Chapter 17: Rats, Rats
It seems that Wang Hou's bad luck has been washed away with his crossing, so he casually slapped a sycophant, and the Xiahoudun brought by the abduction actually came in handy.
Before Taicang, which is located outside Xuchang City, on the edge of Lengbuding's official road, a large group of soldiers came out of Hula, raising guns and armor, and surrounded Wang Hou and his party violently.
"Bold, thou and man? Dare to surround the Prime Minister's Mansion Cangcao? ”
is worthy of Cao Cheng's Prime Minister "Xiaomi", he has eaten and seen it, and the ring knife in his hand is flat in one move, Cao Hongjie is not afraid at all and is the first to roar, but just like all the villains in the TV series, bursts of arrogant laughter suddenly came from behind the soldiers.
"Four hundred Shicang Cao, what a big official! The captain of this school is your Prime Minister's Mansion Cangcao! ”
"This official is the commander of Su Du Wei Wang Mi, come! Take down this corrupt court moth! ”
Looking at the guy hiding behind the crowd from a distance and not even daring to show his face, Wang Hou looked at Xiahoudun with a stunned expression, how could it be that Lao Tzu was corrupt?
This scene Xiahoudun had already expected, and with a bang, the big iron gun in his hand was slammed into the ground, and a one-eyed fierce light shot out, just like a thunder on dry land, he roared out.
"Xiahou Yuanrang again, who will dare to take my Prime Minister's Mansion?"
With a plop, behind a group of soldiers, Wang Zhi, the captain of Zhisu, sat on the ground in a daze, and immediately squeezed away the soldiers with a rolling belt, and the pampered white face was squeezed like a bun fold, and he bowed sadly.
"The last general meets the former general."
"Why did the lower officials bend the law for bribes? Do you want to bother Wang Duwei to get people? ”
Reasonable and unforgiving, if Xiahou is not here today, he will be unlucky, and he will be angry, Wang Hou is the first to shout in annoyance.
Why didn't I expect to kick on an iron plate, Xiahou is brave, who doesn't know Cao Jun? Besides, he also brought more than a dozen soldiers with him, don't look at the more than 100 people under his command, he may not be able to go straight to others, and scolded a few bastards who came over to be a gunman, this guy was full of anxiety, and he quickly cleared up his relationship with his fists.
"Wang ....., Wang Lingguan, Xia Guan, Xia Guan is also acting on orders, someone reported to Da Si Nong, saying that Taicang has Cangcao embezzled grain reserves, and the last general will arrest ......, no, please, please go back and ask!"
How dark the politics of the late Han Dynasty were, Wang Hou has seen it, please? To put it nicely, looking at the guy and shackled, murderous appearance, he doubted that without Xiahoudun here, these guys could directly kill themselves!
If you want your own life, you naturally can't let him go, standing on his open-top luxury ox power sports car, Wang Hou is righteous words hugged his fists heavily: "General Xiahou, since someone went to Dasi Nong to sue the lower official, the lower official is the suspect, the lower official asked the general to arrest the official, and then take this Wang Du Lieutenant to confront the prime minister in person, and must not let go of a bad person!" ”
This matter is going to be a big trouble, except for the prime minister Cao Cao himself, the rest of the three princes and nine kings have long been hollowed out, this juncture one of the nine kings wants to move the people of the prime minister's mansion, according to Boss Cao's suspicious character, Wang Hou doesn't believe that he can be indifferent!
But Xiahou Dun was much more casual and domineering than Wang Hou thought, ignoring Wang Hou for example, and directly slapped that Wang Duwei: "Xu Du is forbidden, and there is no order from the Bafu to move troops without authorization, the crime is unforgivable!" Come on, take this down and send it to Lord Xun Yuxun of Shangshu Ling to dispose of it! ”
What is called a fierce general, but he was also stunned that he didn't put the more than 100 troops under Wang Mi's command in his eyes, and Xiahoudun's subordinates directly grabbed this dignified 1,000 stone Zhisu Du Lieutenant, which was just used to take Wang Hou's flail and give it to him on the neck, and the characters who were estimated to be the captains of the pro-soldiers next to Xiahoudun's horse were even more arrogant, pointing to the noses of the Wang family who were still surrounded and scolded.
"Why don't you fucking get out of here, wait for Lao Tzu to ask for military law and cut off your heads one by one?"
It's really not a level, holding a spear and wearing armor to look at and scare people, but listening to this Captain Cao scolding, these Wang family members were intimidated, hula retreated in all directions and went out a few meters away, many people were obviously still thinking about their own master, but they didn't dare to step forward, they could only hang from afar.
Sent away these idle people, these Xiahou Dun's subordinates are really strong, hundreds of people are staring, and the three of them pushed Wang Mi and walked towards the city.
While walking, Wang Mi was still crying with a big wooden flail and desperately begging for mercy: "General Xiahou spare his life!" Xia Guan really acted on orders! Wang Lingguan, Lord Wang! Uncle Wang, you always say something! The little nephew is from the Gaoming Hall of the Jinyang Wang family, we are the same clan, and blood is thicker than water!! ”
His words of begging for mercy, Wang Hou couldn't help but be depressed for a while, last time, the bastard Wang Xun who was beheaded and wanted to cut off his head was also the Jinyang Wang family, and this came out again A big nephew of the Jinyang Wang family who wanted his own life, is his popularity in the Wang family so bad?
"Commander Wang?"
Xiahoudun's inquiring voice made Wang Hou come back to his senses, smiled and hugged his fists, he said helplessly: "General Xiahou smiled, please!" ”
"Please!"
...........
After such an episode, Wang Hou, who was sitting in an open-top ox cart, arrived all the way to Xudu Taicang.
This is not one with the Xingluo Cang of the Han Empire, it was repaired additionally after Cao Cao moved the capital to Xuchang, and it was obviously much smaller than the Xingluo Cang, a total of 20 warehouses, each warehouse 20 cellars, each cellar can store 8,000 stones of grain, and theoretically can store 3.2 million stones of grain.
But after arriving here, Wang Hou knew why he checked a granary by himself, and even Xiahoudun could be alarmed, and the shortage of grain in Taicang had reached an outrageous level.
I don't know if the rafters of Wang Mi just now have anything to do with Yu Bing, but when he saw Wang Hou coming, he went straight to his C-shaped warehouse, and this guy's fat face full of oil almost didn't cry.
"Cangcao, general, here is ......., here is the No. 1 cellar, you ....., you proofread ......."
Outside the basket shape of the warehouse cover, the inside is another Qiankun, digging down a hundred meters in diameter, dozens of meters deep a spacious pit comes into view, but this pit looks not small, the things inside are few pitiful, theoretically make the pit that accommodates 8,000 stones, sparsely scattered only a change of angle to place a bunch of baskets, look at the floor area, less than 2,000 stones.
And snorting, I smelled an obvious smell of rotten and spoiled grain, and when I lifted the lid of the basket where the smell came from, the mildew millet with white hair inside came into my eyes in a thrilling way.
Looking at this scene, Cao Hongjie became as hot as a little pepper, and roared angrily: "There should be 3,700 stones of grain in the account book of the No. 1 cellar of the C-word warehouse, and all of them are new grain, why is it so scarce?" And so much decay! You stupid official, you are so corrupt! ”
"Oops! I'm Kuracao! ”
Seeing that Cao Hong's temperament almost didn't draw his sword and cut Yu Bing, Wang Hou hurriedly dragged her aside, and then his public face was full of warm smiles, just like a wolf grandmother, and said with a smile: "The weather is changing, insects, ants and rats are infested, even copper coins will be moldy, not to mention food, it is not impossible to lose a hundred and ten buckets, Lord Yu, do you say it?" ”
This time, there is also a Xiahou dun to support him, and he obviously knows some of the inside story of bringing down Wang Hou, seeing that Cao Hongjie is really going to draw a knife to cut himself, Yu Bing, the fat man, is really almost scared and crying, and he can't hide it, Wang Hou's head is tempting again, and he, as a soft persimmon, is the first to spit out.
Full of fear and frustration, the guy fell to his knees and nodded sadly.
"Back to Cangcao, there are still 1,800 stones of grain in cellar No. 1!"
"Get rid of the rotten!"
"Also, there are still 1,620 stones, Cangcao, there is really no corruption in Xiaguan! You old Mingjian! ”
He kowtowed sadly there, but Wang Houjia still looked like a smiling tiger, first ordered Wang Pole and them to find someone to move the mildew out directly, and then turned around and nodded with a smile.
"What's the hurry, didn't the official just say? It's normal for the climate to change, and the grain is rotten and mildew, who says you're corrupt? ”
As he spoke, he picked up the booklet and made a heavy note in the latest column of the No. 1 cellar book.
Two thousand and eight stones of mildew, and one thousand six hundred and twenty stones of storage remaining!
"Let's go, next cellar!"
In Wang Hou's relaxed laughter, Yu Bing led the way to the cellar with a sad face.
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In the morning, Wang Hou checked a total of four warehouses, and only after walking around did he find that Yu Bing was really kind, some cellars stored less than one-fifth of the account book, and even two cellars only had more than 700 stones of bad grain left, and there was no stone left of intact grain.
On the whole, the stored grain is only a quarter of the book, four warehouses, and about 60,000 stone of grain.
It sounds like a lot, but in this era, there is a lack of meat and protein, lack of oil and water, and an adult can barely eat one and a half to two catties of grain a day, and 60,000 stone sounds like a lot, which is enough for 36,000 men and horses to fight for a hundred days, which is only for combat personnel, not for logistics people, cattle and horses.
The four cangrafters who received Wang Hou also had different attitudes, like Yu Bing, Xiahou Ying, and the two of them were respectful and trembling. However, Yang Yong and Dong Chang were arrogant and fearless, and they didn't know how much food was left in their warehouse, and they didn't pretend not to know, but they really didn't know, because of them, Wang Hou had to count them personally, and most of the time was wasted on them.
Out of Taicang, there were already people waiting for Xiahoudun, it should be Cao Cao's order, and Wang Hou confessed, he also left his guard captain to send Wang Hou back to his house, and he left.
But sitting in the car, Cao Hongjie couldn't hold it back, this girl was like an anti-corruption fighter, and she smashed the wheel of the car with her extremely angry fist and shouted.
"No wonder every time I come out to fight, it doesn't take long for there to be no military rations, and I let moths like you be corrupted, and I will go back to the house to tell the prime minister that I should take down all these rats and cut them down!"
Wang Hou was depressed, why did it happen to him again? Is it good to have a clean breeze on your sleeves, if you are really corrupt, can you be poor in two broken robes? Full of helplessness, he took Cao Hongjie's little hand and shook his head.
"You're going to cut them all down, and in a short time, who will you let take care of the prime minister's food? Besides, you can guarantee that the next batch of barn rafters will have a fresh breeze on each sleeve? Also, if you cut them down, where are you going to chase them? ”
Cao Hongjie, who asked a series of questions, had three points in his small brain, full of helplessness. She spread her hands to Wang Houyi again.
"So what do you say?"
"Go home first and build the kang up!"
happened to arrive at the gate of his house, Wang Hou jumped out of the car happily.