I embezzled 100,000 taels at the beginning, and the empress begged me to be more greedy

After leaving the barracks, Jiang Zuo returned to the mansion angrily.

Just at this time, Chen Qingyun also came back from outside and saw that Jiang Zuo seemed a little depressed.

"Qiuyue, go to North City and buy me some tea, the same kind as last time."

Chen Qingyun turned around and gave instructions.

Qiuyue also noticed Jiang Zuo in front of her at this time, and quickly understood what His Majesty was going to do.

She had already noticed that His Majesty's words and deeds in the past few days were completely different from usual, and she thought it must be related to that Jiang Zuo.

Qiuyue nodded and left.

Chen Qingyun followed closely behind Jiang Zuo and called out, "Jiang Zuo?"

Jiang Zuo suddenly turned around and saw the beautiful Miss Siyue. His distress suddenly eased a little. He forced a smile and replied softly, "Siyue, where did you go today?"

Chen Qingyun deliberately kept some distance from Jiang Zuo to prevent Jiang Zuo from "flirting" with her again.

At this moment, the relationship between the two is completely in the state of "not yet lovers", but quite ambiguous.

"No, I just went out to buy some things. What about you?" Chen Qingyun asked.

In fact, today Chen Qingyun went to inspect the defense of other counties and returned to Anding County half a day later.

Jiang Zuo answered truthfully: "I went to the barracks today and talked with other generals for a while."

"You don't seem happy today." Chen Qingyun observed Jiang Zuo's subtle expression.

"You can see that too. Never mind. Let's not mention it." Jiang Zuo smiled helplessly.

"Is there anything that bothers you that you can't tell me?"

Chen Qingyun's words were gentle.

Jiang Zuo was immediately moved and replied, "To tell you the truth, I just went to the barracks and found that my military power had been taken away. Now the officers and soldiers of Anding County are no longer under my control. Siyue, what's the point of me being the General of Zhenbei?"

Hearing this, Chen Qingyun was also shocked.

She did give orders to the Six Garrison Army to take over the barracks and arsenals to slightly suppress the power of Jiangzuo, but she never ordered the Six Garrison Army to take away the military power of Jiangzuo.

Just as Jiang Zuo said, if all his troops were taken away, there would be no point in appointing him as the General of Zhenbei.

There must be someone below who is deceiving his superiors and hiding the truth from his subordinates.

Chen Qingyun frowned slightly and quickly understood everything.

"I'm only responsible for logistics now, and I don't care about other things."

Jiang Zuo said negatively and indifferently.

"Taking care of logistics is at least safer," Chen Qingyun comforted.

"Then I won't be able to gain any military merit, and I won't be able to..."

Jiang Zuo was quite helpless.

"It doesn't matter. As long as you have contributed, the current emperor will know it." Chen Qingyun said lightly.

She is the current emperor, and she is in Anding County. She can tell at a glance whether Jiang Zuo has made any contribution.

"Well, I fell into the water yesterday, and I...did you catch a cold? After all, it's autumn now, and Anding County is a bit cold..." Jiang Zuo suddenly didn't know how to organize his words.

It would have been fine if Jiang Zuo hadn't mentioned it. Thinking of the "skin-to-skin contact" yesterday, Chen Qingyun's ears suddenly turned red, and he quickly turned his head and said, "It's okay, I'll go back to my room first."

With that said, he left.

Looking at that graceful figure, Jiang Zuo was immediately lost in thought.

About an hour later, Master Guo suddenly came to Jiang's house in a hurry and reported: "Master Jiang, something terrible has happened!"

Hearing this, Jiang Zuo was startled and asked quickly, "What happened again?"

He was also frightened. Could it be that the empress had ordered another move to take something away from him?

Master Guo panted and said, "According to the reports from the spies at the front, there are about 2,000 Mobei barbarians, and they are now heading south, heading straight for the Anding County area."

In the past, the barbarians from Mobei often went south to harass Anding County, but most of them were defeated by the Anding County officers and soldiers led by Jiang Zuo.

Anding County would receive the news one or two hours before the barbarians headed south.

They also planted spies in the northern barbarian tribes...

"How long will it take?"

Jiang Zuo frowned, feeling a little flustered.

Because he no longer has any military power, he can only count on the Six Garrison Army to resist.

"It will be here in one hour at the earliest!" said Master Guo.

"Let's go to the barracks."

Jiang Zuo set off quickly.

A moment later, Jiang Zuo rode a fast horse and came to Wang Yingjie. He dismounted and said, "General Wang, according to the report from the spies on the front line, the Mobei barbarians are heading south with a total of 2,000 soldiers and horses. I hope you can send out your elite troops to intercept them."

"A mere two thousand bandit troops are not enough to force the Six Towns Army to take the initiative to attack, so as not to alert the enemy."

Wang Yingjie flatly refused.

Jiang Zuo sighed in disappointment.

If we do not send troops, the barbarians from the grassland will definitely plunder the area around Anding County, and the industry that Jiangzuo has worked so hard to build will suffer a severe blow. Not only that, the civilians nearby may even be killed or abducted.

"General, this is a serious matter. Please send troops to fight immediately, otherwise the people outside the city will be invaded by the northern barbarians!"

Jiang Zuo persuaded anxiously.

"We are the Six Garrison Army. If we have to go out and attack every time the Northern Barbarians appear, we will probably be exhausted and fall into the barbarians' trap. As long as we defend the city, the barbarians will at most plunder and return. There is no need to worry."

Wang Yingjie still didn't care. To him, he didn't care about the life and death of the people outside the city. All he cared about was military exploits and preserving his military strength.

Seeing that Wang Yingjie was determined not to send out troops, Jiang Zuo could only plead, "Then please ask General Wang to lend me some troops and I will personally lead them out of the city to fight."

"You?" Wang Yingjie looked at Jiang Zuo.

A small county magistrate, do you think you have the ability to lead troops to fight?

"I don't need the general to dispatch troops from the Six Garrisons. I only need to transfer 500 soldiers from Anding County. 500 is enough!"

Jiang Zuo gritted his teeth.

"impossible."

Wang Yingjie refused again.

"three hundred!"

Jiang Zuo said again.

"You can only have 200 people at most."

Wang Yingjie said this reluctantly. He believed that even if Jiang Zuo was given 200 men, he would not dare to take the initiative to attack.

If Jiang Zuo insisted on going to die, Wang Yingjie would not stop him.

"Two hundred is two hundred! I only want two hundred elite soldiers!" Jiang Zuo gritted his teeth and said firmly: "Weapons and armor, I also want weapons and armor."

"The weapons have already been equipped to the Six Towns Army, and there are no more left." Wang Yingjie refused again.

He had already collected all those sophisticated weapons and distributed them to the soldiers under his command.

Now, in the entire barracks, there are only some rusty junk and... some strange weapons that resemble long barrels.

Jiang Zuo was so angry that he stamped his feet, but when he turned around, he saw hundreds of flintlock rifles placed aside, and his eyes suddenly lit up.

"General Wang, do you Six Towns Army need it?"

Jiang Zuo pointed at the flintlock rifles and said.

Wang Yingjie turned around and looked at those things, sneered, and said condescendingly: "With these iron materials, it is better to make more swords. As a county magistrate, it is such a waste to privately make weapons..."

Hearing this, Jiang Zuo felt relieved and said, "Then General Wang, just hand over those weapons to me, that will be enough."