Chapter 568: National Disaster
Tao Zhulu had already poured the wine at this time, and Lan Ziyi raised his wine glass to Du Jing at this time:
"Lord Du was degraded today by me, and Ziyi is irretrievable, so I can only give Lord Du a cup."
Du Jing smiled and clinked glasses with Lan Ziyi, and then asked:
"What did Wei Hou say about this? What do you have to do with whether I am degraded or not? ”
Lan Ziyi said:
"Lord Du is famous in the capital, how can he move left for no reason? It's not because the soldiers of the Tiger Battalion came in a few days ago, although Ziyi is stupid, he still understands this reason. ”
Du Jing was noncommittal when he heard this, but just drank the wine with a glass of wine. After a cup of belly, Du Jing invited Lan Ziyi to eat meat, Lan Ziyi and the Tao brothers ran out for a morning, and then they also felt hungry in their stomachs, so they naturally started eating with Du Jing, several people were eating, Lan Ziyi chatted with Du Jing at the same time, only to hear Lan Ziyi ask:
"Lord Du, can we find out the progress of the military rations?"
Du Jing said while tearing the roast goose:
"What, as soon as you hear that I'm leaving, you're in a hurry to collect rent? Rest assured, how can you be so shrewd to trade at a loss? I checked it, and I asked about your hand, and it was just as I expected. ”
Lan Ziyi asked:
"What did Master Du ask?"
Du Jing sighed:
"On that day, the army fought outside the capital, and Taicang directly allocated grain, but as soon as the grain came out of the warehouse, it was divided into two parts, one was transported to the camp, and the other was directly transported and sold by several grain merchants.
Lan Ziyi asked:
"In this way, as long as you check two account books, you can confirm the theft of military rations?"
Du Jing smiled bitterly:
"If only it were that easy. Taicang's account books are okay, written clearly in black and white, but how to make tea in Daying? Wei Hou naturally knew in the army that it happened that the camp was attacked by demon thieves at that time, and everything was burned clean in a fire, and there was not even ashes left. ”
As he spoke, Du Jing stuffed a piece of meat into his mouth, and swallowed it with wine. Fat goose wine is a good thing, a sip of the stomach seems to arouse Du Jing's thoughts, he put down the wine glass and said to Lan Ziyi:
"But it's not like I haven't found anything, and when I looked through the account books in Taicang, I found something unusual."
These words aroused Lan Ziyi's interest, and he asked with a slight frown:
"What's unusual?"
To King Road:
"The amount of grain in Taicang is not matched."
Lan Ziyi showed a smile that was not easy to be noticed when he heard this, and what he was looking forward to finally came. The peach chase on the side sighed when he heard this:
"In the past, Taicang was tightly guarded and some people stole and stole and sold, but now Taicang is a big open door for others to take, and the adults who have endured it must not take this opportunity to get up and down their hands and scrape a layer of oil? This is not unusual. “
Du Jing squeezed the cup hard, the ten knuckles gurgled, and he gritted his teeth and said hatefully:
"It's really not unusual, but the victims of the disaster all over the world are waiting to be fed, but these corrupt officials and corrupt officials take the opportunity to make a fortune in the country, no matter how you look at it, it's unpleasant!"
Lan Ziyi only looked at Du Jing's appearance and knew that he would definitely not let go of this matter easily, and if he didn't let it go, he would definitely get it, so Lan Ziyi asked:
"What did Lord Du find out?"
Du Jing drank another glass of wine, and then scolded:
"That Taicang manager Shen Zhong is really a thief fox, and the account books are cleaner than the bowl in the beggar's hand! But I only roughly calculated the grain boats that appear in the lake every day, and I can find that it is not the same as what I remember in the account, so Shen Zhong must be selling disaster relief grain privately! ”
Lan Ziyi was overjoyed when he heard this, what he wanted was this news, but he didn't dare to show his face in front of Du Jing, so he could only suppress his excitement,
Fortunately, Peach Rabbit asked at this time:
"The price of grain in Taicang is not much different from that of free delivery, so can it still be sold privately?"
Peach Road:
"Although the price of grain is cheap, it cannot support the large amount, and millions of stones are sold, even if a stone is only sold for a penny, it is not a small amount."
Du Jing took over and said:
"What's more, the grain ships queuing up outside the gate of Taicang every day, if they want to pull grain to buy, they need the consent of the competent officials, and who comes first and who comes last, this is a great opportunity to get their hands on it."
Lan Ziyi asked:
"Master Du has found out so much physical evidence in his hands?"
Lan Ziyi thought that Du Jing would definitely have something that he could use when he found out so much, but he didn't expect Du Jing to shake his head and sigh:
"You've burned all the evidence!"
Lan Ziyi was puzzled when he heard this, and he said:
"Burned by me? What do you mean by that? ”
But as soon as he finished speaking, Lan Ziyi reacted to what was going on, and what Du Jing said just confirmed Lan Ziyi's thoughts, and only listened to Du Jingdao:
"Shen Zhong has a bad relationship with you, so naturally he doesn't want to sell the grain to the north who has a close relationship with you, and if he doesn't sell the northern merchants, he can only sell it to the Beijing merchants. Instead of asking me for evidence, Wei Hou should go to Jingkou to ask the grain merchants who were burned to see what evidence they have available. ”
Tao Zhutu asked puzzledly:
"Didn't you just say that these grain merchants have already died?"
To King Road:
"Opening the warehouse and releasing grain started before your young master went to Jingkou, and these people were not dead at that time! And although they are dead, and their men are not dead, there are still so many caravans with capacity, who are they not sold to? ”
Lan Ziyi frowned again when he heard Du Jing's words, a fire burned down people's houses in the Yueshan Mountains in Jingkou that day, what evidence can be found now? Lan Ziyi could only go back and ask Yueshanjian to see if she had any evidence of Shen Zhong in her hand, and the dead horse was regarded as a live horse doctor.
Du Jing saw Lan Ziyi in a daze, so he asked:
"Is Wei Hou absentmindedly thinking about your Anda?"
Lan Ziyi was puzzled by Du Jing's question, and he asked:
"My Anda thing? What's wrong with my Anda? “
Du Jing put down the wine and meat and said in surprise:
"Wei Hou doesn't know? Yesterday, before I left office, I heard a report from my subordinates that Taichengwei went to the Honglu Temple to arrest people, and the arrest was you, Anda Temoxinge, don't you know? Even if no one in Honglu Temple tells you, your father-in-law Yu over there should tell you. “
Lan Ziyi was so shocked that he almost jumped up from his chair when he heard this, he tried hard to think in his mind, why Taichengwei wanted to arrest Timoxinge, why did Father-in-law Yu hide this matter from Lan Ziyi, countless memories poured into Lan Ziyi's mind in an instant, and the fragments of the meeting flashed in front of Lan Ziyi's eyes like a marquee. Suddenly, a memory caught Lan Ziyi's attention, that is, when Lan Ziyi and Temoshenge went to the Washing Temple to pick up people, the Taicheng guard who passed by Lan Ziyi wore a hood to cover his ears, and when Timoshenge executed the eunuchs of the imperial horse eunuch in the grassland that day, the Taicheng guards who were let go by him were cut off their ears.
Thinking of this, Lan Ziyi really couldn't sit still, he jumped up and walked out of the boat without saying a word, remembering that there was Du Jing behind him, he hurriedly turned around and said:
"Ziyi has to leave in advance, Master Du Haihan!"
Regardless of what happened to Du Jing, he took the Tao brothers and left the ship ashore.