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However, Chen Yongfu changed his subject and said: "County Magistrate Chen, you must have evidence when you say this, otherwise it will be a trap for Shangguan. If Magistrate Lin finds out, there is no guarantee that Shangguan will not get involved with you."
"With so much grain leaving the county government's granary, as long as it doesn't disappear out of thin air, there will always be clues left behind. As long as Mr. Chen can find a few grain shop clerks, it will not be difficult to know the whereabouts of the grain." County Magistrate Chen said with confidence. .
Magistrate Lin is a local leader in Kaifeng Prefecture, and as the magistrate of Kaifeng County, he is not a local leader.
As long as he wanted to know something, many things that Prefect Lin did secretly could not escape his eyes.
"Since you know it, why don't you stop it?" Chen Yongfu asked.
County Magistrate Chen shook his head slightly and said: "Even Mr. Chen, you can't do anything to Lin Futai. I, the Kaifeng County Magistrate, can't do anything when facing Shangguan."
Chen Yongfu understood that asking him for such a thing was in vain, and immediately turned to Yang He and said, "Please also ask the supervisor to make the decision to find food and grass for the army."
"I have been in poor health recently and no longer care about the affairs of the city." Yang He shook his head and refused.
Chen Yongfu hesitated after hearing this.
The other party definitely brought him here not just to tell him about this, but to make him express his opinion on which side of the team he would choose.
Logically speaking, he should be on the side of Yang He, the supervisor, but now Yang He is already a phoenix that has lost its feathers, and it is difficult to guarantee his own fate. Now that he is on the same team as Yang He, if something happens to Yang He, he will inevitably will be affected.
But if he sides with the Kaifeng prefect, once the city is defeated, he will inevitably be pushed out by the Kaifeng prefect and others as a scapegoat. After all, sending troops to plunder the people's food is the best excuse.
"If the price of food continues to rise like this, the army may not be able to afford food. How long does Mr. Chen think he can suppress the army?" Magistrate Chen on the side asked.
After hearing this, Chen Yongfu sighed in his heart.
The soldiers below don't even have food to eat. I'm afraid he, the commander-in-chief, is worse than shit, and military power will only fall to the side. Whoever has food will then listen to whoever is fighting in the army.
Thinking of this, Chen Yongfu knelt down on one knee in front of Yang He and said: "I will obey the supervisor's arrangements in everything."
"Haha, Mr. Chen is too outspoken." Yang He walked around from behind the table with a smile on his face, held Chen Yongfu's arms with both hands, and said in a friendly tone, "I, the governor, haven't cared enough about you recently. Please hurry up." Get up!"
Chen Yongfu stood up.
However, he still half-bowed in front of Yang He.
Yang He helped Chen Yongfu to the seat next to him, returned to the main seat and sat down, and then said: "With General Chen's help, I believe the siege of Kaifeng Mansion will be lifted soon."
"Superintendent, the army has been short of food for a long time. Without food, I'm afraid there will be trouble." Chen Yongfu was afraid that Yang He would not know the internal situation of the defenders, so he reminded him from the side.
After hearing this, Yang He waved his hand indifferently and said, "Don't worry, the food officer has already prepared it for you."
"Is there food?" Chen Yongfu's eyes lit up and he asked eagerly, "I wonder when the supervisor will send someone to deliver food to the army?"
It's not that he is in a hurry for food, but that the army can't wait any longer.
Whenever there was a chance to obtain food, he would not acquiesce to soldiers in the army robbing people's homes of food.
Yang He said with a smile: "You need to get the food yourself. I don't have that many vehicles to transport food to you."
"Don't worry, Supervisor, as long as you tell the general where the food is, the general will immediately summon people and horses to transport the food." Chen Yongfu said happily.
He didn't panic when he had food in hand. As long as he had food, he no longer had to look at the prefect's yamen's face.
Yang He smiled and said: "Don't worry, there is a lot of food, it depends on whether you dare to take it."
"The general doesn't understand." Chen Yongfu felt something was wrong.
Yang He said: "Who has the most food in the city?"
"Grain merchant." Chen Yongfu subconsciously answered.
Yang He put away his smile and said, "Since you know that the grain merchant has the most grain, you should know what to do next, right?"
"This!" Chen Yongfu felt bitter in his heart.
He knew it wouldn't be good.
Yang He didn't give him a chance to bargain at all, and said directly: "If you want the army to not be short of food, then go to the grain merchants to get it. If I have my support, just go ahead and do it."
"The grain merchants were secretly supported by Prefect Lin." Chen Yongfu was reluctant to rob grain merchants.
Grain merchants are different from ordinary people. There is no background behind any of these grain merchants. It is easy for him to send troops to rob the grain merchants, but the consequences are more serious than robbing people's homes of grain.
"General Soldier Chen, you are now afraid of wolves in front of you and tigers in behind. You are just waiting for the army in your hands to become someone else's property. By then, it is hard to say whether you, a general soldier in name only, can continue to be the chief soldier of Henan." Chen The county magistrate said from the side.
Chen Yongfu hesitated for a moment, then gritted his teeth and said, "It's done. Supervisor, please give the order. Should all the grain merchants be robbed, or should one be the first to take the lead?"
The soldiers and horses in his hands are the foundation for him as a general. Without soldiers and generals in his hands, he can only rely on others to rub him.
"Have you thought about it?" Yang He asked.
Chen Yongfu nodded vigorously and said: "I have thought about it carefully. Since these grain merchants will not give me a way to survive, I don't need to give them any more face."
"Okay, a military general should show some edge, so that he won't be underestimated." Yang He praised the other person, and then said to County Magistrate Chen on the other side, "Which grain merchant does County Magistrate Chen think is suitable?"
Naturally, he would not leave County Magistrate Chen behind when it came to this kind of thing. Only when everyone got on the boat would he not be able to change to another boat.
County Magistrate Chen thought for a moment and said: "There is a grain store called Yunji in the city. It has been very close to Prefect Lin recently. I guess all the grain in the official warehouse should be sent to Yunji."
"Then this is Yun Ji." Yang He made a final decision.
It does not matter whether the official grain is in Yunji. What is important is that Yunji has close contacts with the Kaifeng prefect, and there is a censor named Yun in the capital who joins other censors in the Metropolitan Procuratorate to join him as the governor of Henan.
Chen Yongfu immediately said: "I will mobilize my troops to surround Yunji right now. They even dare to devour the official food. I want to see how courageous this Yunji shopkeeper is."
"Misappropriating official food is a serious crime. It is not enough to arrest just one shopkeeper. The boss behind it must also be punished." County Magistrate Chen reminded.
He did not forget that fifty thousand taels of silver was the key point, and solving the problem of food and grass for the army was just a side matter.
"Isn't it too heavy?" Chen Yongfu saw that County Magistrate Chen was going to kill Yun Ji and the Yun family behind him, so he looked at Yang He hesitantly.
The Yun family is not an ordinary family. Behind it is a family of officials with Jinshi background. He is not willing to offend this Yun family to death so as to leave a way out for himself.
