The result of their defense was to cause even more riots! Many nobles directly refuted their remarks, and also described the hard life of the low-level soldiers! Especially Liu Haojia took the lead in condemning these officials!

He is different from those nobles, he has lived at the bottom of the society for a period of time, and he has come into contact with many low-level soldiers, so the things he tells are true and more convincing!

In particular, he told that after the soldiers were paid silver, as a result, all the soldiers rushed to Quanzhou City to buy grain, and almost talked about the empty purchase of grain in Quanzhou, which made Emperor Wanli and some officials red!

In Liu Haojia's mouth, the soldiers of the navy are simply a model of loyalty and bravery! In the past, when the money was insufficient, they were hungry to guard the sea frontier! But now that the navy has been established, it can't even get the original salary, and it has to continue to fight with pirates, and it has achieved so many results! If it weren't for the saint and the court, how could he have done this?

In the end, Liu Haojia almost burst into tears and said loudly: "Your Majesty, these loyal and brave soldiers are rare in the world! But they were cornered by a gang of greedy people! Your Majesty, you must not let this soldier shed blood and tears!"

His accusation brought the atmosphere inside the entire hall to a climax! attracted many nobles to chase and beat the civil officials, and their attitudes were impassioned! The civil servants tried their best to defend themselves, but their language paled in the face of so many instances!

Even Zhang Juzheng and other elders were very moved! Even Shen Shixing asked Wang Xijue beside him in a low voice, "Are the lives of these soldiers really so miserable?"

Wang Xijue pondered for a moment and said in a low voice, "What Wu Ningbo said must be exaggerated, but it is limited to exaggerate! It can be seen that the life of the people is still difficult!"

Shen Shixing is a native of Changzhou, which is now Suzhou, Jiangsu. His family is a wealthy local businessman, so he grew up with a golden spoon in his mouth, and he has never seen the suffering of the people at the bottom!

As for Wang Xijue, even more so! Shen Shixing's family is only a local wealthy businessman, while Wang Xijue's family is a wealthy businessman, and he has a superior life, surrounded by small maids, and he doesn't know the difficulties of the people at the bottom! And after they entered the office, with their rise step by step, they lived in eight seats, and they were completely cut off from the people at the bottom, so it is normal to have this kind of question!

Shen Shixing sighed when he heard this and said, "This time I was really caught by these nobles! Seven or eight months without pay, it's really too much! I just don't know what Your Majesty will do with it?"

Zhang Han interjected at this time and said, "Don't worry, these people don't dare to say anything else, their ability to do accounts is first-class!" I'm afraid I can't find anything on the surface, and in the end it's just a sin of negligence!"

Just as the two sides were debating, Zhang Jia escorted a group of scribes into the main hall with the account books. Seeing them come in, the people debating in the center of the hall quieted down and went back to work.

Zhang Jia stepped forward and said to Emperor Wanli Shili: "Long live the lord, the scribes of the household department and the military department are already here, I don't know which one the long live lord wants to check first?"

Emperor Wanli sat up straight and said, "Let the people from the household come out and talk clearly, and explain how much money has been allocated to the navy in the past few months?"

Zhang Jia raised his hand and pointed at one of the scribes with a whisk, and the eunuch behind him immediately pushed him hard. The scribe himself was already scared to death, and he was already trembling when he knelt on the main hall, and was almost knocked to the ground by the eunuch's push!

At this time, I heard Zhang Jia say, "Don't be afraid, tell the Lord Long Live how much money should be allocated to the navy in the past few months? How much did you actually allocate in the past? How much has actually been allocated now?"

Hearing Zhang Jia ask this, the scribe was obviously much more relieved! These people have been dealing with account books all their lives, so it can be said that they know it by heart! So when it comes to their own work, they are obviously a lot more courageous!

Then the scribe's voice trembled and he reported a series of numbers, and his voice slowly stabilized. Moreover, it is very well organized, and it is clear from the amount of salaries payable when the navy was established, and how much was actually allocated each month before!

As soon as everyone heard this, they understood that the money allocated to the navy in previous years should probably be allocated

About seventy percent of the silver is given. When they heard this, they knew that the amount of money was right. As for the missing Sancheng, there is a very interesting name, called drifting!

In fact, the word "drifting" refers specifically to the loss of food or other supplies due to accidents such as water leakage and capsizing during water transportation. But in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the word drifting was expanded countless times, and even things transported by land would be floated! In fact, everyone knows where the money and things go, they are just put into their personal pockets!

However, the figure reported by the scribe has attracted everyone's attention, that is, the silver allocated by the household department to the military department is forty percent of the seventy percent of previous years! In other words, it is less than half of the money actually paid in previous years!

With the scribe's testimony, Guo Xiaoxing and several officials of the household department were obviously much more relieved, and began to babble about how difficult it was to tell the household, and everyone who listened frowned!

Emperor Wanli was impatient to listen to this, and directly waved his hand to signal several officials to stop crying, and said to Zhang Jia: "Let the military department come out and answer!"

However, this time Zhang Jia did not point out one person alone, but motioned to several scribes to take turns to speak. It seems that on the way here, Zhang Jia had already inquired in advance and done his homework.

These scribes knelt there and told them what they knew, so that everyone knew exactly where the navy's money went. The money was either sent to a certain place to build a barracks, or to be used for weapons and armor, or for other purposes. In short, judging from what they said, it is indeed used for serious purposes.

When they were all finished, Zhang Jia presented the account books one by one and pointed them out to Emperor Wanli. Emperor Wanli took a rough look and found that it was indeed a record of the flow of a pen. Although he couldn't figure out the exact amount in a short period of time, he knew that there was nothing wrong with it on the books. But whether the silver really built the barracks and purchased the supplies, you need to go down to check.

Thinking of this, Emperor Wanli closed the account book and said to Zhang Jia: "Zhang Jia, put all these people in prison first, and then go to the military department to take care of the people who handle them, and check where the money has gone, to see if there is any greed for ink in it?"