Half a month later, Zhao Yan looked at the information on the origin of the grain used in the homes of senior officials of various ministries and departments sent by Liu Xi of the Inner Serving Province, and his feelings were a little complicated.

Some high-ranking officials always only eat grain grown in the same place, some officials eat grain all over the place, and some high-ranking officials even want to eat grain bought in Nanyang, and of course, there are also officials who can't tell the origin of the grain in their mansions.

"Yusha County, Gangneung Province, is the rice in this place good? Why do you only eat rice from this prefecture? Zhao Yan asked casually.

Liu Xi replied: "The rice in Yusha County is indeed very good, fragrant and soft, and the tribute rice in the palace is produced in Yusha County." ”

"What about Hanzhong?"

"Hanzhong is also a tribute rice production area, and a batch was sent a few years ago, and the rice produced there tastes very good." Liu Xi replied again.

"The rice eaten in Li Shangshu's Mansion comes from dozens of prefectures and counties in Guangnan, Fujian, Jiangxi, Jinghu, Liangzhejiang, Huaixi, and Beijing, Nanjing, and north, do these places have tribute rice?" Zhao Yan's tone was a little unkind.

Liu Xi hurriedly said: "Back to the emperor, this is not it." It is said that Li Shangshu has a habit of tasting the grain grown in his own field every year, and I heard that Li Shangshu can tell from the grain, color and taste of these grains after cooking, whether the origin of these grains was good or bad. ”

"Oh, Li Shangshu still has such skills? If I knew that he had such ability, I should have let him continue to be in charge of the household. ”

Zhao Yan's seemingly bland words, Liu Xi heard a different meaning from it, and Li Shangshu was afraid that he was going to be a scholar.

"What's going on with the 'unknown' of the Yang Mansion, haven't you checked it?" Zhao Yan continued to look through.

"Yang Mansion also went to check, but the rice noodles eaten by Yang Mansion could not be found to have a fixed origin." Liu Xi immediately explained: "The grain eaten in Yangfu is all bought from the grain shops in Bianjing City, although they are all bought from those three or five grain shops, but the grain from those grain shops is purchased from other grain merchants, and the major grain merchants buy grain from all over the country, and the grain from all over the country is mixed together, and it is impossible to distinguish the place of origin at all. The minister also asked people to check carefully, and when they found the grain merchants, no one could tell the specific origin of their grain. ”

"Yang Mansion can't afford to eat tribute rice from Yusha County and Hanzhong?" Zhao Yan had doubts.

"There are not many people in the Yang Mansion, and Lord Yang is not in Bianjing, so he doesn't pay much attention to it. However, Yang Mansion still bought dozens of catties of tribute rice, saying that it was specially used to boil porridge, it is said that the new second son of Yang Mansion lacked milk to eat, and the house was unwilling to find a nurse to feed, so he could only boil porridge every day. Liu Xi continued to explain.

Hearing the news, Zhao Yan was silent.

After a while, he instructed: "Tell the queen, let her pick some supplements, and find a time to send them to the Yang Mansion." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty."

The next day.

In the early dynasty, Zhao Yan announced the origin of the grain used in the mansion of the high-ranking officials reported by Liu Xi in the Inner Servant Province.

Then a question was raised, where is the best rice in the world?

As soon as this proposal came out, the ministers didn't know why at first, but soon after, the quick-witted Imperial Historian grabbed what was behind the issue, the land!

So just when some ministers were still making high-level comments, talking about where the rice was fragrant, where the grains were full, and where there were delicious specialties, the officials suddenly shifted the topic to the land.

The issue of the large-scale annexation of the lands of Lianghuai, Jingnan, and Jingbei then surfaced, and the officials took advantage of the issue of grain to open their firepower with all their firepower, chasing after the wind and shadows, wantonly attacking various ministries, departments, and local officials to seize the wasteland that ordinary people had worked so hard to reclaim through disgraceful means.

Above the court, the officials competed with each other, and suddenly exploded.

An issue of where the food is delicious adds another fire to the anti-corruption cause of the officials of the Imperial History Observatory.

This fire burned from Bianjing to all parts of the country within half a month, implicating a wide range of people, it is difficult to calculate, and almost all of the land that was seized from the people by forging the land deeds of the land was confiscated by the imperial court and returned to the people who had reclaimed those lands that year.

Of course, in order to stabilize the mood of officials, the imperial court also made some concessions, and those who were found to be willing to return the land were not punished, and the officials who took the initiative to return the land were only demoted and transferred.

The anti-corruption storm triggered by the issue of grain production areas has added a strong impetus to the entire anti-corruption campaign.

And the initial cause of this storm is no longer important, because through continuous high-intensity anti-corruption, Zhao Yan finally confirmed that Yang Congyi really has no assets to get his hands on except for some cash.

After a comprehensive anti-corruption investigation, Zhao Yan knew that Yang Congyi was indeed a strange person who was different, he was different from all the ministers in the court, he had no land, no family property, no three or five concubines, and he did not raise dozens or hundreds of servants, and the maidservants from Goryeo and the Wa Kingdom had never seen him, he worked so hard to get such a high official position, and he did not seek wealth behind him, and he did not seek to enjoy this life, what is supporting him? Is it really just to fulfill the ambitions of the early years?

The stack of information about Yang Congyi that Chen Kangbo brought back from Wan Yanliang back then, Zhao Yan has read it more than 100 times over the years, and when there is no one, he recalls again and again the details of the contact with him in the early years, as well as the communication and conversation between them in the early years, the more diligent he watched, the more he thought about it, the more Zhao Yan felt that he couldn't see him clearly.

What kind of person he is and how capable he is, Zhao Yan can't estimate it.

But Zhao Yan knew very well that if Yang Congyi had not raised 100,000 troops from the Daimyo's Mansion to Xingren Mansion to support him, he would not have been able to enter Bianjing, let alone rule the land of hundreds of states in Jiangbei and sit firmly on the emperor's throne.

Of the three Northern Expeditionary armies near Bianjing, only Yang Congyi clearly supported him to continue to be the emperor, and later completely handed over the most elite cavalry troops trained by himself to the hands of the palace front division, so that when he first came to Bianjing, he had a completely controllable and powerful army in his hands, and with this elite army controlled by the emperor himself, he quickly gained a firm foothold in Bianjing.

It can be said that in that case, if other generals were replaced, no one would be willing to completely hand over the elite troops that had been cultivated for many years to the emperor with an unstable foundation, but Yang Congyi did so.

Without Yang Congyi, there would be no Bianjing today, and there would be no Zhao Yan's throne, Zhao Yan himself knows very well.

But even so, Zhao Yan couldn't help but want to see Yang Congyi's heart, because he always felt that Yang Congyi was by no means simple.

Zhao Yan's opinion is the same as that of Emperor Wan Yanliang of the Jin State, everything they can't see through is dangerous to them, and they all observe and study Yang Congyi together.

Of course, they did not have the opportunity to discuss together, nor could they exchange letters.

For Yang Congyi, Zhao Yan felt that he couldn't see clearly when he was so close to him, not to mention that Wan Yanliang, who had never seen a few faces, made him even more unable to see clearly.

In fact, Yang Congyi is not very complicated, most of the information about him, he did not deliberately hide it at all, but the people who care about him don't believe it.

Zhao Yan's suspicion of Yang Congyi was alleviated, but his doubts were deeper.

Similarly, in Jinan Mansion, a few hundred miles away from Bianjing, there is also a group of people who can't understand Yang Congyi, and in the face of Yang Congyi, their hearts are also full of questions.

"My lord, the imperial court does not allow us to go to war, and let us train and provoke in front of the Zhending Mansion and the Yanjing Jin Army, what does the imperial court think?"

"I practiced every day, I practiced for several days and months, and I didn't let us fight, and my brothers asked when to fight every day, and I didn't know how to tell them."

"Those small counties and towns occupied by the Jin army have two battalions of men and horses, and thousands of people are stationed in them, as long as the imperial court agrees with me to send troops, I promise that I can take it in half a day!"

"Yes, just such a small town, give me half a month, I can win five or six. When will the court let us fight, the brothers can't wait. ”

The commanders of the various armies gathered in the Marshal's Mansion and had great opinions on the orders issued by Yang Congyi in the past few months, because they were in a dilemma and could not understand the intentions of the imperial court and the Marshal's Mansion at all, so they took advantage of the opportunity to concentrate on the deliberations that they had been waiting for, and they all asked one after another, and they all wanted to ask for an answer.

However, Yang Congyi did not want to reveal his true intentions because the time had not yet come.

If you want the Northern Expedition to succeed in one fell swoop, you must first take Hedong, and in order to successfully seize Hedong, the direction of Jinan Mansion and Hejian Mansion must put pressure on the Jin State, not to mention how much military pressure is given, at least to distract their energy and firmly attract their attention to Hejian Province, so that Xin Qiji can act boldly in Hedong.

So Yang Congyi didn't explain too much to them, but just told them to follow the implementation, understand to implement it well, and implement it well if they don't understand, this is the requirement of the imperial court, the requirements of the Shuaifu, and it is also his personal request!

Hearing Yang Congyi say this, what else can the commanders say?

In addition, Luo Cong, the capital of Jinan Prefecture, and Yao Chang, the commander of Hejian Prefecture, echoed on the side, and the commanders had nothing to say.

A small ruler has very little information to be able to see, so they can't be asked to see too far and too far, and for them, they only need to do what they are told, and they don't need to have too much autonomy.

There is nothing too important to discuss at this gathering, but it is just to let the commanders of all armies come to the marshal's mansion to gather together.

If you want to win a battle, you must be familiar with each other, and only when you are familiar with each other can you establish a relationship of mutual trust, and if you don't trust each other on the battlefield, it is impossible to win a battle.

Yang Congyi has been away from the border for many years, and the generals of the border army have also changed a lot over the years, and some of the people who were familiar with them back then are no longer in the army, and some have been transferred to other places to garrison.

In addition, he was originally unfamiliar with most of the Jinan and Hejian Fu armies from the Shandong Righteous Army, and he had not paid special attention to them for a long time, and he was even less familiar with these generals.

This time, he will stay in Jinan Mansion and Hejian Mansion for a long time, and there may be small friction in the situation of the confrontation between the three parties here in the short term, but it is impossible for a big war to occur, and he will take this opportunity to get acquainted with the generals as soon as possible and basically find out their details.

At the first meeting of the generals, everyone praised the content and results of the daily training of each army, and then Yang Congyi asked everyone to express their opinions and express their opinions on how to conduct targeted training for the Jin army.

Judging from the results, the goal of the first gathering of generals has been basically achieved.