On this day, Hai Zhongdi came to Xuanfu City under the escort of Mou Rongtian and others. The carriage stopped in front of the Wandu Company Office. Everyone got off the car. Dong Fuyu shouted to the guard guard: "The imperial envoy has arrived, please let Marshal Li go."
Come out and greet us.”
A guard rushed in and reported the matter. When Li Yuanling received the report, he was puzzled and thought to himself: "Why did an imperial envoy come here for no reason? What does this mean?" He did not dare to neglect and hurriedly notified more than a hundred households.
Officials, follow him out to greet him.
When he came outside the gate, he saw five people standing in front of him. He didn't know Mou Rongtian and others, but he knew Hai Zhongdi. He said with a smile: "Ha...it turned out to be Mr. Hai who arrived. What kind of fragrant wind brought you here?"
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Mou Rongtian saw that Li Yuanling was about fifty years old, short in stature, with a fat head and big ears, and a big belly, like a pregnant woman. He thought: "How come you are eating like this, and can you still mount a horse and lead an army?"
Hai Zhongdi smiled slightly and said: "Marshal Li, I haven't seen you for a few years, but you have gained weight again."
Li Yuanling smiled and said: "This is all a great blessing from the Holy One." He asked Hai Zhongdi and others to sit down in the front hall, and ordered the servant to offer tea. After the two sides exchanged a few words, Li Yuanling changed the subject and asked, "The Holy One sent Mr. Hai here.
, I don’t know what you’re doing?”
Hai Zhongdi said: "Your Majesty heard that there was a phenomenon of empty wages in Wandu Division, and ordered me to come and investigate. Marshal Li, is there anyone in your team who is eating empty wages?"
Li Yuanling was startled and a little nervous. After calming down, he put on a confident look and said: "Which bastard is slandering me? It's really unreasonable. How can someone in our Wandu Company be free of charge? This is absolutely not the case.
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Hai Zhongdi said: "It's fine if you don't. Tomorrow I will inspect the officers and soldiers of Marshal Li's seven and eleven guards one by one. Please cooperate with Marshal Li."
Li Yuanling said: "I will definitely cooperate with Master Hai. I wonder how you can conduct a review?"
Hai Zhongdi took out a piece of paper from his arms, put it on the table, and said: "These are the detailed rules. Please take a look at them, Commander-in-Chief."
The servant handed the piece of paper to Li Yuanling. When he saw that it said that the review location was at the Jinyiwei Branch Campus, he asked: "Master Hai, we also have a school ground here, why go to the Jinyiwei Branch School?"
Hai Zhongdi said: "Isn't it the same wherever we review?"
Li Yuanling called the servants to prepare a banquet and wanted to help Haizhong Di and others. Haizhong Di said: "We won't eat anymore. We have already eaten. I will take my leave now and ask the marshal to pull the team over on time tomorrow."
Li Yuanling said: "Master Hai, please stay here."
Hai Zhongdi said: "No need. As an imperial envoy, I am not suitable to live here with you."
Li Yuanling said: "I respectfully send you off to Master Hai."
After Haizhongdi and others left, Li Yuanling called Commander Zhang from the Xuanfu vanguard to the office and told him about the imperial envoy's inspection of the team. Commander Zhang was startled and said: "Commander, I only have
There are more than 2,000 people, but we can't let him review them. Isn't this review over?"
Li Yuanling said: "Is it okay not to allow the inspection? With the imperial edict, who dares not to allow the inspection? Isn't this seeking death?"
Commander Zhang looked sad and said, "What should we do?"
Li Yuanling said: "Don't panic first, be calm and don't be impatient, I will have my own way to deal with it."
Commander Zhang said: "I wonder if the commander has any good ideas?"
Li Yuanling said: "How many people do you have now?"
Commander Zhang thought for a while and said: "About 2,780 people."
Li Yuanling said: "How much is it specifically?"
Commander Zhang smiled awkwardly and said, "I can't even remember the exact number."
Li Yuanling shouted: "You bastard, you don't even know how many officers and soldiers you have under your command. What do you do as a commander?"
Commander Zhang lowered his head and said: "What you are teaching me is that the general will eventually be convicted of his crime."
Li Yuanling said: "Go back immediately to find out the specific number of people, and then go to Wanquan Left and Right Guards to transfer people. Make up as many people as you need, so that the imposters will remember who they are replacing, and no mistakes will be made."
Commander Zhang said: "Commander, is this possible?"
Li Yuanling said: "Besides this, do you have any better way?"
Commander Zhang shook his head and said: "No."
Li Yuanling shouted: "Then hurry up and do what I want. If something goes wrong, I will ask you to come and see me."
As soon as the morning of the next day arrived, the officers and soldiers of the Xuanfu avant-garde marched into the Jinyiwei Branch Campus and formed a square formation. Accompanied by Mou Rongtian and others, as well as Li Yuanling, Haizhongdi began to review.
The Xuanfu avant-garde has jurisdiction over five thousand-household offices at the front, back, left, right and center. Each thousand-household office has ten hundred-household offices under its jurisdiction.
Hai Zhongdi walked to the queue of the 100th household in Qianhuqian Station and asked Mou Rongtian to roll his name. Mou Rongtian took the roster and counted it over. Everyone answered whoever was named, one hundred and twelve officers and soldiers.
There were actually quite a few. Li Yuanling felt proud and had a smile on her face.
At this time Mou Rongtian shouted: "Liu Ergou is out." A middle-aged man came out and said: "The young one is here."
Mou Rongtian asked seriously with a dark face: "Are you really Liu Ergou?"
The man was startled, a little panicked, his heart was beating rapidly, he paused and said, "You are indeed Liu Ergou."
Mou Rongtian said: "Well, I will invite someone to come out and meet you. Do you know who he is?" Then he said to Dong Fuyu: "Go and invite the old man over."
When time was short, Dong Fuyu brought an old man, and Mou Rongtian asked: "Liu Ergou, do you know who this old man is?"
The man shook his head and said, "I don't know."
Mou Rongtian shouted: "You bastard, this old man is Liu Ergou's biological father. You don't even know that you are Liu Ergou. You even dare to say that you are Liu Ergou. It is really unreasonable. Who are you? Hurry up and recruit him truthfully, so as not to hurt your flesh and blood."
It turned out that the old man was Liu Ergou's father. Liu Ergou died of illness a few years ago, and everyone else died, but his army did not remove him and used his identity to get paid.
Haizhong Di and Mou Rongtian had expected that Li Yuanling would take the imposter move and had already thought of a countermeasure.
When the man saw that the matter was exposed, he knelt on the ground and said, "The younger one is not Liu Ergou. The younger one is Zhang San. He is a soldier from the 300th House of Wanquan Right Guard Qianhuqian Station."
Mou Rongtian said: "Why did you impersonate Liu Ergou? Who instigated you to do this?"
Zhang Sandao: "The chief ordered me to come here and pretend to be my uncle. I just obeyed orders and did not dare to disobey. Please forgive me."
Haizhongdi said to Li Yuanling: "Commander, what is going on?"
Li Yuanling was nervous and sweating profusely. She forced herself to calm down and said, "These are all stupid things done by my subordinates. I don't know about it." Commander Zhang, who turned around and slapped the Xuanfu vanguard, shouted loudly.
: "You fucking dare to deceive the imperial envoy, you kid doesn't want to live anymore."
The commander Zhang was beaten to one side, covered his cheek, and thought to himself: "This is all your bad idea. If the secret is exposed, you want me to take the blame. I am unjust." Although he was angry, he did not dare.
After biting Li Yuanling out, he could only bear the blame, knelt on the ground, and said: "I was just confused for a moment, so I did such a stupid thing. I will be convicted."
Hai Zhongdi said: "Commander, ask him to clear out all the impostors."
Li Yuanling shouted to the commander: "Do as Master Hai wants."
Commander Zhang stood up and called over his five thousand-household officials, asking them to clear out all the impostors. After a while, thousands of people walked out of the queue. Mou Rongtian asked these people to go to the north of the school ground to wait for their arrest.
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Haizhong Di continued the review and found that the list of personnel reported by Luo Sigong to Wanli was true and reliable. After the review was completed, Haizhong Di asked Mou Rongtian to take down the commander.
Commander Zhang was pinned to the ground and tied up. Although he was a general with martial arts skills, he did not dare to resist. He surrendered obediently and shouted: "Commander, save me!"
How could Li Yuanling dare to speak for him and shouted: "Shut your stinky mouth. It's all your own fault that this situation has happened. How could I have saved you?"
Hai Zhongdi said: "Commander, he is acting so recklessly, couldn't you have noticed it?"
Li Yuanling sighed and said: "I was also kept in the dark by this guy. I really didn't realize it at all."
Hai Zhongdi said: "I will review the Xuanfu left guard in the afternoon. I don't want any more imposters to happen."
Li Yuanling said: "Don't worry, Mr. Hai, this kind of thing will never happen again."
Haizhong Di speculated that Li Yuanling might have ordered this impersonation, but without conclusive evidence, Li Yuanling could not be taken down.
In the afternoon, the Xuanfu left guard entered the school grounds for review. After a roll call, no impostors were found, but there was a serious shortage of personnel. There were 5,600 registered personnel in the whole guard, but in fact there were only 3,263.
people.
Hai Zhongdi narrowed his eyes, looked at Li Yuanling, and asked: "Commander, there are so many people in the left guard of Xuanfu who live on empty wages. Don't you know it?"
Li Yuanling said: "I really don't know." He turned to the commander of the guard and shouted: "You dare to deceive me. How can I tolerate you? Come on, capture this guy and escort him back to the capital. I
Shuai must skin him."
Li Yuanling did not want the commander of the guard to fall into the hands of Hai Zhong Di, fearing that the commander would bite him out. Hai Zhong Di saw through his intentions and said: "Wait a minute, Commander, let me handle this person."
I won’t bother the commander to take action. Come on, take him down.”
Li Yuanling did not dare to fight with Hai Zhongpi and could only watch as Mou Rongtian and others tied up the commander.
Hai Zhongdi said: "Commander, if the situation of other guards' empty wages is so serious, you will not be able to escape the involvement."
Li Yuanling wiped the sweat on his forehead, feeling embarrassed and speechless.
Hai Zhongdi said: "That's it for today. Tomorrow I will review the Xuanfu right guard and Wanquan left guard. I don't want to see the situation of empty pay again."
Li Yuanling said: "I want to have a few drinks with Mr. Hai tonight, and I hope Mr. Hai will appreciate it."
Hai Zhongdi said: "No need, I have been in poor health in recent years and have stopped drinking."
Li Yuanling wanted to take advantage of the meal to bribe Haizhong Di, but despite repeated requests, Haizhong Di refused to attend the banquet.