"What?" Everyone was stunned, don't make any more trouble at this moment, there are so many hungry people gathered in front of the yamen, if you add a fire, I heard that the granary is going to be burned, and after the last hope is cut off, the hungry people are likely to rush in like crazy to grab food, and the consequences will be unimaginable.

The two political envoys commanded in unison: "Hurry! Quickly transfer the water dragon team to fight the fire! Come on! ”

"Yes, someone has been sent to call the water dragon team!"

"Send someone to put out the fire, and you must not let the fire ignite!" The right political envoy stomped his feet.

"Yes!" The officials ran out.

Yang Qiuchi thought to himself, as expected, there should be no food in the granary at all, so someone deliberately set fire, first, to destroy the evidence, and secondly, to cause chaos outside, and the hungry people rushed in after seeing the fire and found that the food was gone, which would cause even greater confusion and was likely to cause riots.

Although he expected it, Yang Qiuchi was even more nervous, the yamen had no food, what should he do, did he really want to collect the grain outside the rice staff for disaster relief? Who knows who's backstage!

The political envoy of Youbu said to the commander of the capital: "Lord Commander, quickly order the army to be on guard to prevent the hungry people from rushing in." ”

Du Commander Wu Daren's face also changed at this moment, although he is the supreme commander of the Huguang army, but the army is scattered all over the province, there are not many available troops in Wuchang City, and there are only thousands of people who can be mobilized, and they are divided into four gates, and now there are only two or three thousand people concentrated in the Yamen. With these armies against tens of thousands of hungry people, he could imagine the result with his toes.

At this moment, another official ran in in a panic and said: "Hey, report to your lordship: the hungry people outside saw the smoke rising from the direction of the granary, and they all shouted that the granary was on fire, and they wanted to rush through the fence to grab the grain, and they pushed with our people, and many officers and soldiers were already injured!" ”

Yang Qiuchi's heart sank, what he was most worried about happened, what should he do?

The faces of the two political envoys changed in fright, if these tens of thousands of hungry people rushed in, it would not only be a matter of grabbing grain, I am afraid that when the time comes, they will do everything to smash and loot and burn, and their lives will not be able to be protected at that time, and they looked at Yang Qiuchi in horror.

The right envoy commanded in horror: "Quickly, pass my orders, and those who dare to cross the fence will be killed!" After that, he said to the commander of the capital: "Master Wu, quickly give an order, and kill those rebellious people who dare to storm the yamen on the spot!" ”

Master Wu was flustered and had no idea: "Okay, okay, pass my order......"

"Slow!" Yang Qiuchi shouted, and glanced at the right political envoy, "At this time, you can only appease, if you move strongly, it will cause even greater turmoil!" Or even cause a riot! ”

"Appeased? Hum! To put it lightly, how to appease? The right political envoy sneered, and then felt that it was inappropriate, and quickly bowed down again and said, "Please instruct Lord Yang." ”

Yang Qiuchi glanced coldly at Lord Quan, the political envoy of Youbu, walked to Song Yun'er's side first, whispered a few words, and then returned to the field, and said loudly: "Put grain to appease!" ”

"Grain?" The political envoy and the others glanced at each other, and they all understood in their hearts that at this moment, only by immediately releasing grain could they appease the victims.

At this time, a group of people poured in, led by Yang Qiuchi's personal guard Nangong Xiong, and the brocade guards behind him escorted several black-clothed people.

Nangong Xiong walked to Yang Qiuchi's side and arched his hand: "My lord, we have just captured the thief who is trying to set fire to the granary!" He turned around and said, "Bring it up!" ”

The brocade guards escorted the five or six black-clothed men up and pressed them to the ground.

Nangong Xiong said: "We were inspecting the granary, and found that there was smoke rising from a granary, and immediately rushed over and found that these people were setting fire to the granary, and the granary had been ignited, and the subordinates and others restrained them and extinguished the fire. ”

The political envoy asked, "What about the water dragons?" ”

Nangong Xiong's eyes were horizontal: "I didn't see it, our people put out the fire with their bare hands, and they were burned several times." The water dragon team didn't even see a shadow! ”

Yang Qiuchi walked up to the black-clothed men and asked, "Who told you to burn the granary?" ”

The men in black glanced at each other and bowed their heads in silence.

Yang Qiuchi didn't have time to interrogate, so he turned his head and asked Nangong Xiong, "Where is the grain?" Is there grain in the granary? ”

"Nope!" Nangong Xiong said in a deep voice, "All the granaries are empty!" ”

Yes! Everyone was stunned, how could the relief food be gone!

Yang Qiuchi turned his head to stare at Governor Tan: "Lord Tan, what do you say about this?" Where did all the disaster relief food go in your yamen granary? You don't say you don't know, do you? Well? ”

Governor Tan sat down on the ground with a thud, his whole body trembling like sifting chaff, and he couldn't say a word.

The right political envoy angrily pulled out a waist knife from the waist of a brocade guard, and slashed at the head of Tan Zhifu.

The white light flashed, and when there was a loud sound, the waist knife in the hand of the right political envoy was hit by a white light, and the burst flew up and nailed to the pillar.

Song Yun'er held a short sword in her hand and looked coldly at the right political envoy.

It turned out that Yang Qiuchi had found out that the right political envoy was not looking right, so he told Song Yun'er to pay attention to him, so when the right political envoy slashed the Tan prefect's mansion, Song Yun'er made a timely move and knocked his waist knife away.

Yang Qiuchi said: "Master Quan, what are you doing here?" ”

"He, he embezzled the relief food, I will put him to death!" The right political envoy was frightened in his heart, just now Song Yun'er knocked his waist knife away with a sword, and at this moment, the tiger's mouth in his right hand was still numb.

"Execution? Lord Tan is a fourth-grade official of the imperial court, I thought that only I had the power to cut first and then play, it turns out that you also have it! Yang Qiuchi said coldly.

Just escaped death, Governor Tan was terrified, and shouted hoarsely: "He, he wants to kill people!" ”

"What's going on?" Yang Qiuchi looked coldly at the political envoy Quan Bu, and then stared at Governor Tan's mansion: "If you don't tell the truth, I will kill you on the spot!" ”

"He forced me to do all this, and the last time he set fire to the yamen granary, he conspired with the rich merchant Mi Yuan of Wuchang Mansion, and this time it was the same!" Governor Tan knew that hundreds of thousands of catties of disaster relief grain were missing in his yamen granary, not to mention anything else, just this one, the commander and envoy could cut themselves first and then play!

"Nonsense! How dare you slander this official! The political envoy of Kwon Bu yelled inwardly.

"Did he wronged you?" Yang Qiuchi asked, "Lord Quan, how did your political envoy's granary catch fire?" ”

The political envoy said: "The guard accidentally caught fire while heating, and the official has arrested the guard and prepared to punish the crime, what's wrong?" ”

"This official went to your yamen again in the afternoon, and saw the burned granary in your yamen. Let me ask you, is there really any relief grain allocated by the imperial court in the granary you burned down? ”

Quan Buzheng's body shook slightly, and then he straightened his neck and shouted: "Of course there is!" How could it not be! ”

"I have already checked that the burned granary was deliberately set on fire, not a fire! Moreover, there is no trace of burned grain in the ruins at all! Now that there is an accomplice certificate of Governor Tan's Mansion here, you still dare to talk nonsense at this moment! Yang Qiuchi waved his hand and said coldly: "Take down the two of them for me!" ”

Nangong Xiong and several other brocade-clothed guards rushed up separately, knocked off the black gauze hats on the heads of the two, twisted them to the ground, and tied them up with hemp rope and five flowers.

The power of the political envoy could not stop crying out for injustice. Yang Qiuchi didn't have time to interrogate him now, and releasing grain for disaster relief was a top priority, so he urgently asked Governor Tan: "Where is the grain?" Where did it go? ”

"They were all sold privately to the rice shop outside the rice company. It was the political envoy of Quan Bu and Mi Yuanwai who discussed, and although I was also present, it was the idea of the two of them. ”

The envoy shouted, "You are talking nonsense, I don't!" ”

"I'm not talking nonsense, the tens of thousands of taels of silver that Mi Yuanwai gave you are still in your yamen's inner house, Lord Yang, you can send someone to search for it immediately!" In his inner house, it was divided into two times, 40,000 taels each time, a total of 80,000 taels. I personally brought someone to send it to him! ”

Yang Qiuchi asked Governor Tan: "How much silver did the Mi Yuan give you?" Where did you put it? ”

Governor Tan hesitated for a moment, and now that concealment is tantamount to death, he said in a low voice: "Twenty thousand taels, the big head was taken away from him." And the silver that was given to me by the Mi Yuan was placed in my inner house. Governor Tan said in a low voice.

Yang Qiuchi said to Luo Qianhu: "You immediately take two hundred brocade guards and go to the inner mansion of the envoy of Quanbu and the prefect of Tan's mansion respectively to see if there is so much silver." If there is, the owners of the inner house will be immediately detained on the spot, and the stolen property will be sealed on the spot, and no one will be allowed to touch it. Violators will be killed! ”

"Yes!" Luo Qianhu ordered the deputy Qianhu to stay here with the remaining one hundred brocade guards, obeyed Yang Qiuchi's command, and hurriedly left with the other two hundred brocade guards.

The political envoy of Quan Bu looked like ashes, and threatened: "Lord Yang, you have wronged this official, I will go to the emperor to sue you!" ”

Yang Qiuchi sneered and said to the political envoy of Quanbu: "Okay, but, surnamed Quan, although you are in a high position from the second grade, you know how much money you have, if you find out that so much silver suddenly appears in your family that you can't earn in a few lifetimes, and there are people and material evidence, I think how do you explain to the emperor?" You should know how the emperor dealt with corrupt officials! ”

Hearing this, the envoy suddenly felt cold all over, and the fear of death quickly filled his body.

Yang Qiuchi then said coldly: "However, I'm afraid you won't be able to see the emperor, you also know that this official has the power to cut first and then play, if you still want to resist to the end and refuse to confess, after this official verifies the truth, you can immediately correct the law on the spot and report it to the emperor." If you're determined to fight to the end, you can give it a try! ”

It was as if he had seen the grim smile of death.

(To be continued)