So after Tian Meng questioned Zhou Tai, Zhu Kaizhou, who was sitting on the high platform, slapped the handle of the seat and yelled at Tian Meng: "Tian Meng, I haven't looked into this matter yet.
You, it's a good thing that you actually shirk your responsibility directly. It just so happens that Imperial Envoy Lu is here today. I want to see how your little tricks can escape the eyes of Imperial Envoy Lu. Am I right, Mr. Lu?
."
At the end of his words, Zhu Kaizhou pretended to be flattering to Lu Cheng.
Lu Cheng's face twitched when he heard this, because how could he, Lu Cheng, help you Zhu Kaizhou?
However, for the sake of fairness and justice, without any suspicion of favoritism or bending the law, Lu Cheng finally gave up even if he didn't want to.
"That's natural. This imperial envoy was given the mandate of heaven and came to patrol with the will of the Holy One. Naturally, I want to be fair and just."
"Fell into the trap."
Hearing Lu Cheng say this, Zhu Kaizhou's eyes were full of joy. It must be said that Li Ziqing was really good at this clever trick of killing someone with a borrowed knife.
As for how to kill people with a borrowed knife, it is very simple. Zhu Kaizhou said again: "Since Mr. Lu has said so, I would like to ask you again, if there is someone in the military camp who gambles and embezzles and prevents the military pay from being paid, then what will happen?"
What should I do?”
When Lu Cheng heard this, he looked excited, because Zhu Kaizhou actually assisted him, so Lu Cheng immediately replied to him: "Scum like this should be killed directly.
!Thereby serving as a warning to others and giving the most satisfactory answer to the army officers!"
But for some reason, as soon as he said these words, he immediately felt something was wrong.
As for what is wrong, he is a bit elusive. Anyway, it is very wrong. There is a problem somewhere, and it is a big problem.
In the end, it wasn't until Zhu Kaizhou said the following words that Lu Cheng realized that he had become an absolute pig teammate for once.
I just heard Zhu Kaizhou say this: "As far as I know, Mr. Zhang Kuanzhang, the censor in charge of the silver warehouse, has paid military expenses directly to you, General Tian Meng. Is that true?"
Tian Meng was naturally stunned when he heard this, because Zhang Kuan didn't give it to him at all, but Lu Cheng's expression was completely frozen, because he
I remember very clearly that last night, Tian Meng "lent" Zhang Kuan a total of 30 million gold coins.
Hanlin County's military expenditure is exactly this 30 million.
"Master Zhu, please don't slander anyone. Normally, General Zhou, the top leader, would deal with military expenditure matters, or Mr. Zhang Kuan would deal with it directly. How could this possibly fall on me?"
Tian Meng began to retort.
As a result, all I heard was that Zhu Kaizhou slapped the seat handle hard, and then pointed angrily at him and roared: "Tian Meng, when death is imminent, you still dare to quibble! If you don't say this, you will frame others. Finally,
Since you don't admit it, I will bring out all the evidence to make you understand! Someone, bring me all the witnesses who saw it with your own eyes in Zhang's house last night. As for Mr. Zhang, Tian
The fierce general falsely accused you of embezzling military funds. I hope you can clarify this serious crime for yourself."
After finishing speaking, Zhu Kaizhou turned his gaze to Zhang Kuan, the third person in the first row at the bottom, who was the censor of Yincang.
Zhang Kuan's eyes were full of rage, and he roared angrily at Tian Meng in front of him: "General Tian, in my house last night, I was...
I personally handed over the military expenditure of 30 million gold coins into your hands in public. At that time, I explained to you that this was the military expenditure I owed you. If I didn't tell you, I also told you not to gamble anymore, so as not to get into deeper trouble.
Shen, as for you, as soon as you took the money away, you no longer knew who you were, and you did it right here, at the regular meeting of the county governor, in front of the imperial envoy, and you falsely accused me of not giving you the money, General Tian.
, I hope you can give me a reasonable explanation! Otherwise, don’t blame me for falling out with you directly!"
After Zhang Kuan finished speaking, some of the disciples from aristocratic families who had been summoned began to testify for Zhang Kuan one after another.
"Your Excellency the County Sheriff, Your Excellency the Imperial Envoy, last night we all attended a dinner in the Zhang Mansion, and during that dinner, we did see that Lord Zhang Kuan threw a Qiankun bag to General Tian, and General Tian also
I opened the Qiankun bag, and what was inside was the golden ticket. In the end, if I remember correctly, it seemed that there were thirty golden tickets worth one million denominations, totaling a total of
Thirty million gold coins.”
"I have the imaging crystal as proof!"
Finally, when this person played the recording on the imaging crystal, all the officials and generals of Hanlin County present exploded.
"General Tian actually made a bad bet on military expenses!"
"This is so irresponsible to the generals and soldiers in the army!"
"The army has been without food and pay for several months, and some soldiers are even hungry. As a result, General Tian is lucky enough to have the heart to gamble badly. In the end, he lost a full thirty million yuan. This is not
If one person has enough food and the whole family is not hungry, then he only cares about himself and is not responsible for others at all!"
Discussions and accusations suddenly started, and all the Hanlin County officials present were pointing at Tian Meng.
Finally, the witnesses and physical evidence were gathered together, and Tian Meng was seen dumbfounded on the spot.
"No, no, no, Mr. Zhang, I borrowed it from you personally."
Tian Meng was almost frightened. At the same time, he immediately defended himself, saying that it was the money he personally borrowed from Zhang Kuan.
Zhang Kuancai ignored him: "I said General Tian, I made it very clear at the time that this is the military expenditure of 30 million gold coins that I owe you. Furthermore, even if this is a personal loan from me to you, then
You can pay it back to me now. When the time comes, I will transfer the military funds to General Zhou.
That's not possible, and this can be regarded as a favor to Brother Lu. On the other hand, I'm sorry, Brother Lu can't protect you, and I, of course, will not let you go. I even hinted to Mr. Zhu that I embezzled military funds. This
But do you know about the death penalty, Ang!"
Zhang Kuan was so angry.
As for Tian Meng, he was so frightened by Zhang Kuan's last shout that he sat down on the ground. At the same time, he immediately looked at Lu Cheng with his pleading eyes, hoping
Lu Cheng can lend him some money to help him tide over this difficulty, because he doesn't have the full thirty million gold coins on his body now.
But as Xiahou's uncle, Lu Cheng would definitely have so much money.
However, Tian Meng seems to have forgotten about Xiahou Qingshan's death last night. In the end, do you think that at this critical moment, Lu Cheng still has the nerve to ask Xiahou's family for money?