After being turned into cannon fodder, I relied on involution to survive

After discussing the action plan in detail with the bodyguards, Yu Zizhen left under the cover of night.

With the system's super plug-in, Yu Zizhen didn't have to worry about unfamiliar routes or bumping into the watchman.

She took some detours and finally returned to her temporary residence in Cangzhou without any incident.

The disaster relief imperial mission sent by the imperial court will stay in Cangzhou for a while. Firstly, they enjoy it very much. It has become a must for them to be entertained by local officials wherever they go. Secondly, they have the same bad idea as Liu Jinchang. Both groups of people wanted to make a fortune from the disaster relief money and food allocated to Cangzhou by the court.

While they were testing each other and constantly tug-of-war, Yu Zizhen planned to first transfer some of the gold, silver and currency notes she had hidden in the system warehouse.

Although this money is not suitable for buying high-priced grain in Cangzhou, it is very suitable for buying those poor refugees who cannot survive and can only sell themselves or their families.

So while the disaster relief team was staying in Cangzhou, Yu Zizhen transferred more than 60% of the cash in her system warehouse to Lu Mingxuan like a boy who wanted to spread money.

Lu Mingxuan is the person in charge of her disaster relief operation. Once the money is in his hands, the caravan leaders under him will get it soon.

As for Yu Zizhen, after she handed over most of her cash, she turned her attention back to the escorts.

The bodyguards headed by Chen Qing and Zheng Yuzhi had already received the money and food that needed to be escorted. With the insistence of the owner of the bodyguard bureau, the bodyguards faced the fierce looks of the officials and government servants as if they wanted to eat people. , I just opened all the grain bags and money boxes and inspected them carefully.

As expected, the actual types and amounts of money and food were completely different from the types and quantities of money and food listed on the list they gave to the escort agency.

All new grain has been replaced by old grain from last year or even the year before, and gold and silver items have also changed from full boxes to half boxes or even half boxes.

The owner of Hengtai Escort Bureau was not a fool, so he immediately asked the government to provide a new list.

The government disagreed, saying that the few killed were normal wear and tear caused by the imperial envoys eating horses on the road.

The owner of Hengtai Escort did not mention the word "corruption". He pretended that he agreed with the government's statement on "normal wear and tear", but he refused to accept the wrong goods.

His refusal was justified, "It's not the ordinary people who insist on embarrassing the officials, it's us as bodyguards who have always had our own set of rules."

This is not nonsense. They who escort people have always carefully inspected the goods before sending them out. Otherwise, if the goods are not right, won't their escort agency have to suffer a loss and pay the employer money?

Not to mention dead things like money and food, even if the other party asks them to escort a living person, they have to write down the age, appearance, height and other personal characteristics of the living person on the list.

This is certainly a way for escorts to protect themselves, but if the employer has no evil intentions, this approach is actually ensuring the employer's vital interests.

Let’s take the same example of transporting food. If the employer and the bodyguards did not clearly write down the type and quantity of food at the beginning, can the bodyguards also replace the new food sent by the employer with old food, polished rice and white flour in the middle? Into cheap coarse grains?

After all, it was all food, and the number of sacks was not small anyway. Who can say that the escorts did not transport the things entrusted by the employer to the place?

The owner of the Hengtai Escort Agency pretended to be confused, and kept bowing in a humble manner, while earnestly explaining that this rule of their escort agency was actually for the benefit of the employers. However, as mentioned above, the prerequisite for this rule to be beneficial to employers is that the employers have no evil intentions and have no intention of taking the opportunity to trick the escorts responsible for escorting them.

But the current situation is that the people in the government first made enough money for themselves, and then specially selected the escorts from the escort agency to take the blame for themselves.

There was Yu Zizhen who used the name of Greedy Wolf to send news to the owner of Hengtai Escort Agency at any time. Not long after they agreed on the poisonous plan, the owner of Hengtai Escort Agency already knew that they planned to use their own escort agency to topple the situation.

As mentioned before, Liu Jinchang, the magistrate of Cangzhou, was much greedier and bolder than other people who handled the disaster relief money and food.

Others were more or less scratching the surface when dealing with it, but he directly decided to keep all the money and food for the disaster relief for himself.

Before the disaster relief money and food arrived in Cangzhou, the officers and soldiers of the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion were responsible for escorting them. However, after arriving in Cangzhou, they were prepared to hand over the escorting work to the local government and garrison.

However, the officials and generals in Cangzhou were not stupid. How could they be willing to take the disaster relief money and food, whose value had shrunk by almost half, into their own hands.

It happened that Liu Jinchang, the magistrate of Cangzhou, had the idea of ​​​​the remaining disaster relief money and grain, so after some testing and cryptic negotiations between the two of them, the task of escorting the disaster relief money and grain suddenly fell to someone who had nothing to do with it. Unlucky escorts in any relationship.

In the plot of the original book, Liu Jinchang first used his power and righteousness to force the Hengtai Escort Bureau to take over the task of escorting disaster relief money and food, and then ordered people to drug him and intercept the food on the way, and finally framed the escorts for stealing.

All the escorts, including Chen Qing and Zheng Yuzhi, died in prison because of this case.

In order to quell public anger, Hengtai Escort Bureau, their owner, spent all their money to compensate, but Liu Jinchang, the magistrate of Cangzhou, did not admit at all that he had received compensation from Hengtai Escort Bureau.

He secretly sent people to encourage and guide the victims to attack the Hengtai Escort Bureau. They never expected that his dignified magistrate would be so shameless that he could even embezzle the compensation money they gave him. The escorts were caught off guard and were beaten by the angry mob while trying to explain. Taking advantage of the large number of people, they killed them one after another.

The old, weak, women and children who lived in the escort office were all killed by the mob who broke into the escort office, just like the escort masters who died tragically.

Of course, the victims suffered heavy casualties as a result.

In the end, the culprit Liu Jinchang became the only beneficiary of this incident.

He first used this method to embezzle funds for disaster relief food, and then, after confusing right and wrong and successfully shifting the blame, he privately sold all the disaster relief food sent from the capital and made a lot of money.

With the wishful thinking of getting both benefits and avoiding suspicion, Liu Jinchang was of course unwilling to give Hengtai Escort Agency a new escort list without any tricks.

The words of his confidant master were full of beatings and threats against the Hengtai Escort Agency. In the end, he even said, "If you are still so ignorant, then I will put a seal on the Hengtai Escort Agency and invite you to the prison." "Some time ago" were all said. (End of chapter)