In just half an hour, people from the Prime Minister's Office had already arrived at the military camp.

In Chu Mobai's military camp, everyone had already finished eating and cleaned up.

Si Yin had given the orders early in the morning. Under his orders, the soldiers who were originally wearing neatly-clad armor put away their brightly colored armors and changed into the tattered ones they had worn more than a decade ago.

At the gate of the camp, a total of seven people from the Prime Minister's Office had already arrived at the gate.

The people in the lead were several temporary supervisors under the prime minister, and the first one was Lord Zhou, a close confidant of the prime minister.

Lord Zhou had just got off the carriage, and Chu Mobai and Si Yin had already come to the door to welcome him. The person who could be welcomed by both Chu Mobai and Si Yin was obviously not an insignificant figure.

The reason why Chu Mobai came out to greet them in person this time was entirely because it meant that there was a conflict between him and others.

After all, during his last inspection, this Lord Zhou directly informed the Prime Minister and the Emperor that there was surplus food in the military camp. It was for this reason that the allocation of 150,000 taels of silver from the Ministry of Revenue was ultimately shelved.

So at this moment Chu Mobai naturally didn't want to continue neglecting him. What's more, he came to this place during this plague, and maybe he wanted to continue to deduct something from Chu Mobai.

After seeing him, Chu Mobai immediately spoke.

"Oh, Lord Zhou is here? Why didn't you even give me a heads up? If you had, I would have gone out ten miles outside the camp to welcome you!"

After hearing this, Lord Zhou simply rolled his eyes at Chu Mobai. Although he was only a sixth-rank official under the prime minister, he was very obsessed with power.

Even though he was a sixth-rank official, he still dared to roll his eyes at Chu Mobai and had no intention of giving Chu Mobai a good face.

After all, for him, he came here just to cause trouble, so there was naturally no need to give Chu Mobai any good face.

Besides this, what is more important is that he has to find a way to get some money from the military camp, so that it will not be in vain for him to come to this place for inspection in person.

For these civil servants, they naturally felt that there was still money to be made in the military camp, so they came here in person this time and brought six or seven people with them.

In addition to these six or seven people, there were three horse-drawn carriages behind them, which brought them here together.

Although he heard what Chu Mobai said, he still spoke indifferently.

"Well, thank you very much, Your Majesty."

"But please rest assured, Your Majesty. Since I am here to complete this inspection on behalf of His Majesty and the Prime Minister, I will certainly not hold back. Please bring more gifts with you later!"

Chu Mobai naturally knew that he would show no mercy, but at this moment he still spoke to him with a smile on his face.

"Of course, of course. Lord Zhou enforces the law impartially, and everyone in the court knows this. Please rest assured. If there is anything unreasonable, please feel free to point it out!"

Although Chu Mobai said this, Si Yin beside him had already cursed in her heart.

But when Lord Zhou walked in, he unexpectedly discovered that the soldiers standing there to welcome him were wearing tattered clothes.

Lord Zhou and his six or seven companions were wearing brocade clothes and looked extremely luxurious.

"Your Majesty, why are these soldiers at the gate of your military camp dressed in such tattered clothes? These soldiers represent His Majesty. Are you trying to slander His Majesty by having them dressed like this?"

"Didn't I hear that the Ministry of Revenue gave you one million taels of silver the day before yesterday? Now that you've just received the silver, you're still pretending like this. It seems like you really want to make things difficult for His Majesty!"

Chu Mobai thought to himself, civil servants are indeed civil servants, completely different. It's only been a few words, but they're already looking for trouble with me.

However, because of Qian Ruoyu's reminder, Chu Mobai naturally seemed to be prepared this time, and he spoke immediately.

"Hahaha, Lord Zhou didn't expect you to see it too!"

"Originally I didn't want to complain, but since you mentioned it, Lord Zhou, I have to say it. The Ministry of Revenue did allocate us one million taels of silver, but most of it has already been distributed. Some of it was given to the soldiers as their salaries, some was used as pensions, and some was distributed to the recruited corvées as labor expenses!"

"Although this one million taels of silver seems to be a lot, it was actually spent all at once. Nowadays, the military camp needs money everywhere. It is rare to see Lord Zhou come in person to sympathize with us soldiers. In this case, Lord Zhou should also say a few good words to His Majesty and the court after returning, so that they know that our place is really in great difficulty!"

When Lord Zhou heard this, he was also stunned for a moment.

He never thought that he came here to find trouble this time, but Chu Mobai actually complained to him. How could he continue to find trouble next?

Lord Zhou's expression changed slightly, and Si Yin beside him also quickly spoke.

"Master Zhou, I have a few words that I don't know. Should I say them or not?"

Lord Zhou was about to say, "If you don't want to say it, then don't..."

But before he could finish his words, Si Yin continued.

"Master Zhou, life here is really hard. The court originally promised me a total of ten taels of silver per month. Now three months have passed, and I have only received ten taels of silver. Is this equivalent to only distributing military pay once every three months?"

"And the prince has no money left. He has no money and he has not deducted any money. So where did the money go? Did the Ministry of Revenue not distribute the money? I remember that this matter seems to be related to the prime minister, right?"

In order to prevent Mr. Zhou in front of him from continuing to talk nonsense, Si Yin continued to speak.

"Master Zhou, the prince has emptied all the warehouses in the palace for this preparation. Any valuable things in the palace have been converted into silver by the prince. What should we do? This obviously has nothing to do with the prince..."

After hearing this, Lord Zhou was completely speechless. He had never expected that this inspection would be so difficult. It was completely different from the past.