Because they were in charge of the palace and actually had huge political power in Jiangdu, Beiya Governor Zhao and Jinwu Guard Liu Duwei suddenly died. In addition, the Jingan Taiwan patrol team officially took over the palace just two days after arriving, and sent out fully armed The Jinwu Guards cooperated with the patrol team to cross the river to the south. In early November, a huge political and public opinion turmoil quickly arose in Jiangdu.
The official circles and the people were panicked and rumors continued. Most people were targeting the newly arrived Jinyi patrol group with a very bad reputation. They believed that these people had forced the two heads of the palace to death and disturbed everyone. peaceful life. But at the same time, almost everyone also felt that there might be a problem at the palace, and the imperial court might have sent the Jing'an Taiwan patrol team to deal with the palace.
Especially some officials, they knew to some extent that the previous Liu Jing died in a bizarre assassination that was unlikely to be related to the patrol team, so they thought more.
However, these things have nothing to do with Zhang Xing, who has closed the palace and is hiding inside to check the accounts.
Let's say that in the world, the word "seriousness" is the most feared in everything, and he is also afraid of being vigorous and resolute. Therefore, when Zhang Xing began to conduct audits vigorously and resolutely, he quickly found a huge and obvious loophole in the accounts.
He found it very quickly. As soon as Bai Yousi crossed the river, he found the clues, and then quickly confirmed, expanded, and confirmed it.
Moreover, this huge palace storage hole is not weapons, gold and silver, the loss of horses and ships, nor wood or treasures, but actually food - it is Dahe and the Luokou warehouse and Hanjia warehouse around Dongdu and Xidu. There are countless grains in Cangcang, Changpingcang, Liyangcang and Yongfengcang. .
As long as the Eastern Capital City needs it, it will only cost a few pennies a bucket because of a little freight.
This result made Zhang Xing a little hard to understand, but his scalp was numb.
He thought about many possibilities, and imagined many classical legendary plots from the feudal era that he had seen in the previous world. He even thought about raising the daughter of the Emperor of Wei and Princess Chen in the palace because of the vitality of heaven and earth and the energy of the rivers and lakes in this world. , and then became the female saint of the True Fire Sect under the operation of the vengeful spirit of the female saint Qionghua, and there were also weird plots such as being half-sisters with Bai Yousi, but they were not the same at all.
There was not even the loss of weapons and ships that might have occurred as a result of colluding with Yang Shen.
It's food.
The food that was originally supposed to be piled up in the warehouse on the northeast side of Jiangdu Palace in case the saint went on a tour to accompany the capital was almost empty.
Zhang Xing saw it with his own eyes and gave him thousands of stones for daily use.
This is simply too reasonable and too unbelievable.
It is reasonable because such a huge deficit, especially the empty warehouse city attached to the palace, is too obvious. No wonder Liu Jing hesitated to report it. No wonder Governor Zhao quickly committed suicide by taking poison. No wonder Jiangdu officialdom behaved so strangely. Because of this It wants to transport so much food out and disappear, even if it takes years and months and ants to move mountains, I'm afraid it won't be able to hide it from anyone.
Just knowing the information but not reporting it for fear of being implicated is just an explanation.
It's unbelievable that Zhang Xing still can't figure out why the deficit is food?
If it is corruption, with the current price of food, compared with other things in the palace, the corrupted food is too low-end - it always costs twenty dan. Even though food here is expensive, it costs ten dan or five dan. Well, ten thousand shi of grain is only one thousand guanwen or two thousand guanwen!
A Thousand Guan Wen... I said there was a plague in the palace stables and twenty horses died, wouldn't it be good?
Twenty horses are nothing to a palace governor? Do you have to be greedy for ten thousand shi of food?
And among the governors in Beiya of the Eastern Capital, which one is not extremely wealthy?
Wan Guan is one hundred thousand shi of grain!
Zhang Xing really couldn't imagine that any eunuch leader who had gotten into the role of the governor would be so stupid as to just pull out the wool of a sheep, and that's just the buttocks.
But the facts are happening right in front of us. Although Duke Zhao, who was born in the court of Chen State and once followed a saint in Jiangdu, has a foot-warming concubine, and although the private residence next to the palace is a bit luxurious, it is still within reason... ...But in his governor's palace, there were countless tens of thousands of stones, but the food that was supposed to be filled was gone.
To say this is a huge shortfall is a fact, but to say this is corruption is an insult to Zhang Xing's IQ.
Could it be a rebellion?
The restoration of the Chen Kingdom, the powerful Jiangdong families, and the True Fire Sect are preparing to rebel, and they need a large amount of food reserves... This is of course very possible. They did rebel, more than once... But it can't be Yang Shen anyway, Yang Shen's motherfucker What he is in charge of is the logistics of the Second Expedition to Dongyi. If Yang Shen can get food from here, then he will truly have outstanding IQ.
In short, rebellion is very possible, but a huge logical flaw is that if the rebels need food and have already controlled Governor Zhao, why do they still spend so much effort moving food from the warehouse?
If the day of rebellion really comes, please ask Duke Zhao to open the palace gate. Not to mention food, there will be no shortage of horses, weapons, chariots, and ships, okay?
Unless...the rebellion is to happen on the other side of the river, and you don’t have the guts to cross the river? Are you prepared to take a long-term approach to fishing for big fish, and first use food to support people in the mountains and temples?
This makes sense, but why not just ask for money and get enough food on the spot in the land of plenty?
Afraid of being discovered?
But if you move the palace empty, you won't be afraid of being discovered? The attitude of the remaining two people in Jiangducheng is also very strange. Zhou Xiaoming seems to have some opinions. Are these people also involved?
They were all involved, so why not chop up my group at Yangzijin and set up a flag on the spot?
So, was he just too stupid to steal food?
The more Zhang Xing thought about it, the more his head hurt.
The next few days passed like years, until he saw an old Japanese document that was shocking.
Bai Yousi crossed the river with most of the elite patrol team and a whole team of 150 Jinwu Guards. They walked for fourteen days and did not return until the weather suddenly turned cold and a light snow covered Jiangdu City.
Then, the female inspector saw her capable subordinate waiting for her in front of the side door of the palace.
"How many people have been arrested during the inspection?"
Zhang Xing, who was wearing armbands and ear protection, poked his head out of the side door and laughed on the spot as he looked at the groups of prisoners. As these people walked along, the streets had already been cleaned up, as if to guard against thieves.
"Seventy-seven people." Bai Yousi said proudly.
"How many have been killed?" Zhang Xing was too late to ask.
"Fourteen people."
"How many True Fire Cult strongholds have been traced continuously?"
"Six and a half...seven?"
"Visit three counties in eleven days, capture seven villages, kill fourteen people, and capture seventy-seven people?" Zhang Xing held his hands and smiled. "The inspection looks a bit like Mr. Qiantang."
"What does this have to do with big money?" Bai Yousi raised his eyebrows slightly. "Daqian is also acting with me, holding the line from behind...or is Qian Tangjun someone else?"
"Qiantang Jun is a real dragon." Zhang Xing laughed helplessly. "I once fought with another real dragon in anger, and returned victorious in just one meal, killing 600,000 lives and causing damage to crops for 800 miles."
"So it's a joke?" Bai Yousi was slightly puzzled. "Or is it persuasion? Do you think I killed too many people or came too late? Zhang Xing, I received a summons from you and that's why I went to raid the surrounding strongholds. And it was also what you said. Don't worry about time. Let me try my best to raid more There are multiple bases for verification.”
"Yes." Zhang Xing suddenly became serious. "That's what I said."
"Then your smile is so weird!" Bai Yousi suddenly kicked his foot, turned around and walked into the palace.
Behind him, a long list of True Fire Sect activists were brought into the palace and settled on the spot. It was not until the side door of the palace was closed again that the main road of Jiangdu City regained a little vitality.
First, the captured True Fire Sect rebels were carefully guarded, and then the Jinwu Guards were rewarded, and then a banquet was held to celebrate. Obviously, the palace had received the news early and was well prepared.
Most of the patrols and Jinwu guards dispersed to enjoy the banquet, while a few core elites boarded the gate tower of the outer city of the palace with Bai Yousi, where they gathered and had a banquet to discuss this matter. Meaning for final discussion.
And for some unknown reason, Zhou Xingfan, the youngest son of Jiangdu Deputy Zhou Xiaoming, was also here, but others just pretended not to know.
"Let's get the information right. The matter is actually very clear." Zhang Xing did his job and started talking at the table before eating. "First of all, there was a huge shortage of food in the palace; then we arrived in a hurry. That night Liu Jing, the captain of the Jinwu Guard and the only northern nobleman in Jiangdu who was at odds with other officials from the south, was assassinated in a confused manner. It was probably not the assassin's hand, but The other masters present; the assassins used next were undoubtedly some of the radical ones in the True Fire Cult, who were thinking of rebelling; one day later, Eunuch Zhao committed suicide on the spot by taking poison; and then the patrol led everyone in Jiangnan to sweep away There are many True Fire Sect rebel strongholds, and it is confirmed that the assassins are members of the True Fire Sect, and that they often come to move food, and that they have direct contact with Eunuch Zhao... Everything matches up, right? What does Brother Hu think? "
"That's right, that's it. There aren't that many flower ways. It's because Duke Zhao is an old member of the Nanchen Palace, so he naturally got involved with the traitors in the True Fire Sect. Those traitors set up in the mountains in order to plot rebellion. At the stronghold, a large amount of food was needed to hoard and train manpower, so Governor Zhao let the rebels cross the river all day long to dump food on the other side. Over the years, they poured out all the food. Liu Jing discovered this, or he thought Liu Jing Jing found out about this... and then thought we were here to check on him, so he killed Liu Jing out of fear that day, and waited for us to come to his door the next day, then committed suicide again... There was nothing messy." Hu Yan He simply came to a conclusion, but took a long breath. "And now that we have witnesses and physical evidence connected together, we can explain it to anyone, right?"
"Probably." Qian Tang, who was drinking hot soup, put down his bowl and frowned. "But there is a problem, the quantity is still wrong... According to these people's confession, every time they come to transport food from the palace to Yangzijin, they can only take one-twentieth of the quantity, and this twenty-cent One of them is enough for them to use themselves, and it can be used by the nearby True Fire Temple, and they can even take some of it home to support them."
"That's because Eunuch Zhao is so big that one palace supports all the True Fire Cult rebels in Jiangdong." Li Qingchen said disapprovingly. "Think about it, the True Fire Sect rebels in Jiangdu, Wujun, and Danyang counties took away one-tenth of the grain. Forty or fifty counties in Jiangdong and Jiangxi, plus the transshipment costs, wouldn't it be right? Why put it in Yangzijin? To facilitate the transfer. Why let people from these three counties be responsible for transferring it out of the palace city, because these three counties are the closest."
At this point, Li Qingchen thought of something again and looked around: "Do you still remember the heroic man on the river we met when we came here? Maybe the ship was loaded with grain."
"That's it. It's all right. It's just a pity that it's difficult to sweep further away, so the credit doesn't go to us." Someone sighed.
"What a simple thing, but the assassination and the eunuch's suicide made me so sick. I almost thought we were the ones who forced the good people to death." Someone was looking at Mr. Zhou with a strange look.
But Mr. Zhou had no choice but to talk and drink the soup with his head down.
Bai Yousi frowned slightly, but then stared at Zhang Xing again, but unexpectedly the latter just shook his head slightly and said nothing. This made Miss Bai unavoidably upset - from the moment she returned to the palace gate, she It felt like the other party had something waiting for him, but he never did.
However, even so, the female inspector suppressed her irritability and waited until after the dinner.
And after sleeping for an hour, he heard the knock on the door that he wanted to wait for.
Opening the door, Zhang Xing was dressed neatly, not to mention a winter coat and mink hat, as well as cotton ear protection and neck protection. He was standing in front of the door with his hands folded.
"Is there anything you want to say?" Bai Yousi was a little angry.
"Yes." Zhang Xing stared at the other party with burning eyes. "Inspection, the snowy night is long, and I have no intention of sleeping. Can you please lead me to fly across the river with my sword, enjoy the plum blossoms by the river, and enjoy the snow across the river. It will fulfill my long-cherished wish... By then, I will be rewarded generously."
Bai Yousi, who had already gone to Xiaoguan, tilted his head and looked at the other party for a while, then finally nodded: "Okay! I will stay with you to the end tonight!"
Zhang Xing immediately showed his face.
ps: Good night everyone.
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