When inspecting the grain in the granary, the commissioner who carried out the inventory told Otomo Sorin, that the total amount of grain and grass in the granary was less than 5,000 koku. In other words, only half of the grain and grass stored in the granaries of Funai Castle were left, which was undoubtedly worse after the Otomo family lost the two granaries on the periphery.

You must know that the lack is not one stone or two of food, but the loss of five thousand stones! What is the concept of 5,000 stones? That's the output of tens of thousands of stones, and it can't be collected all at once, especially in times of war.

Angry, angry, Otomo Zonglin's face is so black that he can drip ink, this is a self-stealing under his nose! It's really bold, and it's at a critical moment when the city is besieged by the Kuroda family.

In the end, the big rat was arrested, and it was a commissioner under the command of Ji Gangchang, this person was a capable figure under Ji Gangchangzeng, and he had not been suspicious of him, but when he was about to defect to the Kuroda family camp in fear of crime, he was arrested by the soldiers guarding the city because of his suspicious whereabouts.

After being arrested, he was brought to Ji Changzeng, and then he confessed everything himself. It turned out that the theft of the granary had started four years ago, and as the person in charge of the granary, he was still diligent at first, but then he was corrupted by external forces.

At first, a merchant contacted him and promised him benefits, so he emboldened. Together with a few of his men, he secretly sold the grain in the granary to a new big merchant house called Jue Shen House, so as to make a profit for himself, and his men were also able to share some of the soup and water.

Although the Otomo grain depot uses a grain storage management system similar to that of perpetual inventory, people who know a little about accounting know that such an inventory system has great advantages.

Here is a brief introduction, the perpetual inventory method, that is, in the inventory, the usual quantity as the basis, the change of the part of the inventory, you can roughly know the current inventory quantity of the method, this inventory method is relatively simple, save manpower, can ensure that the grain is always in a relatively new degree, only need to roughly count the quantity, is a more reasonable inventory means, so in the current enterprise accounting system and enterprise inventory management in a large number of use.

And the Otomo family was also guarding against the problem of self-theft at the beginning, so they set up three supervisors, and that was only one of the three people, which means that as long as any of the three people are unwilling to go along with it, the resale of grain and grass will definitely be exposed, which means that the system itself is very advanced.

But the sad thing is that people change, and this executive and his two other colleagues eventually become self-stealing rats. At the beginning, this was the only one who embezzled, but because the inspection of the granary was carried out by three people in turn, this was originally to prevent the behavior of internal ghosts stealing the grain from the granary.

It's just that after this commission, in order to save his life and his own way to make a fortune, he took the lead in making an appointment with the other two Otomo families, and Jue Shenya also gave extremely generous conditions to the other two, and successfully made the other two colleagues fall into the trap of Jue Shenya.

In this way, the three main figures of the Otomo family's management of the grain depot were all bought by the Kuroda family's Kazushiya. As a result, under the nose of Otomo Sorin, a large amount of grain and grass from the Otomo family's home was unknowingly transported out of the Otomo family's house, and then resold to the Kuroda family.

The Kuroda family bought these grains at the beginning, and it was really not for the purpose of starving the Otomo family, the Kuroda family did this just so that they could transport the grain to the nearby Imate Tomo clan army in southern Kyushu. Although this will cost some money, for the Kuroda family, the cost of grain transportation that can be saved may be more than that.

Kuroda Vocational High School would never have imagined that the method he came up with at that time just to save costs would hasten the demise of the Otomo family in the Kuroda family's tactics of starvation.

There are only 4,600 or 700 stone of food, which is enough for the people of Funai City to eat for about half a year at most, and of course, if there are soldiers who lose their lives on the battlefield as the war continues, then these grains can also last longer.

Although Otomo Sorin's three soldiers were all executed, he also punished Yoshino Chozeng, who was the head of the granary. Now that this is the case, this is only a way to vent anger, and it has no remedial effect on the actual situation.

After a month or two of defending the castle, that is, after Kuroda Vocational High School had ended the battle between Tanba Province and Oda Nobunaga, the Otomo family finally couldn't hold on. Otomo Zonglin finally made up his mind and decided to come up with his last killer weapon, which is the so-called national collapse.

This collapse of the country was a sharp gadget that Otomo Sorin, after being baptized, became a Christian, so he was able to buy it from the Portuguese.

Although in terms of quality, compared with the cannons of all the Kuroda family's naval ships, it may still be a little lacking in range and power. But in this day and age, the powerful flowering projectile, and the huge momentum with which it is fired, is really an unrivaled sharp weapon. Moreover, only a small part of the artillery on Kuroda Iefuku's ship is flowering shells, and most of them are solid projectiles.

Kunibang, where the Otomo family fired a flowering shell, was pushed onto a platform at the highest point of the Honmaru except for the castle tower, and a total of ten shells were fired in the end.

But Otomo Sorin's idea was not able to come true in the end, because cannons are not unfamiliar to the soldiers of the Kuroda family, especially those veterans who have been in the Kuroda family for a long time, because there are too many things in the Kuroda family.

Although it is mainly used by the navy, they are not surprised, wasn't the inner city of the Shimazu family bombarded by cannons before, but they saw it happen with their own eyes!

Now after the Otomo family fired the flowering bomb, although it caused a lot of chaos in the camp of the Kuroda family because it was very sudden, the soldiers of the Kuroda family were still able to react at the first time and find a nearby place to hide as soon as possible, because this was originally part of the training of the Kuroda family's soldiers.