Li Zheng, who was originally one of the hundred households of Jiangningwei's thousand households, was later appreciated by Yang Feng for his ability to do things, and two years ago Yang Feng wanted to lead his troops to Fujian to quell the rebellion, so he was promoted as the new commander of Jiangningwei.

Yang Feng's vision is still good, Li Zheng is indeed quite capable, at the beginning, Jiang Ningwei under his leadership, whether it is Tuntian or the workshop factory he opened, has developed well, and has also earned a lot of silver, but there is a saying that absolute power leads to absolute corruption, especially when this right is still lacking supervision.

It stands to reason that Yang Feng's military salary for his subordinates is not small, and after several adjustments, the monthly salary of a newly enlisted sergeant in the first year is one silver dollar (one tael of silver) and three liters of grain, and in the second year, it is increased to one or two and a half cents of silver and five liters of grain.

From the commander of the army, the chief of the army, the chief of the small banner to the general of the hundred, the general of the thousand, and even the commander of the envoy, the salaries and silver ranged from three taels, five taels, ten taels, thirty taels, and fifty taels respectively.

And this is just the basic military salary, and there is also a silver reward for the New Year's festival or something.

This kind of military salary is unique in the whole Ming Dynasty, and a command like Lizheng makes the military salary he receives every month not to mention supporting his family, even if he raises two concubines.

But people's hearts are greedy, looking at the thousands of taels of silver flowing from his hands every day, Li Zheng's heart slowly changed, at first he was just taking a small advantage, but as time went by, he was no longer satisfied with taking that small advantage.

He began to recruit his subordinates to embezzle Jiang Ningwei's property on a large scale, and even openly sold the grain produced by Jiang Ningwei's farm.

He is naturally clear about Yang Feng's power, but knowing that he knows, he just can't suppress the greed in his heart, and Yang Feng hasn't come back for more than two years, so he is also going farther and farther on this road. But now he was scared.

Who is Yang Feng, that is the founder of the Jiang Ning Army. In the past, the Manchu Tartars were so arrogant, the battle of Sarhu, more than 100,000 Ming troops were annihilated, and the Ming lost most of Liaodong and eastern Mongolia, and then with the decline of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming could only take a defensive position against the Manchus.

But it was Yang Feng who led the Jiangning army to defeat the Manchu Tartars many times, and even the old chief Nurhachi died in his hands, and finally recovered Shenyang, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which was invincible in the past, has now become yesterday's twilight.

After destroying the Manchu Qing Dynasty and Zheng Zhilong, now he is even more in Nanyang, so I ask if you are afraid of such a god of war?

Since receiving the official document of the Ministry of War and Yang Feng's handwritten instructions brought by Song Ye, Li Zheng has been in a state of panic in the past few days, he knows too well how powerful Yang Feng is, if he knows what he has done in the past two years, it will be light to be removed from his post and investigated, and his life will be gone.

The more he thought about it, the more frightened Li Zheng became when he saw that these subordinates in front of him looked like they were sacrificing their lives and money, and he flew up and kicked a hundred generals to the ground, and said gloomily: "Whether the official wants it or not, you will hand over four thousand taels of silver to me within an hour, otherwise you will blame the official for ignoring the friendship of his colleagues." Get out now! ”

After listening to Li Zheng's words, a group of people immediately dispersed.

"A bunch of rubbish!"

Looking at the people who dispersed in a hurry, Li Zheng scolded hatefully, and then walked to the backyard with a long sigh......

Song Ye and Li Ge walked on the dark road, in front of them were two family members holding death lanterns, followed by four others.

The two walked for a while before Song Ye said, "Li Experience, don't you have anything to say to me?" ”

Li Ge sighed lightly, "Song Qianhu, you can also see it?" ”

"Nonsense!"

Song Ye snorted lightly.

"Don't forget, I grew up here, although I followed Grandpa Guo to Fujian for two years, my father and my mother are still here, and there are really not many things that Jiangdongmen Qianhu can hide from me. But what makes me strange is that you didn't tell me at the first time that such a big thing happened, could it be that you Li Ge also betrayed Grandpa Guo? ”

"I didn't!" Li Ge suddenly became excited, "Although I, Li Ge, don't dare to boast of my loyalty, but I'm not an ungrateful person, but I patted my chest and said, I have never done anything to be sorry for Grandpa Guo!" ”

"Then why don't you report this place to Grandpa Guo early?" Song Ye's eyes suddenly became fierce, "Do you know that even if you didn't participate, you were conniving by doing this?" ”

"Retribution? How do you tell me to report it? ”

Li Ge said excitedly: "I'm just a small experience official, and I don't even have the qualifications to meet Grandpa Guo." What's more, you and Grandpa Guo have been far away in Fujian in the past two years, even if I want to report it, there is no way. ”

This time it was Song Ye's turn to have nothing to say, Yang Feng's traces that were always shuttling between two time and space were always very weird, not to mention outsiders, even he, the head of the family, couldn't see him for ten days and a half months, let alone others.

After being silent for a while, Song Ye asked, "Then you tell me honestly, is this Li Zheng's crime a big deal?" ”

Li Ge showed a wry smile on his face: "Jiang Ningwei should have 50,000 stone of grain and 800,000 catties of horse material on his books, but now he can't even take out the grain and grass needed to supply 20,000 troops for a month, do you say it's a big deal?" ”

"What?"

Song Ye was shocked.

"How is this possible? Fifty thousand stone of grain, how could he Li Zheng swallow so much grain and grass, and he was not afraid of being strangled to death? ”

"Hmph...... What is he afraid of? ”

Li Ge said indignantly: "Today's Li Zheng is Jiang Ningwei's commander, Jiang Ningwei is up and down and he has the final say, what is it to sell some grain, I'm afraid you don't know yet, right?" Now three of Jiang Ningwei's four thousand households have been co-opted by him, what is it for him to steal and sell some grain under such circumstances? ”

Song Ye asked with a calm face: "Who did he sell the grain to, and where did the silver taels go?" ”

Li Ge said angrily: "Who else can you sell to, it's nothing more than that gang of unscrupulous profiteers in Jinling." In the past two years, there has been a severe drought in the northwest, and although Grandpa Guo has brought high-yield seeds such as corn, potatoes, and sweet potatoes, there is still a shortage of grain.

Those grain merchants bought our grain at a low price, and then sold it to Beijing, Shaanxi, Shanxi and other places at a high price, and some even sold it to Jiangnan, making a lot of money. Everyone made a fortune, but the grandfather and the military families lost money. ”

Rao is Song Ye had already been prepared, and he was also frightened: "He...... How could he have so much courage, wasn't he afraid that the grandfather of the East Window incident would cut off his head? ”

"Hmph...... I'm afraid you don't know yet. Li Zheng now goes to the Qinhuai River to drink a meal of flower wine, which costs hundreds of taels of silver. What does he have enough money for? Without silver, what does he use to support the more than a dozen concubines in the family, he is not greedy, and he spends all day and wine. ”

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