In the early morning of the next day, when the autumn sun was shining, Song Nan led a thousand Jinyi guards to re-replenish and recuperate, and the guards left Beijing on the road, and there were many officials who came to see them off, Zhang Yong of the inner court came in person, and the marquis of the regimental camp were all present under the leadership of Zhang Lun, and there were also many officials from the outer court; However, none of the main officials of the cabinet court, such as Yang Ting and Liang Chu Feihong, did not come, as if the battle had nothing to do with them.

Song Nan sneered secretly, these people don't even care about the face on the scene, the emperor is the day when he sees off the officials, they don't even show their faces, and they don't even bother to send someone to see them off, obviously they have already shown their attitude of breaking up, this is to completely expose the contradictions between the two factions under the sun.

Wang Yong's injuries have not yet recovered, this time the one who protects Song Nan has been replaced by Wan Zhi, who has been in the palace as the commander of the Jinyi Wei Han General for many years, watching Song Nan and Wang Yong gallop outside, he has already asked Song Nan several times to adjust his position. Last night, Song Nan proposed to Zhengde to transfer Wan Zhi to fight with the army, and Zhengde also agreed, this time Wan Zhi was finally able to go out of the palace to fight with Song Nan, and he was naturally in a good mood; Since he hit the capital, his mouth has not been closed.

Song Nan and Wan Zhi led a thousand fire guns guard battalion on the road first, followed by 5,000 soldiers and horses escorting grain and grass materials to march slowly, Yang Yiqing was also left in the capital, Song Nan asked him to be the general logistics officer of the Northern Expedition, and more than 3 million taels of silver in the war bonds raised were directly handed over to Yang Yiqing to take care of, so that he could purchase grain and grass in the rear and be responsible for the supply of logistics. Since this is a war that does not require the participation of the outer court, Song Nan will never entrust the matter of being responsible for logistics to the relevant departments of the outer court, and Song Nan does not believe them at all.

The horses galloped, more than a thousand horses galloped on the west avenue, Song Nan rode a big black horse and ran in the middle of the team, his mind was chaotic, remembering the news he learned from Zhengde last night, Song Nan faintly felt a sense of crisis. This sense of crisis does not come from the success or failure of the Northern Expedition, but from the potential crises that are rolling in the imperial court. The seemingly calm court is actually brewing a huge storm, and it is not an unwise choice for him to have to fight with the Tartars leaving Beijing at this moment?

The autumn colors on both sides of the road are thick, and the scenery is extremely pleasing to the eye, but Song Nan is not in the mood to appreciate it at all, except for the thrilling conversation last night, there is another thing that has been lingering in Song Nan's heart. Song Nan's thoughts returned to a farce in the white paper workshop in the afternoon the day before yesterday.

That afternoon, Song Nan sat at the war bond sale site as a few days ago, receiving the bustling people who subscribed, and during the rest of the subscription break, more than a dozen richly dressed people came to the stage and asked for silver tickets ranging from hundreds of thousands of taels to millions of denominations. The purchase of bonds shocked the masters on the stage and the people in the audience.

Song Nanben temporarily rested and sat behind. Drinking tea in the pile of silver on the stage, I heard some commotion in front of me, and hurriedly came out to check, and saw that the chief master was explaining something to those people, and those people were shouting loudly, and the scene was extremely chaotic.

"What's going on?" Song Nan asked.

The chief master hurriedly turned around and reported: "These people came to subscribe for bonds, and they took out huge amounts of silver tickets, some of which were as high as one million, and the least was hundreds of thousands of taels. But they didn't listen, and they started to shout. ”

Song Nan was stunned for a moment, and looked at the more than ten people standing at the entrance of the stage, and those people obviously looked a little cramped and uneasy when they saw Song Nan appear. Song Nan stepped forward and said, "Are you here to subscribe for bonds?" ”

A middle-aged man with a pointed chin said in a half-baked official voice: "Yes, I heard that Zhenguo Gong is here to raise money for the Northern Expedition to recover the Hetao, and I have come to make a contribution." ”

Song Nan nodded and said: "I want to make a contribution, but what I advocate is to do what I can, a few such large-scale purchases, can they be carefully considered?" It's just a piece of paper. ”

The man with a pointed chin straightened his chest and said: "What's the matter, didn't Zhen Guogong promise a three-percent bonus and a one-year principal dividend return?" I don't believe in others, can Zhenguo Gong still pit us ordinary people? If Zhenguo is public and untrustworthy, isn't it setting up a situation to harm the people in our capital who are dedicated to contributing to the country? ”

Song Nan frowned and asked, "Who are you?" ”

The sharp-chin man stalked his neck and said, "What? I'm here to subscribe for bonds, but I'm not here to be interrogated, who are you, and whether this bond is still for sale? If you don't sell it, you will post a notice as soon as possible, and if you disperse, we will be interrogated if we wait for our hearts to work together, how can this be reasonable. ”

Zhao Dapeng, a thousand households in the guard camp on the side, shouted in a low voice: "Presumptuous, the one in front of you is my grandfather Song of Daming Town, how can you talk like this?" ”

The man with a pointed chin was startled, and there was a hint of panic in his eyes, but a moment was fleeting, and he said: "It's naturally better for Zhenguo Gong to come in person, the villain just wants to ask Zhen Guogong, is my silver ticket fake?" Why don't you want to sell me bonds? We are also the people of the Ming Dynasty, can't we do our part? ”

Song Nan smiled and said, "Sell, why don't you sell it?" You have this heart to serve the country, how can this official not give you this opportunity, master, accept it all. ”

The chief master whispered in Song Nan's ear in a panic: "Grandpa Guo, the silver tickets held by these people are as high as eight million taels, if this is collected, the interest alone will give them more than two million taels a year, which is not possible." Didn't you tell me in advance that if the silver taels exceeded 100,000 taels, you need to inquire about the source, and the total amount of bonds sold should not exceed 6 million taels, and now that 8 million taels have come at once, how can you accept them? ”

Song Nan was also a little hesitant for a while, at the beginning of the issuance of war bonds, Song Nan thought that there would not be many people responding, so he was attracted by the high interest rate of thirty percent, but anyone with a little vision knows that the profit of thirty percent is too exaggerated, and it will be returned within a year, Ren Song Nan has three heads and six arms, unless he finds a mountain of gold, where does this profit come from?

Song Nan's original plan was only to raise two or three million taels of silver, and if the profit in a year was only a few hundred thousand taels, this would be no problem; Moreover, Song Nan did this not just to raise this money, but also to create a momentum and stake down the anti-war remarks spread by the outer court. Later, even after Zhu Xiufu's reminder, he raised silver taels in this form to participate in the profiteering business of post-war reconstruction, but Song Nan still controlled the risks, and let the total amount of money not exceed six million taels, so that these usurious silver taels could be shared and written off in a large amount of consortium silver taels, so that they could be digested calmly.

But now, when the amount of silver raised was close to the limit, a huge sum of 8 million taels of silver suddenly came, and 2.4 million taels of interest alone had to be paid, which really caught people off guard. Almost instantly, Song Nan understood one thing, the arrival of these people was no accident; People who can come up with so much cash are rare in the capital; And these people did not look like they were people with huge family assets, no matter how they dressed, and they were probably ordered to come here. The purpose is very simple, take advantage of the high profits you have promised, buy a large amount of bonds, and when it comes time to return the principal and interest, you will be in a dilemma, if you can't return the principal and interest normally, it will be a trouble, you will be made smelly overnight, will be characterized as a crime of defrauding property, and the court will not sit idly by and watch such a huge amount of fraud. In particular, the commanders behind these people will definitely add fuel to the fire and make themselves stinky and messy.

It's a well-designed game.

"Is it for sale or not? Is Zhen Guogong afraid that he will not have the money to return in the future? If you don't have this ability, why do you want to give people three percent of the benefits? The man with a sharp chin was a little impatient when he saw Song Nan and the master muttering and talking.

"Isn't it actually a scam? I waited for the amount to be too large, and the town Guogong was afraid that there would be trouble, so he didn't dare to accept it? The bonds subscribed by the people add up to millions of taels, how does Zhen Guogong plan to end up? Another man began to stir up the crowd.

The people looked at the stage silently, muttering in their hearts, weren't they really said by these people? Is your own dozens of taels of silver wasted? If you want to say that if you are deceived by a few dozen taels of silver, you can't go to a lawsuit with Zhen Guogong, Zhen Guogong must think the same way, people send hundreds of thousands of millions of silver to the door, it must be a rich family, but Zhen Guogong is afraid. ”

"Disperse, disperse, people don't accept it, we can't do it, but I want to remind the people who subscribed to the bonds to hurry up and get back the silver, what war bonds are three percent of the profit, I think it is to loot the land to deceive the people to take out their savings to squander, when the time comes, the people are the grandfather of the country, but they don't give the money to the people, can the people still jump to the sky?"

"Yes, I see it too."

More than a dozen people on the stage shook their heads loudly, waved their hands and walked off the stage.

Song Nan shouted: "Stop." ”

Several people turned around and said, "What? ”

"Master, I received their money, and I will sign and seal it."

"Grandpa Guo...... This ......"

"Don't talk nonsense, men." Song Nan sat down at the back of the case like a whirlwind, ready to seal and sign, and the chief master had no choice but to wave his hand and say, "Accept it, fill in the amount." ”

Several masters took the silver tickets in the hands of those people and checked them, filled in the amount of bonds according to the amount, and sent them to Song Nan. Song Nan took the pen and signed it, stamped it with the seal of Zhenguogong, and handed it over to those people one by one, and the more than ten people turned around and stepped down without saying a word in their arms.

"Is that all there is?" Song Nan shouted.

"I still have private matters, and the town has arranged a banquet, and I don't have time to eat." The man with a pointed chin became more and more presumptuous, turning his head and baring his teeth and smiling.

"Come on, each of them will be slapped twenty times, just now these people wantonly slandered the emperor's promise to issue war bonds, and they should have been taken into the Jinyi Wei Yamen for interrogation, but this official website opened one side, and the bamboo board slapped twenty mouths to show punishment. As for disrespect to the public of their own country, the ruler has always been merciful, and he has forgiven them the sin of disrespect. Someone came to execute it. Song Nan shouted.

Zhao Dapeng smiled, he had long wanted to do it, Lord Song didn't say anything, he also planned to arrange for the brothers to follow these dozen guys, and beat them down halfway, and now it is even more natural for adults to speak.

At that moment, dozens of Jinyi guards rushed up and pressed more than a dozen people such as the man with pointed chin to the entrance of the stage, and the more than ten people screamed in panic, but they were grabbed by their hair and restrained; But seeing the big bamboo board wrapped in red silk with a wide palm coming across the air, it was crisp like a cannon battle for the New Year, and after a while, these dozen people were full of blood, their teeth were loose, and their faces were swollen like pigs' heads.