time travel system

Chapter 258 Chang Zilong's Difficulties
Chapter 279 Chang Zilong's Difficulties
"Bang bang bang bang!" Before Chang Zilong could finish his words, several soldiers around Jiang Xiaobai fell down.

The speed was so fast that they didn't even have time to draw their knives.

"Kill!" Hearing the shout, four or five soldiers hiding behind the screen rushed out roaring.

But they were dumbfounded, because not only did they see four companions lying on the ground, even Lord Du Yuhou got down on the ground.

"Who do you want to die?" Jiang Xiaobai stepped on Chang Zilong's shoulder and laughed loudly.

The moment Chang Zilong's face changed, Jiang Xiaobai knew he was going to attack, so Jiang Xiaobai took the lead in launching the attack.

In two seconds, several guys around him were knocked down.

With just one jump, he jumped to the side of the table, and Chang Zilong, who hadn't retracted his palm, pulled it out from behind and stepped on it.

This is power!
That's speed!

"A good man calm down, a good man calm down!" Chang Zilong struggled for a while, but found that he seemed to be stepping on a mountain on his shoulders, knowing that he was not an opponent, he quickly said: "Little man, the villain is just joking."

"Are you kidding?" Jiang Xiaobai sneered and said, "Ambush the knife and axe, and want to kill me, it's also a joke!"

"It's really a joke. Master Bao is my father's friend, that is, the elder of the villain. How dare I disrespect you old man!" Chang Zilong said with sincerity, as if it were true.

Jiang Xiaobai couldn't laugh or cry, this guy's face was thicker than the city wall.

"Master Bao, it is their blessing that my incompetent subordinates can make you happy. Master Bao, your kung fu is really amazing. Taking the head of a general from a ten-thousand-horse army is like picking something out of a bag. Admiration, admiration! Seeing that Jiang Xiaobai didn't speak, Chang Zilong worked harder.

Jiang Xiaobai was speechless, when did I have fun?
"Go down, go down, you useless things, you can't even match Master Bao's finger. Practice hard in the future, don't be ashamed when you go into battle." Chang Zilong licked his face and said: "Hurry up! Instruct the kitchen to prepare a table for a good banquet, and I want to get drunk with Master Bao."

Surprised and frightened, more than a dozen knife and axemen fled out one after another.

The purpose of Jiang Xiaobai's visit this time was to deliver a letter, not to assassinate him, so he made sure that there was no one else within 20 meters of him, so he raised his foot and said sarcastically, "How can you be the Marquis of Du Yu for a trash like you?"

Chang Zilong turned over, kowtowed to Jiang Xiaobai, then took four or five steps back, and said with embarrassment, "To tell the truth from Master Bao, I bought this Du Yuhou with money."

"The officer who bought it?" Jiang Xiaobai frowned, really unwilling to believe that the general who led the army could still buy it with money.

Chang Zilong said brightly: "In the Song Dynasty, literature is the most important thing. Du Yuhou is just a low-level military officer. Anyone who has studied for a few days will look down on him. He can become one for two dollars. Besides, there have been years of wars in the north. , A large number of refugees flooded in, and I always figured out a way to settle them. To tell you the old joke, I, the governor of Duyu, am actually a foreman. We need to build bridges, pave roads, dredge rivers, and repair city walls, and we have to plant during the day Land, it’s hard work to practice during the slack season!”

Jiang Xiaobai yelled: "You still spend money to buy it?"

"It's a bit bitter, but at least I'm an official. Our Chang family has never had an official in hundreds of years." Chang Zilong smiled bitterly, and said: "You are the old man's friend, and the younger generation will not hide it from you." .Actually...managing the Xiang Army is a bit tricky."

There is no profit but no drafting, now the truth is revealed!

Jiang Xiaobai asked, "What's the matter?"

"This..." Chang Zilong rubbed his hands, hesitant to speak.

"I haven't said I'll let you go!" Jiang Xiaobai stared at the door and snorted.

Chang Zilong trembled, and quickly said, "Master Bao, don't worry, I'll tell you, I'll tell you. In fact... it's nothing more than taking some money from the soldiers."

"How much is some?"

Seeing Jiang Xiaobai's sharp gaze, Chang Zilong sweated on his brow, and said, "Not much. A soldier has fifteen catties of brown rice and fifty qian per month. If the full amount is paid, one-third of it can be deducted." One, you can also apply for more places. After a year, there will always be... two or three thousand."

Two or three thousand guan, that is two or 3000 taels of silver. This is not only a hard job, it is clearly a fat job.

Fifteen catties of rice a month can only maintain a strong and half-satisfied state, and he has to withhold one-third of it, which is disregarding the life and death of the soldiers!
No wonder in the C camp, those soldiers are all skinny, they are actually worse than beggars!

"What else?" Jiang Xiaobai believed that his greed for ink was more than that.

"As for the others..." Chang Zilong looked at Jiang Xiaobai and said, "Master Bao already knows."

Jiang Xiaobai's heart trembled: "You said that the new rice in the granary was replaced by the old rice?"

"The new rice is 130 yuan a stone, and the old rice is 15 yuan a stone. This time, the mansion promised to give [-] stone rice, which can be converted into an extra [-] yuan." Chang Zilong looked at Jiang Xiaobai and said: "Originally Unknowingly, I didn't expect to be discovered by Master Bao, so..."

"You want to kill me?"

"Don't dare, dare not, I'm joking!" Chang Zilong's face thickened a bit.

Jiang Xiaobai was so angry that he ran for dozens of miles, rushing into the barracks to deliver the letter regardless of the danger, but he didn't expect that he was the mastermind behind the scenes.

Such a corrupt official carelessly ignores human life, what's the use of keeping him?

"How unreasonable!" Jiang Xiaobai yelled angrily, and instantly came to Chang Zilong, grabbing his neck.

"Master Bao, I have a crush on you!" Chang Zilong shuddered all over, and shouted, "I...I have no choice but to do this!"

"There are other masterminds?" Jiang Xiaobai became even more angry, planning to be a hero and slaughter these corrupt officials.

"It's been like this since the establishment of the Xiang barracks. I just followed the trend!" Chang Zilong struggled and said, "Xiang soldiers are not human beings, and no one cares if there are more or less ones. Even the frontier soldiers in the past were playing tricks on the box soldiers. Although it seems that there is an extra 15 yuan in the food exchange this time, when it comes to the villain, it is only [-] yuan."

"Fifty thousand should be killed!" Jiang Xiaobai raised his left hand, ready to shatter his sky cap with a palm.

"But... I'm also doing it for the good of Xiang Jun!"

"Withholding military rations and letting the soldiers eat moldy rice, is this also for their own good?"

"Master Bao!" Chang Zilong was so frightened that he was about to cry with his feet hanging in the air, he said, "Although the moldy rice is unpalatable, it is also food. There are nearly 5000 people in the three barracks A, B, and C, including their families. They are so hungry that they only want to be full now, not to eat well! With an extra [-] yuan, they can buy hundreds of shi of grain, enough to last them until the autumn harvest!"

Jiang Xiaobai was taken aback: "You want to buy food for them?"

"It's not just for food. I also need to buy clothes and weapons for this expedition!" Chang Zilong choked up and said, "This time it's a real war. I can't bring a group of naked buttocks with hoes and sticks." Soldiers rush forward!"

"Why do you need to buy weapons?"

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(End of this chapter)