Chapter 439： disinformation

Mu Yangling told the Queen that Xiying was very poor, "Brother Haoran's salary and monthly money are not enough, sometimes he borrows it from brother Zijin, and sometimes from me, but he has a lot of jewelry and antiques, all of which are wars. I seized it when I was young, but those things are difficult to convert into money. When he took out one piece, either he couldn’t sell it, or he was severely undercut, so he died of poverty. When we got married, he gave me most of the dowry gifts. Those things were all seized by him and Big Brother Qi. There were almost no fashionable things. The only few pieces of better cloth were taken from Big Brother Zijin's shop. There were no silver or gold ornaments, they were all precious stones. Heyu and some wood and things like that."

Queen's heart skipped a beat and said, "Jingzhao Mansion is the ancient capital of the former dynasty, and it is also a prosperous place. I don't know how many antiques they have seized, but it's all money."

Mu Yangling said with a smile: "Niangniang, why are you saying the same thing as my sister-in-law, those things can't be bought with money, but the key is that no one wants to buy them with money now, and those things can't be eaten as food, nor The only thing left is to pass it on to future generations, but this is a battle between three and five, who knows if those things can be kept?"

How can those things be measured in money?

The Queen    looked at Mu Yangling with contempt.

A palace maid behind her brought a cup of tea to the queen. The queen returned to her senses and smiled and said, "A-ling is coaxing me. Even if those things can't be exchanged for money, they shouldn't be so poor that they can borrow money from you, right?"

Mu Yangling complained: "Why is it impossible? Qi Haoran's salary and monthly money are not much, not to mention, he likes treasure knives and BMWs, a good horse costs nearly a thousand taels of silver, and a year's monthly The money and salary were all gone. Once he bought a short dagger for me and spent more than 400 taels. He didn't have enough money, so he could only rob Wu Jin of the money. For this, the prefect of Wu found Qi Brother Qi complained, and Brother Qi hung him up and beat him for two days."

Of course this is not the case. The fact is that a large number of refugees poured into Xingzhou Mansion, and Qi Xiuyuan recruited troops, which made the military supplies in a hurry, and everyone had nothing to eat. When borrowing money to buy grain, Qi Haoran directly led someone to "borrow" the grain depot of Xingzhou Prefecture. When he went back, he happened to meet Wu Jin. He was afraid that his yelling would cause the city to be riotous, so he arrested Wu Jin as well. , and then searched and found more than 400 taels of silver.

The prefect of Wu came to the door, and Qi Xiuyuan promised to make up the grain in the grain depot after the autumn harvest, but the grain that had been grabbed by his younger brother naturally went into the warehouse in Xiying.

But of course the prefect of Wu would not agree to let it go. Qi Xiuyuan was forced to do nothing. It can be big or small. Small, the charge of robbing his younger brother for robbing the grain depot is the lightest one, which is exile. The entire family was involved.

Fortunately, the prefect of Wu also knew that he wouldn't be able to settle down if the matter became too big, so he could only hold back his anger and negotiate with Qi Xiuyuan.

In order to shut him up, Qi Xiuyuan could only hang Qi Haoran and beat him. In order to show punishment, he would hang up for two days. Of course, this was in the impression of Wu Zhifu and others. , Qi Haoran also put on clothes full of whip marks when Wu Zhifu came, and then smeared some rabbit blood to hang on it.

The reason    is that Qi Haoran robbed Wu Jin of money.

Qi Hao did use the money to buy a short dagger, but he didn't give it to Mu Yangling. He used it himself, and then he saved the next month's money to buy a pair for Mu Yangling.

"They live so poor, aren't the soldiers in the barracks even poorer?"

Mu Yangling smiled and said, "Niang Niang, how can the soldiers in the military camp compare with them? Just eat white steamed buns, and the soldiers in the barracks wear the military uniforms issued from above, and the private clothes are also patched and patched, as long as they are not broken, they can have a meat dish in ten days, and there can be two pieces of meat in a meat dish. Very satisfied."

The Queen's eyes widened, "This, it's been such a hard life, where did so many military salaries from the imperial court go?"

Li Jinghua, who was still carrying a heart, has long since felt relieved. She sat on the side with her head lowered. Who said Mu Yangling was not smart? At least she's doing better than her today.

Information?

How did they judge whether what Mu Yangling gave was true or false? This girl said it was true and false. If she didn't happen to know such a thing, I'm afraid she would have believed it.

If she could tell the truth about everything, but she is very shrewd, the seven points are really irrelevant, and the most important three points are replaced with fake ones, and the royal family only needs to check it. If you can find out a general idea, you will not know the truth of the three points, and there is a basis for the previous statement. I am afraid that even the most suspicious people will believe the three points.

Li Jinghua was relieved, but she just glared at her secretly from time to time, so that the queen could misunderstand, she didn't want Mu Yangling to say these things.

The Queen    saw Wei Wei and turned sideways, and waved to Mu Yangling: "You know a lot, come and talk to Ben Gong."

Mu Yangling stepped forward without restraint at all, and the queen asked her to sit down with her back to Li Jinghua, so that Li Jinghua couldn't see Mu Yangling's eyes, "The imperial court pays a lot of military salaries every year, don't they? Didn't you get it?"

The face of the emperor behind the screen sank, but Mu Yangling was overjoyed and shook his head in confusion: "There is no military pay, my father used to be a small flag, and he has never issued military pay, he has always been able to achieve a hundred households before military pay. , but it’s very little, only five taels of silver a year.”

The Queen    frowned and said, "Is it stolen from above?"

Mu Yangling tilted his head and thought for a while, then waved his hand indifferently: "Who knows, Qi Haoran has no share anyway, but his salary was not deducted at all, neither was Qi's eldest brother's deduction, so the official university still has The good thing is that others don't dare to deduct their money."

"Without money, what about the military?"

"I know this," Mu Yangling said enthusiastically, "Xiying came forward to buy some, and the rest of the battalions were dealt with individually."

The topic became more and more confidential. The queen smiled and said, "General Qi must be partial to General Qi. I heard that he loves this younger brother very much."

"That's not it, the good armaments from the Western Battalion are sent to the 1st and 2nd battalions, because every time they fight, they are required to play the forwards, while Brother Haoran's 5th battalion is responsible for taking in the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled. to one-fifth."

Queen    narrowed her eyes, "How did you know this? Is it also what Qi Can told you?"

"No, I know it myself." Mu Yangling said as he should.

"No one told you about these things, how could you possibly know?" The Queen stared at Mu Yangling closely.

Mu Yangling smiled and said: "Because I help him manage the account books, Brother Haoran's five battalions were originally the logistics of Brother Zijin, but Brother Zijin has to study and do business, and there is no time for the logistics. The corruption is serious, and he was impatient to check the accounts, so he took the account book and asked me to help him calculate, I often go to the camp to find him, and naturally I know..."

"A Ling," Li Jinghua suddenly turned pale and looked at the queen, apologetically, "Niang Niang, my concubine suddenly feels uncomfortable. Maybe the child in my belly is making a fuss. A Ling, come and help me."

Mu Yangling hurriedly stepped forward to support her, the maid who brought tea to the queen nodded eagerly, and the queen smiled and said, "Since you are unwell, then let A Ling take you to the side hall. Rest for a while, the imperial doctor will be here in a while."