The next night, Dongcheng, Deqing Lane, Liu Ji mutton soup shop. It is recommended to read novels and read books quickly

Deqing Lane is located in the civilian area of Dongcheng, Liu Ji mutton soup is an old shop with a history of more than 30 years, authentic northwest taste, although the location is remote, but it is very popular with the surrounding people, and the business is very prosperous.

Li Yuntian has come here to eat a few times, and he feels that the master's craftsmanship is very authentic, so he invited the man with the national character face to come here to talk about things, and he didn't have to worry about being recognized after a full meal.

In a private room on the second floor, Li Yuntian sat at the table and leisurely waited for the arrival of the man with a national character face, although he knew that Jingcang resold grain, but he didn't know how Jingcang leveled the accounts and how to cheat in the warehouse.

He had already inquired about the identity of the man with the national character face, his name was Lu Dacheng, a deputy envoy from Jiupin, who had been working in the warehouse for seven or eight years.

Emperor Yongle has two granaries in the capital and the neighboring Tongzhou, of which the one located in the capital is called Jingcang, and the one located in Tongzhou is called Tongzhou Cang.

Jingcang and Tongzhou Cang are collectively called Jingtongcang, and the rice and grain eaten by the imperial palace, the imperial family, the Jingguan and the personal guard, and the Jingwei all come from the Jingtongcang.

The supreme chief of the Jingtong warehouse is the head of the Jingtong warehouse, which is served by a Zhengwupin official of the household department, who is at the same level as each division of the household department, and is responsible for managing the affairs of the Jingtong warehouse.

There are 13 warehouses under Jingcang, namely Lumi Warehouse, Nanxin Warehouse, Old Taicang, Fuxin Warehouse, Xingping Warehouse, Shipping Warehouse, Beixin Warehouse, Taiping Warehouse, Benyu Warehouse, Chuji Warehouse, Wilmar Warehouse, Wan'an Warehouse and Yufeng Warehouse, which are equally divided inside and outside the capital, and each warehouse is supervised by the warehouse supervision of Zhengliupin.

Tongzhou warehouse has three major warehouses, namely the west warehouse, the middle warehouse and the south warehouse, which are also responsible for the warehouse supervision of Zhengliupin.

Li Yuntian and Xiong Yan inspected the Fuxin warehouse among the thirteen warehouses in Jingcang, and the remaining warehouses were inspected by other imperial historians, and the inspection was completed within three days, and then summarized and reported.

While waiting, the door creaked open, and Lu Dacheng walked in with a nervous face, his heart was now extremely annoyed that he wrote the report note on impulse last year, and he also stuffed it to Li Yuntian.

"Mishi-sama!" Until now, Lu Dacheng was confused, and he didn't know how Li Yuntian found him, so after entering the house, he bowed to Li Yuntian and stood aside crampedly.

There is a strict hierarchy in the officialdom, Li Yuntian is a dignified and six-grade imperial history, and Lu Dacheng is just a small ambassador from Jiupincang, whether it is his position or grade, he is a lot higher than him, so he naturally has to be respectful to Li Yuntian.

"Sit." Seeing that Lu Dacheng looked a little nervous, Li Yuntian smiled slightly, stretched out his hand and pointed to the chair across the table, and motioned for him to sit down.

"Thank you, Lord Yushi." Lu Dacheng hurriedly bowed his hand to Li Yuntian, walked over and sat down in an orderly manner, feeling uneasy in his heart, up and down, not knowing what Li Yuntian's intention was in inviting him here.

The shopkeeper quickly served the wine and food, which of course included the delicious mutton soup and chopped pot helmet, which is the signature of Liu Ji mutton soup restaurant.

"Deputy Envoy Lu, this imperial history wants to know why you gave this imperial history that note." Waiting for the shopkeeper to leave, Li Yuntian poured the pot helmet into the mutton soup, and while stirring it slowly and methodically, he looked at Lu Dacheng on the opposite side quietly.

"Lord Yushi, there are many shady scenes in Jingcang, and the lower officials really can't stand it, so I impulsively stuffed that note for you." Lu Dacheng sat there, his face was cloudy for a while, and then he said with a wry smile, he heard about Li Yuntian riding into Beijing to deliver the edict, and knew that Li Yuntian was not an idle person, so he didn't dare to hide it.

"Eat, it's tasteless when it's cold, let's talk while eating." Li Yuntian saw that Lu Dacheng didn't mean to move his chopsticks, so he said to him with a smile, "Tell me everything you know, don't worry, this imperial history only wants to know the truth, and it will definitely not embarrass you." ”

Lu Dacheng suddenly felt a lot more relaxed when he heard this, to be honest, Li Yuntian was not like the Shangguan he had seen before, he was full of authority in front of his subordinates.

Soon, Li Yuntian learned a lot of inside information about Jingcang from Lu Dacheng.

According to Lu Dacheng, Fuxincang, where he works, disposes of a large number of high-quality rice potatoes as moldy products every year, and in addition, when purchasing new rice potatoes, they usually use low-grade products as high-grade products.

Obviously, the warehouse supervisor of Fuxin Warehouse is not capable of doing this, because the purchase and sale of rice is the responsibility of the Jingtong warehouse director, and the major warehouse supervisors are only responsible for the implementation.

From this, it is not difficult to infer that the reselling of rice is not only in Fuxincang, but also in the thirteen Jingcangs and the three major Tongzhou canistries.

Emperor Yongle set up Jingtongcang, in addition to supplying the needs of the royal family, officials and the army of the Jingshi, another important purpose was to serve as a strategic reserve.

The officials of Jingtongcang resold rice and rice in this way, which not only caused huge losses to the country, but also destroyed the strategic reserves of the Ming Dynasty.

In addition, another major item of Jingtongcang to make money is salt, the officials of Jingtongcang took advantage of their own convenience, from the salt road yamen to attract resale, first transported the salt to the wharf in Tongzhou, and then loaded or loaded into a truck to transfer away, occupying the market of the eight prefectures and two prefectures of Beizhili, and then seeking huge profits from it.

Although Lu Dacheng's position is a little low and he has not been exposed to deep insider information, he can be sure of one thing, Jingtongcang definitely has two books, one is used to deal with the inspection of the imperial court, and the other is to conduct insider trading.

Because there are a lot of high-quality rice grains in the warehouse he is in charge of, which are marked as moldy, and what is shown on the books is moldy products, and every time the warehouse receives new grain, the batch of moldy products will be disposed of.

Since at least one-third of the old grain in Jingtongcang is to be eliminated every year, according to Lu Dacheng's estimate, there will be at least 200,000 silver in this alone every year.

If you add the reselling of salt, then the officials in Jingtongcang can make at least 500,000 or 600,000 taels in a year, which is really incredible.

Li Yuntian really didn't expect that there would be such a big cat in Jingtong Cang, you must know that this is at the feet of the Son of Heaven, those people actually did such a dirty thing, the courage is not ordinary, aren't they afraid of losing their heads?

"Remember, you haven't seen me tonight, don't tell anyone about the night." When leaving the private room, Li Yuntian told Lu Dacheng with a stern expression.

The matter of Jingtongcang is much stricter than he imagined, and if the matter is leaked, his plan will fall short, and if he doesn't do it, he will be hit back by the other party.

"The lower officials must keep it in mind!" Lu Dacheng nodded his head busily, and couldn't help wiping the sweat on his forehead.

Although Li Yuntian didn't say anything, he had a feeling of uneasiness, and he had a premonition that Jingtongcang might usher in a big storm!

The next morning, after Li Yuntian arrived at the Metropolitan Procuratorate, he found Yang Yungui and told him the information he had received from Lu Dacheng.

"It seems that Jingcang and Tongzhou are going to be killed by Lian Guo this time." After learning what happened, Yang Yungui's brows furrowed slightly, and he seemed to have a headache, I'm afraid that this Lu Dacheng doesn't know how big a hole he has stabbed.

"That's their own fault." Li Yuntian sneered, his eyes flashed coldly, "I actually did something wrong at the feet of the Son of Heaven, those people in the household department should really be beaten." ”

"My lord, what are your plans?" Yang Yungui felt that Li Yuntian seemed to have an idea, and couldn't help but ask with interest.

"It's almost time to receive Lumi at the end of the month, shouldn't we light a fire?" A smile appeared at the corner of Li Yuntian's mouth, and he looked at Yang Yungui and said.

"Fishing in troubled waters!" Yang Yungui suddenly laughed, and slowly spit out four words in his mouth.

A few days later, a riot broke out in the Lu Mi Cang in Jingchang that shocked the court, and the officials who received the Lu rice beat up the officials of the Lu Mi Cang.

As the name suggests, the Lu rice warehouse is the Beijing warehouse where the Lu rice of the officials of the capital is stored, and the Lu rice of the officials of all sizes in the capital must come here to receive it.

Because the Ming Dynasty implemented the policy of discounting Lu rice, that is to say, when officials received salaries, they did not get all the Lu rice in their hands, Lu rice was only a part of it, and the others were converted into equivalent cloth, spices and other items.

Therefore, Lu Micang not only has rice and rice, but also other items.

Since the implementation of the policy of discounting rice, the Ming Dynasty has been criticized, because there is a problem of discounted prices.

For example, a piece of cloth is sold for one tael of silver in the market, but the officials of the rice warehouse count it as two taels of silver and send it to the official who receives the rice, so that the difference in the price of one tael of silver is taken from it.

Of course, for those high-ranking officials and dignitaries in the imperial court, the people of Lu Mi Cang will definitely not dare to make things difficult, give Lu Mi a full share, and usually be rich.

Like Li Yuntian, not only did he receive the full amount of Lu rice every time, but the officials of the Lu rice warehouse also sent Lu rice to their homes in a hurry.

However, Li Yuntian declined the "kindness" of those officials of the Lu Mi Cang, and every time it was time to receive the Lu Lu, he personally came to the Lu Mi Cang to collect his Lu rice, even if he accompanied the Yongle Emperor on the northern expedition, he also asked his family to come to collect it on his behalf, and he did not want to enjoy this special preferential treatment.

Those officials who came to Lu Mi Cang to receive Lu rice were naturally middle and low-level officials, and the Lu rice of senior officials was sent to the mansion by Lu Mi Cang with great hospitality.

Originally, the income of these middle- and low-level officials was not high, and there was no additional income in the economy, so they relied on the monthly income to support their families, and the deduction of the officials of the Lumicang had already caused them to be dissatisfied, but they had no choice but to swallow their anger.

First, Lu rice is really a rule set by Emperor Hongwu, and secondly, if you offend the household, the future will be even more miserable, and the next time you receive Yulu, you will be discounted with something that is not practical and not good to sell, then you will want to cry without tears.

As usual, the officials who came to receive the rice in the Lumicang this time dared not speak out against the officials of the Lumicang, but later a young official wearing a Zhengqipin official uniform questioned the quality of the rice sent, believing that the rice was the old rice of the previous year, and had a quarrel with the officials of the Lumicang.

After going back and forth, the young official fought with the officials of Lu Micang, this is the territory of Lu Micang, and the young official was naturally not an opponent, and was knocked to the ground by several officials of Lu Micang, spurting blood from his mouth.

As the saying goes, the lips are dead and the teeth are cold, and the officials who came to receive Lu Mi were immediately enraged when they saw this scene, and they didn't know who shouted "Beat this group of grandsons" under the excitement of the crowd, so everyone swarmed up and beat the officials of Lu Mi Cang, and the people who beat Lu Mi Cang cried for their fathers and mothers, hugged their heads and ran around, and the whole scene was a mess.

The so-called law does not blame the public, and the officials of the Lu rice warehouse did too much, not only the Lu rice sent down was old rice, but the converted physical price was also ridiculously high.

Emperor Hong Xi learned what had happened and punished the officials of the Lu Mi Cang, and the warehouse supervisor of the Lu Mi Cang was removed from his post and investigated, and in order to appease those middle and lower level officials, he ordered the household department to distribute new rice in the future, and convert it into real goods according to the actual price.

As for the young official who was beaten to the point of vomiting blood, no one ever saw him again, and no one knew his origins, some people said that he had resigned and returned to his hometown, some people said that he was imprisoned, and others said that he was killed. One