Most buildings in this era were made of wood, and fire was particularly taboo in places like libraries and granaries, so every time "fire" was used, water would be used instead.
Thick smoke came out of the granary. Seeing that the granary he was guarding was on fire, the grain envoy's expression relaxed.
He did not rebuke the subordinate who reported the news, but just pretended to say: "Why are you standing there? Why don't you give me some water?"
At this time, the soldiers surrounding Zhang Wu immediately dispersed, pretending to go to put out the fire with buckets.
The flames in the granary rose, and countless grain merchants in the city finally felt relieved.
Sicao Hucao, who was placed under house arrest by the player in the Jiedushi Mansion, was also relieved. This fire was a good one!
The grain envoy secretly glanced at Zhang Wu's face. He had already ordered people to pour oil on the granary and the warehouse where the account books were stored. When the fire broke out, everything was really gone.
Zhang Wu looked at the grain envoy with a smile in his eyes, but he sneered in his heart. He was treating himself as a fool.
After a while, two players who ran back to mobilize troops led a group of soldiers to Changpingcang.
When his reinforcements arrived, Zhang Wu stopped pretending and said immediately:
"Come here, water leaks out of the Chang Ping warehouse, and the grain road is making it difficult for the guards. We've arrested you!"
Two soldiers who looked like wolves and tigers rushed forward and kicked the pudgy grain master to the ground.
Then Zhang Wu said: "There is no way to save such a big fire, so we demolished the house next to Changpingcang to prevent the fire from spreading."
Zhang Wu added: "The military situation is urgent. You take the commander's order and go to the grain store in the city to 'buy grain'!"
Zhang Wu specifically emphasized the word "grain purchase" and explained in the player's private chat channel:
"I'm afraid that Changpingcang will be hollowed out by these moths. You quickly led the troops to seal off the grain stores in the city. These moths want to turn grain into money, so they must make the grain stores sell grain."
"In addition, I took people to search the houses of the grain road envoy and the Hucaodian grain officer. I was busy controlling the Jiedu envoy's house, and I didn't even notice these moths in front of me!"
After Zhang Wu's order, the players quickly took action.
The Liang Dao Envoy never expected that the Jiedushi Envoy, who was usually very easy to fool, would show such tough tactics this time.
And as soon as he took action, he directly grabbed the life gate.
It is no wonder that these officials often fooled Fang Guan. Fang Guan, the governor of Hexi Province, was a public official. He gained the emperor's appreciation by admonishing the emperor to abdicate and was worshiped as prime minister.
However, Fang Guan, the prime minister, had neither experience in governing local areas nor the ability to lead troops in war.
And Fang Guanwai was appointed as the governor of Hexi Province. This was one of the most powerful vassals in the world. He governed the four counties of Hexi and commanded tens of thousands of soldiers.
How could Fang Guan know how to manage such a large place if he was only a vocal official.
After Fang Guan took office, Dou Shen originally helped handle government affairs.
But after Dou Shen ran away, Fang Guan couldn't even handle the civil affairs of the Jiedushi Mansion, so he had to delegate it to the officials of the Jiedushi Mansion.
For example, this incident of household officials colluding with grain envoys and secretly emptying granaries happens almost everywhere.
If a minister has experience in local governance, he will vigorously check the books and inventory of the arsenal and granary after taking office.
However, after Fang Guan took office, in order to promote the conversion of horses into mulberry trees and to win over the officials in Hexi, he did not keep an inventory of the accounts.
This also made the food envoy more courageous.
Hu Cao's several tests made it clear to these officials that Fang Jiedu really didn't understand civil affairs.
If the boss doesn't understand, then the subordinates will naturally be fooled.
As long as there are no big changes in the figures in the monthly accounts, and as long as you report nothing every month, you can get away with it.
Anyway, if a new governor is appointed in the future, the fault can be placed on Fang Guan.
The grain envoys, together with grain merchants from several big families in the city, first exchanged the old grain for the new grain in the Changping warehouse, and then simply exchanged all the grain for chaff and dragged it directly to the grain store for sale.
It's just that they met the player.
To say that these routines of Datang are really too rough compared to the cannibals who hollow out companies in modern society.
Zhang Wu had a background in auditing. He first detained the grain envoy and Hucao's grain collector, and then sealed the ledgers of grain stores in the city in the name of wartime.
Although the accounts of Changpingcang were burned, the account books of these grain stores are still there.
Zhang Wu just took a brief look and found the loopholes in the account book.
A large amount of grain of unknown origin was placed in front of these grain store owners, and they hesitated to explain it.
The player found another breakthrough in the warehouse of a grain store and found a large amount of grain with the imperial mark.
After getting the confession from the owner of the grain store, Zhang Wu pried open the mouth of the grain envoy at night and confessed that he had colluded with the big families in the city to steal grain from Changpingcang.
Zhang Wu made a decisive decision and raided these grain stores decisively.
Then he announced the implementation of rationing in the city, and set up porridge shops in the city to recruit refugees to assist Wuwei in defending the city.
After this combination of punches, the hearts and minds of the Wuwei City army and the people were greatly settled, and the people in the city also ignited their hatred for Tibet under the propaganda of the players.
At this point, all preparations for defending the city are complete.
Xue Hu was also very tired. It took the cooperation of more than thirty players to complete the preparations for defending the city.
I really don’t know how those time-travelers in online novels can take control of a city so quickly and have the army and the people return home immediately.
Thirty inner guard players were busy until dawn. Xue Hu had just hung up and rested for a while when he heard a message from the concierge that the abbot of Miaojue Temple and the great monks from the temple had come to perform Buddhist rituals for Mrs. Ru to beg for a son.
Monk Guangde was among the monks of Miaojue Temple. Dai Ze gave him a time limit of three days. If he could not persuade Fangguan to surrender within three days, the Tibetan army would attack the city.
In other words, there is only one day left for Monk Guangde to make great achievements.
Monk Guangde mixed with the monks of Miaojue Temple and entered the Jiedu envoy's house.
But upon entering the Jiedu Envoy's Mansion, Monk Guangde felt something was wrong.
There were soldiers guarding everywhere. They closed the gate as soon as they entered the house, and the servants who led the way led to the backyard.
As expected, the situation was similar to what Monk Guangde had imagined. The group of monks were taken to the woodshed of the Jiedushi Mansion and put under supervision.
This moment frightened the abbot of Miaojue Temple. He accepted the gold cake from Monk Guangde, thinking that the matter was exposed, and immediately shouted to the soldiers:
"What an injustice! We at Miaojue Temple did not collude with Tibet, we were all coerced by the evil monk Guangde!"
Sure enough, only peers show naked hatred!
Guangde's face turned pale. This monk from Miaojue Temple was so useless, why would he sell himself now?
Fang Guan is so powerful that he discovered himself as soon as he entered the city?
Guangde really couldn't figure out at which step he had exposed his flaws.
The players were also confused. They were just afraid that the news would leak out, so they temporarily detained these monks.