Soul Candle looked at Ziyou puzzled.

"Who are the lieutenants and guards of the Zhao Kingdom?" Ziyou asked.

"The lieutenant is General Wei, and the Wei Wei is the clan doctor Zhao Chang, Zhao Chang is the person who is the queen of prostitution, and Zhao Chang is the younger brother of King Zhao Mourning Xiang. And the lieutenant was the one who followed Guo Kai to support King Zhao Mourning Xiang in his struggle for the throne. The lieutenant is Guo Kai's person, and the lieutenant and the lieutenant are responsible for all the guards in Handan, and it is precisely because of this that although Zhao Wangqian and the prostitute queen disagreed, no one could help anyone. Soul Candle said.

"Zhao Wang Yan is not a mediocre master, he has been dead for several years, and the division of power in the entire Zhao Dynasty is still the same as what he left, and Li Mu should return to Handan in two days, right?" Ziyou said lightly.

"Yes! According to the system of Zhao State, after the grain harvest is completed, the general of Zhao State will return to the court, ostensibly to report on his work, but in fact, in order to deter the court, so that they dare not lack the grain, grass and salary for the border army, and Li Mu is almost up to calculate the time. Soul Candle said.

Zhao has always been strong and weak, the entire Zhao country can be said to be a handful of talented people in the Wenchen, in addition to the original and Zhao Wuling King together to promote the Hufu cavalry and shoot Fei Yi, there is only the original Lin Xiang, but the generals are different, the generals of Zhao can be said to be endless, not to mention the world's first Li Mu, there is Lian Po, Le Yi Lecheng who escaped from Yan State, and then there is Li Dui and so on, these people are all military generals, and the ability to march and fight is the number one in the row.

But it is precisely because of this that the kings of Zhao in the past dynasties prevented the generals from becoming bigger, and used the ministers to control the grain and grass and the money, and choked the throat of the border army in one fell swoop. Later, the officials who were also in charge of grain, grass and money often withheld the grain and grass and money of the border army, so that after the grain harvest every year, the general of the border army led the troops back to the court to report on their work.

"Isn't Guo Kai tempted by such a big sum of money?" Ziyou asked.

"Guo Kai is very greedy, but he is principled, he did not move the salary of the soldiers belonging to the border army, only ate empty salary, according to the investigation of Luo Wang, Guo Kai reported that the number of border troops every time was at least 10,000 more than the actual number." Soul Candle said,

"10,000!? Didn't Zhao Guo Chaotang find anything? Ziyou asked in surprise, if Guo Kai ate an empty salary of two or three thousand people, it is reasonable, and it would not be so conspicuous to distribute two or three thousand people to the entire Zhao army, but ten thousand people, even if you count the defenders of each city, this is also a lot of money.

"Guo Kai covered the sky in the Zhao State Court, and Zhao Wangqian was unwilling to deal with such a thing, even if someone found out that Guo Kai had been dealt with before he could play, so he had been at peace all along." Soul Candle said.

"Is the soldier's salary in the treasury of Zhao State?" Ziyou asked.

"No, Zhao Guo's salary should be transferred to the General's Mansion now, and someone should be sent to guard it."

"Can you send someone to do the work on the soldiers' pay?" Ziyou asked.

"Yes, there are our people in the General's Mansion." The soul candle replied

"Tonight we will pay the soldiers, and tomorrow we will kill the guard." Ziyou said.

"No!"

The soul candle saluted and left the inn.

Ziyou looked at the Zhao Palace outside the window with a hint of a smile in his eyes.

"It's a pity that Zhao mourns King Xiang, with such a stupid son as Zhao Wangqian, the peace of Zhao will soon be interrupted." Ziyou muttered to himself.

After the soul candle left, half an hour later, Mo Crow and Bai Feng returned, and the two of them circled the entire Handan, figuring out the layout of Handan, and they focused on searching the place where Gai Nie and they disappeared, but the result was nothing.

"If it's so easy to find clues, I don't have to come in person, Bai Feng, you go and keep an eye on Guo Kai, I want to know all his recent actions." Ziyou said.

"Yes."

"Ink Crow, keep looking for clues."

"Yes."

After arranging for the two of them to go, the Snow Girl was also comforted, Ziyou called for food to come up, and arrived the next day without saying anything all night.

The next day, the whole Handan suddenly became serious, the soldiers guarding the city gate were no longer lazy and lazy, every hour you could see a herald on horseback from outside the city back to the city, the sign on the other party's clothes Ziyou was still very familiar, it was the sign of the Wuling Iron Horse, Ziyou understood that Li Mu was about to arrive in Handan.

Because Li Mu is about to come back, the entire Zhao court has also begun to move, and the ministers close to Li Mu are looking forward to it, and Guo Kai and Zhao Wangqian are a little tired of this, Li Mu is a great danger for both of them, and now Li Mu is naturally unhappy when he returns to the court, although Zhao Wangqian dislikes Li Mu, but he has not done anything, after all, Li Mu's return to the court is just a debriefing, Li Mu will leave in a few days, Guo Kai didn't feel anything at first, but after checking the money today, Guo Kai was stupid.

In the general's mansion, Guo Kai looked at the dozens of boxes in front of him, and then looked at the account book in his hand, and smashed the account book on the side of the guard captain with an ugly face.

Guo Kai kicked the lieutenant and roared

"What do you think of military pay? Eighty-six chests, 150,000 taels of gold, why is there only 130,000 taels of gold left? Where did the 20,000 taels of gold go? ”

The captain's face turned pale, he naturally understood how much fault he was for the loss of military salary, and it was 20,000 taels of gold, which was enough to kill his entire family.

"Lord Xiangguo, my subordinates don't know, when I counted last night, the military salary was still eighty-six boxes, which is not a lot, and I don't know how it is less today. My subordinates really don't know! The captain kept kowtowing to Guo Kai and said, he really didn't know who had moved the military salary.

"You're in charge of the guards' pay? You don't know, who knows? Guo Kai said angrily, although he covered the sky in Zhao State, he still didn't dare to bear the charge of losing military salary, and the military salary of hundreds of thousands of troops, once something went wrong, it was impossible to cover it up.

If it was other times, this matter would have passed with a little cover-up, but now it is different, they and the prostitute queen have already had a conflict because of Li Mu, before Zhao Tong Li Mu's faction all took refuge in the prostitution, at this time there was a problem with the military salary, and everyone would suspect that he had taken action on the military salary at the first time. At that time, once the factions hostile to him get into trouble, Zhao Wangqian may not be able to protect him.

"What the hell were you doing last night?" Guo Kai kicked the lieutenant again.

"Last night, my subordinates gave birth to a child, and my subordinates went home to take a look, but they came back in just half an hour." The lieutenant said hurriedly.

Looking at the sweaty captain Guo Kai's eyes full of anger, and then looking at the surrounding soldiers, Guo Kai understood that the military salary was not taken away by these people, but now there must be a person who carries the blame to come out, otherwise he will be damned.

"This matter is personally investigated, come on!" Guo Kai shouted.

The door to the General's Mansion was opened, and a team of armor soldiers walked in.

"This person was negligent in his duties, left the general without authorization last night, took him down, and the other soldiers did not report it, and they were pressed into the prison together. Then send a team of men and horses to strictly guard the salaries of the soldiers. Guo Kai said.

"Yes!"

In the midst of a plea for mercy, the soldiers in charge of guarding the general's palace were taken away and replaced by new armor guards.

Guo Kai returned to his house with a gloomy face, and he also figured out along the way, this is someone deliberately calculating him, in order to make him cause public anger, but who Guo Kai is still unclear, fortunately, he temporarily went to check the military salary today, if he finds that the military salary is missing when he counts with Li Mu tomorrow, this matter will be big.

"Who is calculating the true nature?" Guo Kai muttered to himself in a deep voice.

After thinking about it, Guo Kai didn't guess who it was, after all, there were too many people who might frame him, but he had to be responsible for the loss of 20,000 taels of gold, so he asked his housekeeper to take out 20,000 taels of gold from the treasury, and prepared to send the gold in the dark night when no one was around.

But in the afternoon, there was news that the military salary had been stolen, which made Guo Xingxing surprised, and he didn't dare to wait any longer, so he went to send gold to make up for the military salary. But just before going out, the soul candle found Guo Kai.

"Brother Soul Candle, please come back another day, I have something urgent today." Guo Kai looked at the soul candle and said.

"Guo Xiang is slow, it's not that I came to find Guo Xiang, but my husband wants to see Guo Xiang." Soul Candle said with a smile.

"Your husband?" Guo Kai frowned, he never knew what Mr. was behind the soul candle.

"There is only one person in the Qin State who can be called Mr. by Luo Wang." Soul Candle pointed upward.

Hearing the words of the soul candle, Guo Kai was immediately shocked, the person who can make Luo Wang call Mr., Guo Kai naturally understood who it was, and he did not feel anxious to make up for the military salary at the moment, but asked slightly nervously

"What did that person come to Guo?"

"I don't know about this matter, Guo Xiang will know when he goes, maybe it has something to do with the rumors circulating outside about Guo Xiang." Soul Candle said.

Guo Kai's pupils constricted, and he looked at the sky outside that was a little night, thinking that it would be okay to make up for the military salary a little later. Guo Kai said

"Brother Candle led the way."

"Guo Xiang is polite."

Soul Candle took Guo Kai out of Guo's mansion and came to a mansion with a net, and the back of this mansion was the mansion of Weiwei Zhao Chang. The soul candle took Guo Kai to the second floor of an attic.

"Guo Xiang, Mr. is waiting for you inside." Soul Candle said.

"Hmm." Guo Kai nodded and said.

The Soul Candle turned and left the second floor. Guo Kai looked at the closed door and was a little nervous in his eyes, the so-called shadow of the famous tree of people, even if Guo Kai was in a high position in Zhao State, but in the face of Ziyou, the emperor of Qin, the Taiwei of Qin, and the three representatives of Confucianism, Guo Xingxing was still a little nervous.

At the beginning, Guo Kai and Ziyou also had a relationship, at that time it was when Guo Kai entered the peace talks between Qin and Qin, at that time Guo Kai saw the majesty of Ziyou, in Guo Kai's opinion, no one in the entire Qin court dared to confront Ziyou, and it was precisely because of this that Guo Kai always felt a little humble in his heart when facing Ziyou, and he was not the minister of Zhao in front of Ziyou, but a common man.

After tidying up the corners of his clothes, Guo Kai took a deep breath and pushed open the door, and after entering the room and closing the door, Guo Kai saw Ziyou sitting at the table, Ziyou looked at Guo Kai and said with a smile

"Guo Xiang, Xianyang is goodbye, it's been a few years now."

"Meet the Captain." Guo Kai said with a strict salute.

"Guo Xiang is polite, take a seat." Ziyou said with a smile.

After Guo Kai took his seat, he looked at the food on the table, and then looked at Ziyou with some trepidation in his heart. Ziyou as the captain of the Qin State, came to the capital of Zhao State alone, a country of Taiwei went deep into the capital of other countries, except for the original Zhao Wuling King of Zhao State did similar things, no one has ever followed this kind of thing, for a while Guo Xingzhong admired Ziyou's courage, and his heart was full of fear, Ziyou went deep into Handan to find him, if there is no reason why he doesn't believe it, it can't be specifically to see him, right?

After Ziyou persuaded Guo Kai to have a few glasses of wine, Guo Kai couldn't sit still and said to Ziyou

"Tai Lieutenant, go deep into Handan and find Kai, is there something wrong?"

"It's nothing, I'm here to look for someone, but I heard some rumors about Guo Xiang, so I wanted to meet Guo Xiang." Ziyou put down his wine glass and said.

"Captain is polite, those rumors outside are just some rumors that slander me, don't worry." Guo Kai said that although Guo Kai didn't know what Ziyou was going to do, his instinct told him that he had to interrupt the topic.

"Guo Xiang misunderstood, I am not only talking about what happened today, Guo Xiang has not been in a good situation in the Zhao State Court recently, I heard that the Empress Dowager of your country has had a conflict with Guo Xiang, and the ministers in the court have the meaning of attacking Guo Xiang in groups.

Guo Xiang is a friend of my Qin State, and he has always been generous to his friend Qin State, and Qin State has never minded helping his friend clear some threats. The smile on Ziyou's face remained unchanged and continued.

Looking at the smile on Ziyou's face, Guo Xingxing was shocked for a while, he didn't expect Ziyou to know Zhao Guochaotang so well, but when he thought of the soul candle, he understood the reason. Although the soul candle is not a person in the court of the Zhao State, the soul candle is also considered a rich party in the Zhao State, and has close ties with many ministers of the Zhao State.

At the same time, Guo Kai also understood that Ziyou wanted to use his hand to meddle in the affairs of the Zhao Dynasty, and Guo Kai said at the moment

"Let the Taiwei worry, as the minister of Zhao State, how can others slander and besiege at will, let alone be slaughtered"

The meaning of Guo Kai's words was already very clear, but Ziyou directly stretched out his hand to interrupt Guo Kai's words, looking at Ziyou Guo Kai was slightly stunned, and suddenly a slight sound of a sharp sword unsheathed sounded, and a cold light flashed in the room, Guo Xingxing was startled, and immediately jumped up from his seat, looked at Ziyou in fear, and said with some stammering

"Captain, this. What's to be done? ”

Guo Xingxing was full of horror, he thought that he and Ziyou had not negotiated, Ziyou was going to kill him, although this was in Handan, the capital of Zhao State, but Guo Xingzhong was very confident that if Ziyou wanted to kill him, he would not hesitate at all.

"Listen, as soon as the sword is unsheathed, someone will die, someone will cry, and when someone cries, he will say what is in his heart, Guo Xiang's answer will not be called." Ziyou said lightly.

There was a slight sound of footsteps in the sky above the attic, and the sound of instant killing sounded outside the attic, with a few screams later, the soul candle was covered in blood and pushed open the door, under Guo Kai's gaze, the soul candle opened the window opposite Guo Kai, a cold wind blew, Guo Kai shivered.

Through the window, Guo Kai saw the mansion of Weiwei Zhao Chang opposite, as well as several corpses and a car driver on the street, the car driver Guo Kai recognized as Weiwei Zhao Chang's car, as the gate of Weiwei's mansion opened, some slaves walked out with sticks, looking at Zhao Chang's corpse on the ground, one by one stunned.

Guo Kai's heart was also tense when he looked below, and after a while, there was a crying sound outside the window.

Accompanied by the cold wind, Guo Kai seemed to have fallen into an ice cave, and his whole body was cold.

(End of chapter)