He was wearing a wide and somewhat empty cousin, with high cheekbones on his face and almost no flesh was seen. Liu Ji was secretly worried that the broad red-tag hat on the soldier's head would overwhelm him. This man seemed to have no appetite. After practicing for so long, he didn't move a single chopstick at the Eight Immortals table, and had already yawned three times beside Liu Ji.

Liu Ji looked at him wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes and asked, "What's your name?"

The man forced himself to answer: "Go back to the emperor, the servant will be blessed."

"Why don't you eat? Does this pork stewed vermicelli taste unpleasant?"

"No, the slave is concerned about the condition of his mother at home, and is anxious to go back."

"Oh! He is a filial son." Liu Jibian said and praised him.

Jingzheng listened with his ears at another table, and hurried over to say this, "Your Majesty, I see that this dynasty governs the country with filial piety. Because of his mother's condition, Fuze would rather put him back and serve his mother."

Fukuze's face flashed with excitement, and he quickly stood out from the bench and knelt beside Liu Ji and begged.

Liu Ji looked at the soldiers at the same table. The soldiers were all eating and without saying a word. Instead, the officers around him showed a secret worry in their expressions, as if they were afraid that they would not let Fuze go back.

Liu Ji laughed again, and he said to Da Yintai who was accompanying him: "Da Yintai, you and I will summon one of the imperial doctors from the Imperial Hospital. Dong Haichuan, you and I will carry Fuze's mother to Jingyi Garden in a sedan chair. I will visit Fuze's Lingtang in person. As for Fuze, you can have a safe meal here. All the Tiger Warriors serve the country, and I will not treat the warriors unfairly."

Fukuze's face looked ugly, and he barely stood up and returned to his seat.

Jingzheng's face turned red and white. Liu Ji only pretended not to see it, and picked up the thick bowl on the table and stood up. He shouted to the soldiers of Jianrui Camp full of soldiers sitting in the open space of the martial arts field: "You are all Chinese athletes, warriors licking blood on the battlefield, I will drink the same bowl with you." After that, Liu Ji raised his head and drank the wine in the bowl.

The soldiers in the camp stood up in the martial arts venue full of tables. At the banquet under the blue sky and white clouds, there was a "gurgling" sound of drinking everywhere.

Liu Ji placed the bowl heavily on the table and said loudly: "My warriors, eat with your stomach open." After that, Liu Ji picked up the meat pieces from the wooden basin on the table and placed them one by one in the bowl of the soldier in the table.

Liu Ji's actions moved a tall soldier on the table to tears. He knelt down and kowtowed to Liu Xie while crying, "The Lord is the True Dragon Emperor, I, Zhang San, dare not hide it. I am, I was hired by a penny, I am not a mess in Jianrui Camp."

A sharp waist knife suddenly slashed at Zhang San on the ground. Liu Ji felt nervous. He had no time to stop the left-winged wing of Jianrui Camp wearing the third-rank official uniform.

Seeing that Zhang San was about to die, his knife was suddenly stopped and could no longer be cut.

When Liu Ji looked at it, he found that Yang Luchan suddenly grabbed the back of the knife, and it stopped the knife like an iron plier.

Liu Ji shouted angrily: "So brave!" He rushed forward and kicked the winged long waist. The man staggered and fell. The guards who followed the army rushed up to surround the winged long. Several people stood up on the nearby table, holding the knife handle on their waists.

Liu Ji just pretended that he had not seen it and shouted suddenly: "It has nothing to do with others. Take down the person who used the sword in front of me and send it to the Hou of the Ministry of Justice."

These people heard Liu Ji's shout and sat down quietly. Several guards quickly tied up the left wing chief of Jianrui Camp under Yang Luchan.

Jing Zheng was shocked and sweated in a cold sweat. He knelt in front of Liu Ji and said loudly: "The wise and wise man have nothing to do with a servant."

Liu Ji said expressionlessly: "This matter will be settled after it is found out." After that, Liu Ji ignored Jingzheng, he stepped forward and helped Zhang San up, raised the wine bowl and drank it with the generals in the camp.

After three rounds of wine and five dishes, the soldier named Fukuze suddenly fell on the mat and spit out white foam.

Liu Ji looked at Fukuze coldly. He had long guessed that this person was a cigarette ghost, and at this moment he could not help but get angry. He pointed to Fukuze who was crying on the ground and asked, "What's going on?"

Jingzheng lowered his head and said nothing. The matter was clear. Dong Haichuan, who returned to the camp, proved that Fukuze's mother was not sick at all. Fukuze had a smoking addiction and wanted to go out to smoke, but Jingzheng actually helped Fukuze commit the crime of deceiving the emperor.

Liu Ji announced on the spot that he would be exempted from Jing Zheng and all other positions, and he would not be allowed to move around at will immediately, and he would be executed after the clan's office and the Ministry of Justice found out.

The banquet ended with many people's anxiety. With Liu Ji's departure, an investigation into Jianrui Camp began.

This matter was settled three days later. It turned out that the number of soldiers reported in Jianrui Camp was 2,800, but the actual number was 1,000. The additional 1,800 people became empty wages. All officials in Jianrui Camp participated in the matter of empty wages. On the same day, Liu Ji suddenly said that he was going to inspect Jianrui Camp. He was anxious and borrowed people from Jingzheng and the officers in the camp. In desperation, he recruited a group of refugees in the street market and collected more than 2,000 people.

At that time, when he heard that Zhang San was recruited at the banquet, the left wing chief, who was involved in the empty salary, was anxious and wanted to kill Zhang San and die without evidence.

But Fu Ze, who was exposed in the end, revealed that smoking big cigarettes in Jianrui Camp is already very common.

After reading the memorial in his hand, Liu Ji walked back and forth in the small room of the Military Affairs Office. The four military ministers Cao Zhenyong, Yinghe, Wenfu, and Saichong Abdu were summoned in the room and looked at Liu Ji's figures. Yinghe first spoke: "I think this matter should be fast and not too late."

Sai Chong'a said, "Jing Zheng is a member of the royal family and can be demoted. Others are sent to Ulya Sutai to serve the country."

Cao Zhenyong and Wen Fu did not say a word on this matter, and Liu Ji did not force the two to speak. He thought for a moment and said, "I have decided that this matter will be "quick" as Yinghe said. Jianrui Battalion will cancel the number and form a new army. After a while, people will be sent to summon all the officers of Jianrui Battalion to Wuying Hall. These people will be sent to the Wuying Hall to send Pan Chan back to their hometown. The detained left wing chief was dealt with by the Ministry of Justice according to the law, and Jingzheng will be demoted to common people and will never be hired. At the same time, people will be sent to the Forward Battalion, and the Fire Artillery Battalion will be temporarily stationed near Xiangshan, and the remaining soldiers of Jianrui Battalion will be dismissed home. The other Zhang San, who reported the meritorious, will be rewarded with 10 taels of silver."

This matter was successfully implemented after Liu Ji issued the instructions. It was like a huge rock thrown into a dead pool, surging in the turbid pool water.

The new army that Liu Ji was looking forward to was also formed in this restlessness. What surprised the court officials again was that the commander of the new army was actually Yang Luchan, the personal guard beside Liu Ji.
Chapter completed!