The Gyeonggi Official Granary is not just an ordinary government granary. It is also responsible for the supply of grain and grass to the three armies of Yulin, Changlin, and Longwu in the center of the capital. Once the grain and grass in the north are in short supply, grain needs to be transferred from the Gyeonggi Official Granary to support the north. The Tiance Army in the border area.
The emperor's six armies, except for the Shenwu Army guarding the southern border and the Shence Army resisting Xirong, the remaining four are closely related to the official warehouses of the capital.
Not only that, if there is a natural or man-made disaster in Bingzhou, Qinzhou, and Liangzhou to the north of the divine capital, they will also need to transfer grain from the official warehouse of the capital to provide disaster relief.
But when natural disasters or military disasters occur, Gyeonggi official warehouses will play an important role.
But now, after connecting all the clues of the case, they point directly to this granary, which weighs more than Mount Tai.
Yang Qingyuan couldn't sit still anymore and immediately stood up and said, "We have to act quickly!!"
Yang Qingyuan stood up suddenly, making Liu Dufeng and Li Xunhuan a little embarrassed. They had no idea what was going on!
"Brother Li, you have to go with me outside the city."
Li Xunhuan also stood up immediately.
"Mr. Yang, stop pretending, what's wrong?!" Liu Dufeng didn't know what kind of riddle Yang Qingyuan was playing. It was really tiring to deal with people in the court.
Jianghu people are much more cheerful, as long as their fists are big.
"Maybe something happened to the granary!? Brother Li and I will go take a look. Please ask Capt. Liu in the city to gather his people and pay attention to the movements of the water transport terminal at all times!"
Time was urgent, and Yang Qingyuan had no time to elaborate, so he could only say a few words to Liu Dufeng in general.
"Brother Li, let's go!"
After saying that, the figure disappeared from the room.
While walking, he used his true energy to transmit his voice, "Jianhan! Come with me!"
Ye Jianhan, who had just been sitting at the table, eating noodles with oil residue and scallion oil aloofly (devoutly), glanced at the remaining noodles in embarrassment, and finally put a large chopstick into his mouth, and then put down the bamboo chopsticks. He picked up his sword and jumped onto the roof. After a few ups and downs, he appeared in front of the Dali Temple.
"You can't gallop on the street. Let's take the galloping road and go to the inn there!" Yang Qingyuan said to Li Xunhuan and Ye Jianhan while performing Qinggong.
"Brother Yang is considering it!" Li Xunhuan nodded in agreement.
Ye Jianhan didn't speak, just followed the two of them without saying a word.
In the streets of Dazhou, horses cannot be driven unless they are eight hundred miles away.
Chidao is a traffic artery built relative to the street. It can be driven by flying horses. Although it is not as well connected as the street, there are chidao near all important government offices.
There is a post station on the horse road, and horses have been borrowed.
Yang Qingyuan's Qinggong is among the best in the world, Li Xunhuan is also a master, and Ye Jianhan is slightly inferior. However, after Yang Qingyuan's guidance, his Qinggong has also improved by leaps and bounds.
The three of them performed Qinggong and rushed from Dali Temple to the nearest inn in just one stick of incense.
Li Xunhuan was wearing casual clothes, while Yang Qingyuan and Ye Jianhan were also wearing black uniforms from Dali Temple. The postmen at the post station could not recognize the identities of the three people for a while.
Yang Qingyuan didn't have the time or interest to pretend to be a slap in the face, so he directly threw his token.
The word "reason" is engraved in the middle of the black token.
On the back, the words "Cheng Yang of Dali Temple" are engraved in small regular script.
"The three adults will wait a moment, and the little one will prepare the horse immediately!"
In recent times, Dali Temple has become famous in Beijing. Some elders even recall the time when Dali Temple was powerful in China and monitored the world.
As one of the fastest places for news transmission in the capital, how could the postmen at the post station not know how popular Dali Temple is now?
After a while, three fast horses were ready!
The three of them mounted their fast horses and went out of the north gate.
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Half an hour later, in a courtyard in Shendu, a man in common clothes slipped into the room.
"Your Excellency! A letter from our spies in the city defense army! Yang Qingyuan just led people out of the north gate."
"Oh!?" A man wearing a black robe and a black cloak was sitting on a chair. Under the cloak was an extremely pale hand. "When did it happen?"
"Just half an hour ago."
The mysterious man did not speak, but slowly tapped the armrest of the chair with his pale fingers.
The spy held his breath and did not dare to take a breath, for fear of disturbing the thinking of the person in front of him.
After a moment, the mysterious man waved his hand.
"Stay back! If anything happens, report anytime!"
"yes!"
After the spies left, a figure fell outside the house.
The mysterious man's cold and emotionless voice sounded again, "Go and notify An Shigeng and ask him to move the goods to a safe place immediately. Yang Qingyuan is out of the city at this time, so he must have found something!"
"Yes!?" The figure in the courtyard flashed and left.
In terms of his Qinggong and body skills alone, he was already above Li Xunhuan.
There was only the mysterious man in the black cloak left in the room again, "Yang Qingyuan!? What a troublesome person! It seems that when necessary, we have to find a way to make him calm down, such as... kill him!"
As he spoke, the mysterious man poured a cup of tea from the teapot, but the color of the tea was as gorgeous as blood.
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Yongjicang is the official warehouse closest to the capital city and the largest official warehouse in the Gyeonggi region. It is located on the bank of the Jinghe River and is convenient for water transport ships to transport grain and grass. It is composed of a thousand men belonging to the Longwu Army of the Twelve Guards of the Sixth Army of the Emperor. Camp guard.
It took Yang Qingyuan and the other two people two and a half hours to arrive at the door of Yongji Cang.
"Who is here? How dare you trespass into the official warehouse!"
Dozens of crossbow arrows were fired in front of the horses of Yang Qingyuan and the others, and then the officers and soldiers guarding the warehouse door stepped forward with weapons.
Yang Qingyuan reined in his horse and took out the token of Dali Temple and his official credentials from his arms.
"Dali Temple Yang Qingyuan!"
The team guarding the warehouse gate took over Yang Qingyuan's token.
"Dali Temple?!" The team guard guarding the warehouse gate obviously had no idea about this newly rebuilt highest political and legal institution, so he opened Yang Qingyuan's official certificate with doubts.
Bachelor of Hanlin, walking in Wenhua Palace.
The two positions held by Yang Qingyuan are both of high grade, but they have a minor drawback: they are not close to the people. Ordinary people, including soldiers and junior officers in the army, do not understand the value of these two positions.
So there is the current embarrassing situation. Yang Qingyuan and his party look very much like liars pretending to be imperial officials.
"Gyeonggi Supervisory Censor—Li Xunhuan." Li Xunhuan on the side also saw the captain's confusion, took out his official certificate and handed it to him.
The reputation of the Censor of the Gyeonggi Province was much higher. When the captain took over his official title, he knew the weight of the person in front of him.
The Gyeonggi Supervisory Censor oversees all important military and political affairs in the Gyeonggi region and has great powers.
Yongjicang is naturally within the scope of supervision by the censor of the capital.
"Masters, please wait a moment. I will go and report it now!"
After the captain returned the official token, he immediately entered the Yongji warehouse.
After a while, the door of Yongji Cang opened wide, and a man in official robes walked out, bringing with him a group of scribes in Yongji Cang.
"Kong Zhiwei, the administrator of Yongji Warehouse, leads the staff of Yongji Warehouse to welcome Mr. Li! Mr. Yang!"
After Yang Qingyuan and the others dismounted, they handed the horses to the guarding Longwu Guards and then followed the chief secretary and others into Yongji Cang.
The guarding officers and soldiers did not know the value of Yang Qingyuan's official position, but Master Kong knew it very well.
At this age, Hanlin bachelors, walking in the Wenhua Palace, as long as they don't make big mistakes in the future, no matter how hard it is, they can become a feudal official guarding a certain territory, so they are extra attentive.
"I wonder what I call this lord!?"
Master Kong asked as he looked at Ye Jianhan, who was wearing black clothes and exuding a cold aura, with the words "Keep strangers away" written all over his face.
"He is Ye Jianhan, the head of the Anti-Theft Department of Dali Temple! He is the bodyguard here to protect me and Li Yushi!"
Ye Jianhan was stunned for a moment, protection? ? Guard? ! Who protects whom? Who protects whom? !
Although he was confused, Ye Jianhan nodded to Kong Zhiwei.
Kong Zhiwei was self-satisfied, and this was logical. Yang Qingyuan and Li Xunhuan were both civil servants. It was abnormal to come to investigate the case without accompanying them. It seemed that Chief Ye was also a highly skilled martial artist.
Although Kong Zhiwei didn't want to see ordinary martial artists, someone like Ye Jianhan, who not only had strong martial arts skills but also held an official position, could not be considered an "ordinary" martial artist.
"Where's your treasurer?"
Yang Qingyuan never saw the treasurer of Yongjicang come out, so he asked.
The treasurer is the leader of Yongji Cang, and Kong Zhiwei, the chief clerk, is just the assistant to the treasurer.
"Report to Mr. Yang! Because my mother is seriously ill at home, my lord has applied for leave from the Ministry of Household Affairs and returned to his hometown to fulfill his filial piety! The official duties in Yongji Cangzhong are temporarily handled by the lower officials. I wonder what you two are here for?!"
Yang Qingyuan and Li Xunhuan looked at each other and signaled Li Xunhuan to come forward.
"Oh! That's it. Isn't it almost the end of the year? The Metropolitan Procuratorate will conduct random inspections of the case files and accounts of various government offices in the capital at the end of every year. The random inspection happened to be at Yongji Granary. The inspection was originally scheduled for the twelfth lunar month, but this year's twelfth lunar month Because I have family matters and I will be away from Beijing for a while, so I came in advance for a spot check."
Kong Zhi only listened and immediately put down the teapot, "My lords, please have some tea now. I will immediately send someone to organize the account books for inspection by the two adults."
After Kong Zhiwei left, Yang Qingyuan sent a message to Li Xunhuan and Ye Jianhan.
"Have you noticed that there is something wrong with this master register?!"
"I noticed it! When I said it was just a routine spot check and checking the account files, he was obviously relieved."
Ye Jianhan didn't send a message, but nodded. Although he was not good at criminal investigation, as a template for the protagonist of Destiny, he could still read people fairly accurately.
"But now there is actually another problem. Even if we find problems with the grain stored in the official warehouse, we do not have the right to directly open the warehouse to inspect the grain. According to the regulations, if you want to inspect the grain, you must report it to the cabinet center. After approval by the cabinet, The Ministry of Revenue, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the Cabinet need to come forward together!"
Li Xunhuan felt that Yang Qingyuan came too quickly! You should report it to the cabinet and get permission before coming back.
Yang Qingyuan himself is from the cabinet, Li Xunhuan can represent the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and someone from the Ministry of Revenue can open the warehouse and inspect the grain.
"That's not necessary! As long as it is verified that there is indeed a problem with the grain warehouse, I will directly take the master book and open the warehouse."
Dali Temple has exclusive authority when investigating cases!
Yang Qingyuan paused, "We have to work hard tonight! Brother Li, you can pretend to check the accounts in the room and confuse others. I will sneak into the granary at night and take a look!"
"What about me?" Ye Jianhan felt a sense of presence.
"You, I have other plans!"
As night falls, Yongjicang seems even quieter, but beneath the quietness, there is an undercurrent.
