The first month of the eighth year of Chengtian is a lively New Year. Just after the 15th Lantern Festival, the Huang clan successively attacked and cried to the empress dowager, Chen Ming withstood a lot of pressure to Jinjiang and Zhejiang to supervise the imperial history Liu Wenwei as the deputy capital of the Supervision Yuan, traveled to Yunnan, and thoroughly investigated the grain depot deficit case.

As an important military town in the southwest, Yunnan's grain storage has always been very abundant, but a year ago, there was a sudden shortage of grain depots, which means that Yunnan's grain depot system lost money in operation, and it was not a little bit.

As early as thousands of years ago, the Chinese imperial dynasty set up standing positions at the local level to regulate grain prices for the country, and to store grain for shortages to supply the government and the people. In short, the main thing is to use the law of market value to adjust the supply of the grain market and give full play to the role of stabilizing the value of the grain market. When the market grain price was low, the grain price was appropriately raised and a large number of purchases were made, so that not only the large warehouses where the imperial court stored grain were filled with grain, but also the border counties and localities were also full of warehouses. When the price of grain in the market is high, the price should be appropriately lowered and sold. This measure not only prevented "grain cheapness hurting the peasants" but also prevented "grain and expensive grain from hurting the people," and played a positive role in calming down the grain market and consolidating the feudal political power.

Chen Han's national granary system, that is, the grain bureaus spread across the country, also has such responsibilities.

It's just that China's previous trend of 'grain cheapness hurting farmers' was too difficult to recover, and that required too much investment.

At will, in Chen Han's policy, the rational existence of the grain depot deficit. But it doesn't make sense to lose too much at once.

After the grain in the grain depot is stored for a period of time, there will be a link of selling, emptying, and converting, that is, the old grain and old rice will be converted into new grain. There is no specific limit on how long this link is, so once the deficit of the grain depot is found, the best way to prevaricate is that the grain depot is being converted (the old one is sold and the new one is not entered), even if Bao Gong is reincarnated, it is impossible to find out its truth. The reason for this is that although the transformation of grain depots is directly grasped by the Central Grain Administration, the Central Grain Administration or the Cabinet only grasps the direction of the major indicators, and only draws a red line, that is, what is required is the existence of 'quantity'. The other three links (selling, emptying, and converting) are still controlled by the local governments themselves, or by the local food system and the government, and it is difficult for the central government to stick a rod into the end, which is too costly. Even if it is a surprise inspection, the food system has a plan to deal with it, and it is not difficult to make a fake grain mountain, and the phenomenon of "burning the company camp" on the TV series in later generations has not yet happened.

Chen Han had just established the country, and he severely cracked down on corruption and bribery of officials, and the rule of officials was quite clear, and some moths were mixed in the grain pile, and they did not dare to devour them in a big gulp. And if there is a scene of 'burning the camp', it can only show that the moths did not expect that the central government would suddenly and openly conduct surprise inspections, and it also shows that the food system is not usually supervised, so that these moths do not even have the slightest sense of risk, let alone a plan to get through the test.

Such a 'first crab', they don't dare to eat it, and they don't want to eat it.

It's just that Yunnan has lost too much, and the geographical location is also special, this is an important border defense area, and there is still a war going on in the south, and the sudden outbreak of the grain depot deficit is too big, so that the central government has just heard of it and does not believe it. And not simply because the governor of Yunnan is the son-in-law of the Huang family.

Yunnan Governor Liang is the son-in-law of the Huang family, is the Huang family of the top important figures, in the early years with the central government, after moving the capital to Nanjing, successively served as the Imperial History of the Supervision Yuan, the former confidential secretary, the director of the Cabinet Secretariat, the Secretary-General, the Central Plains Provincial Supervision Imperial History, the Deputy Capital of the Supervision Yuan, the acting right deputy capital of the Imperial History, and the Ministry of Finance. In April of the seventh year of Chengtian, when the local governor was officially promoted to the second grade, he was transferred to the governor of Yunnan.

In terms of kinship, Chen Ming also called him an uncle, when he was in the center, although he was not outstanding, he didn't go wrong, and he was very attentive. Chen Ming didn't expect that after he arrived in Yunnan, in such a short period of time, it could almost be said that the front foot had just arrived, and the back foot would have such a big basket.

At the end of the first month, Liu Wu was ordered to leave Beijing. In early February, Liu Wenwei first submitted a preliminary investigation conclusion showing that Liang Du, the governor of Yunnan, had mishandled the process of exchanging grain stored in the Yunnan treasury, and although it was not certain whether he had accepted bribes, the Liang family definitely took advantage of the opportunity of selling old grain to seek profits, so Liu Wenwei suggested that the central authorities temporarily remove Liang from his post as governor of Yunnan. This is the hornet's nest of the Huang family. And what shocked the Huang family the most was that Chen Ming actually approved this proposal, which means that Chen Ming trusts Liu Wenwei very much.

And then Liu Wu also sent the latest investigation report, Liang Du not only connived at his children to make profits on the grain issue, but also had a major dereliction of duty, and there were also Huang children's figures appearing.

If the Huang family was just jumping to sell his feet before, now he is really anxious. So they found the great god of the Huang family, the Empress Dowager.

Chen Ming's royal drive arrived at the Yanshou Palace - Changqiu Palace, which also belongs to the Yanshou Palace, and the Yanshou Palace has never been a lonely palace, but the name of the entire palace group, just like the Daming Palace in the Tang Dynasty. This Changqiu Palace is located in the southernmost part of Yanshou Palace, and it covers a much larger area than the palace when the old lady was in the palace before.

Chen Ming met with Chen Hui and Gao first, and then walked to Changqiu Palace.

After greeting her as usual, the old lady took the initiative to mention the matter of Yunnan Province. Both sides know it?

"Emperor, I heard that something happened to the Yunnan grain depot, and you sent an envoy to Yunnan to inspect?" The old lady obviously saved face for Chen Ming, and asked the question very tactfully, not going straight to the point, but what did it mean...... Not a fool, you know what it means.

The old lady is the person with the highest rank in the entire royal family, and she is also Chen Ming's grandmother, and it is normal for the old lady to pay too much attention to the Huang family from which she was born. Even if she made some excessive requests, Chen Ming had to consider it seriously.

In China in this era, the emperor's power is very great, but 'filial piety' has always been a traditional Chinese virtue, Chen Ming can not dump the old lady, but this is hard to ensure that it will not leave unnecessary stains on his image in history.

Yongzheng and his mother's affairs, but in later generations, many people took it and shook it. Despite the fact that the "Yongzheng Dynasty" and the Four Masters of later generations have washed Yongzheng over and over again, it is always an indelible mark.

"Grandma, Yunnan's affairs are too big. It is a military stronghold, and there is still a war going on in Myanmar in the south. There are 11 large and small grain depots in Yunnan, and there are hundreds of local grain depots in prefectures and counties, with a total storage of more than 5 million stones. But now the State Grain Administration's statistics on Yunnan's grain reserves show that there are less than 4 million stone left. If this matter is not severely punished, the law of the country will be safe in ......"

After organizing the language, Chen Ming explained: "Because the imperial court has introduced a new policy to abolish the preferential treatment of imported grain, domestic grain prices have been gradually rising since last winter. Yunnan supervised the imperial history of the year ago, Yunnan suddenly appeared in the market a large amount of grain, the investigation is that the provincial grain department is selling grain in a large amount of money, taking the opportunity to make profits. This is normal, but the problem is that there is a surprising amount of food on the market in Yunnan. Moreover, there is also a large amount of grain sold to Guizhou and Sichuan.

He went to the cabinet, which in turn informed the State Food Administration, which sent someone to make a systematic count of Yunnan's grain reserves, and found that the gap was too large and had exceeded the relevant red line. This is not a big deal, it often happens in the local area, and not every local food department chief can keep his desires, but there must be the connivance of the local government. And after the New Year, the grain in the first month of this year is more expensive, although new grain from Nanyang has arrived, but the domestic grain price has not fallen, which means that the Yunnan grain system seems to have made money after selling old grain at a high price, but in fact it has lost money even more. They had to buy new grain from the market at a higher price. So much so that the deficit on the books of the Yunnan Provincial Food Department reached 300,000 stones. ”

That's a lot of money. This figure is enough to show how crazy the Yunnan food system reached in selling grain to the outside world last year. And the most important thing is that the people of the Liang family and the people of the Huang family have frequently appeared when the grain depot savings are sold and purchased externally. This turned what was supposed to be a serious dereliction of duty between Liangdu and the Yunnan food system into a highly probable monetary transaction.

If it is the former, Liang Du's career will not be too big to plant, but it is not impossible to make a comeback, the Huang family's capital is still very strong, and it is impossible for them to easily give up a local leader. But if it's the latter, he's finished. There are also those children of the Liang family and the children of the Huang family who are involved.

Liu Wenwei reported to the imperial court that since he arrived in Yunnan, he has arrested 73 people, more than 30 people are wanted at large, and more than 200 suspects have been circled. These people include wealthy merchants, hawkers, local parents, and low-level public servants. I'm just worried that Liu Qing's law enforcement is too strict and urging too much, and there will be negligence or unjust cases. Therefore, Liu Wu was sent to Yunnan, and if there was any doubt, he was ordered to re-examine the case, and then hand it over to the Supervision Yuan and the Supreme Court after returning to Beijing. ”

Hearing Chen Ming say this, the old lady's face softened a lot, and she no longer had a straight face.

Because Chen Ming's statement is in a rational word, this is completely different from the statement of the Huang family who have entered the palace every day to cry and complain to her these days. What they said was that someone was deliberately making trouble for the Huang family. This is something that the old lady cannot tolerate.

But if it is really as Chen Ming said, the old lady has nothing to say. The country has national laws, the family has family rules, and the old lady is a reasonable person.

Liu Wenwei's law enforcement is indeed too strict, but Yunnan has such a big basket, shouldn't Liang be punished? Should.

When the Chen family was still nesting in small Lushan, if the store set up outside suffered heavy losses on the counter because of the shopkeeper's dereliction of duty, then the shopkeeper, even if the Chen family's relatives, would have to be completely transferred back to his hometown to farm after personally paying to fill the hole.

Isn't this the case with Liangdu?

The official of the feudal territory and the governor of a province are not the 'shopkeepers' of the past.

The shopkeeper of the past did something wrong and was punished; The current 'shopkeeper' has made a major mistake, and he will also be punished!

In a certain sense, the central government directly sends ministers to the localities, rather than the 'central inspection working group', which has become a mechanism every year, which is in itself a kind of dissatisfaction with the localities.

The old lady came back to her senses. "How many people are involved in this?" She still cares more about the people involved in the Huang family and the Liang family.

The old lady is not a person who eats fine clothes and food, and she doesn't know the suffering of the world, so why not eat minced meat.

Although she has not suffered anything in her life, she has also experienced a lot of winds and waves. When people reach old age, their sons and grandchildren suddenly rebel, and people with a little poor psychological quality are afraid that they will be scared to death.

After the ups and downs of the war, the old lady is not the old lady she used to be.

There are many things that don't need to be told to her at all, as long as she clicks on the key, she will know where the reason is. In Yunnan, the person who took the grain from the granary was Liang Huang, and the last person who sold the higher-priced grain to the granary was Liang Huang, and Liang Huang was eating it all before and after.

That's too much suspicion.

"Then let Liu Wenwei and Liu Wu let go and investigate. The old woman still said the same thing, the country has national laws, and the family has family rules, which can't be messed up. ”

The old lady's face flashed with a hint of worry, and a hint of sadness.

Walking out of the Empress Dowager's Changqiu Palace, Chen Ming let out a sigh of relief. Thanks to the old lady, he scared himself a little. The old lady was very sensible, and she restrained her feelings. So today, Chen Ming easily reached his goal.

And the Huang family didn't have the support of the old lady, so they didn't dare to make a sound. In front of Chen Ming, they were all a group of rat cowards.

"300,000 stone grain, it's really bold enough."

The red line of the national food system is drawn there, unless there is an abnormal grain price, the grain in the grain depot should not flow to the market in a large amount of time in a short period of time. And even if you really throw a large amount of grain storage to the market, you can't throw so much at once. There is no reason to sell grain in a hurry when the new summer grain has not yet been put on the market.

It can only be said that they bought too high. Then they noticed Liu Wenwei's arrival, which made them panic.

Of course, the deficit of the 300,000 stone grain is not all from Liang Huang's hands, the upper ones have opened their mouths, and the lower people have followed suit, which is the biggest reason why the abundant grain in the Yunnan market makes the supervising imperial historians realize that something is wrong.

Chen Ming was worried about the copy of the flying pigeon biography sent by Liu Wenwei from Yunnan in his hand, but the hundred or so criminals who were arrested, the total amount of confiscation, confiscation and fines had exceeded 40 million, and there were still a large number of fields and immovable real estate waiting to be processed. And if half of the other suspects also end up unlucky, then the court will make more money this time.

It is very likely that the beneficiary will be 100 million. And the deficit of 300,000 stone of grain, even according to the current price, plus the transportation cost, is only 4 million?

Chen Ming was overjoyed by the sudden financial expenditure of such a large amount of money, so he would not let this money disappear into the cabinet today and tomorrow.

Just use this money to adjust the MIA. Following the split of Guoan, Chen Ming of the Military Intelligence Agency is also ready to dismantle it.

Chen Liang looked at the emperor in shock, the work of the Military Intelligence Bureau has been very good in the past few years, and the emperor has never expressed dissatisfaction, why did he suddenly fall with a thunderbolt on a sunny day?

But this is the emperor's opinion.

He held in his hand a piece of His Majesty's dictation handed to him by Zhang Dayong. Chen Ming is ready to transfer some elite personnel from the Military Intelligence Bureau to form an intelligence research department.

This is a small department that will not break the strength of the MIA, and the main tasks of the research department are cryptography research, foreign affairs and intelligence analysis, and it can participate in regular high-level government meetings chaired by the first and auxiliary ministers of the Cabinet, and represent the Cabinet in foreign intelligence work as a cabinet intelligence adviser.

It does not have the ability to collect intelligence itself, and its main tasks are: processing all kinds of intelligence, relying on the information provided by foreign and intelligence agencies, and researching and disseminating information on Chen Han's foreign policy; Disseminate relevant reports from embassies and consulates abroad, and convey to the cabinet the intelligence support they need.

It can be said that this is truly a 'research' department.

In addition to that, there is a General Directorate of Defense. As you can tell from the name, this is a specialized military intelligence agency. In fact, Chen Ming wants to set up a special military intelligence agency.

Although the word "military" is hung on the military intelligence agency, it is actually grabbed by eyebrows and mustaches. The State Defense Bureau, on the other hand, is specifically organizing, guiding, managing, and controlling foreign military intelligence resources, undertaking image intelligence tasks at the national level in the past, meddling in the planning of all military operations involved in the validity period, handling the assignment of tasks and determining priorities, and being responsible for the secret "special military operation" plan for the formulation and conduct of policies of guiding significance.

This is going to be a lot of bloodshed for the MIA.