Summer rainstorms come and go as fast as they come.

In less than half an hour, the torrential rain gradually stopped.

Sun Fu immediately set off, and after leaving the imperial city, he went straight to the city to close the position.

There are many granaries in Beijing, which can be roughly divided into three categories, each with its own role.

Among them, the most important thing is to close positions.

Chang Ping is led by Sinong Temple, the largest scale, and its main responsibility is to stabilize grain prices and provide disaster relief.

In other words, the regular closing is the real essence of Tokyo City, and it will only be used in the year of the catastrophe and famine.

When passing by a rice shop, Sun Fu suddenly ordered: "Stop! ”

The coachman immediately grabbed the reins in his hand and brought the carriage to a steady stop.

Sun Fu lifted the curtain of the carriage and stepped out of the carriage with the support of the coachman.

Stepping on the muddy road, he stepped into the rice shop.

At this time, business in the rice shop was excellent, and people were constantly coming in and out.

Seeing Sun Fu, the shopkeeper immediately stepped forward, and said with a smile on his face: "I've seen Sun Xianggong, why do Xianggong need to come in person to buy rice, let me know, and the guy will send it to the Zun Mansion." ”

Sun Fu didn't talk nonsense, and asked straight to the point: "What is the price of rice today?" ”

The shopkeeper said: "The good teacher knows that one bucket of rice in the south is eight hundred and twenty wen, one bucket of japonica rice in the north is six hundred and sixty wen, and corn is four hundred and ten wen......

"So expensive?"

Sun Fu frowned.

You must know that although the price of rice rose a lot during the Huizong period, such as southern rice, it basically remained at about 300 wen a bucket.

Now that he has encountered a military disaster, it is normal for the price of rice to rise a little, but he never expected that it would more than double.

Even the corn is as high as 410 wen, so how can the people afford it?

Seeing this, the shopkeeper immediately shouted: "Sun Xianggong, it's not that we deliberately raised the price of rice, but that there is not much grain in the store." Now there is a shortage of food in the city, and many rice shops are closed. ”

Sun Fu asked again: "How much grain is still in the store?" ”

The shopkeeper replied, "There are not many, only three or five hundred stones left." ”

Sun Fu nodded and stepped out of the rice shop.

Seeing his back as he left, a hint of mockery flashed in the shopkeeper's eyes.

Then, Sun Fu took a turn around the other rice shops in the city.

Back in the carriage, his face was gloomy.

The rice shops in the city were indeed closed for more than half of them.

Sun Fu didn't know that these grain merchants didn't have no grain in their hands, but they had the idea of living with strange goods.

After a while, sell at a high price of three or four times, or even ten times, to make a huge profit.

It is not surprising that these are the usual means of grain merchants.

In troubled times, food is life.

Taking a deep breath, Sun Fu instructed: "Go and close the position!" ”

……

At this time, Ding Zhou, the Changping Division, was eating wine in the public party.

Yu Cao, who commanded him, was summarizing the grain.

"Seven years of Chen, eight hundred and thirty-five bags."

"Five years Chen, 1,320 bags."

Picking up a piece of chopsticks and sending it to his mouth, Ding Zhou couldn't help but be amazed: "This Zhuolou's cook is so good, he cooks cheap meat so deliciously." ”

Grab your glass and drink it all.

A bite of food, a bite of wine, so comfortable.

Putting down the chopsticks, Ding Zhou told a bookkeeper: "Remember carefully, but don't make mistakes, although the abacus is small, it is bigger than the official's Gengjie head!" ”

The Cao official was over fifty years old, with a long beard, and said confidently: "Ding Gengjie, please be relieved, I have eaten the official food for more than 30 years, but I haven't knocked out an old tooth." ”

"Be careful in everything, you can't go wrong!"

Ding Zhou taught a lesson, and then picked up a piece of roast mutton and stuffed it into his mouth.

This Sun Wang's barbecue is also a must, charred on the outside and tender on the inside, not losing the stew of Zhuolou.

After taking a sip of fruit wine, Ding Zhou looked enjoyable, shook his head and memorized "Persuasion Poems".

"Rich families don't need to buy fertile land, there are thousands of bells in the book. There is no need to raise a hall to live in peace, and there is a golden house in the book......"

Suddenly, there was a sound of footsteps.

Ding Zhou, who was disturbed, was displeased and frowned.

At a glance, his whole person suddenly became excited, and he hurriedly got up and said: "Xiaguan has seen Sun Shangshu." ”

Glancing at the wine and food on the table, Sun Fu only frowned slightly, and didn't say much.

Officials eating alcohol is not a big deal.

Ding Zhou cautiously asked, "I don't know what happened to Sun Shangshu?" ”

Sun Fu said loudly: "Now that there is little grain in the city, grain merchants have joined hands to raise the price of grain, and even more choose to close the rice shop. This official came to close the position this time, and planned to open a warehouse to release grain and stabilize the price of grain! ”

Ding Zhou chuckled in his heart, and secretly said that it was not good.

Sun Fu asked, "This official also asks you, how much grain is in the Changping warehouse now?" ”

Ding Zhou said in the period: "This ...... Still under audit. ”

"Humph! As a Changping Division, you don't even know the geometry of the grain in the warehouse, it's ridiculous! ”

Sun Fu snorted coldly, walked quickly to the Cao official's side, grabbed the account and opened it.

After looking at it for a while, he asked, "The account records that there are 230,000 stones and 8,000 buckets in the warehouse, right?" ”

Beads of sweat appeared on Ding Zhou's forehead: "There may be some discrepancies, but it's generally not bad." ”

Throwing the ledger on the table, Sun Fu strode into the granary.

Seeing this, Ding Zhou suddenly became anxious, and hurriedly dissuaded: "Sun Shangshu, Sun Shangshu, there is a lot of dust in the warehouse......"

However, Sun Fu ignored him at all and strode into the granary.

Looking at the bags of grain, he ordered: "This official must inspect the grain!" ”

Hearing this, Ding Zhou immediately glanced at a Cao official.

The Cao official immediately understood, and he had to open the bag of grain when he moved it.

"Wait."

Sun Fu stopped Cao Yan's movements, and said coldly: "Take the bamboo stick, and the official will personally inspect it!" ”

For a while, all the Cao officials froze, and looked at Ding Zhou with an unnatural expression.

But he saw Ding Zhou lift the wide sleeves of his official robe, wiped the beads of sweat on his forehead, and said with a smile: "How can Sun Shangshu do such rough work, just let the Cao officials come." ”

Sun Fu's expression changed, and an ominous premonition rose in his heart, and he reprimanded angrily: "What are you still doing in a daze, take a bamboo stick!" ”

The officials were frightened by this angry shout and hurried to get the bamboo sticks.

Taking the bamboo skewers and copper plates, Sun Fu paced to a pile of grains, held the bamboo skewers in his hand, and inserted them into the sack.

Pulling out the bamboo sticks, yellow rice suddenly gushed out of the breach and landed on the copper plate, making a crisp sound.

Call!

Ding Zhou let out a sigh of relief, rejoicing in his heart.

But Sun Fu didn't stop there, continued to walk inside, randomly selected a bag of grain, and inserted the bamboo skewer into it again.

After pulling out, the yellow particles tilt downward.

It's just that this time it's not rice that gushes out, but yellow sand!

Finished!

Ding Zhou's legs were weak, and he fell to the ground, his face pale.

Sun Fu's face was pale, and he laughed angrily: "Okay, well, often closing positions is the foundation of the country, and you dare to do it!" ”

Ding Zhou's lips squirmed a few times, and he said sneeringly: "Sun Shangshu, please look at King Yun's face, don't dig deeper." ”

Sun Fu's tone was cold, revealing Sensen's killing intent: "Don't say King Yun, no one can save your life today." Ding Zhou, you truthfully confess, how many percent of the positions are yellow sand, and who colluded with them to exchange food, maybe the official can leave you a whole corpse! ”

He knew that Ding Zhou had something to do with Yun Wangkai, but at the moment, let alone King Yun, the Emperor Taishang couldn't keep it.

Ding Zhou broke the jar and sneered: "Sun Fu, this official is an official of the imperial court, you dare to kill me?" ”

Although he promoted Chang Pingsi to be a seven-rank petty official, he was also a civil official in the Liunei who had entered the rank, and according to the law of the Great Song Dynasty, at most he was demoted to a concubine and assigned to a remote state capital.

Sun Fu ignored him and ordered Cao to inspect the grain bags one by one.

From the evening until late at night, I finally checked the entire standing position.

But as a result, Sun Fu fell into an ice cellar, and his hands and feet were cold.

The entire Chang Ping position turned out to be less than 30,000 stone of grain!

Even the usual closing is like this, so what about other granaries?

Thinking of this, Sun Fu only felt that the sky was spinning and crumbling.

"Sun Shangshu!"

Cao Yan hurriedly supported him.

At this moment, Li Gang, who had been notified, hurriedly walked into the granary: "What happened?" ”

"Rat, rat!"

Sun Fu looked up to the sky and sighed.

Li Gang's face changed drastically, and he asked, "How much grain is there in Chang Ping?" ”

Sun Fu smiled bitterly: "Less than 30,000 stones!" ”

"Ding Zhou, you damn it!"

Li Gang was furious and ordered: "Come on, take him down, send him to the Kaifeng Mansion, and hand him over to Nie Shan for interrogation!" ”

Ding Zhou was dragged away in despair.

Sun Fu had already stabilized his mind at this time, and said with a straight face: "The top priority is to immediately check the other granaries and block the news at the same time. Otherwise, once the news of the lack of grain in the granary comes out, it will definitely cause a popular uprising! ”

"Hmm!"

Li Gang nodded solemnly.

The two went their separate ways, and it was not until the afternoon of the second day that all the granaries were checked.

Of the 38 granaries in Tokyo, the total is less than 200,000 koku.

The rest was replaced with yellow sand and forage.

It is self-evident where this grain goes.

200,000 stone sounds like a lot, but you must know that there are more than 1.8 million people in the city, and there are 100,000 troops.

If the soldiers can't even eat, how can they fight against the enemy?

Li Gang asked, "Is there any progress in Kaifeng Mansion?" ”

Sun Fu shook his head, and said with a pale face: "Ding Zhou and the others have very hard mouths, and the death of one bite was done by Cao Officials under his command, and he didn't know it, so he could only treat them for a crime of dereliction of duty." ”

"The crime of dereliction of duty?"

Li Gang gritted his teeth and said, "Tell Nie Shan, use torture!" ”

At this moment, a Cao official from the Kaifeng Mansion came to report: "The two ministers are not good, I don't know who leaked the news that the granary has no grain, and the people in the city flocked to the rice shop to buy grain, causing a riot." There were a few rice shops that wanted to take the opportunity to raise prices, but the shopkeeper and the people in the shop were killed by the people, and the grain in the store was also looted, and hundreds of people were trampled to death. ”

"What?"

Li Gang suddenly got up and said angrily: "Who leaked the news?" I'm going to cut off his head! ”

Sun Fu said: "Don't worry about these trivial matters for now, first appease the people, otherwise it will be troublesome to cause a civil uprising." ”

Li Gang instructed: "Take this official's hand, go to the forbidden army to transfer troops and disperse the people." ”

……

At this time, the whole city of Tokyo was in chaos.

The inner city is slightly better, after all, the people who live in the inner city are either rich or expensive, and they have hoarded a lot of food at home.

But the outer city is different, and tens of thousands of people rush to rice shops everywhere.

When he entered the store, he grabbed it, and the guy dared to interfere, and he was a stick at the head, and then he ran away with a bag of rice.

And those rice shops that have long been closed and want strange goods to live in are also surrounded by people, who are constantly slamming the doors with hoes.

"The officers and soldiers are coming, run!"

Suddenly there was a shout from the crowd, and the people immediately dispersed.

A teenager dressed as a small maid ran into the alley with his head bored, twisted and turned along the alley, and finally got into a small courtyard.

After a while, several more people came in.

Closing the courtyard door, one of them arched his hand and said: "Qiu Dutou, the people in the city have already known that there is no grain in the granary." ”

Qiu Niu nodded with satisfaction and ordered: "Let's rest for two days for the time being, and then I will have my own errand for you." ”

"Humble command!"

Everyone bowed their hands in unison.

(End of chapter)