Cao Cao called me to rob a tomb

Chapter 366 The Head in the Cauldron (4200)

Huan army garrison.

Not long after the convoy that brought the reward left, Wu Liang also came back.

Two brothers, Cao Ang and Cao Ti, came back with him. Both of them had a lifelong friendship with Wu Liang, so they insisted on following him to celebrate his promotion...

But Wu Liang knew that these two guys were actually here to drink.

Cao Ang's purpose may not be that pure, but Cao Ang's one thousand percent is just drinking!
It had been a few days since they had drunk the high-grade shochu brewed by Wu Liang. In addition, Boss Cao, who was usually relatively self-disciplined, had to restrain himself. Now that they finally got this opportunity, they naturally wanted to indulge.

As a result, the three had just arrived at the station not long ago.

Then another person hurried over, this person was none other than Wang Qing who had been running Cao's Salt Company for Wu Liang.

When Wu Liang taught him to start Cao's Salt Shop, he owed the contract. The contract stipulated that Wang Qing would take [-]% of the profit of the salt shop, Wu Liang would take [-]%, and Boss Cao would take [-]%.

This time, Wu Liang dedicated the contract to Boss Cao, and assigned all of his [-]% to Boss Cao, making Boss Cao monopolize [-]%.

Boss Cao was overjoyed.

By the way, Wang Qing, the "beating worker", was also given an official position-Yan Caoyu.

This official position is also not attached to the county or county, and is directly responsible to Boss Cao, who manages all the business activities of the salt shop within Boss Cao's territory.

This is a monopoly, a monopoly backed by the military.

To some extent, this is tantamount to reintegrating the salt industry into "state-owned" and letting Boss Cao's "regime" control the entire salt industry.

Although with the current development status of Cao's Salt Company, even without this right, relying solely on Snowflake Salt's technical advantages, it has already formed a rudimentary monopoly in Yanzhou, but it is obviously more formal than it is now with Boss Cao's personal endorsement. It is also more convenient.

Therefore, Wang Qing came here for another purpose besides congratulating Wu Liang on his promotion.

It is to discuss with Wu Liang about the next marketing strategy of Cao's Salt Company, and the policy towards other salt companies after taking up the post of Cao Yan.

It's just because Boss Cao specially asked him to do it after he was granted the title of Salt Cao Cao.

Teach him not to use this right to openly deal with other salt companies, because most of the other salt companies in Yanzhou are also in the hands of some gentry. The means are to make them unable to do it themselves and take the initiative to close the store, which is more conducive to the stability of the situation.

Naturally, Wang Qing didn't dare to disobey Boss Cao's wishes.

But for a while, he couldn't make up his mind, and didn't dare to bother Boss Cao because of such a trivial matter, so he had to come to Wu Liang to learn from him.

By now.

Wu Liang also attained the Tao alone, and the chicken and dog ascended to heaven.

As long as the relationship with him in Chenliu County is not bad, no matter if they are fooled by him or take the initiative to seek refuge, they will become powerful figures who can shake Chenliu County and even the entire Yanzhou gentry. The wish of Guangzong Yaozu was fulfilled.

However, these people were not appointed by Wu Liang on his own initiative, but by Boss Cao's own decision.

Therefore, even if Boss Cao is suspicious by nature, it is difficult to imagine whether Wu Liang is suspected of forming a gang, not to mention that Wu Liang so "selflessly" gave "all" of what he had mastered, and he never kept any secret recipes and design drawings. It means that Boss Cao has seen it, and his trust in him has reached the peak...

As a result, when Wang Qing entered the door and saw Cao Ang and Cao Teng, he immediately became cautious again. After saluting the two of them, he weakly stayed aside to accompany them.

"Don't be cautious, we are all here to congratulate the talented and virtuous brother on his promotion, so today the talented and virtuous brother is the host. Apart from talking nicely, we guests just eat and drink well."

Cao Ting was very generous with the generosity of others, and shouted loudly, "Brother talented and virtuous, if you don't hurry up and ask someone to bring you wine, are you afraid that we won't be able to drink yours?"

"Brother An Min, what did you say, it's just that my wine is too strong, I'm afraid I'll get drunk after a few bowls on an empty stomach."

Wu Liang said with a smile, "Don't be impatient, I have asked someone to clean up the meat and cook it, and then I will bring us some appetizers. Today we must get drunk, I'm afraid Brother An Min will wait a while. Drunk too fast."

In fact, today is the day when the entire Zhuan army gets drunk.

After Boss Cao sent someone to deliver the rewards of wine, meat and food, the soldiers of the Tuan army moved them into the warehouse and waited obediently. When Wu Liang came back and gave the order to fire, everyone finally turned on the carnival mode.

"Brother talented and virtuous, I suspect that you are provoking me, but I don't take this kind of trick. I am a gentleman, and I always drink with wine glasses."

Cao Ting said with a guilty conscience.

"Anmin, I'm afraid you're talking the wrong way, why haven't I seen you drink with a wine glass?"

Cao Ang asked sideways.

"I...that was before, I have changed now!"

Old Cao Ti blushed a little, and was thinking of saying something to divert this topic.

at this time.

"Young master! Young master! Something has happened, come and take a look!"

Suddenly there were anxious shouts from outside the courtyard, and Yang Wanli rushed into the living room after a while, with a lot of shock on his face.

"What's going on?"

Wu Liang frowned, and asked as he walked out.

"Meat! There is something wrong with the meat this time, you will know it at a glance!"

Yang Wanli followed behind, and he didn't know how to describe it, or it was inconvenient to say it in front of other people in the hall, so his answer was a bit vague.

"Let's go out and have a look too."

Seeing this situation, Cao Ang also stood up and called Cao Ti and Wang Qing to go out together.

……

In this way, he came to the station outside the courtyard.

A dozen cauldrons have been set up on the square in the middle of the resident. The firewood underneath the cauldron is burning vigorously, and the broth in the cauldron is bubbling and smelling like meat.

But at this moment, the soldiers of the Huren army who were waiting to eat meat all had strange expressions on their faces.

No trace of expectation or joy can be seen on their faces, and someone not far away is still vomiting non-stop. That painful expression should have already vomited out the overnight meal.

"What's going on?"

Seeing everyone's behavior, Wu Liang felt even more strange.

Yang Wanli had already brought him to a cauldron, pointed to the meaty soup in the cauldron and said, "My lord, look."

At this moment, the broth has turned white, with a layer of fat foam floating on it.

Besides.

"Yang Wanli, you..."

Wu Liang didn't find anything wrong yet, and just wanted to reprimand Yang Wanli to teach him not to be tricky again, but the next second, he couldn't speak anymore.

I saw that with the boiling broth tumbling, a large spherical piece of meat slowly floated up, then rolled and sank quickly.

It was also at this glance that Wu Liang immediately saw the essence of that piece of meat.

It was a head!
The tangled black hair can still be seen on the head, and the facial features have been swollen and overcooked, but Wu Liang can still tell that it is not an ordinary meat head, but a human head? !

While Wu Liang was watching, Cao Ang, Cao Ti and Wang Qing also came together to look inside.

"vomit……"

With just this one glance, Wang Qing couldn't bear it immediately, covered his mouth and spit it out.

He was spoiled and spoiled since he was a child, and he has never been on a battlefield, so he has seen very few bloody scenes, otherwise he would not be able to compare with Wu Liang and others.

Besides, even among the soldiers in the Tuan army who had been on the battlefield, there were some who couldn't bear it.

after all.

The human corpse boiled in this pot and almost eaten by them is completely different from the corpses on the battlefield and in the ancient tomb, and the psychological impact it brings to people is naturally not the same.

"Where did this meat come from?"

Wu Liang's brows were already frowned, and he turned to Yang Wanli and asked.

In fact, he probably already guessed the origin of this meat, and the Liren army is not a big family that eats meat all the time, and the meat reserves are also very small, and Boss Cao has just ordered someone to send wine and meat rewards...

"This……"

Yang Wanli glanced at Cao Ang and Cao Bin, hesitant.

"It's okay to speak up!"

Wu Liang said in a deep voice.

"Returning to your son, this is exactly the meat that the envoy ordered someone to send today..."

Yang Wanli had no choice but to bite the bullet and say.

"..."

Hearing this, both Cao Ang and Cao Ting's expressions changed, and they looked at each other unconsciously, then Cao Ang also frowned, looked at Yang Wanli and said, "Impossible! My father loves the people like a son, and Mingde is only Xin , will definitely not do such a thing that is against human relations, there must be something wrong in it!"

After finishing speaking, Cao Ang said to Wu Liang seriously: "General Wu, I trouble you to recruit all the people in the army who have handled this batch of meat. I want to interrogate myself, and I must find out who did it and who dared to do it." I will not forgive you for such a heartless thing!"

"Yang Wanli, do as the eldest son says."

Wu Liang nodded and asked Yang Wanli to recruit someone.

I have to admit that Cao Ang's on-the-spot adaptability is really extraordinary, no wonder Boss Cao has high hopes for him.

When something like this happened, he immediately picked off Boss Cao completely to protect Boss Cao's reputation, and then publicly expressed his determination to investigate the matter thoroughly. This is undoubtedly the most appropriate approach.

So if this matter has nothing to do with Boss Cao, it will naturally have no effect.

If it really has something to do with Boss Cao, some methods can also be used in private during the investigation process. Whether it is to find a scapegoat or use other methods, the matter can always be dealt with cleanly and teach those who don't know how to say no. What came out.

This is also a very routine operation in later generations, especially in officialdom.

But at the same time.

Wu Liang is also thinking about the possibility of this matter:
He didn't think it had anything to do with Boss Cao.

Although Boss Cao had done massacres in history, he also followed Cheng Yu's suggestion and taught his soldiers to eat dried meat made of human flesh, but that was a helpless act that he had to do when there was no food and no way out.

Boss Cao is not short of food right now, and he has just blackmailed Chenliu's nobles severely, so he may not be able to use up all the food in this expedition to attack Xuzhou.

What's more, there are only a few hundred people in the Huren Army, even if they are made to eat meat every day until they vomit, Boss Cao can't afford it.

Therefore, in Wu Liang's view, Boss Cao had absolutely no motive or need to do this. Even if he did, it is absolutely impossible for him to be discovered until now. Could it be that all the soldiers of the Huan army are blind?

Likewise, he didn't think anyone in the Tuan army did this.

The Huren Army is still a relatively united small group, and everyone's life is pretty good now, at least they don't have to worry about food and drink, so it's really not worth taking the risk.

Besides, even if someone did this, since they could replace the meat rewarded by Boss Cao without anyone noticing, why didn't they just get rid of their heads? Isn't that just waiting to be caught?

What's more, there are so many people present, eagerly looking at the pot and waiting for the meat to eat.

It is simply impossible for someone to throw a human head into the pot without anyone noticing it. An uncooked human head is much easier to identify than a boiled human head...

and so.

There must be something strange about this matter, but Wu Liang couldn't figure out what the problem was for a while.

……

Soon after.

Wu Liang, Cao Ang, Cao Ti, Wang Qing and others returned to the hall.

Dian Wei, Yu Ji, Bai Jingjing, Zhuge Liang, Yang Wanli and others also came to the hall together, and with them came more than [-] soldiers from the Huren Army. The guy who manages and cooks.

"General Wu, this is the place where you are in the army, and you should be interrogated, please!"

Cao Ang didn't overwhelm the guest, but took the initiative to stand on the side, and then made a gesture of invitation to Wu Liang.

Wu Liang didn't give in to him either. He nodded and looked at the crowd and asked directly, "Who was the one who received the envoy's reward before?"

"It's a subordinate."

Dian Wei stood up and saluted.

"When you received the reward, did you carefully inspect the meat in it?"

Wu Liang asked again.

"Checked."

Dian Wei said solemnly, "There are fifty sheep in this batch of rewards, all of which have been slaughtered and stripped of their fur. The subordinates inspected them one by one, and found nothing abnormal, and then taught people to carry them."

Wu Liang nodded, and asked again: "Who is the person carrying it?"

This time, a dozen or so people stood up at once, and one of the chief representatives spoke: "It's my subordinates, please tell the general, when your subordinates and others carry these meats, you can be sure that these meats are all mature sheep."

"Treasurer?"

Wu Liang said again.

The two storekeepers also quickly stood up and said: "Reporting to the general, it is true that fifty sheep have been put into the warehouse before, and all of them have been recorded. The twenty sheep that have just been released from the warehouse have also been recorded."

"Boy?"

"Reporting to the general, this subordinate did indeed take twenty mature sheep from the warehouse, and they chopped them up and put them into the pot in front of everyone. All the brothers present can testify for this subordinate, and it must not be faked."

Ask here.

Everyone in the hall frowned, even Wu Liang was completely clueless.

This matter is really strange, since what everyone saw was Chengyang, this naturally ruled out Boss Cao's suspicion first, after all, what was sent from the world was Chengyang, and all the soldiers of the Huren Army saw it with their own eyes.

And wait for this batch of meat to arrive at the Huan army.

From receiving and pouring into the warehouse, from entering the warehouse to leaving the warehouse, and even until cooking in the pot, the whole process is also carried out under the watchful eyes of the public, and it is impossible to cheat one by one.

Why did it turn into a human head out of nowhere?
The strangest thing is that there are more than one.

Wu Liang had just asked the cook to check each pot one by one, and found four heads in total out of a dozen large pots, which was four human lives.

If it's just one, it can be said that someone secretly threw it in while everyone was not paying attention.

There is really no way to explain it reasonably. It is impossible not to be discovered by so many soldiers looking at the pot waiting to eat meat...

Just when everyone was at a loss.

"My lord, this old man suddenly remembered an extremely rare sorcery, perhaps only this technique can accomplish this."

Yu Ji suddenly stood up and said proactively.

(End of this chapter)