Chapter 91 Investigating Corruption
The experience in Longxi County allowed Ma Su to confirm a fact.
It is absolutely impossible for anyone to give up their own interests, no matter who.
For example, now that Li Yan is greedy for the grain and fodder of the Mo army, he will never be willing to take the initiative to spit out the grain and fodder. Even if Ma Su goes to confront him, it will be of no use. Instead, he will alert the snake and let him destroy the evidence in advance, leaving Ma Su nowhere to investigate.
In this regard, Li Yan is very professional.
In history, this man dared to tell lies in front of the Prime Minister. In order to undermine Zhuge Liang's prestige, he withheld food and grass and forced the Prime Minister to teach him. After the Prime Minister's lecture, he immediately sent people to destroy the evidence, trying to create a story that Zhuge Liang voluntarily gave up a great advantage and came back.
Fortunately, the prime minister had foreseen it and sent someone to preserve the evidence in advance, so Li Yan had nothing to say and was eventually demoted to a commoner.
Li Yan has abilities, but his desire and greed for power have not faded.
Only a few months after taking office in Longyou, Li Yan dared to be greedy for money. If he is allowed to operate for a few years, he will not be able to launch a coup.
Ma Su, who was anxious to find evidence of Li Yan's corruption, suddenly felt that he had caught something, but he didn't pay too much attention.
The most important thing now is to let Li Yan spit out the grain and return it to the counties. Otherwise, if the grain reserves are not enough in the coming year, people in Longyou will definitely starve to death.
Of course, there is a high probability that the Prime Minister will transfer grain and fodder from Hanzhong to provide relief to Longyou. But that would double the loss and waste national power to a certain extent.
A country as small as Shuhan has no resources to waste. Any unnecessary losses may affect the overall situation.
Ma Su dragged his sick body out of the house and met his soldiers at the door. When the soldiers saw that Ma Su could come out, they were very surprised and saluted Ma Su.
"General, it's great that you're okay!"
"I don't have time to say anything. Hurry up and tell Shu Ji and Meng Guo to come over. I'll also ask General Wang Ping to come over." Ma Di shook his head, patted the soldier on the shoulder and said calmly.
"I have something very important that I need them to do with me now! If it's too late, people in Longyou will probably starve to death."
Ma Su's words made the soldiers feel shuddered, and they quickly handed over their hands and accepted the order.
They are all from Longyou, and their families are all in Longyou, but they don't want their families to starve to death.
Soon, Shu Ji and Meng Guo received Ma Su's order and rushed over immediately. Wang Ping, who was commanding Qu Qu to repair the city wall outside the city, hesitated for a while when he learned of Ma Su's invitation, and finally arrived.
These are the few friends of Ma Su's subordinates in the army now, and Ma Su from other departments does not have much to do with them.
"General Ma, your injury has just recovered. Why didn't you take a good rest instead of running out suddenly?" Wang Ping frowned as he saw blood still leaking out of Ma Di's chest occasionally.
"When you are injured, you need to take a good rest, otherwise the wound will easily worsen and lead to serious illnesses!"
"In this situation, how can I have time to recuperate? If I continue to recuperate, something will happen." Ma Di sat at the table with a very serious expression and looked at several people.
"What happened?" Wang Ping was shocked when he saw Ma Su's serious expression.
"Could it be that the Wei army from the direction of Liangzhou attacked Longyou secretly?"
"No...even I don't know. I just woke up not long ago." Ma Su shook his head and said straightforwardly.
"Take a look at this. Li Yan adjusts grain and fodder from Longxi County. Is this normal?"
Wang Ping took the bamboo slip from Ma Su, glanced at it briefly and then frowned.
"Something's wrong. You shouldn't need so much grain, right? Is it possible that Commander Li is planning to hoard grain for emergencies?"
They are all people who have been in the military all year round, and they know roughly how much food they need. Li Yan prepared too much grain, and anyone with a little knowledge would be able to detect something was wrong.
"I don't know about other counties yet, but the amount of grain and fodder transferred from Longxi County is definitely wrong. Unless Li Yan plans to only use grain and fodder from two counties to fight the war, the demand cannot be so large." Ma Su nodded.
Anyone with a discerning eye knows that this guess is impossible, because Longxi County is not a grain-producing county at all. The main body of the Longyou Plain is in Guangwei County and Tianshui County, which are grain-producing areas.
Even the remote Longxi County requires so much grain. You can imagine how much Li Yan asked for from the grain-producing county.
"Could it be that you have other plans? You just didn't tell us?" Meng Guo scratched his head and guessed subconsciously.
"If the Prime Minister is still possible, but Li Yan... Haha, I can't trust him." Ma Di put away the bamboo slips and said in a cold tone.
"I summoned you here just to investigate this matter and see what kind of medicine Li Yan is selling in this gourd."
"This is against the rules... Isn't this bad?" Wang Ping subconsciously wanted to object, but after thinking about Ma Su's character, he changed his mind.
The man in front of me is not a rule-abiding master.
"It's indeed not good, but it must be like this." Ma Su replied.
"It's impossible for me to go to Li Yan for instructions, otherwise he would definitely take precautions in advance. This is what he did in Jiangzhou, and I won't make this mistake."
"I called you here just to ask who of you is willing to support me and follow me to the logistics camp to check the accounts."
"If he really has any other plans and I have a clear conscience, I will commit suicide immediately to apologize. If there is really something fishy that I want to find out, I won't let him go easily!"
After Ma Su said these words, it was time for a few people to express their stance.
As Ma Su's headquarters, Shu Ji directly expressed his support for Ma Su's decision and did whatever Ma Su said.
Meng Guo hesitated for a moment and expressed his willingness to follow. Anyway, he was not familiar with Li Yan.
Only Wang Ping was extremely hesitant, worried about the consequences of doing so. After all, he is a professional soldier and is still very resistant to such violations of regulations.
The most important thing is that although he trusts Ma Su very much, this has been involved in the factional fighting within the Shu Han. As a military commander, Wang Ping was still reluctant to get involved in this kind of thing.
"General Youchang, I think this is still..."
"It's okay if Zijun doesn't want to join. I won't force you." Ma Di said directly, without forcing Wang Ping to join in.
It was not in line with the rules in the first place, and there was no need to involve Wang Ping in muddy waters.
"Shu Ji Mengguo, gather your troops and lead your soldiers to the logistics camp with me! I want to see if Li Yan still has the guts to set fire to the warehouse in the military camp!"
Zhuge Liang was right. Ma Di, who hates evil and hates evil, could not get along well with Li Yan.
What's more, Ma Su, as a direct descendant of the Jingzhou faction, naturally has no dealings with Li Yan, the leader of the Dongzhou faction. Ma Su may not care much, but Li Yan will definitely exclude him.
Conflict is unavoidable, so the two of them can only be separated and busy with their own affairs, so as to maintain stability.
However, Zhuge Liang still failed to calculate well and brought the war in Chencang to an early end. As a result, Li Yan took the initiative to run to Chencang and met Ma Di directly.
Conflict is inevitable!
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