Handan City.

After Liu Jing arrested Handan Ling and put him in prison, he immediately sent people to take over the various government offices. All the data files were sealed, and then he took people to the grain depot in the city.

Liu Jing came to the grain depot with the grain depot order, and then blocked the grain depot, and then called the grain depot. I saw that more than 80 grain depots were all opened, but only one grain depot still had less than 3,000 stone of corn, and the remaining grain depots only had more than 10,000 stone wheat bran.

If all the more than 80 granaries in the entire granary were full, there would be a full 400,000 stone of grain, but now it is less than 3,000 stones, and the rest are some wheat bran for feeding livestock, which is not even 1 percent of the original grain.

"The imperial court has stored more than 400,000 stone of grain here, and now there are only 3,000 left, where is the grain?" Liu Jing grabbed the grain depot order and asked.

"Shangguan, Shangguan, all the grain in this grain depot has long been sold by Handan Order, and then replaced with wheat bran, the villain is just a warehouse order, I really don't know where the grain goes!" The cangling kowtowed again and again.

"Four hundred thousand stone grain! You are so bold, as a warehouse commander, not only can you not be loyal to your duties, but you are in the same stream with others and steal the grain depot, what should you be guilty of? Liu Jing said coldly.

"Capital offense!" One of the attendants next to him sneered.

That Cangling's face turned pale instantly, and he couldn't stop shouting: "Spare your life!" Spare your life! ”

"Someone, put him in prison, take out all the account books of the grain depot, and check the accounts!" Liu Jing ordered, and immediately a clerk took action and put him in the prison, and at the same time, the rest of the people put all the officials above and below the granary into the prison, and then sent people to check all the account books.

Although Liu Jing was angry, he was not carried away by the anger, and the most urgent thing now was to give relief to the victims, and then to check the grain depot and find food.

Liu Jing brought 300,000 stone of grain this time, and if he wanted to help the millions of victims in Hebei, it was not enough at all, but fortunately, this was the first batch, and there were several batches of grain that would be sent soon.

On the first day Liu Jing came here, he ordered his cronies to control the grain and porridge shed, in order to complete the porridge with quality and quantity.

The imperial court opened up to put porridge, coupled with the news that Liu Jing deliberately let people publicize that the imperial court had transported a million stone of grain to come to the disaster relief, and quickly stabilized the situation, and at the same time, he sent people to manage those disaster victims, divided everyone into teams, and began to arrange things for these disaster victims.

The imperial court has always used work for relief, repairing roads and building canals in the event of a disaster, in order to prevent those victims from gathering together and doing nothing.

Let these victims be busy, and when the victims return to their hometowns after the disaster has passed, the imperial court will also issue a sum of money, which is the remuneration for the work of the disaster victims, and at the same time, it is also so that the disaster victims can have money to go back to resume production.

After dealing with the matter of relief to the victims, Liu Jing began to deal with the matter of Handan Ling Zhao Pei. During this period, after the start of cash-for-work, the food trumpet was very large, and many people came to Handan after knowing that Handan was cash-for-work.

It won't take long for the imperial court to collect 300,000 stone grain, and now the imperial court is still mobilizing grain and grass from other places, and it will take some time to transport it here.

Liu Jing is now interrogating Zhao Pei in order to find out where the grain he stole is hidden so that it can be used to help the victims.

In the official office of Handan, Liu Jing ordered someone to bring Zhao Pei to the palace.

Although he was imprisoned for a few days, Zhao Pei was not punished, and even looked good, even his clothes were clean.

"Zhao Pei, it seems that you are doing well in prison!" Liu Jing glanced at him, and then continued without waiting for him to answer.

"Zhao Pei, you are also from the Xue Palace, you are full of poetry and books, and the court treats you well, why do you want to embezzle 400,000 stone of grain? Where are you hiding all that food now? ”

"Shangguan, I have been an official for ten years, and I have never been greedy for a grain of grain, and the 400,000 stone grain that Shangguan said is not my private collection!" Zhao Pei sighed and said.

Liu Jing got up suddenly, and then came to the front of the hall: "Zhao Pei, I read that you and this official are both from the school palace, and the same palace is a minister, so I want to give you a chance, if you don't say it again, your family and relatives will be implicated by you at that time, the three clans will be exiled, and the five generations will not be allowed to enter the palace, let alone be an official, and you will be the sinner of your family at that time!" ”

"Shangguan, I haven't been to the granary since I took office before the drought, and I really don't know why the granary is empty. When I knew that there was no grain in the granary, I could only borrow grain from the big families around Handan. ”

"Nonsense, let me ask you, but you took the grain in the granary and exchanged it for bran?" Liu Jing directly reprimanded angrily.

Zhao Pei nodded and said, "Yes!" ”

"You exchanged grain for bran to feed livestock, and you still say that you are not greedy?"

"Shangguan, at that time, there were only more than 10,000 stones of grain and grass left in the granary, and there were 500,000 victims outside the city. I had to borrow grain from the big families in Handan, but those big families only borrowed less than 20,000 stones. ”

"In order to delay the arrival of the imperial court's relief grain as much as possible, I can only exchange 20,000 stone of grain for 80,000 stone bran, and then mix it with grain and boil it into porridge to help the people!"

"So, the court can't only punish you, but also reward you?" Liu Jing said expressionlessly.

Zhao Pei shook his head and said: "I didn't dare to get the court's commendation, and I didn't find the problem of theft of the granary, which led to no grain in the granary after the drought, and the people could only live on gruel, so that they starved all over the field, and the crime of the ministers was also!" ”

"Hehe, does Zhao Lingyin think this official is stupid?" Liu Jing laughed angrily.

"If Shangguan doesn't believe me, I can confront Cangfu Ling!" Zhao Pei continued, and Liu Jing, who was in a rage, didn't bother to interrogate anymore, and said directly.

"The people outside the city are full of dead, you still dare to quibble, since this is the case, then wait for the court to fall!"

"Come on, put Zhao Pei in prison and keep him under strict guard!"

"Yui!"

Immediately, two guards stepped forward, directly forked Zhao Pei, and then escorted him to the prison.

"Someone, go and bring the Cangfu Order!"

After a while, an attendant hurriedly walked in, then walked quickly to Liu Jing and said in a low voice: "Doctor Yushi, Cangfu Ling is dead!" ”

Liu Jing's face changed slightly, and he said in a low voice: "He was locked up in prison, how did he die?" ”

"Poisoned to death."

"Who poisoned it?" Liu Jing asked.

"I don't know."

Liu Jing didn't ask again, and directly led people to the prison.

There are several prisons in Handan, some of which are used to hold officials, some to keep ordinary people, some to hold for felons, and some for light offenders.

The Cangfu Order is very important, so he is imprisoned in a prison for felons, which can be said to be heavily guarded, and when Liu Jing came here, there were already attendants to close the scene.

(End of chapter)