Jiangling.

In spring, it is rainy in Jingchu. The drizzle slowly drizzles among the green willow grass, like layers of thin gauze clothes slowly cages. It is not cold, but it exudes a vibrant coolness.

The soldiers who were standing guard in front of the military camp took off their hats and wore straw raincoats, breathing happily the humid air.

After I took the hat away, the sound of the wheels came into my ears.

The soldier shouted: "Prepare to open the door! The food and fodder are here!"

The rain lasted for a long time, but the road was not muddy.

A group of more than a hundred officials were winding along the road, with hundreds of large trucks driving beside them. There were high stacks of grain bags covered with rain-covered felt cloth, and there were also pigs and sheep that were tightly tied to the board, but they struggled from time to time, humming twice.

"Oh! There are many good things this time!" The soldiers in front of the checkpoint poked their heads out and shouted happily at the military officers.

The military officers laughed twice and continued to go to the camp.

When they entered the military camp, the officials stopped talking and walked quietly among the solemn and neat camps. The soldiers wearing armored and sharp patrol soldiers lined up to them. Both sides knew each other and did not speak, just nodding slightly.

The queue walked along the winding road for more than half a moment before reaching the camp.

The General of the Cavalry, Sima Wang Bei, had already held the books in his hand and was leading them there to receive them.

This is the last batch of food and fodder transported from Jingzhou Prefecture Pavilion to the army this month. The specific numbers have been implemented as usual for a long time. Every time Wang Bei comes, he can just count it roughly.

But as soon as the convoy stopped, Wang Bei felt something was wrong.

"Are you missing?"

"It's too little." The officer who led the team bowed and bowed: "Wang Sima, there is a shortage of food reserves in Jiangling this month, so my governor has written to the military mansion and sent the food for ten days to the base camp first. After ten days, he will immediately make up the full amount."

He was originally a senior military officer. In the past two years, because of the military integration of Jingzhou, Jiaozhou and Jiangzhou, he was transferred to the General's Mansion of the Cavalry to serve as the Sima of the Guardian and assisted in handling many daily affairs. Among them, Lei Yuanyourong's old subordinates from the mountain that year allowed them to gradually withdraw from the battlefield of fighting. Therefore, the officials of the Prefecture did not dare to be arrogant.

Today, the governor of Jingzhou is still shooting aid. He is a famous scholar in Guanzhong and the son-in-law of Huangfu Song. He served as the governor of Jingzhou for many years. Not only is he very experienced, he also has strong ability to handle government affairs. It is definitely not a problem for the transfer of military rations for a few days. Since he explained it to the military office, Wang Bei had nothing to worry about.

Now the two sides handed over normally, exchanged a few greetings and urged the grain and fodder to enter the warehouse, and then they all went there.

Wang Bei took the books signed by both sides and returned to Jiangling City. As usual, he recorded them in the summary books. He ordered the minor officials to copy them several copies and put them into the corresponding red lacquer bamboo slips. After all, he called out and a special clerk came. According to the notes on the bamboo slips, he presented them to the General of the Cavalry and the Chief Secretary of the Warden.

The circulation of documents in the military palace gradually came up with a unified charter at these times. There are rules for which ones should be expedited, which ones should be distributed separately, and which ones should be directly handed over to the general's leadership.

When there was no war, the daily work of the General Cavalry Mansion was so trivial and scattered that everyone was already used to it.

Lei Yuan is also in office.

He got another son at the end of last year, and it was the time when the baby was quarrel. Lei Yuan treated Zhao Xiang very well, and he would always get up to deal with it, which was more active than a few maids.

As a result, he woke up three or five times last night and did not sleep well. At this moment, his eyes were covered with dark circles. At this moment, he was flirting with many documents, and he felt sleepy as he looked at them. He couldn't help but put the documents on the desk and planned to doze on the desk for a while.

As soon as he put his face on the desk, the steps sounded softly at the door. He raised his head and saw Ma Zhong untied his straw raincoat and walked in.

"Di Xin, what's the matter?"

"Please look, General." Ma Zhong submitted the document.

Lei Yuan took the document and looked at it: "Wang Ping and other departments have insufficient food and fodder distribution this month?"

He thought for a while and said to Ma Zhong: "I remember that the Prefecture once wrote an article to explain this matter. It was said that Jiangdong had recently purchased a large amount of supplies from the Prefecture to support the military operations in Liaodong. Therefore, Jiangling Palace may have insufficient grain storage and needs to go to Lexiang City to buy supplementary documents..."

He turned around and looked at the stacks of documents beside the wall, stroked Hu Wang and said, "I'm afraid I can't find it for a while. If Dexin can be used, I might as well bring two books to check it out."

Ma Zhong nodded: "The Prime Minister's Mansion had written a document earlier, saying that Sun Quan intended to instigate the military affairs of Liaodong, but we needed some material support. He also specially approved some military equipment quotas. After all, the jurisdiction of Jiangdong is now narrow, and it is probably difficult to support Liaodong's large-scale military operations across the sea. It is just..."

Lei Yuan saw Ma Zhong frowning and couldn't help laughing: "It's just what?"

"General, they bought too many! The inventory of the prefecture in Jiangling is insufficient, so what a huge amount is this? How big is the Jiangdong people going to do?"

On that day, Chengdu Central allowed Jiangdong people to purchase bulk materials in Jingzhou. Jiangzhou urgently purchased bulk materials to support the Liaodong direction. This move was to express his support for Sun Quan to the scholars in Jiangdong in a vague way. Lei Yuan has money to make money here, so of course he will not object.

Starting last year, Jingzhou and Jiangzhou were supported by bulk materials such as salt, iron, grain and fodder from Jiaozhou. As a result, the treasury of the prefecture has become much more relaxed. With the stock size of the two places, there should be no problem dealing with this matter. Lei Yuan also sent someone to instruct the price of resale of materials to restrain himself a little, and do not take the opportunity to slaughter it, which would ruin his reputation.

Now it seems that the amount of supplies purchased by Jiangdong people is so huge that the prefecture has insufficient grain storage? The shooting aid needs to be purchased from Lexiang City to fill the gap?

After saying this, Lei Yuan also felt strange.

He immediately summoned an official and ordered him to go to the Jingzhou Governor's Mansion to review the recent summary of the materials given to Jiangdong.

When Emperor Taizu Gao led his troops to attack Xianyang, his subordinates were all frightened. Only Xiao He first sent someone to collect household registration, land, tax and other information. This move was recognized that Emperor Gao was able to gain a foothold in Shu and then compete for the foundation of the world.

After that, the Han people have always attached importance to data statistics for four hundred years. When Zhuge Liang was the prime minister of the Han Dynasty, the requirements for this were more trivial, and there were many statistical items. The statistical methods were not mastered by the previous generations, or even if they were mastered, they were only rough.

She Yuan, the governor of Jingzhou, has been working as a governor of Jingzhou for many years, and is unambiguous in official duties. Not long after, he sent several officials to bring the materials that Lei Yuan asked for in and out of the booklets.

Most of these figures are reported to the Military Palace every month, and Lei Yuan and Ma Zhong are familiar with each other. They have read it earlier and will not check it too carefully. After all, the Military Palace and the State Administration are in charge of each other, and they are not directly related to superiors and subordinates.

But after carefully checking it out with questions, Ma Zhong's expression became a little bad. He immediately asked General Jin Cao to engage in the work, and then bring the material flow books of Lexiang City.

As soon as Jin Cao arrived, he submitted the books of Lexiang City, and Lei Yuan and Ma Zhong were even more surprised.

Since last year, there have been more materials scattered in the market in Lexiang City than usual. In addition, handicrafts, luxury goods and even strictly controlled ironware transactions are also more active than in previous years.

Therefore, Lei Yuan specializes in Fan Xun as Jin Cao, responsible for special management, recording the fluctuations in material prices in various places and some important transaction content. This data is updated daily. After several months, officials from all regions even sent personnel to copy them so that local regions can operate at a level.

What Lei Yuan and Ma Zhong are paying attention to at this moment is not the price itself, but the large number of transaction records behind the rapid price increase.

Judging from this situation, in the past month, Jiangdong people have been buying and buying. They are like a glutton with endless appetites. They have never missed any goods that can be sold on the market, whether they are grain, agricultural tools, luxury goods, daily necessities, or handicrafts. They have made many wealthy merchants in Jingzhou and Jiaozhou make a fortune!

"Check it out, how much money did they invest and how much supplies did they buy?"

Ma Zhong took the paper and pen and summarized the calculations one by one on the spot.

Lei Yuan quickly walked out and called several officials to come in to help. He stood beside the desk and watched.
Chapter completed!