With a "bang", a palm-sized stone inkstone was smashed to the ground.

The ink flew and splashed directly onto the black hem.

Li Xuan glanced at the ink spots on his clothes, and then raised his head coldly and looked at the two chief and deputy warehouse managers who were kneeling on the ground.

Li Yuanyi, who was in the army on the side, smashed the stone inkstone into the air, and then pulled out the long knife from his waist without hesitation, and the sharp blade was directly on the necks of the two warehouse managers.

With just a slight stroke, a bloody streak had already been scratched.

Obviously his cheeks were twitching in severe pain, but the warehouse manager still knelt there straight, bowing his head deeply.

"Say, what's going on?" Li Yuanyi looked at the two of them viciously, and now he can't wait to directly devour the two of them alive. z.br>

Under the cold blade, the two of them couldn't help but tremble, but they refused to spit out a word.

Li Xuan's gaze moved away from them, and his gaze fell on the straw sack behind them.

A bamboo pipe was thrown on the ground, a small pile of aged rice was piled up in a row, and in the deepest part of the granary, where sand and gravel flowed out of the straw bags.

"There are now twenty-seven granaries full of grain, of which only nine are one-year-old grain, nine are mixed with half of the three-year-old grain, nine are mixed with three-year-old grain, and half of them are sand."

Li Xuan turned his head very casually, looked at Zhang Yi, who was also iron-faced on the side, and asked expressionlessly: "Zhang joins the army, it is your duty to raise bullets for good and evil, you come to tell this king, how should the state government punish such a thing?"

Du Bixing and Yu Ze are now in charge of the state government, and only Wang Bo, Zhang Yi, Han Jiang and Yan Tao came here with Li Xuan.

"Returning to the prince, according to the law of Yonghui, one of the six stolen goods should be sentenced to the crime of self-theft, according to the severity of the case, the sentence is different, the light one will be punished with sixty rods, three hundred miles, and the heavier ones will be beheaded!" Zhang Yi said with a beheading, and the two warehouse managers trembled even more.

The grain in the grain depot should all be new grain less than a year ago, but now, according to the statistics of the whole depot, the amount of new grain accounts for only half of it.

Three-year old grain accounted for 30 percent, 60 percent of grain accounted for 1 and a half percent, and half of it was complete sand and gravel.

In particular, the last nine grain depots were mixed with old grain with sand and gravel, and even the homeless people did not eat it, let alone the soldiers who went into battle to kill the enemy.

Maybe the three-year old grain in the last nine granaries can still be savaged, but if it can't be made up for well, it will inevitably affect the morale of the front-line soldiers.

These two people may not know the truth, but they don't know what the reason is, these two people just stubbornly keep their mouths and don't say a word.

In fact, looking at the fine skin and tender flesh of these two people, I think I know that they are not people who can endure much punishment.

But insisting on this, it seems that there are still people behind them!

At this time, a flash of inspiration suddenly flashed in Li Xuan's mind, and it seemed that he could ......

Li Xuan smiled lightly, leaned forward slightly, looked at the two treasury managers, but asked Zhang Yi: "Zhang joined the army, so what about in wartime, if it is in wartime, the guards steal themselves, resulting in poor food and salary, and the army's morale is shaken......

"Rebellious, beheaded, raided, punished." Zhang Yi said the cruel decree unusually coldly.

In a word, the two warehouse managers who had been trembling immediately raised their heads suddenly and looked at Zhang Yi and Li Xuan in disbelief.

"Then let's do so." Li Xuan stood up, walked out with his hands behind his back, and said, "Let the brothers in the state prison greet these two well, and squeeze back the stolen grain from these two and their families as much as possible, and they, their families, clansmen, relatives and friends, all find a ......."

"Lord spare your life......" A loud cry for mercy came from behind him, Li Xuan stopped, and in the sound of banging kowtow, more begging for mercy came: "Lord Wang's life, I'll wait...... I'm willing to explain."

Li Xuan turned around and sat back in the center of the granary.

The blade of the knife in the neck is still there,

But the two of them still struggled to kneel and crawled to Li Xuan's feet.

"When is it now, I believe that if this king does not say it, you should also know in your heart, whether this king has bluffed or not, you should also understand in your heart, so let's talk about it, what is going on, this king will also come to hear about the bad habits of this treasurer." The corners of Li Xuan's mouth showed a hint of mockery.

Li Yuanyi, who was standing on the side, joined the army, and immediately bowed his hand and bowed his head and said, "Lord Wang, the lower official is guilty."

Before, whether it was at the dock or in the state office, Li Yuanyi swore that there was no problem with Kucao.

But now, under his nose, only fifty percent of the grain in the treasury that was recovered last autumn is now left, and the other fifty percent has either been replaced with old grain from other years, or directly replaced with sand and gravel, and he knows nothing, and a crime of dereliction of duty cannot be escaped anyway.

Thinking of this, Li Yuanyi's face couldn't help but turn blue and white.

Li Xuan shook his head slightly, looked up at Li Yuanyi, and said, "Uncle Clan has said that nine and a half out of ten treasury officials in the world will guard and steal from themselves, and the remaining half is just a new hand who is not familiar with the means in it, so the treasury officials have to replace a batch every three years, and now these two people are only the first year, and their hands are still alive, otherwise, where can the problem of this granary be discovered so easily."

Li Xuan is not a generalist, and he only knows about the grain officials' methods of stealing grain from Yu Ze, and even they don't know much about this kind of details, and the fact that Li Xuan can easily find out today is that they are not familiar with the methods.

"They don't know each other, but the officials are still deceived." Li Yuanyi's face was a little embarrassed.

He had inspected the warehouse before I don't know how many times, but he didn't find anything greasy in it, but when Li Xuan came, he just poked under the straw bag with a sharp bamboo tube, and suddenly exposed the little tricks of these warehouse officials.

"It doesn't matter, as long as the food can be recovered." Li Xuan shook his head calmly, looked at the two treasury officials, and the corners of his mouth showed a trace of coldness: "Okay, you two, explain to Li Senjun, how did you get it, it's best to think about how to make up for it, if you can't think of a good way, then don't blame this king for destroying your family."

That is, it is now very close to the summer harvest, and it is also very close to the Tianyin Sect uprising, if it weren't for the fear that once the news of the grain depot being exchanged for grain spreads, the impact would be too great, Li Xuan would have already cut these two people with a thousand knives and wiped out the family.

"Returning to the prince, there are a total of fifty warehouses in this Wuzhou grain depot, and after the grain is stored in the warehouse every year, in addition to being transferred to Taicang as tax grain, distributing the salaries of officers and soldiers, and preparing for famine relief, there is about half of the grain left in the warehouse every year...... This batch of grain will be exchanged for new grain in the same year, and then the expired old grain will be sold at a low price, which can be regarded as relief for the people."

「…… Before the new grain is put into storage, we will replace the old grain of one year with three years of old grain, or even more old grain, and then when the new grain is in storage, it will be sold at a lower price, and then there will be all new grain left in the warehouse, and we can also make a profit."

After speaking, the two warehouse managers lowered their heads in a heavy manner.

"Why, why don't you sell the grain at a lower price and earn a lot of kickbacks when you get new food, but do it yourself, and if you are troublesome, you have to use the older grain in advance, isn't it more risky?" Li Yuanyi was puzzled by this kind of operation.

"Because you make more money that way." The words of the two warehouse managers made Li Yuan not know what to say for a while.

"Eating rebates is indeed relatively safer, but in addition to earning less, it is also easy to be caught by others, but if you operate it yourself, it is not easy to be caught by others at the same time, and you also earn more.

Not to mention, they didn't steal so much food at once, but slowly replaced it little by little over a long period of time."

Li Xuan sneered: "They won't endure it until today, what we see today is already the result of a long time."

Li Yuanyi turned to look at the two of them again, gritted his teeth and said, "You guys should die!"

"Join the army and spare your life, we also have wives and children." Two storekeepers lay on their stomachs

, with a panicked face, grabbed Li Yuanyi's trouser leg and begged bitterly.

"Lord Wang, what do you think should be done with this matter?" Li Yuanyi turned around and looked at Li Xuan.

Li Xuan stood up, walked in front of the two treasury managers, and looked at the two people with a cold face: "This king is not an unkind person, you want to live, and this king wants someone to fill the food shortage here, so in this matter, as long as you can do two things, this king will expel you from the warehouse, and then this king will no longer pursue it."

"Please show me back!" The two treasurers immediately bowed to the ground.

Li Xuan raised his head, looked at the grain depots around him, and said, "First, no matter what method you use, within three days, this king will see that all the main warehouses are full of new grain for one year; Second, when this king leaves, you have to act as if nothing happened, and if anyone asks, you will say that this king has not found anything, and if someone from the Tianyin Sect contacts you, you must also die hard for this king, if they sneak here......

"The prince wants to catch the thieves of the Tianyin Sect." Before Li Xuan's words were finished, the two warehouse managers immediately reacted.

Now at this time, the rebels of his Tianyin Sect are about to start an incident, Li Xuan's biggest enemy is the people of the Tianyin Sect, if they can help Li Xuan and them catch the thieves of the Tianyin Sect, plus make up for the arrears, after that, even if they are dismissed, they will be safe and sound in the end.

What's more, with the money they earned from Kucao, it was enough for them to make up for the lack of food.

"Your Majesty is willing to do as ordered." The two treasurers bowed down again.

Li Xuan didn't look at them anymore, but looked at Li Yuanyi: "Li joins the army, this matter will be handed over to you to be responsible."

"Commanded by a lowly officer." Li Yuanyi immediately gave up.

On the wide street, Li Xuan was riding on a horse, with his head down, as if thinking about something.

At this time, Yan Tao couldn't help but urge him to step forward, and asked with concern, "Lord Wang, can this matter really attract people from the Tianyin Sect?"

"It's inevitable." Li Xuan nodded casually and said, "If this king had expected to be right, I'm afraid these two bastards would have been targeted a long time ago, but as long as they grit their teeth and refuse to admit it, those people in the Tianyin Sect will be suspicious......

Speaking of this, a cruel smile suddenly appeared on the corner of Li Xuan's mouth: "If the people of the Tianyin Sect are smart enough, then they will immediately find out that these two bastards are secretly raising food."

"The prince deliberately wants the people of the Tianyin Sect to find out that there is a problem with the grain depot, and he doesn't want them to find out that we are secretly raising grain, and then take advantage of their coming here to destroy it, let them wipe it out?" Yan Tao was in a trance, and he had already seen the Tianyin rebel who was completely annihilated under Li Xuan's calculations.

"You're thinking too much." Li Xuan glanced at Yan Tao, shook his head and said, "The Tianyin Sect doesn't have many people in Wucheng, and after encountering the king's blows again and again, the manpower they can use is even less pitiful, so even if they come this time, it is only one or two people, or arson, or poisoning, in short, they just want us to have no food to use at that time, once the city is besieged, the food will be destroyed."

"Lord Wang!" Hearing Li Xuan say this, Yan Tao couldn't help but shudder, and he hurriedly asked, "Since it is so dangerous, why does the prince want to ......?"

"Why take such a risk, huh?" Li Xuan smiled faintly and said, "It seems that the risk is very high, but there is a premise in this, that is, summer grain cannot be stored...... Once the summer grain is in storage, then no matter how many schemes the Heavenly Yin Sect has, it will not help."

"Summer Grain?" Yan Tao vaguely seemed to grasp something, and subconsciously asked, "If Xia Liang is intercepted by the Tianyin Sect......

"Look, isn't there another reason why they have to do something to us?" Li Xuan's face showed a sneer, his eyes looked in the northwest direction, and he said softly: "In this way, when and how to start a war, the dominance will all fall into the hands of this king."

"But in case, if there is a case, there is a shortage of food in the city." Yan Tao's face showed infinite worry.

The spring grain is exhausted, and before the summer grain is put into storage, it is the time when the grain is scarce in the world, but no one is willing to buy it.

"So we have to move the food ahead of time and let them destroy it

Fake warehouse, and didn't you listen to him, every year when the time comes, the main warehouses in various places will sell grain at low prices." Li Xuan chuckled, and the next moment, he turned to look at Han Jiang on the side, and said in a cold voice, "These two guys, they can't do such a thing on their own, there are still people behind them, dig them out."

"Whoa!" Han Jiang immediately gave up, in these aspects, it is most appropriate for him to join the army.

"Let's go, go to the armory, I hope there's no problem." Li Xuan snorted coldly, waved the horsewhip in his hand, and the whole person had already rushed forward like lightning.

The other people behind hurriedly raised their whips and chased after them, and at the same time they were faintly uneasy in their hearts.