As the top scapegoat in the household department, Liu Tong thought that he would be able to escape the fate of scapegoating by being promoted to doctor, but he was obviously too optimistic.
This time it was not Pan Huang who dumped the blame on him. Pan Huang was human. He would not always take advantage of a sheep, nor would he always let a subordinate take the blame. But when Yan Song's order was passed to the Ministry of Household Affairs, he had to
It would take someone to execute it, so Pan Huang was very hesitant about who should take the blame this time.
That's right, as a veteran official, Pan Shangshu knew that this was definitely a scapegoat because Yan Song only had passwords and no warrants.
If things are done well, there will be no credit. If they are not done well, Yan Song will be offended. If something happens, Yan Song will never admit that he said this, and no one will dare to argue with him in front of Long Live.
Just when Pan Shangshu was frowning, the second-in-command Zuo Shilang Tan Tong stepped forward and said, "Sir, you don't need to worry about this matter, just leave it to your subordinates to arrange it." Pan Shangshu was overjoyed and praised Tan Tong very much.
Then let him handle it all.
Tan Tong returned to his duty room and immediately asked the errand boy to call Liu Tong in. Liu Tong walked into Tan Tong's duty room uneasily: "Sir, what do you want me to do?"
Tan Tong smiled kindly: "Yan Shoufu has a command to collect glutinous rice from the capital for use. This is not a big deal. It is a good opportunity to exercise organizational skills. I immediately thought of you. You just came
I have been promoted to doctor and have not done anything independently, so I will leave this matter to you. Remember, it will take at least six hundred shi of glutinous rice."
Although Liu Tong didn't know why this matter happened to him, he still had basic vigilance: "Sir, what is the use of so much glutinous rice? Besides, I'm afraid there are no boundaries in the capital, so the grain merchants have to be allowed out.
Looking for it."
Tan Tong shook his head and said: "You don't have to worry about what it is used for. In short, you just accepted this job. I am afraid that only Zhang Tianci, the grain merchant, has glutinous rice, but let me tell you, every construction team in the capital has it.
I have some glutinous rice, dozens of shi more and more than ten shi less, so I bought them all, and I can make up five or six hundred shi, which is not much different."
Liu Tong wanted to refuse, but Tan Tong stared at him helplessly, so he had no choice but to take the task ticket, return to his duty room, and summon the officials and errand boys under his charge to find a solution together.
When one of his bosses heard this, he stopped and said: "Sir, you shouldn't take this matter! I heard that Tanji Construction has recently purchased glutinous rice at a high price, but it is impossible to buy it. They have raised the price to three times.
If you can’t buy it now, how can you buy it?”
Liu Tong was shocked. He must not have cared about the Nuomi market, but he didn't expect that this matter would be so difficult! When he thought that this matter involved the construction of Tanji, it must be related to the WTO project, and he immediately knew that he was being talked about.
It's been calculated together.
Tan Tong is the backend of Shengshi Grain Store. He was tricked by Xiao Feng before on Nuomi, but now he is regaining his position.
If you get things done by yourself, you are just helping Tan Tong and Tan Xinren to tide over the difficulties, and naturally Tan Tong will benefit a lot. If you don't get things done, although Tan Tong will suffer losses, you can take the opportunity to punish yourself.
, export bad breath.
In short, there is no benefit to oneself inside or outside!
But now that the matter has come to this, he can only bite the bullet and ask people to go door-to-door to buy it. As expected, all the grain merchants said that there is very little glutinous rice in the market and they can't get it. Even Zhang Tianci said so!
Liu Tong knew Zhang Tianci was lying, but he had no evidence. Although the Ministry of Household Purchasing had a good reputation, it was actually just a paper tiger. This was different from the last sorghum sale. It was emergency military supplies, and Zhang Tianci could raise the price as much as he wanted.
, but you can’t hoard it without selling it.
This purchase was just a normal purchase by the Ministry of Revenue. It was neither urgent nor necessary. Zhang Tianci clearly told him that I had it, but I would not sell it. In fact, Liu Tong had no choice. Of course, the Ministry of Revenue could find a way to give it to him afterwards.
Zhang Tianci wears small shoes, but now he has nothing to do with him.
But Zhang Tianci was still a smart man. He gave face to both the household department and Xiao Feng's father-in-law, insisting that he had no more glutinous rice and could do nothing to help him.
Seeing that Zhang Tianci was not afraid of the Ministry of Household Affairs, Liu Tong had no choice but to follow Tan Tong's instructions and go to the construction teams. He was not fighting alone. When he arrived at the first construction team, he found that the Ministry of Works had also sent a doctor to coordinate.
handle.
It seems that Zhao Wenhua is also impatient and openly starts to put pressure on the construction team. You must know that the construction team may not be afraid of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, but it must be afraid of the Ministry of Works. Now that the two major departments are putting pressure together, which construction team can not be afraid?
But the owner of the first shop complained loudly: "Sir, it's not that I don't want to sell glutinous rice to you. Think about it, the price of glutinous rice has tripled in the capital city. If I had it, I would have sold it long ago.
The problem is that I really don’t have any!”
Liu Tong was also anxious. As a scapegoat, he had to show something: "Bold, the two ministries jointly came to visit, how dare you lie?" The official from the Ministry of Industry next to him immediately shouted in cooperation: "Don't you want to do this in the future?
?”
The boss jumped on his feet and cried out: "Sir, if you don't believe it, you can search my house or the team! If you find a grain of glutinous rice, raid my house or hit me! You can do whatever you want!"
Liu Tong and the people from the Ministry of Industry didn't care about being reserved anymore, and they started searching wildly. Two hours later, the two groups met in disgrace. There was nothing at home, not in the team, not even a grain of glutinous rice.
!
In order to resist this search, the boss even stopped eating the seasonal steamed glutinous rice cakes at home!
Governor Liu Tong knew something was fishy, but there was no time to think about it. The two men immediately rushed to the next construction team.
The second construction team had a bigger harvest than the first one. The boss actually had half a bag of glutinous rice at home. The boss looked at Liu Tong pitifully: "Sir, the child wants to eat glutinous rice cakes. I bought them from the black market in the alley at a high price."
Where are the ones you bought? Why don’t you take this half bag of rice with you? It’s just a small man’s honor to all the adults!”
It’s not like Liu Tong came to raid the house, how could he really take this half bag of rice? Besides, this little rice is useless! The doctor from the Ministry of Industry must have been hard pressed by Zhao Wenhua, and he actually wanted to take out the money.
, I want to buy that half bag of rice!
The boss's youngest son quit his job and cried loudly: "Dad, I want to eat glutinous rice cakes. Don't sell rice. I want to eat glutinous rice cakes!"
The cry was quite loud, attracting a group of people to watch. The worst of these construction team bosses are from well-off families, and there are no poor people. Now for such a small amount of glutinous rice, it seems that the family is ruined and cannot survive! Who is not curious to come and take a look?
?
Liu Tong glared at the doctor from the Ministry of Works angrily. The doctor blushed and put down the half bag of rice he was carrying. The doctor from the Ministry of Works, a fifth-rank official, actually robbed other people's children as if they were robbing their homes.
A mouthful of glutinous rice cake in your mouth is really embarrassing.
One after another, all the construction teams were almost exactly the same. I searched randomly in the home team and if I found Nuomi, I lost. When the last one was searched, Liu Tong couldn't help but exploded. He grabbed the boss by the collar and shouted: "You
Tell me the truth, where did the glutinous rice go?"
The boss was really frightened by Liu Tong. He pulled Liu Tong aside helplessly and whispered: "Sir, to tell you the truth, all the glutinous rice from our construction team was sold to Zhang Tianci, and he paid three times the price.
"
Liu Tong said angrily: "The Ministry of Revenue is also willing to charge three times the price, why are you unwilling to sell it?"
The boss shook his head and said: "There is something unexplainable about this. Who doesn't know that the Ministry of Revenue collects glutinous rice to help Tanji build the house? If we sell the rice to the Ministry of Revenue, we will be ransacked by our colleagues."
Liu Tong asked again, but the boss refused to say anything. Liu Tong also knew that the construction team was completely out of luck, and now only Zhang Tianci was left. But to make Zhang Tianci spit out the glutinous rice, he would have to lead his troops to rob it.
But this is a business behavior, even if it is a six-part series, it is impossible for it to be so arrogant.
Liu Tong returned home worriedly. As soon as he entered the door, he heard his son shouting loudly: "Nuomi, there is glutinous rice!"
Liu Tong had been so tortured that day that he had a conditioned reflex. He immediately jumped up: "Nuomi! Where is Nuomi?"
While shouting, he ran into the back hall. He saw his wife sitting in the middle of the back hall, smiling at her children playing with something there.
Liu Tong looked around: "What kind of glutinous rice? What did Peng'er say about glutinous rice?"
The housekeeper chased in from behind and whispered to Liu Tong: "Master, this is a small oversight. Every year, glutinous rice is very easy to buy. This year, for some reason, you can't buy glutinous rice on the street since ten days ago. Miss.
The young master wanted to eat glutinous rice cakes, so the villain had no choice but to go to each grain store and ask.
I bumped into Qiaoqiao at the Tianci Grain Store. Qiaoqiao heard me say that the young master wanted to eat it, so he asked the shopkeeper to secretly sell me a bag. How about a piece of the newly made glutinous rice cake while it's still hot? "
Only then did Liu Tong see clearly that her daughter and son were indeed feasting around a plate of glutinous rice cakes.
Thinking that Zhang Tianci clearly had a lot of glutinous rice, but refused to sell it, and refused to let him remove the pot from his body, he suddenly became furious. He wanted to throw the plate of glutinous rice cakes to the ground and step on it ten thousand times before he could vent his anger.
hate.
He rushed forward and grabbed the plate of glutinous rice cakes. Liu Xueer and Liu Peng immediately looked at him warily, held down the plate at the same time, and shouted in unison: "Mother!"
Mrs. Liu jumped up from her chair like a spring, pointed at Liu Tong and asked, "What do you want to do?" Her voice was stern and high-pitched, like a silver needle.
Liu Tong was immediately deflated like a balloon pricked by a silver needle. He stared blankly at the plate in his hand. Then he picked up a piece of glutinous rice cake, stuffed it into his mouth, and ate angrily while muttering: "Ancestor's teaching,
The ancestral precepts, we must not forget the ancestral precepts! We must not waste food!”
At this time, after Zhao Wenhua received a reply from the doctor at the Ministry of Industry, he had already overturned the table.
Tan Xinren, who was sitting opposite him, was covered in wine and vegetable soup, but he felt nothing. He just stared at Zhao Wenhua blankly, and it took him a long time to squeeze out a sentence through his teeth.