Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.inforeadx;?" The silver of the imperial court went to the Duji battlefield," Wei Chizhen said: "The imperial court believes that Duji is the main battlefield of this national war, and all military resources and armaments should be given priority to the Duji battlefield, the northern battlefield where our army is located and the southern battlefield where the southwest group army is located, the military salary of the imperial court has long been broken, but the southwest group army still has the military salary delivered by Zhenjun, in fact, the three main battlefields, the only one who has lost the salary, is only our army,"

Shangguan Xiu rubbed his chin and said, "Since the treasury is tight, the imperial court should call on the ministers to do a second fundraiser,"

Xiao Jue took two steps forward and said in a low voice: "The imperial court has already called for it, but the amount of money raised is pitiful,"

Shangguan Xiu snorted coldly and said: "The Cai family's Baofeng Qianzhuang and the Song family's Kaiyuan Silver are rich enough to rival the country, with these two major families, the imperial court is still worried that it will not be able to raise silver,"

Xiao Jue suddenly remembered something, and said: "Your Highness, in the past few months, Baofeng Qianzhuang and Kaiyuan Silver have also been in an eventful time, and they are too busy to take care of themselves,"

"Oh, what's going on," Shangguan Xiu asked, puzzled,

"The branches of Baofeng Qianzhuang and Kaiyuan Silver have been robbed repeatedly, and it is said that the silver lost by the two families is millions of dollars," Xiao Jue Zhengse said.

Shangguan Xiu really didn't know much about this, he asked, "What about the Sitong Silver Number,"

Things are weird here, Xiao Jue shook his head and said: "Sitong Yinhao, but it is safe and sound,"

Shangguan Xiu raised his eyebrows, Baofeng Qianzhuang and Kaiyuan Silver were both looted, but Sitong Silver was unharmed, this is too weird, could it be that this matter was done by Shura Hall, but he didn't remember that he had given such an order,

He subconsciously asked, "Did Shura Hall do it?"

Xiao Jue looked at Wei Chi Zhen, who was standing aside, his head lowered, silent, eager to turn himself into air, he shook his head and said, "It's not Shura Hall's doing,"

Even Brother Xiu's first reaction was that this matter was related to Shura Tang, so in the eyes of others, this thing was done by Shura Tang.

What's worse is that Shuratang really did this kind of thing once before, that time was the first time the imperial court raised donations, Song Sheng only donated 800 taels of silver, and Brother Xiu ordered it down, and the shadow banner moved away the silver of Kaiyuan Silver and Yuzhen Branch 790,000 taels of silver,

"Who did it, can be investigated,"

Xiao Jue lowered his head and said: "In the past few months, the people of the Cai family and the Song family have been searching for the whereabouts of the robbers like crazy, and the branches of my hall have also conducted investigations in secret, but they have not found any clues,"

Although the robbers did not blatantly use the banner of Shura Hall, they only looted Baofeng Qianzhuang and Kaiyuan Yinhao, but they did not touch Sitong Yinhao, and they started to act shortly after Shura Hall ransacked the Yuzhen Branch, which is no different from deliberately framing and framing, Shura Tang naturally didn't want to carry such a big black cauldron,

Shuratang's eyeliner is all over the world, but there is not a single trace of the series of silver robberies that have occurred in the past few months, which in itself shows that the robbers are not small, and all the actions are carefully planned.

Shangguan Xiu's eyes rolled, and he muttered: "The silver accounts of the Cai family and the Song family were robbed one after another, and they suffered heavy losses, and when they raised donations, they naturally couldn't take out a lot of silver, as for Qiu Yi, he was an iron rooster who didn't pull out a dime, Cai Xiao, Song Sheng, and Qiu Yi, who were the three powerful ministers of the court, refused to take the lead in raising money, and the rest of the ministers, even if they had a lot of surplus in the house, they didn't dare to show off at this juncture, and they didn't dare to donate more,"

Xiao Jue and Wu Yufei nodded again and again, in fact, it is exactly like this, Baofeng Qianzhuang and Kaiyuan Silver in the past few months, it has indeed been a disaster, Cai Xiao and Song Sheng can't donate silver, and His Majesty can't blame the two of them.

As for Qiu Yi and other ministers, they have always followed the trend in fundraising, and decided how much they donated through Cai Xiao and Song Sheng.

For the power struggle in the court, Wei Chi was really not interested, even if he was interested, he couldn't interject, and when the conversation between Shangguan Xiu and Xiao Jue came to an end, he cleared his throat unnaturally, and asked cautiously: "Your Highness, now our army's salary ......?"

"There can't be no food in the army, and there can't be no salary, since you want to let the soldiers go to the battlefield to fight the enemy, you naturally have to let the soldiers have no worries," Speaking of this, Shangguan Xiu turned his head and said to Xiao Jue: "Send a letter to the main hall and transfer five million taels of silver,"

Xiao Jue and Wu Yufei glanced at each other, and grinned secretly, five million taels of silver, that is not a small amount, with the financial resources of Shura Hall, it is more than enough to support the four legions of the Zhenjun Army, and now they have to support the salaries of six more legions, but I am afraid that Shura Hall will not be able to support it,

"Brother Xiu, this ......"

"If you want to pass the book, you will pass the book, less verbose," Shangguan Xiu said categorically,

In Shangguan Xiu's eyes, the silver of Shura Hall is the silver of the treasury of the Wind Country, there is no difference between the two, but the place of storage is different.

The reason why he set up a small treasury in the Shura Hall and refused to put the silver into the treasury was because he was not at ease with the management of the treasury, in other words, he was not at ease with the ministers in the court.

Without waiting for Xiao Jue to persuade again, Wei Chizhen on the side seized the opportunity, knelt on his knees, kowtowed forward, and said: "Your Highness is willing to raise salaries for the soldiers of our army, so that our army's urgent needs can be solved.

Shangguan Xiu rubbed his chin, looked down at Yu Chizhen, suddenly burst out laughing, and asked slowly: "Yu Chizhen, you can't have planned with Cai Heng and calculated me,"

Cai Heng came to him and reported that the fallen soldiers did not get the pension they deserved, so he came to Wei Chi Zhen to theorize, and as a result, he led to the fact that the whole army had been cut off for two months, and in the end he could only draw money from Shura Hall to fill this big hole.

Originally, it could be solved by tens of thousands of taels, but now he has to pay millions of taels, Shangguan Xiu is angry and funny,

Wei Chizhen smiled bitterly and said: "General Cai is eager to peel my skin and pull my tendons now, how can he cooperate with the last general to calculate His Highness, and besides, even if the last general has great courage, he will not dare to play such a scheming in front of His Highness,"

Shangguan Xiu smiled, stretched out his hand and pulled Wei Chi Zhen up, and said: "Whether this is your calculation or not, if I don't know about the military salary, that's it, since I know it, and there is a way to solve it, there is no reason to ignore it, at the latest, five million taels of silver can be transported to the army, and General Wei Chi doesn't have to worry about the military salary anymore,"

"Your Royal Highness General Xie ......" As he spoke, Wei Chi was really excited to kneel down and thank him, Shangguan Xiu grabbed him and said with a smile: "General Wei Chi doesn't have to thank me, this time, I did you a favor, and I also hope you can do me a favor,"

Wei Chi was really stunned, and asked inexplicably: "What can the last general do to help His Highness?"

Shangguan Xiu said: "I want to borrow the Seventh Legion,"

Wei Chizhen gasped and hurriedly asked, "I don't know why His Highness borrowed the Seventh Legion,"

Shangguan Xiu didn't think about it, and said bluntly: "Bingfa Gucheng, Qucheng, Qingcheng, Liangcheng,"

Wei Chizhen sighed secretly, His Royal Highness is determined to encircle Mingshui County, and with 500,000 troops, he swallowed more than 600,000 troops in Ningnan in one bite, he frowned, and said, "Your Highness......"

Shangguan Xiu waved his hand and said, "Don't persuade me, I only ask you now, do you borrow the Seventh Army or not,"

Wei Chizhen frowned and said: "A legion has to defend four cities, and the garrison of each city is less than 30,000 people, and with such a weak defensive line, it can't trap the army of the Ningnan people,"

Shangguan Xiu said: "There is no need to divide troops to garrison the four cities, Gucheng and Qucheng, located at the junction of Mingshui County and Leping County, not far from our army's camp, the main force of our army, but share the heavy responsibility of guarding these two cities, I only need to lead the army to defend Qingcheng and Liangcheng,"

"This ...... Your Highness, I still need to consider this matter carefully,"

"You only have one night to consider, and tomorrow morning, I will lead the troops to the battle," Shangguan Xiu put his hands behind his back, straightened his waist, and said: "If you insist on refusing, I can only follow the principle of 'the general will not be subject to the orders of the foreign monarch', and as a general, I will remove you from the post of commander," As he spoke, he patted Wei Chi Zhen on the shoulder meaningfully, and said with a smile: "Don't force me to do this, otherwise, you will be regarded as deliberately provoking the relationship between me and His Majesty," After speaking, he smiled leisurely again and walked past Yu Chizhen,

Wei Chi Zhen's brows were furrowed and he was about to twist into a pimple, even now, he still didn't think Shangguan Xiu's tactics were a good tactic, but he also understood that Shangguan Xiu's words were not to scare him, Shangguan Xiu was not only a national prince, but also a general, in special circumstances, he did have the right to remove officials appointed by the emperor personally, and Shangguan Xiu's prestige in the army, even if he did this, almost no one would stand up against him,

Shangguan Xiu walked out of the silver treasury and returned to his sleeping tent, Xiao Jue asked curiously: "Brother Xiu, if Captain Chi Zhen still refuses to lend the Seventh Army to Brother Xiu tomorrow morning, will Brother Xiu really remove him from his position as commander?"

"There's no need for that, I just need to forcibly transfer the Seventh Army," Shangguan Xiu pulled his fingers and calculated, and said: "The soldiers of the whole army, they have not received their salaries for more than two months, and the morale of the army is still as stable as a rock, and the morale has not been reduced at all.

Listening to Shangguan Xiu's meaning, he made up his mind to personally lead the army to the battle, Xiao Jue and Wu Yufei's faces invariably showed a look of worry, Xiao Jue said: "Brother Xiu has received His Majesty's will, and it is ...... to go on the expedition at this time" is to resist the will and disobey it,

"That's why I'm going to lead the army tomorrow morning, it's a long way from Shangjing, and the carrier pigeon is a day or two late, and I just didn't accept Xiang'er's message, which is also normal," Shangguan Xiu said with a smile.

Wu Yufei said worriedly: "The subordinates are worried about Brother Xiu's body," Shangguan Xiu was so seriously injured this time, and he had less than ten days to recuperate, so he had to lead the army to the expedition, what if there was an accident,