Master Jin said: "No problem! Water can carry a boat, but also can overturn the boat, the Shengming monarch understands this truth, today's saint is wise and martial, far better than the so-called Ming Jun of the past dynasties, but also considerate of the people's feelings, therefore, disaster relief is the emperor's most concerned thing, from the imperial court twice in a row to allocate disaster relief food has been very clear. ”

"But now, the hungry people in the city have not received relief, those who have starved to death and frozen to death abound, there are more and more incidents of food grabbing, and the emotions of the victims have already shown signs of getting out of control.

Master Jin paused and continued: "From the news that the guards have detected just now, this sign is already very obvious, once the chaos in Wuchang or even in Huguang is in chaos, the consequences will be unimaginable, and this is the last thing the emperor wants to see. ”

"If there is such a result that the emperor does not want to see, from the worst point of view, as a special envoy of the commander of the Jinyi Guard, he has the duty of picketing hundreds of officials, and when he sees the danger, he will stand by and watch, and I am afraid that he will be unable to escape the blame at that time; On the good side, if the adults turned the tide at this critical juncture, stabilized the situation, and stopped the riots in time, it would be a miracle and an immeasurable merit for the benefit of the people! ”

Master Jin's words woke up the person in the dream, Yang Qiuchi nodded again and again, and stood up suddenly: "That's it!" Go to the Huguang Jinyiwei Thousand Households, take Jinyiwei to take over the prefect's yamen, and release grain for disaster relief! ”

Speaking of the last sentence, Yang Qiuchi's face suddenly became grim.

Song Yun'er likes to be lively the most, and it is the most fun to take over the prefect's yamen, not to mention that she can save so many people, she was so happy that she almost jumped up, and urged Yang Qiuchi to set off, only to find that Yang Qiuchi's expression was wrong, and asked suspiciously: "Brother, what's wrong with you?" ”

"There is no food in the prefect's yamen!"

Yes? Everyone was stunned, and Song Yun'er asked urgently, "No food?" Brother, how do you know? And what about grain? ”

Yang Qiuchi said: "When we went to the burned granary of the Yamen of the Political Secretary to investigate, didn't you find it? There were no ashes of grain in the ruins at all. ”

Song Yun'er lowered her head and recalled, she didn't know what kind of ashes this grain should be burned, and said, "Maybe it was all burned by that fire?" ”

Yang Qiuchi shook his head: "No, although the fire is big, it is impossible to burn so much grain to ashes. ”

"Why?" Song Yuner asked.

"The grain in the granary is packed into bags, and bags are stacked on top of each other, and there is a saying you have not heard: the fire must be hollow, the man must be faithful, and the fire can only be burned when the middle is empty, and the fire can burn and burn great."

Song Yun'er went to the granary in her father's yamen, and of course she knew the situation in the granary, so she hurriedly said: "I understand, the rice bags in the granary are piled up like a hill, and the middle is not empty, so only the rice on the surface should be burned." ”

"Yes! The pillars and wood of the granary were not all burned, and the grain at the bottom should not have been burned. Taking a step back, even if the fire is too big and burns for too long, all the grain is burned, but there is so much grain, there will be a lot of ashes burned, but we don't see a large pile of grain ashes at all. Therefore, there is no food in the granary of the Yamen of the Chief Minister! ”

"Since the disaster relief food in the granary of the political secretary has disappeared, and the evidence of the crime has been deliberately set on fire, in the same way, the grain of the prefect's yamen may have been transferred, and the granary of the prefect's yamen may also be burned to the ground!"

Song Yun'er said anxiously: "What should I do then?" If you can't find food, it's useless to take over the disaster relief business! ”

Master Long said: "My lord, there is a lot of food for disaster relief, and so much food has to be transferred from the yamen, and the goal is too big. It is possible that when it arrives, it pretends to be transported into the yamen, but in fact, the grain has already been transported to other places. Otherwise, the place where the grain was transferred should not be far from the granary of the government. ”

Yang Qiuchi muttered: "In this way, the grain of the political secretary and the prefect's yamen is somewhere, and if you find this food, you can appease the hungry people and stabilize the overall situation!" ”

Song Yun'er said: "But how do you know where the grain went?" ”

Master Long said: "It's likely to be at Mi Yuan's house!" In the year of the catastrophe, there was new rice at Mi Yuan's family, if it wasn't for his long-distance trafficking, it was likely to be disaster relief food embezzled by public and private collusion! ”

Speaking of this, Master Long thought about it, stopped talking, and finally mustered up the courage to say: "My lord, I have a suggestion, it may be a bit risky, but at the last moment, it may be useful to resolve this crisis. ”

Yang Qiuchi was overjoyed and said urgently: "Mr. Long, please speak!" ”

"If there is no evidence or there is no time to verify that Mi Yuanwai is related to this matter, if it really can't be done, you can first use the name of disaster relief to forcibly collect the grain of Mi Yuanwai's family, release grain for disaster relief first, and then check whether he has any connection with the disappearance of official grain.

Yang Qiuchi didn't expect this move, and nodded happily and praised: "High!" You two masters are really tall! ”

Forcibly expropriating is a good idea, Yang Qiuchi thought to himself, fuck, Lao Tzu, the envoy of the Jinyi Guard, expropriate the rice and grain of your little millet line for disaster relief, that is not a piece of cake! It's a big deal to give you a lot of face, and it's a big deal to compensate you later. Yang Qiuchi had this trick and was determined in his heart.

Seeing that Yang Qiuchi was very happy, Master Long carefully continued: "However, this move is very risky. ”

Yang Qiuchi was stunned, and his heart hung again: "What's wrong?" What are the risks? ”

"Mi Yuan Wai can have new rice to sell in the year of the catastrophe, I'm afraid it's not to wait for idle businessmen, otherwise, how could the prefect Yamen not think of the trick of requisition grain for disaster relief, the reason why they didn't collect the grain of Mi Yuan's family is probably that the Mi family has a tough background. So, if you don't get it right, you may get into trouble. Ask the adults to weigh the pros and cons before making a decision. ”

Expropriation has existed since ancient times, and the ancient political axe expropriation behavior is more arbitrary, but it also depends on the object of expropriation, and it is also expropriated for ordinary people, and even compensation is sometimes exempted, but for dignitaries, this is not so simple, and this is the same now.

It is obvious that there is a backstage outside this Mi Yuan, but I don't know who his backstage is and how big it is. If you forcibly expropriate his food for disaster relief and provoke his backstage, even if you are okay now for the sake of disaster relief, you may be beaten with sticks, braided, buttoned hats, and bagged later, and some of them will be suffered by you.

Yang Qiuchi listened to Master Long's words, and his heart suddenly cooled half, the open and secret battles in this officialdom are too complicated, and if he is not careful, he will cause trouble. Of course, it is safest to slap your ass and leave, and leave Wuchang City immediately, and you can't blame yourself for anything in the future.

However, thinking of the hungry people in the city, thinking of the little girl Hui'er's father and brother starving to death on the streets of Wuchang City, and thinking of the countless hungry people who sold their sons and daughters, Yang Qiuchi couldn't bear to sit back and ignore it like this, as for whether this case involved the Jianwenyu Party conspiracy case, it was still secondary, Yang Qiuchi is now thinking about the life and death of tens of thousands of hungry people in the city.

After taking a few steps back and forth, Yang Qiuchi made up his mind and decided to adopt Master Long's suggestion when he was finally forced to forcibly collect the grain from the outside of the rice staff to open the warehouse and release the grain, as for the small shoes in the back, he couldn't care about it now.

Yang Qiuchi waved his hand and said: "It's so decided, go to the Jinyi Wei Thousand Households first!" ”

Yang Qiuchi's little black dog had been walking around the house, and now when he saw that Yang Qiuchi was about to go out, he immediately jumped up and down.

Song Yun'er said, "Brother, do you want to take your little black dog?" ”

The little black dog seemed to know that they were talking about themselves, so he quickly ran up with his little tail and circled around Yang Qiuchi. Yang Qiuchi squatted down and touched the little black dog's head: "Tonight's main thing is not to solve the case, but to provide disaster relief, so leave it here to accompany Mrs. Bai and them." ”

Yang Qiuchi told Mrs. Bai that they had something to do when they went out, and told them to stay at the post station and not run around, and then took Song Yun'er, the two masters, and Nangong Xiong and other brocade guards, and the group rode out of the post station, and found that the street that was full of hungry people was empty. The crowd felt the seriousness of the situation even more. Taking advantage of the night, the fast horse galloped straight to the Jinyi Wei Thousand Households.

When he arrived at the door, Nangong Xiong showed his Beijing brocade guard waist card to the doorman, saying that he had urgent military affairs and was about to see Lord Qianhu.

After all, Jinyiwei is different from the local officials, knowing what it means for Jinyiwei from the capital to say that there is urgent military affairs, the doorman immediately led Yang Qiuchi and others to the living room, and then informed Lord Huguang Qianhu Luo.

Luo Qianhu heard that there was an urgent military business, and rushed out with two Jinyi Wei deputy Qianhu, Yang Qiuchi took out his envoy's waist card from his arms, Luo Qianhu was shocked when he saw it, and bowed down: "See the envoy for your humble position!" The other two deputy Qianhu also hurriedly bowed and saluted.

Yang Qiuchi asked, "How many brocade guards are there in our thousand households?" ”

Luo Qianhu said: "There are more than 500 people, the others have been sent to the prefect's yamen to help maintain order, tonight the hungry people got the news that the prefect wants to release grain, so they all went to the prefect's yamen, the lowly post has inquired about the prefect Tan's mansion, there is no preparation for the grain tonight, it is estimated that someone is making a ghost, and the lowly post is starting to investigate this matter." ”

"This official is also here to investigate this matter tonight, I suspect that someone is taking advantage of the hungry people to deliberately create chaos in an attempt to cause a riot of the hungry people!"

When Luo Qianhu heard this, his face changed, of course he knew what it meant, and bowed down and said, "Everything is subject to the dispatch of the adult!" ”

(To be continued)