Li's violence and intimidation clearly worked. As he explained what he knew, the scribe reached out from time to time to wipe the blood that slowly flowed from his forehead. Li Yanzhi called Liu Jiwu and moved another few cases to write records on the side. He himself clutched the half-bloodstained paperweight in his hand and interrogated the clerk who fell to the ground with a solemn expression.

According to the information provided by the scribes, their greed for ink began when the soldiers of Lingju County fought on the front line of Jincheng. The military rations raised in the county government were first stored in the granary depot of the large battalion. New grain comes in, old grain comes out. It is precisely this rule that gives these people the opportunity to exploit loopholes.

With the war at the front, military needs increased, and food was put under control. Prices skyrocketed. The scribe had no such thoughts at first. It's just that after the army set off, there were still more than 100 old soldiers left in the camp. These military attaches who stayed behind saw that the price of grain outside had skyrocketed, so they had thoughts, and then colluded with some black-hearted grain merchants in the county town to persuade this clerk again.

At first, the scribe refused to answer. Unable to withstand the persuasion of these military attachés for three days and two ends, coupled with their own meager income, it was indeed not enough to feed the family, so they joined these people and began to resell military rations, and scattered and filled the grain depots with moldy and bad grain. In this way, even if the officials occasionally come to check, there is no problem with the amount of these grains in the grain depot. He never expected that this transferred Sima would actually open the bag and inspect the grain. In addition, they were indeed unlucky, so Li Yanzhi tested the bad grain in it......

If Li Yanzhi hadn't opened the bag and inspected these grains on a whim this time. Then this dirty greed between them, I don't know how long it will last.

"Say, who are your accomplices?" Li Yanzhi slapped half of the paperweight on a few cases, and asked sharply.

"Return, return to Sima, captain Wang Chuan, captain Yang Tao, and Sima Chuwei of other departments...... These three generals are involved in the matter...... There is also a team leader and three chiefs, and more than ten captains...... The villain's words are true, if there is a lie, please ask Sima to cut off the villain's head......"

"Write down the rest of the people you know!" Li Yanzhi said expressionlessly. When the scribe heard this, he trembled and walked to the side of several cases, and then took the brush handed over by Li Yanzhi and wrote it in the book.

After a while, Li Yanzhi took the book where the scribe had written his name, glanced at it, then looked up at the scribe again, and asked coldly, "What about Zhou Xing?" He doesn't know about it? ”

"Zhou ...... Zhou Bairen will go with Gao Sima to support the Jincheng war...... Therefore I don't know it......" The scribe stretched out his right hand again, wiped the blood from his forehead, and said tremblingly.

"Which firm in the city do you trade with?"

"Back to ...... Back to Sima. After each replacement, we will transport the replaced good grain to the Fan Ji Grain Store in the south of the county. ”

"It's been a month, how profitable is it?"

"Back to ...... Hui Sima ...... Profit...... The profit is more than 3,000 yuan in total......"

"Okay, very good." Li Yanzhi got up and paced a few steps after a few cases. Then he turned to Liu Jiwu and said: "Bandage him, just stay here and don't move!" Don't make a noise. Do not let him come into contact with anyone until the rest of the military attaches involved are apprehended. ”

Li Yanzhi called Tao Heng again, took him out of the grain depot, and then took out a bag of money from his arms, handed it to him, and asked him to send a few of his corporal soldiers to buy wine and food, saying that he had to feast on the generals. Then he whispered in Tao Heng's ear, ordering the arrest of these military attaches involved in the banquet. Tao Heng listened carefully and signaled that he understood. He immediately summoned two soldiers of the army, handed the money bag to a captain, and ordered them to go to the streets of the county seat to buy wine and food.

Li Yanzhi then returned to the warehouse, and saw that Liu Jiwu had bandaged the wound on the forehead of the scribe, so he walked to the side of Qin Dayong and Han Wencan, and told them to take a good look at the scribe in the grain depot. After the rest of the military attaches involved were arrested, they were transferred to the county government prison and imprisoned.

After explaining the affairs, Li Yanzhi left the grain depot with the rest of the people, and then walked towards the big house where Zhou Xing was. When they arrived outside the house, Li Yanzhi ordered the rest of the people to wait outside for a while. He entered alone, greeted Zhou Xing, and then said that he wanted to hold a banquet tonight to entertain the generals in the army, and asked Zhou Xing if he could enjoy it. Zhou Xing naturally has nothing to discourage. Between the two of them, they decided on the evening.

Coming out of Zhou Xing's house, Li Yanzhi took these generals around the camp. He was a little unaware of the sudden appearance of ink in the camp. But when you think about it, this is not necessarily a good thing for him. First of all, these moths in the camp were found, and if anyone in the future had these thoughts, they would have to think carefully about these precedents, and see how many heads they could cut off.

Secondly, it is also logical to confiscate the family property of these military attaches involved. But if you want to do something, you can only make a profit of 3,000 yuan, and you don't think you are a person with a lot of money. However, the Fan Ji grain shop that collected the stolen goods can be copied, and the harvest must not be small.

In addition, after this turmoil in the camp, the position of the military attache is also vacant a lot, and it is just right to place himself to bring this general. For Li Yanzhi, this matter can be said to be beneficial and harmless. Thinking about it, he couldn't help but laugh to himself.

Liu Jiwu followed beside him, and when he saw Li Yanzhi's posture, he could roughly guess what he was thinking. It's not to say anything, there has already been an inexplicable tacit understanding between the two. After going around the camp, and when he walked to the camp gate, he saw that the soldiers sent out by Tao Heng before had already returned to the camp with wine and food.

Seeing this, Li Yanzhi and Liu Jiwu took the rest of the generals to Zhou Xing's house and began to prepare for the banquet. Zhou Xingzhi was going to hold a banquet in the evening, and he had already ordered the soldiers to bring a number of stools and other things.

Li Yanzhi quietly called Tao Heng and made some arrangements for the Hongmen banquet in the evening. Give Tao Heng a list, remember the names of the military attaches involved, he asked Tao Heng to remember the location of these people later, and then once the order is given, Tao Heng's soldiers will immediately come in and capture these people in one fell swoop.

At that time, once these people are caught, they will be immediately taken to the county jail.

Tao Heng arched his hand, indicating that he had understood. In order to prevent things from changing, Li Yanzhi carefully planned how Tao Heng's soldiers would act. After some repeated deductions, Li Yanzhi, who was sure to be foolproof, walked towards the room with a heavy heart.