"Absurd!" She kept smiling after returning to Youhu Villa, "I am now convinced that He Xiao's goal is really the same as ours!"
Even if King Yao didn't know that she was going to do something secretly, the food shortage and the emperor's liquid could cause riots. At this juncture, we can't worry about the money and the food, let alone lay off people rashly!
Tianshui City suddenly has tens of thousands of strong laborers who have no work to do, no money to earn, and no food to eat. What a terrible hidden danger this is!
He Xiao is as shrewd as a ghost, how come he doesn’t know the pros and cons?
It happened that at this time, the Tianshui eastward expansion project was suspended and people were driven out. It was difficult for Qingyang not to wonder, did He Xiao just want to cause chaos in Tianshui City and add more fuel to the Emperor's Night?
If Qingyang was the king of Yao, he would definitely defy everyone's opinion at this time and order the Tianshui project to continue even if he opened up the military warehouse to supply food. Anyway, it was only a few days before the Emperor's ooze erupted.
It is understandable that the work was stopped due to the emperor's leakage.
In her opinion, it is only a matter of days that she can work, but in the eyes of King Yao, it is a matter of days that she can save.
This old guy is not too stupid, but too greedy! The treasury has already made a lot of money, but he is reluctant to let the farm workers eat rice for a few days.
The profit makes the mind faint!
"I actually struggled with this kind of thing for more than half a year?" Qingyang laughed at himself, "I'm really old."
Yuan Xuan hurriedly said: "If it were not for the strength of the whole country, King Yao would not be your enemy at all."
Qingyang snorted: "By the way, is there any news about Wu Xianlong?"
Yuan Xuan: "I was about to report it. It has been dealt with. The impact should no longer expand, at least it will not involve... important people."
Most of the officials involved in their plans only received instructions or coercion from their superiors, and had no idea what the big shots at the top wanted to do, or even what kind of trouble they were getting themselves into.
Qingyang's abacus is too secretive, how can there be a few real insiders?
This also makes it easier for them to control the source of the information. If the information is leaked at any level, they can cut it off at that level.
"white?"
"General Bai is well."
Qingyang took a breath: "King Yao has become suspicious. Maybe our plan will be advanced."
This was also a helpless move. If King Yao was suspicious, how could he not have thought that the night of the emperor's oozing fluid was the best opportunity for a riot? If everyone worked hard for that day, Qingyang would not be able to take advantage.
Man's calculations are not as good as those of God, and she never dares to say that she has a perfect plan. No matter how good the plan is, it will change according to the times and circumstances.
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Next, more than 20 officials were taken away by the court lieutenants and palace guards in the office, detained, and interrogated.
Half of them never returned to the official office.
The grain in the kilns and warehouses was gone. In order to calm the panic and stabilize grain prices, King Yao issued an urgent order to quickly transport grain from other surrounding granaries to ensure supply to Tianshui City.
At the same time, Yaoting launched a major survey of grain reserves across the country.
Logically speaking, there is nothing wrong with this order, and it is a move that is appropriate to the situation. How can we have a clear idea without re-examining the situation?
Who would have expected that this order was not given? It was like a magic spell. In just two days, five public warehouses in the country suddenly caught fire one after another. They were burned as cleanly as the kiln warehouses, leaving no evidence.
Down.
The whole country was shocked.
Immediately afterwards, three officials in Tianshui City hanged themselves overnight, without giving Yao Wangting a chance to arrest and interrogate them.
There was also a mysterious fire in the homes of two state officials in Mangzhou, and no one in the house, old or young, ran out.
When a person dies, many things come to an end.
No matter how dull you are, you will realize something is wrong.
The dignitaries of Tianshui City came to He Lingchuan for tea, and they all sighed when talking about this matter. How much grain was left in these warehouses? No one knows.
Gu Xuan sighed: "It's amazing, so many granaries were burned down in a row!"
Jing Yuanxun sneered: "In the beginning, the person who set fire to the kiln was probably——"
Gu Xuan shushed him and dropped the name, but Jing Yuanxun still said the following words:
"——But the latter may not be the case."
Who told King Yao to open a warehouse to store grain and to investigate the family fortune?
He Lingchuan knew what he was going to say. Qingyang might have asked someone to set the kiln on fire, but that was not necessarily the case for the four warehouses behind.
This is King Yao’s second major mistake:
He misjudged the situation.
No matter how good the policy is, its implementation depends on the timing.
He didn't do the word "choose the opportunity" well.
As a result, the discussion among the people spread to the palace.
Ever since Qingyang Supervisor stopped reporting, officials have not felt so insecure for a long time.
But this time it was the monarch who initiated the investigation.
While King Yao ordered a strict investigation, prices in Yao Kingdom did not stop rising.
With so many granaries burning down one after another, will there be any food left? The people are in turmoil, and the people are terrified.
In these days, Tingwei went out everywhere, including inspections and inspections, and overcame many obstacles. He also sent people to check the grain and managed to find out the true wealth of the public warehouse:
There were originally seven granaries inside and outside Tianshui City. Two of them were destroyed by fire, and there were five more. Three of them only had 20% of the grain, and two had 60% of the grain left!
And this percentage also includes dry, damp, moldy, diseased grain and damaged wheat damaged by rats and ants.
The granaries in Mangzhou, Zhuo'an and other places have less than 40% inventory.
Other small places are even lower.
The granaries found in Tianshui City and surrounding areas only had 30% surplus grain on average!
This news reached He Lingchuan's ears through certain channels, and he sighed: "It's so amazing, so accurate."
The mirror didn’t understand: “Who are you talking about?”
"Of course it's Qingyang." He Lingchuan was like a mirror in his mind, "Actually, whether it's me or Qingyang's group, the total amount of food purchased is limited. If Yao Kingdom's original warehouses are sufficient, this level of threat is not enough.
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The Yao Kingdom is the leading powerful country on the Golden Flash Plains. The country that has gathered the power of the plains to support it has had a bumper harvest of food in the past few years. Logically speaking, its ability to prevent and resist risks should be very strong. How can a few forces in this area be able to do so?
Shake?
"It's a pity that Yao State's grain reserves already have big problems, with chaos and corruption growing. In normal times, these big holes can be covered up by accounting, but once something goes wrong, for example, someone secretly disrupts the situation and draws grain from the cauldron,
Immediately it was riddled with holes and its true colors were revealed!"
Some people have to learn from Qingyang and burn their positions to settle their accounts!
"This is called the root of disaster!" The mirror began to drop the bag of books, "It is also called self-inflicted evil."
"Qingyang is worthy of being Bejia's old national master. He is really accurate in finding out where to put his efforts!" Qingyang had seen all kinds of weird things and chaos in Bejia, right?
There is nothing new under the sun, and her rich experience is still valid when applied to Yao Guo.
"The big fire in the kiln should be the prelude to her actions!"
The official who was arrested by Yaoting for investigation was Wei Wei, and he gave a bunch of names, but if he were to check them one by one, most of them would be clues about beheadings, and the investigation would not be possible.
There were a few people who could be traced, and Wei Ting dug deeper, and found out that they were the officials who purchased Youhu Villa!
When these officials were summoned for trial, they all called out to Tianqu and swore to heaven that this was not the case and that there must be a traitor who framed him!
After reading these reports, King Yao became more and more angry. He couldn't help but burst into laughter, and then felt dizzy.
Qiu Long, the old palace man, hurriedly stepped forward to support him: "My king, his health is urgent, so he needs to rest for the night."
"Why rest?" King Yao pushed him away, "If you continue to rest, the last bit of food in the granary will be emptied by these moths!"
They are all a bunch of unsatisfactory things!
"Keep checking, I don't believe you can't find anything!"
"Yes." Qiu Long responded in a low voice. Your Majesty was angry and could not help but be a little impulsive. In fact, everyone knew that these things could not withstand investigation.
Investigating corruption is like a boomerang, sooner or later it will hit your subordinates.
Why did Qingyang wield the big stick of prosecution some time ago and all the officials were in awe? It's because they are not clean.
Now this involves the money and grain treasury. If you look for one clue, you can uncover a hundred questions!
Qiu Long knew that in fact King Yao was not angry that he couldn't find any clues, but was worried that the network of connections he had created was so tangled that it would prevent King Yao from catching the real culprit!
As the country is frantically speculating on food, will it be ordinary forces with such energy?
After King Yao drank a few mouthfuls of warm water, he slowly came back to his senses.
"The top priority is to recover the grain first." He quickly clarified his thoughts, "It's impossible for that much grain to disappear in the air. Most of it is still in the country and must have been hidden somewhere."
Investigating corruption and even arresting the mastermind behind the scenes can wait until the autumn to settle the accounts, but now the food problem must be solved first.
"By the way, have all the officials who have had contact with Qingyang in the past few months been investigated?"
"I checked them one by one, but the highest one was Bao Wei." It was the deceased Minister of the Ministry of War. "The arrested city patrol chief Tu Huan just confessed that he had received instructions from the Ministry of War to replace the night lights outside the East Palace Gate.
Patroller! This order was issued by Bowie."
"East Palace Gate?" King Yao said "good" three times in a row, "You are so bold, do you really want to rebel?"
"Your Majesty..."
Yaozi raised his hand to interrupt Qiu Long's words. After thinking for a while, the anger on his face slowly subsided and turned into gloom.
"Go ahead and tell me that I will move back to live next to Yuquan Palace."
It's winter now, and the dripping water in Yuquan Palace turns to ice. Qiu Long was slightly surprised, but it didn't show on his face: "Yes. When do you plan to move back?"
King Yao said categorically: "Only today."
I don’t know if it’s because the old pear tree is gone, but Yuquan Palace is getting colder and colder this winter. King Yao couldn’t bear it originally, so why did he move back now?
But Qiu Long knew that he shouldn't even ask:
"Yes, I will send someone to reopen the Frost Immortal Palace right away."
King Yao's original imperial study room was adjacent to Yuyin Palace and was called Shuangxian Palace. But this time King Yao not only went back to work, but actually lived in it directly.
The charcoal fires, food, and utensils here must not be neglected at all, and all kinds of office materials must be left out. Those memorials and charts that are as high as a mountain must all be moved in!
After the palace people were busy for two or three hours, the Frost Immortal Palace finally restarted.
The first thing King Yao did when he moved back to his imperial study was to pick up his pen and write, and at the same time said to Qiu Long: "Find the Qinghong seal for me and get a festival flag."