The next day, Xie Yuan and Cui Heng began to discuss how to quickly deal with this mess.
After discussion, the two unanimously decided to deal with matters related to the military first.
Because this was the most difficult thing to do, especially the former governor's falsified military accounts, which gave the two of them a big headache.
Moreover, this batch of falsified accounts spanned a long period of time, approximately ten years.
On this day, Cui Heng stared at these accounts and suddenly had a plan in mind.
"It is almost impossible to find and fill up the vacancies in a short period of time. In this case, why not dismiss the original soldiers and fill the Yangzhou army with Luo family soldiers in the name of recruiting soldiers." Cui Heng shook his feather fan.
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Xie Yuan rubbed his chin thoughtfully, and then Cui Heng said -
"This will lead to huge expenditures. Although those who have served as censors will check the military accounts, they do not know what false accounts the former Yangzhou governor has made."
"In order to be promoted, the former governor of Yangzhou did not dare to tell his dirty laundry openly - we can take advantage of his fear of being found out and fill in these expenses into the missing accounts. In this way
Come on, those people don’t know how much fraud the governor of Yangzhou has made, and they don’t really look at the accounts. As long as the numbers are right, there is nothing they can do about the lord." Cui Heng nodded.
Xie Yuanxiao: "They can cheat, and we can hide it."
The two teenagers hit it off immediately.
Xie Yuan immediately wrote an order and asked Cui Heng and Huo Qubing to take people to dismiss the soldiers left behind by the former Yangzhou governor.
Those soldiers were all from common people, and when they heard that they were going to be sent back to their hometowns, they immediately quit their jobs.
We have finally fallen into the military household. If you ask us to go home, we will go home. Isn’t it delicious to have an iron rice bowl? Why do we have to go home to farm and earn a meager income?
Cui Heng and the other two knew early on that they were going to make trouble unreasonably, so they took out several brochures that had been prepared long ago, read out one by one the bad things these soldiers had done after joining the army, and reported them later.
crime.
As soon as those people heard these words, they remembered the fate of the subordinate officials whom Xie Yuan had dismissed.
Because they did not want to become slaves, these soldiers took off their armor and left before the two of them finished reading.
The first step is completed.
After Xie Yuan got the news, he compiled a book and sent it to the Luo family in Kuaiji County, asking them to secretly send 100,000 soldiers to Yangzhou.
At the same time, a call was issued to recruit 30,000 soldiers.
The head of the Luo family quickly rushed there with his people.
In order not to be discovered, he specially contracted a caravan to travel north and south, rented their large merchant ship and took the water route.
No one would have thought that what was hidden on these ordinary merchant ships was not cargo, but 100,000 soldiers.
Because the original people did not dare to announce that they were dismissed, fearing that someone would reveal their past and ruin their reputation, these soldiers quietly replaced the original 70,000 soldiers.
Coupled with the extra 30,000, it just made up for the number of people recruited by Xie Yuan's order.
The second step is completed.
As for the money to make up for it...
Of course Comrade Xiao Xie will not be taken advantage of.
He captured those soldiers who had been demobilized and returned to their hometowns, confiscated their property, and after dispatching them to the frontiers according to the law, he filled the property they had embezzled into the army's accounts, and added an expense for recruiting soldiers.
One soldier was worth two taels of silver. After deducting thirty thousand soldiers and sixty thousand taels of silver, the remaining family property just made up for the false accounts made by the former Yangzhou governor.
Three steps to conceal the truth and cross the sea.
After handling the most difficult military accounts, the rest will be much easier to deal with. This chapter has been completed!