Before Zhao Chen could speak, Wang Junlin pointed at Xue Li and continued: "General Xue is here too. You can ask General Xue whether the Navy has sent one tael of silver from the court in the past three months since Dou Shihai's rebellion. If not,
I coordinated with General Xue and borrowed part of the military pay and rice grains for the county soldiers. The rest of the navy also mutinied and rebelled. All of this can be traced in detail. If I am greedy for a few taels of silver, I am willing to be captured without mercy.
I will kidnap General Zhao Lang and take him to Luoyang for punishment!"
How dare Xue Li offend Wang Junlin, but this Zhao Chen was clearly one of Yu Wenshu's, and His Majesty also trusted him very much. There was no conflict of interest with him in the first place. He didn't want to offend either party, so he quickly acted as a peacemaker and said:
"Master Wang, General Zhao Lang, please take a rest. Master Wang, General Zhao Lang has just arrived here, and you don't know the situation clearly. You have to wait until General Zhao Lang takes a breath, takes a sip of tea, rests, and then mentions the matter of paying back the money..."
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Then he said to Zhao Chen: "General Zhao Lang, what Mr. Wang just said is indeed true. After Dou Shihai rushed the news of the naval rebellion to the capital for 800 miles, the imperial court did not send food, grass and silver again. It is true that Wang
Your Excellency and I discussed using part of the military pay and food for the county soldiers, so that the navy officers and soldiers could barely survive the difficulties until General Zhao Lang came over."
The navy officers and soldiers were cut off from military pay and food. Wang Junlin graciously borrowed three months of his time, and now he used this to block Zhao Chen.
These navy officers were naturally grateful to Wang Junlin, and Wang Junlin's reputation among the navy officers and soldiers also increased a lot.
Only then did Xue Li realize that Wang Junlin was very sophisticated and had left a large amount of IOUs waiting for Zhao Chen to repay. However, the loan was for grain, grass and military pay for the county soldiers. Now he and Wang Junlin were tied together...
Zhao Chen's character obviously wouldn't believe that he had been coerced by Wang Junlin before?
Speaking of which, Xue Li had never expected that Yu Wenshu would find a way to raise the level of the navy, and also arrange for a veteran county prince to suppress Wang Junlin, otherwise he would have sent a letter to Zhao Chen in advance to explain the matter.
But now it's too late. No matter what he says at this time, Zhao Chen will probably not believe it.
Zhao Chen's face was ashen. Officials are of no use. Only those who have money in their hands are the boss. He brought one hundred thousand taels of silver here. With these one hundred thousand taels of silver in his hand, he arrived at the Naval University.
The battalion was able to control the Qiu Ba gang as soon as possible. Besides, the imperial court was short of money recently, and we didn’t know when the next batch of navy military pay and food would be received! How could he dare to give all the money to Wang Junlin so easily?
In the end, Xue Li said all his good words, and Zhao Chen agreed to immediately pay back fifty thousand taels of silver to the county soldiers. Wang Junlin changed his smile and ordered the soldiers to get out of the way, allowing Zhao Chen and the accompanying guards to set foot on Fanyang County.
soil of.
At this time, Zhao Chen had no longer set foot on Fanyang County for the first time. He was excited and elated to be in charge of 20,000 navy troops. His face was ashen and his expression was gloomy. Looking at Wang Junlin's eyes, he wanted to swallow him alive.
, he did not expect that Wang Junlin would be so domineering and powerful, and almost robbed Wang Junlin of all the money used to subdue the navy officers and soldiers.
"It's too late for General Zhao Lang to go to the naval camp in Rongcheng County tonight. The conditions in the county are poor, so naturally there is no way to prepare a special camp for General Zhao Lang. I sent someone to prepare a monastery.
It's quite quiet, and I didn't expect to be disturbed by the night. I originally wanted to place General Zhao Lang there, but I didn't expect that General Zhao Lang would have many followers. Now it seems that the courtyard is a bit small..." Xue Li said depressedly, giving Zhao Lang
Wang Junlin casually asked him to arrange Chen Chen's temporary residence. He didn't think too much about it at the time. But now that Zhao Chen had just arrived, he and Wang Junlin were at odds with each other. Now it was obviously inappropriate to arrange Zhao Chen's residence tonight in the county city.
It's appropriate, at least Zhao Chen is not willing to do it.
"General Xue will arrange the place!" Zhao Chen snorted coldly, but didn't know what to say. Although he brought three hundred people, before arriving at the navy camp, Fan Yang could not live without Fan Yang.
He had nothing to do with the arrangements of the counties and localities, so he tried his best to comfort himself, saying that Wang Junlin and Xue Li were tossing things like this just to give him power. He must be calm and must not let Wang Junlin and Xue Li's treacherous plan succeed...
Also coming to greet Zhao Chen were a group of navy captains, led by the new Guoyi Captain Huang Shaoqiu. At this time, Huang Shaoqiu said to Zhao Chen in time: "General, I have a private garden outside the county. It's a small garden."
It's a little too big, and can barely accommodate one or two hundred people. If the general doesn't mind, he can stay there temporarily tonight, and he can immediately transfer nearly a hundred servants to take care of the general's whereabouts..."
"Then I'll trouble General Huang..." Zhao Chen said
His face softened slightly, thinking that his subordinates were still kind to him.
Xue Li secretly complained, thinking that Zhao Chen might have mistakenly thought that he deliberately placed him in the county to cause trouble for him. Looking at his eyes, he must have thought that he and Wang Junlin were in the same group. This news reached Yu Wenshu,
It brings a lot of trouble to myself for no reason.
When Wang Junlin saw Huang Shaoqiu and Zhao Chen getting closer, a sneer appeared on his lips, making Huang Shaoqiu Zhao Chen's confidant. This was a very important move.
Wang Junlin ignored Zhao Chen again, raised his hands to Pei Yanmao and smiled and said: "Uncle Pei Shi has had a hard journey. I guess General Zhao Lang doesn't need the junior to help him clean up the dust. The junior has some wine in the county palace, so he can reward Uncle Pei Shi..." Du Ruhui,
Zhao Zhanpeng, Cui Shijie and others also saluted Pei Yanmao.
Pei Yanmao felt relieved when he heard Wang Junlin call him Uncle Shi. He was just an ordinary minister in the Ministry of Rites, two levels lower than Zhao Chen's previous left minister in the Ministry of War.
On his forehead, he had never looked down upon ordinary servants like Pei Yanmao. Unexpectedly, Wang Junlin's courtesy to the two of them today was exactly the opposite, which made Pei Yanmao extremely satisfied.
Before coming, Pei Shiju, the sect leader, specifically told Pei Yanmao to secretly observe Wang Junlin's situation in Fanyang County. If Wang Junlin became powerful, the Pei family would consider formally forming an alliance with Wang Junlin. At this time, Pei Yanmao saw that Wang Junlin was so careless.
He politely gave Zhao Chen a slap in the face. Pei Yanmao knew that Wang Junlin had become powerful and was probably no weaker than any of the powerful Gao clan. Zhao Chen thought that he could suppress Wang Junlin by coming here. He really thought too highly of himself. Even Yuwen
If Shu's relatives come, I'm afraid she will be disgraced.
Pei Yanmao wanted to borrow a road from Fanyang County to go to the Silla Kingdom. Yang Guang always responded generously to the vassal state. Every time the Silla Kingdom sent a prince to meet Yang Guang, and the speech was the most respectful, which was very satisfying.
Because of Yang Guang's vanity, Yang Guang's return gift was very heavy. Pei Yanmao and his entourage had quite a lot of goods and entourage.
It was late April at this time, and the maritime monsoon began to prevail. The monsoon in the Bohai Bay was conducive to northbound travel. It took two days by boat to reach Silla Kingdom. However, the ships needed to be dispatched by Fanyang County Navy. This was why Pei Yanmao followed Zhao Chen.