Alien Arms Empire

  Chapter 1415 1416 Paper can’t contain the fire

A Qin officer hurriedly rushed into Chen Li's headquarters lounge and woke up Chen Li, the commander-in-chief of the northern Qin army who had just fallen asleep.

"What's wrong? What happened?" Chen Li knew that if it weren't an emergency, his subordinates would not wake up the sleeping coach.

 Because the coach's sleep is very important. The tighter the battle situation, the more important the coach's mental state is. Being able to calmly maintain a rest schedule is also a trait that a qualified coach should possess.

 Chen Li has been doing pretty well in the past few days. At least the defense issues he was most worried about have basically been resolved to a certain extent.

 The Tang Empire chose a truce in February when the road was muddy. The opponent did not attack eagerly, but maintained a relatively mild state of probing and harassing.

This has greatly reduced Chen Li's defensive pressure, so he can more or less save some troops and train them honestly so that they can better adapt to the cruel fighting environment on the front line.

  Unfortunately, his military rations are not that sufficient recently, and he needs to constantly urge the rear to transport supplies. But compared to the Tang army's attack, the food problem was a minor one.

The officer who came to deliver the news lowered his head and reported: "General! There was a riot in a military camp behind Daxi Pass. Soldiers from a regiment killed the chief officer, robbed guns... and also attacked the military camp next to it?"

"What?" Chen Li was shocked by the news. He really didn't expect that the food of the people below was already so tight.

Judging from his statistics, in fact, although there is a food shortage, the actual level is not to the point of forcing people to rebel.

"What's going on?" So, he immediately realized that there might be a serious problem somewhere: "Although there is a shortage of food, it won't make the soldiers hungry enough to rebel, right?"

"The matter has not been investigated clearly, but... I heard that there seems to be a problem with the rations of the 93rd Army..." The officer who came to report was not sure about the specific situation and could only give a rough answer.

 Time was too tight and there was no time to investigate. He only confirmed that there was a commotion in the garrison of a division of the 93rd Army. One regiment seemed to be in rebellion, so he hurriedly reported it.

In fact, what he didn't know was that the regiment that had killed his commander had already rushed into the regiment next door when he woke up Chen Li, grabbed the hungry soldiers of that regiment, and went directly to the division headquarters. .

"Order the 93rd Army to suppress the rebellion! Kill all the rioting soldiers! As a warning to others!" Chen Li knew that now was not the time to ask what was right or wrong. He had to deal with the matter first anyway to prevent the situation from getting out of his control. .

 In his opinion, those rebellious soldiers can no longer be used, so they must be killed to scare the monkeys and use them to deter those who dare to rebel. As for whether it was right or wrong...that is, figuring out why these soldiers were starving was a follow-up question.

"Yes!" The officer immediately turned around and walked out. At this time, Chen Li began to think about which link had gone wrong.

He has actually distributed the food he got to all the troops. Although the food rations of the 93rd Army are small, they are not so hungry that the soldiers rebel.

 So, he soon realized that this was likely to be a big case...a big case that might involve many people! So he immediately called his adjutant: "Adjutant! Go to the 93rd Army station and figure things out! Don't make your own decisions about anything, just report it to me." "Yes!" The adjutant heard this. After the whole thing happened, he immediately nodded in agreement, turned around and walked out of Chen Li's lounge.

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On the other side, at the headquarters of the 93rd Army, the commander was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot. The reason why he was so anxious was because he knew that in fact he had not received as much food as shown in the account.

 The grain that was supposed to be shipped to him didn’t exist at all! They only exist on the ledger, not as physical objects!

Where is the food? That grain was sent to Shu for sale! That’s right, for sale! At that time, no one realized that Shu and Chu would be lost so quickly, so they wanted to take advantage of the food shortage when Shu was occupied by Qin and make a fortune by transporting food there.

Then wait until there is a good harvest of grain in Shu this year, and then spend less money to buy the grain and fill it back into the granary. Wouldn't it be possible to make a huge profit without anyone noticing? But the result was that the Shu land was lost very quickly, the food could not be recovered, and the gap could not be filled.

 The originally misappropriated grain was a reserve material and could not be used under normal circumstances, so a deficit would be a loss. But who could have imagined that the front line was defeated, the Qin army was short of food, and the food reserves were also used for emergencies.

This is great. A group of Qin's royal relatives, even relatives and many generals participated in the major grain reselling case was exposed.

What is even more tragic is that these people now know that only one-third of the food they misappropriated was actually only one-third, but the other one-third was lost through years of "greedy".

The original total amount of grain in the Qin State's reserve granary did not match the accounts. If a thorough investigation was carried out, a "fire dragon burning the granary" would probably occur. Now these people who resell food have become the scapegoats for the corrupt people.

 At the end of the quarrel, no one dared to set fire to the granary, because this kind of method that could be used in ordinary times would probably be killed by Emperor Qin Yingduo if he found out the real culprit during the war.

 When everyone had no choice, they could only pretend to transport the food and then pretend to send it to the front line. Who knew that many tricks would be played along the way.

 Originally, Qin's rear area had insufficient transportation capacity, so Qin Huang and other high-level officials forced the transportation department to expand transportation capacity in a short period of time. These departments cannot do this and can only worry secretly. Well now, there is a large amount of non-existent food that needs to be transported to the front line... As long as they make a fuss about the accounts, they can increase the transportation capacity, right?

So, through the painstaking efforts of the railway department, these invisible grains were transported to the front line by invisible transportation capacity. The railway department could also use this to report the transportation results, which made Emperor Qin Yingduo very satisfied.

It’s a pity that these non-existent grains were transported to the front line and the soldiers could not eat them. The original allocation of ten tons of rice and noodles may end up with only one ton.

As a result, this ton of grain was exploited within the army, and the superiors squeezed the people below... In the hands of ordinary soldiers, there was only so-called rice porridge that was as clear as water.

If these soldiers starve to death, the officers may be able to earn more money, which may create another business. It's a pity that these soldiers finally rebelled, and everyone involved in this matter knows that paper may not be able to contain the fire.

 (End of this chapter)