Volume I_Chapter 3461 Investigate Corrupt Officials and Get Food and Pay

Then, after Li Jinzhong asked someone to write the letter, he handed the letter to the messenger soldier, and asked the messenger soldier to hurry to the post station and send the letter to the Qizhou battlefield.

At the same time, Chu Xuanchen appointed Yuan Zhen as the imperial historian of the Overwatch Council, with a third-rank official residence.

He asked Yuan Zhen to lead the censors of the Overwatch Council to investigate the case of corrupt officials and profiteers.

In this way, Yuan Zhen was promoted from an ordinary counselor to a royal doctor.

After his promotion, he immediately set about doing this.

If you don't check, you don't know. After checking, Yuan Zhen found out that there are many corrupt officials hiding in various parts of Chu State, as well as unscrupulous profiteers and big landlords.

After finding the criminal evidence of these people, Yuan Zhen was relentless and directly led troops to ransack the house.

After raiding the houses, they discovered that the houses of these corrupt officials were full of inexhaustible gold and silver treasures, silk and satin, jewels and jade, and warehouse after warehouse of food and other things.

Seeing those piled up granaries, everyone knew where Chu's grain had gone. It turned out that these people had embezzled it, or hoarded it to sell it at a high price.

Now, Yuan Zhen hurriedly led troops, searched the property of corrupt officials and transported away their food.

After five vigorous days of seizure, Yuan Zhen had confiscated one million taels of gold, ten million taels of silver, and tens of thousands of shi of grain.

When Chu Xuanchen and the ministers saw the gold, silver, treasures and food dragged back by the soldiers, they couldn't believe it.

The combined property of these corrupt officials and profiteers is more than the entire national treasury.

Usually they all cry about being poor, and when the country is in trouble, they are not even willing to donate a little property, but they are all as fat as rats.

Seeing this scene, Chu Xuanchen clenched his fists fiercely, his eyes were full of anger.

But it was also caused by the crooked top beam and the crooked bottom beam. If it wasn't for Chu Yao himself being such a person, how could he have cultivated so many corrupt officials?

Fortunately, now that the properties of these corrupt officials have been seized, he finally has money to pay the soldiers and food to the border!

After getting the food and salary, Chu Xuanchen immediately sent Mo Li, Mo Zhu, Feng Qingyang and others to escort the food and firearms to Qizhou.

Moli and the others transported batch after batch of food and firearms to the battlefield.

Chu Xuanchen was afraid that the food would not be enough, so he hurriedly asked someone to take the money and go to the next door country to buy food.

He wants to send food and grass continuously, to give confidence to the soldiers, and to make this battle a quick one.

At the same time, the number of firearms transported by the soldiers was also large.

Now the Chu Army and the Xueyue Kingdom's army combined have more than 200,000 people. With the supply of food and grass, plus the blessing of infinitely powerful firearms, Chu Xuanchen believes that they will definitely win this time.

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Ten days later, Qizhou

Chu Army Barracks

In the barracks, the soldiers were sitting slumped on the ground, each of them was sallow and emaciated from hunger, and their bodies were weak.

Some people also have white lips and look malnourished.

Several generals including Dong Changfeng and Su Qishao walked into the barracks, seeing this scene, they were all very worried and anxious.

Seeing how hungry his soldiers were, Su Qishao clenched his fists and blamed himself, "It's all my fault that I couldn't drive away the enemy quickly, which caused the soldiers to suffer like this. It has been several days, and the soldiers have been hungry for several days, and all of them are starving, if this continues, what should we do?"

Dong Changfeng said: "General Su, don't worry, the emperor replied to our letter before. I believe him, he said he will find a way, and he will definitely think of a way. Let's wait for him for a few more days, maybe a few days later, the payment Here we come!"

Su Qishao closed his eyes and said sadly, "I also believe in the emperor, but this salary is not something he can raise if he wants to. No matter how emperor he is, he is just an ordinary person, not a god, and it is impossible to conjure up food and grass out of thin air. come out."

"Yes, during this period of time, our food and grass have been insufficient, and we have been saving food every day, causing the soldiers to not have enough to eat at all. They dragged their weak and hungry bodies to fight, and they were no match for the coalition forces. These days, Not only were we forced back dozens of miles, but we also suffered huge losses and suffered heavy casualties!" Jiang Ning said, his eyes turned red all of a sudden!

Thinking of those soldiers who died, he felt uncomfortable, so uncomfortable that he couldn't sleep or eat, and blamed himself very much.

As generals, if they can't feed the soldiers and protect their lives, are they worthy of being generals?

At this moment, Su Qishao's stomach suddenly gurgled.

He immediately clutched his stomach tightly, his face very uncomfortable.

Dong Changfeng hurriedly said: "General Su, are you hungry?"

"No, I'm not, I'm not hungry." Su Qishao shook his head hastily.

Dong Changfeng said, "Don't lie to me. Today I saw that you gave up your lunch to a soldier. Come on, I still have a steamed bun here. It might be better if you pad your stomach first."

As he said that, he took out a white flour steamed bun from his bosom and handed it to Su Qishao.

Looking at the steamed bun, Su Qishao couldn't help feeling sad, and the corners of his mouth curled up bitterly.

Once upon a time, he, Su Qishao, was hungry? Have you ever suffered like this?