In fact, what Fang Zilan didn't know was that Pei Juanqing was really sick in those days. Most of the people in the Pei family are not in good health, and people like Pei Xiaoze are already considered top among them. Therefore, the documents she sent to the Ministry of Revenue for approval were not returned under Pei Juiqing's instructions, but were made by the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue on his own initiative.
As for why she did it so deliberately, it's very simple to say. Since there has been such a fuss at the beginning of the New Year this year, let alone the people in the Ministry of Revenue, who in the whole court doesn't know that the Empress Dowager dislikes her? What's more, the Empress Dowager was also from the Pei family, which meant that the Pei family and her were not at odds with each other. Therefore, the Secretary of the Ministry of Finance did this out of his own cleverness, thinking that he would not give others any leverage, but would also cause trouble for her and vent his anger on the Pei family. Why not do it?
Unexpectedly, Pei Juqing heard about this incident when he was ill and went to the Ministry of Hubu to investigate. In the original words of Duke Guo Guo, who had not visited the Ministry of Hubu in ten years, he said, "Even if you destroy the family to relieve the people, you still have to do it." Southeast's account has been settled." Those who knew about it were fine, but those who didn't knew thought that the one destroyed in Southeast was his Pei family's ancestral hall.
The Secretary of the Ministry of Finance was so frightened that he sorted out Southeast's accounts overnight. As soon as the accurate report came out of the imperial study room, the treasury sent the money to Southeast. Needless to say, this was so efficient, and he also knew that it was the people from the Ministry of Revenue who had prepared the account in advance. Said hello.
However, this was not the end. The people of the Su family heard the news from somewhere and said something to Pei Juqing. They also secretly communicated with Zhuge Yu and sent someone to send the silver to the southeast and directly crossed the border. King Rongan was afraid that someone would take advantage of him.
The money in the southeast was finally collected, and the soldiers fighting on the border could not afford it. The Secretary of the Ministry of Finance had his head as big as a bucket facing the snowflake-like documents of the Ministry of War. It happened that the Ministry of Industry also came to join in the fun at this time. They said that there was a problem in the military workshop, so they put the loach of the Minister of the Ministry of Industry into the boiling water and rolled it. Even though I had shed my skin, I didn't dare to poke fun at the Pei family, for fear that if Pei Jueqing went there in person again, it would really ruin the family's relief.
There are many connections involved. Everyone has their own hidden agendas and the relationships are intricate. No one knows how much Li Shengxuan knew and how much he did.
Fang Zilan didn't know the interests behind it, so she walked away quite easily. She rushed to Qiluo City with three thousand soldiers and horses from the camp on the outskirts of Beijing.
Vice General Qin followed Fang Zilan and told her about the daily life of the soldiers in the camp, "Everyone has worked hard on the exams in the past two days. Master Fang, are you ready?"
Fang Zilan couldn't stop nodding and said: "It's great, thank you for your hard work."
Vice General Qin smiled honestly, "It's not hard work, it's all about duty. Speaking of which, that boy Shangguan Min is particularly hard-working. He is top-notch in horse riding and archery. He is indeed not bad. Even compared to the deputy generals in the army, he is not inferior."
Fang Zilan agreed: "I also think Shangguan Min is good. He will be promoted tomorrow."
"It seems that Mr. Fang has already decided?" Vice General Qin looked a little curious. Fang Zilan smiled slightly and said: "That's natural. Later, Vice General Qin, you and I will go back to the tent and discuss it with Old Li and Old Cao. , let’s finalize the list of promotions.”
"Okay." Vice General Qin nodded in agreement, and walked towards the tent with Fang Zilan.
The two of them had not gone far when they saw two horse-feeding soldiers with their backs facing them, head to head, whispering something.
Fang Zilan signaled Vice General Qin not to disturb them by making any noise, and the two of them got closer together to hear the conversation clearly.
"You said that Mr. Fang is so partial to Shangguan Min, isn't it because Shangguan Min's father, Shangguan Jing, was killed by her?"
"Shh, keep your voice down, it won't be good if someone hears you."
"What's wrong? Shangguan Min is a young boy. If Mr. Fang is partial, we will all be stepped on by him in the future..."
"If you don't practice your skills when you have time, you will just talk about it. If you don't get stepped on by Shangguan Min, do you still want to be a general?"
Fang Zilan's voice suddenly sounded, making the two soldiers tremble in fright. They turned around and saw her and Vice General Qin, and knelt down in front of them with a plop.
One of them advised another soldier to keep his voice down and kowtow like garlic, "I don't know that Master Fang and Vice General Qin are here. I know that I made a mistake. I hope you will not blame me."
The other soldier was unconvinced, "As Lord Fang said, we really want to be generals, so why don't you let us have non-commissioned officer status? Why should Shangguan Min step on us? Isn't it because Mr. Fang, are you biased and gave him the rank of non-commissioned officer?"
"You have some courage to dare to challenge me." Fang Zilan snorted coldly, "Since you are not convinced, I will give you a chance. Follow me to the school grounds."
After she finished speaking, she turned to Vice General Qin and said, "Vice General Qin, go find Shangguan Min and take him to the school grounds. Tell him that someone wants to challenge him and ask him to fight with all his strength."
"Yes." Vice General Qin took the order and left. Fang Zilan looked at the two people kneeling on the ground and said, "Let's go."
The challenging soldier seemed not to have expected that things would turn out like this. After hesitating for a while, he stood up and followed Fang Zilan to the school ground. The other soldier saw this and followed quickly, and the three of them arrived at the school ground together.
Vice General Qin and Shangguan Min were already waiting at the school grounds and greeted them when they came.
Shangguan Min tentatively looked at the two people behind Fang Zilan and asked, "I heard from Vice General Qin that these are the two people who want to challenge me?"
"Not bad." Fang Zilan stepped aside and said in a deep voice: "What do you two want to compare with Shangguan Min? Why don't you come and hear it, so that I can make a judgement."
"It's up to us?" the challenging soldier asked suspiciously. Shangguan Min nodded and said, "It's up to you to choose what you want to test."
"Okay, since you said so, let's compete in archery!" The challenging soldier's confident look made Fang Zilan chuckle. "Have you thought about it? Shangguan Min is best at archery."
"Master Fang and Shangguan Min want us to decide what we want to compete with, so naturally we have to decide the rules." The challenging soldier spoke confidently, and Shangguan Min said without hesitation: "Tell me, how do you want to compete?"
The challenging soldier raised his voice: "Each of us has three arrows. Let's compare who can hit the bull's-eye more times. The two of us have six arrows, and Shangguan Min you have three arrows. How about it? Do you dare to compete?"
Before Shangguan Min could reply, Lieutenant General Qin scolded him lightly: "You are using more people to bully less people."
Hearing this, another soldier had the courage to ask, "Master Fang asked us to decide. Does Master Fang mean to keep his word?"
Fang Zilan spread her hands and said, "I have no objection. What about you, Shangguan Min?"
