Out of the restaurant, Chen Kan saw the main owner in the crowd at a glance.

It was a man in his early thirties with a sad face, who looked like an old farmer, but Chen Kan saw in him the unique fierceness of a man in the army.

"Interesting!"

Chen Kan muttered to himself, surprised in his heart.

He thought it was an ordinary officialdom struggle, and someone came to him to take advantage of the situation, but he didn't expect that there would be a military person.

It must be known that Chen Kan himself is a veteran general on the battlefield, and he is an old fritter who has not tasted defeat in the officialdom for many years, and no one can hide his eyes from him.

Chen Kan saw the man, and the man naturally saw Chen Kan too, hurriedly stepped forward, knelt down on one knee and gave a military salute to Chen Kan.

"The last general, Liu Guang, the Standing Capital Division of the Tanzhou Garrison Division, has seen the general."

Seeing that the person who came was so unshy about seeing each other, Chen Kan couldn't help but raise his eyebrows.

The garrison division is a local guard force, generally around 1,000 people, and the standing capital division is the chief officer who commands this thousand people, which is equivalent to a thousand households in the army.

The military system of the Ming Dynasty, after several reforms during the Yongle period, has been very perfect.

The military household system has largely existed in name only, and has been replaced by a conscription system.

After the reform, the army of the Ming Dynasty was divided into three parts.

One is the border army, which, as the name suggests, is the army that guards the border.

The 100,000 troops under the command of Xiping Hou Muying, as well as the 100,000 troops of Jiangyin Hou Wu to guard against the Northern Yuan, belonged to the border army.

The second is the forbidden army with the three major battalions of the Beijing division as the core, and the main responsibility of the forbidden army is to be responsible for defending the north and south of Beijing.

The third type is the garrison army, the local garrison division, and the naval division guard, all of which belong to the garrison.

The functions of the garrison are more complicated, in wartime, they are the main force in the battle, and in peacetime, they are an important force in guarding the place.

Like this time, the army led by Zhu Gaoxu is the garrison sequence.

The last time he accompanied Chen Kan on his expedition to Nanyang, the three guards of the sailors also belonged to the garrison.

Chen Kan was a little curious, what were the people from the Tanzhou Garrison Department looking for him?

There were some doubts in his heart, but he didn't show it on his face, just bowed his head slightly, and said in a flat tone: "General Liu, please get up." ”

But to Chen Kan's surprise, Liu Guang not only did not get up, but instead changed from a military salute of kneeling on one knee to a big salute of kneeling on both knees.

Liu Guang also ignored the people on the street, and took care of himself to Chen Kanxing's five-body gift.

"General Rongyu, the last general is here, it is to sue the Tanzhou general soldier Beiling Bo Changkun, Beiling Bo Changkun, together with the local government collusion, drink the blood of the soldiers, eat empty salaries, and deceive the court for a long time, and now Tanzhou borders six states and 17 counties a total of nine garrison divisions, the garrison force is less than 3,000 people, the shortage is more than 6,000, the shortage is huge, appalling, the last general heard that the general and His Royal Highness the Emperor Sun Weifu went out on patrol, in order to serve the death to report, but also ask the general to be our master!"

Liu Guang said as he kowtowed to Chen Kan.

Chen Kan was stunned on the spot for an instant, and his face was even more gloomy to the naked eye.

He thought about many situations, but he didn't expect that Liu Guang would come to sue the emperor.

And what he said was so appalling.

Of the nine major garrison divisions in a state, there are less than one-third of the nine thousand people?

Such an appalling thing has never been heard of since the founding of the Ming Dynasty.

Seeing that Chen Kan's face suddenly became extremely ugly, Liu Guang hurriedly struck while the iron was hot, and kowtowed again and again: "General, the extent of this shocking matter is not only that, the three thousand people of the Tanzhou Local Garrison Division are all old, weak, sick and disabled, just because Chang Kun feels that the cost of providing for the weak and sick is less than the money and food spent on raising the young, and the ration of one thousand young and strong is enough to feed the three thousand old and weak, so that the local garrison of Tanzhou is like a fictitious, and I also ask the general to investigate and return a bright and bright man to Tanzhou!" ”

Hearing this, Chen Kan couldn't help but look dark in front of him, and a great anger instantly emerged from his heart, rushing straight to the Heavenly Spirit Gai.

There are only 3,000 of the 9,000 army, and 3,000 are still old and weak.

Just because it costs money to support the weak than to raise the young and strong!!

Appalling, appalling!!

"Please also ask the general to call the shots!"

Listening to Liu Guang's pleading, Chen Kan took a deep breath and took a long time to calm down the anger in his heart.

"You get up first, and then follow Ben Hou into the door."

After speaking, Chen Kan turned around and entered the restaurant, but his fists were clenched tightly, which was enough to show that he was not at peace at the moment.

Everyone in the restaurant couldn't help but be a little surprised when they saw Chen Kan go and return so quickly, after all, officialdom is the most troublesome.

Until he saw the man following behind Chen Kan, there was a puzzle in his eyes that was difficult to hide.

But Chen Kan didn't mean to solve their doubts at all, just took the man and went to the private room.

When passing by the seats of the Zhu brothers, Chen Kan said expressionlessly: "You come with me." ”

Liu Guang saw the faces of Zhu Zhanji and Zhu Zhan Yan clearly, and was about to give a salute to the two, but Chen Kan had already walked forward.

After thinking about it, he still decided to follow Chen Kan first.

After all, the person who really has power in his hands is Chen Kan, not the two highnesses.

And the Zhu family brothers, when they heard the tone of Chen Kan's words, their faces couldn't help but change.

Just as Chen Kan, who is a teacher, knows them, they also know their own teacher as a disciple.

Chen Kan is smiling most of the time, even if he encounters some problems, he is also very optimistic.

And when Chen Kan's tone became calm as water, and he couldn't hear a trace of ups and downs, it meant that Chen Kan was angry.

And it's very angry.

The two brothers looked at each other, and both looked at each other's faces with doubt.

The teacher went out for a few breaths in total, and when he came back, it became like this, what happened?

But doubts are doubts, Chen Kan has a call, so they have to follow Chen Kan into the private room first.

The two brothers got up and followed Liu Guang, and the four of them entered the room.

The Zhu family brothers closed the door and were about to ask a question, when Chen Kan took the lead and said, "General Liu, repeat what you just said to the two highnesses." ”

"General?"

Hearing Chen Kan's name for the strange man, the two were even more puzzled.

When they came, they didn't even want to get involved with the local government, and the army would not take the initiative to get involved.

What the hell is going on?

With Chen Kan's instructions, Liu Guang didn't twist, first saluted the two, and then repeated the words he had just said to Chen Kan.

And when the Zhu brothers listened, their faces became ugly.

"Bang!"

After Liu Guang finished explaining the ins and outs, Zhu Zhanji suddenly slapped on the wooden table and shouted angrily: "Chang Kun, so daring!" ”

Zhu Zhanyan didn't react so much, but his small face was also covered with frost.

Eating empty salaries and drinking the blood of soldiers is not a rare thing in all dynasties.

Including the current Ming Dynasty, there will be such a situation in basically every army.

But those situations are basically still under control, and the shortage of a large army of 9,000 people is a few hundred or even one or two thousand, which is not a big deal.

As long as the combat effectiveness of the local garrison army can be ensured, the imperial court generally chooses to turn a blind eye.

However, in Tanzhou, there are less than 3,000 of the 9,000 people, and the shortage is more than 6,000, and the key 3,000 people are all old, weak, sick and disabled, and there are only quotas and rations for 1,000 people.

Such a thing did not happen even in the Great Song Dynasty, which was the most important in suppressing literature and martial arts.

But it appeared in the self-proclaimed Ming Dynasty.

Appalling, really appalling.

After Liu Guang finished speaking, he stood aside with a worried face, and he could feel the anger of the three big men in front of him.

After all, such a thing is really scary.

The atmosphere was silent for a long time, Chen Kan leaned back in his chair, looked at the Zhu brothers, and asked, "What do you think about this matter?" ”

Zhu Zhanji gritted his teeth and said viciously: "Such a horrific thing, I have never heard of it in all dynasties, this is the shame of my Ming Dynasty, if it spreads, this will be the biggest scandal of my Ming Dynasty, Chang Kun, should be killed, not killing is not enough to anger the people, and the local government of Tanzhou, damn it, all deserve to die." ”

Zhu Zhanji's eyes were red, and the killing intent between his words was even more difficult to suppress.

Zhu Zhanyan pondered for a moment and said: "Teacher, there are only a lot of people involved in this matter, and the disciple thinks that he should first press the army and report it to the emperor's grandfather for processing." ”

"Grandpa Huang shouldn't abolish those tortures set by the emperor, people like Chang Kun, if they don't skin him and fill him with grass, it's not enough to warn the world!"

Zhu Zhanji gritted his teeth and added, he was too angry.

He can understand drinking the blood of soldiers and eating empty salaries, but Chang Kun's behavior has completely exceeded the limit of what he can tolerate, which is completely digging the foundation of Daming, so how can he not be angry.

Chen Kan quietly listened to the opinions of the two disciples, and couldn't help frowning slightly.

When something like this happened, he was also very angry, but the performance of the Zhu family brothers was a little unbearable.

After thinking about it, Chen Kan turned his head to look at Liu Guang and asked, "Is there any evidence for what you just said?" ”

Chen Kan asked, and Liu Guang hurriedly stepped forward and replied: "If you go back to the general, there is no need for evidence in this matter, the general only needs to walk around the barracks to know everything." ”

Chen Kan nodded and continued to ask: "You came to see Ben Hou today, maybe you can hide it from Chang Kun and the eyes and ears of the Tanzhou Mansion?" ”

Liu Guang shook his head and said with a wry smile: "General Rongyu, the Tanzhou government and that Chang Kun have long been in cahoots, although the last general came to see them in civilian clothes today, but if you want to hide from them, I'm afraid it will be very difficult." ”

Chen Kan frowned and said, "Then how should your wife and children deal with themselves?" ”

Hearing Chen Kan's words to the core, Liu Guang's face also became ugly, but he still said in a deep voice: "General, the last general is the general of the Ming Dynasty, before he came here, he had already put life and death out of the way, as for the wife and children of the last general, until now, the last general can only be cheeky to ask the general to take shelter, and ask the general to take pity on the general's patriotic heart!" ”

After Liu Guang finished speaking, he knelt down towards Chen Kan again and banged his head.

Chen Kan nodded, beckoned to Zhu Zhanyan, whispered a few words in his ear, Zhu Zhanyanhe's face instantly became serious, and then trotted out of the door.

"You get up first, your wife and children, Ben Hou can take shelter, as for you, I will temporarily follow Ben Hou these days."

Hearing this, Liu Guangda was overjoyed, and couldn't stop kowtowing to Chen Kan, and said excitedly: "Thank you General, thank you General." ”

Chen Kan snorted, waved his hand at him and said, "You go out first, Ben Hou has already asked the prince of Han to settle your family, if Chang Kun's people haven't started yet, you will be able to reunite soon." ”

"Thank you to the general, thank you to the general, the last general, the last general will die, and this life will die to repay the emperor's kindness."

Liu Guang said words of gratitude and slowly retreated.

Wang Can, who had already been informed by Zhu Zhan and was waiting outside the door, immediately took a few personal guards to protect Liu Guang.

"General Liu, our brother will be responsible for your safety these days, and please rest assured General Liu, with us here, no one can do anything to you."

"There is General Lao, I don't know what to call the general?"

"A certain Wang Can, added as the general's personal guard."

“......”

Wang Can took Liu Guangyuan away, and the guards guarding the door immediately closed the door.

In the private room, only Chen Kan and Zhu Zhanji were left, and Chen Kan tapped his fingers on the tabletop, with a contemplative look on his face.

The anger in Zhu Zhanji's heart had not yet been suppressed, and seeing that Chen Kan was still thinking about it, he couldn't help but ask: "Teacher, Chang Kun has committed such a heinous crime, don't we take action immediately?" ”

Chen Kan ignored him, just meditated on his own.

Seeing that the teacher ignored him, Zhu Zhanji became even more angry.

"Teacher, you have a word!"

Chen Kan raised his head, glared at him dissatisfiedly, and said angrily: "I know that Your Majesty has arranged a guard for you, but there are too many mysteries in this matter, and you had better not act rashly until you find out the truth of the matter." ”

Zhu Zhanji was stunned for a moment, and his face, which was originally full of anger, suddenly became a little embarrassed.

"I really can't hide anything from you, in fact, the imperial grandfather didn't give too many disciples to him, it's just enough."

Chen Kan rolled his eyes, too lazy to pay attention to Zhu Zhanji's Versailles.

After Zhu Zhanji defended himself, his face suddenly showed a look of enlightenment, and he frowned and asked, "Teacher, do you mean that there is another hidden reason in this matter?" ”

Chen Kan unconsciously tapped on the table, shook his head and said: "What Liu Guang said must be true, Chang Kun and the local government are greedy for empty salaries, I am afraid that it is even more serious than what he said." ”

"Then teacher, what are you waiting for, just take Chang Kun down first, and the officials of the local government will also take it together, under Miki, why can't you ask for it?"

As soon as Zhu Zhanji's words fell, Chen Kan smashed the wine jug on the table towards him.

"Stupid!"

Chen Kan first scolded him angrily, and then said angrily: "Think about it with your pig brain, you took Chang Kun and Tanzhou as an official, what should you do about Tanzhou, do you want to be the prefect, and besides, this Liu Guang is so wrong, you don't see it?" ”

Being scolded by Chen Kan like this, Zhu Zhanji also reacted, and hurriedly put the wine jug he had just taken back on the table.

Cautiously approached Chen Kan's side and asked, "Teacher, Liu Guang also has a problem?" ”

Chen Kan glanced at him again and asked, "Have you ever seen someone who even cares about his wife and children and wants to take risks exposing others, or do you think there is really such a thing as getting out of the mud and not being stained?" ”

Zhu Zhanji was stunned, and his reason returned instantly.

"In this way, this Liu Guang really has a big problem."

Chen Kan nodded again and said, "Even if Liu Guang is really a saint who worries about the country and the people, I'm afraid that this matter is not as simple as he said." ”