"Dude, you sent us to Nanjing. Are you not going to ask us?" Yuan Zongdi asked.
Gu Zhenhua laughed: "Marty Yuan, do you think my master is a lie?"
"Of course not." Yuan Zongdi smiled awkwardly: "Duke Guo, Yuan Zongdi is not a half-hearted person. But after fighting with An** for a few battles, I fully understood how to lead troops and how to be a human being. In the past, His Majesty Chuang and His Majesty Chuang were too sarcastic. If King Chuang had half of the knowledge of the Duke Guo, Dashun would not have fallen to the point he is today..."
Gu Zhenhua smiled and waved his hand, "Marty Yuan, there is no need to say these things. My name always pays attention to the level of one bowl. No matter who it is, he has rewarded merits and punished me. As long as my brothers are willing to follow me, abide by military discipline, and expel the Tartars together, I will definitely treat it well!"
When Yuan Zongdi heard this, his blood boiled all over his body. He had long seen that Li Zicheng was already declining, but Gu Zhenhua was at its peak. People walked to the high places and water flowed to the low places. Yuan Zongdi had long wanted to surrender to Gu Zhenhua, but he was afraid that others would not agree.
Finally, when Gu Zhenhua let go, Yuan Zongdi knelt on the ground and kowtowed: "Thank you for taking it in. From then on, there will be no Mian Marquis Yuan Zongdi, only a small soldier under An**'s tent. I am willing to start from scratch!"
After spending some time with Yuan Zongdi, Gu Zhenhua also knew that this person was not bad in character, and he also knew that Yuan Zongdi was one of the leaders of the Thirteen Army of Kuidong.
When Li Dingguo died of illness, only the thirteen Kuidong troops were still fighting against the Qing Dynasty on the Central Plains. They fought for decades for the land of China!
"Okay, General Yuan. This time you will take your troops to Jiangnan with your headquarters. As long as the matter is done, your subordinates will form a regiment. Starting from the leader of the regiment, General Yuan, won't you feel wronged?"
"Don't be wronged, don't be wronged!" Yuan Zongdi said hurriedly. He had some calculations in his heart. An**'s position seems not high, but there are more than a thousand Tiger Bing soldiers in one regiment. Compared with the Dashun Army, it is simply one to be ten, and it is much more glorious than him, the so-called marquis.
"Mr. I will go to Jiangnan immediately."
Gu Zhenhua played with this trick without any special thing. To put it bluntly, it was just a sensation. An ** was inconvenient to stand up and could not draw out the troops for the time being. So he let Yuan Zongdi and the others rush forward. Gu Zhenhua was manipulating it behind his back. This was also in line with his style of acting.
Yuan Zongdi and his 5,000 troops were still the first wave, and there were more to come. The chips were added bit by bit, so I don’t have to worry that Nanjing would not surrender!
"Dude, Nanjing has sent an imperial envoy." Fang Jianming suddenly said hurriedly.
"Imperial envoy, who?"
"I heard that Yue Qijie is Ma Shiying's confidant. He set out before we offered prisoners to the capital!"
Gu Zhenhua laughed: "What, he is still planning to investigate whether his master is successful?"
Fang Jianming smiled and said, "Mr. I'm not so slow. I think Ma Shiying should have notified him early. This guy is particularly polite, just saying he wants to visit your injuries."
"No!" Gu Zhenhua waved his hand without hesitation and said with a smile: "Just tell him that I need to be meditated and recuperated, and no one will be seen!"
"Dude, you don't show off your eagle without seeing a rabbit."
"Hahaha, I'm wrong. I don't show off when I see a rabbit. As the saying goes, the great achievements are shocking to the Lord. Even if I have to come here this time, Nanjing will only have a deeper suspicion about us. I don't have time to talk nonsense with them. From now on, I will pretend to be sick for a long time!"
"Dude, you still have to pretend, then we won't be exhausted?"
Of course, Fang Jianming only dared to complain. Compared to Wu Kaijie, even if he was a little busy, he would not have to go back and run around. Wu Kaijie had just passed the fifth day of the first lunar month and was driven away by Gu Zhenhua and asked him to go to Nanjing to assist Zhang Jinyan.
At this time, Wu Kaijie was indeed as Fang Jianming expected, and he was so busy that he couldn't make any moves.
After Zhang Jinyan took over the second auxiliary, the first thing he did when he took office was to look for food everywhere. He knew clearly that Henan had not much food in stock. He also had to appease so many bandits. In short, Henan had to survive until the summer grain harvest was at least three million dan, which was also the task given to him by Gu Zhenhua.
However, Zhang Jinyan and his men took a inventory of the warehouse and found that the surplus grain in Nanjing was only 500,000 dan, and the other warehouses could get only 800,000 dan of grain for a time, which was a drop in the bucket.
In an instant, Zhang Jinyan became angry and his cheeks swollen. Although he was in power, he couldn't do anything, so he couldn't afford to leave!
But Ma Shiying, Ruan Dacheng and others all pretended to be shrunk turtles, deliberately trying to see Zhang Jinyan's laughter.
However, Zhang Jinyan is not so easy to surrender, not to mention that with Gu Zhenhua's support, everyone just fights to see who wins and who loses!
Zhang Jinyan hurried back to the mansion. After walking in, he heard the abacus beads on both sides clattering and making noises.
On the right are all eunuchs of seventeen or eighteen years old, and on the left are young people of sixteen or seventeen years old. They all have their fingers flying, and others can't even see the abacus beads. It didn't take much time before someone took the accounts and delivered them to the table.
Dai Ying and Wu Kaijie were sitting upright on the table.
Wu Kaijie smiled and said, "Eunuch Dai, I really didn't expect that there are so many young masters in the palace who are proficient in abacus, which is really unexpected."
"Hahaha, is the king's land under the world? To be honest, the royal family has the most wealth and the accounts are the most troublesome. If there is no iron abacus, it is not necessary to be counted by the ministers outside!"
Dai Ying said: "It's a bit surprising to say that. Duke Ji also has so many iron calculations in his hands. It seems to be slightly better than the ones in the palace!"
Wu Kaijie smiled proudly and said, "Who is the Duke of the State? He wants everything in front of others. Many of these teenagers were born from the An** Youth Camp. They are smart and they are a bit of a waste of their military wars. They are all cultivated according to their temperament, and naturally some are specialized in the settlement!"
"Hahaha, the Duke of the State is really far-sighted, and it's admirable."
While he was talking, footsteps sounded and Zhang Jinyan walked in quickly.
"Sir, why are you sweating all over when you walk? Have some tea!"
Zhang Jinyan didn't answer, and grabbed the teapot and poured it into his stomach with a gulp, not caring about being gentle at all.
Wu Kaijie smiled hurriedly and said, "Heroic, don't drink it anymore, Jingyanggang is ahead!"
Zhang Jinyan drank most of the pot, then stared at Wu Kaijie and sneered: "I am going to be a tiger fighter. Do you have magic weapons?"
Wu Kaijie picked up a stack of lists and placed them respectfully in Zhang Jinyan's hand.
"Please take a look at the old hero!"
Zhang Jinyan took the list and looked at it with all his eyes. As he looked, his eyes widened, and finally slapped the table hard.
"Damn it, bastard, why did the Ming Dynasty have such a bastard official?"
No wonder Zhang Jinyan was angry. According to calculations, Taicang should have at least 1.5 million dan of grain, but now only 800,000 dan is left, and half of them are unknown. If it were anyone, it would be roaring, especially at such a war!
"Mr. Zhang, you are anxious to get angry first, look down!"
Zhang Jinyan hurriedly looked down and his eyes widened again: "How could this burn 300,000 dan?"
Wu Kaijie smiled and said, "You will know when you look at it. They first said that the warehouse was damaged and the rice was tide and they had to be replaced with new rice. They sold it to merchants at a discount of seven batches of grain, a total of 300,000 dan. Then they asked the court to allocate silver to buy grain and make up for the warehouse. However, after buying the new rice, less than a month later, the warehouse caught fire and 300,000 dan of grain was burned!"
"If there is a problem, there is definitely a problem!" Zhang Jinyan couldn't help but say: "There is no such coincidence in this world. Food is no better than anything else. Even if it is too hot on the top and there is nothing left below, so how could it be burned!"
At this time, Dai Ying also smiled and said, "Mr. Zhang really understands, to be honest, our family has sent people from the East Factory to investigate, and this batch of grain was not affected by the weather. They deliberately misreported and then sold grain to merchants at a low price. When they asked the court to buy it from the merchants at a high price, they made hundreds of thousands of taels of taels. However, these grandsons were unwilling to give up in the end, and did not buy back the grain. Instead, they set fire to make a lot of money!"
"Damn it, they are simply joking about state affairs. Isn't anyone taking care of it?"
"How to manage it? Lord Zhang, ten years ago, two taels of silver in Nanjing were used to pay a leap of rice. In the past two years, the price of grain soared, and five taels of silver, or even ten taels of silver when the late emperor died for his country. Fortunately, Duke Ji won several battles, and the people's hearts were stable, so the price of grain fell."
"Ten taels per tan, 300,000 tan, which is three million taels of silver. These dog officials are so greedy! Are there any courts in their eyes? By the way, there are those censors. They are not participating in Duke Ji, one is worth two? Why are they so corrupt, but no one is watching?"
Dai Ying smiled slightly: "Mr. Zhang, it seems that you have not been in the officialdom for a long time. Have you heard of it? Now, in addition to Bing Jingtan Jing, there is also Mi Jing. All the ministers in the court can receive the filial piety of grain merchants, and with the court's wealth and rice, they will not have to worry about food and drink!"
To be honest, Zhang Jinyan also knew about these bullshit things. But when he was really in front of him, he was still furious.
"Eunuch Dai, Staff Officer Wu, since I have been trusted by the Duke, I cannot ignore it. I will inevitably launch this corruption case. If the rat is not eliminated, the soldiers will not be filled!"
Dai Ying and Wu Kaijie both nodded: "Mr. Zhang, what do you think you should do?"
Zhang Jinyan thought for a while and said, "We just need to catch one or two corrupt officials and get a few grain merchants. I think it's better to lead the snake out of the hole and design a trap so that they can show the fox's tail obediently."
Zhang Jinyan is an old fry, Wu Kaijie and Dai Ying are both conspirators, and the three of them gathered together, muttered and came up with a wonderful idea.
Chapter completed!