happened suddenly, everyone was a little at a loss, and everyone gathered in the lobby of the Ministry of War, discussing and exchanging information with each other.

And Sun Shangshu and General Zhenguo had gloomy faces, sitting in the middle of the seat, bowing their heads and whispering something.

As soon as Zhao Zhiliang entered the door, according to the strategy he had discussed with He Wenmao before, he shouted that he wanted to set foot on Rongdi and avenge the two sons of the Mu family. That righteous and awe-inspiring look, as if he himself was going to personally go into battle to kill the Rong Di people.

This excellent performance of singing and writing made many officials present resonate, and for a while, the entire military department yamen was instigated by Zhao Zhiliang to be excited, and everyone proposed to jointly write to the emperor and find Rong Di people to settle accounts.

Zhao Zhiliang's performance was lively, but General Zhenguo and Sun Shangshu, who were sitting at the top, were not so easy to be fooled. General Zhenguo watched coldly for a while, and suddenly asked, "Why is Zhao Shilang so sure, it was Rong Di's hand?" ”

"The two sons of the Mu family followed General Wen of Jin Lingwei to escort supplies to the north. General Wen held the banner of the Jin Lingwei army when he left Beijing," Zhao Zhiliang replied unhurriedly: "Jin Lingwei is in charge of the Jinggi garrison, and he is the emperor's personal guard forbidden army, who doesn't know about this Great Zhou?" I don't believe that the bandit Qiang Liang of the Great Zhou Dynasty saw Jin Lingwei's military banner and dared to attack. Moreover, whoever attacked the escort army was nothing more than looting. The general monk Shangshu thinks about it, what is General Wen escorting? Not gold and silver, but grain, grass and ordnance! ”

"Ordnance was originally strictly controlled by the imperial court, since the Chunzhou ordnance case two years ago, the punishment of smugglers of ordnance has become more severe, robbers robbed those ordnance, holding it in the hand is like a hot potato, the military department officials make ordnance, take it out and use it will be discovered, sell it and can't sell it. Speaking of grain and grass, if a full 500 truckloads of official grain were to flow into the market, it would be impossible for them to remain silent. Where are the robbers so stupid, they have to risk killing their heads to attack Jin Lingwei and loot some materials that are strictly controlled by the imperial court, isn't this looking for their own death! ”

These few sentences can be regarded as reasonable and well-founded, and General Zhenguo thought about it carefully, but there was no way to refute it. Oh, yes! General Wen left Beijing and held the banner of the Jin Lingwei army, where are the robbers so stupid, it is not good to rob anyone, they have to rob Jin Lingwei.

Zhao Zhiliang was quite clever, he rolled his eyelids and secretly glanced at the faces of General Zhenguo and Sun Shangshu, and made persistent efforts to flicker: "Adults know that the current catastrophe in the north, from last winter to today, is first a snow disaster, and then a major drought. It's okay here in the north of our country, there are An Guogong and Mu Jingluo presiding over the disaster relief, but no one cares about the Rongdi grassland, and the various tribes are left to fend for themselves. These five hundred carts of grain and grass are enough for the Rongdi people to take risks! ”

"But Ruorong Di people, how did they know that the imperial court was escorting grain and grass into the north at this time?" General Zhenguo listened to Zhao Zhiliang's words, and his face suddenly turned gloomy: "Isn't there a spy in the court." ”

"I can't say for sure." Zhao Zhiliang shook his head solemnly: "When King Qirong came to negotiate, he stayed in Beijing for a long time, and he had a lot of contacts with officials in the court. "A must-read house

Zhao Zhiliang's move to divert the contradiction was done beautifully, and the attention of General Zhenguo and Sun Shangshu immediately focused on the unwarranted "spy". If it was really the Rongdi people who attacked and looted supplies, it was enough to prove that they had accurate military intelligence in their hands, which was not a trivial matter.

General Zhenguo and Sun Shangshu bowed their heads and discussed for a while, and decided to go to the court tomorrow morning, so they would advise the emperor to thoroughly investigate the previous interactions between King Qirong and officials in the court, and find out the spies.

After successfully leading General Zhenguo and Sun Shangshu, Zhao Zhiliang sat aside with great satisfaction, very smug. But he still looked worried on the surface, and Wei Shilang, who was sitting next to him, sang and cursed the "Rongdi people who crossed the border and plundered".

And Jiang Shilang, who was in the Anguo Mansion, naturally did not know that Zhao Zhiliang had done a lot of preparatory work in the military department for the upcoming early dynasty. At this time, Jiang Shilang was frowning, discussing nervously with a group of staff members of the Anguo Mansion. Duchess An Guo and Mu Hongshang were also there, they listened quietly and did not interject at will.

"It's written." Mr. Sun raised his head and handed the paper full of words in his hand to Jiang Shilang: "Lord Jiang, take a look, there is anything else that needs to be added." ”

Jiang Shilang hurriedly glanced at Mr. Sun's letter, then shook his head and said, "Not for the time being, be sure to ask An Guogong to find out the whereabouts of that batch of materials as soon as possible." ”

"Use the emergency pigeon whistle to send a message to the north now." In a complicated way, Mr. Sun folded the paper full of characters into small strips and handed it to another gentleman.

After the gentleman turned around and went out to deliver the letter, Mr. Chen frowned and said, "No matter how fast the eldest lady's leopard is, it will take a few days to return to Beijing, and I don't know if I can find evidence." ”

"I'll go straight to Chang Jing tomorrow morning." Jiang Wenbin replied: "The evidence that Zhao Zhiliang was in the military department before is in his hands, I want to come back first, I think, if there is no result on An Guogong's side, we might as well hand over this evidence in my hand first." ”

"No." Mr. Chen immediately shook his head: "The evidence in your hand is about the old case a few years ago, and there is only one library slip and two confessions, these things are very easy to forge, and it is not easy to convict Zhao Zhiliang of the crime to death based on these alone." He only needs to bite you back and make false accusations, and we can't come up with superfluous evidence to confirm his crimes. The most important thing is that even if we can bring Zhao Zhiliang down, we still can't prove that he has anything to do with today's events. ”

"The ordnance transported to the north this time is something that you have spent several years saving, Lord Jiang, little by little, and there is absolutely no problem. So I think the problem is on the household side. Mr. Sun added: "And Zhao Zhiliang is a squire of the military department, what does it have to do with the household department?" Even if everyone knows that Zhao Zhiliang is good friends with He Wenmao, the head of the household department, but whether it is the Criminal Department or Dali Temple, there is no way to convict them on this basis, so if you rashly hand over these pieces of evidence in your hands, I think not only can you not let the case come to light, but it is easy to startle the snake. ”