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Chapter 84 A shocking case (please subscribe with a monthly ticket)

This expedition went very smoothly. The Ming army suffered very few casualties, only dozens of people were killed or wounded in total.

In addition to the support from the Li family, Li Xianzhong himself also gives them a salary of 2 taels of silver per month for the Liaodong Cavalry.

They are now getting three salaries.

The royal court's normal salary, the Li family's servants' salary and Li Xianzhong's monthly salary.

Although they often have to fight on the front line, they are indeed high-income people, with a basic salary three or four times that of ordinary border soldiers, and an additional "bonus" for beheading.

There is also an additional "life insurance", and the Li family's compensation for the fallen servants is as high as 50 taels.

Of course, there is compensation from the court, but there is relatively little in kind from the court. For the fallen soldiers, it is usually about 2 months' salary, which is generally about 3 silver.

Of course, there are also some additional policies, such as reducing some corvees and taxes.

It is this series of treatment and excellent equipment that gave birth to the "Liaodong Iron Cavalry", a powerful army in the world.

Many of the "Liaodong Iron Cavalry" are hereditary soldiers, and fathers, sons and brothers have been serving the Li family for generations.

For example, their commanders, Zha Dashou, Zha Huizu, and Zha Wenzhong, are three generations of descendants, so their loyalty to the Li family is extremely high. Even if they are asked to rebel today, they will not hesitate to carry out the plan.

But this was also a real "gold-swallowing beast". In addition to the restrictions on equipping horses, the huge expense also discouraged Li Xianzhong.

Maintaining the current scale of 2500 people is the limit of what he can do for the time being, thanks to the support of the Li family.

It is hard to imagine how much money Li Chengliang swallowed to maintain the "Liaodong Iron Cavalry" at 8000 people.

Therefore, he found a new way to form a "assault battalion", using the existing strength of the generals to form a light cavalry to assist the "Liaodong Iron Cavalry" heavy cavalry.

In addition, it is also a way to redistribute interests and deeply bind their interests with themselves.

This time Li Xianzhong took out 1 taels of silver from the seizure and distributed it to the generals, which was enough to keep them free for several months.Moreover, everyone also got a lot of heads. Although it is not known when the silver reward from the court will be distributed, it is after all 20 taels per level.

Now that Zaisai has grown stronger, trade with Kaiyuan has also begun, and the monthly caravan dividends are another source of income.

Their good days had just begun. They heard that the "assault battalions" would be allocated according to the soldiers they had in the future. They quickly realized that this was a good opportunity to increase their dividends, and they began to renovate their weapons and train day and night.

He even sent a long list of equipment requirements to Li Xianzhong, requesting supplies.

Kaiyuan belongs to Lucheng and has its own arsenal. Faced with these needs, the existing equipment in Kaiyuan's arsenal must be distributed first. If it is not enough, then ask Liaodong's arsenal or even the Ministry of War to apply for an arsenal.

This stumped Zheng Zhifan, who was in charge of the arsenal. All ministries were now replenishing supplies. The arsenal where equipment was stored was already empty. Problems with some of the original accounts were revealed.

There are 100 bows stored in your warehouse, but there are only 50 of them.But it doesn't matter. You can report some losses every other period and smooth out the missing parts.

For example, this month due to mildew and rain, the bows of 20 bows were broken; next month another 5 were broken due to rat bites.

But if you are asked to take out all 100 bows at once, the problem arises. You will not be able to take them out at all.

If there was a way in normal times, it would be to cancel the account through false issuance.

Just give those generals a little benefit. I will send you 50 bows and let them actually sign for 100 bows.

The problem is that most people have now been replaced by Li Xianzhong's people, especially the big applicant for military funding this time, the guerrilla general Gao Mingtai of Xiguan.

This trick simply won't work.

In desperation, Zheng Zhifan decided to take risks.

Historically, when the deficit in warehouses all over the world reached an irreparable level, there was only one option, which was to set fire to the warehouse.In this way, the materials in the warehouse will be reduced to ashes.

Although he will still be charged with dereliction of duty, as long as he spends money to clear the way, he can save his life, which is better than being found out for embezzling equipment from the arsenal.

Usually they will find a "scapegoat" to take the responsibility for the fire. This is similar to the "temporary workers" who come out to take the blame on various occasions today.

It also has an exclusive name called "Fire Dragon Burning Cang"!
At this time, there were already piles of firewood near the arsenal, and an arsenal clerk asked in a low voice: "Is there no other way?"

Zheng Zhifan shook his head helplessly and said: "The deficit is too big. We can't pay this debt. But please rest assured that Zheng will try his best to smooth things over for you. Even if he can't save you, he will never treat your family badly."

At this time, there was a hint of despair in the little official's eyes. Just when he was about to drop the torch in his hand, he saw a large number of soldiers patrolling the city rushing over.

A sergeant snatched the torch from his hand and kicked him to the ground.

Zheng Zhifan was also frightened by this sudden scene, and then he said loudly: "Zhang Zhizhou, what do you mean?"

At this time, Zhang Wenbing, the magistrate of Kaiyuan, angrily rebuked: "I have repeatedly issued orders to you not to cheat, so as not to affect the war in Liaodong. You actually want to set fire to the warehouse. How can I let you do it?"

"Come here, take these two people away for me!"

Seeing that the matter was revealed, Zheng Zhifan cursed: "Zhang, you usually don't take away my filial piety, but now you are turning against me?"

Zhang Wenbing sneered and said: "You give gifts during festivals and my birthday, but have I ever asked you to embezzle military funds?" "Someone please put this guy in jail and wait for his fate!"

Zhang Wenbing was also helpless. Li Xianzhong seemed to never check carefully, but his operation still naturally exposed the problems in the arsenal.

Although he had received some benefits from Zheng Zhifan, the shortage of the arsenal was too big. Of course, he could not take care of it for Zheng Zhifan, nor could he cover it.

What's more important is that the newly appointed Liaodong manager Xiong Tingbi and Liaodong governor Yuan Yingtai have arrived in Liaoyang.

This Xiong Tingbi is known as the "Xiong Manzi", and he has always done things with lightning speed; this Yuan Yingtai is a clean type, and hates this kind of corruption the most.

If you really want to let this fire burn, I am afraid that what will be burned is the black gauze hat on your head.

As for Li Xianzhong, he made it very clear when he arrived that he would not "wipe his butt" for him.

This Zheng Zhifan is really greedy. In the end, it was found that the weapons, armors, and military supplies he had lost in his hands were as high as 4% of the total inventory.

In fact, everyone knows that this is only on the books. If you add in the equipment that he has written off through loss reports over the years, I am afraid it will be far more than this number?

Fortunately, it was just a road city arsenal and there wasn't much equipment, but it was still a big case.

Zhang Wenbing quickly reported the case to Kaiyuan Commander-in-Chief Li Xianzhong.

It is normal for officials who manage various warehouses and arsenals to be corrupt. If they are not corrupt, it would be hell.

Although the amount was not small, he didn't take it too seriously, and it was just a good way to make another fortune.

Then he said: "Zhang Zhizhou is indeed fulfilling his duties, I am very pleased. Don't worry, I am not the kind of person who doesn't know how to adapt. As long as Zheng Zhifan is willing to provide money himself to make up for the shortfall in the warehouse, this matter can be forgotten. "

"I heard that the businessman named Liang San has great magical powers. I guess this matter shouldn't be difficult for him!"

It was best that Li Xianzhong was willing to "keep it private". After all, if the truth were to be brought against him, Zhang Zhizhou would inevitably be charged with unfavorable supervision.

The newly rising businessman Liang San was able to have such magical powers, and I am afraid that the support of General Li was indispensable behind him.

General Li's method of amassing money is really amazing. He has obviously made a lot of money, and he has also left a reputation as a man who "does not eat alone".Now all the generals who opened the original path praised him, and today he finally saw it.

Naturally, Zhang Wenbing would not expose the relationship between Li Xianzhong and Liang San, so he said: "I will obey your orders. This time I will definitely ask Zheng Zhifan to make up for the shortfall himself."

However, what Zhang Wenbing didn't expect was that Zheng Zhifan insisted that he couldn't afford so much money, and even pushed the whereabouts of the equipment to Yu Shouzhi, who had just "died" in battle.

Zhang Wenbing knew that the two of them had nothing to do with each other, so he would not spoil Zheng Zhifan. As a result, only 3000 taels were found from Zheng Zhifan's home.

Based on the quantity of this batch of military supplies, it can be sold for at least tens of thousands of taels. This result really did not occur to him.

Li Xianzhong, who wanted to make a fortune, also became angry and decided to interrogate Zheng Zhifan himself.

As a result, he was subjected to various severe punishments, but this guy just refused to admit the whereabouts of the equipment. He insisted that the dead Yu Shouzhi was the mastermind, and he was just a coercion. He also pointed the finger at Ma Lin, who was behind Yu Shouzhi.

Looking at Zheng Zhifan, who was tied to the torture stake and covered in blood, Li Xianzhong felt angry and funny.

Flogging, branding, clamping with rods, pulling out nails, and adding salt to the wounds were all used.

How tough can a corrupt criminal be?Unexpectedly, I met a "revolutionary martyr" who refused to confess.

At this time, Li Xianzhong kept thinking about the enemy's methods of dealing with revolutionary martyrs in TV series in his previous life.

So he asked: "Does this Zheng Zhifan have any children in Kaiyuan?"

Li Xianzhong, who was so angry that he could only use his children as threats at this time.He didn't believe that if his son was castrated or his daughter was married in front of him, how could this guy remain indifferent?
As a result, there were only two newly married concubines in his family, and no other family members were in Kaiyuan, and no one had ever seen his other family members.

This made Li Xianzhong feel that there must be something wrong with Zheng Zhifan. His relatives had never appeared. Could it be that he was with Jianlu?
Finally, Li Xianzhong remembered the method in the TV series in his previous life, which was to prevent him from sleeping.

They sent people to boil him like a hawk non-stop. After boiling him for three days and two nights, he confessed. It turned out that he was really a spy of Jianlu. He had sneaked into Kaiyuan for more than two years. These missing equipment They all went to Hetuala.

Moreover, many accomplices in Kaiyuan City were revealed. Zhang Wenbing followed the clues and uncovered more than 30 spies at once.

There were even documents from the Zhizhou Yamen, the city gate officer who opened the original east gate, several merchants who smuggled goods for Jianlu, and several spies lurking in the South Pass.

Good guy, from Nanguan adjacent to Jianzhou to the east gate of Kaiyuan City, there are Jianlu spies all the way. No wonder Nurhaci could directly break into Kaiyuan City all the way in history.

What was originally just a small arsenal theft case has now turned into a serious "big prisoner case".

This made Xiong Tingbi, the newly appointed Liaodong manager, unable to sit still, so he immediately set off for Kaiyuan together with Liaodong governor Yuan Yingtai, Liaodong supervisor Yan Mingtai and others.

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