The three-day time limit is about to pass, Mu Hanzhang does not seem to be in a hurry at all, just daily in the king's tent to look through the account book, and occasionally go to the barracks to see.
"What did the Military Counselor ask you today?" The Right Guardian asked as he caught the junior soldier who was going to go back to eat, he was really curious about how this Mr. Jun was going to find the murderer within three days.
"The sergeant asked me when I was issued this soldier's uniform and how often I could eat meat." The young soldier answered honestly.
"Soldier clothes? Eating meat?" The Right Guard listened in confusion, what does this have to do with poison ivy? After letting this little soldier go, he caught another one to ask.
"The master of the army asked me how often I send letters to my family, and who writes for me," the tall soldier smiled nervously, "The master of the army also said that because I answered the question well, I could ask him to write it in the future." That is the king's military division ah, the word must be better than the village's Xiu Cai writing, the old mother of the family can also take it to show off with the village people.
The right guard listened to even more confused, where is this with what ah! Unwillingly caught a few more to ask, all are some irrelevant questions, and chicken skin parents, completely irrelevant.
The Left Guard stepped forward and patted the frothing Right Guard, "Eat."
"You say, what exactly is the Warlord looking into?" The Right Guard asked bitterly.
The Left Protector's face was expressionless as he turned around and walked away, "I'll eat first."
"Hey hey, wait for me!" The right guard was busy chasing after him, the two of them had their meals together, and if they went late they were going to be eaten up by that guy!
Three days of the period is coming, Zhao Meng early in the morning from the prison, waiting to see the so-called "military division" in the tent, and consciously say that the readers of the Zhao general, but also pulled the left and right army guards, a few lieutenants to come together.
The center tent was where the generals discussed tactics and issued military orders, it was about the same size as Jing Shao's king's tent, except that there were no beds in the tent. Jing Shao sat on top of the high platform, looking at the group of wolf-like hans below, and gave Zhao Meng a somewhat sympathetic look.
Mu Hanzhang sat on the chair beside Jing Shao, and in his hand he also held a black plume goose feather fan that military advisors in history books would hold. This is still yesterday's right guard specially sent him in order to know the news in advance.
"Warlord, the three day limit has come and gone, I, Old Zhao, have come to listen to Warlord's high opinion." Zhao Meng lifted the few suspects who were squatting in the cell with him over again and stood in the center of the tent and said in a rough voice.
"General is truly in a hurry." Mu Hanzhang fanned the goose feather fan in his hand twice and lightly glanced at the bearded man on the stage.
Really squatted in the military prison for three days, although the soldiers in the prison will be good food and drink for, just three days have not washed General Zhao is really a bit sloppy, and wearing white clothes look immaculate compared to Mu Hanzhang, since it is very abrupt.
Being swept over by the eyes with faint dislike, the general Zhao, who has always been unconventional, was a little uncomfortable, and wiped his face with his hand and said, "Less nagging, we have signed the military order, you quickly say who is the murderer in the end?"
Mu Hanzhang lightly hooked his lips, slowly reaching out with his fan and pointing to the several people kneeling under the stage: "Several of them, all of them, and none of them."
"What is this talk?" Zhao Meng said in disbelief.
Several small generals are also puzzled, infantry lieutenant quietly asked the right guard yesterday to find out what, get the right guard's bitter face, yesterday's military division with him around half a day, did not say anything, but also took away his "bribe" of the feather fan.
"To say that none of them are, is only because the poisonous grass was not put there by a few of them, because before the escorting officer received this batch of hay, it had already been laced with aconite grass." Mu Hanzhang lightly flapped his goose feather fan twice, watching with satisfaction as everyone on the stage instantly changed color. Against these reckless people, straight forwardness would definitely not work for them, but instead, making a show of being mysterious would make them look at them in a higher light.
"The military master is clear about this!" The horse herder was the first to let out a cry and happily kowtowed towards Mu Hanzhang, his guts were about to be broken from the moment the king's horse went berserk, and when the military master uttered such a sentence, at least his head was saved.
The few remaining people also reacted and were busy following suit.
"However," Mu Hanzhang paused, "the poisonous grass was escorted all the way, stored in the treasury, and after being taken out to feed the horses, which no one even realized that there was poisonous grass in the forage, a few of them couldn't escape the chastisement."
A few people heard this, pinched the sweat at the same time relieved, the so-called death penalty can be avoided living crimes, as long as the death penalty can be avoided, the other is not important.
"So it's the grass seller who cut the poisonous grass in by mistake?" The Right Guardian picked up the conversation.
"Long-leafed aconite grass is born in the northwestern grasslands, wouldn't it be possible to cut it in the outskirts of the capital?" Zhao Meng remembered what the Left Protector had said about the aconite grass, and clearly didn't believe Mu Hanzhang's words.
Mu Hanzhang shook his head, "It wasn't by chance, but someone deliberately did it, wanting to poison the war horse."
"Now that the army hasn't started, the poisoned war horses can still be bought again, it doesn't affect the war at all, so who's too full to do this kind of unethical thing?" Zhao Meng felt that this military advisor was obviously making things up.
"This, we have to ask the scribe who keeps the books in this camp." Mu Hanzhang took a sip of the tea on the table and
"Clerk?" Jing Shao who had been listening attentively on the side could not help but ask a question, last night he had pestered him for half a day and instead of telling him the truth about the actual facts, Jun Qing did not let him eat the people, causing him to get anxious and angry for the rest of the night.
Clerk, is responsible for registering books, writing transfer orders, in charge of correspondence and other clerical people in the military, the military everything from simple, this five thousand people in the battalion clerk a total of four people, in addition to writing letters, transfer time will think of, usually no one pays attention to these people.
Mu Hanzhang nodded and said to Jing Shao: "I checked all the accounts in the army, not to mention the previous ones, alone this expedition the grain and grass money allocated by the Ministry of the Interior, the accounts are nearly 30% less, and the accounts recorded and the actual spending is far from each other."
"What!" Jing Shao sat bolt upright.
Mu Hanzhang took out his own two days copied down part of the accounts to Jing Shao see, the accounts written all the soldiers uniforms per season three sets, in fact, only two sets, the daily meal standard, according to the accounts recorded, at least one meal every day can eat meat, in fact, seven days can only be eaten once, and most of the time only rice gruel and steamed buns.
The generals under the stage heard the words and their expressions became grave, and the Right Protector couldn't help but say, "If what Mr. Jun said is true, then what does this clerk's false accounting have to do with this poisonous herb?"
Mu Hanzhang slowly rubbed the handle of his goose feather fan, "Before the army departs, the Ministry of Revenue will send someone to check the accounts."
Other things are good to say, that can not match the 30% of the accounts is not a small amount. A large number of horses died, we must replenish in time, as long as the King of Cheng reported to the court, will be allocated a large number of silver, then make some of the means of stealing, will be able to offset the accounts of the wrong. And the poison of aconite, livestock in the, will instantly paralyzed, fever, foaming at the mouth, and horse plague is quite similar. Once judged as a horse plague, these horse corpses will be burned and buried, and no one will take a closer look.
When Mu Hanyang said all of his analysis, the entire center tent fell silent.
"The end is a poisonous plan ...... " said the left guard slowly.
"But these clerks were originally assigned manpower by the Ministry of Households as well." The right guard frowned and said, the Ministry of households this is their own hit their own face? A few small clerk certainly do not have the courage to make this kind of bold thing, above certainly have high officials to protect, just how to look at is the Ministry of households to supervise the theft.
"Among the Ministry of Revenue, they are not all of one mind." Mu Hanzhang sighed and said, this time, I don't know who is going to be sent to check the accounts, at least it's not all the way with the previous people who were greedy for the ink, and that's what forced them to come up with this plan.
Jing Shao slowly clenched his fists, the life in the army is known to be hard, when he went out to conquer the Huns he ate almost the same as now, so he simply can't realize that there is something wrong with it. He finally knew how he got the last Ministry of Revenue's participation in his deduction of military pay, not that he had deducted silver, but that the Ministry of Revenue had allocated more money to him, and then let the money disappear without his knowledge!
"Arrest all those clerks!" Zhao Meng was so angry that he blew out his beard, and within a short time, four skinny clerks were captured, kneeling on the ground with fear and trembling. For such a big crime, the four naturally refused to admit it, relying on the fact that they had official positions and the army couldn't torture them, so they kept on sophistically arguing.
Zhao Meng didn't care about this, and kicked the nearest person: "I can't eat well every day, but it turns out that it's all gone into your grandchildren's wallets!" His kick was not light, and the person who was kicked immediately fell to the ground and spit out acidic water.
Jing Shao slammed the account book into their faces and said in a cold voice: "But it's just a small secretary, you really take yourself as a court official! Even if the king kills you today, the people in the court can't find fault with the king!"
Even though this is not entirely true, King Cheng's violence is well known, and the Right Guard told them with a sneer that even in the military, everything should be dealt with according to military law.
This is even a few days of fear, now this situation is afraid of the sky can not be, was Zhao Meng kicked the man struggled to get up to take the lead in confessing, the other three people also had to follow the crime. They are only shrimp soldiers and crab generals, only know that their upper is a Ministry of households, and then above do not know.
"Deceitful!" Jing Shao stood up and was about to lead the four back to the capital.
Mu Hanzhang was busy pulling him back, giving him a look of tranquility, "This is a big matter, not something to be discussed lightly."
Jing Shao took a deep breath, "Lock up these four people first, you guys stand down and wait for this king to discuss with the military division before making a decision."
The left guard personally pressed the four towards the military prison, Zhao Meng wanted to say something but was pulled away by the right guard.
"Jun Qing, what are you trying to say?" Jing Shao drank a mouthful of tea, he would never let this matter rest today, even if he delayed the expedition, he would still have to find out all the people hiding behind it!
Mu Hanzhang looked at him in anger and sighed softly, "If you bring them into the palace today, you will only alert the snakes, and Father will hastily close the case in order to appease you for an early expedition."
The words are all true, but today's matter has touched Jing Shao's bottom line, so instead of calming him down, it made his heart burst into flames, pushing the cups on the table to the ground with a clatter, and looking at Mu Huanzhang with anger in his eyes, "What should I do then? Is it hard for me to swallow this breath?"
When Mu Hanzhang saw his appearance, he pursed his lips and fell silent without saying a word. Even though he knew that Jing Shao was not angry at himself, the look in those eyes still pierced him. On the day of the bridal chamber, those eyes also looked at him in this way ......