Chapter 458: Extinguishing the fire
After a night of rescue, the fire at Fort Dock was finally extinguished.
By this time, the granary had lost two-thirds of its own.
In other words, the grain that could have been able to support more than half a year can only last for two or three months.
Looking at the granaries that had turned to ashes, Guo Jia's face became extremely gloomy.
Behind him, Xi Zhong Zhao Yun and Xu Huang were lined up on the left and right, and everyone's faces were very ugly.
The fire was extinguished, but traces of crockpots and oil were found from the ashes, that is, it was also man-made.
"My lord, spare my life, my lord, spare my life! This must be a conspiracy of the enemy. ”
One of the generals was escorted by the Tiger Guards.
He is Su Cheng, the guard of the grain depot.
This person followed Guo Jia when he first took office, and he has also made a lot of contributions to the southern and northern wars over the years.
"My lord, spare your life! I haven't made a mistake all these years, I really don't know what's going on? ”
Such a big thing happened, and Su Cheng also knew that a catastrophe was coming.
Spare your life?
Guo Jia smiled coldly and said, "Is your life worth anything?" Can you get so much food back? ”
He's already on a killing spree.
Spare your life!
Su Cheng hurriedly knelt on the ground and said, "This is really someone framed." ”
Hehe!
A smile appeared on Guo Jia's face.
But the smile was a little cold.
"Flies don't bite seamless eggs, if you don't manage them negligently, this will give people a chance."
Su Cheng kowtowed like pounding garlic.
"I hope that the adults will spare the villain for the sake of the Anguo Su family. I am willing to compensate for the loss. ”
Anguo Su family!
Xi Zhong's heart suddenly moved, and he whispered in Guo Jia's ear: "This Su Cheng seems to be the grandson of the old man Su Ze, the head of the Su family. ”
Guo Jia's eyelids jumped slightly.
Military law is unforgiving!
He snorted and said, "If the soldiers of Yunzhou are like you, how can we still fight?" Come on, drag this person down and cut him down! ”
"Your Excellency, Your Excellency! Our Su family has made great contributions to your birth and death, and you will take revenge on me for doing this. Isn't it just the loss of some food? Our Su family smashed the pot and sold iron to make up for it. ”
Su Cheng was escorted down by two tall tiger guards, but he was a little reluctant to give up.
Damn it!
Guo Jia's eyes flashed with a cold light again.
This guy dared to use the Su family to blackmail him, he was really impatient.
Chopped!
Guo Jia shouted.
Lord!
Xi Zhong hesitated, originally wanted to ask Guo Jia for some favors, but when he saw Guo Jia's look, he closed his mouth.
Finished!
This Su Cheng can't survive.
What you say is not good, you have to talk about the Su family, so that the gods can't be saved.
A scream!
Su Cheng's head was sent up.
The rest of the generals were all frightened, and some of them were already paralyzed on the ground.
The Su family is one of the two major backers looking for Guo Jia, and now the grandson of the head of the Su family has also been cut down by Guo Jia, how can they be spared.
"You're all listening to me?"
Guo Jia snorted and said, "This time the grain depot is on fire, there must be someone who should cooperate with the outside." Now give you three days to check yourself. If you can't find anything, Su Cheng's fate will be your example. ”
Yes, yes, yes!
The rest of the generals said yes again and again.
Don't go yet!
Guo Jia scolded angrily.
The generals couldn't help but be smart, and left with a roll, and then launched a vigorous self-examination action.
"You all listened to Lao Tzu, the chief only gave me three days, and if I can't find anything in three days, Lao Tzu will have to fall to the ground. But before your head hits the ground, there's a chance you'll have your head chopped off. ”
The higher-level commander shouted at the lower-level general.
The next level of general Zuo turned around and shouted at his soldiers.
The soldier was at the bottom, and there was no one to vent, so he had to target his comrades.
Soon the whole camp was caught up in a wave of non-commissioned soldiers reporting each other.
"Sir, I reported Zhang San, he stole the countryman's chicken."
"Sir, I reported Li Si, he touched the neighbor's duck."
"Sir, I reported Wang Wu, he peeked at the widow taking a bath."
It has to be said that the strength of the masses of the people is great.
It only took half a day for all the headless cases that happened in the entire camp to be reported.
Of course, there is still some way to go before the arson case.
The general of the grain depot has been released, and if they can't find it out in three days anyway, their heads will be moved.
However, during these three days, they were still the commanders of these people, and they still had the power of life and death.
In a word, we will never give up if we do not investigate and deal with internal responses.
……
The screening inside the grain depot here is in full swing, and Guo Jiazhen is frowning here.
The grain depot is the core secret of Yunzhou, and he doesn't know much, and Liu Yu even burned this, which shows that he knows Yunzhou very well.
That's how you can win with one hit.
It seems that he underestimated this Liu Yu a little.
Finding the arsonist is a small matter, and the next food problem is a big thing.
The grain road outside Yunzhou has been broken, most of the inventory has been lost, and the surrounding enemies are eyeing each other, and this time Yunzhou may really be in danger.
If there is enough food, Guo Jia still has time to break the situation by force.
The source of all this is in Youzhou, as long as the army is gathered to defeat Youzhou, all problems will be solved.
However, the grain depot was burned, and it was difficult for Guo Jia to assemble a large-scale army in a short period of time.
Even if we have to fight now, we can't prepare so much food.
Lord!
Xi Zhong quietly came to him.
"Otherwise, we will collect the grain from the surrounding large households and strictly proportion, so that we may be able to support it for a while longer."
That's a good idea.
But in this way, doesn't it clearly tell everyone that the food in Yunzhou is already insufficient?
If that's the case, Yunzhou will be in chaos again.
Suffering from malaria and food shortages one after another, there are still two questions about whether ordinary people have the confidence to support the past.
Lord!
Lord!
At this time, Xin Ping suddenly ran over out of breath.
"Oh no, I don't know who spread the news, saying that Yunzhou is out of food. All the big farmers concentrated their grain in Wubao, and the price of grain in the market more than doubled in half a day. ”
What the?
Guo Jia's face became ugly again.
The roof leak happened to be rainy.
Are businesses starting to fall into the trap too?
That's a terrible question.
Food is the heaven of the people.
If you can be self-sufficient, it is okay, once the vast majority of Yunzhou relies on external input, there is a great risk.
When Yunzhou was built into a border trade center, Guo Jia had this prevention.
Others can be let go and the market can regulate them, but food is absolutely not.
Because this is the root of the common people.
Once something goes wrong, it will shake the foundation of the entire Yunzhou.
That's why he established a reserve grain depot as soon as possible to curb grain prices in Yunzhou.
Shopping malls are like battlefields!
Over the years, Guo Jia has also competed with these black-hearted merchants in Yunzhou.
In the end, these merchants all came to naught.
(End of chapter)