Chapter 90: Officers and Soldiers Besieged the City and Lost Military Pay
On the second day, Lu Ran appeared in class wearing a veil.
She succeeded and became a gentleman in the college.
"Yan'er, is it really okay to do this? I'm afraid people will make trouble if they find out." Bai Jinghao was very worried.
"Father, please rest assured that Miss Lu Ran was approved by Cheng Daru." Bai Yan said nonchalantly.
Lu Ran had already revealed his identity, but Cheng Daru did not refuse.
"Like this, then I can't say anything. By the way, what happened to the 10,000 taels of gold yesterday?" Bai Jinghao asked.
This was his purpose in finding Bai Yan.
I was so troubled yesterday that I neglected this serious matter.
Bai Jinghao has not targeted Wan Qian Zhuang too much in recent years, but now that he has the opportunity to kill Wan Qian Zhuang, why would he give up?
"That batch of gold may be military pay, and the Wanqian Bank will probably be destroyed." Bai Yan briefly stated his guess.
"If that's true, then it's really an eye-opener for God. That guy Ma Wencai is not very capable, but he can do tricks. He should have died long ago." Bai Jinghao almost jumped up with joy.
"Father, it's good that you know and I know, and don't let the news leak out." Bai Yan reminded.
He wanted to tell Bai Jinghao that the gold was for them.
Seeing that Bai Jinghao was so happy, Bai Yan didn't say much.
It won't take long for Bai Jinghao to react.
"Yes, but I can't wait any longer." Bai Jinghao left quickly, not even caring about his youngest son.
Bai Yan smiled bitterly and walked towards Bai Sheng's classroom.
In the next few days, the entire Yanzhou City was peaceful, with no major disturbances.
The only hot spot is that Meng Yuan is going to marry into the Qin Mansion and the wedding will be held next month.
The prefect of Qin has already written a memorial and submitted it to Emperor Ming, waiting for his approval.
Bai Yan has been mostly at the college these days, occasionally beating Bai Sheng violently. His cheap brother, after being beaten several times, has learned a lot and will greet Bai Yan politely when he sees him.
In addition, Bai Yan also went to Qinyuan to have a look. Everything in Qinyuan was normal and went smoothly.
This calm lasted until the fourth day, when a group of people suddenly appeared in Yanzhou City and surrounded it. This incident was like a thunder, waking everyone up.
On this day, people closed their doors and hid in their homes.
Qin Zhifu and Commander Zhao were alerted immediately.
The two of them appeared at the city gate together, and felt a little relieved when they saw their own troops outside.
When the alarm sounded just now, I thought it was the Sankou invasion.
"General Wang, what do you mean? Why do you want to lead troops to besiege my Yanzhou City?" Qin Zhifu angrily scolded.
I was surrounded by my own army. Although I was no longer worried, I couldn't lose my face.
Although this General Wang came from Kyoto, he was left by Emperor Ming himself and was a third-grade general.
But he didn't even say hello, which simply meant that he, the prefect, didn't take him seriously.
"Prefect Qin, please obey your authority in urgent matters. If military pay is lost, neither you nor I can bear this responsibility." General Wang responded loudly.
"Military pay? What military pay? Are the military pay in Yanzhou City?" Qin Zhifu frowned, very confused.
"General Wang, I am also waiting for the military pay from the imperial court, but it has never come. I must be on the way, right?" Admiral Zhao agreed.
Some time ago, various armies applied for military pay one after another. They calculated that the time was due, but there was a delay of ten days and a half, which is also a common thing.
"On the way? Admiral Zhao, I hope so too. But my people just got the news that the military pay arrived a few days ago and was secretly sent to Yanzhou City."
General Wang shouted: "Bring the people up."
Soon, a strong man was brought up: "Tell me, where is the military pay?"
"My lords, let the little people make the decision. We escorted the military pay and it was a normal handover, but who knew that the military pay didn't fall into the hands of you adults? The little people were wronged too." The strong man cried out.
"Stop talking nonsense, I just want to know where the military pay is now." General Wang kicked the strong man over and scolded.
"I don't know the details. I just know that he was sent to the bank and deposited in it." The strong man responded.
"Bank? What bank? Jinghao Bank?" Admiral Zhao asked in a voiceless voice.
He is the general of the local garrison. If his military pay is lost, he, the admiral, will also be implicated.
Magistrate Qin also changed from frightened to much calmer.
If it is Jinghao Bank, it has little to do with him.
Even if this batch of military pay cannot be found in the end, Jinghao Bank has a lot of inventory, and the worst case scenario is that it will be confiscated.
"No, it seems to be some kind of money bank." The strong man responded.
"What? Ten thousand gold coins? Could it be that this batch of military pay is gold?" Qin Zhifu exclaimed.
"Prefect Qin, how do you know this batch of military pay is gold?" General Wang's cold eyes fell on Prefect Qin's face.
Magistrate Qin realized that he had lost his composure, and his face turned pale with fright.
"Yes, Lord Magistrate, this batch of military pay is gold, a total of ten thousand taels." The strong man responded, with a strange color flashing in his eyes.
Magistrate Qin felt nervous and quickly explained: "I heard from my sergeant that a batch of gold from Jinghao Bank was shipped out of the city. I thought it was the bank's own gold, so I ignored it."
"So, this batch of gold is no longer in Yanzhou City? Governor Qin, you should know better than us what the consequences will be if the military pay is lost." General Wang warned.
Want to involve Jinghao Bank? He had to admire Qin Zhifu for still playing tricks at this time.
Admiral Zhao also looked at Magistrate Qin with surprised eyes, not knowing what he was thinking in his heart.
"General Wang, don't worry, I will definitely find this batch of military pay." Qin Zhifu promised, patting his chest.
"Then Magistrate Qin is going to take us to Jinghao Bank?" General Wang asked again.
"No, go to Wanqianzhuang." Magistrate Qin said firmly.
Involving Jinghao Bank? He has no such idea.
What I said just now was just to clear myself out.
Now he just wants to stay out of the matter and cut off the relationship with Wanqianzhuang. As for other ideas, he really doesn't have any other ideas.
This is military pay, so it's easy to lose your head.
The reason why he knew about the existence of gold was because Ma Wencai once approached him and wanted gold in exchange for silver.
He was very glad that he refused, otherwise he would not be able to clean himself.
Without any delay, the Qin magistrate took the people from the Yamen and the garrison in the city and went directly to Wanqianzhuang to arrest Ma Wencai and his son.
Until he was arrested, Ma Wencai didn't know what happened and stared at Magistrate Qin angrily.
"Prefect Qin, Miss Qin's matter has been settled. Don't you still want to give up? My son went to rescue Miss Qin that day."
"Ma Wencai, you are so brave, you dare to make deals with thieves and hide your military pay." Qin Zhifu angrily scolded.
"Military pay? What military pay?" Ma Wencai was stunned.
Let alone him, even the master behind him has no access to military pay.
"Those ten thousand taels of gold are military pay, do you still want to deny it?" Qin Zhifu asked.