Red Mansion Taoist

Chapter 164 Investigation
General Zhao was in a meeting, and those sitting in the room were all his confidants.

"Wang Ziyun is in trouble. Mr. Jia ransacked his house. It is said that his property exceeds 500,000 taels. He also found some account books. Mr. Jia has been investigating the transactions between farming and merchants recently. Is there anything dirty in your hands? , deal with it quickly, don't let Mr. Jia catch you in pain!" General Zhao said in a deep voice.

"General Zhao, the court has only given me this little salary. Not to mention double pay during wartime, even the normal salary is not complete. How can we explain to our soldiers if we don't do something!" A member of the Qianhu family shouted dissatisfied.

The salary of an ordinary sergeant in Daganbian Town is almost eighteen taels a year, and Dagan invests a sufficient amount of money in it every year.

No matter how difficult the financial situation is, it is impossible to lose Jiubian's salary.

But the problem is that when the salary money is withdrawn from the Daqian court, part of it will be withheld at the Ministry of War. When it reaches Jiubian, it is not enough. Each military attaché will also withhold a little bit, so the full amount cannot be distributed.

In the Daqian Army, free pay is a common way for military attachés to make profits. Daqian pays one guard based on five thousand sergeants, but in fact there are only four thousand sergeants per guard in Jiubian.

This is because the Nine Borders need to protect the borders, wars often occur, and the number of people is small and they cannot resist foreign enemies.

"Say less, wait until Mr. Jia leaves to do anything. This Mr. Jia is not simple. If you fall into his hands, don't think about me coming forward!" Zhao Zongbing pointed at Qianhu who was speaking and scolded.

"It's easy to talk about trading. We can temporarily stop trading, but what about the farmland? Many farmlands have been converted into private property by the Yamen!" said another thousand households.

"You stay outside!" General Zhao ordered the two soldiers and prepared to enter the hall.

He judged that such a giant sword weighed more than two thousand kilograms. Such a powerful being was just a gatekeeper here in Jia Qiang's place.

As the deputy commander-in-chief of Jizhen, and because of the Wang family, Wang Ziyun's energy in Jizhen is no less than that of his commander-in-chief.

After entering the house that originally belonged to Wang Ziyun and walking to the hall, he saw Jia Jinguang standing at the door of the hall.

He did not expect General Zhao to be very cooperative. Even with Wang Ziyun's matter, if General Zhao had not been able to suppress it and did not dare to suppress it, he would not have gone so smoothly. Wang Ziyun committed the serious crime of leading troops in rebellion. .

"Don't hold me back if you want to die. Mr. Jia rushed to the top of the city without any climbing equipment and killed the Wang family's archers. How many Tatars can you invite, 50,000 or 100,000?" Mr. Zhao Bing roared.

Normally, this kind of inspection only needs to pay attention to the reports of the sergeants, but this time Wang Ziyun acted recklessly and let a large number of account books in his hands fall into the hands of Jia Qiang. Who knows how many people will be involved.

They have done this kind of thing often. Anyway, it is done by foreigners, so they can easily get rid of it.

If Jia Qiang is weak, General Zhao still has a chance to defeat the enemy. Jia Qiang needs to take this into consideration and not really make things happen.

General Zhao was listening to the reports from the people below. When he heard that the soldiers who took action were all strong generals, he thought about how many strong generals Jia Qiang had under his command.

That night, at the temporary residence of the nine provincial governors, twenty-two teams of ten were separated, and with Jia Qiang's warrant, they went to arrest twenty-two military attachés.

General Zhao was a rank 5 warrior himself, and he saw that the Zhenhe Sword was not empty, and that the heaviness could only be expressed by a solid object.

After some discussion, the military attachés present expressed that they would hide sensitive matters and prevent Jia Qiang from finding the opportunity.

Since Jia Qiang sent the invitation, it was not because he wanted to arrest him. Mr. Zhao made some mental preparations and decided to accept the invitation.

Jia Qiang spent five days to find some evidence of collusion from the account books. The reason why he spent five days was because he wanted to find out all the suspicious things in all the account books and then do it together.

"Invitation from Mr. Jia, the ruler of nine provinces!" A soldier reported and sent the message.

The incident happened suddenly. Although some military attachés wanted to resist, any resistance was in vain in the face of ten powerful generals.

General Zhao only brought two personal soldiers, why not bring more people? He actually brought all the personal soldiers with him, and he had no confidence in getting away from Jia Qiang.

Because Jia Qiang has the ability to suppress all resistance, this makes Jia Qiang's investigation completely without scruples.

If Jia Qiang really wanted to capture him, with Jia Qiang's great strength and so many subordinates, unless he could incite all the soldiers in Ji Town to revolt, he would not be able to resist with the help of the General Military Mansion.

This was discovered. Could it be that Jia Qiang had dozens of warriors under his command?

General Zhao suppressed the idea of ​​leaving Jizhen immediately and thought calmly for a while before picking up the post.

No matter where he goes, the two-meter-two Jia Jingang attracts the most attention.

A military town has the advantage of being a military town. As long as there is no mission, the military attache will either be in the military camp or in his own house at night.

Everything happened too fast. From the time people were sent to arrest the nine provincial governors at their temporary residence to the time when all twenty-two military attachés were captured, it only took three-quarters of an hour.

Only then did Jia Qiang really see the corruption of Daqian's military equipment. There were no innocent officials in the whole Ji Town.

And carrying the seven-and-a-half-meter river-suppressing sword on his shoulders increased Jia Jinguang's terrifying level tenfold.

You must know that to arrest twenty-two military attachés, twenty-two ten-man teams were dispatched. If each team had one strongman, they would be twenty-two strongmen.

"What can we do? Say hello to the Yamen and then turn it into a farm!" Zhao Zongbing said, patting the table.

As for instigating all the soldiers and horses in Ji Town, it might be possible if Jia Qiang did not enter Ji Town.

He didn't even know how many people had contact with Wang Ziyun. The only way to ensure that there would be no problems was to let his military attachés handle the problems at hand.

By the time General Zhao learned about this, twenty-two military attachés were already at Jia Qiang's house.

In Jizhen, he only has the position of commander of the nine provinces. General Zhao and the thousand-level military attache here are the masters here.

"Please ask General Zhao to come over and have a brief talk!" Jia Qiang ordered the guards around her.

As for now, after seeing Jia Qiang's arrest of a corrupt military attache, countless sergeants cheered happily in their hearts.

He shook his head. It seemed that the attack could not be expanded any further. This time, almost half of the military attaches in Jizhen were killed, which was enough to deter other military attaches and make them restrain themselves.

Unlike his Qian Hu, he saw Jia Qiang's strength and didn't want Jia Qiang to have any problems while in Ji Town.

The more powerful Jia Qiang showed, the more horrified General Zhao was.

A warrant stamped with the seal of control of the nine provinces can enter any military camp.

"How about we lure him out of the city and let the Tatars outside the city kill him!" Qianhu suggested.

Jia Qiang resorted to some tricks. He used the enchanting ability of "Fengyue Baojian" to quickly get all twenty-two military attaches to speak, tell what they had committed, and revealed more. military attache.

When he walked past Jia Jinguang, he felt the terrifying pressure on Jia Jinguang at close range, a feeling he had felt when he was a child.

At that time, he had not yet practiced the art of general body refining, but he had this feeling when he saw the powerful general.

He even doubted whether his feeling was wrong. Could it be that in front of Jia Jingan, he was like the difference between an ordinary person and a warrior?

He couldn't help but quicken his pace. After entering the hall, he actually felt like he was surviving a disaster.

"Zhao Anguo has met Mr. Jia!" Mr. Zhao kneeled down on one knee and saluted very respectfully. As the commander-in-chief of Jizhen, in fact, as long as he didn't have any leverage in Jia Qiang's hands, he wouldn't need such a heavy courtesy.

But just now, his mind was impacted by Jia Jingang, and now he had a deep fear of Jia Qiang, so he had this courtesy.

"General Zhao, no courtesy, please sit down!" Jia Qiang bowed and returned the salute, then made a gesture of invitation and said.

General Zhao stood up and sat down, but he did not sit on a solid chair. He still felt guilty in front of Jia Qiang.

"Please come over, Mr. Zhao. I have a question!" Jia Qiang looked at Mr. Zhao and said in a deep voice.

"Master Jia, what's the problem?" General Zhao asked.

"Is there any ironware trading with foreigners in Ji Town?" Jia Qiang asked in a deep voice.

"I dare to guarantee with my head that Jizhen has never sold Daqian's ironware to foreigners!" Zhao Zongbing replied without any hesitation.

Jia Qiang smiled faintly. He mobilized the 'Feng Yue Bao Jian' on his chest and sent out a burst of energy that affected General Zhao.

"Is there any ironware trading with foreigners in Ji Town?" He asked again.

General Zhao's eyes lost focus, and his mind was affected.

"No!" But his answer was still the same.

Jia Qiang breathed a long sigh of relief. Ji Zhen was not rotten to the core, and he would not beat them all to death with a stick.

If most of the military attaches in Ji Town were really captured, it would take at least a year for Ji Town to regain its combat strength. The newly transferred military attaches would need time to get used to it.

If there is a foreign invasion at this time, it will not be worth it if Ji Town is lost.

Besides, his investigation, from the perspective of Ji Town, has spread to all Jiubian, and almost the entire Daganbian Town.

Could it be that he really wanted to purge all the military attachés in the border town? Otherwise, there might really be a mutiny.

He withdrew the effect of 'Feng Yue Bao Jian'. Zhao Zongbing only felt that his brain was a little slow and found no other abnormalities.

"In a few days, I will return to Beijing with the military attachés I have arrested. The improvement of Jizhen cannot end here. I hope General Zhao will continue to control Jizhen!" Jia Qiang said with a smile.

After hearing Jia Qiang's words, General Zhao's heart finally dropped.

It seems that Jia Qiang is ready to stop and does not intend to continue the investigation.

"Please rest assured, Sir, Jizhen will never disappoint you, the Holy Emperor, or the Supreme Emperor!" Zhao Zongbing assured with clasped fists.

"I have a small request. I want to select some soldiers from Jizhen. I wonder if Mr. Zhao can help?" Jia Qiang asked with a smile.

After hearing his request, General Zhao felt even more relieved.

"I wonder how many personal soldiers your lord needs? How to choose them?" he asked.

"I have a selection method, and I need to select from the able-bodied sergeants!" Jia Qiang replied.

Now that he has control over Ji Town, he can't expand his victory any further, so he can only take some benefits.

He doesn't care about money, but the veterans who have been on the battlefield here are his best source of training strong soldiers.

He is not satisfied with more than two hundred warriors. As long as there is a chance, he wants more warriors.

"The strong sergeants in the Jizhen Army will gather in a short time and obey your orders!" Zhao Zongbing replied without any hesitation.

They just need some personal soldiers. For ordinary sergeants in Jiubian, becoming the personal soldiers of a first-class military attache is the best future.

As for the lack of some sergeants in Jizhen, this is nothing at all.

"Please tea!" Jia Qiang smiled and picked up the tea cup.

"Master Jia, I'm resigning!" Mr. Zhao stood up and bowed.

After leaving Jia Qiang's house, General Zhao couldn't help but speed up his pace. He wanted to summon all the thousands of households in Ji Town to inform them of the news, in order to stabilize people's hearts.

In the past few days, the military attaches in Ji Town have been restless all day long, worried that they will be taken away one day.

He also knew how much impact the news of the arrest of twenty-two military attaches would have on the remaining military attaches.

What he has to do now is to stabilize the morale of the military and not allow some military attachés to get hot-headed and do anything irrational.

Military attaches are not civilian officials. Civilian officials need to consider the pros and cons when doing things. Military attaches, especially those who participate in wars all year round, often act impulsively based on their bloody courage.

Three days later, General Zhao gathered a thousand sergeants. In order to complete Jia Qiang's mission, he selected the most elite sergeants in Ji Town.

Jia Qiang did not show up, and Zang Feiyu and Wu Feicang trained and selected these sergeants.

Jia Qiang herself practiced the 'Hundred Meridians and Thousand Refining Technique' in her mansion. The injuries caused by practicing the 'Hundred Meridians and Thousand Refining Technique' were more serious than those of other general body refining techniques.

Therefore, the 'Hundred Meridians and Thousand Refining Technique' requires more powerful medicine, but the 'Hundred Meridians and Thousand Refining Technique' mostly damages the meridians. If it fails, you will not die or be paralyzed, but will become completely powerless and become a cripple, but at least you will still be able to survive. Can move freely.

The 'Hundred Meridians Thousand Refining Technique' was completed in one turn, and his strength increased by 10 points.

In the next few days, he stayed in his house. Apart from practicing the 'Taixu Sutra' and 'Maitreya Zen Relief', he spent the rest of the time practicing the 'Hundred Meridians and Thousands of Refining Techniques'.

Since General Zhao revealed that Jia Qiang was preparing to return to Beijing, Jizhen has calmed down a lot.

General Zhao and his thousands of households sent gifts, which were accepted by Jia Qiang's soldiers.

Jia Qiang did not refuse the gift. He also understood that it was a kind of gratitude from General Zhao and his thousands of households, and it was also a reflection of profit sharing.

Only by accepting the gift could he reassure General Zhao and his thousands of subordinates.

When Jia Qiang reached the ninth level of the 'Hundred Meridians and Thousand Refining Technique', the selection of Zang Feiyu and Wu Zicang also ended, bringing back 473 sergeants.

Jia Qiang was a little surprised. They were selected from a thousand sergeants, almost half of them.

However, considering that these sergeants were selected from tens of thousands of sergeants in Ji Town, it is not surprising that such a ratio exists.

(End of this chapter)