Chapter Seventy-Nine: Chen Qing Tan's Repetition
"I'm coming!" Si Da took a step forward and took the armor in Jiang Ning's hand, his expression instantly turned cold, and the scar on his face became even more hideous. He drew his saber and slashed through the armor, splattering out of the dirt inside.
Everyone present looked at this scene in amazement, and was speechless for a long time.
"Bastard!" Si Da looked at the bloody armor angrily, and the blue tendons on his forehead flared up, "The last general has been in the army for nearly twenty years, and I have never seen anyone do such a child's play with military equipment!" ”
"General Si, look at those swords and arrows again."
Star and Jiang Ning picked up the blade in the box at the same time, and Star only found the problem with a light stroke in his hand.
He was furious and cut off the knife in his hand.
"Wood ......"
"It's made of wood!"
Everyone was dumbfounded.
Jiang Ning ordered someone to bring the bow, and everyone gathered their eyes on Jiang Ning's hand pulling the bow. He drew the bowstring to the full, wondering where it was, and fired arrows towards the wooden pillars in the main hall. I saw that although the arrow was powerful, it fell straight down when it hit the wooden pillar. Everyone was dumbfounded, and someone picked up the arrow on the ground and looked at it, so angry that he threw it directly to the ground.
"No wonder you can't shoot! Wooden! I don't even bother to plate iron! It is the paint of the brush! ”
Seeing this, even the little eunuchs and the guards around them clenched their fists angrily.
Feng Yao on the ground cried out: "500,000 soldiers! There are only less than 100,000 real knives and real guns! Millions of people on the other side, how do you let us resist? It's all carried in the flesh! Carrying it with flesh and blood! ”
"So Luo Tongzhi is a ...... arrow"
Ming Ruonan said coldly: "Yes, ninety-three arrows." He lost too much blood, so I bandaged him, and his wound was too deep, so I treated him, and I was sure that he would die after receiving the ninety-three arrows! ”
"Why ninety-three arrows?" As soon as someone said something puzzled, the person next to him hurriedly covered his mouth.
"Because the little marquis ......" There were people on the side who knew about it, and couldn't help sighing, and explained to the official, "Zhou Xiaohou Ye, in order to stabilize the army's heart, the ninety-three arrows in his body still hold the banner of 'Xuan' and stand tall, so he can hold the Geshan Pass ......."
The bloody people clenched their fists one after another, eager to personally slash the scum of these countries!
"It's not just corruption, it's treason!" An official gritted his teeth angrily.
Ming Ruonan swept the people present with cold eyes, and when she saw some old ministers, she closed her eyes, thinking that as long as she didn't look at it, she would be able to clean up the matter.
"There are more than 10,000 boxes of armor like this in the southwest, if you are interested, you may as well send someone to Beijing."
She opened the third wooden box, which was full of ledgers and letters.
"There are eight officials and businessmen involved in the affairs of the soldiers, and their correspondence and account books are here. The palace has killed all the masterminds, and the method of death is also a reference to the soldiers in the southwest. ”
Ming Ruonan walked into the crowd as she spoke, showing a sad smile, and her tone was also ruthless: "For example, cutting off half of the body, or cutting off the head, and being pierced by a spear......"
Her eyes narrowed slightly, looking at the two officials who had already fallen to the ground due to the two-strand battle, and said coldly: "After all, the Southwest Army has no sword or armor, why there are so many casualties, it can be explained, right?" Master Lee? ”
Li Shilang of this military department once conspired with Luo Shuangxi and sold the iron used to make blades, which also opened up a lot of relationships for him, so since Luo Shuangxi disappeared, he has never fallen asleep. At this time, when Ming Ruonan asked, he was so frightened that his eyes rolled and he fainted.
Mrs. Li didn't expect the situation to develop to this point, and now in front of the civil and military officials, he had to take a hard look at the Shangshu of the Criminal Department.
Ge Shangshu sighed, helplessly asked Li Shilang to be tied up and waited for him to fall.
"If the first three boxes aren't enough to blow your mind, then look at the fourth."
Ming Ruonan "banged" and kicked the box directly to the ground.
When everyone saw what was in the box, their eyes widened, and they were so shocked that they didn't come back to their senses for a long time.
Scattered all over the place, it was all blood-stained!
When Ming Ruonan saw this again, her body still trembled uncontrollably, she slowly took out a copy from it, and unfolded it vertically. The big seal of the "Southwest Frontier Army" on it is more eye-catching and dazzling than blood.
"But who wants to read it?"
"I'm coming!"
The one who shouted was Liang Huizhong, last year's new champion, Ming Ruonan had already heard that this Hanlin bachelor was not afraid of heaven and earth, and offended many people, and was one of the officials selected for this revolution.
"There is Lord Lao Liang!"
Liang Huizhong just took the fold and glanced at it, and then he was so angry that the green tendons on his forehead jumped, and the words that came out of his mouth trembled instantly: "Minister...... Chen Qingtan knelt down to ask St. Ann. In order to raise food and salary, he asked for reinforcements, and the ministers replayed...... Worship the Holy ...... The Holy Testament ......"
Liang Huizhong had just finished reading one letter, his eyes were already red, and he picked up the second one, and he was even more angry: "Chen Qing Tan...... St. Ann's please...... There is no food to eat......"
"Chen Qing Tan, please Shengjian...... The armor is different, and I am afraid ......"
"Instant Secret...... The 2nd Battalion of the Border Army...... Food-...... Three days without food......"
"The border army suffered heavy casualties...... Qing Tan asks for help......"
"Qing Tan is afraid of death and can't ...... Unable to serve the Great Declaration...... Please...... Holy ......, please"
Ming Ruonan clenched his fists tightly so as not to let the anger in his body erupt.
She said coldly: "Your Excellency, can you hear it, how many letters are this?" ”
Everyone was silent, and even those who really had doubts about this matter never imagined that it would be so rampant.
"The lower officials please St. Ann, the war in the southwest is tight, beg for ...... Asking for help...... "Liang Huizhong's eyes were red, "this is ...... The excerpt of the southwest county Taishou asking for help......"
"The southwest county poured all the county's strength into raising food and grass, and the soldiers had no way to ask for help...... Please Holy Judge ......"
"Geshan Pass will be broken...... Heavy casualties, please ...... Ask for the garrison of Xin'an County...... Help......"
Liang Huizhong thought of this, his voice gradually choked, and everyone present seemed to follow these folds and fell into despair step by step.
"Lord Liang, I'm sorry for you to check how many seals are in the box."
Liang Huizhong gritted his teeth, wishing that it was himself who stabbed these people.
"One Hundred and Seventy-Seven ......"
Ming Ruonan sneered: "Do you know where you found these twists and turns?" It is the garden of Chu An's mansion! The military newspaper is folded, and the paper material produced in our southwest is fireproof and waterproof, so Chu An, the old thief, can't deal with it, and he is afraid of being discovered, so he can only be buried in his own garden! ”
Ming Ruonan asked everyone again: "Do you know, why did this Chu An intercept the excerpt of the military report?" ”
Everyone shook their heads, and someone asked, "But you have received bribes from the enemy?" ”
Ming Ruonan shook his head and smiled wryly: "Has anyone read Chu An's guilty book?" ”
Ge Shangshu of the Criminal Department frowned and said, "The old minister has seen it, is it ...... Is it because it's ridiculous? ”
"Exactly!" With tears in her eyes, Ming Ruonan breathed heavily, trying not to let herself cry, "When the expedited excerpt was sent to the Zhongzhou Post Station, this Chu An was messing with a lieutenant in the Zhongzhou garrison, so he missed a whole day. He was worried that he would be punished for delaying the military report, and he was afraid that his affair with a married woman would be known, so he simply withheld all the folds from the southwest. Even the horses and soldiers who sent the excerpts were all killed by him......"
"It's just an urgent military report, which can be sent directly to the capital by the border army's fast horse, without passing through the post station."
Ming Ruonan's fierce gaze shot straight into the crowd: "Then you have to ask the person who hid these other hundred folds." ”