Chapter 143 The startled yamen
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One stone hukou with the black and large word "official" written on it is placed next to the grain troughs.
Duanmu Ruoyu ordered the people to shovel the grain into the hukou with a big wooden shovel. After a while, the granary was filled with dust, making people unable to open their eyes.
"It's so unethical. It's fine to mix sand into the grain, but it's even lime!"
Duanmu Ruoyu ran out of the dust, coughing continuously. He was holding a handful of food in his hand and said excitedly: "But finally grabbed these guys' tails!"
"Search!" He Jin glanced at the face of expressionlessly. Fatty Wu, the Ambassador who was tied up beside him, found that the fat man's face turned pale in an instant.
Youmin Zhuang immediately took a sieve and sifted a bucket of rice carefully. When only wheat was left in the dustpan, a lot of wheat husks, dead grass, soil, and white ash pieces had fallen on the large coarse cloth underground...
After measuring the rice, it is less than seven liters.
Then, He Jin reached out and grabbed a handful of it from the dustpan. With a light pinch, the wheat turned into dust and it was obviously moldy and rotten.
He couldn't help but look at Fatty Wu coldly, and asked sternly: "Open your dog's eyes and see, can food be eaten by people like this? Even pigs don't eat pigs! Because pigs also know that eating this kind of food will cause diarrhea and die of diarrhea!"
"It seems that the five large warehouses of A, Yi, B, Ding and Wu all have excellent grains to deal with the investigation. When it comes to the warehouses of Ji, Geng, Xin, Ren Kui, there should be all such rotten rice, right?"
"If this is the case, the entire Changping Treasury has been replaced by you big rats and half of the food!" He Jin yelled and cursed, his eyes flushed: "How bold and productive are people. Fatty, how many brains do you think you have, and how dare you do this?"
"I, I..." Fatty Wu stammered for a long time, and finally seemed to accept his fate, saying, "Anyway, it's useless to say anything..."
He Jin kicked him with one kick.
Looking back at the tired subordinates, I found that it was already midnight after the trouble.
He was too lazy to check it out one by one, and ordered his subordinates: "Go to the next warehouse and move a few bags of grain out at random. I want to see if I guessed it wrong!"
Min Zhuang immediately followed the order, and after random sampling and inspection, he found that the food in the warehouse behind was full of rotten wheat mixed with a large amount of soil.
He Jin was so blue that he was too lazy to speak anymore. He turned his head and ordered his subordinates: "Take it all away and leave it to the master for the treatment!"
After arriving at the yamen, I found that Yao Jing, who was worried, had never fallen asleep.
After listening to He Jin's report, he was like a volcano that had completely erupted. He immediately slapped the table and roared: "Enter the hall, summon all the relevant officials! This year, if someone wants to make me poor life, I will make me unable to sleep even if I sleep!"
With this order, the silence of the entire Cizhou Yamen was instantly broken.
People from all walks of life rushed out to send orders, and the rest of them lit up the torches, making the lights in the second hall of the yamen.
Soon, the Tongzhi, who was responsible for the money, grain and taxes of a state, Zhang Wenhua, the clerk in charge of specific work, and the clerk in the grain department, were brought all over by someone.
When I saw Fatty Wu and his husband kneeling, I didn’t know that he was involved in the repurchase of official grain and was kicked out?
At this time, Yao Jing's face on the case was extremely gloomy, and he sarcastically said to these people: "It is my official who has disturbed you, so I hope you will understand and be grateful."
"I dare not, I dare not..." How dare these people say anything? They all lowered their heads and stuttered in a low voice.
But unexpectedly, Yao Jing did not intend to let them go. He suddenly slapped the gavel and shouted: "What's there to be afraid of! The entire granary in Cizhou is about to be emptied. You all pressed my neck under the guillotine of the court. Do you still care whether my official gets angry?"
"Master..." At this time, Song Tongzhi had to speak, but obviously he had no confidence: "If you have something to do, we can talk about it, and getting angry can't solve the problem..."
"Well... these words are very skillful, and they are indeed the master hiding behind them." Yao Jing turned around and stabbed Song Duanfang, choking Song Duan's face sour, but he didn't dare to say anything.
Then he turned to Fatty Wu and said, "Ambassador Wu, I'll ask you to tell you what happened and see how to solve it?"
Wu Wei has already obtained stolen goods and has no way to deny it.
The only choice is to either take it alone or take the people in the hall together. These people are only colluded with each other because of interests. How can there be any friendship when the disaster comes?
Immediately, Fatty Wu confessed honestly: "When you go back to the master, you often close your position and buy and sell your positions. Song Tongzhi and Zhang Sihu both knew it well. However, they took the filial piety of the villain and turned a blind eye."
"And Kong Fangxiong, who is from the Grain Department, colluded with the four major grain merchants in this state and colluded with villains to do such unethical things!"
"Wu Wei, you dare to slander people!" Song Tongzhi and Zhang Wenhua immediately panicked, as if they were stung by a wasp and jumped to deny it.
But Yao Jing ignored them at all, but looked at Kong Fangxiong who was trembling beside him with a sneer, and shouted: "Kong Dianli, are you wronged too!"
Kong Fangxiong knew that he could not escape at all, so he immediately knelt in the hall and begged for mercy, "Master, please spare your life... The villain was obsessed with the instigation and confusion by the damn grain merchants, so he did this. Who knew that during the New Year, those victims would cause trouble."
"Make trouble?" Yao Jing was so angry that he heard this word: "Which people in the world are not the people of the Ming Dynasty!"
"You guys, you don't even want to resell official grain for your own selfish interests, but you're even on the verge of blame for the people who were suffering from disasters! Come on, slap the official and beat me hard!"
Old Song and Old Wu shouted in the middle of the night, holding their anger.
At this moment, he caught someone who could vent his anger, and immediately took the wooden fan and sucked it up. He cursed in his heart: Dog son, let you not do human affairs, and we will suffer as well!
Seeing that Lao Song and Lao Wu fought hard enough, Yao Jing certainly relieved his hatred.
Then he looked at Wu Wei and said, "Wu Wei, you are really sorry for your name. Not only are you doing nothing, but you also do a great job! ... Why are you still standing there? You want to wait and get the grain merchants out after you stumble?!"
"Big, Master, please spare me..."
Looking at the vicious Old Song and Old Wu, Wu Wei's face was as white as the rice paper. He immediately said the names of the four major grain merchants like beans poured on bamboo tubes.
"Liu Huoer!" Yao Jing signed the ban and ordered viciously: "Catch those four dogs from the bed to the official!"
Liu Huoer became energetic when he heard this: the rich grain merchant was a murderer and the one who was the one who could beat him hard. He immediately took his men and ran to arrest people fiercely.
Taking advantage of this skill, Yao Jing did not forget to continue interrogating and shouted in disgust: "Wu Wei!...Are you a single firecracker? I asked a question and then I knew how to answer it? At this point, I will still explain the matter of how you buy and sell it. I honestly explain it clearly!"
"Big, Master, this is actually simple." I've already left it alone, and Fatty Wu naturally didn't care about this throw. He explained in detail: "The Changping Warehouse has a total of 9,762 stones of grain, and the grain for sale this year is 2,640 stones, and the remaining 7,122 stones."
"The new grain accounts for 2,300 stones of this 7,122 stones, and the rest are old grains. Among the old grains, up to 40% of them can still be eaten. The rest are grains that have been rotten for many years and cannot be eaten."
"Every grain that is often closed is something that should be eaten. Why are there so many rotten grains that cannot be eaten?" Yao Jing asked afterwards.
"Because the state sells old grain every year, and grain merchants offer to buy it, and they also have to replenish new grain. After the villain colludes with the four major grain merchants, he neither sells old grain nor replenishes new grain. He only makes two books between the granary and grain merchants."
"As a result, the quantity in the granary has always been in compliance with the regulations. However, the cost of grain merchants to purchase old grain is very small, but the government paid the price of purchasing new grain. The difference between them is divided by us..."
Chapter completed!