After thanking Xia Yan, He Shen also left with a smile on his face, looking as proud as he could be.
It was as if the world was already in his hands at this moment.
Not enough Xia Yan didn't care at all.
Now Heshen is one of his generals, maybe even a key general.
For such a person, you must let him know that you are not afraid that he will be greedy, but you are afraid that he will not be greedy.
This was indeed the case. After Heshen left, he began to work on the expedition.
As the right prime minister of the court, and with Xia Yan personally confirming that He Shen was in charge, He Shen quickly took control of everything.
The most important one is naturally the household department.
Among the six departments, all the other departments looked awesome, but at the critical moment they still had to get money from the household department.
After all, at this time, silver is the most practical universal currency.
The scope of Heshen's management is very generous. After Guan controls the money, he will also be responsible for purchasing matters.
As for his subordinates' whistle-blowing, He Shen is not worried at all.
Report letters from minor officials could not be sent directly to the emperor. They could only be submitted to the Zhongshu Ministry of Education for screening. All I had to do was use a little trick to withhold the memorial.
But this is still risky after all, so He Shen directly came up with a trick that everyone with money can take.
Yes, as long as you are leaving from Hucheng, everything will be properly arranged by the Minister of Household Affairs and the junior official He Shen.
Everyone got their own money, and the people who got it no longer cared whether the box sent by He Shen was real fur.
And this is He Shen's ability to arrange everything in an orderly manner.
Satisfied with this, the soldiers sent back the battle report from Dongchang on the eighth day of the expedition.
Now the soldiers have just arrived in Frey Country and will spend their first night in Frey Country today.
However, the army officers seemed to be very dissatisfied with this night for the following reasons:
1: The arrows equipped are not Jiang Han arrows, but the most common low-quality arrows that cannot even penetrate the skin if the strength of the bow is weak.
2: What’s the deal with everyone only being able to eat one meal a day? It’s so cold here in Frey Country. How can we have fun when we’re cold and hungry?
3: I agreed to borrow gunpowder from Huo Qubing, but I sent people to pull five carts, and only brought back a few grenades. It is said that Huo Qubing even yelled at me on the spot, how could I give it to you if I don’t have enough!
4: The most egregious thing is that the military supplies are cut corners. It was clearly promised that each person would have one piece of fur when going out, but now there is no fur at all, only a large bale of hay for each person. This thing is fine for sleeping in a local store.
, use it to keep warm, what are you thinking about?
Looking at these points, Xia Yan frowned slightly.
"Those old men can't receive this information?"
What Xia Yan was talking about was naturally referring to the group of seven headed by Zhu Ming. After all, the seven people were the most lively in the court on weekdays. It would be strange if they didn't make a fuss when something like this happened at this moment.
But Eunuch Yu shook his head.
"The seven of them didn't know, because they all relied on Xu Shangshu for their information, and there were many traitors in Xu Shangshu's military department. They took money from the Prime Minister and sent the news from the north to them in advance.
It has been changed, so the information received by Xu Shangshu has been optimized. At most, it can only know where the current army is, but it will not know that the soldiers are freezing."
After hearing this, Xia Yan frowned slightly. It seemed that sometimes powerful officials were really scary.
He can directly change the information, making the confusion and obstacles that should appear in front of everyone disappear directly.
Perhaps this is why many emperors need a relationship with an intelligence agency that is loyal only to themselves.
Many times the relationships in the court are too complicated. If there is a problem in one link, everything will be lost.
But his own Dongchang is different. Even he doesn't know how many masters among the people are from Dongchang. Can He Shen figure it out?
It's not enough to say that He Shen was really cruel this time.
After all, the low temperature in Frei Country is very scary. At night, it must be more than ten degrees below zero. In such a situation, how many bundles of grass would you give someone?
Xia Yan really didn't expect this situation. He could think of He Shen being greedy, but he didn't expect that He Shen could be so greedy that he almost ignored human life. This was too cruel.
But at this moment, Xia Yan still had an arrow on the string and had to fire it. Fortunately, the soldiers were just sent out for a formality to help the people of the Divine Phoenix Kingdom to build up their momentum. They didn't have to really work hard. The worst thing they owed them was to make up for it when they came back.
yes.
At this moment, far away in the frozen country of Frey in the north...
Today's soldiers have just entered the territory of Frei Kingdom, and they are in the same position as the iceberg that was discussed in the court.
At night, the university seemed to have stopped, but there was still a thick layer of snow on the mountains.
"Damn it, just give us a few bundles of rotten grass, are we going to freeze to death?!"
"We in Daxia have conquered so many places recently, so we wouldn't be so poor. Wouldn't this be life-threatening!"
It was already nighttime, and although there was no snow, the whistling north wind made everyone shiver.
Just like when Xia Yan was on the battlefield of the Divine Phoenix Kingdom, the teams at this moment were also organized into units of a hundred people.
At this moment, no one dared to return to their tents. Ten people lived in each tent, but there was only a small brazier.
Due to the lack of military equipment, new braziers could not be added and firewood could not be lit in the tents, so many people chose to go outside to warm themselves around a slightly larger bonfire.
But even so, many people are still shivering from the cold. The reason is simple and there is not much firewood.
You can still find a lot of firewood on a barren mountain, but this is a snowy mountain.
Even if you occasionally see two trees that have turned into dry trees, it will not help at all.
You know, there are 400,000 people here!
At this moment, the trees for miles around have been cut down, and many people are no longer even willing to go out.
Because although it is cold around the campfire, it is at least bearable, but once you go out, you will not have any measures to keep warm. If you fall down somewhere, you may not be able to get up for the rest of your life.
It was precisely because of this that the soldiers looked at the large bundles of weeds in their hands and asked angrily.
400,000 people were divided into dozens of positions. Questions like this one after another in each position made the night seem no longer silent.
The position where Qi Xian was located had about 30,000 people, and it was also the largest among the many positions. It also had the largest number of soldiers questioning him angrily.