What to do if you have too many golden fingers? Walk sideways!

Chapter 188 An Mengde Collapses

During the day, Li Tieniu and others, led by Zhu Zhenchun, came to the house that An Mengde bought in the county town and found a large amount of property.

Gu Xi took the account book and took a look. There was nothing obvious in the public account, but the private account secretly recorded by the quartermaster was shocking.

The more Gu Xi looked, the more his brows furrowed. Not only did he embezzle the military pay, he also secretly resold the food and fodder.

"This An Mengde is too evil. He actually embezzled 70% of the food and wages. No wonder the soldiers can only eat coarse food."

Li Tieniu said again:

"Master, according to your arrangement, I have called back all the northern soldiers who were sent to mine. There are more than 300 of them, and there is indeed one named Zheng Yongan among them. However, they all have tattoos on their faces. I am afraid that others will bully them, so I arranged a separate tent for them to live in."

This tattoo should be equivalent to a modern tattoo, which can be completely removed with laser treatment, but there are too many people and she doesn't have time now, so she said:

"Okay, tell them not to worry. I will remove the tattoos on their faces after a while. Now let's go to the county town, to An Mengde's house."

There is no need to buy a separate house to build a communications station in the North. An Mengde’s house can be requisitioned.

When they arrived at the place, Gu Xi brought out two more signalmen from the space.

Then he said to Li Tieniu and the three special forces soldiers behind him:

"If there is anything urgent, you can ask these two brothers to send a message to me, and I will receive the news immediately."

Although the four of them didn't understand what sending a message meant, they knew that what the Imperial Master said was right, so they just had to do it.

Afterwards, Gu Xi and others went to the place where An Mengde hid the stolen goods and counted them roughly. Gu Xi felt that there were at least half less than what was in the account book.

"This number is wrong. There should be half more." Gu Xi said.

Li Tieniu said:

"We have already searched everywhere in this house, but there is nothing left. Could there be another house?"

"It's possible." Gu Xi said, "This silver was originally the food and wages for the Northern Army. You can give it to them, and the excess can be used to buy food. When I ask An Mengde for the other half of the property, I will also send it to the North. You must give everyone what they deserve, not a cent less, and make sure everyone has enough to eat. If there is not enough food, I will make up for it."

The soldiers in the north are all from the Gu family. They are brave and good at fighting, but they were almost destroyed at the hands of An Mengde. Gu Xi plans to go to the pig farm and chicken farm after returning to the modern world tonight to buy pigs, chickens and eggs to nourish the soldiers.

Li Tieniu and the other three special forces soldiers were surprised:

"An Mengde is still alive?"

"Of course, they are in Peach Blossom Land, and the brothers are too bored to play cat and mouse with them."

Li Tieniu and three special forces soldiers: They want to play too!

After arranging the fourth communication station, it was already too late, so Gu Xi and Chu Zhao stayed in An Mengde's house tonight.

Chu Zhao had a good rest last night and was in good spirits today. He wanted to go to modern times with Gu Xi, so Gu Xi put him into the space.

After entering the space, Chu Zhao came to the training ground with an electric baton. The "four strips of wax meat" were neatly hung on the training rack.

Today, they were tortured again for a day. At first they resisted, but later they found that the more they resisted, the more excited those soldiers became, so they simply stopped moving.

Then, having lost their value as sparring partners, they became human sandbags, and now there is not a single healthy spot on their bodies.

"An Mengde!" Chu Zhao shouted.

An Mengde slowly raised his head. His eyes were swollen like peaches and he could only squint to look at people.

But he still saw the face of the person who came.

"Chu Zhao!" An Mengde suddenly shouted, "It's you? Let me out now!"

Chu Zhao walked up to him slowly and lifted his chin with an electric baton.

"Tsk tsk, if you don't agree, I won't be able to tell which one is you. You are a great general of the Northland, but you have become like this."

An Mengde said coldly:

"Are you and Qi Dasheng in the same group? This general just doesn't understand. Whether it's the Chu family or Qi Dasheng, this general has never offended them, right? Why do you torture this general like this?"

Chu Zhao raised the account book in his hand and said:

"You want to know why? Then look at what this is?"

An Mengde took a look and was shocked, "Where did you get the account book?"

Chu Zhao said coldly:

"If you don't want others to know, then don't do it. You embezzled the money and food of the Northern Army, causing the soldiers of the Northern Army to have to eat only coarse food. Tell me, what crime should you be punished for?"

"Also, you killed innocent people indiscriminately and treated the lives of the Northern soldiers as worthless. Anyone you didn't like was either tattooed with a name and sent to the mines, or beaten to death with hundreds of military sticks. Tell me, what crime have you been charged with?"

An Mengde's face was pale and his whole body was trembling. What he did was so secretive, how could Chu Zhao know about it?

"No, this is not true. Someone is framing this general! This general can go to the court with you to confront you. You have no evidence, so this is a false accusation!"

As long as he can get out of this hellhole and go to the court, he will definitely kill the Chu family and Qi Dasheng.

Chu Zhao sneered.

"Haha, as long as it's the truth, I don't need any evidence, I can still kill you!"

A trace of panic flashed in An Mengde's eyes. He was at the mercy of others and he was now the meat on the chopping board.

"You, you don't dare! You are also an official of the imperial court. You should know what crime it is to kill an official in private. Now that the Northern Army is missing this general, it is already in chaos, right? In a few days, the imperial court will send people to investigate. If this general dies, you will not be able to escape responsibility!"

Chu Zhaocai ignored his threats, raised his hand, turned on the electric baton, and stabbed An Mengde.

"Oh, you dare to threaten this general, I'll let you taste the feeling of being electrocuted."

He had secretly seen Gu Xi using an electric baton to extract a confession before, and he thought it was interesting. He had long wanted to try it, but he had never had the chance.

"Ah!" An Mengde screamed and his body began to spasm.

This kind of pain is several times more painful than being a human sandbag. It is simply unbearable.

The three bodyguards beside him were trembling with fear.

Chu Zhao had had enough fun, and An Mengde was dying.

"General, I admit defeat. You, please give me a quick death." An Mengde felt like he had lost all hope in life.

Chu Zhao shook his head and said:

"You want to die quickly? That's not that easy! You've persecuted so many Northern soldiers. It would be too easy for you to be killed with one blow."

"Wait, I'm going to rest first, I'll call you tomorrow."

After Chu Zhao finished speaking, he turned and left.

An Mengde broke down and cried:

"Come back! Tell me what you want to do!"

He can't even die if he wants to. It's so hard for him.

Chu Zhao stopped and said, "Oh, if you really want to die, that's not impossible. Then tell me, where did you put the military pay you embezzled, except for the part in your house in the county?"