In the middle of the night, Qi Jingwei, the prefect of Taiyuan, didn't sleep, and just sent off the Qincha, he rushed from the prefect's yamen.

"Governor, the granary is ready, look at it-"

Qi Jingwei held an official document in his hand, said as he walked, and when he entered the hall, he found that Zhu Xieyuan was looking at the map in a daze, and he stopped talking for a while.

After a while, Zhu Xieyuan turned around, sat back in the chair, stretched out his hand to signal him to sit beside him, and said, "The Taiyuan granary has been built?" ”

Qi Jingwei sat down, handed the official document to Zhu Xieyuan, and said excitedly:

"The chief official of the Yamen and the Zhang family bought a large piece of wasteland outside Taiyuan City and built a large granary there, which can be regarded as the largest granary in Shanxi today."

"The governor has just come to Shanxi, and he has accomplished such a great achievement, which is really gratifying!"

Zhu Xieyuan actually guessed these things.

The Zhang family is a local landlord in Taiyuan, with nearly thirty percent of the wasteland resources in their hands, and even he, the governor of Shanxi, wants to build a granary in Taiyuan, but there is no way except to find them and these heroes.

But fortunately, the Zhang family's advocate is a person who understands reason, or a person who has a long-term plan.

Hearing that the imperial court was going to build a granary, Zhang Yi sold a large piece of wasteland outside the city to the prefect's yamen at a cabbage price lower than the market price of 50%, which led to the timely completion of the granary in Taiyuan.

Everything is difficult at the beginning, this is the first step, eating people with short mouths and soft hands, Zhu Xieyuan naturally understands this truth.

This first step is to take it, but when the acres of land are checked in the future, you will always have to come across wasteland again, and what will you do if you want to take the Zhang family at that time?

As soon as he took a step, he encountered such a problem, and Zhu Xieyuan hadn't thought of a way to solve it.

To the surprise of the prefect Qi Jingwei, the governor of Shanxi in front of him was not happy, but sighed.

"Why does the Governor sigh?"

Qi Jingwei is just a prefect, so naturally he can't consider Zhu Xieyuan's difficulties.

Zhu Xieyuan stopped talking and chuckled:

"I suddenly remembered what happened at home, can you tell me that the sweet potatoes and grain that the imperial court transported from Kifu have arrived?"

Qi Jingwei nodded and said: "It's all on the official documents, the first batch of grain transported by the imperial court from Jifu was handed over by the superintendent and transported to the granary." ”

"Xiaguan estimates that sweet potatoes are at least 500,000 stones, and grain is also 100,000 stones!"

Qi Jingwei was particularly happy, he was appointed as the prefect of Taiyuan in the thirty-seventh year of Wanli, and in the fourteenth year, he had never seen so much grain in Taiyuan.

It seems that this governor is not only famous, but also very capable!

As if thinking of something, Qi Jingwei added: "There is also an official document from Shaanxi, saying that the granary over there is also actively selecting a site and intends to buy wasteland from local wealthy households..."

Zhu Xieyuan's face looked a little better, frowned and said:

"Many people know about the granary, notify General Gao to send heavy troops to guard the grain storage place, and there must be no accidents."

"All the grain stored in the Taiyuan granary, in and out of the superintendent is managed by the superintendent, and without the order of the governor, not a grain of grain can be moved."

"Also, tomorrow morning I will go with the Governor to inspect the granary..."

Qi Jingwei could see that Zhu Xieyuan attached great importance to this granary, and indeed, the more than 600,000 grains in the Taiyuan granary were all transferred from the Jifu area for disaster relief in times of famine.

In order to build this granary, the imperial court can be said to have done its best and spent a lot of silver.

If something causes a fire or some other major change, the emperor will be furious, and at that time, he, the governor of Taiyuan, and the general army of Taiyuan, are all responsible.

Zhu Xieyuan can be nervous like this, Qi Jingwei understands it very well.

After saying this, Zhu Xieyuan exhaled, the grain storage was in place, the first big granary was built, and he had a little deposit in hand, so he could speak and do things with more confidence.

In fact, what he is doing now is the same as what Zhu Youxiao requested.

Recently, there have been many small disasters and disasters in this area of the Central Plains, and there are not many displaced people, so they cannot cause any interference to the operation of the local government offices.

Kifu has been promoting sweet potatoes over the years, building additional granaries, storing grain or local garrisons will not have any problems, Shandong Liufu is close to Kifu, plus Denglai and Tianjin Port across the sea, unless it is a rare catastrophe in a hundred years, otherwise there will be no problem.

The five provinces of the Central Plains, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Huguang, Henan, and Sichuan, each of them are difficult and poor, especially in Sichuan and Shaanxi, and it is difficult to send disaster relief materials to them.

Shanxi is okay, Sichuan is the land of abundance, unless there is a disaster like Shandong, otherwise there will not be much of a problem.

Shaanxi is not needed, Shaanxi can be described as a thousand miles of red land, once there is any catastrophe in the coming day, the road is difficult, and it is difficult for the imperial court to deliver the disaster relief in time.

If there are any changes in other places at the same time, it is easy to form a catastrophe that will sweep the Central Plains!

What he has to do now is not to take stock of the acres of land, nor to directly express his intention to rectify the armaments of the guards, but to reserve grain and grass, check the treasury of all prefectures, prefectures and counties in Shanxi Province over the years, and do a good job in dealing with the aftermath.

Only when you have enough money in your hands, in other words, can you free up your hands to do other things.

Zhu Xieyuan estimated that the emperor sent himself down, which is also the meaning, before rectifying Shanxi, he must definitely give priority to the local people.

As long as the people are not chaotic, then there will be no chaos.

......

That night, sixteen miles south of the city, Taiyuan granary.

After receiving the documents from Qi Jingwei, the prefect of Taiyuan, Gao Ye, jumped up directly from the bed, put on armor, and personally came to the granary to inspect.

This matter is not only Zhu Xieyuan's attention, but also he, the chief soldier, attaches great importance to it.

As Qi Jingwei thought, everyone was afraid that once something happened to this granary built by the imperial court, they would be implicated.

Others are not necessarily, the Taiyuan General Army and the Taiyuan Governor must be held accountable.

Gao Ye came to the Taiyuan granary with his own soldiers, frowned and looked in front of him, such a sparse defense made him very uneasy.

In such an important place as the granary, the garrison Qianzong did not see anyone in the middle of the night, and the officers and soldiers did not see a few people still standing guard, and they were all drowsy.

Gao Ye knew in his heart that he had to change to a credible person in the granary, otherwise something would happen sooner or later.

If something happens to the granary, something will happen to you!

"Where's Fan Shaosheng!?" Gao Ye held a torch in his hand and shouted loudly, waking up several officers and soldiers standing guard, and then stepped forward to look around and shouted:

"Tell Fan Shaosheng to let him continue to sleep, and when he wakes up, he will directly take his people to the town to guard the horse shed!"

"How dare you leave your post without permission, when this is the place? This is the granary of Taiyuan, who can afford this responsibility if something happens! ”

Gao Ye kicked over an officer and soldier who was still confused, and shouted:

"All those who are on the vigil tonight will stay in the granary to continue the vigil, and they will be assigned to the family camp in this town to enjoy the treatment of the family members, and the rest will be transferred to the horse guard shed for me!"

"Such bear soldiers are only worthy of letting them guard the stable!"

After speaking, Gao Ye was the first to enter the granary, walked around with his family, and set up checkpoints along the road, which was to rest assured.

He returned to the gate of the granary, looked around, and finally stopped at a man, and asked in a solemn voice:

"He Renlong! This town sent you to replace Fan Shaosheng's bear goods to guard the granary, no problem, right? ”

When the words landed, a sturdy man wearing a thousand general clothes and armor jumped out and said with a smile:

"Don't worry, I'm not the one surnamed Fan! The granary was handed over to me He Renlong, and it must be tightly guarded, and no one except the governor would want to go in! ”

For He Renlong, Gao Ye is still very relieved.

This guy has always been at the forefront of the battle, although he seems to have a straight brain, but he is indeed a good subordinate who can do things.

Gao Ye snorted with satisfaction, and said as he walked back: "Although guarding the granary this time is boring, the governor cares very much, if it is guarded well, it will be a solid achievement." ”

"You don't have to wait until tomorrow morning, you can go back and gather your men and horses right away."