Cannon Fodder [Quick Transmigration]

One month later, the people of Yongyuan Mansion built their houses one after another, and they returned home with the food promised by Wu Bai.

At this time, Wu Bai also got all the materials needed for the cement, and he posted a notice again, calling on the people to build the dam by recruiting workers.

This notice has just been posted, and all the people in Yongyuan Mansion have signed up, both young and old, but these people are not suitable for building dams, but Wu Bai still keeps them all.

Xiao Zimo looked at the number of people on the register, and said, "How do you plan to arrange these people?"

"Except for the dams, many roads in Yongyuan Mansion have been washed away. I plan to arrange them to repair the roads, but there is still not enough manpower. Yongyuan Mansion needs people too much now. I have arranged all the people I can arrange." Wu Bai sighed. road.

Xiao Zimo took out the letter and said, "Father replied to me. After his persuasion, the victims who fled to Shuangyang County are on their way back. When they return to Yongyuan Mansion, the manpower problem can be solved."

Before Xiao Zimo sent people to send more food to Shuangyang County. After Xiao's father knew that the person who came to relieve the disaster was his son, he immediately wrote to Xiao Zimo and asked about Xiao Zimo's plan. He knew that Xiao Zimo was short of manpower. , he began to persuade those victims to return to Yongyuan Mansion.

"Well, I can only do it step by step. By the way, how much food is left?" Wu Bai asked.

"The food we brought has been used up, and now only the food accumulated in the warehouse of the government office is left, which can last for half a month." Xiao Zimo replied.

"I'll tell my father the details later." Wu Bai nodded.

Seeing him frowning slightly, Xiao Zimo comforted him: "Don't worry too much, the matter will be resolved. Early this morning, I sent someone to search for 400 million taels of silver from Song De's mansion. We can use this money to go to the nearby Fucheng buys food."

"400 million taels! Song De is only a third-rank magistrate, and his annual salary is at most 5 taels. You can find out the origin of his money." Wu Bai said seriously.

"This is the account book." Xiao Zimo picked up the account book from the table and handed it to Wu Bai.

Wu Bai opened it and looked it up, and found that apart from the collusion between officials and businessmen, these silver taels were obtained through embezzlement from the funds allocated by the imperial court to build dams every year.

After reading the account book, Wu Bai said angrily: "Song De really deserves to die! Because of his own selfish desires, so many innocent people died in the disaster!"

Xiao Zimo took out several letters and handed them to Wu Bai, saying, "Look at this."

Wu Bai held back his anger, opened the letter, and after reading it, he was shocked and said, "Uncle An was actually involved in it."

"I found these letters in the secret room of Song De's study. They should be true. This can also explain that the missing millions of taels in the account books should have fallen into the hands of Prince An." Xiao Zimo said slowly. .

"Uncle An has been in poor health since he was a child, and he has no involvement in government affairs. His father treated him very kindly, and he rewarded him countless times every year. Why would he do this!" Wu Bai puzzled.

"Let's go to interrogate Song De, maybe we can learn something from him." Xiao Zimo suggested.

Wu Bai nodded and said, "Okay!"

When the two came to the cell, Song De was sitting on the grass. He saw Wu Bai and the two, cast a glance at them, and then turned his head to the other side.

Xiao Zimo directly took the ledger and the letter and said, "Do you know King An?"

Hearing this, Song Defei quickly turned his head to look at Xiao Zimo, and then he saw the account book in Xiao Zimo's hand, and Song De said in a panic, "I don't know King An, so don't you want to slander me!"

"It doesn't matter if you don't admit it, we already have these evidences, you are bound to die, and even your family members will also be implicated by you." Xiao Zimo said calmly, "If you are willing to cooperate with us, maybe you can make amends and spare them One life."

As soon as these words came out, Song De's eyes flickered slightly.

"What is your relationship with Uncle An?" Wu Bai asked.

"Fifth son, son-in-law, you don't have to waste your time on me, I won't tell you anything." Song De shook his head.

"Do you really have the heart to let your wife and children be buried with you?" Xiao Zimo asked, frowning.

Song De's faction said indifferently: "We are a family, so we should be neat and tidy, and live and die together."

"Since you are so unafraid of death, that's fine, then I'll help you." Wu Bai turned to look at the jailer, and said, "Open the cell."

The jailer did not dare to disobey Wu Bai's order, and opened the cell according to the order, and Wu Bai quickly walked into the cell.

Song De got up from the ground, looked at Wu Bai vigilantly, and asked, "What do you want to do?"

While he was speaking, Wu Bai quickly popped a pill into the opponent's mouth.

"Ahem... what did you eat for me?" Song De squeezed his throat, trying to spit out the pill.

"It's nothing, it's just a little bit of poison, anyway, if you don't want to live, then I'll help you!" Wu Bai explained to him.

"Poison..." Song De opened his mouth, and suddenly found that he couldn't make a sound. He tried a few times, and found that he really couldn't make a sound, so he rushed towards Wu Bai anxiously.

Wu Bai raised his foot and kicked the other party on the ground fiercely, and said, "You are not even afraid of death, you just lost your voice, what's the rush, the best show is yet to come."

After the words fell, Song De felt as if a hundred thousand ants were biting him all over his body. He lay on the ground, scratching constantly, his mouth kept opening and closing, not knowing what he was talking about.

After a cup of tea, Song De collapsed powerlessly on the ground. Wu Bai walked over and asked, "This poison will not kill people, but it will happen once every half hour. Have you thought about how to answer it?"

Song De blinked feebly and nodded slightly, indicating that he knew.

Wu Bai just tapped Song De's body a few times, and Song De opened his mouth and made a "ho ho" sound, and he finally breathed a sigh of relief.

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Wu Bai took the confession in his hand and left the cell with Xiao Zimo. At this time, he already understood why King An colluded with Song De. Song De's hands and feet were not clean. King An used this to threaten him and asked Song De to provide him with silver.

Song De had to pay tribute to King An, and he had to earn money himself, so he had almost no money to spend on the dams in recent years, which caused the dams to be washed away without any resistance when the flood happened.

At the same time, Song De's confession mentioned dozens of medicinal materials, which King An ordered him to collect. Wu Bai recognized at a glance that most of these medicinal materials were used for alchemy, and alchemy required a lot of money. It is not difficult to understand why King An colluded with Song De to embezzle silver.

"Song De said that he had presented the papers to the imperial court after the flood. Do you think his words are true?" Xiao Zimo asked.

Wu Bai said: "This should be true."

"It seems that there is something wrong with the official department." Xiao Zimo guessed.

"I originally wanted to report the matter of King An and the food shortage to my father, but now it seems that there is little hope of this report being seen by my father." Wu Bai frowned.

Xiao Zimo hugged him, and comforted him distressedly: "Don't feel too uncomfortable, we can report the matter of King An to the father after we return to Beijing. As for the matter of food, we can go directly to the nearby state capital to buy it. It will be delivered faster from the capital."

"I just feel sorry for those innocent people who died in vain. Father has always valued Uncle An, and he may easily let Uncle An go." Wu Bai paused and continued, "However, even if Father is willing to let Uncle An go, and I will never let him go!"

"I will support you in whatever you want." Xiao Zimo comforted him by touching his head.

"I know." Wu Bai rubbed against Xiao Zimo's arms, and quickly regained his energy.

"Where is the silver tael you found from Song De's mansion?" Wu Bai asked.

"All of them are stored in the back hall of the government office. Don't worry, I sent someone to watch them." Xiao Zimo replied.

Wu Bai said: "Let's go, let's re-register these things, and then use them to buy food."

"I've already arranged for someone to do the counting, and the counting can be completed in the afternoon." Xiao Zimo said truthfully.

The two came to the back hall and helped to count together. They counted all the accounts at noon in advance. Excluding jewelry, there were a total of more than 450 taels of silver in cash.

After counting, Wu Bai recruited the commander of the guard army and allocated a certain amount of money to him to take his men to the nearby state capital to buy food.

The food matters have been settled, and the victims returning from Shuangyang County have arrived at Yongyuan Mansion one after another.

Since Wu Bai urgently needed manpower to build roads and dams, he gave out silver taels to the people who had built houses before, rented their extra houses, and temporarily settled these people down.

With the increase of manpower, the destroyed roads of Yongyuan Mansion were gradually restored, and the newly built roads were also made of cement. The road surface was smooth and tidy, long and wide. The people were very satisfied with their achievements.

Some clever people even asked Wu Bai whether this cement could be used to build houses. Wu Bai's answer was naturally yes, but he was worried that these people would use all the cement to build houses, and the maintenance of dams and roads would be stranded at that time, so he stipulated The problems of dikes and roads must be solved before they can be used to build houses.

At the same time, Wu Bai also promised them that as long as the dams and roads are completed, he will draw house drawings for everyone for free.

After the people heard about it, they were naturally very happy.

The author has something to say: Second update~~^_^