Section 537: Coercion and extortion
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Since he had already torn his face with the old evil, the third prince did not intend to continue to pretend to be kind, so he directly sneered: "Your Excellency Little Stephen, if I am not mistaken, you are just a little earl, I don't know what kind of identity you are in charge of my royal affairs?"
"Of course I don't care about your royal affairs, but the problem is that the theft of the munitions warehouse is so serious that it is already the biggest case in the history of the Griffon Kingdom, and this is not just a royal matter. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Moreover, you, the person who is really in charge of the warehouse, are the most suspicious object, but now you have to intervene in the investigation of this matter!" The old evil then sneered: "No matter how you look at it, it's all thieves shouting to catch thieves!"
"What?" When the third prince heard this, he immediately said angrily: "Little Stephen, please pay attention to your identity, what evidence do you have to prove that this matter is related to me?"
"The official in charge here is the father of your concubine, don't you deny that he is your person? The five thousand guards here are also under your orders, right?" The old evil pouted and said: "Look at the strict guards around, this entire warehouse has been sealed like an iron cage by your people, how can outsiders steal it? But Stanford is just a small person, if he didn't have your support, would he dare to embezzle so many materials?" Now that the matter has happened, you, the mastermind behind the scenes, suddenly ran out, and even regardless of your own confinement, you have to rush to meddle in this matter alone, hum, no one is an idiot, what idea do you have, when no one else knows?"
"You~" The third prince was so angry that his face turned pale, and he couldn't help but say angrily: "This matter really has nothing to do with me!"
"Yes, yes, it's all done by the people below you, it has nothing to do with you, you just have to divide the money. The old evil shrugged and said, "So, His Royal Highness the Third Prince is as pure as an angel!"
"You~" The third prince was suddenly so angry that he couldn't speak, and he was left trembling all over.
Fortunately, the Wind Sword Saint found that something was wrong, and hurriedly came over to persuade: "Little Stephen, okay, don't say any more, I believe that His Royal Highness the Third Prince will definitely give the kingdom an explanation!"
"I don't care who he gives an account to, but this bastard has repeatedly withheld Lao Tzu's provisions, and I can't bear it!" The old evil then said indignantly: "The soldiers on the front line are fighting on a hungry stomach, but the garbage in the rear has embezzled the country's munitions warehouse! Now that the matter has happened, he still wants to press it down so easily." I'll tell you, no way! If I don't solve Lao Tzu's military needs today, I'll grab this son of a bitch's things and go to His Majesty for a review!" As he spoke, the old evil pointed to Stanford, who was lying on the ground.
As soon as the third prince heard this, he was immediately stupid, you know, this fact is too unsightly, he can't wait to deal with it secretly. In case the old evil is disturbed in front of the emperor, it will definitely spread all over the city, and it will be difficult to clean up at that time.
So as soon as he heard that the old evil was going to go crazy, the third prince who had a ghost in his heart suddenly became half shorter, and hurriedly came over and said, "Don't don't, isn't it just a little material?
"Give it a fart!" The old evil suddenly scolded angrily: "Who wants the rest of the rags here? The grain has been put away for at least ten years, and the dogs are not fed! You just want to give it, but Lao Tzu still doesn't want it!"
"No, no, of course it's not this!" The third prince wiped a cold sweat and hurriedly said, "I will immediately allocate additional materials to you, it is guaranteed to be new and enough for you!"
"En?" When the old evil heard this, he immediately tilted his head to look at the third prince, and said mockingly: "What I want is military supplies for 100,000 people, and it's too late to make it temporarily!"
"Oh, it just so happens that I still have some supplies that I can't put away here, so I'll put them elsewhere!" the third prince had to stammer. In fact, when it comes to this, the third prince is tantamount to admitting that he has embezzled. Otherwise, there would be so many empty warehouses here that there would be no need to pile them up elsewhere. Moreover, under normal circumstances, it is impossible for the state's military supplies to be kept elsewhere without permission? Just like a bank clerk who keeps money from the public treasury in his own house, it is impossible to explain it at all, and it is not corruption but corruption.
So the old evil immediately sneered and said, "Your Highness, are the materials you put elsewhere just enough to fill these more than 80 warehouses!" Obviously, the old evil is mocking him for embezzling the entire warehouse.
When the third prince heard this, his face suddenly turned red, but he still held back his anger and said, "It's funny, I don't have such a big warehouse!"
"Hmph!" the old evil said with a cold face: "It's impossible to say, who doesn't know, your third prince is a capable person, what is it to find a few warehouses!"
The third prince obviously didn't want to continue to dwell on this matter, so he hurriedly said, "Okay, okay, anyway, why don't I give you something?"
"Here's the list of things I want, when can you get them ready?" said the old evil and handed the list given by Catherine to the third prince.
The third prince took it and looked at it twice, and immediately exclaimed, "How can there be so many?"
It turned out that the old evil secretly changed Catherine's list a few times, and each item was added by two or three times. Because he knew that in the end, the third prince would definitely not dare to make a big deal and would inevitably choose to compromise, so he planned to take the opportunity to knock him hard.
After hearing the exclamation of the third prince, the old evil didn't talk nonsense, grabbed the list, and then rushed to Stanford's side in a few steps, grabbed him and left.
The third prince was startled, and hurriedly went over to stop the old evil and said, "Hey, little Stephen, don't you push people too much, you want too many things, I can't get them together." ”
"You took the things from the more than 80 warehouses here, and only a small part of them was enough, but you still said that you couldn't make it up?" The old evil sneered: "Get out of the way, I'll go to Your Majesty for comment!"
"You~" The third prince was so anxious that he almost jumped up, and said angrily: "I really didn't take so many things, I took it~" Speaking of this, the third prince immediately came to his senses and quickly shut up.
But the old evil refused to let him go, and immediately teased: "How much did you take? Why don't you say it?"
"You don't talk to me!" The third prince said angrily: "I will give you a third of the list at most, this is my limit!"
"It seems that I can only rely on Your Majesty to increase your limit!" The old evil shook his head helplessly, and then glanced at the guards of the three princes who came around him, and said funny: "What, you want to keep me here?"
"I don't want to do this, but if you have to force me!" the third prince whispered and threatened, "I might go crazy too!"
"Ahem!" The old evil coughed twice unhurriedly, cleared his throat, and then said to the Wind Sword Saint and the Heavy Armor Sword Saint: "You two, look at it, the third prince is going to kill people now!"
"Huh?" The Wind Sword Saint didn't want to offend the Third Prince, but that didn't mean that he could watch the Third Prince's action against his son-in-law! So as soon as he heard the old evil's words, he immediately walked over with a cold face, and several guards who were blocking the way were directly pushed away by him brutally. Then he came to the third prince and said coldly: "Your Highness, I don't know how my son-in-law offended you?"
At the same time, the heavily armored Sword Saint also came to the side of the Wind Sword Saint, apparently indicating that he was going to advance and retreat with the Wind Sword Saint.
"No, no!" When the third prince saw that the two sword saints were out of the house, of course he didn't dare to play tricks anymore, and hurriedly said: "It's just that the things he wants are really outrageous!"
"The supply of a hundred thousand troops, of course, can't be a decimal!" said the Wind Sword Saint lightly.
"But compared to the inventory in the warehouse, it's actually not too much!" "As far as I know, just the grain and grass alone should have enough food for 100,000 people to eat for 10 months!"
"But the inventory is no longer mine?" the third prince was almost so anxious that he was about to cry.
"Your Highness, as little Stephen said just now, none of us are fools, everyone knows where the things in stock have gone!" "The Wind Sword Saint said coldly: "We don't want to care about the previous things, as long as you can recover the things and distribute them to the troops on the front line according to the actual number." I don't think that's too much to ask, don't you say?"
If the thing is really embezzled by the three princes, the request of the Swift Wind Sword Saint is indeed not excessive, and it can even be said to be very face-saving for the three princes. But the question now is, the thing is stolen by the old evil, where do you tell the third prince to get it?
So after hearing this, the third prince immediately became anxious, and jumped to his feet and said: "I can swear to God that the things in the inventory really didn't take them away." I'm not an idiot, and I haven't had enough to eat, so why can't I find it myself?"
When the Wind Sword Saint heard this, he suddenly froze for a moment, and said in his heart, does this really have nothing to do with him?
The Wind Sword Saint hesitated, but the old evil didn't care about this, and said directly: "Didn't you just tell me that you put a batch of stockpiled materials elsewhere?
"En?" When the Wind Sword Saint heard this, he immediately lowered his face and said, "Your Highness, what's going on?"
"This~" When the third prince heard this, he immediately rubbed his hands in a hurry, and then he walked around in place twice, ruthlessly, and then whispered: "Okay, okay, I'll be honest with you! Of course, I can't just move a little bit of the things here, but the problem is, I really just took a little bit, absolutely, absolutely not all of them!"
The Wind Sword Saint and the Heavy Armor Sword Saint glanced at each other, and they both saw a deep look of disappointment in each other's eyes. As a commoner-born sword saint, they naturally hate corruption, they used to be just suspicious, but now when they heard the third prince admit it himself, they were naturally extremely disappointed in him, and they were even more determined to support Catherine to get rid of the third prince. However, they are not easy to express their position on the words of the three princes, after all, as the commanders of the military department, they have the duty to catch the three princes, the embezzler, but because of their identity, they dare not do this, so they can only pretend to be stupid on the side and not say a word.