The eldest son of the red mansion

Just as Zheng Kai left, Liu Yu came in from the back hall.

Seeing Zheng Kai leave, Liu Yu walked gently to Jia Ke's side, and asked in a low voice, "Why did you tell Zheng Kai these things, sir?"

Jia Ke glanced at Liu Yu and said to him, "I just want to let him know, let him have a knife hanging in his heart at all times, let him know the fate of betraying me."

After Jia Ke finished speaking, he said to Liu Yu: "Don't rest tonight, and take someone to copy Wang Wan's house for me. Don't leave any of his servants and family members alone. As for the copying of the house, you have already copied it twice. Don't you need me to tell you?"

Liu Yu respectfully said to Jia Ke: "Don't worry, sir, I will definitely get things done tonight. I will tell you the good news tomorrow morning."

Jia Ke nodded slightly, then waved his hand to let him go down to work.

Liu Yu then quietly withdrew from the back hall, and took a part of the guards to Wang Wan's house to ransack the house.

Jia Ke had already made arrangements, and after thinking about it for a while, there was nothing wrong with it, so he went back to the back house to rest in satisfaction.

The next morning, Jia Ke still got up on time to practice Fang Tian's painting halberd and Chunqiu Daoyin.Now this is something that Jia Ke can't shake every day. To know about martial arts, if you don't practice for one day, you will know it;Although Jia Ke has fully integrated Lu Bu's bravery now, and drinks spiritual spring water every day to continuously improve his physical fitness.But I still persist every day and practice martial arts in the morning.

After Jia Ke finished practicing martial arts, he just wiped his sweat, which reminded him of Chuncao and Qiaolian. If they were here, they would have prepared the bath water by now, waiting for him to take a bath.I don't know how these two girls are doing now?It's been a while, but I still miss them a lot.

After eating the breakfast brought by her servants, Jia Ke went to study in the study contentedly.The servants that Jia Ke is using now, except for a few people from the former Qianhu Mansion.Most of the others were added after Jia Ke arrived in Kaipingwei.Especially the cook, I heard that he used to be an imperial cook, and he was dispatched to Kaipingwei for some crime.He was in charge of raising horses in Kaipingwei. After knowing that Jia Ke needed a cook, he was sent to Jia Ke's house yesterday.

This morning was the first time for Jia Ke to try his cooking skills, and she was very satisfied with the result, as expected of being an imperial cook.At the same time, Jia Ke became more and more obsessed with power. Some things that he hadn't thought of, the people under him had already done for him.The wine of power really makes people obsessed.

Jia Ke had just read the book for a while, when Liu Yu asked someone to come in and report that he had something to report to Jia Ke.Jia Ke guessed that last night, the copying of the royal family's house had already been completed.So he went to the back hall and asked someone to tell Liu Yu to answer there.

After Jia Ke arrived at the back hall, Liu Yu was already waiting there.

When Liu Yu saw Jia Ke coming in, she immediately went up to salute. Jia Ke took the main seat and looked at him with her eyes.It was found that he might not have slept all night. Although he was still in good spirits, his eyes were full of red threads.Jia Ke is still very satisfied with his attitude of firmly carrying out his orders. It is worthy of me that I chose him as the captain from so many personal soldiers. Although he intended to appease Old Man Liu at the time, Liu Yu himself made Jia Ke very satisfied. Otherwise, no matter how prestige old man Liu is, he would not arrange Liu Yu as his personal captain.

Liu Yu saw that Jia Ke was seated in the superior position, so she stepped forward and reported, "Master, we randomly searched the master's house overnight, and found a total of more than 5 taels of silver, as well as other gold and silver jewellery, jade, and antiques. More than two hundred pieces."

Jia Ke nodded on it, and said: "I didn't expect this Wang Wan to be very greedy. He has accumulated so much money in just a few years as a bookkeeper. He is still very capable in this regard, but it is a pity that he is a bit dizzy. , a small chief bookkeeper dared to fight for power with me, today's result is his retribution."

In fact, Jia Ke wants to clean up the king's book, not all because he is fighting for power with him. You must know that the thousand households in the Qianhu Mansion, and the hundreds of households below, must obey his orders no matter what they think in their hearts, otherwise Jia Ke can completely enforce military law against them.Another reason is that when Jia Ke first came here, the first thing he did was to show his prestige, otherwise the people below would be in conflict with others, and there might be big troubles on the battlefield.Therefore, the king's master who was fighting for power with him became the target of his prestige.

After listening to Jia Ke's words, Liu Yu took another step forward, came to Jia Ke's side and said quietly, "My lord, besides these belongings, I also brought some correspondence with the magistrate of Xuanfu Town. I brought them all. Do you want to take a look, sir?"

Jia Ke said, "Ugh? Of course I have to take a look."

Then Liu Yu took out a stack of letters from her bosom and handed them to Jia Ke. There were about ten letters.

Jia Ke picked up the top one, opened it and looked at it carefully.The above is the answer from the prefect of Xuanfu Town to Master Wang, saying that Master Wang will send the fifth floor to his mansion for the heavily deducted ordnance repair expenses.Also, there is nothing serious about this matter, don't worry about it.

Jia Ke quickly read the following few letters and read them all. It was all because they colluded with each other and withheld Kaipingwei's money, food and military pay, and the prefect of Xuanfu Town acted as a protective umbrella. The two split the accounts [-]-[-]. These letters, Xuanfu Town Magistrate, clearly stated that they would be burned after reading. Now it seems that Master Wang did not follow his instructions.

Jia Ke guessed that Master Wang's intentions were probably to leave evidence, fearing that if the incident happened, the magistrate would push him to the front regardless, so he left these letters as a threat in the future.Unexpectedly, all these letters fell into Jia Ke's hands.

Jia Ke decided to store all these letters for the time being, and not to publish them for the time being, because it is not the time to use them. If the magistrate is interested in the future, everyone will live in peace. At that time, I used these letters to send him to the guillotine.You must know that embezzlement of military pay, privately withholding the cost of ordnance repairs, if no one reports it, just report it, once someone reports it, it will be the death penalty in any dynasty.

Jia Ke was very satisfied with today's harvest. Not only did he have tens of thousands of taels of silver, a pile of gold, silver and jewelry, but most importantly, he had a trump card to deal with the magistrate of Xuanfu Town.

Jia Ke is very satisfied with Liu Yu. Since he followed him, he has been loyal to him. It seems that if he has the opportunity in the future, he must be promoted.

Now that the house raid has been completed, the next step is how to deal with the master Wang?Jia Ke decided to cut through the mess quickly, so Liu Yu went down to deliver an order, and three days later, all thousands of households will read it in the school grounds. Except for the necessary personnel on duty, all other people must be present.

Chapter 71

Three days passed in a blink of an eye, and early this morning, hundreds of households lined up neatly in Kaipingwei's teaching ground.Infantry in the center, cavalry on the wings.These are elite soldiers who have been fighting against the Tatars all year round. Now they are lined up neatly, and the whole team can't help but exude a murderous aura.When ordinary people come here, they feel shuddering.

Each hundred households has a square formation, and the hundred household officials stand in front of the team.A total of twenty phalanxes were neatly waiting for Jia Ke to come to review.

At the end of Chen Shi and the beginning of Si Shi (about nine o'clock in the morning now), Jia Ke came to the teaching ground with his own soldiers. Seeing Jia Ke coming, some officers and soldiers could not help but look at the new Lord Qianhu .

I saw him wearing a purple gold crown decorated with a phoenix on his head, wearing a unicorn bright armor with a treasure face, a fire dragon horse under his crotch, and a Fangtian painted halberd hanging on a winning hook with a bird's wing ring.

The body is dignified and the appearance is dignified.A pair of eyes shot cold stars, two curved eyebrows like paint, and a broad chest, with a majesty that is invincible.

Seeing Jia Ke in such a state, all the officers and soldiers felt awe-inspiring, and couldn't help feeling a sense of awe in their hearts for this young Lord Qianhu.

Jia Ke led his soldiers to the parade, dismounted from his horse, and then went straight up to the stage. Some of his soldiers had already brought a large chair, and Jia Ke sat on the chair, while his soldiers stood in the fourth middle of the parade.

Jia Ke looked down from the reading platform, and the soldiers below were all strong and strong men, with more or less murderous looks on their faces, but except for Baihu, the other soldiers were only wearing mandarin duck battle robes. It's fairly neat, but there isn't a single armored one.But think about it, if all the soldiers were in armor, the court's finances would have gone bankrupt long ago.

However, Jia Ke was not optimistic about their formation. He decided to rehearse the formation in the future, and used the Macedonian phalanx rehearsed by the soldiers of Xia Caozhuang before to deal with the grassland cavalry. It can be said that they complement each other.

Seeing that Jia Ke was seated, all the households in the audience came to the front of the stage, knelt down on one knee to Jia Ke, and reported together: "My lord, all the hundred households in Kaipingwei have arrived, please inspect your lord."

Jia Ke said loudly on the stage: "The officials of each hundred households will return to their teams and start checking immediately."

With the soldiers in the audience, they began to practice various formations.There are nine kinds of formations, including fish scale formation, front arrow formation, crane wing formation, and Yanyue formation.

Jia Ke could see clearly from above that if these formations really worked, they would be really powerful.But these formations have a common problem, that is, they are too complicated and require very high cooperation from soldiers.Once someone leaves and takes the wrong position, the entire formation may disintegrate.In the drill, this problem is very prominent.

You must know that most of the ancient soldiers were from farming families, and they were not literate. It is really difficult for them to perform such complicated operations. The soldiers of Kaipingwei, in the entire Xuanfu Town, are already considered elite, but their formation drills, Still not ideal.It can be seen how bad the situation of other troops is.

So Jia Ke decided to improve the Kaipingwei formation.Macedonian phalanxes are used for all infantry formations. Such formations are simple and practical, and have great lethality against grassland cavalry.As for the training of our side, it is very simple.It is in line with the current situation.

After the formation rehearsal was over, each of the hundred households returned to their respective positions, and one hundred households came to the reading platform together, knelt down on one knee and said to Jia Ke, "My lord, the formation rehearsal is over."

Jia Ke said to them: "Let's go back to the team, I have something to say."

After Jia Ke finished speaking, each household went back to the front of the team, waiting for Jia Ke to speak.

Jia Ke stood up and walked to the front of the reading platform.Said to the following: "Brothers below, some of you may already know. We have a traitor in Kaipingwei. The traitor not only embezzled money and food, withheld military pay, but also tipped off the enemy. I discovered it a few days ago and intended to escape. I sent people to chase him back. Do you know who he is?"

After Jia Ke finished speaking, she stared fiercely at the bottom, but no one answered.He went on to say: "He is our chief bookkeeper Wang Wan, you can't think of it. This guy was trying to escape, but luckily I chased him back, otherwise the consequences would be disastrous."

Jia Ke paused, and then said: "I think he did more bad things than this. Otherwise, how could the Qianhu who took office die for no reason. This is completely unreasonable."

After hearing Jia Ke's words, the people below also began to discuss, and they all felt that what Jia Ke said was very reasonable.Knowing that being an official on the battlefield is the safest, but this Kaipingwei didn't know how to do it, and killed several thousand households in a row, which is completely unimaginable.

As for the deduction of military pay and money and food, it is a major matter for everyone. The food given to them in the past few months is indeed getting worse day by day.Military pay has also changed from cash to scattered copper coins.

We must know that in this era, silver is expensive and copper is cheap, and the ratio between official quotations and private quotations is quite different.Officially, one tael of silver can only be exchanged for seven or eight hundred copper coins, while among the people, one tael of silver can be exchanged for more than 1000 copper coins.

Since Master Wang came to Kaipingwei, several thousand households have trusted him. He is in charge of the military equipment, money and food. Since he came, the military salaries have been paid in copper coins, and it is naturally impossible for him to go to the folks. The conversion ratio is issued to the sergeants.According to the official quotation, he distributed one tael of silver or eight hundred copper coins to the soldiers.Although the soldiers complained, the king's master book also paid the soldiers according to the official quota. On the surface, the military salary was not deducted, but the silver was exchanged for copper coins.The soldiers had nothing to say, but the master Wang made the difference from it.

Many poor soldiers hated the king to the bone.At this time, hearing what Jia Ke said, they all started clamoring, "Kill him? Kill this corrupt official."

Jia Ke waved his hand at the top, suppressed the voice below, and then said to the bottom: "If it's just embezzlement of military pay, it's not a crime that deserves death. Just hand him over to the Shangguan for punishment. This bastard dares to leave the castle privately." According to military regulations, those who leave the castle privately will be punished as spies and executed."

After Jia Ke finished speaking, she instructed Liu Yu beside her, "Bring Wang Wan up here."

Liu Yu went down immediately and asked people to bring up the master Wang.The current master Wang has messy hair, red eyes with dark circles, and messy clothes.How can he have the prestige when he and Jia Ke were fighting in court that day.

Wang Wan was pulled up, forced to kneel down in front of Jia Ke, Wang Wan was not convinced, and still thought he was just embezzling military pay, Jia Ke would at most detain him for interrogation, and then hand him over to the superior, but when he got to the top, there would naturally be The magistrate cleared it up for him, so when he saw Jia Ke again, he was furious and unconvinced.

Wang Wan knelt down and shouted to Jia Ke: "You framed Zhongliang, there is no law for you, I will take revenge for this in the future."