Next to Xuanwu Lake, there are another property with hundreds of rooms. Usually no one comes, only some old people clean here.
On this day, Ding from the hometown had just swept the fallen leaves in front of the door and wanted to return to the house. Suddenly, a rapid horse hooves came, and then hundreds of soldiers and monks rushed up.
These people were like vicious and fierce, holding bright swords in their hands, full of murderous aura.
"This, what are you doing!" When the old man saw this scene, he was so scared that he sat on the ground.
“老头,快去开门!”
"Yes!" Ding Lian of the hometown rolled and crawled towards the gate, and his hands trembled and opened it. At this time, there was a rogue that could not wait. The two of them held hands as ladders, and the third person stepped on their hands and used their strength to exert force. He suddenly jumped to the wall more than 1 meter high and flipped into the yard one after another.
“都别动,给我老老实实的!”
At this time, Dai Ying led the people and rushed in. They quickly controlled everyone and took care of all the servants in the yard.
“粮食都藏在了哪里,赶快说出来!”
Fanzi held the knife and put it on the necks of several servants, which scared them all over.
"Sir, the younger ones really don't know. We just look at the yard and clean the sanitation, and we don't know anything else."
"I don't know anything, a joke. You are in the yard every day, don't you even know what's left in this piece?"
“没错,快说,不然杀了你!”
"Hey, hey, I said, I said!" The old man was so scared that his face was pale and pointed to the backyard. "Sir, the master has put everything in the backyard."
"search!"
The Dongchang Manzi hurried to the backyard, which was wider, with three or four acres of land, and there were not many buildings. There was only a scattered rockery, and several rows of low houses, with weeds everywhere, and it didn't look like a place where things could be hidden.
“老家伙,你骗谁呢?”
"The villain didn't lie. The master drove the car to the backyard every time. Then he went out empty and the things must have been placed here. It was just that when we were transporting, we didn't let us see it at all. How could we know!"
Dai Ying had a gloomy face and took a few steps. Suddenly he raised his foot and stomped the ground hard, and an echo came from below. The surroundings looked at each other and immediately showed joy.
"It's still the masters who are good at it, let me leave the rest to my servants!"
They immediately started to act separately and searched everywhere. Finally, someone found a mechanism on the rockery. After knocking on it, an authentic tunnel entrance that could accommodate four or five people appeared in front of him.
地面上还有台阶,可以直通到下面.
Dai Ying immediately rushed in with her people when she saw it. Speaking of which, the factory manager really did not avoid danger and rushed to the front line.
After entering the underground, the oil lamps on the walls were lit one after another, and the inside became particularly bright. When they saw them, they were also stunned by the scene in front of them. The basement was huge like a palace, filled with food. I don’t know how much effort it would take to build such an underground granary.
The monk stabbed the rice bag with a knife, and the white rice suddenly flowed out.
"Once upon generations, if you put such food on the market, you will be at least ten taels of silver per lever. There are probably as many as 200,000 to 300,000 tons here."
Dai Ying sneered: "If not, can these rats be so willing to build a nest with flowers? Let us take a closer look at whether there is any food that flows out of the court here."
"yes!"
The men searched carefully, moved a few bags away, and finally revealed some brand new rice bags, with the marks of the Ministry of Revenue on them.
Dai Ying finally showed joy on her face when she saw it.
"Listen, let's look here, let's go to Lord Zhang now!"
At this time, Zhang Jinyan was sitting on a mahogany chair in the cabinet, savoring the tea. After about a quarter of an hour, the footsteps sounded outside, and it was Ma Shiying who came.
These days, Ma Shiying has grown up very quickly, with wrinkles on her face and her red official uniforms all seem to be loose. He slowly walked into Zhang Jinyan's pay room.
"Hahaha, Yuan Weng, why are you free to come here?"
"Mr. Zhang, you have become the secondary assistant. I haven't had time to congratulate you yet!"
"Your in politeness, some things may not be happy events, I don't think there is any need to congratulate you."
Ma Shiying sat opposite Zhang Jinyan and said with a wry smile: "Mr. Zhang, what you said really makes sense. To put it bluntly, the life of a wife is the daughter-in-law. There are emperors above and officials below. The capital is in chaos, and there are noisy outside, and there are many things to do, which makes people embarrassed!"
"If you want to be embarrassed, no one in the world will be embarrassed. If you want me to say, no matter how difficult it is, it is not as difficult as the brothers fighting ahead. No matter how big the matter is, it is not as great as the military supplies. Hesitating about such a major matter of life and death is just a joke about the Ming Dynasty."
Zhang Jinyan said it was ugly, but Ma Shiying was not angry either. On the contrary, she showed a relieved smile on her face.
"Mr. Zhang, you are right, you are wrong, it's all the fault of me, Ma Shiying. I am willing to resign and leave. This cabinet will be handed over to you in the future."
"No!" Zhang Jinyan waved his hand decisively.
Ma Shiying immediately stared at her eyes like a copper bell, and the muscles on the corners of her mouth couldn't help but tremble: "Mr. Zhang, can't you even kill them all? I am the chief assistant, can't you let it go?"
"Haha, Yuan Weng, what is short of food and supplies on the front line now is food and materials. Can you just leave with the crown? This officialdom is already rotten. From top to bottom, everyone is greedy, all officials are greedy, and big officials are greedy, and small officials are greedy. There are merchants who send money outside, and censors who waving flags and shouting inside. This is the cancer of the Ming Dynasty! This is the case with the Donglin Party and the bureaucrats in the world."
Ma Shiying looked disbelief and bit her back teeth and said, "Mr. Zhang, you are going to go against all the officials. Are you not afraid of being crushed?"
"Yuan Weng, you must be able to give me three million harbors of food and five million taels of silver now. This official immediately went back to Henan and reported to Duke Ji."
"You are a forceful person!"
"Yuan Weng, hundreds of thousands of soldiers are hungry for feeding. There are still three or four months before the summer harvest. The Tartars may go south at any time. If there is no food, what should millions of people in Henan do? Without Henan and without An Guojun, can you still be safe in half of the south of the Yangtze River? Touch your conscience and think about it carefully. The official wants food. The Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of War all shook his head and checked the warehouse. There were only 800,000 dan of food. As for the actual number, you know better than me. In short, Zhang cannot let the military and civilians in Henan starve to death!"
"Then do you want the officials to starve to death?"
"Hmph, a bunch of imperial borers died to the point of being clean!"
When Ma Shiying heard this, he finally couldn't stand it anymore. He originally wanted to resign in exchange for An Guojun's concessions, but now he finally realized that An Guojun's ambitions were so great that they were not just focusing on power, but they wanted to fight against the entire bureaucratic system. They wanted to collude with interests to smash!
As the leader of all officials, Ma Shiying could no longer bear it. He suddenly stood up: "Zhang Jinyan, you are also a scholar after all. Wouldn't you betray this kind of thing that forgets your ancestors?"
"Forget the ancestors of the Chinese? The ancestors of China were the two emperors Yan and Huang. As you do this, the land of China will sooner or later fall into the hands of the Tartars, change their clothes and shaved their hair and change their clothes. That is the Forget the ancestors of the Chinese! "
Ma Shiying was so angry that she trembled all over and gasped. After finally calming down, he said gloomyly: "Zhang Jinyan, we are not secretly talking. Are you sure that you will have a time to soar to the sky for Gu Zhenhua? But I want to tell you that this world is still the world of gentry and the world of Ming Dynasty. Although what Gu Zhenhua did allows him to temporarily have a strong army, it is not a long-term solution after all. Just like Cao Cao back then, even if he had great talents and strategies, he was an enemy of the gentry in the world and could not unify the country. Before Gu Zhenhua developed the general trend, he offended people all over the world. At most, such people were Ran Min, Huang Chao and others, which was really not worth his life!"
After hearing this for a while, Zhang Jinyan suddenly laughed: "Wen Ye Yuan, you are drunk, I can't understand a word of what I said."
At this moment, a sound of footsteps came from outside, and Dai Ying walked in with great strides.
"Mr. Zhang, we found a place to hide food."
Dai Ying looked up and happened to see Ma Shiying beside her, and said with a smile: "It turns out that the Prime Minister is also here, so that's just right. The Ministry of Revenue's 250,000 burying of grain stored inexplicably arrived in the merchant's warehouse. Do you think you should investigate thoroughly?"
"Check, just check it!" Ma Shiying shook her sleeves fiercely, turned around and left.
Zhang Jinyan looked at Ma Shiying's back and sneered: "Don't worry about him, Eunuch Dai, how are you looking for?"
"Mr. Zhang, we followed the opportunity of grain merchants to deliver grain to the wharf. We followed the clues and found a warehouse. These people were also cunning enough. They placed the warehouse on the edge of Xuanwu Lake and went out directly along the Jinchuan Gate. This line of people is sparsely populated and has done a very good job of keeping it confidential. If we hadn't put some real effort, we wouldn't have found them!"
"It's not surprising that the cunning rabbit has three holes. Eunuch Dai is the most urgent thing to get more food."
At this moment, Wu Kaijie also rushed over.
"Staff General Wu, what's going on?"
Wu Kaijie also laughed: "Mr. Zhang, I have all dressed up as merchants from the north, and have specially sold a large number of ginseng furs, and some jewelry that have been spread in the palace. Sure enough, those grain merchants regarded me as merchants who were doing business for the Qing Dynasty. While talking to them, I found that these people were indeed doing business with the north. Now, 20 taels of grain in Beijing are still priced but have no market, so they are sold to the Tartars, which is twice as much as in Jiangnan."
"What a bunch of beasts, I can do anything for money!"
Wu Kaijie smiled and put a list in front of Zhang Jinyan, and said with a smile: "Mr. Zhang, this is a list of grain merchants. Follow the map to find the horse. The food in these people's hands is at least 2 million dan!"
Chapter completed!