The entire court was in chaos because of Xiao Shilang's selfishness. However, these disturbances did not affect Aiden Jing's military camp because they were about to go on an expedition in a few days and the camp was busy sorting out internal affairs.
Because the court had not completed the investigation of the case, the officials who confiscated their property first were just minions and could not plug the gap in the army. Emperor Hongzheng asked the treasury to allocate more silver to fill the gap in the army.
The army's account suddenly had a lot of money surplus, and someone needed to take over and rectify it quickly, but Ethan Mu was just a military advisor and had no authority to care about this.
Zhao Meng suggested that Aiden Jing promote him to the rank of military advisor general, but Ethan Mu declined, saying that he had just joined the military camp and was not qualified for this position. In the end, he made a compromise and appointed a military advisor, Zhonglang General. Although he is a military advisor, he can manage military affairs but cannot command military advisors. However, there are no other advisors in the army now, so the power given by this position is enough.
The Ministry of Revenue was too busy to send new clerks, so Ethan Mu promoted several literate soldiers to be clerks. He had learned all about it a few days ago. Those clerks were arrogant, and most of the soldiers asked someone they knew to write for them. He wrote down the names that had been mentioned one by one, and now he called them all to the central account, gave them a few topics to write, and finally kept eight who could read and do accounting.
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