Chapter 83: The Old Bottom Is Uncovered
Twilight, Frost Thunder Legion Quartermaster Depot.
Dylan walked past the trucks with a gloomy face, the convoy was robbed twice in a row, and everyone up and down the quartermaster department was in danger.
The looted military supplies have not been recovered for a long time, and someone in the Frost Thunder Legion must be held accountable for this. The first to bear the brunt is naturally General Shino, who has just taken over the army's logistics, and he, the quartermaster in Twilight, may not escape punishment.
Two quartermaster officers with scrolls in their hands followed Dylan, while the smiling middle-aged steward of Xingyuan Commercial Bank accompanied him.
"Director Dylan, according to the quantity required by the Quartermaster Department, all the supplies have been gathered, please count them. ”
Dylan barely squeezed out a smile on his face, "I have to count on your old friends to help me at a critical time, if it weren't for your Xingyuan Commercial Bank to get together this material so quickly, I wouldn't be able to explain to the above." ”
"Director Dylan has won the award, and the Quartermaster Department takes good care of our Xingyuan Commercial Bank on weekdays, and at a critical time, our Commercial Bank is emptying its own treasury, and we must first help Dylan to overcome this difficulty. The steward of the firm replied with a smile.
Dylan nodded slightly, turned back to the official behind him and ordered: "Handle the handover with the steward, although we are old friends, but the inventory link should be careful or careful, and don't let the people above catch other truths of our quartermaster department on the cusp." ”
The two officials nodded yes and were ready to start counting and registering from the first truck, and the men from the comptoir also stepped forward to help unpack the boxes.
Inside the carriage were neatly stacked sacks of grain, and the quartermaster officer inserted the grain into two bags at random and carefully checked the quality of the grain.
The cars were counted, and when the fifth car was found, the cover of the car was lifted and the rear compartment was pulled away, and there was a loud noise, and stones mixed with dirt poured down from the inside of the car.
Dylan, along with the two quartermaster's officers, was stunned on the spot.
Cold sweat instantly flowed from the head of the steward of the trading house, and he took two steps forward to push the man away, and looked carefully into the carriage.
No matter how closely you look at it, the soil will not become food.
Dylan also reacted, and roared with a pale face: "Open, all open!"
All the carriages were opened, and more than two-thirds of them were filled with gravel and dirt.
The steward of the trading house was already slumped on the ground in fright, and his mouth kept muttering, "How can this be?
Dylan was so angry that his fingers trembled, if it wasn't for today's careful investigation, if this batch of military supplies was transported to the legion, it would be a felony to kill himself according to military law after being found above!
"Xingyuan Commercial Bank is bold and reckless, dare to adulterate military supplies, and arrest and interjudge everyone in Xingyuan Commercial Bank!" Dylan, who was furious, began to arrest people without even examining the reason.
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Twilight, Linxi Tower.
In a secluded seat by the window on the third floor, an old man in a brocade robe sat by the window.
The old man has a glass of sake in his hand, three exquisite side dishes on the table, and he pours himself to drink in the wind near the window.
A rush of footsteps sounded at the top of the stairs, and a young warrior in Tsing Yi hurriedly ran up, "Shopkeeper, something happened, something happened!"
"There are no rules, what is the panic?" the old man reprimanded, this person was the shopkeeper of Xingyuan Trading House in Twilight.
"The Quartermaster Department found a large number of stones and dirt in the food we sent over this time, and the steward and delivery guy were arrested on the spot, and the Quartermaster Department has already sent someone to the trading house to arrest you!" said the Tsing Yi warrior in a panic.
The old man's hand shook, and the wine glass fell on the floor and shattered.
"How can the grain in the goods turn into stones and dirt?" the shopkeeper of the Xingyuan Trading House was puzzled, "You immediately call Pulis to come here to meet me." ”
It didn't take long for Arthur to appear in front of the old man the short man they had been staring at before.
"Have you inspected the goods before?" asked the shopkeeper of the comptoir.
The short man named Pulis already had a rough idea of what was going on the way here, and as he pondered, he said slowly, "I checked when I first went to the col, and the cart was indeed filled with grain. The second time I hired a coachman, I couldn't check it again in front of them. After that, the goods stayed at the post station for another day, where there were many people and there were people guarding the post station, and it was unlikely that the goods would be exchanged. So I guess the grain must have been swapped out after my first departure. ”
"Who replaced that?" said the shopkeeper of the comptoir, mused.
"Who else knows where the convoy is parked?" Pulis asked tentatively.
The shopkeeper of the comptoir hesitated for a moment, but finally decided to tell the truth, after all, the two sides are now grasshoppers on a rope, "The orc hunting team hijacked the transport convoy, and then the people inside the quartermaster department informed us of the pick-up location. ”
"The orcs did it?"
"Probably not, if the orcs want to be taken away directly, there is no reason to come back and drop the bag after evacuating. ”
"That must be their side of the problem. Pulis judged.
The shopkeeper of the comptoir suddenly stared at Priss, "There is also a possibility, whether you have been followed." ”
Pulis was so frightened that he hurriedly waved his hand, "It's definitely not me, I'm very cautious this time, and I didn't know that the grain would be sold back to the quartermaster before I came." ”
The shopkeeper of the comptoir was just testing Priss, and judging from Priss's reaction, the problem did not seem to be with him, so the problem must be within the Frost Thunder Legion. But he still couldn't understand why the people in the Frost Thunder Legion did this, just to swallow his share of interests?
The shopkeeper guessed the right direction, but he couldn't guess that it was Arthur who stuck a lever in it.
And he didn't have a chance to guess anymore, the chaotic footsteps sounded, and the soldiers of the Frost Thunder Legion had rushed up, led by Quartermaster Dylan.
"Director Dylan, I think there may be a misunderstanding here, and I'm now investigating who stole our food?" explained the shopkeeper with a pretended calm.
"We're not here to steal food, it's about you colluding with orcs to loot military supplies!" Arthur smiled and turned out from behind Dylan.
Although Huey hadn't gone in before, he had been outside the Fengyue place where Priss had gone. The shopkeeper of the firm summoned Priss in a panic, and Huey followed the vine and touched it.
The shopkeeper of the trading house was so frightened that he hurriedly defended, "Director Dylan, don't be joking, what colluding with orcs and robbing military rations? These are all serious crimes of death, how can our small business house have the courage and ability?"
Arthur looked at the shopkeeper of the merchant with a smile, "You may not know that there are not only stones and dirt in your goods, but also a few tokens from the cavalry battalion of the Frost Thunder Legion. And those tokens were stuffed into the cavalry escorting the convoy on the night the last shipment was looted, how do you explain that?"
"I really don't know this, our firm has been wronged!"
"And what about him?" Arthur said, gesturing at the short man, "we've been following him all the way from the col. ”
The sweat of the shopkeeper of the firm continued to flow, and the leisurely and complacent clinical bath had long disappeared, leaving only tension and fear.
Arthur suddenly approached the shopkeeper and said in a very low voice: "There is such a big thing as the two robberies of military supplies, and someone has to come out to take the blame to calm down." ”
The shopkeeper of the merchant house seemed to suddenly understand, and shouted hysterically: "It's Alva, all this was planned by Alva of your quartermaster's department!"