Gao Qiqian stood on the city tower, looking at the fires ignited in the distance, with an excited expression, and the only little worry in his heart completely dissipated.

Emperor Chongzhen ordered people to investigate the Beijing camp. Gao Qiqian was not worried at first. After saying so many times, what time did it really happen? But what he didn't expect was that Emperor Chongzhen actually sent Zhou Xian, a naughty young man.

He was young but had the desire to do things, but he was disdainful of all the rules in the officialdom. He not only withstood the pressure from all over the world, but also did not take advantage of the temptations and threats. The most important thing is that Emperor Chongzhen trusted him. Although all this could not directly threaten Gao Qiqian, his previous experience in the officialdom knew that being cautious and not underestimating the enemy was the only magic weapon for survival in the officialdom.

Therefore, since the first day Zhou Xian entered the Beijing Camp, Gao Qiqian has always paid attention to everything about him.

Since Zhou Xian entered the Beijing Camp, he has indeed done a lot of things. But Gao Qiqian was happy to find that Zhou Xian was still too young and mistaken the focus of the Beijing Camp issue from the beginning.

He kept staring at the generals of the Beijing camp who occupied the soldiers and were vacant to take advantage of the empty salary, trying to pull some people off to completely change the atmosphere of the Beijing camp. But he did not understand that the problems of the Beijing camp were people, but compared to what he was afraid of, these were trivial matters.

Only middle and low-level generals who are insatiable and have no way to obtain money and wealth will do it if Zhou Xian focuses on his work, Gao Qiqian will always be optimistic.

After all, what Zhou Xian did touched most of the interests of the middle and lower-level generals of the Beijing camp, and there were countless such people. The more things he did, the more people he offended, and the easier it would be for him to rectify himself in the future.

But later, Mao Chengming reported to Gao Qiqian that when Zhou Xian asked him about the equipment supply of the soldiers in the Beijing camp, Gao Qiqian became a little worried.

In troubled times, there are many valuable things, but there are only two things that are most valuable, food and weapons. Rebellious refugees, Mongolia, and Donglu, who proclaimed emperor of Liaodong, do not need these two things? As long as you have them in your hands and have a way to transport them out of the Forbidden City, you can exchange them for a lot of silver.

Equipment was produced from the Ministry of Industry, received by the Beijing Camp, and then a small part of the equipment was taken out so that when the above people sent to review, the surface looked bright and beautiful, while the remaining most were transported out of the Forbidden City through various channels. Large sums of silver were exchanged for exclusive merchants, either to Mongolians, to Donglu, or to rebel refugees.

Private sale of military equipment and military rations is a transaction to destroy the nine clans, and it is also the handle to raise potential, and it is also the real joint that can make many people fall into the ground.

You should know that by reselling military equipment and military rations, those who are in high positions eat meat, and those who are in low positions drink soup. From the Ministry of Works, the Ministry of Personnel, to generals at all levels of Beijing, basically everyone has something to earn.

This is a business, which makes huge profits for most people. Basically every Beijing admiral is doing this. When Gao Qi's potential responsibilities, he coordinated the interests of all parties, made the number of people involved in this business reach its peak, and made it safer.

But there has always been a big problem in doing this. That is, they sold a large amount of weapons and grain, and what should they use to deal with the above review? After all, the weapons provided by the Ministry of Works to the Beijing Camp every year have formal copy registration. Although some of them can be dealt with by daily training losses, that amount is too small compared to the entire shortfall.

Their traditional approach was to replace the grain in the Jingzhuang warehouse with straw, and the equipment warehouse was filled with various old equipment. But even so, it seemed to be much smaller than the original number.

In normal times, no one wants to, and no one dares to check these things, but now it’s different. What Zhou Xian did made Gao Qi subconsciously realize that this kid is a fool. He dares to do anything and does not have any scruples. If he knew that someone was selling military ordnance and rations, he would definitely keep following this line, and those Jingcang, which stored military ordnances, would definitely be a fatal problem.

This incident was like a sword hanging above Gaoqian's head at all times, which made him unable to eat well and sleep steadily during this period. He was afraid that if he was not careful, Zhou Xian would catch the handle and report this to Emperor Chongzhen.

Ordinary Ming officials could still act as a domineering place after they became officials. This was determined by their family's status in the place and the identity of Confucian disciples. However, their inner responsibilities were completely different. From the moment they entered the palace, they decided that they were unwilling tolerated by the public. All they could rely on in their lives was the emperor, and the place they could stay was the Forbidden City.

In recent years, it is precisely because of Emperor Chongzhen's infinite trust that Gao Qiqian has everything in front of him. If Emperor Chongzhen began to doubt what was waiting for him, Gao Qiqian knew better than anyone else.

The knife has been held onto the neck by someone else, and it has never been his style of being able to catch it.

To this end, Gao Qiqian made some plans that might be the worst. He contacted some major Beijing generals who were closely related to this matter, and asked them to send their most trusted soldiers to guard several of the main warehouses, and stored some flammable items such as sulfur and saltpeter in advance.

If things really come to a last resort, they will burn these warehouses. When everything turns to ashes, even if someone suspects, there is no evidence.

This is Gao Qiqian's plan, but he would not do that until the final stage was forced. How could it be such a coincidence if several major warehouses caught fire at the same time? Once Emperor Chongzhen still ordered the inspection, no matter how good the excuse was, it would not be possible to completely cover up the matter, and some unexpected things would inevitably occur.

In order not to happen like that, Gao Qiqian took advantage of Xue Lian's domineering and the uncooperation of other Beijing generals to distract Zhou Xian, leaving them with no time to take care of others. As he expected, Xue Lian successfully attracted Zhou Xian's attention and caused today's fire.

Xue Lian died, and Zhou Xian seemed to be in control of everything.

Gao Qiqian walked out of Xue's house, feeling sad. Xue Lian's murder and Zhou Xian's courage were completely beyond his expectations. He felt an inexplicable fear in his heart, and things were developing in a direction that he could not control. But soon, this emotion quickly dissipated because he realized that this might be an opportunity for him, an opportunity to completely solve his worries in his heart.

Zhou Xian summoned all the generals of the Beijing camp to Shenshu camp, but some people did not go, such as Wang Dehua, who had a high status in Beijing camp and senior generals who were close to Gao Qiqian and controlled some soldiers of the Shenji camp and the Five Military Camp. At this moment, they became the key figures in Gao Qiqian's reversal of the situation.
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