After Zhang Wen went down, Liu Haojia whispered: "Why are you calling me here in such a hurry?"
Zhang Jia said in a low voice: "This is not the place to talk. Let's talk in detail after we enter the door!"
Liu Haojia knew from the look on his face that what he was about to say was probably a big deal! So he followed him into the palace and watched Zhang Jia send everyone out before going in to pay homage to Emperor Wanli. When he saw Emperor Wanli, he looked really bad, looking worried!
Just as Liu Haojia was about to step forward to salute, he heard Emperor Wanli say: "Okay, no need to salute! There are more important things to talk about now! Zhang Jia, tell him the specific situation!"
Only then did Zhang Jia say with a grimace: "I'm afraid we won't be able to hide the fact that we took over the military power of the capital! The news may have been leaked in the palace!"
Liu Haojia was really shocked when he heard this! Although he knew that this matter would be exposed sooner or later, he really couldn't expose it at this time! He hopes to be exposed again when civil and military forces have formed a stable balance! It is best to delay this time for another six months!
For this purpose, he provoked a fight with the civil servants in order to divert the attention of the civil servant group. For this reason, he even didn't let go of several low-level officials from the Ministry of War who noticed the signs. He was directly accused and thrown into the prison to rot!
But what he never expected was that this matter would actually leak out from inside the palace! So he hurriedly said: "Zhang Banban, what is going on? The palace does not involve the Beijing camp, and no one goes there, so how can the news be leaked?"
Zhang Jia said with a sad face: "Although the palace didn't send anyone there, the money did!"
Then Liu Haojia understood what was going on after listening to Zhang Jia's explanation! That is, training and arming an army requires a huge amount of money, which Liu Haojia cannot provide! Because this involves the rise and fall of the family! You, a military general, spend your money privately to arm the army. What do you want to do? So this is a minefield that must not be touched!
In this case, the money can only be provided by Emperor Wanli! Although Liu Haojia has tried his best to spend the money when it has not been recorded in the account, but sometimes he still has to withdraw some money from the palace! And the most critical point is that the amount of money consumed by the army is not a fraction, which greatly reduces the income of the internal treasury, which attracts Feng Bao's attention!
Although Zhang Jia now has the title of ancestor in the palace, his ancestor is still an order of magnitude inferior to Feng Bao's ancestor! Now it is Queen Mother Li who speaks first and most effectively in the palace, followed by Feng Bao, and then it is Zhang Jia's turn!
Feng Bao found that the internal treasury income was much less, and there were several suspicious expenditures. Naturally, he wanted to inquire! Now he can't find anything inside the palace, so he is already planning to arrange for someone to go outside to check the accounts! As long as you check the accounts of the inner treasury and the imperial shop outside, you will find that there is a huge black hole between the income of various places and the palace silver entering the treasury! If we continue to investigate this amount of money, we will definitely not be able to keep the secret of the New Army!
Liu Haojia could only pat his forehead when he heard this! He could only say that Feng Bao was not incompetent, and his control over the palace was much deeper than Liu Haojia thought!
Liu Haojia quickly calmed down and said, "Zhang Banban, what method did you take?"
Zhang Jia said: "The people responsible for accounting and those related to outside money have been sent to foreign missions by our family, and they won't be able to come back in a short time! Feng Daban can't find anything in this regard! The key is that he will send a team soon The auditors go to the Huangzhuang store outside, and once they finish the accounts there, the matter will no longer be hidden!"
Liu Haojia rubbed his chin with a fierce look in his eyes! His first thought now is to kill all these people when they leave the capital! .Ь.
Zhang Jia saw what he was thinking and immediately said: "Don't even think about killing them all. It's useless! Once someone is killed, Feng Daban will really focus on this place!"
Liu Haojia thought the same thing! Now Feng Bao only sent people to check the accounts and did not go all out to pursue them. If someone died, wouldn't it tell Feng Bao that there was a big problem here! It seems that killing people and silencing them cannot be done! Thinking of this, he said: "What good idea do you have, Zhang Banban?"
Zhang Jia said hopefully: "It's not too late to send people to make fake accounts now."
No? "
Liu Haojia said with a wry smile: "How is that possible? What was sent to the Beijing camp is not a small sum. This cannot be covered up by the accounts at all!"
So the three people began to actively come up with ideas and solutions around this problem! Even Emperor Wanli came up with many ideas. In the end, even the method of intercepting and killing the auditors was proposed, but in the end they were all rejected! This is really because the amount of money is too large and there is no way to cover it up!
This is just like corruption. You take away 10,000 taels of silver out of one million taels without showing off, but if you take away 500,000 taels out of one million taels of silver, there is no such big hole. It can’t be done by doing accounting! .Ь.
At the end of the discussion, Emperor Wanli became a little irritable! He banged the table and said loudly and ventedly: "This won't work, that won't work either, let's just kill Feng Bao, the old devil! Anyway, he has long been disliked!"
Zhang Jia heard this and said hurriedly: "This is impossible!"
Emperor Wanli ignored him and asked Liu Haojia directly: "What do you mean, do you want to kill him too?"
Liu Haojia felt that Emperor Wanli was losing his temper randomly, so he casually followed him and said, "It's not impossible!"
Zhang Jia's heart skipped a beat when he heard this! He whispered: "You don't really want to kill Feng Daban, do you?"
Liu Haojia smiled and said with an obvious joking expression: "Why not? Everyone else can die, why can't he die? If he dies, it will be your turn to make the decision, the Superintendent of Ceremonies. There are many things you can do to stop him! We don’t have to rack our brains here anymore!”
Zhang Jia was so frightened that he was shaking all over when he heard this and couldn't even speak! He was just about to say, "Don't make such a joke in front of Lord Long Live," but when he saw the thoughtful look on Emperor Wanli's face, he immediately wailed in his heart: "That's bad! Lord Long Live takes it seriously!"
He did not dare to comfort Emperor Wanli, so he directly said to Liu Haojia tremblingly: "Master Marquis, you really can't take this idea, otherwise something big will happen!"
Then he explained to Liu Haojia in a long way how much contribution Feng Bao had made in the palace, how many confidants he had, how Empress Dowager Li trusted him, and how warm and intimate his relationship with Zhang Juzheng was! He wanted to use this to try to dispel Emperor Wanli's thoughts!
