The matter is urgent, and it must be decided immediately, Yang Qiuchi said: "I suspect that our rich businessman Mi Yuanwai in Wuchang Mansion is involved in this matter, but there is no evidence yet. You send a deputy Qianhu with a hundred brocade guards to Mi Yuanwai's house, squatting and waiting, not letting him leave, and at the same time preventing him from transferring food. You take the remaining 300 brocade guards and follow me to the prefect's yamen to picket this matter!" ”

"Obedience!" Luo Qianhu replied, and assigned a deputy Qianhu behind him to take one hundred brocade guards to Mi Yuanwai's house, and he and another deputy Qianhu with three hundred brocade guards followed Yang Qiuchi and rode to the prefect's yamen.

When they approached the prefect's yamen, they found that there were more and more hungry people on the streets, and there was no way to advance on horseback. Looking ahead, the roads are clogged with layers of hungry people. I heard someone in the crowd shouting from time to time:

"Hey~! Go ahead! What are you doing standing there stupidly? Go ahead! ”

"Fuck, if you don't put food in again, we'll rush in and grab it!"

"Grab the food! Cowards get out of the way! ”

"yes, anyway, the fuck is starving to death, grab the food!"

"That's it! The head has a big scar off the bowl, and it is better to cut off the head than to starve to death! ”

…… From time to time, there was a clamor in the crowd, and everyone's face was full of excitement. Emotions are already a little out of control.

Yang Qiuchi stood up on the horse and looked up, there was a crowd of people in front of him, and he couldn't get past at all, and he couldn't see the situation in front of the yamen.

Yang Qiuchi said to Song Yun'er: "You go to the room to see how it is in front of the yamen." ”

Song Yun'er nodded. When she came out of the inn, she had already brought her night travel gear, and immediately flew paws up the room and walked along the beams.

After a while, Song Yun'er came down and said to Yang Qiuchi nervously: "There are many people, the gate of the yamen is closed, and there are many officers and soldiers in front of them, all holding knives and guns, and a fence has been set up to separate them. I saw that some people among the hungry people kept throwing stones at the officers and soldiers, and the officers and soldiers were also scolding, and some people who looked like officials were shouting something loudly, and they couldn't hear it clearly. ”

Yang Qiuchi turned around and asked Luo Qianhu: "Is there any other way to enter the prefect's yamen?" ”

Luo Qianhu shook his head: "The yamen generally has only one gate, but it seems that this prefect has a back door, but it is in the north, and it has to go around a long way." It is estimated that it was also blocked by the hungry. ”

"Go over the wall and get in!" Yang Qiuchi said.

Yang Qiuchi and the others went around to the place next to the yamen where there were relatively few hungry people, drove away the hungry people, and borrowed some long ladders from the shops on the street to erect them on the fence and climbed over the wall. Yang Qiuchi, under the protection of Song Yun'er and Nangong Xiong, also climbed over the wall.

Yang Qiuchi ordered Nangong Xiong to lead fifty Jinyi guards to the prefect's yamen granary to check if the grain was still there, and then took the rest of the people to the yamen hall in a hurry, which was brightly lit.

Some of the officials were standing guard at the entrance of the hall, listening to the noise outside and the clamor shouting for food rushing, all of them looking frightened. Seeing that Lord Jinyi Wei Qianhu Luo suddenly appeared with a large group of Jinyi Guards, he thought that reinforcements had come, and he was surprised and delighted, and hurriedly led everyone into the lobby.

Above the lobby, there were officials, all of whom were political secretaries who participated in politics, senators, and experience, as well as officials such as the prefect and the yamen. There are four people sitting in the center, two are the two political envoys of Huguang, and the other is the envoy of Huguang, these three Yang Qiuchi have seen, and the remaining one does not know, and later I learned that it is the commander of Huguangdu.

Now that such a big thing has happened in Wuchang, the situation is about to get out of control, and all the top leaders of the Huguang Party, Government, and Military Department have arrived, and tens of thousands of hungry people have gathered in the yamen, making them sit like pins and needles.

Several local top leaders in various fields were also very happy to see Luo Qianhu and them, but they were even more frightened - Jin Yiwei came at this moment, it was a night owl who entered the house and came without anything.

Without waiting for them to speak, Luo Qianhu preemptively said: "It just so happens that several adults from the Third Division are here, and even the commanders are also there." The subordinate has urgent military affairs and needs to discuss with a few adults, so please come with me to the back hall to speak. Governor Tan, please come in too. With that, he walked to the back hall.

Although Luo Qianhu is a small official, he is only a mere five grades, but Jinyiwei is the emperor's person, and he has the authority to specially picket hundreds of officials, and who is not in awe of the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty. Luo Qianhu is the supreme leader of Jinyiwei in Huguang Province, and now he declares that it is an urgent official business, how dare the political envoy and others say nothing, and hurriedly followed behind his ass to the back hall.

Lord Tan, the prefect, turned pale and followed into the back hall. Hearing the sound of footsteps behind him, when he turned around, he saw Yang Qiuchi and the others also followed, he was so chaotic just now that he didn't notice Yang Qiuchi, and at this moment he saw that the county magistrate of this remote small county who spoke lightly and seriously also followed.

Governor Tan was stunned for a moment, and when he was in a bad mood, when he saw Yang Qiuchi, he thought that he was here to trouble him again, and couldn't help but be angry: "How did you get in?" Do you know what this place is? Don't get out of here! ”

Yang Qiuchi clasped his hands on his shoulders and looked at him coldly.

Governor Tan roared: "Someone! Give him to me......"

"Lord Tan!" Luo Qianhu hurriedly stepped forward, "This is Lord Yang, the envoy of the Jinyi Guard!" Don't be rude! ”

When Governor Tan heard this, he was so frightened that his soul flew out of the sky.

He also received an official document from the envoy sent by Jinyiwei to command the envoy, and knew that the envoy was the special commissioner of Ji Gang, the supreme leader of Jinyiwei, who was responsible for building a copy.

The matter of his own disaster relief was a mess, and he saw that there was going to be a riot, and at this moment the envoy suddenly came, obviously for himself, and this envoy turned out to be the small county magistrate who had come in the afternoon, but his words were not good, and he even asked him to leave just now.

Thinking of this, Governor Tan's face was pale, and he blushed and stammered: "Special, special envoy, lord, lowly position, lowly position, lowly position...... I couldn't think of how to continue.

Yang Qiuchi didn't look at the prefect of Tan, walked up to the two political envoys, took out the waist card of the envoy of the Jinyi Guard from his arms, and handed it over.

The two political envoys glanced at each other, and the left political envoy Qian took the waist card, and the two of them looked at it, and it was really the special envoy's waist card, and they were surprised and panicked in their hearts. Respectfully handed the waist card back to Yang Qiuchi, and arched his hand: "I have seen the envoy." ”

There is a reason why the two political envoys of Huguang Province gave Yang Qiuchi, the commander and envoy, the official courtesy.

You must know that the commander of Jinyiwei was originally a third-grade envoy, one level lower than the political envoy, but the current commander Ji Gang is a big celebrity in front of the emperor, and because of the melon man's copying incident, he was promoted to the governor of the second rank and the commander of Jinyiwei, and the level is already higher than that of the political envoy.

In addition, Ji Gang is also a high-flying and especially vengeful person. It was once recorded that the dumb Timur commander held the same rank as Ji Gang, and did not avoid the road on the road, and Ji Gang beat him to death for some reason. Yang Qiuchi is a special envoy sent by Ji Gang, which is equivalent to Ji Gang's personal visit, besides, there is also the emperor's holy edict of cutting first and then playing, which is equivalent to the minister of Qincha.

Therefore, it is not surprising that the two of them gave Yang Qiuchi, a high-ranking official with no grade, from a second-rank high-ranking official.

The proclamation was made to make Lord Shi's forehead sweat, and he was also secretly glad that when Yang Qiuchi came to visit in the morning, he spoke quite decently. Hurriedly bowed his hand.

The commander of the envoy Wu has never seen Yang Qiuchi, and he doesn't know that his crow has become a phoenix, so he is not particularly surprised, this commander is a second grade, higher than the political envoy, the same level as Ji Gang, and holds military power. However, the Ming Dynasty emphasized literature over military force, and the status of military generals could not be compared with civil officials at the same level, let alone Jinyiwei.

Yang Qiuchi took back his waist card, bowed back to the four of them, and said: "The four adults, they suspect that this disaster relief is a disaster relief, and some people dare to risk the condemnation of the world, deliberately set fire to the granary of the political secretary, deliberately delay the distribution of disaster relief grain, and even collude with internal and external parties to engage in personal fraud, enrich their own pockets, and even deliberately create chaos among the victims, in an attempt to storm the yamen and cause riots, in order to achieve ulterior motives!" ”

When the two political envoys heard this, they were so frightened that they broke out in a cold sweat, although they didn't dare to say that Yang Qiuchi's words were aimed at them, but if such a major event happened in their own jurisdiction, they would not be able to escape the involvement.

This disaster relief is within the scope of the duties of the political envoy, and it has little to do with the two adults, the procurator and the commander, so they are not very nervous and wait and see.

Yang Qiuchi turned his head to look at the trembling Governor Tan behind him, and said coldly: "Lord Tan, I ask you now, what about the disaster relief food transported by the imperial court?" The words were cold, and it was clear that Tan Zhifu was interrogated as a prisoner.

Governor Tan trembled and said, "Yes, in the granary." ”

Yang Qiuchi just guessed that there was no grain in the granary of the prefect's yamen, but he was not sure, Nangong Xiong had not come back to report the situation of the granary, and asked at the moment: "Then why don't you release grain?" ”

"Also, it's not done yet." Governor Tan lowered his head and said.

"How long has it been since the relief food arrived?"

I didn't dare to hide this, and I couldn't hide it, Governor Tan said: "Five, five days." ”

"Five days? Do you know how many hungry people were starved to death in five days? Well? Yang Qiuchi said angrily.

Governor Tan was even more panicked, bent his waist lower, and arched his hand: "Humble duty, humble and incompetent......"

The right political envoy Quan rushed up and kicked Tan Zhifu to the ground, and shouted: "You guy, didn't I order you to put food immediately?" Why has it been delayed until now? He walked to the door and shouted, "Someone! ”

Several officials rushed in.

Lord Quan pointed at Governor Tan and shouted: "Put him in prison for me, and after this incident, I will punish him for his crimes!" ”

"Yes!" A few officials came up to arrest the prefect of Tan.

At this moment, suddenly there was a faint commotion outside, and I didn't know what was going on. Immediately afterwards, a servant ran in and reported: "My lord, it's terrible, there is smoke rising from the direction of the granary, it seems to be running water!" ”

(To be continued)