Anyi, the county guard.

Zhou Yangyou, the county guard of Hedong, looked at the foundation of the county guard yamen and suddenly laughed.

"All the ministers at home and abroad, the year is abundant, the Tao is not hungry, long live this practice!" Reading the usurpation inscription on the masonry on the foundation, Zhou Yangyou's heart was full of ridicule.

After the rise of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Gao Liu Bang ordered that the foundation of the yamen of all local counties must be paved with bricks and stones engraved with these sixteen characters, hoping to remind the county guards to be honest and honest.

"Long live this?" Zhou Yangyou sneered and looked at the inscription on the floor.

Liu's Tianzi thinks too well, right?

Zhou Yangyou will never forget how his uncle Liu Chang, the king of Huainan Li, died.

He can't forget how his father Zhao Jian spent the second half of his life.

Since then, he has known that a man cannot be without power for a day, and once he has no power, no matter how heroic he is, he will soon become a bear.

So, for more than ten years, he has been desperately climbing up, climbing up by any means.

The first emperor liked courtiers with courage and courage, so he pretended to be very courageous, and from the time he was still a Lang official, he expressed his hatred.

Sure enough, he was soon promoted.

In more than ten years, he has climbed from a small Lang official to the position of the county guard of Hedong County and the official of the frontier.

As the saying goes, once a son of heaven is a courtier.

The first emperor died, and the new monarch ascended the throne, and immediately eliminated the ministers of the first emperor in the court.

Tingwei Zhang Shizhi was far away from Huainan.

Deng Tong starved to death on the streets.

Zhang Han went home to farm.

Not long ago, even the imperial historian Tao Qing and Daxing Wang Hui were finished.

According to the Han tradition, the new courtiers would certainly replace the county guards appointed by the previous courtiers with their men.

Zhou Yangyou thinks. His position as the county guard of Hedong may not be able to do it for too long.

Since last year, he has had a feeling that he may lose his official position at any time, thinking that the authority in his hand may be about to come to naught. Since he was about to go out of the wilderness and serve the people, his authority was about to be lost, so he began to use his power for his own benefit.

It can't be said that if you don't have power, you have to go back to your hometown stupidly to live a life of rough tea and light food, right?

That's something stupid people do.

So, he actually made a miracle to partner with the county lieutenant who had been wrong before, and started the business of reselling grain in the official warehouse.

Then. He had a good idea.

In the past three or four years, the grain in the official warehouse in Hedong County has often not been eaten last year. This year's ones are piled up again, and every year, a lot of moldy corn is pulled to feed the pigs.

What a waste!

Since hundreds of thousands or even millions of stones of grain are piled up in warehouses every year to mold and even rot, why can't they be sold for some money?

The price offered by the merchants was too much for him to refuse.

Thereupon. From March. The grain in the two official warehouses in Hedong continued to disappear, and at the same time, the officials up and down the entire Hedong County ate a mouthful of fat, and many officials were grateful to him, which made Zhou Yangyou flutter.

What's more, the inspection envoys of the imperial court who had been worried about it before and the officials who came and went. I didn't notice that there was less food in the official warehouse in Hedong County.

Those guys usually just walk around the warehouse and see stale grain in the warehouse. Just go back to the errand.

As a result, Zhou Yangyou's courage became bigger and bigger.

More and more grain is being sold.

At first, he only dared to sell a few thousand stones, but later it became 10,000 stones and 10,000 stones, and in the end, he sold 200,000 stones to his cousin Liu An, the king of Huainan, at one time, as for what Liu An wanted so much food for, he didn't bother to care!

But who would have thought that in May, the situation suddenly changed, and God actually sent a plague of locusts.

Although the Son of Heaven ordered the locust plague to be extinguished in time, it was not allowed to expand the whole county, and the affected fields in each county were only a few thousand hectares.

To be honest, if it was in previous years, this would not be harmless at all, and Necang would even need to leak a hole, and Hedong County would be able to settle it by himself.

However, when he wanted to open a warehouse to release grain, he was stunned to find that the originally full root warehouse only had 500,000 stone of grain, less than half of what it was at its peak......

Once the order is given to open a warehouse, the imperial court will inevitably know that there are only 500,000 stone grain in the root warehouse!

How can this work!

Once this matter is exposed, his whole family will die!

In order to prevent his whole family from dying, he had no choice but to exaggerate the area of the disaster to the imperial court, deliberately report the two counties that were not affected by the disaster, and then falsify the accounts, and use the losses of the two counties to fill the deficit in Nekura.

As for the people of the places that were really affected?

He didn't bother to care about the life or death of those mud legs!

As long as you hold the big river crossing, don't let those mud-legged people have a chance to go to Guanzhong to complain!

But after a thousand calculations, he miscalculated one more thing.

The mud-legged people can't go to Guanzhong, it doesn't mean that the nobles in Guanzhong can't come to Hedong!

This morning, the official guarding the crossing of the big river came to report to him that a building boat was docked near Caoyang Pavilion, and all the nobles who disembarked were from Chang'an, Guanzhong.

It was even reported that among the people who disembarked from the ship, there was a scholar who was hired by the Heavenly Family.

can mobilize sailors and warships to cross the river, and among the people who accompany them, there are also scholars who have participated in the examination and are finally hired.

This matter immediately made Zhou Yang extremely vigilant.

Even if they are not royal, they are nobles who have close ties to the royal family!

Think about it again, what kind of virtue did the princes of the Liu family have when they were young?

Zhou Yangyou felt that if it was the legendary prince, the prince Liu De would not be surprised at all when he came to Hedong.

Not to mention running out of Hangu Pass to take a trip to Hedong.

The prince of the Han family went to the country of the Kwantung princes, and Zhou Yangyou would not be surprised.

"If it's really that one who came......" Zhou Yangyou felt a headache, and just when he didn't know what way to solve and get through this difficulty, another bad news came, and that person went directly to Dayang County!

What is the situation in that place in Dayang County now, Zhou Yang knows it from his heart, there is no doubt that the situation in Dayang County has been eroded!

Originally, his plan was to wait for two months, when the food deficit was filled, and it was time for him to come out to be the Ming Mansion, arrest and kill all the fools in Dayang, and return the land to the peasants, so that he would gain fame and cover up the matter perfectly.

"It must be the one!" Zhou Yang was not stupid, he immediately knew that the person who came must be the quasi-prince, and now the prince Liu De and his party are in full swing.

There is a temple of the Son of Heaven in Dayang County, ten years ago, the Empress Dowager Dou and the first emperor went to the Prince Temple to worship.

Liu De is going, probably to repay the wish of the Queen Mother.

In addition, to the east of the great sun is Pinglu, where there is Pinglu Hou, the elder of the clan.

"Someone!" Zhou Yangyou thought about it for a long time, and finally made up his mind, called his henchmen, and gave orders.

On the night of the same day, there was a fire in the root warehouse of Hedong County, and Zhou Yang, the guard of Hedong County, reported to the imperial court, and the grain stored in the root warehouse was burned by the fire and more than 700,000 stones.

Looking at the fire that rose into the sky in Necang, Zhou Yangyou's heart was finally a little relieved.

Since the fire burned the grain, even if the imperial court came to investigate, it would not be able to find anything.

Well, now it's time to push those fools out of Dayang and show the court, especially His Highness, if he can climb on His Highness's lap, it would be great.

As for the landlords and wealthy businessmen in Dayang County, what will Hao Qiang think?

Zhou Yangyou sneered.

I'll kill you! (To be continued......)

PS: Call it a day, sleep ~

Well, I made up some of this plot in my brain~ Ahem, after all, it is impossible for history books to record all the details in detail, novels, and the necessary artistry can be carried out as needed~

But if there is a clear history to check, I will never be self-righteous~