These warehouses consisted of hundreds of cellars, and they were lined up from east to west and north to south.

Between the rows, that is, the distance between each warehouse and the front and back of the left and right cellars, is about 6-8 meters.

Presumably, in order to shelter from the wind and rain, each cellar was provided with a number of wooden pillars around the mouth of the cellar, and then a roof was built against the wooden pillars, and each cellar had a roof on it.

Standing in the grain cellar area and looking at it, there are neatly distributed warehouse sheds all around.

The sheds appear to be about ten meters in diameter, almost the same as the diameter of the mouth of the above-ground cellar.

She had seen the sketch of the warehouse, the shape was a bit like a water tank, the opening was wide, the bottom was narrow, she had a good memory, and she still remembered that when she was sorting out the information, the specific size of the warehouse, the diameter of the cellar mouth was 10 meters, the diameter of the bottom of the cellar was 5 meters, and the two were built according to the size of 2:1, and the depth of the cellar was 6 meters.

I just don't know what the cellar looks like?

Excitement is excited, after all, I have witnessed the ancient feudal dynasty, or the heyday, the national granary of a large country, but the job can not be lost, and then I am afraid that there will be no time to grind foreign workers in the grain cellar area?

Shicai was in the Taicang Bureau, but she suggested opening a warehouse to check the grain, or checking one warehouse by one, so many huge warehouses, I am afraid that it will not be found out without a month or two of day and night inventory.

It is no wonder that the officials of the Taicang Department look like they are not afraid of on-the-spot inspections, and it is estimated that this almost endless granary area is their fearless reliance.

Whatever he wanted, the old craftsman immediately pointed to a warehouse in front of him and told them how time-consuming it was to open a warehouse to check grain, "North Taicang is large-scale, and there are a total of 500 warehouses in the grain cellar area, and each warehouse can store 4,000 stones of grain. ”

500 warehouses and cellars, that is, the entire North Taicang can store 2 million stones of grain.

One stone is about 80 catties of modern weight, and 4,000 stones is 3,200 catties.

2 million stones, that is, 1.6 million catties, a full 800 tons!

To be more specific, the grain storage in the entire North Taicang can be used for about half a year for a million troops!

Liu Chenxing blinked.

Shen Zhongyi and the rest of the members of the inspection team are all high-level intellectuals nowadays, even if they have not learned the ninety-nine multiplication table, and they can't be as clear as Liu Chenxing, even if they can roughly estimate it based on what they see and a certain amount of mental arithmetic ability, they can't help frowning.

Northern Taicang Ling looked at Shen Zhongyi and his party with a frowning and contemplative look, and his eyes in his fifties that were already cloudy flashed with a hint of pride, but in front of Shen Zhongyi and the four fourth-grade bosses, he didn't dare to make a mistake, he was busy lowering his eyebrows, and said with a cross-handed salute: "The scale of Northern Taicang is a bit big, and the lower officials remember that King Wei set yesterday to hand over the results of the investigation within half a month, if this is according to the ......"

Saying that, he took a rare look at Liu Chenxing, as if he was afraid of Liu Chenxing, and said thoughtfully: "...... If you want to inspect these 500 warehouses one by one and weigh and calculate the amount of grain stored in each warehouse, I am afraid that one month will not be enough. ”

After speaking, in order to make the difficulty of verification more concrete, the North Taicang Order added another sentence: "After all, the grain transported to Chang'an every year is only 200,000 stones, which is already very time-consuming and labor-intensive, and if these millions of grain are checked, it will ...... be checked up" I am probably afraid that if I say too much, it will make people think that he is weak and does not let him check, so he has sighed and shook his head without waiting for a sentence to be finished.

There are three state-level granaries in this dynasty.

Two are located in Chang'an, one is in the forbidden garden outside the city, and the other is in the city. Because of one north and one south, the two are known as Taicang in the north and south of Chang'an, of which South Taicang is also known as Taicang in Dongwei Bridge.

The third one is located in Luoyang and is called Hanjiacang.

The Taicang Order is the highest governor of Taicang, and these three Taicangs all have a Taicang Order, and now because of the grain shortage in Guanzhong, the three Taicang Orders gather in one place.

The two Taicang orders of Chang'an Taicang are in the same breath, and the words of the North Taicang order fell, and the Taicang order of Dongwei Bridge is also a person of about fifty, so he immediately crossed his hand and said with a salute: "And these five hundred are only located in this part of the Forbidden Garden, and the part of Dongwei Bridge, even if the scale is small, it can be hundreds of warehouses, if you add that part, it is even more difficult to check." ”

These two Taicang orders are worthy of singing and harmonizing, and the North Taicang orders immediately said: "In fact, there is a stone tablet in front of each warehouse, which records in detail the time, quantity, variety, and source of grain storage. ”

As he spoke, he stepped forward and walked to the stele to attract everyone, "Even the names of the officials who gave the grain are there, if you want to check, the lower officials have a suggestion, in fact, you can check the records on the stele to see if they can match the account books." ”

In the end, he is the Beijing official of Chang'an, and he knows that if he says too much, he will lose, but in fact, this suggestion is already too much, and he can't say it again, otherwise he will be suspected of wanting to cover it up.

The two Taicangs of Chang'an secretly glanced at each other, neither said anything, and stepped aside.

Sinong Shaoqing Xiang Wei is not a member of the inspection team, but Taicang belongs to Sinong Temple, he is also a professional, in case the people of the Taicang Department are not thoughtful, he can also assist more comprehensively, so he said: "If each warehouse is weighed and checked the number of catties, it is indeed time-consuming and labor-intensive, and the stored grain is lifted up from the warehouse to check, and then carried into storage, not only will shorten the storage time, but also will occur again, and if it rains again, it will be a heavy loss." ”

When he was in court just now, he didn't quite agree with what Liu Chenxing said about checking the grain storage one by one, but whether the inspection team was from Sinong Temple or not, it was very likely that they didn't understand the situation, so it was more intuitive to wait until now, after everyone had seen the grain storage area.

However, what Liu Chenxing said is indeed a more direct way to find out the problem, at least giving everyone a direction for investigation, he still appreciates it, so he thought about it for a moment or two, and chose the middle way: "It is not practical to check all the warehouses, but you can arbitrarily draw a warehouse from them to check, and then compare it with the stone tablet records and account books, presumably you can also have a certain harvest." ”

The words did not fall, and I don't know whether this remark was in the hands of the officials of the Taicang Bureau, or Xiang Wei was their subordinate agency boss who wanted to meet and pat the horse, they praised and agreed, and the North Taicang Order took the opportunity to say that the reason why he did not recommend opening the warehouse one by one to check the grain was that he was worried about causing more food loss.

However, no matter who said it, it was just a suggestion, and in the end, Shen Zhongyi had to make a decision.

Since Shen Zhongyi is the final decider, of course he has to listen to the opinions of his subordinates, and Liu Chenxing, as a deputy inspector who has just taken up his post, should also express his opinion, not to mention that Liu Chenxing proposed to open all the warehouses and check the grain.

As soon as Shen Zhongyi's phoenix eyes were raised, he looked at Liu Chenxing.