"General Ren!" After reading the contents of the letter, the Yanzhou prefect's eyes fell on Ren Chengwei Commander.
"The end will be here."
Commander Ren Chengwei stood up from his seat.
The prefect of Yanzhou said: "I will find a way to get you ten thousand taels of silver, but you must guard Ziyang City. If possible, it is best to give a lesson to those rampant tiger thieves outside the city."
He was almost gritting his teeth when he said these words.
"Don't worry, Futai, we will definitely guard Ziyang City and prevent tiger thieves from invading Ziyang City." Commander Ren of the city guards assured him.
The magistrate of Yanzhou nodded slightly, and then a servant on the side said: "Go to the back house and tell Madam to take out the four thousand taels of silver that I gave her yesterday. I want to use it."
The servant bowed and retreated.
"Four thousand taels!"
Commander Ren Chengwei frowned subconsciously.
However, he didn't ask any more questions, but was waiting for the other party's money.
After a short time, several wooden boxes were carried into the back office.
After the wooden boxes were placed, the few people who carried the wooden boxes withdrew from the back office, leaving only a few wooden boxes and the servant who left the back office.
"Master, everything has been delivered." The servant bowed and said.
The magistrate of Yanzhou raised his hand and pointed at several wooden boxes and said, "Open all the boxes."
"yes."
The servant turned around and walked towards the wooden box closest to him, reached out and opened the lid of the wooden box.
When the lid was lifted, there were ingots of silver inside, each containing at least twenty taels, neatly arranged in the wooden box.
Commander Ren Chengwei's eyes were attracted by these silver coins.
There was so much money placed in front of me that I couldn't bear to look away from it several times.
The prefect of Yanzhou noticed the greedy look in Commander Ren Chengwei's eyes and showed disdain, but he urged his servants: "Open all the remaining wooden boxes as well."
The servants opened the wooden boxes one by one.
The wooden box contained only one ingot of silver, including twelve ingots and twenty-two ingots. The largest one actually weighed fifty taels.
The prefect of Yanzhou showed a hint of pain when he thought that the money would soon go to someone else.
Although there is still some scattered silver that has not been brought over, the silver in the few wooden boxes in front of him is almost all of his harvest yesterday.
"There's not ten thousand taels of silver here!" Commander Ren Chengwei suddenly said, his eyes also moved away from the wooden box containing the silver and fell back on the face of the Yanzhou prefect.
Although silver is fascinating to the eye, he can still tell the amount of silver in several wooden boxes.
The magistrate of Yanzhou frankly admitted: "Yes, there are only four thousand taels of silver in it, but this is only the first batch of silver. When the army of tiger thieves retreats from outside Ziyang City, I will naturally replenish all the remaining silver." together."
"The general has no objection." Commander Ren Chengwei paused for a moment, and then said, "The money that the general wants is not for the general, but to be given to the soldiers guarding the city. Now we are short of six thousand taels. The general cannot guarantee that the soldiers below will also have no objections."
After hearing this, the Yanzhou prefect's face sank and he said: "General Ren, you don't need to threaten me. To tell you the truth, I only have so much money in my hands for the time being. I still have to raise the remaining silver. If you don't I believe you can ask Mr. Kong, people from the Kong family will never lie to you!"
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Commander Ren Chengwei subconsciously looked at Kong Yinjing.
Kong Yinjing did not expect that he would be mentioned suddenly, but he still followed the instructions of the Yanzhou magistrate and nodded to the commander of Ren Chengwei.
Moreover, he did not make it up, it was indeed the case.
Although the silver raised yesterday was shared by many people, it ended up in the hands of the prefect of Yanzhou with only more than 4,000 taels of silver.
Commander Ren Chengwei hesitated for a moment when he saw Kong Yinjing nodding.
However, he still chose to believe Kong Yinjing.
The people of the Kong family in Qufu are also descendants of the sage Kong, so it's hard to give him the benefit of the doubt. Their sincerity is much more trustworthy than that of the civil servant Yanzhou prefect.
"After the general returns, he can only temporarily appease the soldiers below. Please ask the government to collect the missing money as soon as possible." Commander Ren Chengwei chose to take a step back.
After hearing this, the prefect of Yanzhou breathed a sigh of relief and said: "I will collect the money as soon as possible, and then I will entrust the people of Ziyang City and me to General Ren."
Saying that, the prefect of Yanzhou actually stood up and gave a deep salute to the commander of Ren Chengwei.
How could Ren Chengwei, the commander of the city guard, really accept this gift from the prefect of Yanzhou? Once word spread, the civil servants in the court would have to kill him, the commander of the guards.
Immediately, he turned aside and said at the same time: "Don't worry, it's the general's duty to defend the city. The general will personally go to the top of the city and guard it."
With that said, he cupped his fists and saluted the Yanzhou magistrate, turned around and strode out.
As for the silver, naturally the soldiers he brought took it away.
The prefect of Yanzhou watched the departure of Commander Ren Chengwei, and then watched the boxes of silver that originally belonged to him being moved away by a group of Qiu Ba.
Secretly he held a grudge against the commander of the city guards.
Once the siege of Ziyang City is solved, he will not let go of the humiliation brought to him by the other party.
After leaving the yamen, Commander Ren Chengwei watched his soldiers load boxes of silver into the carriage with a satisfied smile on his face.
"Hurry up and move them all onto the carriage. Remember to send them all to my house." Ren Chengwei told the soldiers who were half-money.
And he himself still needs to go to the city wall to take a look at the situation, so he can't go back with Yinzi.
The soldiers who carried the silver were all ordinary soldiers of Rencheng Guard. The commander of Rencheng Guard brought them here just to work, and real servants would not do such hard work.
Soon, boxes of silver were loaded onto the carriage.
Commander Ren Chengwei turned to a soldier behind him and said, "Follow them back and watch the money being put into the warehouse with your own eyes."
"Yes." The soldier who was called came out.
He led the horse from one side and acted as an overseer, walking beside the carriage carrying the silver.
The carriage drove away slowly, the axles making a harsh grinding sound.
A soldier standing in front of Commander Ren Chengwei whispered: "General, if you just pull back this money, how should you explain it to the other generals?"
"It's easy to explain, but the money will have to wait a while." Commander Ren Chengwei said, "I am much kinder than those civil servants. I only need four thousand taels, and the remaining six thousand taels will be divided among them."
The soldiers who heard this were speechless.
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He just reminded his general that since the general had his own plans, he naturally wouldn't say anything more.
Seeing the carriage transporting the silver disappear from the street, Commander Ren City Guards got on his horse and rushed to the west city of Ziyang City with the soldiers and servants around him.
