Chapter 14: Waiting for me here

"Get out of the way, get out of the way!"

A large number of soldiers ran through the streets, shouting as they ran. The people in the streets were so frightened that they fled for the long haul.

"Jinyiwei, the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses, this is going to make a big move, but I don't know who is unlucky?" Someone whispered on the corner.

Most of the people in Beijing can have some relationship with the powerful, and ordinary people are not qualified to live in the city at all, and these people are the most daring.

"Who else could it be? Mostly ......" The man looked around and stretched out two hands, drawing out nine fingers.

Wei ...... Haha, pour good. The companions burst out laughing.

"Hey, isn't that the little prince of the British Mansion?" Suddenly, someone shouted.

"Isn't it, I haven't seen him for a few days, why is he in the team to raid the house?"

"Shizi, Shiziye."

Someone shouted in his ear, Zhang Shize turned his head slightly, as if he was a member of the family, but Zhang Shize ignored it, and took a group of people to commit suicide to the Ningguo Mansion.

Wei Liangqing, the Duke of Ningguo, is Wei Zhongxian's nephew, who was originally a farmer in the countryside, and after Wei Zhongxian gained power, Wei Liangqing came to Beijing as Wei Zhongxian's nephew and took an idle position in Jinyiwei.

In the sixth year of the Apocalypse, Ning Yuan won a great victory, and under the operation of Wei Zhongxian, Wei Liangqing, who had nothing to do with the battle of Ningyuan, was awarded the battle merits, was named Su Ningbo, and became a lord, and those who worked hard and fought with Jiannu received far inferior rewards.

In October of the same year, the imperial court completed the construction of the three palaces, and the eunuch Li Yongzhen played Wei Zhongxian's meritorious service, and entered the lord of the prince, and Wei Liangqing was also named the Duke of Ningguo and the Taishi.

It is unbelievable that an illiterate farmer who can only farm the land has become a top nobleman because of an uncle who is a eunuch.

"Damn, copy it to Lao Tzu, drive everyone to the yard, and slaughter all the disobedient ones!"

kicked open the gate of the Ningguo Mansion, ignoring the colorless family members in the mansion, Zhang Shize roared viciously.

His grandmother's, Lao Tzu's ancestors worked hard to follow Grandpa Cheng's Jingjing, how many battles he fought and how many injuries he suffered, so he left a duke title for his descendants. A guy with no eggs coaxed the emperor to a duke, which made Zhang Shize very unhappy. What kind of goods is Wei Liangqing, is he worthy of being a national prince?

Now, Zhang Shize is very excited to personally lead someone to raid Wei Liangqing's house.

personally commanded his subordinates to drive Wei Liangqing's wife, children and subordinates into the courtyard, and let them tremble.

"How good it was to know that I had been farming in my hometown? Why bother to come to Beijing to enjoy the wealth. Wei Liangqing stood pale and muttered to himself.

Zhang Shize glanced at Wei Liangqing with disdain, ignored it, and began to assign people to copy the house by hand.

"Listen to Lao Tzu," Zhang Shize scolded angrily, "Everyone will have a reward after the raid, and whoever is not clean in the raid will be killed!" ”

The murderous words frightened the soldiers in charge of raiding the house, and everyone was frightened, and they shouted that they didn't dare. Of course, some people disagree, thinking that Zhang Shize is just talking.

Zhang Shize didn't say more, waved his hand and ordered people to work, anyway, it has already been said, some people can't blame themselves for looking for death. The soldiers rushed into the courtyards and began to search for belongings.

Soon, boxes of gold and silver, and a large number of pearls and jade agate were moved to the hall, and five or six account offices were responsible for counting them one by one and recording them.

Zhang Shize carried a sharp knife and patrolled everywhere, supervising the search.

Suddenly, someone came to Zhang Shize and whispered a few words in his ear, Zhang Shize was furious, and soon came to a room, ordered the person who searched the room to come out, and pulled a pearl necklace from him under the man's frightened gaze.

"The prince spares his life, the villain will never dare anymore." The officer kowtowed like garlic and pleaded.

Zhang Shize didn't say much, raised his arm and slashed it off, and Dou Da's head rolled to the ground.

"Come on, take the head to the courtyards to show everyone, and tell them that if they don't want to die, they should clean Lao Tzu's hands and feet." Zhang Shize wiped the blood stains on the knife on the corpse, and commanded coldly.

A brocade-clothed guard picked up the head and walked out quickly, and soon, the entire team of raiders was solemn. Some of them, pale-faced, quietly took out gold and silver ingots from their bosoms and placed them in the confiscated piles of money.

Everywhere in Beijing, the same thing is happening in the industrial courtyards belonging to Wei Zhongxian and his children and nephews.

A batch of money was counted, and after the registration was made, the brocade clothes were loaded and pulled away, transported to the palace and put into the inner warehouse, and the account books were sent to the Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen.

"Hehe, after only half a day's effort, I found out more than 58,000 taels of gold, 3.63 million taels of silver, and the value of other pearls and jade has not yet been estimated, let alone the Tiansan shop. Wei Zhongxian has only been in power for a few years, and he has accumulated so much wealth, and he really doesn't complain! ”

Zhu Youzhen sighed, and handed the account book to Huang Liji after reading it.

Huang Li looked at it quietly, but said in his heart What is so strange, Wei Zhongxian is powerful, his minions are all over the world, how can he be greedy for millions of taels of silver!

"Your Majesty, Mao Wenlong, the general of Pingliao, said that it was about to enter winter, and hundreds of thousands of people on Phi Island lacked food and clothing, and I am afraid it would be difficult to survive this winter, so Mao Wenlong asked the imperial court to allocate 500,000 taels of silver to help the Liao people." Huang Liji said.

Zhu Youzhen said: "What does the cabinet think about this matter? ”

Huang Liji smiled bitterly: "Most people do not agree to the allocation, thinking that Mao Wenlong's appetite is getting bigger and bigger, and the Dongjiang Army has few results in the face of Jiannu, and Dongjiang Town seems to have no need to exist alone." ”

Zhu Youzhen pondered for a while, and said slowly: "It can't be said that Phi Dao is located behind Jiannu, and it is still somewhat useful to threaten Jiannu's lair from the direction of Yizhou." Phi Island is barren and does not grow crops, and the poverty of the Liao people can also be imagined.

In this way, the imperial court raised a batch of grain and sent it to Phi Dao to feed the people. Tell Mao Wenlong that he can't just wait for the court to raise him, how can more than 100,000 people on Phi Island be idle all day long? Fishing and salting, you can always find something to eat. ”

Huang Liji said: "What Your Majesty said is that in fact, the money and grain allocated by the imperial court are enough to feed the Liao people, but it is the greed of the generals and the embezzlement of military salaries that is difficult to stop, which leads to insufficient money." ”

Zhu Youzhen asked: "In that case, why don't you send the imperial history to investigate?" ”

Huang Liji smiled bitterly: "Not only the Dongjiang Army, but all the border armies are the same. If it is pressed, there will be a mutiny, and there is no way to investigate it. ”

Zhu Youzhen's face was not good-looking, although he knew that this was the case, he still couldn't help but be angry. In the previous life, he had no way to deal with this situation, and when he lost the battle, he didn't even dare to deal with the generals, so he could only convict the civilian officials who accompanied the army.

This must be changed, and when my new army is trained, it will slowly transform all armies.

"Your Majesty, do you think of Mao Wenlong's salary?" Huang Liji interrupted Zhu Youzhen.

"Didn't I say it, allocate some money and food." Zhu Youjian didn't have a good airway.

"The household department said that the silver in the treasury was useful, and it was really impossible to squeeze out the extra silver." Huang Liji said as he looked at the account book of the copying family.

Zhu Youzhen was speechless for a moment, damn it, he was waiting for himself here.