Chapter 443 Song Jiang Sues Gao Qiu

Look at what you have and what the other party wants. If you know the cause and effect, you will also understand the purpose. Speaking of which, he really suffered a loss and fell into a trap. There was nothing he could do, he was used to being aloof, and although he was very empathetic, he was inevitably negligent.

And Song Jiang and Wu Yong's plan was time. He was still thinking about talking nonsense with Song Jiang. Anyway, he was idle, and it was only this time that he was accidentally included.

"Wang has always been kind to others and never quarreled with others. Do you really think that Wang has no temper?"

Now that he understood it, there was no need to continue talking nonsense. Wang Yan directly interrupted the chattering Song Xianfeng.

Hearing this, Song Jiang suddenly stopped talking, his face changed for a moment, and in the blink of an eye he smiled again, and opened his mouth to deny: "The general is joking, how dare Song Jiang plan to take advantage of the general."

"Brother..."

Wu Yong stopped Song Jiang who wanted to continue talking. When he saw Wang Yan looking at him expressionlessly, he knew that he had been discovered. After all, they are running a huge industry and have countless capable people under their money. At first, I didn't think about it, but after chatting for a long time to no avail, I still couldn't get to the point. Combined with their current situation, I could understand their purpose by just using my brain.

He stopped waving his fan and pretending to be cool, and immediately stood up in fear and handed over his hands to plead guilty: "General, don't blame me, this was all Xiao Ke's idea."

Seeing him like this, Song Jiang stopped pretending to be stupid and hurriedly stood up and handed over his hands: "General, it's not Song Jiang's intention to deceive. It's actually that our Liangshan brothers are in a difficult situation and their future is worrying. That Gao Qiu repeatedly deducted food, wages and supplies, and allowed his subordinates to insult my Liangshan brothers. . We Liangshan brothers are all good men who understand justice. Now we are recruiting people just to serve the country. How can we be treated like this?

The general and Song Jiang came out of Shandong together, and Yanggu County is only a hundred and twenty miles away from Yuncheng. In the past, I, Liang Shanqiu, had never done anything wrong with the general's business. My brothers acted for God and only robbed the rich and gave to the poor. In these years, we... …. Now you know that I, Liangshan, are loyal and righteous, and the Holy Grace has issued an edict to recruit you, so that Song Jiang has the honor to serve as an official in the same court as the general. If Gao Qiu hadn't bullied me too much, Song Jiang would have had no choice but to take such a trick, find the general, use the general's reputation to protect him, and seek peace of mind. I hope the general will be considerate..."

Wang Yan shook his head and smiled. Song Jiang was famous for being shameless and was used to beautifying himself. He said that he had never robbed his goods, that he was doing justice to God by robbing the rich and giving to the poor, and that he was related to the township party. All kinds of righteousness and nostalgia weighed on him. It was as if they were decent people and he thought Wang was the villain. But he didn't expose it. After all, he was always going to die, and it would be pointless to expose it.

"Sit down." He took a sip of tea from the cup and looked at the two people who had thanked him and sat down again: "You have stayed with me for such a long time, and you still say so much and do so much. I have no influence in the court. , It depends on the status of the holy family, I am afraid that my people are not as powerful as you think. You Liangshan robbed Cai Jing's birthday card and tied Gao Qiu to the mountain. How could they let it go? There may be some use in raising a big grudge against me, but it is not as big as you think. Although I am not on good terms with Cai Jing, Gao Qiu and others, I have always kept a distance from them, and I will not ask for trouble for you. You are wrong..."

Song Jiang and Wu Yong looked at each other, exchanged glances, turned back and cupped their hands and said, "General, what advice do you have?"

The high-ranking official put down the tea cup in his hand: "Gao Qiu deducted grain and grass supplies and distributed insufficient amounts, so the ones that were not distributed must have been stolen and sold. Who do you think will buy grain, grass and ordnance? Not the big thieves Tian Hu, Wang Qing, and Fang La , or some other grass bandits who dominate the mountains, and may even be sold to Tubo, Dali, Xixia and even Liao Kingdom.

If you were waiting in the court hall and told that you had captured Gao Qiu and were jealous of him, and then mentioned it a little bit in your words, what would your Majesty and the ministers in the court think now? Cai Jing and his ilk are indeed powerful, but they cannot cover the sky with one hand. As long as you make a start, they will take care of the rest for others who cannot deal with Cai Jing and others.

What's more, you personally supervise the recruitment and are going to Hebei to suppress the bandits, but now you are being humiliated by Gao Qiu, which affects the morale of the army. What's this? This is Cai Jing's great disrespect for today. You may have heard of Lu Zhishen in Liaodong. As far as I know, Lu Zhishen had some connections with Lin Chong.

A few years ago, when Lu Zhishen started an uprising and seized the Su and Fu states of Liao overnight, I learned the inside story from me. Now I knew at that time that Lu Zhishen and Lin Chong were harmed by Gao Qiu, and they had long been dissatisfied. I just remembered that they followed them when they were still in the dormitory, and they just fined them some salary and scolded them. However, the Holy Family sometimes runs out, causing trouble once or twice, and using power to bully others. Now I have my own discretion in my mind.

So as long as you wait to report tomorrow, your situation in Liangshan will be greatly improved in the future. A few days ago, I heard that people from Liangshan killed the Marquis of Yu under Gao Qiu's tent. That was a good opportunity. But it's not too late now. If Gao Qiu is behind it when you are waiting to go on the expedition, then it will be useless to say anything. It should be noted that only children who can cry can be fed milk..."

Song Jiang had always wanted to be an official. In addition, he was only a small official in the past and his vision was not enough. He was afraid of the imperial power and considered the imperial power too sacred, so he thought too highly of Zhao Ji. They were just recruiting people now, so they didn't dare to ask for anything, and they were afraid that Zhao Ji would think they were too incompetent.

But the key point is that they have gone from being outside the rules to being inside the rules. They have no power to counter Gao Qiu's power. They can only let him squash them and twist them into a circle. They are powerless to resist. So why are they still holding on? Going to the big boss to complain is the only way out. Otherwise, they can only be the punching bag like this.

And they are not useless. Zhao Ji is the referee and he is biased. At this time, at best, he will not deal with Gao Qiu, but he will definitely not do anything to Liangshan.

As for the future, of course he still deserves to die. Zhao Ji is not a big man. He remembers the commotion during the Lantern Festival.

After listening to Wang Yan's words, Song Jiang exchanged glances with Wu Yong again, and after a moment of silence, he said: "Thank you for your advice, General. But if we say these things in front of the emperor, what should we do if Gao Qiu accuses us of false accusation?"

"It doesn't matter whether there is evidence or not. What matters is what the emperor thinks and what other court officials think. Besides, you are going to fight Tian Hu in Hebei. You have been ordered and are preparing to march out. Even if it is a false accusation, what can you do? We have to fight this battle first. If you fail to defeat Tian Hu, it will just be one more crime for you. If you win, what crime will you have? There is still Wang Qing in Huaixi and Fang La in Jiangnan. You will always be useful. As long as you are useful, there will be nothing to worry about."

Useless, then die. This is quite clear. To be honest, he still hopes that Song Jiang can give him some surprises and make his life, which is not full of waves, a little fun.

Song Jiang pondered for a moment, then nodded, stood up and bowed to say goodbye: "Thank you, General. I, Song Jiang, have been so kind to you. My brothers in Liangshan will never forget you. The matter is urgent. I will go back and discuss with my brothers. I will not bother you anymore. I will take my leave now."

The original purpose has been achieved, and a new solution has been found. Wang Yan's attitude is also very clear. Song Jiang is not ignorant, so he should get out.

"Okay, okay, you two take care." Wang Yan stood up and returned the greeting with a smile: "Come on, see you off."

Watching Song Jiang and the other two leave, he turned back to the house to change his clothes, and then went out of the city to walk on the street.

He didn't need to keep an eye on the training of the Fubei Army all day. Zhao Ji also knew that he was busy, and never asked him to report to work. Anyway, he would see the results. So he basically went to Beijing once every two months and stayed for half a month.

Before that, he had trained Lu Junyi, Dong Ping and other senior generals first, and they were all well-behaved, knowing what to practice and how to practice, and then these people went down to teach the middle and low-level officers and soldiers.

Besides, it has been a year, and they know how to practice. He only checks the results from time to time to see if there is any progress, and promotes some people and kicks some people out, so he is really idle.

Now is the time when spring and summer turn, and the scenery outside Bianjing is still good. He took two long followers and strolled along the Bian River to enjoy life...

Song Jiang did not disappoint Wang Yan, and still did it according to his tricks. He didn't do it originally, because there was no way without him. Now he has made it so clear, so what is there to worry about.

So Song Jiang and Wu Yong went back and studied for only one day, and on the third day they rushed to the morning court to ask for an audience, so that they would not report to Zhao Ji privately, but in front of all the officials in the court.

When asked by Zhao Ji why he hadn't moved his camp north, Song Jiang directly said that Taiwei Gao Qiu had been captured by Liangshan and held a grudge against him. He instructed the withholding of food, supplies and weapons, and speculated that the embezzled supplies and weapons were sold to other bandits and neighboring enemy countries.

Zhao Ji didn't expect this to happen, and Gao Qiu didn't expect Song Jiang to dare to target him in the court. When asked by Zhao Ji, Gao Qiu could only shirk his responsibilities and say that he didn't know the inside story, and went back to investigate the matter thoroughly, and at the same time replenished the missing supplies. Zhao Ji thought about it and sent the Dali Temple to follow up and check. At the same time, he encouraged Song Jiang to take enough supplies and go north to suppress the bandits as soon as possible.

This time there was indeed no problem. After the court was dismissed that day, piles of supplies were pulled to Chenqiao and distributed to the Liangshan troops. Song Jiang was also straightforward. He took the supplies and left early the next morning without staying. Although Wang Yan said it for sure, he was still worried and decided to stay away from him...

As expected, the next day, many memorials impeaching Gao Qiu were sent to Zhao Ji, including those of him taking advantage of his power to commit crimes, forcibly seizing land, harming the people, embezzling public funds, etc. When Zhao Ji was answering the memorial, he asked Cai Jing what he thought. The old fox would never protect Gao Qiu, but he did not add insult to injury. He also pointed out that Song Jiang had visited Wang Yan the day before.

So, as expected, Wang Yan was called to the palace that afternoon.

Looking at Zhao Ji, who looked expressionless, the official reviewed the grievances between Cai Jing, Zhao Ji and Liangshan, as well as the process of recruiting in the past two years, and also explained why Song Jiang went to find him.

"In fact, I realized it a little late. Otherwise, I would never have asked for trouble. But this time Song Jiang had already found me and stayed for such a long time. If someone uses this to attack me in the future, how can I explain it? Gao Qiu went too far, which forced Song Jiang to use my name to act. Gao Qiu was incompetent and was captured by the Liangshan bandits. It is understandable that he wanted revenge.

But how could he do such a thing at this time? Officials, if you want a horse to run, how can you stop it from eating grass? Liangshan troops were stationed at Chenqiao, numbering more than 100,000 people. Chen Qiao is only fifty miles away from our capital. What if the Liangshan troops are cornered and they directly raise troops to surround the capital? Of course, there are tens of thousands of forbidden troops in Bianjing city, more than 20,000 troops stationed outside the city, and there are also the Fubei Army fifty miles away. The Liangshan grass bandits are not a problem and they can definitely be suppressed. But if this happens, the official family will definitely be affected. At that time, what crime should Gao Qi have committed?

That's why I encouraged Song Jiang to come to court to expose Gao Qiu's evil deeds, but those words were definitely not what I taught him. Song Jiang and other Liangshan grass bandits deserved their death, but the officials wanted to fight thieves with thieves. Now that Song Jiang and others had just set out, Gao Qiu was too impatient. Moreover, I think that the officials have to pay attention to Gao Qiu's guilt. As far as I know, Gao Qiu was indeed corrupt and perverted the law, which caused a lot of harm to the people. Although Song Jiang made malicious assumptions, he must be on guard against collaborating with the enemy. "

Although the Song Dynasty now also sells ordnance to other countries, and then exchanges money to make new ordnance, it is at the national level, and there are specialized officials responsible for contacting them. But selling by the state and selling by individuals are obviously two different things. There is no doubt that Gao Qiu must have sold it, but he certainly did not sell it directly. If he has no brains at all, he shouldn't mess around. Instead, a few more experienced people were involved, which greatly increased the difficulty of tracing. It is possible that Gao Qiu himself did not even know where the ordnance went. After all, it was the people below who did the work.

Maybe Zhao Ji didn't know these things before, but he knows now. In addition, during the Shangyuan Festival when Liangshan was having trouble in Bianjing, he had his people run away, and when he was fighting in Liangshan, he was captured. Now, he still doesn't care about his safety and is forcing the people of Liangshan. With all this, Zhao Ji was already very dissatisfied, and sending someone to check was a sign that he was out of favor.

The ministers who are good at figuring out the superior's intentions know this best, otherwise they would not have a tacit understanding to impeach Gao Qiu. So in this case, even if Gao Qiu was fine, something would have to be done for him. So to sum up, Gao Qiu will be disabled this time, and is basically useless. This is the benefit of centralization. When the emperor is unhappy, he can control a senior official with just one sentence.

Looking at his loyal and good son-in-law, Zhao Ji sighed: "You are right, Gao Qiu has gone too far..."

"The official family does not need to worry. As far as I know, Gao Taiwei's family property should be several hundred thousand yuan. It just so happened that the Ministry of Household Affairs recently had difficulty in allocating money and food for the Northern Army. Finally, there is income. The official family, just now Cai Chen is Either Chao Gai, the former leader of Liangshan Mountain, went up to the mountain, or it was because he robbed Taishi Cai’s birthday card. As far as I know, the birthday card is worth one hundred thousand gold. Is this Taishi Cai..."

Wang Yan did not continue talking, and that was enough. An emperor who did not love money was not a good emperor, and an emperor who did not love the money in the hands of his ministers was even worse than a good emperor. He first tried to seduce Yi Er to see if getting Gao Qiu first could open a small window for Zhao Ji to get rich in a short period of time. Yes, of course everyone is happy. Now that Zhao Ji is rich, he will have less worries, and the people's lives will become better. If you can't, it doesn't matter. You can save Zhao Ji from wasting money. It's good to keep him here.

Zhao Ji stared at Wang Yan in silence. Wang Yan lowered his head slightly and did not look at him.

After a long time, Zhao Ji waved his hand helplessly: "Go and train the Northern Army well. If it is no longer useful, you have the most money..."

Wang Yan smiled and cupped his hands: "I excuse myself."

It's more casual. After all, he is a favorite, a capable minister, and half a son. He is considered a member of the clan. He is very close to Zhao Ji and gets along very well.

When he got home, he didn't stay long, put on his armor, rode his horse and led people out of the city to Fubei Military Camp. Because he could see that Zhao Ji was tempted. As an emperor, he was still like Zhao Ji. If his heart was moved, he would naturally follow his heart.

It is conceivable that something will happen in Bianjing next, so it is best for him to stay away. After all, Gao Qiunai was the imperial commander and had a lot of people under his command. Since he wanted to take action, there was no way he could only get one, so he had to pull out a bunch of them.

After taking stock, Zhao Ji may become a vanguard in the fight against corruption. After all, his garden is still under construction, and he even plans to expand the imperial city. If you want to expand the imperial city, the first thing you need to do is to demolish it, and of course you need to compensate for the demolition. Besides, there are no simple people who can live under the imperial city. If they are forced to demolish without compensation, the emperor will not be much.

Bianjing is a super city with a population of one million. The population density is as you can imagine. Of course, the housing prices here are very high, so the big houses under the imperial city are naturally even more expensive. This is a lot of money for the boss.

The previous emperors either did not want to expand the imperial city, or they could not afford to build it, or it was not cost-effective to spend so much money. But Zhao Ji obviously doesn't care. As long as he has money, he will do anything...

The scene in the military camp is very spectacular. Some people are neatly arrayed, wearing armor all over their bodies, holding long spears under their arms, riding tall and fat war horses, charging forward at extremely high speeds, racing to the same height as the war horses in the distance. A special human-shaped prop on a wooden stake passed by. Some people held their guns at fixed points, with stones tied to the tips of the guns, and they held on shivering. There were also people performing martial arts, some running obstacles around the school grounds, others riding horseback, wielding longer sabers, and slashing at the wooden stakes in front of them one after another.

Of course, there are still people who are being beaten, whip after whip. After all, people make mistakes everywhere and they have to pay some price. Now it's a pain in the flesh, but on the battlefield it's lifeless.

Therefore, their training is to repeat again and again to form muscle memory. In this way, when they are confronting the enemy and looking at the endless enemies, they can follow the training for years, thrust forward with the gun, and when the gun is lost, they can quickly draw the knife and chop without hesitation.

They don't need to make the adjustments they think they are geniuses, which is the privilege of those who survive...

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