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Just when Wu Yuanqing was thinking about how to slaughter the rats and how to play the role of the greatest shock in killing chickens and monkeys, the three rats ran over panting, followed by a few petty officers and a few sergeants.

"Ma Xiong, Lu Zhong, Guo Liang, Er and the other three dared to resell the warehouse grain, damaging the public and private, the amount was huge, shocking, someone came to take the three of them down for me. When you pass your majesty, you will be punished by the canon, so as to set an example." Wu Yuanqing didn't talk nonsense and directly ordered to kidnap people.

The few sergeants who just ran over were dumbfounded, and they couldn't figure out what the situation was, why did they have to order to take people, or the three largest officials here, who are you who gave the order.

There was another person who was on duty at the warehouse door who ran to call people and knew Wu Yuanqing's identity, but seeing that the other sergeants didn't move, they hesitated for a moment and didn't do it immediately.

Warehouse supervisor Ma Xiong, left and right Cangcheng Lu Zhong, Guo Liang was also stupid, I don't understand why I have to take down myself and others, and I have to be punished by the canon, this is the rhythm of cutting off the head, what is the reselling of warehouse grain, we haven't done it.

"My lord, I misunderstood, Xia Guan has never resold warehouse grain." Lu Zhong and Guo Liang cried and shouted and shouted grievances.

"Misunderstanding? The facts are right in front of you, do you dare to say that you misunderstand? Do you dare to say that the truckload of grain was not sold by you with your consent, could it be that Qian Ming was deceiving Ben Hou? Qian Ming, come over and confront the three adults." Wu Yuanqing asked like a storm, and called the stunned junior official Qian Ming to him.

"My lord, you really misunderstood, the matter of selling grain was reported to Sinong Temple by the official, and the grain sold was stored for many years and needed to be processed." Ma Xiong explained with a sad face.

Qian Ming also tremored, he didn't expect that he would tell a few words of the truth, and his boss was about to be taken down, the key was that he didn't expect Wu Yuanqing to think so much.

Now that he heard Sima Xiong's explanation, Qian Ming also hurriedly nodded and said: "My lord, what the warehouse supervisor said is right, this grain has indeed reached the time limit for processing, and it is the lower official who is wrong, so he didn't make it clear, so the lord misunderstood."

After Qian Ming, Ma Xiong, as well as Lu Zhong and Guo Liang's explanations sentence by sentence, Wu Yuanqing found out that he had made a joke. I really misunderstood Ma Xiong and the three of them.

It turns out that the grain in this Hanjiacang is not stored in the same year, there are first and last, so almost every year there are old rice that has been stored for many years to be processed.

Wu Yuanqing found that the warehouse where the grain was transported was such a warehouse that needed to deal with the stored grain, not only this but also several others. A total of 400,000 stone of aged grain came down, which was also the largest number of aged rice processed over the years.

"Okay, even if what you say is true, why do you sell these old rice that needs to be processed to grain merchants, so that they can sell it to the people for consumption? Should the people eat moldy old rice? Is this the way of the saints you have learned, the way of being an official? Say, "How much money did you sell to these grain merchants, and how much profit did you receive from it?" Although it was a misunderstanding, there was no big rat digging the corner of the country, but Wu Yuanqing was still quite dissatisfied with this kind of official warehouse selling moldy old grain to grain merchants, and finally entering the market through the hands of grain merchants, and it was not good to have benefits in it.

This Nima is a proper collusion between officials and businessmen, and I want to know that the grain merchants will definitely not sell the old grain at the price of the old grain when they buy it, and they will definitely be sold shoddy, or sold with a mixture of good and bad. The key is that the moldy grain, the people will definitely not be willing to throw it away after buying it back, so they can only consider themselves unlucky and eat it. But the moldy grain is poisonous, and it will eat the dead.

Profiteers, dog officials.

This is what Wu Yuanqing thinks in his heart.

It's just that Wu Yuanqing took it for granted this time and made it wrong.

I saw Ma Xiong shaking his head with a wry smile and said, "My lord, although these old grains are to be disposed of, they are not moldy. It's just that you can't put it in the grain cellar anymore, and you can still put it for a long time if you take it out and ventilate it outside. And these grain merchants are not considered to have bought, but to exchange with us, they exchange one stone of last year's new rice for two stones of old rice. And it's not for sale. Datang has been doing well in the past few years, the annual harvest is ready, and there is no shortage of food at home."

Wu Yuanqing is right when he thinks about it, the grain is as low as four yuan a bucket, and a bucket is more than ten catties, and the purchasing power of this Nima four yuan for grain can be higher than forty yuan in later generations, which shows that the people are indeed not short of food, or that most of the people's families are not short of food, and the price of grain will be so low, and the people who buy grain are also city people who do not farm.

This also shows that it is difficult for grain merchants to buy back 400,000 stone old grain will be sold out for a while and a half, and it is not good to sell less than half of it if it is moldy.

"Isn't that selling to the people, so why do they buy so much grain? Do you have poultry and livestock?" Wu Yuanqing thought that there were other industries in these grain merchants and opened farms, so they needed so much grain, although it was still too much for the farms to have so much grain, but he could only think of this.

As a result, Ma Xiong shook his head again: "My lord, these grains are not fed to poultry and livestock, they are sold to the Goguryeo people. In the past few years, Goguryeo has been plagued by natural disasters every year, and the shortage of grain is terrible, and a bucket of rice in the Tang Dynasty is only sold for four wen, but if you want to sell it to grain merchants from Goguryeo, a bucket of rice can be sold for twenty wen. And the price of new rice and old rice is the same, because they buy it back and don't save it, but eat it quickly. Therefore, when several major grain merchants in Luoyang learned the news that they were going to deal with the old grain, they came to the door to get new rice in exchange for the old rice to be processed, in order to change hands and make an extra profit of 200,000 stones."

This business is done well, the price of the new rice sold to the Goguryeo people is the same, 200,000 stone new rice for 400,000 stone old rice, 200,000 stone is the original, one bucket can earn nearly 18 Wen, and the other 200,000 stone is pure profit, so one exchange for nothing to earn 40,000 guan.

This profit is too high, especially if you make so much money for nothing, a fool will not make it.

It's just that Goguryeo is short of food?

Wu Yuanqing believed that what Ma Xiong said was true, because this matter could not be concealed by telling lies, and Wu Yuanqing would know when he went back to check.

Although I believe that Ma Xiong did not lie to himself, it does not mean that Wu Yuanqing believes that what he said is right and the truth.

Because although he is in Sinong Temple and Honglu Temple most of the time, he is a mixed life, and the corpse is a vegetarian person, but he often sees a lot of newspapers.

For example, in the case of Goguryeo, what he saw was not the same as what Ma Xiong said.