A Qin officer hurriedly rushed into Chen Li's headquarters lounge and woke up Chen Li, the commander-in-chief of the northern Qin army who had just fallen asleep.
"What's wrong? What happened?" Chen Li knew that if it wasn't an emergency, his subordinates would not wake up the sleeping coach.
Because the coach's sleep is very important. The tighter the battle situation, the more important the coach's mental state is. Being able to calmly maintain a rest schedule is also a trait that a qualified coach should possess.
Chen Li has been doing pretty well in the past few days. At least the defense issues he was most worried about have been basically solved to a certain extent.
The Tang Empire chose a truce in February when the road was muddy. The opponent did not rush to attack, but maintained a relatively mild state of probing and harassing.
This greatly reduced Chen Li's defensive pressure, so he could more or less save some troops and train them honestly so that they could better adapt to the cruel fighting environment on the front line.
Unfortunately, his military rations are not that sufficient recently, and he needs to constantly urge the rear to transfer. But compared to the Tang army's attack, the food problem is a minor one.
The officer who came to deliver the news lowered his head and reported: "General! There was a riot in a military camp behind Daxi Pass. Soldiers from a regiment killed the chief officer, robbed guns... and also attacked the nearby military camp?"
"What?" Chen Li was shocked by the news. He really didn't expect that the food for the people below was already so tight.
Judging from his statistics, in fact, although there is a food shortage, the actual level is not to the point of forcing people to rebel.
"What's going on?" So, he immediately realized that there might be a serious problem somewhere: "Although there is a shortage of food, it won't make the soldiers hungry enough to rebel, right?"
"The matter has not been investigated clearly, but... I heard that there seems to be a problem with the rations of the 93rd Army..." The officer who came to report was not sure about the specific situation, so he could only give a rough answer.
Time was too tight and there was no time to investigate. He only confirmed that there was a commotion in the garrison of a division of the 93rd Army. One regiment seemed to be in rebellion, so he hurriedly reported it.
In fact, what he didn't know was that the regiment that killed his commander had already rushed into the regiment next door when he woke up Chen Li, grabbed the hungry soldiers of that regiment, and went directly to the division headquarters.
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"Order the 93rd Army to suppress the rebellion! Kill all the rioting soldiers! As a warning to others!" Chen Li knew that now was not the time to ask what was right or wrong. He had to deal with the matter first anyway to prevent the situation from getting out of his control.
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In his opinion, those rebellious soldiers can no longer be used, so they must be killed to scare the monkeys and use them to deter those who dare to rebel. As for right or wrong...that is, figuring out why these soldiers are starving is already a follow-up
problem.
"Yes!" The officer immediately turned around and walked out. At this time, Chen Li began to think about which link had gone wrong.
He actually distributed the food he got to all the troops. Although the food rations of the 93rd Army were small, they were not so hungry that the soldiers rebelled.
Therefore, he soon realized that this was likely to be a big case...a big case that might involve many people! So he immediately called his adjutant: "Adjutant! Go to the 93rd Army station and take care of the case."
Let’s figure it out! Don’t make your own decisions about anything, just report it to me.”
"Yes!" After hearing what happened, the adjutant immediately nodded in agreement, turned around and walked out of Chen Li's lounge.
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On the other side, at the headquarters of the 93rd Army, the commander was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot. The reason why he was so anxious was because he knew that in fact he had not received as much food as shown in the account.
The grain that was supposed to be shipped to him didn't exist at all! They only existed in the ledger, not in actual physical objects!
What about that grain? That grain was sent to Shu for sale! Yes, sold! At that time, no one realized that Shu and Chu would be lost so quickly, so they thought of taking advantage of the opportunity when Shu was occupied by Qin.
When there is a shortage of grain, you can make a fortune by transporting the grain there.
Then wait for this year's Shu land to have a good harvest, and then spend less money to buy the grain and fill it back into the granary. Wouldn't this make a huge profit without anyone noticing? But the result is that the Shu land is lost very quickly.
, the food cannot be recovered, and the gap cannot be filled.
The originally misappropriated grain was a reserve material, which could not be used under normal circumstances, so the deficit was a loss. But who would have imagined that the front line was defeated and the Qin army was short of food, so the reserved food was also used for emergencies.
This is great. A group of Qin's royal relatives, even relatives and many generals participated in the major grain reselling case was exposed.
What's even more tragic is that these people now know that only one-third of the food they embezzled was actually only one-third, but the other one-third was lost through years of "greedy".
The original total amount of grain in the Qin State's reserve granary did not match the accounts. If a thorough investigation was carried out, a "fire dragon burning the granary" would probably occur. These people who are now reselling grain have become the corrupt ones.
People's scapegoats.
At the end of the quarrel, no one dared to set fire to the granary, because this kind of method that could be used in ordinary times would probably be used by Emperor Qin Yingduo to find out the real culprit and kill him directly.
When everyone had no choice, they could only pretend to transport the food and then pretend to send it to the front line. Who knew that many tricks would be played along the way.
Originally, the transportation capacity of Qin's rear was insufficient, and the Qin Emperor and other high-level officials forced the transportation department to expand transportation capacity in a short period of time. These departments could not do it, so they could only worry secretly. Now, there is a large amount of non-existent food that needs to be transported to the front line... As long as
By making some fuss about the accounts, they can increase their shipping capacity, right?
As a result, through the painstaking efforts of the railway department, these invisible grains were transported to the front line by invisible transportation capacity. The railway department could also use this to report the transportation results, which made Emperor Qin Yingduo very satisfied.
It's a pity that these non-existent grains were transported to the front line, and the soldiers could not eat them. The originally allocated ten tons of rice and noodles may only be made up of one ton in the end.
As a result, this ton of grain was exploited even more within the army, and the superiors squeezed some more from the people below... In the hands of ordinary soldiers, there was only so-called rice porridge that was as clear as water.
If these soldiers starve to death, the officers may be able to earn more free money, which may lead to the birth of a new business. Unfortunately, these soldiers finally rebelled, and everyone involved in this matter knows that paper
