Chapter 1,629
The news that General Shi entered the palace and bumped into Ling Yu, causing Ling Yu to kneel down for two hours, spread like wildfire in the court the next day.
General Shi was angry about this and used the excuse of being unwell to recuperate at home.
Ling Yu immediately promoted Li Zhen, deputy commander, to temporarily take charge of the Yulin Army.
General Shi went to a restaurant that night and got drunk, and was finally picked up by Mrs. Shi. The next day, it was reported that Mrs. Shi took General Shi out for an outing to relieve his worries.
Prime Minister Lu didn't know and went to persuade Ling Yu.
Ling Yu told him about the military pay, and finally said with a smile: "General Shi is just cooperating with me in a play. Don't worry, Prime Minister Lu. He will come back when the military pay is cleared up!"
Prime Minister Lu was relieved now, but he was worried about Ling Yu. If Prince Kang was disturbed, could Zhao Hui and his party stand by and watch?
Ling Yu is only temporarily in charge of state affairs. Prince Kang is the prince, so Ling Yu cannot kill him without authorization!
"Empress, the Zhao family and King Kang have made money to support several ministers and generals over the years. If you touch King Kang, it will cause shock to the government and the public!"
Lu Xiang said worriedly.
This kind of shock was not inferior to the invasion of Northern Wei and Eastern Qi. Maybe Ling Yu's move was urging them to launch a coup.
"I won't act rashly!"
Ling Yu smiled. She had endured Prince Kang and Concubine Shao several times. This time she was determined to push them into the mud and would never let them stand up easily.
General Shi worked quickly and efficiently, and with the cooperation of the people concerned about the second master, he found out the identities of those who went to deposit military pay in two days.
What troubles Ling Yu is that these are minions, and they are not King Kang's people at all.
King Kang probably also knew that this matter was related to his fate, so he changed hands twice before handing the money to these minions.
These little guys don't even know that silver is military pay. They use it to save and get five taels of silver at a time.
Moreover, these little minions were not found randomly by King Kang's people. They were all guaranteed by someone to get this fat job.
The confessions of these little minions alone cannot convict King Kang at all!
Another piece of good news sent by General Shi later was that the place where Prince Kang hid his military pay had been found, which was in the Zhuangzi of Zhao Zhenzhen, the former Princess of Kang.
But even if he went to catch the stolen goods, King Kang would blame Zhuangtou and say that he didn't know anything about it.
How to connect King Kang to this matter?
Ling Yu thought for a long time and finally came up with an idea.
She asked Pei Yu to find a soldier who had participated in escorting military pay and came back alive, and asked the soldier to go to Jing Zhaoyin of the North Gate of King Kang's party to complain, saying that he had discovered the missing military pay.
Beimen Jing Zhaoyin accepted the complaint, suppressed it on the pretext of needing investigation, and immediately sent someone to notify King Kang.
King Kang was immediately frightened and immediately asked Zhuang Tou to transfer the remaining military pay.
He thought that as long as most of the remaining military pay was not found, it would take time to investigate the hundreds of thousands that had leaked out.
King Kang never expected that Zhuangtou had been controlled by General Shi's people.
General Shi threatened Zhuangtou with the lives of his family. As long as he cooperated with his actions, his children would not be implicated.
Zhuangtou looked at his family of more than a dozen people, old and young, and knew that the situation was over. There was no way to escape death this time.
Stealing military pay can be regarded as treason, confiscating homes and exterminating nine tribes.
If you act alone and deserve to die, why bother hurting the whole family!
In order to protect his family, Zhuangtou followed General Shi's arrangement and immediately left the capital with the transferred money.
This created an illusion for King Kang. Zhuangtou saw that the situation was not good and wanted to flee with a huge sum of money.
That was more than one million silver in vain, which was a huge sum of money to the current King Kang. How could he be willing to let Zhuangtou snatch it away!
Therefore, King Kang did not discuss with Zhao Ruirui and immediately led his own soldiers to chase him out of the city.
