045 The crux of the problem: military salaries
"Miss Su, Zuo Xiang, please come over."
In the morning, not long after Yu Fei finished breakfast and comforted the white tiger who had eaten a large pot of fresh pork, Qi Wenfeng stood outside the door and said respectfully to the people in the house.
Lying on the white tiger all night, Yu Fei, who hadn't slept well, stood up, patted the white hair on her body at some point, and asked the white tiger to wait for her in the house, while telling Yin'er not to let people into the house disturb the peace of the white tiger.
When these things were done, Yu Fei walked towards Ye Yang Moqi's residence with a tired face, and at a glance, Qi Wenfeng, who knew that it was inevitable all night.
Yu Fei, who was walking on Qi Wenfeng's left side, seemed to follow casually, but her mind was full of thoughts about the reason why Ye Yang Moqi called her over. It shouldn't be a matter of encircling and suppressing bandits, the matter of Black Silk Grass was not solved last night, and Ye Yang Moqi could not immediately go to encircle and suppress bandits.
So why?
Just when Yu Fei was still thinking, she had already followed Qi Wenfeng to Ye Yang Moqi's residence, and as soon as she entered the house, she saw Peng Jiang with an angry expression on his face, and his two guards.
"Miss Su, do you have any opinions about the Black Silk Grass?" Since Peng Jiang agreed with Yu Fei yesterday, today Ye Yang Moqi is naturally no longer commensurate with a military advisor. As soon as he saw Yu Fei come in, he asked straight to the point.
Ask her about the black silk grass? Yu Fei raised her eyebrows, she was indeed a little surprised that Ye Yang Moqi would come to ask her, how could she ask her about the things in this military camp?
It makes sense that Yu Fei would be so surprised, but after all, this black silk grass was discovered by her, in Ye Yang Moqi's heart, Yu Fei was already extraordinary, but Peng Jiang discovered the black silk grass because of her fearlessness, and then listened to Qi Wenfeng's "inadvertently" mentioned about her actions in the capital, and for a while, Yu Fei's identity was also raised.
At this time when she is at a loss, she will think of letting this amazing and beautiful woman try, maybe she can really find out the reason for this matter.
Although Yu Fei doesn't like to add a useless burden to herself, it's good that no one in the court has made waves in this matter, if there is, then Ye Yang Moqi and her can't get rid of it.
In order to save the unnecessary and indefinite trouble in the future, Yu Fei decided to investigate this grain and grass incident with them, but she did not guarantee that it would be revealed, after all, this kind of officialdom may involve money, distribution of power and other issues, and it is not something that she can easily solve as a modern person from another world who has only been here for a year.
So when Yu Fei was willing to give it a try, Qi Wenfeng and the Right Protector, under the instructions of Ye Yang Moqi and Peng Jiang, told Yu Fei the results of the investigation from yesterday to the present.
The gang is a heavy land, easy for others to enter, the gang is Peng Jiang gullible, and the people who purchase and escort are also senior soldiers who have not made mistakes for many years, and the people who send food are even more wronged, they are only responsible for taking them, and it is impossible to mix poisonous weeds into the food.
This has its own reasoning, and it doesn't look like a person who mixes poisonous weeds, so that Peng Jiang, a rough man, is confused when he hears it, and he is angry but has nowhere to go. If it weren't for Ye Yang Moqi pressing him by the side, I was afraid that he would treat these people heavily, and I was not afraid that they would not recruit.
But Peng Jiang also knew that this was the next policy after all, and it should never be so until it was absolutely necessary, these soldiers were indispensable companions in the war with him, Peng Jiang was unwilling to treat them like this, and he didn't want to believe that they would poison him.
After listening to the results of the investigation of the right protector and others, Yu Fei was silent for a while, sitting upright on the slender and soft canopy and just tapping lightly and regularly on her arm.
Yu Fei gently tapped the slender soft lint of his arm and stopped, and asked Peng Jiang, who looked angry, with a calm expression, "General Peng, can you lend me the account book in the general and take it back for three days?" β
Before Peng Jiang could react to what was going on, the left guard behind him glanced at Yu Fei with that expressionless handsome face, while the right guard was not so calm, and he shouted: "Miss Su, the account books in the barracks are not something that everyone can read!" Even if you are a military advisor appointed by the emperor himself, you can't overstep your authority! β
Sure enough, it was trouble, Yu Fei knew that things were not so easy to handle after listening to the words of the right guard, but now she was helpless.
But with years of experience in working hard in the Su family and dealing with those treacherous and cunning shareholders, Yu Fei intuitively thought that there was a problem with military salaries, and maybe it was involved in other places, but she had no evidence, and Yu Fei didn't want to wade into this troubled water too deeply. As long as the matter of the black silk grass is successfully found, then the problem of the aftermath is Ye Yang Moqi and them, and it has nothing to do with her.
"Right Protector, go and move all the account books of the past few years to Miss Su's house! I'll take care of it! β
Just when everyone was suspicious that Yu Fei's move would anger Peng Jiang, the fierce general broke through everyone's eyes and roared, patting his chest proudly and sincerely saying to Yu Fei, "Miss Su, the soldiers who follow me in this barracks are all true men who protect their families and love the country, please leave this matter to you!" β
"Su did his best." In the face of Peng Jiang, a straightforward iron man who showed his true temperament, Yu Fei's cold words to his lips turned around and became more humane, but Peng Jiang, who had always been rough, didn't feel anything, but Ye Yang Moqi was interested in it.
After Yu Fei returned to his residence, except for taking the white tiger out to hunt twice and playing three tunes for it, all his energy was put into this thick stack of account books.
Putting one of the account books aside, Yu Fei glanced at the remaining two-thirds of the account books with a little headache, if the Su family used such a cumbersome form of bookkeeping, I was afraid that in the past few years when she was the president, she would have already turned white and died countless brain cells.
Thankfully, it's not for nothing. Yu Fei took advantage of the light of the night pearl and looked at the information she had sorted out in her hand, and finally lived up to the expectations of the big man. How long has it been since she had been in such a relaxed mood to look at these dense things, and even the slightest calculation was forgotten for a whileβ
By the third day, in Ye Yang Moqi's residence, the people who were sitting were still those three days ago, but their expressions at this time were even worse than before, and Peng Jiang's eyes were already bloodshot.
"Miss Su, is there any progress?" Compared with others, Ye Yang Moqi's mental state is surprisingly good, and he looks like a little nothing, if it weren't for Yu Fei knowing that he has a calm temperament and is about to become his real face when he wears a mask, I'm afraid that he will also be deceived by his gentle appearance.
"Because the account books are really unfinished, it may be a little messy, so please listen patiently and see if what I think is correct." As soon as she entered Ye Yang Moqi's house, Yu Fei was not in a hurry to sit down, but picked up the information she had compiled and began to talk about it in detail little by little.
"In addition to grain and grass, there are also weapons, camp accounts, military uniforms, etc., and when I looked at these accounts, I asked Yin'er to ask many soldiers, but their food did not match what was recorded in the accounts. The account records that you can eat at least one meal of meat every two days, but the fact is that you can only eat it once every five days, and most of the time it is just gruel. β
When Yu Fei finished talking about the inconsistency of this meal, although Peng Jiang's eyes were full of question marks, he remembered Yu Fei's words before and did not bother, while Ye Yang Moqi looked at the dense piece of paper in Yu Fei's hand with a pensive expression.
"Look at this military uniform again, it doesn't match what is recorded, each soldier is missing a set every season, and I haven't finished reading the rest, so I won't go into detail one by one. But all of the above is enough to prove one thing, someone is making false accounts! β
It wasn't until Yu Fei finished talking this long paragraph and didn't continue for a long time that the right protector didn't know that she had finished speaking, and only then did he dare to ask in a low voice, "But what does this have to do with the black silk grass?" β
"If someone makes a false account, it means that there is a problem with the military salary, and in order to make up the account of the military salary, it is natural to find other places to start. If you want to replenish the soldiers and horses, you will get a large amount of silver taels in the barracks, and when the time comes, the people who make false accounts will be able to offset the accounts that did not match before! β
After saying so many words in one breath, Yu Fei picked up the cup of tea that had been cooled for a long time and drank it with a dry mouth, ignoring the colorful expressions on the faces of Peng Jiang and the others.
"Arrest all the people sent by the household department!" Peng Jiang shouted loudly in anger, and two soldiers immediately came in outside, and after a while, four thin officials in official uniforms came in, trembling and kneeling on the ground.
Under Peng Jiang's questioning, these four officials from the household department naturally refused to admit it, and tried all kinds of quibbles, so angry that Peng Jiang walked over and kicked the person closest to him, and his mouth couldn't help but be angry.
"General Ben took this group of men to ensure that you, the so-called court officials, ate and drank spicy food and spicy food all day long in the capital, and were not bullied by foreign enemies, and now you are actually using these poisonous tricks on these soldiers who protect the family and defend the country for your own selfish desires, and Lao Tzu is going to chop you up!"
In the end, Peng Jiang was already furious, kicked and couldn't understand his anger, and pulled out the matching sword on his waist on the spot.
It's not that Yu Fei, who has never seen blood, still sits there calmly and continues to drink her cold tea, but Ye Yang Moqi knows that it is powerful, so he hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed Peng Jiang and gave him a slightly calmer look, "Peng Jiang, this matter involves a lot, you can't be impulsive!" β
Although Ye Yang Moqi is his friend, he knows that life in the army is hard, and how can Peng Jiang, who treats his soldiers as brothers, endure this breath, Peng Jiang pushed Ye Yang Moqi away without saying a word, raised the long sword in his hand, and planned to stab it.
Shaking his head and sighing, Yu Fei put down the teacup in his hand, and before Peng Jiangjian was about to fall, he finally relented, "General Peng, if you really kill them, I'm afraid that you won't be able to find out who is behind the scenes." β
In fact, the matter ends here, and it is the best result for Yu Fei, after all, it really involves officials in the court, and if she can't keep it, she will offend anyone.
But Peng Jiang's sword went down, and he couldn't find the real culprit, not to mention that he had crossed the line and killed the officials of the household department, which was enough to have a heart for him. No matter how bad the situation is, those who are afraid that Peng Jiang will find out the people behind the scenes, they are afraid that they will poison him even more, and then these soldiers will really have nothing to rely on.
is really close to Zhu Zhechi, close to black and black, how long has she been with Peng Jiang, she was infected by his hot-blooded and reckless true temperament, and even opened her mouth to put herself in a passive position when the pros and cons were so obvious.
Speaking bluntly at Yu Fei's opening, Ye Yang Moqi glanced at her in surprise, but when he saw that Peng Jiang was loose, he took another step and said, "Peng Jiang, if you don't want to kill yourself and kill the soldiers in your hands, put down the sword in your hand!" β
"Hey, even if you become a general, you're still such a wretch!"