Xu Wanjiang said: "This is not a small number! According to the rules of the Ming Dynasty, a month's military salary for recruiting soldiers is nine coins. If you include the real thing, this is equivalent to double the military salary! Tomorrow, you can calculate it carefully and see if the real thing is Isn’t it almost nine cents! Don’t forget, the navy is getting double the military pay! So the Wu’an Army is also paying double the military pay, can you make a fuss about this?”
Everyone's eyes widened when they heard this, and they looked at Xu Wanjiang with an expression that didn't expect pigs to be able to talk! Xu Wanjiang did not understand their expressions. Instead, he felt that he had made a great contribution and said proudly: "How is it? My idea is good, right?"
He Xianli nodded slowly and said: "This is a breakthrough. The tampering with the military system should be considered a breakthrough! This is obviously following the navy!" Kanshu La
Jiang Yuzhong slapped his palm and said, "I'll check it in detail tomorrow. Let's see what's going on!"
Under Xu Wanjiang's prompting, everyone felt that they had got a breakthrough, and the depressed atmosphere suddenly disappeared and became cheerful! Where to start discussing tomorrow. At that time, the servant standing next to him felt much more at ease, at least he no longer had to worry about being scolded!
Early the next morning, several people rushed to Deyi Teahouse excitedly, and together with the accounting gentlemen, they began to carefully calculate the soldiers' pay. Finally they came to a conclusion. The physical items distributed to the soldiers were indeed worth five or six cents of silver at the market price. This is far from the numbers they predicted.
However, it was Xu Wanjiang who was the first to break through the mystery. He said: "This must be another military pay! Because if these things are purchased together, the price will be much cheaper, and there will be discounts for large quantities. But when they issue it to the soldiers, it is probably It’s based on the market price. If you don’t believe it, just show the quantity and price of the grain distributed to the market.”
In fact, there is no need to tell other people to understand the truth. Even if you didn't expect it, you can understand it after Xu Wanjiang's reminder. The question we face now is whether to break this matter with Liu Haojia!
However, at this time, the four of them had a disagreement, that is, Jiang Yuzhong and Xu Wanjiang both advocated asking Liu Haojia immediately why he had tampered with the military system. Both He Xianli and Wu Yunshan opposed it. They hope to find problems when they audit their tax accounts.
But in their excitement, they completely forgot that they were now on Liu Haojia's land! Especially the water delivery workers. The scribes who helped were all arranged by Liu Haojia, so their situation had already been spread! So just as they were arguing, the door was suddenly pushed open, and Liu Haojia stepped in!
He looked at the surprised people and said, "It seems that some of them are arguing very hard. Could it be that they have discovered some problem?"
Xu Wanjiang thought about the humiliation of being thrown into Kong Qianhu's house for the past two days, and said loudly: "Master Hou, this Wu'an Army is also a member of the Jinyiwei establishment. How can you change the military system without authorization and issue food and salary privately? This is a serious crime! "
Liu Haojia laughed and said, "It seems that you have discovered a lot of things! Why, do you want to use this to convict me?"
The others said nothing, waiting for Xu Wanjiang to speak. But Xu Wanjiang is not that stupid. Instead of standing up to him immediately, he said loudly: "Master Marquis, a large group of people like us came to Tianjin not to cause trouble for you, but to do things in accordance with the rules! However, Master Marquis, there are things here that are not in line with the court rules. I will wait for you to come to Tianjin." Naturally, I have to point it out and report it to the court! As for how to deal with it, it is the court’s business!"
Liu Haojia sneered and said, "Mr. Xu, you and I are both from the same sect as the Jinyi Guards! Now your elbows are turned outward. Are you worthy of the master Guan you worship?"
But Xu Wanjiang felt that Liu Haojia said this because his feet were sore from being pinched, so he said proudly: "I'm just doing things according to the rules!"
Liu Haojia sneered and said, "You must follow the rules! In this case, come and ask for the imperial edict!"
After Liu Haojia finished speaking, a servant immediately turned around and left in agreement. After a while, he came back with a document in both hands and handed it to Liu Haojia. After taking it with both hands, he put the document on the table and said, "The answer you want is here, see for yourself!"
Xu Wanjiang reached out first to pick up the document and flipped through it. After reading a few
After looking at it, the proud expression on his face slowly turned into a dejected one! Several other people knew by looking at his expression that something was not going well, but they still took the documents and looked through them one by one!
The content of the document is very simple. It is a document in which Liu Haojia told Emperor Wanli about the situation of the Wu'an Army. The situation of his military training is explained very clearly above. However, later he described the living conditions of military households in Tianjin and expressed the dangers of a large number of military households being idle and unable to find jobs.
Finally, he asked Emperor Wanli to allow him to temporarily use part of the navy's military pay to subsidize the Wu'an Army, so that he would not have to use the navy's military expenditures when he could find other financial resources in the future. On the last page of the document, the word "can" was written in cinnabar. There is also the private seal of Emperor Wanli below.
After He Xianli and others read the document, they all looked like someone had their mouths stuffed with horse dung, but they were not allowed to vomit! A flaw that was finally discovered was blocked! And they also know that even without this document, the most they can do is disgust Liu Haojia!
Because Wu'an Army was subordinate to Jinyiwei, it was directly under the command of the emperor. Although military pay is paid by the court. But when Liu Haojia distributed the physical goods, he didn't write the word "military pay". The account book only said "subsidy." With this operation, although everyone knew that he was doubling the salary, no one could say that there was something wrong with him from a procedural perspective.
After they finished reading, Liu Haojia took the documents directly from their hands and arranged for people to send them back. Then he turned back and said: "These adults are also important ministers in the court. Since they come to run errands, they act like errands. They always do something small in small things. Hands and feet. They are all looked down upon!"
After he finished speaking, he turned and left, leaving several people standing there with red faces. Xu Wanjiang was even more angry and clenched his hands, but he didn't dare to say another word!
Finally, He Xianli sneered and said: "Wu Anjun can't find any problems here, so let's check his tax collection accounts! The commercial tax of the entire Tianjin, plus the card charges in the canal, so much money is exchanged, I don't believe it." No problem!"
After saying that, he turned back to the accounting gentlemen and said loudly: "Everyone, let's put Wu Anjun's accounts aside for now, and do our best to investigate Tianjin's other accounts!"
