Early the next morning, Lu Qingshan submitted a detailed plan to Chen Qing to provoke a conflict between the imperial court and Zhang Jun. It was very comprehensive and involved not only warships, but also the ownership of the four states of Yangzhou and Jingzhou North Road.
Chen Qing immediately convened the Internal Affairs Hall to secretly discuss Lu Qingshan's plan, and finally the Internal Affairs Hall unanimously approved it. The ultimate goal was to fully intensify the conflict between Zhang Jun and the court, force Zhang Jun to rebel, and then fully occupy the land north of the Yangtze River in the name of crusade against Zhang Jun.
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Chen Qing immediately sent Wei Ji, deputy director of the army, as a special envoy and rushed to Shouchun to meet Zhang Jun.
At this time, Zhong Huan also led a dozen of his men to Chengji County, and actually stored nine iron fire thunders in the county warehouse. Hearing such a thing felt ridiculous, but it happened.
The magistrate of Chengji County was named Li Wei, who was a Jinshi in the same discipline as Zhong Huan. His ranking was a few higher than that of Zhong Huan. After he served as a county lieutenant, he received four consecutive excellent reviews and was promoted to county magistrate. According to the
Under normal circumstances, he should serve as a capital official for another term and then be transferred from the capital official position to serve as county magistrate.
However, outstanding officials will be promoted exceptionally. For example, Zhong Huan has been promoted to the rank of commander, a sixth-grade official, which is equivalent to the level of prefecture governor. The same is true for Chao Qing, who has been promoted to a sixth-grade military officer.
Although Li Wei knew Zhong Huan, he was still a little nervous. Investigations by internal guards were not a good thing. Investigations by the Supervision Department would result in dismissal and loss of office at most, but investigations by internal guards would result in loss of one's head.
Zhong Huan didn't have time to reminisce with him, so he directly ordered Wu Jinxiu, the commander of Cang Cao, to be arrested. Li Wei was shocked and asked Zhong Huan urgently: "Why did he, a small commander, alert the internal guards?"
Zhong Huan ordered people to escort Wu Jinxiu to him. Wu Jinxiu was so frightened that he knelt on the ground and burst into tears. "My whole family depends on me to support me. General, please spare me! I don't know what crime I have committed!"
"Have you received a hundred thousand dollars in benefit recently?" Zhong Huan asked coldly.
Oh my God! Do the internal guards know this kind of thing? Wu Jinxiu was so frightened that he almost peed his pants. He lowered his head and admitted: "Not long ago, I sold some sundries from the warehouse, useless scraps, and bought them at a good price. The warehouse
Fifty guan was credited to the account, and I pocketed 50 guan myself."
"Asshole! How dare you embezzle government money!"
Li Wei cursed loudly, but he was also confused. He wouldn't go to war for fifty pieces of money!
A thought occurred to him. I'm afraid it wasn't about money, but about things. He asked urgently: "What did you sell in the warehouse?"
"Nine iron lumps, each weighing twenty or thirty kilograms, have been piled up in the junk warehouse for two years. I wanted to clean them out, but someone happened to see them and bought them at a high price."
Zhong Huan asked: "Who saw it?"
"It was a businessman named Zhang who was in the sundries business. He said that pig iron was very precious and he wanted to collect some. There happened to be a pile of broken knives and guns in the warehouse. They were all broken or damaged. They had been piled up for several years. I was thinking about this.
It's not a normal weapon, so it shouldn't be a big problem, so I took him to see it, but he didn't like the sword and gun, but the nine iron lumps put together."
"But the man with the scar on his left brow?"
"Yes! Yes! That's him."
That was Zhang Kuang. Zhong Huan asked again: "Is he the only one who saw nine iron lumps? Did any of his men see it?"
"He's the only one. It's not good for too many people to enter the warehouse casually."
Zhong Huan nodded and asked: "Are there any similar iron lumps in the warehouse?"
"There were two bigger ones. I forgot about them. When I remembered, he was already gone."
There were actually two bigger ones. Zhong Huan cursed secretly and immediately said: "Take me to the warehouse to see if you behave well, I can spare you this time!"
This kind of low-level person knows nothing, and there is no point in killing him. On the contrary, it will spread the news.
"I'll open the door right now!"
Wu Jinxiu felt as if he had received an amnesty and hurriedly ran to get the key.
Li Wei guessed something, and he was afraid that there was a big problem with the nine iron lumps. He found a moment and secretly asked Zhong Huan: "What are those nine iron lumps?"
Zhong Huan looked both ways and whispered: "It's the top secret iron fire thunder in the army. The boss named Zhang is also a spy sent by Zhang Jun. We have already arrested him."
"ah!"
Li Wei was stunned, and Zhong Huan said again: "We need to find out how Tie Huolei got into the county government warehouse."
"You can ask Wu Jinxiu about this. He has been in charge of the warehouse for several years. I was only transferred from Qingshui County this year, so I really don't know."
"Just keep it a secret. The news must not spread."
"I know it well!"
The two of them talked and quickly arrived at the warehouse. The door of the county warehouse had been opened. There were three warehouses. They came to the third warehouse, the sundries warehouse. The warehouse was very large and filled with all kinds of sundries.
There were many broken weapons piled up in the innermost corner. Wu Jinxiu lifted up an oilcloth in the corner, revealing two large wooden boxes.
Zhong Huan sighed immediately and knew it by looking at the number. They were two iron dog fire thunders, each weighing sixty kilograms of medium-sized iron fire thunders.
Zhong Huan asked everyone to step back and ordered the soldiers to pry open the cover, revealing a dark fire mine. The wooden shell on the mouth of the fire mine had been smashed and the match rope was gone. The two fire mines were the same, so they should be dumb mines.
Zhong Huan waved Wu Jingxiu forward and asked him, "Have you not opened it and looked at it carefully?"
Wu Jinxiu shook his head like a rattle, "This thing is very heavy. I just looked through the cracks and poked it with an iron pick to confirm that it was pig iron. I didn't open the lid."
"Then I want to know, this is military material, why is it in the county government's warehouse?"
"This villain knows, it was the villain who handled it, probably last year! The Qinzhou garrison heard that they were going to Lingzhou to participate in the defense. They left in a hurry and gave a large amount of supplies from the military depot to the county government, including grain.
Tents, iron frames, and a large number of broken weapons, that's all, and then these big wooden boxes are returned. The army has left cleanly, so I'd better find someone to move them all to the county warehouse."
Zhong Huan nodded. Just as he had guessed, it must be waste materials left behind when the army was mobilized.
He said to Wu Jinxiu: "I will give you one last chance. If you tell the truth, I will spare you."
"At this time, I don't dare to tell a lie!"
"Do you know what this is?"
Wu Jinxiu shook his head, "I don't understand the numbers on the wooden box. What does the hedgehog 588 mean? There are also iron dogs. I really don't understand. I only know that they are used by the army."
Seeing that he was not pretending, Zhong Huan asked again: "How many are there in total? They are very important. Have they been taken away by others?"
"There are eleven in total. I remember them clearly in my account book and I guarantee that they have not been taken away by anyone else. General, please look here."
Wu Jinxiu showed the account book to Zhong Huan. It was clearly written on it, 'There are eleven iron lumps in the warehouse, two large and nine small.'
"Fortunately, proprietor Zhang was too excited and didn't look at the account book, otherwise the two older ones wouldn't be able to keep it, and I forgot about it myself."
Zhong Huan nodded and said to Li Wei: "Prepare a carriage for me. I want to take away two big boxes!"
Special envoy Wei Ji met Zhang Jun in Suizhou. The reason why Zhang Jun came to Suizhou was to personally greet the iron fire thunder that the spies had obtained. As a professional soldier, how could he not know the power of the iron fire thunder? A single iron fire thunder can kill
It can blow down the city wall and save the heavy casualties of attacking the city wall.
The Western Army captured the Central Plains and captured Shandong Road. Almost all important cities were captured using iron fire thunder.
In this way, how could Zhang Jun not hope to get Iron Fire Thunder and possess Iron Fire Thunder?
It is not important whether he can have nine iron fire thunders. What is important is that he can imitate his iron fire thunders by studying these nine iron fire thunders. With the iron fire thunders, he can occupy Jianghuai and separate one side. Go to hell.
Those bastards in the mother's court.
Zhang Jun's neck felt sore, but what was waiting for him was a group of spies who were sent back with gifts. His nephew was detained in Jingzhao by the Western Army.
All the iron fire thunders they worked so hard to obtain were captured by the Western Army's internal guards, and the attempt was in vain.
Zhang Jun was so heartbroken that the duck in his mouth actually flew away. He immediately interrogated carefully and finally learned that the counterfeit banknotes were traced by the internal security guards, and their home in Jingzhao was found.
This unexpected result made Zhang Jun stamp his feet and beat his chest, feeling extremely regretful.
At this moment, he received a report and King Yong Chen Qing sent his special envoy Wei Ji to see him.
Although Zhang Jun was extremely angry and didn't want to see her, his reason told him that at this critical moment, he had to see her.