"Are you serious?"
Deputy General Wang looked at Jiang Yunqi warily, his fingers constantly turning the ring on his thumb, and deep in his heart, he was filled with shock.
"I heard it with my own ears, so it cannot be false. And General, you might as well think about it carefully. The recent actions of the army cannot deceive anyone. If the food and grass had not been lost, that person's personal soldiers would not have left the camp so frequently." Jiang Yunqi lowered his voice and nodded towards General Li's barracks.
As Lieutenant General Wang thought about the recent developments in the military camp, the vigilance in his eyes slowly dissipated, replaced by ambition.
If General Li really lost all the grain in the three granaries, even if his father-in-law, the Minister of the Court, had connections at the top of the government, he would not be able to save him from such a serious mistake.
You have to know that the tens of thousands of soldiers in the camp are waiting for food and drink every day. They can lack anything except food and fodder.
God is really helping me! Deputy General Wang narrowed his eyes slightly.
He certainly would not give General Li another chance to make amends. He wanted to make this incident as big as possible and let as many people as possible know about it, so that he could replace General Li.
However, Deputy General Wang has always been a cautious person, and certainly would not let his personal soldiers take risks, so he set his eyes on Jiang Yunqi.
Deputy General Wang's eyes flashed, and he patted Jiang Yunqi's shoulder and said, "Brother Jiang, it's nothing for me to know about this matter. We have to let all the brothers in the camp know about it. So I'm giving you a chance to come forward. As long as you can get this done, if I become the commander of the Thirteenth Army Camp in the future, I will definitely benefit from you."
Jiang Yunqi's expression froze when he heard this. He was not a fool. He knew that if General Li's men found out that he had informed on the matter and made a big fuss about it, he would be in trouble.
You have to know that General Li has been in charge of the Thirteenth Army Camp for so many years, and his eyes are everywhere in the camp.
He was just a rookie. Asking him to deal with General Li was like a gnat trying to shake a tree.
But looking at Deputy General Wang's sharp eyes, Jiang Yunqi swallowed the words of refusal into his throat.
Now that I'm on Vice General Wang's pirate ship, it's impossible to get out, so I might as well give it a try and try to "follow the dragon's merit".
"General, rest assured. I will definitely satisfy you." Jiang Yunqi followed his instructions and spoke in an almost flattering tone.
Vice General Wang laughed heartily: "Go ahead, I will be waiting for your good news."
Jiang Yunqi bowed respectfully and walked out.
However, as soon as he left Deputy General Wang's barracks, Jiang Yunqi's face immediately darkened.
He couldn't help but spit on the ground and gritted his teeth and said, "What an old fox."
Now let’s just hope everything goes well!
Otherwise… He shuddered violently.
General Li is not someone you can easily mess with.
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"Not found, not found. Do you have anything else to say besides this? Ah? What use are you? It's not the gods who did it. How could so much food and grass just disappear?"
General Li pointed at the noses of a group of subordinates angrily, and was so angry that he was fuming.
The grain and fodder in the three granaries is not a small number. It is tens of thousands of kilograms of grain. It just disappeared out of thin air. This is unacceptable.
It is said that when a goose passes by, it leaves traces. Once something is done, it will leave traces. But so many days have passed, and there is not a single clue.
In addition, the food and fodder in the military camp had been used up, so he had been borrowing old grain from the government warehouse from his good friend, County Magistrate Cui, over the past two days.
The population in the military camp was too large, and County Magistrate Cui could not support it any longer. He had already politely refused. If he could not find the whereabouts of the food and grass, he would be finished. However, several soldiers were helpless. They also wanted to find the food and grass, but the reality was not satisfactory.
Even though they checked the crime scene over and over again and even shoveled the ground under the three granaries, the grain was gone; it just disappeared into thin air.
Now they can only shrug their heads and say in frustration: "We are incompetent."
As the only person present who knew the situation, Wan Yu's lowered eyes were filled with brilliance.
Knowing the truth, he couldn't help but admire Ms. Song's ability. No wonder the city lord valued Ms. Song so much, it turned out that she really had the ability to conceal the truth.
Everyone thought that the food and supplies disappeared overnight, but that was not the case.
After all, Mingyue only brought about thirty bandits with him. It was impossible for them to steal tens of thousands of kilograms of food and fodder overnight. Even if all the bandits were tired to death, they still couldn't do it.
This was actually a trick to deceive the public and deceive the public. The bandits would secretly move the food and fodder every evening, and then fill the empty bags with soil and place them in the innermost place, creating the illusion that there was no shortage of food and fodder. Therefore, in the eyes of the soldiers guarding the food and fodder, the food and fodder had always been in good condition.
When all the food and fodder were moved out on the last day, the bandits cut open the bags filled with soil, and the soil returned to the ground. They took the bags away, and then word spread that some soldiers did not believe that the food and fodder had just disappeared and had shoveled the ground. All the evidence was wiped out in an instant.
So we came to the conclusion that all the food and supplies were stolen overnight. How wonderful!
But General Li and others who were unaware of the true situation were so worried that they looked several years older in just a few days.
Even General Li, who had been to the scene, was in disbelief, because there was nothing to be seen at the scene.
His personal guards had been searching the city for such a long time but had not heard any useful information at all.
For a moment, the atmosphere in the whole room was very heavy.
At this moment, Li Si's voice was heard from outside the house: "Miss, please stop. The general is discussing important matters with the soldiers and outsiders are not allowed to enter."
Li Ruyi didn't take Li Si's obstruction seriously, and just frowned and said, "I have something important to tell Dad, Li Si, please get out of the way."
Li Si knew what had happened recently and knew that the general was in a very bad mood. Naturally, he didn't want the young lady to anger the general, so he shook his head firmly: "Sorry, young lady, please go back!"
The only young lady who could come and go in the Thirteenth Military Camp was General Li’s youngest daughter, Li Ruyi, who often brought meals to him.
When the soldiers heard the noise outside, they all looked at General Li.
General Li couldn't help but frown. At this moment, he had no intention of paying attention to his little daughter, let alone enjoying any good wine or food.
However, before General Li could scold his daughter to leave, he heard even louder noises coming from outside.
"I joined the army just to have enough food and water. If there is no food in the camp, why would I be a soldier? I want to go home."
"All the food in the three granaries is lost. We are going to starve to death. I don't want to go hungry. Let me go home."
"Yeah, I was wondering why the porridge has been getting thinner recently. It turns out there's no rice. How are we going to survive in the future? It would be better for us to just let us go home."
"Not only did the porridge become watery, the rice also felt like stale rice and tasted different."
"Yes, it turns out that the food and fodder were stolen. No wonder..."
(End of this chapter)