This time, Wang Ziteng wanted to put Zhang Kang to death.
Therefore, what he wants to check is not only empty wages, but also accounts such as warehouses and armaments.
Wang Ziteng knew very well that since these generals dared to take their pay so blatantly, there was absolutely no reason not to be greedy in terms of warehouses, ordnance, etc.
As long as you want to check, there is no reason why you can't find the problem.
As long as the evidence is found and reported to Emperor Chongkang, Zhang Kang will be dead.
In order to check the accounts, Wang Ziteng also borrowed an accounting office from the Xue family to help.
Wang Ziteng is a military commander, and he can use the accounting room of the House of Accounts to help him check his accounts.
And there was no accounting master beside him.
On the contrary, the Xue family learned the method of auditing from Jia Huan in the past two years, and actually trained a group of auditing masters.
And these accounting masters conduct random inspections of branches in various places every year.
Because of the random inspection system, no shopkeeper in Xue's branches across the country dares to do anything evil anymore.
Nowadays, the Xue family's business is becoming more and more prosperous, and has even exceeded the scale of the old boss's lifetime.
This time Wang Ziteng borrowed the Xue family's accounting room just to be sure.
Soon, Wang Ziteng led his soldiers and headed straight for Fenwu Camp.
Zhang Kang was busy welcoming him out.
"I will finally pay my respects to Lord Jiedushi."
Wang Ziteng said: "General Zhang is exempt from the courtesy. Today, the Holy One has issued an order, ordering me to thoroughly investigate the affairs of the three camps. I also ask General Zhang to cooperate."
Zhang Kang bowed and said, "Master Jiedushi has come with the king's orders. In the end, all generals will not fail to comply."
Zhang Kang naturally knew that Prince Teng came with bad intentions, but there was nothing he could do about it.
After all, this was the emperor's order. He was a mere captain of the Fenwu Camp, with only 10,000 troops and horses under his command - 10,000 on paper, but the actual number of troops was less than 5,000.
Moreover, even these five thousand soldiers and horses are not all with him.
Could he still raise the white flag and rebel?
He could only hope that this time the three major camps would be thoroughly investigated, just to check on the salary issue.
Anyway, all the armies of the three major battalions have such problems. The so-called law does not punish the public, and finally it can be put aside.
As expected, Wang Ziteng checked the salary issue as soon as he came up.
This made Zhang Kang quietly breathe a sigh of relief.
Unexpectedly, after checking the salary issue, Wang Ziteng did not stop there.
Instead, Zhang Kang was asked to take out all the accounts for a thorough investigation.
Zhang Kang couldn't help but feel frightened, but he had no choice but to cooperate with Wang Ziteng and bring out all the accounts.
Now he just hoped that Wang Ziteng would find no problem.
After all, this is not the first time that the three major battalions have checked their accounts. The Ministry of War conducts a routine check once a year.
A general inspection is conducted every three years.
Although most of them are just going through the motions and will not check carefully.
However, their accounts were also prepared by an old accountant, so even an experienced accountant would not be able to spot the flaws easily.
Unexpectedly, the Xue family's accounting office brought by Wang Ziteng has rich experience in auditing.
It only took most of a day to check out the accounts for three years.
In three years, Zhang Kang actually spent a total of thirty-six thousand taels of silver.
This number can be described as shocking.
You know, the military expenditures of the Fenwu Camp First Battalion in three years were only a few hundred thousand taels of silver.
Almost 30% of these military expenditures were squandered by him.
After a thorough investigation, Wang Ziteng immediately ordered the accountant to copy the fraudulent accounts.
Then he ordered his cronies to arrest Zhang Kang, and Wang Ziteng personally took the account book into the palace and reported to Emperor Chongkang.
After receiving the report, Emperor Chongkang became furious.
Immediately ordered Zhang Kang to be thrown into the sky jail, the Zhang family's home was directly searched, and then the Ministry of Punishment was ordered to try and convict him.
Next, Emperor Chongkang ordered Wang Ziteng to continue a thorough investigation of the three camps and asked the Ministry of Punishment to cooperate with him.
With His Majesty's permission, Wang Ziteng became more and more satisfied.
Next, Wang Ziteng used the power of thunder to start a thorough investigation into the situation of empty pay and corruption in the three major camps.
Of course, Wang Ziteng is not stupid, he has the choice to conduct a thorough investigation.
The empty pay must be investigated. After all, it is related to whether he can fully control the three major camps in the future. Furthermore, without a thorough investigation, there is no way to give an explanation to Emperor Chongkang.
But if you are greedy for military pay, you can selectively investigate.
Anyway, the initiative is in his hands, and everyone is greedy for ink, just looking at the issues they want to investigate.
Wang Ziteng seized on this point and only checked those generals from Yuan Ping's lineage, or those who were usually against him and difficult to control.
Take down all these generals and replace them with generals close to the Jia family.
This not only eliminates dissidents, but also integrates his own people, and also wins over the generals of the Jia family.
These direct connections of the Jia family will sooner or later become members of his Wang family.
Under the leadership of Wang Ziteng, the reorganization of the three major battalions was in full swing.
Judging from its progress, all three major battalions will be reorganized before the year.
This made those who were observing in secret have to sigh that Wang Ziteng was indeed quite capable.
I'm afraid he really did this.
As long as they can hold the three major camps tightly in their hands, the Wang family will surely become the new rich in the capital!
Even becoming a top giant is unknown.
People in the world are accustomed to flattering others and criticizing others, so in recent days, the Wang family has been crowded with people coming to visit them in an endless stream.
The people of the Wang family became more and more satisfied because of this.
After Wang Ziteng checked the available wages, he started the next step of rectification.
This time, the pay check revealed that the number of people in the three major battalions was reduced by more than half.
But even the remaining half are old, weak, sick and disabled.
These people are all weak and useless.
The next thing Wang Ziteng had to do was to remove the old, weak, sick, disabled, and some veterans from the military camp.
Then recruit new troops and train them again.
Vow to train the three battalions into a mighty army!
Next, Wang Ziteng began to reorganize battalions one by one.
The first one to take action was the Yongwu Camp.
He first gathered nearly five thousand soldiers from the Yongwu Battalion, and then ordered these soldiers to lift stone locks. Anyone who could not lift a hundred kilograms of stone locks would be removed from the army.
This is not about being able to lift a hundred kilograms of stone locks;
This requirement is extremely high, and most ordinary people cannot achieve it.
Of course, the conditions set by Wang Ziteng were really not meant to make things difficult for others.
The three major battalions are the majestic divisions that defend the capital. The first condition for selecting soldiers for the three major battalions is to be able to lift a hundred kilograms of stone locks.
It can be said that the soldiers of the three battalions of the first generation were really strong and their combat effectiveness was unparalleled.
However, from generation to generation, the three major camps gradually became obsolete.
After screening on the first day, out of the nearly 5,000-strong Yongwu camp, there were only a mere 500 people who could lift a hundred kilograms of stone locks.
After getting this number, Wang Ziteng's face darkened.
He knew that the three major camps were in ruins, but he didn't expect them to be so ruined.
There are nearly 5,000 people, but only a little over 10% out of 10 can meet the standard.
Even if it is rectification, it is not this rectification method.
There are only 500 people left in one battalion. After such reorganization, the three major battalions combined will only have more than 10,000 people left at most.
How can more than 10,000 people, no matter how brave they are, defend the capital?
To make up for all the troops of the three major battalions, it would take almost hundreds of thousands more soldiers. Where could we find so many soldiers in a short period of time?
Therefore, as a last resort, Wang Ziteng had to lower the standard again and set it to the point where he could pass the test by lifting a stone lock weighing 70 kilograms.
Even if it was reduced to this condition, the entire Yongwu Battalion still had more than 1,500 people eliminated.
However, this number is still within the acceptable range.
Next, Wang Ziteng called his two sons Wang Ren and Wang Yi to his side.
Wang Ren and Wang Yi were the legitimate sons of Prince Teng, born from his wife Li's family, and they were always loved by Prince Teng.
Nowadays, Wang Ziteng's side is short of manpower. As the saying goes, brothers fighting tigers, father and son go into battle.
Therefore, Wang Ziteng took his two sons with him and trained them personally.
For his two sons, this reorganization of the three major camps was a great opportunity.
As long as things are done well, their future will be inevitable.
As long as they continue to manage with patience, the Wang family will not worry about becoming a general.
Wang Ziteng called them to his side and patiently ordered: "Ren'er, Yi'er, this time my father has given you an errand. You must do this errand with all your heart, and there must be no mistakes."
"This matter is related to the success or failure of the rectification. I don't trust anyone else as my father. I can only use you two brothers as my father."
Hearing what Wang Ziteng said, brothers Wang Ren and Wang Yi hurriedly said: "Father, don't worry, we two brothers will definitely be able to share his worries and solve his problems. Father, just ask, what errands will we two brothers be responsible for?"
Wang Ziteng said: "Seeing that the weather is getting colder day by day, these expelled soldiers must be settled properly. Now one battalion has eliminated more than 1,500 people."
"If the entire three major battalions come down, there will be no more than 20,000 or 30,000 soldiers. If such a large number of soldiers are not properly settled, it may cause a catastrophe! Therefore, the severance pay for these soldiers will be handed over to you two brothers. "
"And we have to appease the emotions of these soldiers. If we find anything wrong, we will report it to my father immediately. This matter is of great importance. You two brothers, are you listening carefully?"
Brothers Wang Ren and Wang Yi quickly agreed: "Father, please don't worry, we brothers know the seriousness of the matter. Father will just leave this matter to us two, and nothing will go wrong with it."
Seeing that the two brothers agreed happily, Wang Ziteng felt relieved.
He had too many things to worry about and was really overwhelmed. If not, he would rather do this himself.
He didn't feel comfortable leaving it to others. Now it was more appropriate to leave it to his two sons.
Wang Ziteng knew that although his two sons had not yet developed their abilities, they were extremely obedient.
He had given instructions carefully and left this matter to the two brothers, and Wang Ziteng was relieved.
Wang Ziteng just misjudged one thing. Sometimes, if he doesn't have the ability, he can't accomplish anything just by being obedient.
There were so many soldiers who were dismissed this time, a total of 20,000 to 30,000 soldiers were dismissed.
For so many soldiers, each of them received a severance payment of ten taels of silver, which together amounted to two to three hundred thousand taels of silver.
With so many people and so much money, it was naturally impossible for the two brothers to go into battle in person. They had to use their subordinates to do it.
These two brothers actually only played the role of supervisors.
However, the two brothers' ambitions and talents were soon discovered by their soldiers.
So his subordinates fell in love with him. After a round of flattery, brothers Wang Ren and Wang Yi soon got lost in the flattery.
And then, these soldiers were entertained with good wine and good food every day, and they also hired brothel brothel servants to wait on them every day.
The two brothers were quickly corrupted by sugar-coated bullets.
They had long forgotten everything Wang Ziteng had told them, and were intoxicated with wine, meat, and beauties every day.
And one of their subordinates took the opportunity to use their hands to steal most of the severance pay that was supposed to be ten taels of silver.
Some of these demobilized soldiers are military households and still have their families.
Although the severance pay is less, with the money, I can still survive.
Although I complained, I forced myself to endure it.
But most of the soldiers either live in other places, or are simply alone without a home.
The severance package they received was not even enough for travel expenses.
As for the soldiers who had no homes, each of them only received a measly two taels of silver. How many months would this money be enough to feed them?
They have no tiles above them and no land below them, so they may not even be able to survive this winter.
He actually wants to push them to death alive!
…
On this day, Jia Huan went to Liu Mansion.
Second sister You held a baby boy to present to Jia Huan.
Jia Huan hurriedly waved his hand to prevent him from saluting, and teased the baby boy a lot.
This baby boy is the child of Second Sister You and Jia Lian, who was just born a few months ago.
In The Book of Red Mansions, the second sister You's child eventually died of miscarriage, leaving Jia Lian childless.
Now, Second Sister You was rescued by Jia Lian, but she saved the child.
Second Sister You was also very grateful to Jia Huan.
Jia Huan asked: "Second sister, has your brother-in-law ever come back?"
Jia Huan and Liu Xianglian were close friends, so naturally they did not need to report, they just passed through the door.
A few days ago, when Jia Huan came, Liu Xianglian was not at home, and she didn't know where he went.
Even if this guy got married, he would still be so out of character.
Jia Huan came to see him, but he had something serious to ask him.
Hearing Jia Huan's inquiry, Second Sister You hurriedly said: "Master Hou, you are back. He was talking about going to visit the house. Before the time passed, the third master happened to come to the door."
Jia Huan nodded after hearing this and walked inside.
Entering the hall, Liu Xianglian couldn't help laughing when she saw Jia Huan and said, "Brother Huan, you came just in time. I was just thinking about going to the house to find you! I don't think you came here first."
Hearing Liu Xianglian's words, Jia Huan couldn't help but said speechlessly: "Now that you are married, what's the point of being homeless all day long?"
Liu Xianglian said: "When I come back this time, it will never be like this again. This time I went out to find some of my friends in the world and ask them if they would like to follow me and join the Marquis."
"They all agreed after hearing this, and they will come over in a few days. They are all capable. I have done such a big thing for you, but instead of thanking me, you came to blame me. I don’t know what this means?” (End of Chapter)
