The city of Yangzhou was in good order. After the five hundred thousand shi of grain arrived, the first thing Su Jin did was to put 100,000 shi of grain into the official warehouse to fill the big hole of the general grain.
Food, Song Xiang Goujun breathed a sigh of relief after his victory. He finally let go of a big stone in his heart. Although the consequences of this incident have not been eliminated, he has made up for some mistakes after all. What he has to do now is to keep the secret and not let the outside world know.
I learned that such a thing had happened.
Nerds are nerds. Song Xiang actually summoned Pan Jiang, who was guarding the official warehouse, and the officials in Yangzhou, and severely warned them not to spread the word about the matter. Strictly guarding Zeng's opening of the official warehouse, this made Su Jin dumbfounded. Except for himself, Song Xiang
, except for Gou Dasheng, Pan Jiang and others, no one else knew what was going on. Even if they knew that it was military rations, the Shangguan's order to open the warehouse must have been approved by the court. Who would suspect that the warehouse was opened privately? Song Xiang's warning was true.
Suspected of hiding their ears and stealing the bell, all the subordinate officials who originally thought it was a normal opening of warehouses to benefit the people suddenly understood. They all clicked their tongues in fear and were so frightened that they could not speak.
Su Jin admired this confused Yangzhou magistrate, but that was not what he was worried about at the moment. Song Xiang could do whatever he wanted with these matters. He was busy setting up a point to sell the shipped grain at a fair price. He had to stabilize the grain supply first.
The price has put the food on the black market in a temporarily unprofitable state and suppressed the arrogance of the black market.
Anyone with a discerning eye knows that this period of peace will not last long. In less than two months, everything will return to its old state. Su Jin is going to use this period of breathing time to dig out the grain.
The deadline set by the imperial court has passed more than ten days, and it is already the twelfth lunar month. There is not much time left for Su Jin. Su Jin does not know the collection status of other state capitals yet, but from Yangzhou's point of view, it is still nothing.
Don't jump, it seems that this harsh policy is not a blizzard, but a cool willow breeze blowing through Yangzhou City. No one takes this order seriously.
After discussing with Song Xiang, Su Jin decided to adopt a two-pronged approach. First, the magistrate's office would step up propaganda efforts, publicize the imperial policy throughout Yangzhou City, and post notices to create an urgent momentum. At the same time, he secretly sent dozens of
The team officers pretended to be civilians and made secret visits among the people, looking for people with knowledge.
Su Jin judged that since Feng Laohu had hoarded nearly a million stones of grain, it was impossible to maintain such strict confidentiality measures when moving it back and forth. There must be clues to follow. The current goal was to investigate these clues and then follow the clues to find out where the grain was stored.
To find out, the next step is to meet with Feng Laohui.
For three days in a row, news came to Su Jin like a snowflake. The success of the investigation was beyond Su Jin's expectation. A large amount of information showed that Happy Valley, southwest of Baoyang Lake in North City, and Liuzhier Hutong in Dongcheng were most likely to be Feng's.
Someone saw with their own eyes that a large number of mules and horses came and went from these two places more than a month ago, and heavy objects packed in sacks were piled on the vehicles, which looked very much like grain.
In order to confirm the news, Su Jin ordered people to continue to investigate the people who were doing the moving coolies and the truck dealers who transported goods in the city. It was confirmed that a large amount of grain had indeed been moved into these two places. Su Jin finally settled down. It seems that these two places
Chuzheng is where the granary is, and it's time to meet Feng Laohu.
On the early morning of the fourth day of December, Su Jin led the Dynasty Mahan and 150 horse troops to Sanli Hutong, Beikou, where Wu Erlang said the black market was located. Su Jin did not expect to find food here, and a large amount of food was shipped.
Da, there is no shortage of food in Yangzhou city for the time being, and the black market has naturally ceased.
In order to reopen after the official rations were exhausted, Su Jin came here just to find the mysterious Feng Laohu. No one knew where he was. Even Wei Du, who was very familiar with Yangzhou City, couldn't find out after asking for half a day.
Feng Laohu's residence, Su Jin had no choice but to come here to try his luck.
In fact, Beikou Sanli Hutong should not be called an alley, because it is really spacious. Even compared with the main streets in Yangzhou City, it is not much different. This alley runs north-south, which is very inconsistent with most of the east-west streets in the city.
A hard thorn stabbed straight through the city of Yangzhou, looking extremely domineering.
What's even more incredible is that there are tall iron gates at both ends of the alley, with huge iron locks hanging on the doors, so that the brigade can't enter the alley, which makes Su Jin a little annoyed.
Everyone stopped outside the fence gate at the south entrance of the alley. A horse soldier came forward and patted the fence and shouted: "The officers and soldiers are patrolling the city, please come quickly and open this iron gate."
After pounding for a long time, there was no one in the alley, and the entire alley was silent without a single sound, which was in huge contrast to the bustling flow of people on the street behind Su Jin.
"Master, what should I do?" Chao Chao came up and asked.
Before Su Jin could answer, Ma Jun Zhao Dutou shouted: "Go to hell, just blast away."
Su Jin smiled and said: "What a good strategy. Zhao Dutou's method is simple and straightforward, and it works."
The accompanying Yangzhou government official hurriedly stepped forward and said: "Sir, you can't do that. This Beikou Sanli Hutong is said to be an alley. In fact, the entire alley is the property of one person. This is private property. People put up fences on private property.
There is no reason for us to break into a private residence."
Su Jin secretly smacked his lips, what a big deal, this man was too rich, the entire alley was his private property, this was not a remote country, but the bustling city of Yangzhou.
"Feng Laohu's private property?" Su Jin frowned.
"This little person doesn't know, but it is definitely private property. Even during the martial law period, there was no patrol team patrolling the alley.
Su Jin sneered and said: "It's so grand, but the private property in the world, no matter who it is, belongs to the emperor. We are the emperor's errand, so we can enter anywhere."
The yamen servant hurriedly said: "My lord, please be patient. When I came here, Magistrate Song told me to tell me that I must not cause trouble. Now that the city is under control, I'm afraid if something leaks out, it won't happen."
beautiful."
Su Jin said: "I'm afraid of this and that, so I didn't say anything. I'll take the responsibility for this. I've brought your words to you and I know about it."
Seeing that he couldn't be persuaded, the yamen officer rolled his eyes and muttered: "There must be a reason. If you just break in like this, doesn't this leave a clue?"
Su Jin heard this clearly and laughed loudly and said: "The reason? It's easy to handle. Brothers, listen, the bandits captured in Bagong Mountain escaped in Yangzhou City and a bandit chieftain escaped. This envoy ordered a city-wide search. The bandits must be found, no matter what.
All official and private residences must be carefully searched, do you understand?"
The horsemen laughed and said, "I understand, sir."
Su Jin scolded: "No playful smiles, why don't you take action after you understand?"
The cavalry soldiers jumped off their horses and rushed towards the iron fence. They grabbed the iron fence and beat it randomly, making a clanging sound.
Ma Han said doubtfully: "Master, who escaped? Why didn't I know?"
Wang Chao slapped him and cursed: "Foodie! Fake!"
Su Jin was speechless, and turned to look at the fence gate. Dozens of horse soldiers were lying on the iron fence like ants, pushing and pulling, but the fence door didn't move at all. Zhao Du was so angry that he couldn't stop eating.
Even with all the commotion, no one in the alley came out to open the door. Su Jin stretched out his hand to call Zhao Du's head over and said, "You are stronger, or is the horse stronger?"
Zhao Du slapped his forehead and said: "Look at my pig brain, I have forgotten this."
He turned around and raised his hands and shouted: "Stop pushing, go find me a rope quickly, a long, thick and big rope."
The soldiers immediately took action and pulled a dozen long ropes from a nearby rope shop and carried them in a coil. Zhao Dutou said: "Climb up and tie the rope firmly to the top of the fence. Tie it on the other side.
On the horse's crotch, I want to see if this iron fence is as stable as Mount Tai."
Everyone hurriedly climbed up and down to secure the rope. More than 20 tall horses dragged the rope back, and the rope jumped straight in an instant.
The people on the street pointed and pointed. Everyone knew that this was Feng Laohu's place. The officers and soldiers were about to pull down the fence of Feng Laohu's house. Now there was a lot of excitement. Everyone stopped to watch, and more and more people gathered around.
Zhao Du shook his horse whip and shouted: "Please, please stay away. If the horse collides with you, we will not be responsible."
The common people shouted to make way for a passage, and Zhao Du made the first call to get ready. The twenty-odd soldiers on horseback raised their whips high, and when Zhao Du gave the first shout, they all hit the horses and pulled with all their strength.
At this moment, a loud shout came from the alley: "Who is so fucking arrogant? You are bullying our Mr. Feng. Stop now. If you don't stop, I will make you walk around without food." dd