Chapter 1351 He Is Not Like a Pure Outsider
This is a bit long to say, but to make it clear, I really have to start from the beginning.
Wan Zhong entered the military camp at a young age. His entire youth was spent in endless drills. If it felt hard at first, as time went by, he got used to it. Wan Zhong was promoted to deputy governor at the age of twenty-one. His chief governor was his master. The former deputy battalion commander of the Northern Expedition, who was twenty years older than him, was under the command of Ni Nantian. He was well-known and had many meritorious deeds, but because of his bad temper, he once insulted the Holy Father in court and was put in the shoes of others. He was sentenced to death more than ten years ago.
He was transferred to Tingjiang Prefecture as a small governor, with no hope of returning to Beijing.
Wan Zhong admires his master very much. Apart from his adoptive father, he thinks his master is the most powerful, so he always obeys his master's instructions.
Five years ago, an imperial official came from Beijing. Everyone in the barracks knew that he was an imperial envoy sent by the superiors to supervise them. The big men were very angry, and thousands of soldiers in the barracks refused to accept the order. He is the new government official, and he is against him all day long.
This new yamen was named Ji Chundong. I had never heard of his reputation, but he knew that he was a close associate of the emperor. He had a lot of official power, but he was probably just an embroidered pillow.
Ji Chundong's order had a certain impact on Tingjiang Prefecture. The prefecture was fine because it was far away, but the barracks started to get chaotic.
Ni Nantian still took care of it at first, but then he stopped. As a former fierce general, Ni Nantian looked down on people who were related to him. He also saved the following small setbacks to dampen the spirit of the Yadu Lord. thought.
But who would have thought that Mr. Yadu was also a bad-tempered man who took the trouble one after another. When he encountered a soldier who was really naughty, he would just pull him out, beat him up until his nose was bruised and his face was swollen, and he would take a bundle to the barracks playground. , and ordered him not to be put down until he was tied up for five hours. Wan Zhong was ignorant and picked on Ji Chundong. He was beaten so hard that he was crippled for seven days. His leg bones were broken into three parts on the spot. The military doctor had to work hard to put them back together. Wan Zhong would not be able to do anything after that. Convinced, he asked his master to help him. Who knew that after a fight between Ni Nantian and Ji Chundong, the two of them
Suddenly becoming friends, Wan Zhong almost collapsed.
But men's friendship is so mysterious. If you don't fight, you won't know each other, but after fighting, you will suddenly feel sympathy for each other.
Wan Zhong later accepted Ji Chundong as his eldest brother, and he rearranged the elders in his mind. The first was foster father, the second was master, and the third was brother Ji. During those two years, Wan Zhong gradually began to admire Ji Chundong. He knew Ji Chundong's true purpose of coming to Tingjiangzhou. He was here to recruit soldiers. The superiors intended to let him form a private army to serve exclusively in the imperial court in the future. Ji Chundong stayed for two years. During these two years, Tingjiangzhou was peaceful and peaceful, and he did not go out for more than half of the time.
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Two years later, he was leaving. Before leaving, he and Ni Nantian chatted in the camp all night. The next day, Wan Zhong saw that his master looked very unhappy and was in a bad mood.
Just a few days after Ji Chundong left, news came from the state capital that a batch of official ships had been intercepted. The money on the official ships was the taxes sent from Tingjiang Prefecture to the capital this year, which amounted to tens of millions of taels.
If this money is lost, or lost on the territory of Tingjiang Prefecture, the capital will never buy it. The first person to suffer will be the governor of the prefecture.
Wan Zhong was so anxious that he approached Ni Nantian and proposed to fight in person.
Ni Nantian did not agree, and after driving him away fiercely, he personally led the troops to the front line.
Then, he never came back.
Ni Nantian died in the hands of pirates, and an entire group of vanguard soldiers were also lost. These vanguard soldiers and Wan Zhong were brothers from the same sect. They were both brought up by Ni Nantian. Their relationship lasted for more than ten years. Not much worse than real brothers.
Wan Zhong couldn't accept it at all at that time. He cried and led his people into battle, wanting to avenge his master, killing all the pirates, and getting back all the official silver...
He succeeded. He actually defeated the bandits that Ni Nantian could not defeat. After a fierce battle, he was injured, but he achieved great success.
Then, everything fell into place. The military camp was leaderless, the official position was promoted from deputy to full, and Wan Zhong took charge of the entire Tingjiang Prefecture's military force with his regret for his master and longing for his brothers.
But, is it really such a coincidence?
There are many things that I couldn't figure out before, but now that I think about them, every detail is horrifying.
Why did the master stop him from going into battle? But he took other brothers with him?
What did Brother Ji say to Master before he left? Why was Master so abnormal during those two days?
On the day when Master was buried, why didn't Brother Ji come back, or even bring a message?
Wan Zhong didn't dare to turn this matter into a conspiracy. He was afraid that his master's death was not an accident. He was afraid that there were hidden secrets in this matter that he didn't know about, and he was even more afraid that the consequences of these hidden secrets would make everyone collapse.
Wan Zhong's narration was very direct. At this moment when his spirit was facing a huge impact, he no longer cared about making detours.
Liu Wei fell silent after hearing this. She had actually guessed a lot about the matter, but she didn't know whether she should say it, because guesses were just guesses after all.
It wasn't until a long time passed that Liu Wei saw that Wan Zhong hadn't recovered yet, so he asked: "The official silver was stolen. Is your adoptive father worried?"
Wan Zhong nodded nervously, looking lost: "He wrote to me, asking me to find the official silver."
"Then Ni Nantian also read the letter?"
Wan Zhong lowered his eyebrows and said, "Yeah."
"After the official silver is recovered, is there any difference in the amount?"
This question is very pointed, and Wan Zhong doesn’t know whether to answer it.
When he hesitated, Liu Wei already knew and continued to ask: "Is it much worse?"
Wan Zhong shook his lips, and after a long while, he replied: "It's missing...three million taels..."
Three million taels is quite a lot.
Liu Wei raised his eyebrows: "That Brother Ji you mentioned, have you never contacted him again?"
"Brother Ji..." Wan Zhong murmured to himself, and stretched out his hands to comb his hair a little irritably: "He didn't reply to my letter..."
Liu Wei understood everything: "Then you assume that if the pirate rebellion was designed by your adoptive father, he had two purposes. One, to swallow three million dirty money, and two, to eradicate Ni Nantian for you. What would you do? Don’t you think this makes more sense?”
Wan Zhong immediately opened his eyes and opened his mouth to retort: "Impossible, my adoptive father has always asked me to study hard with my master, so how can I eradicate it!"
"Then why did he send you to the military camp? Just to make you a dwarf forever and become a deputy governor?"
"My foster father has tempered me. How can a good man not be a soldier?"
"After he became the governor, did he often write to you? He didn't write much before, but now he writes more, and more of them involve official business?"
Wan Zhong paused and remained speechless without answering. Liu Wei clicked his tongue: "I'm afraid your brother Ji has known about it for a long time. I advise you to contact him again and ask if he has ever approached Wan Ruxue. In my opinion, he is not a pure person." of outsiders.”