Ma Cheng didn't know that a minor counter-revolutionary alliance against him was forming in the city. Now Ma Cheng was standing in front of the military storage warehouse in the North City and was angry.

In the Ming Dynasty, there were many types of granaries, including the two Beijing warehouses as the central reserve grain warehouse, the military warehouse as the military warehouse, and the water warehouse as the secondary warehouse to ensure the transportation of the grain. These were all central grain warehouses directly under the central government. In addition to these places, there were also the official Changping warehouses, as well as private social warehouses, also known as Yi warehouses, as well as the Wangfu warehouses that guarantee the use of local royal palaces, the private granaries of large grain merchants, etc.

As the capital of the Ming Dynasty, during the Hongwu period, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered the establishment of four large granaries in Chang'an, Dong'an, Xi'an and Bei'an in the city, each granary storage of grain between 300,000 stones and 400,000 stones. In addition to the four state-owned large grain warehouses, in order to ensure the supply of more than 200,000 troops of the 48 guards outside the city, Zhu Yuanzhang also set up more than 60 military storage warehouses outside the city, which can store 2.7 million stones of grain.

Now Ma Cheng is standing in front of the Jinwu Avant-garde's military storage warehouse next to Zhengyang Gate in Dongcheng. This large granary that was originally supposed to have a large granary that stored 20,000 stones of grain, but is now empty.

Seeing the grain stockpile full of mice running around in front of him, Ma Cheng asked with a bad look: "Where is the ambassador in charge of the granary?"

As soon as Ma Cheng finished speaking, a short fat man who was like a pickle jar said on the side: "Go back to the guard, the minor official is the ambassador of the Jinwu Avant-garde granary!"

Ma Cheng stepped forward and grabbed his collar and scolded, "Where is the grain? Did you sell it all?"

Seeing Ma Cheng's face was ferocious, the ambassador quickly replied: "My lord misunderstood. The villain is not a warehouse that is not in the turmoil. There is no grain in the granary since the third year of Chongzhen. Please see, this is the grain intake account!"

After the ambassador said that, he took out an account book from his arms, and Ma Cheng snatched it over and looked through it carefully. Although Ma Cheng couldn't understand the ancient records, there was indeed no food incurred since the third year of Chongzhen.

Ma Cheng rolled his eyes and asked, "Why is this? After learning that the prefectures and counties in Nanzhili have to pay grain to Taicang, Nandu every year? Why don't you have any here?"

The ambassador smiled bitterly when he heard Ma Cheng say this: "Sir, from the Wanli period, the shortage of the Jinwu vanguards began to be short of the Jinwu vanguards during the Wanli period, and there was not even half of the full amount during the Chongzhen period of the Tianqi period. The Jinwu vanguards are like this. Naturally, there is no need to fill the granary for their supply. Therefore, the grain transported from the Dong'an vanguard has decreased year by year, and there is no such thing as the Chongzhen period!"

Ma Cheng didn't understand the specific situation of the granary. After hearing the ambassador's statement, he looked at Wang Xian beside him. This time the granary was short of grain. Originally, Wang Xian wanted to take stock of the military storage warehouse in the city, but he knew that the situation was the case after leaving several granaries. He didn't dare to make any decisions before reporting to Ma Cheng to know.

Wang Xian looked at Ma Cheng and quickly said, "Sir, according to Xiaguan's understanding, the situation of the forty-one granaries in the city is similar, but I just don't know what the situation of the four Taicangs are!"

The Taicang in Nanjing is the four major granaries, located at the four gates of the Imperial City. The one responsible for supplying the Jinwu Avant-garde granary is the Dong'an Cang in front of Dong'an Gate.

When Ma Cheng heard Wang Xian say this, he didn't care about the place. He took his personal soldiers and Wang Xian and rushed to Dong'ancang in Dong'anmen Square.

Dong'ancang is located in the imperial city Dong'anmen, here

The passage belongs to the territory of the palace, so you have to pass through Dong'anmen to enter Dong'anmen. Ma Cheng has no problem with entering the palace, but his personal soldiers are not good. There is no way Ma Cheng has to take Wang Xian and the others to walk into Dong'anmen.

There is a large open space between Dong'anmen and Donghuamen. This is the location of various royal warehouses. Dong'anmen, one of the four major taicangs in Nanjing, is located here. Dong'anmen is already a national grain warehouse, and the ambassadors here are of grade. When they learned that Ma Cheng, the garrison in Nanjing, were here, the ambassadors and deputy envoys of Dong'anmen, and more than 40 people, came out to pay homage to Lord Ma Cheng.

When Ma Cheng saw the middle-aged ambassador kneeling at the front, wearing a green official robe and a quail on his chest, he knew that the ambassador was a ninth-rank official.

"Are you the ambassador of Tokankra?"

The ambassador quickly replied: "The villain Ambassador of Dong'ankura of the Ministry of Revenue, pay a visit to the guard!"

Ma Cheng didn't want to talk to him, so he asked directly: "I am ordered to inspect the granary. How much grain do you think there is left in the Dong'an warehouse?"

The ambassador received news from the Ministry of Revenue a few days ago, so he was prepared. He heard Ma Cheng ask and said calmly: "Return to the guard, Dong'ancang now has 56,000 stones of rice, 62,000 stones of old rice, 40,000 stones of wheat, and other grains such as black beans!"

Ma Cheng felt good when he heard this guy say this. According to Wang Xian, each of the four major granaries has a storage capacity of between 300,000 and 400,000 stones. Now there is more than 200,000 stones of grain in Dong'an Cang, which is already very good.

However, Ma Cheng could not just listen to this guy's family's words, so after listening to Wanquan's words, Ma Cheng continued: "Okay, I will check it out, you can take me to see!"

When Wan Quan heard Ma Cheng say this, he quickly got up and led the way in front: "Then please enter the warehouse!" After that, he and the deputy envoy led the way in front and led Ma Cheng and Wang Xian into Dong'an Warehouse.

When entering the gate, you will find a piece of grain storage. Each grain storage is ten meters high and about five meters in diameter. The whole body is made of reed mats and topped with catkins to avoid moisture.

Wan Quan led Ma Cheng to a grain storage tank and said, "Mr. Guardian, our Dong'an Cang is responsible for receiving the tuition of grain from Lishui and Liyang counties. Lishui sent 722 stones this year, and Liyang sent 1,579 stones, all of which are here!"

Ma Cheng climbed the long ladder moved from the warehouse, climbed up the grain stockpile and looked at it. It was indeed full of food. At the same time, he grabbed a handful of rice with his hands and looked at it. It had a good moisture content and it was the new rice this year.

Next, Ma Cheng randomly picked a few grain stocks, and now they are almost the same. Except that they are not as good as the first one in terms of quality, the quantity is sufficient.

Seeing this Ma Cheng, he couldn't help but feel a little suspicious. Didn't the ambassador of Jinwu Avant-garde just now say that there was no food? Why did Dong'ancang have so much food? Could it be that ambassador who didn't tell the truth?

"Wanquan, I just came from the Jinwu Avant-garde. Why did that ambassador say that Dong'ancang has never allocated food to them since the third year of Chongzhen? Why is that?"

Wan Quan heard Ma Cheng say this and quickly knelt down and replied: "Sir, the Jinwu Avant-garde has been short of soldiers since the Wanli period, and in recent years, there has not even been half of them. The officials were afraid that if the food was allocated in full, the Jinwu Avant-garde guys would be resold. So the officials asked the Minister to ask the Minister to take the Jinwu Avant-garde.

Wei and several other ward stations with insufficient numbers were changed to this branch, which means they were asked to come here to receive food!"

Ma Cheng was not interested in how the granary was operated. All he was worried about was whether the granary storage was enough. Now seeing that there was only so much grain in Dong'an warehouse, the other three should be similar, Ma Cheng couldn't help but feel relieved.

Ma Cheng did not understand the virtues of officials in the Ming Dynasty, but Wang Xian knew that over the past year, Wang Xian had many interactions with the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of War, and knew very well what these officials were. Now seeing that Ma Cheng was very relieved about Dong'ancang, he quickly pulled La Ma Cheng and signaled that he had something to say.

"Sir, these food mice are very sperm. There are 80% flowers in these food stocks!"

Ma Cheng frowned when he heard Wang Xian say this. Although he didn't believe that Wanquan dared to lie to him, it would be better to be safe at this time.

After hearing Wang Xian's words, Ma Cheng said to Wan Quan beside him: "You have heard what Wang Xian said. Do you dare to guarantee that there is no problem with your grain stockpile?"

Wang Xian was a third-rank military officer with a uniform and a civil servant could not see him, so the ambassador said contemptuously: "Sir, can Qiu Ba say this? Please rest assured. If there is a piece of grain in Dong'an Cang, please chop off the official's head!"

Although Wang Xian was a military officer, he was a scholar. After hearing Wan Quan scolding him, Wang Xian was so angry that he retorted: "Oh, Wan Quan, do you dare to make a bet with me?"

Wanquan didn't understand Wang Xian's background and thought that even if he was a military officer, what happened to him, the third-rank general. So Wanquan gritted the bullet and said, "Okay, I will bet with the adults! If the adults lose, would you like to use your head to guarantee it?"

Wang Xian sneered, "Okay!" After Wang Xian said that, he walked to a grain stockpile. This grain stockpile was a medium-sized grain stockpile, three meters high and two meters in diameter. Ma Cheng had just seen it, and it was filled with Chen Mi.

Wang Xian came to the front of the grain stockpile, held the straw mat beside the grain stockpile with both hands, and pulled it hard. Wang Xian's movement was frightened by Wan Quan. Wan Quan quickly ran to Ma Cheng and shouted: "Sir, this grain stock has a thousand stones of rice, and it has been disrepair for a long time. If it collapses, it will be a disaster. If the adults want to check it, please go outside. The little official can choose a few safe grain stockpile for the adults!"

Seeing Wanquan's expression, Ma Cheng knew that there was something wrong with it, and ignored Wanquan and watched Wang Xian take the straw mat.

The straw mats in this kind of grain stock are made of cattails. They have already become overwhelmed by the wind and sun. Wang Xian opened a hole after a few strokes. However, there was no outflow of grain when the hole came out. Through this hole, Ma Cheng saw that the grain stock was empty.

It was a big deal that there was no food inside. Ma Cheng also helped Wang Xian at this time and quickly removed a straw mat about one meter long. It turned out that there was only one layer of grain on the top of the grain stock, and there was a layer of wooden boards under the grain, and dozens of brackets were supported under the wooden boards. This way, it looked like a full stock of grain on the top, but in fact it was only a thin layer on top.

Seeing this, Ma Cheng was so angry that he said to Wang Xian: "Wang Xian, go to Dong'anmen and use the token of this governor to transfer one hundred Jinyiwei to the stockpile of grain!"
Chapter completed!