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Chapter Five Forty Two

Longtai's face changed slightly, he looked at Lu Xiao, the assistant minister of the Ministry of War, and said in a deep voice: "Lu Xiao, is there any such incident?"

Lu Xiao hurriedly stepped out and said, "Report to the emperor, I also want to allocate the military's salary, but I have no money in my hand and I can't even get it."

Dou Kui immediately said: "Mr. Lu, the Ministry of Revenue allocated the salary to the Ministry of War last month, and I can't blame my Ministry of Revenue."

"Mr. Dou, you did allocate silver to the Ministry of War last month, but that little silver is far from enough to get all the soldiers and horses to receive military pay." Lu Xiao said: "The Qinhuai Legion on the front line naturally cannot delay military pay. The other end of the Donghai Navy is naturally not allowed to owe it. In addition, it is almost summer, and they have to change their military uniforms. The Qinhuai Legion and the Donghai Navy have been delayed for a long time and cannot be solved."

Dou Kui said: "Mr. Lu, you don't know how much of the Ministry of Revenue has. Don't even know at all. Here we are slimming down on diet and reducing various expenses. The money allocated to your Ministry of War every year is the biggest expense. Now the Ministry of Revenue is already stretched. The government offices of various departments are already worried about asking for money from the Ministry of Revenue every day."

Lu Xiao said: "Mr. Dou, the subordinate officials only care about the money they have. As for how much money you have in the Ministry of Revenue, the subordinate officials are the Minister of War, and they can't take care of your Ministry of Revenue. How much money you have, how much things you have, and you can only start from the most urgent matter." Turning to Longtai, he said respectfully: "Your Majesty, I have always kept the military pay from the Black Scale Camp in my heart, and I also sent people to the Ministry of Revenue to ask for it every few days. But hey, the Ministry of Revenue may really have difficulties, and I can only discuss this matter from a long time."

"From the long-term plan?" Qi Ning smiled and said, "Mr. Lu, I asked you, can the military pay of the Black Knife Camp be transferred?"

Lu Xiao was stunned, looked at Duke Zhenguo, nodded slightly, and Qi Ning asked again: "What about Xuanwu's victory? Where is the Shenwu Camp? And the Royal Yulin Camp? The Black Scale Camp will not compete with the Qinhuai Army, nor with the Donghai Navy. These troops are all inside and outside the capital. If their military pay is not owed, the Japanese Marquis will not say more. However, among these troops, as long as one of them receives military pay, today in this court, you must explain the matter clearly."

But Jin Daohou seemed to have not heard it and was still sitting on the chair without moving.

Many officials were a little surprised and thought that the young man was too reckless and wanted to ask Lu Xiao for military pay. When wouldn't it be, but he rushed to today. The Golden Knife Hou had not left for 800 years. Today, he finally came to the court and the Jinyi Hou went directly to the Ministry of War. Wouldn't that have lost the face of the old marquis? Although Lu Xiao is now in charge of the Ministry of War, the Old marquis is still the Minister of War, after all, for the Ministry of War, that is, the Old marquis.

Lu Xiao had a Jindao Hou behind him, and he was also from a corps, so he was tough and sneered: "The soldiers and horses mentioned by the Marquis did receive military pay, but it was just the Black Scale Camp that the money was exhausted, and the officials could not make any money. The Marquis was asking the officials to make it clear, and the officials could only continue to ask the Ministry of Revenue."

Dou Kui shook his head and said, "Mr. Lu, you are just holding a knife on my neck now. I can't take out a tael of silver to send it to your Ministry of War. The Ministry of Revenue is in charge of national finance. It's not only your Ministry of War that needs to spend money."

"Mr. Lu, you have considered changing your military uniforms and weapons, but you didn't expect to allocate military pay to the Black Scale Camp?" Qi Ning clapped his hands and said, "Okay, I won't say much. Since the emperor handed over the Black Scale Camp to this marquis, if this marquis cannot even guarantee that they will eat, I will bear the emperor's favor and the Black Scale Camp's soldiers, I will give you two days. Within two days, if the Black Scale Camp has not received the military pay, I will have to take them to find it myself."

Lu Xiao frowned and said, "Marty, what do you mean? Do you want to indulge officers and soldiers to rob?"

"That won't be." Qi Ning smiled and said, "Mr. Lu, you have been slow to allocate money. Could it be that you want to force them to rob and let the Black Scale Camp be ruined?"

Lu Xiao's face changed drastically and he said sternly: "Marty, please be careful in the court."

"Stop talking nonsense, there is nothing to be careful about speaking." Qi Ning said coldly: "Don't worry, the Black Scale Camp is a soldier of the court. He abides by military rules and national laws and will never plunder. Wouldn't that become a bandit? This marquis just wants to take them to the Ministry of War to find you, Lord Lu. Since you can't even eat, there is no need to mention this training. You will have to go to your Ministry of War to have a full stomach first."

Lu Xiao looked ugly and turned to Longtai: "Emperor, Jinyi waited for threatening words. All the civil and military officials in the court heard it. Please ask the emperor to give a clear explanation."

"Emperor, it is the emperor's will to rebuild the Black Scale Camp." Qi Ning immediately said: "Lu Xiao does not allocate military pay, so he does not want the Black Scale Camp to rebuild it, and he disobeys the emperor's will. I ask the emperor to send someone to investigate thoroughly. What does Lord Lu want to do? The Black Scale Camp is only a thousand people, and among the various troops, the smallest force is. Logically speaking, military pay is the easiest to solve. Since Lord Lu does not want to solve it, I will come to solve it myself, so please let the emperor know."

Longtai said lightly: "Lu Xiao, it is my intention to rebuild the Heilin Camp. Since your Ministry of War cannot allocate military pay, from now on, the Heilin Camp's military pay will be directly allocated by the Ministry of Revenue every month. Dou Kui and the Heilin Camp's salary will be listed separately by the Ministry of Revenue and will be allocated on time in the future."

Lu Xiao hurriedly said, "Your Majesty, this!"

Before he could finish his words, Longtai said: "Since the military pay was not allocated by your Ministry of War, the Ministry of War will not have my handwritten instructions from now on, nor will it be entitled to mobilize the Black Scale Camp."

The ministers all understood at this time that the little emperor was indeed furious.

If from now on, the Black Scale Camp will bypass the Ministry of War and will be directly commanded by the emperor.

Lu Xiao glanced at Dan Tai Huang, and saw that Dan Tai Huang was silent and could only say: "My minister follows the order!"

"Today's court meeting, let's stop here." The little emperor stood up, said nothing more, turned around and left, leaving a group of ministers in the court. The ministers looked at each other. It seemed that what the Ministry of War had done had already made the emperor very dissatisfied.

The eunuch in the palace shouted that the court would be dispersed. After the ministers finished their courtesy, they then withdrew from Fengtian Hall in sequence. As soon as they left the main hall, an eunuch came over to Qining and whispered: "Marquis, the emperor has an order to instruct the marquis to go to the imperial study room and explain it to you."

Qi Ning didn't say anything. He followed the eunuch and went straight to the imperial study room. After reporting, he entered the imperial study room. Longtai was sitting behind the imperial desk. Seeing Qi Ning coming, he waved his hand. When Qi Ning approached, Longtai said, "Is there a traitor in your Jinyi Marquis' Mansion?"

Qi Ning might as well say this, and frowned and said, "Why did the Emperor ask this?"

"Didn't you see it?" Longtai sneered: "Feng Ruohai's dog is not worth dying, but the Sima family has proved his crimes, so don't you know?"

Qi Ning nodded slightly and said, "Feng Ruohai impeached Sima Changshen today. Sima Lan had already mastered this matter before the court meeting."

"Feng Ruohai was naturally instigated by the King of Huainan." Longtai said: "Of course, the King of Huainan had also spent some time, just to prepare to overthrow Sima Changshen at today's court meeting. They must have done this matter with extreme secrets and would never leak any news in advance. That was to catch the Sima family off guard, but how could Sima Lan be so clear about their affairs?"

"The Emperor said that among the people of the King of Huainan, Sima Lan's eyes and ears?" Qi Ning frowned.

Longtai said: "Besides this, I can't think of any other possibilities."

"The King of Huainan and Sima Lan are fighting openly and secretly, and both sides send insiders to even buy each other's people as traitors. This is not uncommon." Qi Ning looked solemn, "What is most surprising is that the Sima family actually holds so many powerful evidence of Feng Ruohai. Emperor, Feng Ruohai conceals the farming field, commits favoritism, corruption and abuses the law. These things must be very secretive, and are related to life and death. Feng Ruohai will never be careless. The Sima family wants to get so much evidence, which cannot be done in ten days or half a month."

Longtai clenched his fist and said, "You mean, the Sima family has long held these evidences of crime?"

Qi Ning nodded and said, "I think this is true, and the Sima family will never have only evidence of Feng Ruohai's crimes." After a pause, his face was serious, and then he said, "Sima Lan is the founding marquis, and he is scheming. If he had secretly collected evidence of officials' crimes from early days, there would be few civil and military officials in the court, and there would naturally be many evidences in his hands."

"If Feng Ruohai had not come out this time, Sima Lan would not have taken out the evidence of the crime." Longtai said: "Since Sima Lan knew in advance that Feng Ruohai was going to impeach Sima Changshen, Hu Geng had already prepared the evidence of the crime, and was on the court meeting, and a counterattack and put Feng Ruohai to death."

Qi Ning said: "That's it. Feng Ruohai is the minister of the Ministry of Revenue and is also considered to be of high power. Today, the Sima family took action and immediately cut off this person, just waiting for Ruo to cut a knife on the King of Huainan." In order to get closer, he whispered: "The Sima family's move today can be said to be a number of arrows."

"How to count the eagles with one arrow?"

Qi Ning said: "Of course, the people of the King of Huainan will not be stupid until now that they have not discovered the existence of traitors around them. So after today, the people of the King of Huainan will definitely investigate who the traitors are. Emperor, think about it, in this way, the King of Huainan and the people around him will inevitably feel suspicious. As long as the suspicion is together, it will not be a solid piece of solid."

"Not bad." Longtai said: "Although the King of Huainan is not very powerful in the court, he is not as good as the Sima family. Once the people of Huainan King become suspicious of each other, this will be even more beneficial to the Sima family."

"Secondly, Feng Ruohai impeached Sima Changshen at the court meeting today, but in a blink of an eye, he was attacked by a counterattack and was now taken to the Ministry of Justice Prison. This person was like a dead person and ended up miserable." Qi Ning said: "What the civil and military officials in the court saw with their own eyes that Sima Lan did this was actually a warning to the civil and military officials in the court. If anyone is enemies of Sima Jing, this is the end. In the eyes of the ministers, who can not be afraid? Whoever wants to impeach Sima's family in the court in the future must first consider whether he has two heads."

Longtai said coldly: "This is what I am most worried about. After today, I am afraid no one will dare to impeach the Sima family in the court."

"Thirdly, Sima Lan took out Feng Ruohai's evidence of guilt, and it was the chief supervisor of Feng's mansion and the women around him who proved Feng Ruohai's guilt. How could everyone not be afraid of such a method?" Qi Ning said: "No one is a fool. You can see that Feng Ruohai's evidence was prepared for it. As we said just now, Sima Lan probably arrested many people's evidence of guilt. Under such circumstances, those officials who were sensible may have defected to the Sima family. Even the disciples of the King of Huainan would probably consider whether to follow the King of Huainan."

Longtai said: "You mean, those officials were worried that the Sima family would take out their own evidence of their crimes at any time, and in order to protect themselves, they fled to the Sima family. In this way, they became the Sima family's lackeys, so naturally the Sima family would not attack him?"

"No one can tell the evidence of how many people Sima Lan has in her hands. After the court has dispersed today, the dignitaries and nobles in the court are worried." Qi Ning sneered: "Feng Ruohai poisoned his clan uncle and occupied his aunt. Such secret matters were found. Everyone is worried that his unknown things are already in the hands of Sima Lan. In order not to take risks, it is of course the best choice to defect to Sima Lan."

"Bang!"
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