The convoy turned around again and headed towards Zhaoyangfang, but as soon as it arrived near the gate of Dongshi, it saw several people on horseback running in front of it, and the leader was Jiuzhi C, who arrived in Chang'an first

Li Zhen was a little dissatisfied with Jiuzhi, he sent him as a pioneer, and came to Chang'an first, but he didn't even arrange his own residence, so that he was almost humiliated, Li Zhen asked with a calm face: "Captain Liquor, where is my residence?"

Jiu Zhi understood why Li Zhen was angry, he was almost anxious about this matter, it was useless to yell at Zhou Yaosi, and he was driven out by him, Jiu Zhi said helplessly: "The matter of the official residence, the subordinates will report to the general afterwards, and the subordinates have arranged a mansion in Xuanyangfang, not far from Sister Quan, please live first." ”

Li Zhen glared at him, and then ordered: "Go to Xuanyang Fang!"

The carriage sped up and drove towards Xuanyangfang, and after a while, they slowly stopped in front of a large mansion, which looked new, with a high courtyard wall, covering an area of thirty or forty acres.

"Is this what you rented?" asked Li Zhen, pointing to the mansion with a horsewhip.

Jiuzhi hurriedly smiled and said: "This is borrowed by a friend of Sister Quan, and he said that there is no problem in living for half a year." ”

"Which friend is it, does the second brother know about it?" Di Yan suddenly asked on the side.

Jiu Zhi heard Di Yan actually call himself the second brother of wine for the first time, he was suddenly surprised and happy, his fat body trembled, he secretly glanced at Li Zhen, and saw that he didn't seem to care, and hurriedly said: "Miss Di, no! Mrs. Qiyu, it seems that she is a friend of Sister Quan's business, and she has a lot of connections in Chang'an, and I don't know the specifics." ”

Di Yan nodded and smiled at Li Zhen: "Husband, then let's stay first!"

Li Zhen didn't want to toss anymore, and immediately said to everyone: "Let's stay first!"

Everyone walked into the mansion one after another, and Li Zhen asked Jiu Zhi again: "Where is my eldest sister? Why didn't you see her?"

"Sister Quan went to Lingzhou Manor, she should be back in the next two days, she said that she received a big business, she went to Lingzhou Wine Cellar to pick up the goods. ”

Li Zhen didn't ask too much, and walked into the middle hall, and several scribes and Jiuzhi also followed, Li Zhen asked everyone to sit down, and then he asked Jiuzhi: "Tell me what you know." ”

Jiu Zhi glanced at everyone, and saw that Li Zhen didn't seem to care about the presence of everyone, so he had to report: "In fact, Chang'an, like Luoyang, is controlled by several major forces, the officialdom is Jingzhaoyin and Xijing left behind, and below the officialdom is the world of the Guanlong nobles, including Jingzhaofu, which is also controlled by the Guanlong nobles, and the Guanlong nobles are dominated by the Dugu clan and the Changsun clan, and the two families take turns to serve as the leaders of the alliance, and the rest of the Dou family, the Yuan family, the Yu family, the Zhao family, etc., are all attached to these two families. ”

After a pause, Jiuzhi slurred again: "I heard that the Dugu clan seems to support King Luling, and the Changsun clan supports King Xiang, but this is just a rumor, and I have no conclusive evidence." ”

Li Zhen waved his hand and said, "Let's talk about Zhou Yaohe!"

Hearing Li Zhen mention that 'Zhou is going to die', Jiu Zhi's anger didn't come to one place, and he said viciously: "This bastard is Wu Sansi's henchman, relying on Wu Sansi's power to be powerful in Chang'an, bullying men and women, and not giving money when he goes to the Qinglou-"

Zhang Shuo and the others laughed out loud, and Li Zhen couldn't help laughing: "Don't talk nonsense, get to the point!"

Jiu Zhi also knew that he had lost his words, and said what he was thinking about, his face was a little red, and he hurriedly said: "I asked Zhou Yaosi to arrange the official residence, and he said that the housing was tight! He really had no way to do it, let me go to Jing Zhaoyin, how could I go to Jing Zhaoyin, I said that I knew that there were many empty houses, let him clean up one, I gave him a list at the time, but he was angry and angry, so he kicked me out of the official office." ”

"Where's the list?"

Jiu Zhi took out a list from his arms, handed it to Li Zhen, and said a little proudly: "This is what I got from Liu Shenjun, and he is not bad, and he secretly helped me a lot." ”

Li Zhen took the list and looked at it, and found that there seemed to be a big house in Chongrenfang that didn't look like a residence, so he asked, "What's going on with this house in Xuanpingfang?"

"It's not a residence, it's a big warehouse, which stores more than 100,000 stone of grain, and all the Xijing military food is supplied by this granary. ”

Li Zhen took a few steps and asked, "Do all the generals of the garrison in Xijing obey Zhou Yaosi's military orders?"

"This is not necessarily, the main reason is that there has been no deputy left behind for more than a year, and Wu Youning doesn't care about Chang'an, so the power of the army was stolen by Zhou Yao, just the day before yesterday, Zhou Yaozhi also convened the generals of the army to give lectures, forcing them to completely obey their orders, otherwise he will clean up one by one. ”

Li Zhen sneered, "It seems that he really wants to give me a dismount, but it's okay this way, everyone can tear their faces." ”

He immediately said to Chen Ziang: "Please ask Mr. Chen to write me an impeachment chapter, impeachment Zhou Yaosi for trespassing, unauthorized entry into the county king's mansion, write three copies of the chapter, one for the military department, one for Di Xiangguo, and one for the imperial library." ”

Chen Ziang clenched his fists and saluted, "I know, I'll write." ”

Li Zhen then said to Jiuzhi: "Gather all the brothers and fight with me." ”

After a pause, he said to Zhang again: "Mr. Trouble goes to Dugu Mansion, and the safety of my mansion is entrusted to him." ”

Zhang explained what Li Zhen meant, Mrs. Di is strong in martial arts, where she needs protection, the general is doing this, in fact, it is to give the Dugu family an explanation.

"My subordinates know, let's go!"

He turned to leave, and Li Zhen immediately led a hundred personal guards and cavalry to run in the direction of Xuanpingfang like a gust of wind......

The large warehouse of Xuanpingfang was originally the seed granary of the Si Nong Temple of the imperial court, covering an area of 100 acres, consisting of more than 30 huge granaries, each granary can store 10,000 stones of grain, because the Sinong Temple moved to Luoyang, this granary was assigned to Xijing to stay, as the Xijing garrison granary.

In peacetime, about 300 soldiers were stationed to guard, led by a captain, and not long after, Li Zhen led a hundred personal guards cavalry to rush into Xuanpingfang, and ran directly to the gate of the grain depot.

Alarm bells in the granary: 'When!' The ground rang, and dozens of soldiers stood on the high wall of the storehouse, nervously looking at the more than a hundred cavalry below, they didn't know what was happening, and everyone was nervous.

At this time, Li Zhen pointed at the head of the city with his sword and shouted: "I am the newly appointed Li Zhen who stayed in Xijing, who will your lord be, come and see me!"

In a moment, the door of the warehouse slowly opened, and several officials rushed out, led by a captain, who knelt down on one knee and said: "The humble position is Chen Duo, the guard general of the grain depot, see General Li!"

The two civil officials in the back were the chief secretary and Cangcao joined the army, and both of them bowed and saluted, "See General Li." ”

Li Zhen thought that it would take a fight to seize the grain depot, but he didn't expect to take it so easily, which shows that these three civil and military officials are not Zhou Yaosi's people, and it also shows that Zhou Yaosi's mediocrity and incompetence, he actually doesn't control such an important grain depot in his own hands?

"Three of you, please get up, please take me into the granary!"

The three officials stood up and took Li Zhen and a hundred cavalry into the granary, Chen Duo pointed to the granary and introduced it to Li Zhen: "There are a total of thirty-four granaries, but only twenty-one granaries have grain, about 150,000 stones, and the outer circle is full of empty warehouses, and the grain is in the inner warehouse. ”

Li Zhen is not interested in inspecting the grain depot at present, he wants to control the army by controlling the grain, after all, Zhou Yaosi has been in power for more than a year, and many generals are forced to be loyal to him.

He asked, "How do you feed the armies?"

"General Qiyu, according to the custom, every ten days to provide food, the generals of each army have to write an application, after Zhou Changshi approves it, they come to receive food, according to the time, tomorrow it will be time to release grain. ”

Li Zhen immediately said coldly: "From now on, without my signature, you are not allowed to put a grain of grain, do you hear......?"

Zhou Yaosi didn't know that Li Zhen had occupied the grain depot at this time, in fact, he didn't care about it, Liu joined the army and brought him a very bad news, Li Zhen thought that he had violated the etiquette system and lived in the official residence of the county king as a four-rank official, Zhou Yaosi was so frightened that his hands and feet were cold, and he hurriedly ran back to move, he temporarily found a ten-acre house, and wanted to move his home overnight.

Zhou Yaosi knew very well the consequences in his heart, once Li Zhen impeached himself, he was stared at by the Imperial Historical Tower, losing his official position was still a trivial matter, losing his life was a big deal, he complained in his heart, and instructed his family to pack boxes and cages overnight, just when Zhou Yaosi escorted a cart of boxes out of the mansion, there was a rapid sound of horses' hooves in the distance, and soon the horses galloped to the gate, a man turned over and dismounted, shouting, "Zhou Changshi!"

Zhou Yaosi walked in with a lantern and recognized him as King Liang's family member, who had sent a letter to himself before, and he was suddenly shocked in his heart, "What, does King Liang have a letter to deliver?"

The messenger man took out a letter and handed it to him, "This is an urgent letter from His Highness to Changshi, please take a look!"

Zhou Yaosi took the letter and handed the lantern to the maid next to him, he opened the letter and looked at the lantern, and couldn't help but secretly complain, the tone of Liang Wang's letter was very tough, ordering him not to hand over the military power to Li Zhen, and Li Zhen must be completely hollowed out.

It's easy to say, but what can he do, a small official mansion turmoil will make him embarrassed, and if he wants to confront Li Zhen again, wouldn't he torture himself to death, but he had to obey King Liang's order, so he had to sigh and say to the messenger: "You go back and tell King Liang, and I will do it." ”

Early the next morning, there was a small commotion outside the grain depot in Xuanpingfang, hundreds of grain trucks were piled up at the gate, and hundreds of soldiers were waiting anxiously outside. ”

This was just a batch of grain convoys, and the second and third batches of grain convoys arrived, and they all got the same result.

Not long after, more than a dozen cavalry rushed into Xuanpingfang, led by a general commander, his name is Lin Shaotong, is the chief general of the army stationed in Daming Palace, there are more than 1,000 soldiers under his command, he is the first to come to receive food in the morning, but was refused.

Lin Shaotong immediately understood what was happening, Li Zhen stuck the grain, if he didn't turn his allegiance to him, they wouldn't want to get a grain of grain, if there was no food today, the soldiers would be out of cooking tomorrow, the consequences were very serious, Lin Shaotong had to come over to make a statement.

He also admired Li Zhen's methods very much, starting with the grain, jamming the necks of the armies, and everyone couldn't help but be unconvinced, compared to Zhou Yaosi's voice, Li Zhen's silent wrist was much more powerful than him, and it can be seen from this incident that Zhou Yaosi will undoubtedly lose this battle.

Lin Shaotong was led into the grain depot by the soldiers and took him all the way to the grain depot lobby, which was the office of the civil officials, but a large group of craftsmen were busy modifying something?

Lin Shaotong stepped forward and knelt down on one knee, "Lin Shaotong see General Li!"

"You are Lin Duwei of Daming Palace, you have admired it for a long time. ”

Li Zhen hurriedly helped him up and said with a smile: "I originally planned to convene everyone last night to discuss the matter of the new official office, but I was in a hurry last night, so let's get together tomorrow!" ”

"What new official office?" Lin Shaotong asked puzzled.

Li Zhen pointed to the lobby where the craftsmen were busy, and said with a smile: "I think the official offices in the imperial city are too deserted, so I decided to move the official offices out of the imperial city from today and put them here for the time being, and after the new official office in Chongwenfang is cleaned up, we will officially move over."