The emperor's decision seemed to be a little unexpected by Chen Yuansi, he frowned slightly, and glanced sideways at Gu Shihai.

Sensing his gaze, Gu Shihai also turned his head to look at him.

The two looked at each other sharply, then withdrew their gaze at the same time.

"Mr. Lu should also stay." Waiting for the crowd to disperse, Ye Tianhuai suddenly stopped Lu Yanchen, who was about to leave.

"Qin Yang is not here, and I have no guards by my side, so please ask Mr. to deign to do it for me." Ye Tianhuai spoke to Lu Yanchen as respectfully as ever.

After that, she untied the saber at her waist and handed it to Lu Yanchen.

Ye Tianhuai didn't feel that there was anything wrong with this move, but it attracted everyone's sideways, and Gu Shihai frowned even more when he looked at the sword.

Even Chen Yuansi raised his eyes to look at Lu Yanchen, his old eyes were unfathomable.

Lu Yanchen gave a full salute to Ye Tianhuai and said, "Weichen has the order." But His Majesty's sword and micro-ministers did not dare to take it. ”

After speaking, he turned to Zhao Yinshi outside the door and said, "I also ask Commander Zhao to help find a weapon." ”

Only then did Ye Tianhuai realize that his move was inappropriate.

She is an emperor, and handing over the only weapon on her body to her courtiers is formally equivalent to entrusting her life, which is a great trust and reliance.

However, if she does this to her teacher, she will inevitably be suspected of cronyism and will incur great jealousy.

Ye Tianhuai nodded, acquiesced to Lu Yanchen's request, and withdrew his sword.

In the end, only Chen Yuansi, Gu Shihai, Yu Jianghui and Lu Yanchen were left in the hall.

"Let's go, everyone, let's go into the warehouse and have a look." Ye said.

Yu Jianghui stood still, he looked at Chen Yuansi a little anxiously, as if waiting for him to say something to the emperor.

But Chen Yuansi stood in place, didn't even raise his eyelids, and said to Yu Jianghui: "Jiang Hui, go find a steward to guide the way." ”

Yu Jianghui's face was already very ugly, and even his voice was a little pleading: "Pavilion Elder ......"

Chen Yuansi immediately interrupted him and said sharply, "What? This huge warehouse, without Xue Song, can't turn around? ”

Yu Jianghui was drunk by him, and his face turned a little pale.

He lowered his head and said, "Xiaguan will go find someone." ”

After a day of tossing, when the time was near, Ye Qianhuai finally stepped into the door of the warehouse.

As she expected, the grain in the warehouse was not only mixed with all kinds of sundries, but also far from enough catties.

"What's going on! How do you manage it? Go and call Xue Song...... No, go get the book! Looking at the grain pile in front of him, Yu Jianghui's face was full of astonishment, and he angrily scolded the warehouse manager who opened the warehouse and led the way.

Unlike his violent anger, Ye Tianhuai did not have a seizure, she said very calmly: "Don't be in a hurry to get the account book." Let's take a look at the other warehouses first. ”

According to what was recorded in Wang Yunzhong's account book, she checked several warehouses with serious adulteration in turn.

The situation is even more serious than Wang Yunzhong's account.

Some warehouses are even full of piles of fine sand, and only a layer of rice grains is sprinkled on the surface of the sand pile, and you can see that it is greasy when you poke it with your hand.

Ye Tianhuai grabbed a handful and spread it out in his hand, looked at the "grain" in his hand with the dim candle flame, and said: "Xue Song said that there is evil in this warehouse, and you can't see the light, and if you see the light, you will die." That's it. ”

If such rations were exposed to broad daylight, they would indeed kill people.

The officials of the entire warehouse, the money and grain department, and even the household department, I don't know how many people will die.

"Do you know that there is such grain in the warehouse?" Ye Tianhuai asked the warehouse manager who led the way.

The man immediately knelt down, bowed his head to Ye Tianhuai, and said, "Your Majesty, the villain is just a key keeper, and the grain in the warehouse is not under the villain's control." Your Majesty spares your life! ”

He had seen Ye Tianhuai dismiss Xue Song on the spot today, and he was a little afraid of this young emperor.

Ye Qianhuai didn't embarrass him much, she turned to Yu Jianghui and asked, "Does Yu Qing know?" ”

Yu Jianghui's face was already pale, but Ye Qianhuai suddenly became famous, and immediately knelt down as soon as his legs became weak, and said: "Your Majesty, Weichen really didn't know that they were so bold that they even dared to move the rations. ”

After he finished speaking, Chen Yuansi, who was close to old age, also knelt down slowly, and said, "Your Majesty, it is the old minister who is not strict in his rule, please punish Your Majesty." The old minister will definitely investigate this matter, recover the lost military rations, and give an explanation to the imperial court, and will never let the front line worry about food and grass. ”

The corners of Gu Shihai's mouth, who had been watching the play, hooked up a sneer.

He has been an official in the same dynasty as Chen Yuansi for more than ten years, and it is the first time he has seen him so embarrassed, and his heart is indescribably happy.

But that's not the end of the story.

Ye Tianhuai didn't answer Chen Yuansi's words, she let the sand and gravel in her hand slowly flow down from her fingers, and whispered: "Big rat and big mouse, don't eat me." Three-year-old girl, don't care about it. I memorized this poem when I was four years old, and the teacher told me that the rats here were pests and bandits. But today, I found out that the so-called big rat may still be the imperial court. ”

She took out an account book from her arms, threw it in front of the kneeling people, and said, "This is the account book left by Wang Yunzhong, the former treasurer, before he was burned to death. If the record is true, 1,300,000 of the two million stone grain on this hill are sand and chaff. ”

As soon as her words landed, several people present were shocked. Yu Jianghui frowned as he looked at the booklet, as if he was looking at a tricky trouble.

"Elder Chen Ge, can you recover this 1.3 million stone grain?" Ye Qianhuai asked.

This number is too big, far beyond Chen Yuansi's expectations, so much so that he also paused for a moment before replying: "The old minister will do his best to recover the deficit." ”

"Elder Chen Ge, this is not only a shortage of soldiers' rations, but there are also two fire cases and the murder case of the master of the treasury that His Majesty just said, I am afraid that these are not something you can find out, and they have to be transferred to the Criminal Department for trial." Gu Shihaidao.

"Now that the war is imminent, it is natural that grain and grass should be the first priority, as for the fire case and the homicide case, Jingzhao Mansion has already tried it before, if Gu Ge Lao has any doubts, he can go to Jingzhao Mansion to get the case file." Chen Yuansi replied without leaking.

Ye Tianhuai was silent.

Chen Yuansi's meaning couldn't be clearer, since the matter has been revealed, he doesn't shirk and cover it up, he just wants to hold the power of tracking in his own hands.

He wasn't wrong.

Ye Tianhuai just wanted to beat him and ask the household department to find a way to make up for the deficit in military rations, and the matter would be settled.

But two things, the fire in the warehouse and Qin Yang's disappearance, made her change her mind.

If this case passes in a blur, it will be difficult for her, the emperor, to be feared.

This is also the reason why she left Gu Shihai, an outsider who seems to have nothing to do with the warehouse, behind.

She pondered for a moment and said: "Food is the lifeblood of the country, and military rations are the most important thing. Gu Ge Lao, you supervise the Criminal Department, and I will hand over this matter to you for full investigation, and you must find out. ”

(End of chapter)