After returning to the county government, Li Yanzhi called Liu Jiwu, who had just gotten up, and asked him to take Tao Heng's group of men and horses with him to inspect the granary in the camp. There was not enough money and food in the treasury, so he wanted to see how long the grain and grass in the barracks could last, and then how the money and food needed for the pension would be spent.

When they returned to the camp gate, the gatekeepers were no longer in the way. The officer guarding the camp gate today is still Zhao Da, who led people to visit each mile yesterday with him. Li Yanzhi greeted him, and then led his men in. He went directly to the big house where Zhou Xing was, ordered Zhou Xing to open the grain depot in the camp, and bluntly said that he wanted to check it and have a good idea of the accumulation of grain and grass in the army.

Zhou Xingdang even called the scribe in the camp, and then took Li Yanzhi and others to the Daying grain depot. Zhou Xing opened the door of the warehouse, and Li Yanzhi asked the scribe for brushes, account books and other things, so he changed his shirt with his subordinates, and then entered the warehouse with the scribe.

In the large camp where the soldiers of Lingju County lived, this grain depot can also be seen to be the most carefully built building. Similar to the arsenal in the camp of the Guangwu Army, the wall is also built with blue bricks and covered with green tiles. Li Yanzhi walked inside, and there were many fences in the warehouse, most of which were filled with sacks of grain and rice. In addition to the granary, there is a wall several feet square in the middle. There was another door in the wall, but there were three locks on it.

Li Yanzhi pointed to the door and asked the scribe, "What is that place?" ”

Seeing this, the scribe replied: "That is the treasury, and the keys to the three locks are in the hands of Sima, the county lieutenant, and the villain. On weekdays, except for the payment and delivery of money into the warehouse, it is usually not opened. ”

Li Yanzhi turned his head to Tao Heng and said, "Send someone to call the county lieutenant Chu here, and when you come back, call Zhou Xing to come over with the key to the treasury." Tao Heng called out to a soldier beside him, and then told him. The soldier turned and ran toward the door.

Li Yanzhi looked at the grain stacked in the granary, and under a rough estimate, it was obviously only about a month's stock for a thousand sergeants on weekdays. It is not known whether any of these grains are mixed with old grains. Li Yanzhi turned his head and asked Tao Heng for a ring-headed knife, and then he took the knife and began to inspect the granary.

He jumped into the fences, then heaped over the piled up sacks. He walked to a grain bag at random, drew his ring knife, and with a little force, stabbed the bottom sack open, and then reached in and pulled it out.

Seeing that it was millet stored here, Li Yanzhi took advantage of the dim light in the warehouse to look at it, and then leaned under his nose to smell it. Then I put it in my mouth and bit a few pieces, chew it twice and then spit it out. Look at the fence one by one. Indeed, there is new grain and old grain in this grain storen. But it's all pretty well kept. It wasn't until after poking more than a dozen sacks that Li Yanzhi grabbed a handful of musty wheat grains from the sack that he poked open again.

Li Yanzhi grabbed the handful of wheat grains, walked outside the fence, and showed the wheat grains in his hand to the scribe. When the scribe saw this, he was immediately frightened. Hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed: "The villain was negligent, but he didn't find that this military food was moldy...... Please punish Sima! ”

Li Yanzhi spread out his hand, sprinkled the wheat grains in his hand on the ground in front of the scribe, and said lightly: "Eat it!" ”

The scribe raised his head in astonishment and looked at Li Yanzhi, but only saw his expressionless face. He hesitated and didn't make any moves. Seeing this, Li Yanzhi, who was standing aside, was already a little impatient. He asked lightly: "What am I saying, you don't understand?" ”

The scribe was shocked when he heard this, and kowtowed again: "The villain doesn't dare to ...... It's just this moldy grain...... Really can't eat ......."

Li Yanzhi bent down and grabbed the scribe's bun, and then lifted it up forcefully, making him look at his face, and then asked with a sneer: "Do you still know that you can't eat it?" Then you leave such things in the warehouse and give them to the brethren in the army? Yes? What do you do? Do you have no idea about such a situation in the library, or did it happen on purpose? ”

The scribe was in pain, and his facial features were already screwed together: "Sima...... Sima spared his life...... What happened here is really a villain's negligence......"

"If there is a war tomorrow, you will carry it to the brethren?" Li Yanzhi showed a slight anger on his face, and said, "How much of these moldy military rations?" When will it be put into storage? Where did it come from? Bring the books! If you don't know this question, you don't want to leave this place! After the investigation is clear, we will decide how to punish you! ”

After saying that, Li Yanzhi forcefully loosened the scribe's bun. The scribe breathed a sigh of relief for a moment, and then knelt on the ground and kowtowed, not daring to come out.

Li Yanzhi took the account book and began to check it according to the number on the fence, one fence after another. According to Li Yanjiong's request, the soldiers randomly picked one of the bags and poked them open, and then checked whether the grain and rice in the bags were bad grain. Because it may involve the matter of embezzlement of ink, these soldiers are also extremely careful, for fear that there may be omissions.

The scribe knelt on the ground, and from time to time cautiously raised his head to look at the sergeant who was inspecting the fences, and as time passed, the cold sweat on his forehead gradually increased, and finally involuntarily rolled down. But Li Yanzhi was just flipping through the account books on the side and didn't look at him.

The soldiers searched fence by fence. By the time the inspection was completed, more than a dozen bags of military rations had been found to be moldy and rotten. Li Yanzhi checked them one by one according to the account books, but found that these fences were all military rations brought in at different times, and the earliest could be traced back to March and April of the new year. The latest gate was brought in 10 days ago.

Li Yanzhi marked the military rations that had problems every time in the account book, and then returned to the side of the several cases at the door of the warehouse and threw the account books on several cases. Then he dragged a stool, sat down with a big stool, and said to the soldiers on the side: "Escort him here!" ”

The soldiers did as they were told, dragging the trembling scribe on his knees to the ground, and then the two of them dragged him to the front of the case. As soon as the soldiers let go, the scribe fell to the ground like a broken sack. Li Yanzhi picked up the account book again, fell to the clerk, and said coldly: "Say, how long have you been so greedy for ink?" Who else in the camp is your accomplice? ”

The scribe did not speak for a long time, but stared blankly at the account book that had been thrown to the ground. Li Yanzhi waited a little impatiently, so he copied a piece of paperweight from the side, and then jumped over a few cases, and walked in front of the clerk in two steps, and the paperweight had fallen mercilessly.

The paperweight hit the scribe's cheek for the first time. The scribe screamed miserably, hurriedly raised his hand to cover his face, and hit the back of his hand a second time, and before he could exhale the pain, the third blow had already hit him the head. The paperweight snapped, and it broke into two sections in Li Yanzhi's hand.

"In my life, I hate people who are greedy for ink the most! The soldiers are fighting to the death in the front, and you moths will make a fortune in the back! I really want to dig out the hearts and livers of you people and see if it's black! ”

After Li Yanzhi hit him three times, the clerk had already fallen to the ground softly, unconscious. Seeing this, Li Yanzhi called the soldiers beside him and ordered the basin water to wake him up. One of the soldiers did as he was told, took a bucket from the corner of the granary, scooped half a bucket of water from the water tank outside the granary, and then marched into the granary, and poured it on the scribe's head without mercy.

A bucket of water was splashed, and the scribe also woke up slowly, and when he opened his eyes, he saw Li Yanzhi standing in front of him. As soon as he was excited, he immediately turned over, knelt on the ground and kept kowtowing, and said while kowtowing: "Sima, don't fight, I say, I say, I say everything......"

Li Yanzhi asked Tao Heng to go outside to get a blank book, and sat behind a few cases at the back end, and said coldly: "It's best not to hide something." Otherwise, the sin is one more degree! ”