Zhang Meng watched Gonggong Zheng hand over the song to the little eunuch, and couldn't help but secretly rejoice in his heart, this time Pan Lian was stealing chickens and rice, losing his wife and breaking his soldiers, and wanted to fish in troubled waters at this time, it was so easy.

The emperor handed over another note for him to see, Zhang Meng opened it and saw that it was sent by the King of Qin in Yongzhou, and the King of Qin was in a hurry again, and the treasury of Yongzhou was short of silver.

From last year to the present, the imperial court allocated a total of 3 million taels of silver to Yongzhou, but the Liangzhou border army has 70,000, Yongzhou has a total of 120,000 soldiers, including 50,000 border troops, 70,000 county soldiers, according to the wartime infantry salary double, cavalry salary triple, these three million taels of silver can be supported for five months, this does not include the county soldiers and people, if you add the county soldiers and people, can only support for three months, there has been no war in the past three months, but the silver has been used up to 700,000 taels, if the war together, the minister is estimated to last at least six months, now two million taels of silver, at most two months, ...”

King Qin's recital was as good as ever crying poor, asking for silver, food, reinforcements, everything, as if Yongzhou and Liangzhou were poor mountains and bad waters.

"The silver allocated by the imperial court to Yongzhou is 3.16 million taels, and after five months, there are still 2 million taels of silver, which is difficult for the king of Qin. Zhang Meng said.

"After the beginning of spring, will Tibet still attack?" the emperor asked, but his expression was expectant.

Zhang Meng shook his head and sighed softly, the imperial court really has no silver, the spring tax has not been collected, and the grain kilns outside the city are empty, and the other small grain kilns are not counted.

In order to deal with this war, the imperial court has allocated nearly 10 million taels of silver, but seventy percent of these silver and grain went to Bingzhou, and the remaining thirty percent went to Yongzhou, which also includes Liangzhou.

No wonder King Qin was bitter.

Zhang Meng sighed deeply, this winter, the imperial court asked for silver everywhere, forcing officials from all over the country to jump up and down, miserable, it was easy to collect some silver, and now he wants silver, which makes the court go there to get it.

"Alas," Zhang Meng sighed again: "This war is to fight silver, the soldiers and horses have not moved, the grain and grass go first, alas, the filter of the King of Qin is reasonable, and the food in Yongzhou is insufficient." ”

"He wants five million taels of silver this time, I will go there and find it," the emperor's expression was very gloomy, and he said hatefully: "Gu Wei, these two things, the tax system innovation, has not been implemented for so long." ”

The imperial court originally planned to implement tax system reform in winter, Yangzhou was rich, and the spring tax could increase by at least five million taels of silver, but this winter, Gu Wei actually did nothing, and the spring tax seemed to be unsettled, and the five million taels of silver seemed to be unsettled.

"In addition to military spending, the salaries of the ministers of the DPRK and China have not been paid for half a year. Zhang Meng added coldly that the crux of Yangzhou's problem is in Yangzhou, Sheng Huai colluded with Yangzhou's local gate valve to openly resist the tax system innovation, but Gu Wei saw the crux of the problem clearly and impeached Sheng Huai several times, but the court just couldn't move this stone.

The emperor sighed heavily, the room calmed down, and Gonggong Zheng carefully held his breath and stood in the corner, for fear that something would alarm the emperor and cause a catastrophe.

Having served the emperor for many years, he knew the emperor's habits very well, and it was the eve of the storm.

The emperor was very angry, thinking that he had eaten and dressed every day, but the state affairs were still difficult, every step was so difficult, and all kinds of obstacles and various reasons came.

He'd love to pick up a sword and cut them all!

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The young official hurriedly dismounted, and the sweat beads on his body did not have time to wipe it, so he rushed to the progress of the Cao, ran so fast that he almost tripped on the high threshold.

"Lord Wang!

The king of Yanping County raised his head when he heard the sound, and when he saw the expression of the official in front of him, he couldn't help frowning, the young official's expression was panicked, his hair was disordered, and the hem of the official uniform had obvious loess.

"What a panic!!" the king of Yanping scolded unhappily.

"Lord Wang, something is wrong!" The young official didn't care about the dissatisfaction of the king of Yanping County, and rushed to the book case of the king of Yanping County, and shouted: "The grain of the Pingding kiln is only 30,000 stones!"

"Look at you..."The king of Yanping was very dissatisfied and reprimanded, and before he finished speaking, his face changed sharply: "What did you say?"

"The grain in the Pingding kiln is only 30,000 stones!" the young official repeated.

The king of Yanping was stunned for a moment, then suddenly stood up and shouted, "This is impossible!"

As he spoke, the King of Yanping turned around, rummaged through the file shelves behind him, took out an account book, and turned to one of the pages.

"There are 500,000 stones of grain in the Pingding kiln!

The young official wiped his sweat with his sleeve and hurriedly explained: "I just checked, and it is true that there are only 30,000 stones, except for two caves that are full, and the remaining caves are only a little at the door, and the inside is empty." ”

The face of the king of Yanping County turned white, the three granaries around the imperial capital, in addition to these three granaries, there are several grain caves, this Pingding kiln is one of them, this kiln is located in the city, in the south of the city of the Duzhi Cao warehouse.

The order in which the imperial court transferred grain was that there were three granaries outside the city, and after these three granaries were transferred, they were the granaries in the city.

This winter, to Yongzhou and Bingzhou grain convoy in an endless stream, the three warehouses were emptied of two, and several grain kilns outside the city were also emptied, and the king of Yanping County out of caution let the grain kilns in the city be checked, and the Pingding kiln was the first batch of grain kilns to be checked.

There are four granaries in the city, two in the inner city and two in the outer city, the grain storage plan of the imperial capital is planned according to the wartime, the three granaries outside the city are to provide food for the imperial capital and the soldiers guarding the pass when the enemy attacks the eight passes; the four granaries in the city are to provide food for the soldiers and people who hold the city when the eight passes are broken and the enemy besieges the city.

The Pingding kiln is not buried in a low cave, but the grain depot on the ground, the grain depot is located in the south of the city, according to the account book of Duzhi Cao, this grain depot has 200,000 stone grain, the Anding kiln in the east of the city also has 200,000 stone grain, and the Yongding kiln and Cheding kiln in the inner city each have 150,000 stones.

The 200,000 stone of grain was actually checked and only 30,000 stone was checked, and where did the remaining 170,000 stone of grain go?

The king of Yanping County had a cold vest, and he immediately realized that if this was true, it must be a big case.

The emotions in his heart are extremely complicated, there are troubles and luck, the young official looked at him anxiously, the king of Yanping County thought about it, and said categorically: "Bring the Duzhi Cao Bingding, immediately go to the Pingding kiln, come here!"

The two Yanping County Kings' families ran in, and the Yanping County Kings frowned slightly, and shouted outside: "Wang Xun!

Yan Zhi hurriedly came in from the side room, raised his eyes to look at the king of Yanping County and the young official Zhou Yao, and felt that the atmosphere was not right, so he stood carefully on the side.

Wang Xun came over slowly, and after entering the door, he didn't look at it and asked directly: "Lord Wang, what is the call?"

The king of Yanping said: "I asked Tang Ke to check the granary in the city, but what happened, there are only 30,000 stone of grain left in the Pingding kiln, let's go and see together." ”

When Wang Xun heard about the Pingding kiln, his face turned white, revealing a look of horror, while Yan Zhi didn't have so many worries, and raised his eyebrows: "How is it possible, the account book remembers clearly, 200,000 stones, how can it be only 30,000 !!"

Yan Zhi was originally a subordinate official of the Prime Minister's Mansion, but he was excluded in the Prime Minister's Mansion and was transferred to pay off the debts, and he was known for being tough in the settlement of debts, which fully confirmed his nickname of stinky stones, but the king of Yanping County appreciated him more and transferred him to Duzhi Cao, and he was also promoted by one level, from the seventh rank to the sixth grade.

"Tang Ke, you talk about it!" The king of Yanping County commanded, Tang Ke wiped his sweat: "Yesterday, the prince asked me to go to check the Pingding kiln today, I checked, the Pingding kiln only has 30,000 stone of grain, I personally went into the warehouse to see, those guys did it very exquisitely, there are piles of grain outside each warehouse, but the inside is empty." ”

Yan Zhi couldn't help but be furious: "These moths should be cut with a thousand knives!"

Wang Xun's face was pale and he didn't speak, and the king of Yanping County calmed down, but he couldn't hold back this matter, and he didn't know who would be involved in this shocking case.

"Let's go!"

The king of Yanping County did not talk nonsense, and took more than 20 degrees of Cao Cao Ding and the generals of the royal palace to rush to the Pingding kiln in the south of the city.

As soon as he entered the door, the king of Yanping County ordered the arrest of the cangshou of the Pingding kiln, and the cangshou in his forties turned pale and shouted repeatedly: "Lord! Lord!

"Shut up!" "The king of Yanping County shouted sharply: "All the kudings, take them all, temporarily detain them in the signing room, after this king has checked the grain, I will give you a chance to speak!"

Wang Fu Jia Ding and Du Zhi Cao Cao Ding fiercely pushed more than a dozen Ku Ding into the signing room on the side, except for the Ku Shou, all other officials were also detained.

With the momentum of thunder, the king of Yanping County seized all the officials and soldiers guarding the kiln in Pingding, replaced them with his own people, and then personally supervised and checked the treasury.

"Lord Wang, this matter," Wang Xun quietly pulled the King of Yanping County aside and asked in a low voice, "What is the Lord going to do?"

The king of Yanping County was slightly stunned, looking at him in surprise, Wang Xun sweated on his forehead, and whispered: "This matter is big or small, how does the prince plan to deal with it?"

The king of Yanping County frowned, staring at Wang Xun deadly, Wang Xun's expression was a little flustered, beads of sweat were pouring out on his forehead, and the king of Yanping County suddenly smiled: "Brother Zhongyun, you are also involved in this matter?"

Wang Xun smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Although my Wang family is not rich, it will not steal grain. ”

Wang Xun is not the Jizhou royal family, but the Taiyuan royal family, a scholar, the family is rich, not rich, but humble.

The expression of the king of Yanping County slowly eased, and Wang Xun whispered: "Lord, this matter can be big or small, whether the prince wants to do big or small." ”

"How do you talk about it when it's big, and how do you talk about it when it's small?" asked the king of Yanping again.

"If it's small, you can push this matter onto Ku Shou, and if it's big, I'm afraid that the court will overturn half of it. ”

The king of Yanping County couldn't help but be greatly surprised, there were so many people involved in this case? Stealing and selling grain from the treasury is a capital crime, who is so bold?!!!

"Lord Wang, Xia Guan has been in Duzhi Cao for seven or eight years, and he has seen too much, so it is better for the prince to be cautious, this is Xia Guan's heartfelt words. Wang Xun saw that the king of Yanping County was silent, so he cautiously persuaded again.

The king of Yanping looked at the grain that was being counted, and bags of grain were moved out of the warehouse, weighed and recorded, and Yan Zhi and Tang Ke were supervising on the side.

Wang Xun's words confirmed his judgment, this matter is by no means the work of a few Kuding and Ku Shou, 170,000 stone grain, if only these dozen Ku Ding and Ku Shou did it, their stomachs would be too big.

But can he hide it? Without much thought, the king of Yanping County concluded that he would definitely not be able to do it, and that this case would either not be revealed, or once it was revealed, it would be a big case, and the emperor would definitely send someone to investigate.

"Bring Ku Shou. ”

The king of Yanping did not answer Wang Xun, but asked the Ku Shou to be brought over.

The royal family will slip Ku Shouti over, and the king of Yanping County stared into his eyes and asked in a deep voice, "What do you have to say, you can say it now." ”

Ku couldn't help kowtowing, and said in a trembling voice: "Wang Ye Mingjian!

"Is this king Mingjian, there are more than 100,000 stone grains missing here, you can't escape the responsibility of the treasury guard, and your sin is the difference between cutting off your head or distributing it. ”

Wang Xun's face changed slightly when he heard this, Ku Shou hesitated and did not reply, and the king of Yanping County sneered: "Look, now you are still thinking about hiding it for others, I really don't know whether to live or die, such a big case, you can hold it on yourself?"

Wang Xun didn't answer, Ku Shouyan's face turned pale when he heard this, cold sweat dripped down one by one, and Nuo Nuo said: "Prince, prince, give ten thousand small dares, and don't dare to embezzle such a big grain,........!"

"Bold!"

Before he finished speaking, he heard the sound of the bowstring, and an arrow roared in, and the general of the king of Yanping County shouted loudly, drew his sword, cut down, and a feather arrow that broke through the air broke into two.

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