Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info With Feng Yi's will, the state machine of Qi State was running rapidly, although Feng Yi only gave an order to mobilize the three armies, but if he wanted to resist the millions of iron horses of the Eagle Country, Qi State must at least mobilize a million elite soldiers......

You must know that in terms of the combat effectiveness of ordinary soldiers, the iron cavalry of the Eagle Country can be said to be the most of the ten countries in Northern Xinjiang, and the mortals of the Eagle Country have grown up on horseback since childhood, and each of them is proficient in archery, which is incomparable to other countries......

If it is a head-on confrontation, the millions of elite soldiers of the Qi country are not the opponent of the million iron cavalry of the Eagle Country at all, but fortunately, this time the main thing is to hold Dingyuan City, with the protection of the city wall, the iron cavalry of the Eagle Country will not be able to exert their strongest strength, and it is enough to hold Dingyuan City......

It is not an easy task to mobilize a million elite soldiers, and there is a saying in the march: before the soldiers and horses move, the grain and grass go first......

You must know that the food consumed by millions of elite soldiers plus their mounts every day is an astronomical amount, if there is not enough food and grass, these millions of elite soldiers are hungry, where can they have the strength to fight with the enemy?

Mobilizing grain and grass is not a difficult thing to do, you must know that Qi State will store a part of the collected grain as military food every year, in order to cope with this situation......

However, in this most undesirable link, there was a problem, when Chang Zaixing came to mobilize the military rations with the Holy Decree in his hand, he saw those squeaky and ugly officials......

After seeing the appearance of these officials, Chang Zaixing knew that something was wrong, so he ordered his subordinates to open the granary, but Chang Zaixing was dumbfounded when he opened the warehouse......

The granaries for storing military rations were very full, and countless bags of grain were neatly stacked together, piling up mountains of grain......

However, as the door of the granary opened, a pungent smell of decay and mildew came to the face, which should not have been present in the granary at all......

Smelling the rotten and moldy smell that was coming out continuously, and thinking of the expressions of those officials before, Chang Zaixing suddenly realized that there was something wrong with these grains......

"Check every bag of grain for me......" Chang Zaixing yelled at the men who brought the food......

As Chang Zaixing's order came out, the soldiers who went to pick up the grain opened the grain bags that had been put down, and the grain bags were indeed filled with grain, but all of these grains were moldy and spoiled grains, and they could no longer be eaten......

"A few of you, who will explain to me, where did last year's new grain go?" Seeing these moldy grains, Chang Zaixing couldn't help but ask the officials whose official uniforms were soaked in cold sweat......

Although Qi has been a rare peaceful and prosperous era over the years, and there have been no major wars at all, as a country, even in peacetime, storing military rations is a must-do task......

Normally, every year when the harvest season comes, the state will put a part of the new grain collected into the warehouse and release the same share of the old grain stockpile, so that the cycle can ensure that there is enough military food and there will be no waste......

But what is the situation now? Chang Zaixing looked at this granary and there was not a single bag of edible grain in this granary, so now the question is, where is the good grain?

"Someone...... Inspect all the granaries...... "With Chang Zaixing's order, countless soldiers dispersed towards the other granaries......

After half an hour, after Chang Zaixing heard the report of his subordinates, his eyes were dark, and he almost fainted directly......

More than 10,000 stones of grain sounds like a lot, but even if this grain is boiled into porridge, it is not enough for a million elite soldiers to drink in a day......

"Take them down and interrogate me carefully, where did all the grain go......" Chang Zaixing pointed to the officials who seemed to have been fished out of the water, resisted the urge to draw a knife and cut them, and gave the order......

With Chang Zaixing's order, the officials of these granaries were dragged away by these wolf-like soldiers......

It didn't take long for several testimonies to be sent to Chang Zaixing, and from these testimonies, Chang Zaixing finally knew where the military rations went......

The state of Qi has been peaceful for too long, and in the absence of a large-scale mobilization of troops, the military rations in this military grain reserve warehouse cannot be used at all......

Originally, even so, if these officials were given ten dares, they would not dare to steal military rations, but two years ago, the price of grain in Qi State rose by two layers for unknown reasons......

The rise in grain prices had nothing to do with these officials, but they often dealt with grain merchants, and at a banquet arranged by grain merchants, some grain merchants mentioned that they could take advantage of the current rise in grain prices to sell the surplus grain they had, and then buy back grain when grain prices recovered after a while......

It is this remark that makes these officials moved, you must know that they have been guarding these grains for several years or even decades, during which these grains have been kept in the granary, and have not been used at all, if they can take this opportunity to earn two layers, then what kind of officials will they be in the future, and what kind of life will they not be able to live when they go home......

As a result, as soon as these officials discussed with the grain merchants, they came up with a plan to steal the beams and change the pillars, transfer the waste grain that was inedible for various reasons to the granary, and then sell the stored military grain......

When the price of grain returns to its original price, they will use the money they have to buy it back and exchange it for the inedible grain......

As for whether the price of grain will fall back to the original price, others dare not say anything, and those of them who have been dealing with grain for decades have the most right to speak......

As long as the country of Qi has a bumper year, the price of grain will change back, anyway, these grains are not used in normal times, how can such a huge amount of foreign wealth be placed in front of their eyes?

So under the cooperation of officials and grain merchants, the military rations stored in this Golden Dragon City were replaced by these moldy and spoiled grains, and now they have a lot of wealth on hand, but they can't get much food at all......

"You big dogs are so daring...... Chang Zaixing looked at these almost unanimous confessions, and couldn't help roaring angrily, these guys are really bold, they dare to do anything......

"General Chang, spare my life, I am willing to give all my wealth......" a granary official pleaded bitterly......

"Spare your life, you should personally beg Your Majesty for mercy, I can't control this matter, someone will escort them, I will enter the palace to face the holy ......" Chang Zaixing snorted coldly, now this matter is not something he can solve at all......