Chapter 463: Luokoucang

When he came out of the building from being drunk, Zhang Yunwen was already slightly drunk. As soon as the evening breeze blew, I suddenly sobered up a lot.

With his fists in front of him, he mounted his horse and prepared to return home. The people behind him wanted to send Zhang Yunwen home, but Zhang Yunwen sternly refused. Therefore, everyone had no choice but to get drunk and not return to the front of the building: "Congratulations to Master Zhang!" ”

The three of them, Ma Wangshan and Yang Shi and Song Waterfall, didn't drink much, and sat on the horse and looked at Zhang Yunwen, who was a little shaky, with a worried face, for fear that he would get off the horse all of a sudden.

By this time it was completely dark. Luoyang City has closed its gates and started a curfew. Bands of patrol soldiers will take to the streets and will patrol until the first hour of the day, and then they will be withdrawn. At the intersection of the street, on a high support, hang these four lanterns in a string, under the blowing of the night wind, the lanterns gently shake, driving the faint light of the four nears to shake with it.

There was no one on the street, only the sound of horses' hooves on the stone slabs echoed through the streets.

At this time, a group of patrol soldiers suddenly appeared in front, and when they saw Zhang Yunwen and the four of them, the soldiers led by them shouted fiercely: "Who dare to walk on the street, don't you know that it is already a curfew?" ”

That Ma Wangshan followed Zhang Yunwen, and the people he saw were all people above the general, so naturally he would not take these soldiers in his eyes, and was about to open his mouth to reprimand, but Zhang Yunwen preemptively said: "Brothers, today I came to Luoyang for the first time, and I saw the prosperity of Luoyang, I really couldn't bear to leave, I drank two more glasses in the restaurant, and I was delayed for some time, all the brothers forgive me, we will return home immediately!" ”

The leading soldier looked the four of them up and down, and saw that although they were riding horses, they were not carrying weapons, and they didn't seem to be bad people, so he immediately said, "Okay, then hurry home!" It's curfew now! ”

Ignoring the four of them, the team leader left.

After the patrol soldiers left, Nama Wangshan couldn't help but say: "My lord, why are you so polite to them, as long as you show your identity, they will not dare to make a mistake!" ”

Zhang Yunwen shook his head: "Old Ma, if someone complains in front of His Majesty, saying that I wandered in the restaurant on the first day I arrived in Chang'an, and appeared on the street during the curfew, blatantly disobeying the law. Although Your Majesty will not have any doubts, those ministers in the DPRK who are dissatisfied with me will definitely attack me in a big way, and when the time comes, neither Your Majesty nor I will look good! ”

"But, aren't you eating those people's receptions?" Ma Wangshan said suspiciously.

"Hmph, they don't care if you catch the wind or not, and they will attack you when they have the opportunity, this is the usual method used by those people, so ah, I have to be careful!" Zhang Yunwen sneered and continued to walk forward.

After such an incident, the four of them quickened their pace, and in less than a quarter of an hour, they returned to the official office.

In order not to worry Li Yu and the others, Zhang Yunwen did not talk about the encounter with the patrol on the road, but only mentioned the delicious food that would not return to the building if he was drunk, and promised to take them to taste it in two days.

On the second day, Zhang Yunwen began to take over the Luoyang affairs in an all-round way. In the front office of the official office, Zhang Cambodia, Wang Fangyi and others have already started work. First, he brought a stack of thick documents directly from the Luoyang Mansion, mainly documents related to commerce, such as government decrees, tax ledgers and other things. These Zhang Yunwen are going to be archived here by themselves, and it is indeed not safe to put them in the Luoyang Mansion.

handed over these chores to the three of them and some small officials to deal with, but he took his own soldiers to wander around Luoyang City. It is said to be foolish, but it is not. Because of Zhang Yunwen, before Zhang Yunwen took office, many officials had been replaced with young and professional officials, but Zhang Yunwen had not met with them. Therefore, he wants to go to see one by one which of these officials can take on great responsibilities, and which ones can only do their own work.

Starting from the Luoyang Mansion, Zhang Yunwen first found out the newly arrived officials in Luoyang City. What surprised him was that nine of the yamen of a Luoyang Mansion with less than 100 servants were transferred three months before Zhang Yunwen took office.

It took eight days for Zhang Yunwen to finally talk to those officials in Luoyang City. Of course, many officials came to visit on their own.

Luoyang City has become a major commercial center due to the convenience of transportation and the fact that the land roads also extend in all directions, and the city is densely populated. Today, there are more than 8,000 merchants in Luoyang City, of which more than 2,000 are controlled by Zhou, Chu, Wang, Lu, Liu and other nearby families, and more than 1,000 are controlled by non-local families such as Pei, Cui, Zhang and Wei. These more than 3,000 merchants account for more than 70% of Luoyang's total transactions.

In the face of such data, Zhang Yunwen feels that there is a long way to go.

There are still a lot of capable officials in Luoyang City. These people are very pragmatic, do things, and act resolutely, which makes Zhang Yunwen feel a little lucky. Fortunately, Li Shimin sent so many people to help.

After the meeting with the officials in Luoyang City, Zhang Yunwen went to meet those local officials outside Luoyang City. Under the guise of patrolling, he set off from Luoyang and headed east first.

Along the way, pass by Yanshi. Cross Luoshui, pass through Gongxian County and arrive at Bishui. After turning west, passing through Luokou, Licheng, Mengzhou and other places, return to Luoyang, and end this eastward plan.

This is how Zhang Yunwen planned his travel route. It is estimated that it will take more than a month.

Although Li Yu and others were very reluctant to Zhang Yunwen's trip, they also knew that this matter was important, and they might not be able to bring themselves.

At the beginning of the eastward journey, it was quite smooth, and many of the county orders and county officials I saw along the way had only been replaced for a long time. There is one in almost every county. They also took out the county's information one after another, and at the same time offered suggestions for Zhang Yun's literature.

It all went well, but when he was in Luokou, Zhang Yunwen ran into a trouble.

Luokou is the name of the town where Luoshui flows into the Yellow River. It's just a town, but it's a place you think you have to go. Because Luokoucang was built here. In the second year of the Great Cause of the Sui Dynasty, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty built the Luokou Warehouse in Luokou Town, and hoarded the grain transported from the south of the Yangtze River through the Grand Canal. At that time, there were more than 20 miles around the warehouse city of Luokoucang, with a total of 3,000 cellars, each cellar stored 8,000 quintals of grain, and 1,000 officers and soldiers were set up to defend the granary. Later, when Zhai asked Li Mi to build Wagang, he relied on breaking through the Luokou Warehouse and distributing nearly 10 million stones, grains and grass in the warehouse to the people, winning the support of the people, so that Wagang developed rapidly.

Today's Luokoucang is also one of the important granaries of Datang. In the entire Heluo area, every year's grain will be stored here. However, at this time, the scale of Luokoucang is not as large as that of the previous generation. In that year, Li Mi captured Luokou Cang, opened the warehouse to release grain, built Luokou, and demolished a lot of cellars to build Luokou, and now, this Luokou warehouse has less than 1,000 cellars. Rao is so, there is still a lot of grain stored here.

Due to the important position of Luokoucang, the position of this cangling was personally appointed by Li Shimin. And this large-scale substitution, this warehouse order has also been replaced by a younger person. The original warehouse order was over half a hundred years old, and Li Shimin transferred him back to Chang'an.

When Zhang Yunwen came to this Luokou warehouse with his own soldiers, what he saw was a bitter cang.

This cangling is called Yang Xu, who was also born as a Jinshi, and has studied arithmetic for several years under the supervision of Guozi, and is proficient in calculation. He is taller than Zhang Yunwen, but his body is very thin. When he saw Zhang Yunwen, this Yang Xu hurriedly introduced him into the room, and the first thing he said was: "Adults save me!" ”