The methods of the local Haoqiang pit the court and the people, basically do not need to think about it, Wu Shitong knows the situation in Huangzhou, and even the other states and counties controlled by Haoqiang, and playing it to the imperial court just makes Li Shimin worry a little more.

How to eradicate these local forces must be carried out by stratagem as the preconditions permit.

In the first two years, the Tang Dynasty was going to go to war outside, and the local area could not be chaotic, so Wu Shi Tong responded to the central policy and did not move them, because, even if these states and counties were controlled by various powerful people, they could still pay some taxes to the imperial court every year.

Now, the external war is over, how to dig out these internal tumors depends on how determined the emperor is, if Sun Xiangfu follows Wu Shitong's suggestion to check the account books, it will definitely be accurate.

"Ying Gong, the governor of the state road, should have the right to decide all the affairs of the state and county!"

"In terms of personnel, officials below the seventh grade have the right to directly recall, and the Zhongzhou assassin history below the fifth grade also has the right to suspend first, and then ask for recall, and above the fifth grade, you need to play the first request before you can make a disposition, Shannan Province, only Jingzhou is Shangzhou, and the governor is concurrently served by me, and there is no long history, so in addition to me, there are no officials above the fifth grade."

"What about finances and military power?"

"These two aspects can be dealt with with all the powers, however, the state assassin Shi has refused to carry it out, the appeal is played, the strength of the local garrison in Huangzhou, and the people of the public security department and the riot control team, I am afraid that they will only listen to the Huang family, and if they are in a hurry, they may refuse to carry out this order."

That is to say, the governor of the state highway has the power to requisition all property, issue decrees, and mobilize the army, but the state governor who belongs to the current state governor can refuse to execute it, even if you suspend him from his position, without the approval of the officials at the state level, the state governor cannot forcibly implement his own decree or military order, and must wait for the state governor to go to the emperor for approval, and then it can be implemented according to the emperor's will, which is also a restriction on the power of the state governor.

When Sun Xiangfu previously served as the governor of Anbei, Li Shimin's power was more lenient, and he could be directly dismissed below the fifth rank, and directly appointed below the seventh rank, and no one under his rule could refute his order, but it was much more convenient than here, after listening to the explanation of the warrior Tong, he touched his chin and thought for a while before saying, "It's not that it can't be solved." ”

"What are you going to do?"

"With the current situation of water coming from the upstream, this year's flood is only afraid of a small number, Huangzhou is the base of the Huang family, they will definitely not sit idly by and watch their fertile land be flooded, I would like to ask you as the governor of Shannan Province, go to Huangzhou to assassinate the history of the Yamen, let all the garrisons and anti-riot teams under his control go with you to the low-lying East Lake area to build embankments and floods.

Then I took my guards into the city, dismissed the county officials who were in charge of the Changping Position, and mobilized the grain from the Changping Fields to prepare for the flood. ”

Since the grain here is controlled by the Huang family, it is impossible to use it for loans or sell it to the people affected by the disaster at a low price, so Sun Xiangfu thought of a strategy to simply transfer the grain away, seeing that the water level has risen by another meter or two in the past two days, and it has begun to flood the fields on both sides of the river, so it is more appropriate to dig out the grain in the hands of these powerful people one step ahead of them for disaster relief.

Wu Shi Tong listened to Sun Xiangfu's strategy, thought about it and said, "In this case, how can we quickly transport the grain from several counties in Huangzhou to the Yuantian?" ”

"Let the cargo ships of the waterway transfer company bring their own porters, all of them will be assembled in Huangzhou, more than 100 million stone ships, one trip, can transport more than 1 million stone of grain, no matter how much grain is often closed in Huangzhou, it is impossible to have millions of stones!"

Wu Shi Tong nodded and said, "This plan is feasible, but the old man is a little worried that the Huang clansmen will block the cargo ship from transporting grain." ”

Sun Xiangfu spread his hands and said, "There are no soldiers here, what are they going to stop them?" In addition, they used shady means to sell grain to Chang Ping at a high price, and we just dismissed a few petty officials and ate this loss, and they should be happy. ”

"So, then you and I will go our separate ways?"

"Well, before acting, I have to send someone to get the account books of the counties that are often closed, so that I can know how much money the Huang family has spent in the imperial court in the past two years."

"Then, I'll wait for another two or three days on this river?"

"Fortunately, we can learn more about the water situation in the upper reaches and mobilize the people along the river to evacuate to higher places earlier."

After the two agreed, there were various carrier pigeons and clippers to send out the order, and Sun Xiangfu would bring the intelligence team with him when he walked there, and also secretly entered the territory of Huangzhou, now, the water situation is so tense, the Huang family is already doing all kinds of responses, and should not pay much attention to the internal affairs of the yamen.

Three days later, Wu Shi Tong's official ship docked at the wharf of Huanggang County, the seat of Huangzhou, and a group of people went straight to the Yamen of the Assassin's Mansion, where Wu Shi Tong pretended to say that the water situation along the East Lake was urgent, and asked Chen Xiong, the assassin of Huangzhou, to order the requisition of government soldiers from the four counties in the state, the in-service anti-riot squad, and even most of the government officials, to build embankments for flood control.

At this time, there were only four counties in Huangzhou, Huanggang, Huangpo, Macheng, and Mulan, and they only gathered for dozens of miles, and the state highway manager came in person, and it was for the sake of fighting disasters and defending the land, Chen Xiong naturally did not doubt it, and in just one day, he summoned more than 13,000 people from the state government, explosion-proof teams, government officers, and more than 13,000 young people of the local Huang family, and went to the direction of East Lake.

In the early morning of the next day after their departure, Sun Xiangfu led his 200 ironclad guards into Huanggang County, and more than 100 ships of 10,000 stones had already approached the Huangzhou wharf.

Sun Xiangfu braved the spring rain to enter the city, and went straight to the Changping warehouse, and in his arms, there was Changping in and out of the account book that was given to him by Wuyinger last night.

"Dare to ask what official position your lord is, why did you lead the troops to break into my granary in Huangzhou?" Huang Fu, the agricultural official on duty in the yafang that often closes, asked Sun Xiangfu and the others without panic at all.

In this Huangzhou territory, he is not afraid of the imperial court sending officials to investigate, because all the preparations have already been done properly, and he is not afraid of investigation at all.

"This official, Sun Zhengming, the secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture." He deliberately glanced down at the golden-purple fish rune on his waist.

"Agriculture, the Ministry of Agriculture?"

Military generals look at military ranks, civil officials look at fish charms, only the big people above the third grade can have a golden purple fish charm to wear, and Sun Xiangfu's fish charm is a circle wrapped by two golden ears of wheat, with a purple fish charm in the middle, this is the Ministry of Agriculture, the highest level of the seal, seeing this seal, even Huang Fu, who has long been prepared to deal with the imperial court's investigation, was also surprised.

Previously, the samurai would often send the staff of the governor's office to the states to investigate, but basically they were just asking, eating and drinking, and leaving, but today, it was the No. 1 heavenly official of the Ministry of Agriculture who came in person, and this is a big thing to happen!

"Xiaguan Huang Fu, meet Lord Shangshu."

"Huang Sinong is exempt, this official asks you, how much rice and grain is there in Huangzhou Changping?"

Speaking of this, Huang Fudi immediately felt that his waist pole was much stiffer, and he bowed down and hugged his fists, "Lord Yushangshu, in the Huangzhou Changping warehouse, there are 1.8 million stones of grain, of which, 600,000 stones of rice that have been milled, and 1.2 million stones of unmilled rice, are stored in the Changping warehouses of the four counties in the territory, of which Huanggang Cang has the most, with 300,000 stones of rice and 800,000 stones of grain, which are now in the warehouse, and not a stone is bad." ”

A state with only four counties can hoard 1.8 million stone of grain in the granary, which shows how abundant its grain reserves are, and these grains alone are enough for more than 100,000 people in Huangzhou to eat for two years.

However, the grain that is often closed is not the more you have, the better.

There are many tuns, which just shows that the grain of the people in the surrounding areas is concentrated in the hands of their Huang family.

After all, there are so many fields in Huangzhou, the fields under the name of the Huang family, plus the surrounding fields that they bought and sold to them before, are only one or two million mu, even if there is a bumper harvest, with the output of Huangzhou, it will definitely not exceed six million stone valleys, from last autumn's harvest to the consumption in March this year, and then in addition to the two or three million stones that are paid and sold abroad, plus the edible grain kept by the people and the Huang family, there are still nearly half of the grain in stock, this data is not normal at all.

Sun Xiangfu did not doubt what Huang Fu said, because this data was completely consistent with the data in the account book he obtained, and seeing the momentum of Huang Fu straightening his waist and speaking, he also knew that there was indeed so much grain in the warehouse.

"If, this official also uses the price of your Huangzhou Chang Closing to collect grain in the market, not to mention 1.8 million stone grain in the warehouse now, there are 18 million stone grain."

Sun Xiangfu's tone suddenly cooled, but Huang Fu was stunned and said, "My lord, what do you mean by this?" ”

"What do you mean? The price of rice in Chang'an this year is only one hundred wen and one stone, and the price of rice in the entire Shannan Province has been maintained below eighty wen and one stone since the harvest last autumn. ”

Hearing Sun Xiangfu say this, Huang Fu knew that this first brother of the Ministry of Agriculture came prepared, but he didn't panic and said, "So what?" The rules and regulations of the imperial court said that after the autumn harvest is often closed, the grain will be collected at the market price to stabilize the grain price, and there is no specific price specified, and the people of Huangzhou love to sell rice for 160 wen and 1 stone, and millet for 140 wen and 1 stone, and the lower officials are helpless! ”

"Do you dare to quibble? Do you want to ask a random person on the street to ask, after the harvest last autumn, at what price did you buy the rice and rice in the hands of the people? ”

"Adults can go and arrest someone and ask!"

"Hmph, even if everyone in your Huangzhou is surnamed Huang, these transaction documents sold to the outside world do not allow you to justify."

Sun Xiangfu said, threw some old transaction documents on Huang Fu's head, and suddenly, the guards under him didn't talk to him anymore, grabbed his arm left and right, and pressed him to the ground, at the same time, Zhang Ke also took off the key to the granary hanging on his waist, and suddenly, like a tide, the porter pushed the cart and poured into the Changping warehouse from the street.

Huang Fu, who was pressed to the ground, rolled his eyes for a while, and he happened to see the transaction documents falling on the ground, which were some bills of Huangzhou's grain sales last year, which clearly stated that their Huang family's grain store sold rice to foreign grain merchants at a price of 80 wen per stone, and sold a large amount of rice to foreign merchants at a price of 60 wen per stone, and the price at which they collected grain from the people was only much lower than the price at which they sold grain to the outside world.

With the evidence provided by those foreign merchants who collected grain, Huang Fu knew that it was useless to quibble, so he gritted his teeth and said, "That's right, I did this thing, but all the money earned was spent by me, if you want to kill or chop, whatever you want." ”

"Hehe, just based on the market price, you have embezzled more than 100,000 guan of grain purchases, if you calculate it based on your actual purchase price and the price recorded in your account, you have embezzled at least 200,000 guan, I want to know, how did you spend a huge amount of money of 200,000 guan in just a few months?"

Huang Fu is just a very ordinary child of the Huang family, when the Huang family chose him to be this kind of chess piece that may be abandoned, he had a plan, an ordinary family can exchange 200,000 yuan of profits for the family, and help the family solve the problem of unsalable grain, it is definitely too cost-effective, however, Sun Xiangfu is not here to chat and fart with a little foot like him, as long as he admits in public that he has embezzled on the issue of food, I believe that the Huang family can be the master of the house. Soon he will know the news here, and when the time comes, it will be difficult for him to find an understanding to prevent Sun Xiangfu from transporting food.