The envoy from Liaodong who sent the money was a Yuanwailang from the Ministry of Household Affairs.
At this moment, he was placed on the horseback by a royal guard, who led him to escape towards the capital.
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The horse-riding generals in the Beijing camp and the seven or eight accompanying soldiers and servants also fled all the way on horseback. The remaining ordinary soldiers were even worse and could only escape on two legs.
boom! boom!
Several squatting cannons were fired.
The officers and soldiers responsible for escorting ran faster.
No matter whether it was the Jin Yiwei or the generals in the Beijing camp, no one thought of staying to protect the things they were escorting.
"Stop chasing. Stop chasing. Stop chasing."
When he caught up with the officers and soldiers escorting the convoy, Wang stopped the people he brought with him to prevent them from continuing the pursuit.
The chasing team soon stopped.
Many of them were still in a state of excitement, with unfinished expressions on their faces.
"Hurry up and finish the battlefield." Wang greeted everyone on his own.
He walked to a carriage, jumped on the carriage, picked a box on the carriage, and cut off the lock on it with a knife.
Bang!
The lock fell to the ground.
He stretched out his hand to pull open the crooked lock nose and opened the lid of the wooden box.
"Why is it a stone?"
The person next to him looked at the broken stones in the wooden box and couldn't help but say something.
Wang Ziqing's expression changed, and he stretched out his hand to pull away the gravel in the wooden box until he reached almost the middle of the box. There was still gray gravel.
"Go, open all the wooden boxes!" Wang Zizi shouted to the people around him.
Many people jumped on the carriage and opened the wooden boxes on the carriage one by one.
"Here are the stones."
"I have stones here too."
"This cart is full of rocks."
Listening to the news coming back from one person's mouth, Wang Zizi's face became increasingly ugly.
"I found silver here."
Suddenly someone shouted.
Wang, who heard the sound, jumped off the carriage and walked quickly towards the carriage where the silver was found.
When he came to the front, he saw several opened wooden boxes, filled with white silver.
Afraid that the silver was only on the surface of the wooden box, he reached out and stirred the inside of the wooden box. Then he walked to several other wooden boxes containing silver and used the same method to stir the inside of the wooden box a few times. , finally confirmed that these wooden boxes were all filled with silver, and then he breathed a sigh of relief.
"This is his grandma's, there are so many carriages, but in the end there is only silver in the wooden box of this carriage." Someone on the side said something.
Wang Zi turned around and asked the men beside him, "Did you catch him alive?"
"I caught two of them, they were both drivers." the person next to him replied.
"Bring this person here." Wang Zi said to him, then he closed the lid of a wooden box and sat down on it.
It didn't take long before the two captured prisoners were pressed over.
"Good man, please have mercy! Good man, please have mercy. We are just drivers and we don't know anything."
The two people knelt down in front of Wang Zijin with a bang, kowtowing and begging for mercy.
Wang Zi took a look at the two people in front of him.
The clothes on the two men were in tatters, with a lot of dust stained on them. They were also dark and thin, and the joints on their hands were thick. It was obvious from a glance that they often worked hard.
"Everyone, get up. As long as you answer my questions well, not only will I not kill you, I will also let you go." Wang Zi said to the two of them.
Hearing this, the two people looked at each other, and one of them asked tremblingly: "I wonder if the good man has anything to ask us. As long as we know something, we will never hide it from the good man."
"Let me ask you, do you know what's in the wooden box on the carriage?" Wang Ziping patted a wooden box under his butt with his hand.
Hearing this, the two men secretly looked at the silver in other wooden boxes on the carriage. Their Adam's apple squirmed. One of them said, "I know, it's the silver sent to Shanhaiguan."
As he spoke, he glanced hard at several wooden boxes filled with silver.
This was the first time in all his years that he had seen such silver.
"Since it's money sent to Shanhaiguan, what's going on with the gravel in those wooden boxes over there?" Wang Zi raised his chin and pointed to the carriage containing the gravel.
The man then glanced at the other carriages, then hurriedly withdrew his gaze, shook his head and said, "I don't know then. I only know that the wooden box was full of silver. Why did it turn into stone?" Clear."
"Has anyone changed wooden boxes on the road?" Wang asked himself.
The man shook his head and said: "There are people guarding these wooden boxes along the way. No one has the opportunity to change the silver in the wooden boxes, and there are seals on them. Even if someone wants to change the silver in the wooden boxes, It’s not that easy.”
After Wang listened to the man's answer, he put his chin in his hand and looked thoughtful.
After thinking for a while, he said: "Take these two people down."
Several people walked up next to them, escorting the two people who had been questioned by Wang to prepare to leave.
"Good man, we have told the truth, you can't keep your word!" Seeing that he was about to be taken away, one of them said to Wang Zizi in an urgent tone.
Wang Zizi glanced at him and said: "Don't worry, as long as I find out that you are not lying, I will naturally let you go, take it with you!"
Someone nearby quickly took the two people away.
"Boss, what's going on? Not to mention that the silver sent to Shanhaiguan is hundreds of thousands of taels. Could it be a mistake?" Someone asked in confusion.
Wang himself grabbed a piece of silver from the wooden box on the side, looked at it in front of his eyes, and said: "Our news is correct that we are coming to help. The imperial court has indeed prepared hundreds of thousands of taels of silver for the Ming army in Liaodong."
"How is this possible! The total amount of money in front of me is probably not even ten thousand taels." The people on the side looked at the wooden box on the carriage and frowned.
After hearing this, Wang Zizi snorted and said: "At first, I thought we had robbed the wrong target, but then I figured it out. It was true that the court promised to give Shanhaiguan hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, but it did not say that it would be sent to Shanhaiguan. The silver must be hundreds of thousands taels."
"What do you mean?" The person next to him looked confused.
Not only him, but also several people around him had confused looks in their eyes.
Wang himself threw the silver ingots back into the Lemu box, stood up, and said: "Children Chongzhen indeed prepared hundreds of thousands of taels of silver for the Ming army in Liaodong, but the silver was transferred from the hands of those officials. In the end, there was only so much money left."
As he spoke, he kicked the wooden box containing the silver.
After hearing his explanation, other people immediately understood and cursed those corrupt officials.
(End of chapter)
