Why did Yang Cong leave like this? Could it be that he just came here to see it?

Of course not, he still has a backup plan.

He was driving his horse back to Dingxiang with his men, but Chen Lian secretly hid in the dark with his subordinate Jinyiwei, ready to close the net.

Wang Bo, a thousand households in the herds office, didn't know that he had been targeted. At this moment, he only had the 80,000 taels of silver in his eyes. This was the first time he had seen so much silver in his life, so he wouldn't mention his excitement.

Of course, most of these silvers have to be handed over, and they can't be kept here for long. It was precisely because of the short time that he actually ordered people to pile all the silver in his bedroom. If he had nothing to do, he would open the box and look and touch it, so that he would be more addicted to rich people!

Unfortunately, he didn't have long been addicted to this rich man. At around midnight that night, hundreds of dark shadows sneaked into the herds' base and surrounded his house.

This group of herdsmen is not a guardian of thousands of households, and the garrison is just an ordinary herdsman. Moreover, the area of ​​the group of herdsmen is very large, the people live in a scattered manner, and the defense is not very tight at night, so these black shadows can appear silently outside his compound.

He probably never dreamed that the young master Yang Cong had already dug a big hole to bury him. When he was covered in the darkness and picked him up, he thought that some horse bandit was coming to rob the money. Naturally, he was struggling wildly, trying to break free from the person in the darkness, and then opened his mouth and shouting for help.

Unfortunately, no matter how hard he struggled, it was useless. The other person had much more strength than him. In a short while, he was tied up his hands and feet, stuffed his mouth, and threw it to the ground.

At this time, the figure in the dark actually lit the oil lamp directly!

He looked around in panic and said, "Damn, these guys were not masked."

These people are too arrogant. Are you not afraid of seeing them recognize them in the future?

Or, they are going to kill someone to silence them, so they don’t care about seeing their appearance!

Just as he was thinking about it, a man in black suddenly took out a sign and held it in front of him, whispering: "Be honest, do you know this?"

He looked at the sign carefully and his eyes were almost glaring out.

Jin, Jin, Jin, Jin Yiwei!

Why did the Jinyiwei appear here?

He was stunned for a moment, and his eyes couldn't help but glance at the silver box not far away. It's over, it's over, and everyone is caught. Now he is really out of his mind.

Thinking of the activities he had done over the years, he couldn't help but sweat all over his body. This time he was afraid he was dead.

Chen Lian saw the sweat beads on the guy's forehead and understood. This guy must be so scared. He raised his hand and signaled his subordinates to pull out the rag from the guy's mouth. Then he asked coldly: "Say, do you want to die or live?"

Isn't this nonsense? Who wants to die if it's okay? Wang Bo stuttered: "I want to live, I want to live."

Chen Lian nodded expressionlessly, then ordered his subordinates to take out the pen, ink, paper and inkstone he carried with him, set it on the table, and prepare to record his confession.

Wang Bo understood this attitude as soon as he saw that these Jinyiwei asked him to explain honestly.

He dared not hide it. No matter what Chen Lian asked, he answered honestly, hoping that these kings of Hell could spare his life.

Chen Lian asked for a long time until everything was almost done. He ordered someone to loosen Wang Bo, and asked Wang Bo to sign and seal the confession, pressed his handprint, and then said coldly: "You better be honest, do you do whatever you should do, just pretend we have never been here, do you know? If you dare to inform me, or flee for fear of guilt, hum!"

ah!

What does this mean?

Wang Bo nodded subconsciously, his face still looked confused.

Unexpectedly, Chen Lian waved his hand and took his subordinates away after he finished speaking!

What does this mean?

Wang Bo stood there stupidly for a long time, but still didn't understand what these Jinyiwei meant. It would be fine if he let him go, but he didn't even take away the money. It's not that cheap, right?

He looked foolishly at the silver boxes piled up in the corner, and then at the dark night outside the door, as if he understood something.

These Jinyiwei may not have gone far at all, and they are not afraid of their own troubles.

Did the Jinyiwei really not go far?

Of course not. Chen Lian and his men ran for more than ten miles in the night, and then took the mount hidden in the hidden place and rode back to Dingxiang. As for the money, Yang Cong hoped that Wang Bo would hand it over to Chen Da and other corrupt officials, so that he would use it as evidence at that time!

There is more than one such investigation. With the cooperation of the Jin Palace and a group of local tyrants in Taiyuan, Yang Cong quickly found out the situation of military supplies.

The three herds under the Shanxi Dusi raised tens of thousands of war horses. Unfortunately, these war horses were not raised for the border troops of the Tunwei, but for officials at all levels above.

Also, the craftsmen responsible for building weapons were not working, they all served enough labor according to regulations. Unfortunately, they were not serving the Tunwei Border Army, but those officials.

As for military uniforms, military tents, grain trucks and other supplies, there are special craftsmen responsible for it. Unfortunately, they are not serving the Tunwei Border Army, but those officials.

In other words, the entire border army logistics system in Shanxi is still there, but it has become a tool for officials at all levels to seek personal gain. The border army of Tunwei, which really needs logistics supplies, cannot get any supplies.

It can be said that the entire Shanxi border army logistics system was broken to the point, and officials at all levels were working hard to get benefits, but the border army of Tunwei, who was really fighting for the country, was thrown aside by them, regardless of it!

Yang Cong finally understood that the combat effectiveness of the Ming border army would be getting worse and worse. The backward weaponry and equipment was only a trivial reason. The bigger reason was the overall decay of the upper-level officials. These people were only thinking about how to make money and never thought about how to deal with the Tartars. It would be strange if the combat effectiveness of the army here was strong.

These people have been trying their best to make corruption. Originally, the food and supplies of border soldiers were provided by salt merchants, and the salt entries distributed to the salt merchants were far more than this. However, this is not conducive to their corruption. Therefore, they changed their methods to modify the Sino-French and brought the border army's logistics supply into their own hands, and the baggage part was slowly harvested by these corrupt officials.

It is rumored that during the Hongzhi period of Emperor Xiaozong, someone proposed to completely abolish the opening of China and France, and the Ministry of Revenue uniformly allocated border military food and grass. As a result, they were exploited layer by layer, and the border military food and grass were seriously insufficient, which almost caused a mutiny. The supply of grain and grass was transferred back to the hands of salt merchants.

This shows how corrupt these officials are.

Of course, most of these are not the rules that Chen Da made after he took office, but the rules that he had before. However, Chen Da went with the flow and only sought personal gain for himself, completely ignoring the life and death of the border troops, and even if the Tartars attacked the Xuanfu, it was really shameless. Did the court ask him to be the governor of Shanxi just to let him lie here to collect money?

As more and more evidence was collected, Yang Cong became more determined to take Chen Da off the horse. Even if he didn't do it for himself, for the soldiers of the border, and for the people of the frontier, he would still take this shameless guy off the horse.
Chapter completed!