Qiming 1158

Chapter 1022 Rhythm Master Song Chen
Although Yao Zhong is also getting old and no longer young, he is definitely very human.

He has been training soldiers in the army all year round, dancing with guns and sticks, riding with knives on horseback, and his body is still strong, far from a pampered civil servant like Song Chen can compare.

His fist was comparable to a casserole, and the nostril that he punched Song Chen suddenly bleeds to the ground and fainted.

The scene suddenly froze.

After all, no one thought that Yao Zhong would really beat someone, and even beat them with blood.

Seeing that Song Chen was bleeding, Yao Zhong realized that he seemed to have made a mistake and did something wrong. In a panic, he quickly took people out of the governor's mansion and returned to the army.

Then, while writing a letter to the Lin'an Privy Council to justify himself, he wrote a letter to Wu Lin in Sichuan, asking Wu Lin to activate his personal connections to help him, and don't let himself capsize in the gutter because of such trivial matters.

Wu Gong has capsized, and he does not want to continue capsizing.

On the other side, Song Chen woke up after a while after being knocked unconscious.

He looked at his blue nose and swollen face in the bronze mirror, and hated Yao Zhong deeply, but realized that if Yao Zhong brought the rhythm of this matter, he might not have good fruit to eat.

After thinking for a while, he decided to change the subject and launch a war of numbers to win by quantity.

Ezhou officials are basically Song Chen’s accomplices. When they take the benefits, everyone is basically exposed to the rain and dew. Everyone takes it. The idiots who don’t want to take it will be brutally excluded. Timekeeper.

Everyone held a tight group for their own interests, and in response to Song Chen's call, they decided to sue the villain first, bite back, and put eye drops on Yao Zhong.

In a nutshell, it was that the first act transferred the crimes they committed to Yao Zhong, and slandered Yao Zhong for using good-quality ordnance to trade with the Ming army in Henan, selling all the good-quality ordnance to the Ming army in Henan to make a lot of money, and leaving the second for their own army.

Because his heart was too dark, there were too many defective products, and the army was angry. Yao Zhong felt that he could not contain it, so he decided to transfer the contradiction, and in turn slandered the Ezhou government for not giving good ordnance to the army.

Yao Zhong tried to confuse black and white, cover up his mistakes, and make the soldiers resent the government, not himself, in order to achieve his ulterior motives.

Song Chen also had an idea as to how to get through when the court sent someone to check after the incident.

He recruited the businessmen who were in charge of trading with the peasant army, asked them to contact the peasant army on their own initiative, explained the matter clearly, and asked them to loan the good-quality ordnance that had been sent to them before to use them in order to fool the imperial court. Officers who came to check.

After this matter has been dealt with, it is absolutely impossible to return the ordnance to the peasant army.
If we are finished, you will not be able to continue the arms trade for a while, and the successors may not be willing to do business with you. This must not be what you want to see.

But if this hurdle is over, our trade price will be negotiable later, and we will give you a [-]% discount, or a [-]% discount. What do you think?
Between the light and the flint, Song Chen couldn't think of a better way. He could only bet on the peasant army.

They really got it right.

After Zhao Yucheng learned about this matter, a small-scale meeting was held for a wave of discussions.

In the end, everyone reached a consensus.

Yao Zhong is a famous general, and he has a good command of the army. If the peasant army confronts him, he may not get any benefits, and maybe he will increase casualties.

Since Yao Zhong can be eliminated by the internal conflicts of the Southern Song Dynasty at this moment, why not do it?

Isn't the enemy of the enemy our friend?

So Zhao Yucheng sent a message to Song Chen, telling them that we agreed to the deal, you can send someone here, we will cooperate fully.

After Song Chen got the news, he breathed a sigh of relief, his heart that had been hanging all the time also fell back into his stomach, and he felt that he was reborn.

The peasant army is still reasonable and is a good business partner, and future business cooperation can be strengthened.

Then he began to arrange for his subordinates to make false accounts based on the current data, preparing to fool the court and take Yao Zhong away in one wave.

However, Zhao Yucheng felt that this was not enough for the Southern Song Dynasty to get rid of Yao Zhong, so he conveyed the news to the Skynet Army, and notified the Henan Corps Commander Zhang Yuejing of the detour, asking Zhang Yuejing to cooperate.

For example, some very "secret" rumors were released, such as some dark trade between the Ming army and the Song army in Xiangyang.

If this wave can get rid of Yao Zhong, it will definitely be a good thing for the upcoming war.

Zhao Yucheng was very cooperative here, and Song Chen himself did not wait stupidly.

The statement he wrote to the court not only contained a false accusation against Yao Zhong, but also about the military generals punching the jinshi and forcibly beating the civil servants.

Zhao Song family law has always attached great importance to restrictions on military generals, and strictly guarded against any cross-border behavior of military generals.

Song Chen felt that if he could bring a wave of rhythm and shift this matter from simple corruption and dereliction of duty to the conflict between civil and military, it would be of great benefit for him to pass the risk.

Both sides made moves and showed their cards, and then it depends on their respective luck.

The performance of the two sides rushed to Lin'an City at a rocket-like speed.

So, on the eve of the Fourth Encirclement and Suppression War, Song Ting was shocked when he heard that Yao Zhong and Song Chen and other Ezhou officials had violent conflicts and even bloodshed.

The Privy Council first received Yao Zhong's performance.

Yao Zhong's presentation stated that the local officials in the Jinghu Theater had deducted military supplies and delivered a large number of defective products, which had seriously affected the combat effectiveness of the army. .

However, the governor of Ezhou shied away from this matter in many ways, but did not help him solve it. In desperation, he decided to go to the warehouse to check what happened, but was blocked by the governor Song Chen. The two sides broke out into a physical conflict. In the chaos, Song Chen did not know who was knocked down.

This was not his original intention. He was just worried that if the equipment was too poor, he would not be able to guard against the southward movement of the Henan Ming army, and he came in and heard gossip that there were officials secretly communicating with the Jiangnan West Road peasant army and selling weapons to them, so he Ask the court to deal with it justly.

Zhao Tan had just finished reading Yao Zhong's presentation, and before he could get angry, Song Chen and Ezhou officials sent his presentation.

Quantitatively, Yao Zhong was beaten by Ezhou officials.

In terms of content, the performances of Ezhou officials, especially Song Chen, were also quite explosive.

The content is that the things they gave to Yao Zhong were sent directly by the Privy Council. They didn't block or detain them at all, and they all sent them to the Xiangyang Barracks, but they didn't know why Yao Zhong took the initiative to bring people to the door to make trouble, and insisted that they were deducting them. Ordnance, shoddy.

Yao Zhong led [-] soldiers to the door to make trouble and blocked the governor's house. His attitude was arrogant, unreasonable, and arrogant. He waved his fists at every turn to threaten civil servants who were unable to tie a chicken, and from time to time he threatened them with knives, just to ask them to hand over their weapons. .

Song Chen argued with reason, but Yao Zhong was arrogant and unreasonable, and in the end he wanted to forcefully rob him. Of course, Song Chen refused to agree and came forward to stop him. wake up.

He didn't know what Yao Zhong was doing to do this, but he had also heard some gossip that Yao Zhong had been guarding Xiangyang for a long time and had a lot of contacts with the Ming army, and he didn't know what happened to the Ming army here.

This is good. Zhao Tan, who has not had time to get angry with the civil servant, calmed down instantly. Looking at the two performances with completely conflicting contents, he felt that it was difficult to make a proper decision.

So he called the ministers to discuss and announced the matter.

(End of this chapter)