The heavens start from saving Daming

Chapter 10 Tongzhou Granary
Tongzhou is the terminus of the Grand Canal, and the grains transported from the south are all stored here.

After arriving here, Li Yunze immediately ordered Wen Tiren and Luo Yangxing to inspect the grain stored in Taicang.

The accompanying soldiers this time were all the personal soldiers of Cao Wenzhao and others, plus a selected battalion of warriors.

Not to mention the maids, even the eunuchs were only a few who were going to follow Wang Chengen to Phi Island to announce the delivery.

If the army does not enter the city, it will directly set up camp outside the city.

After a short time, Wang Chengen came in and announced, "Wang Wenhua, the magistrate of Tongzhou, asks your majesty to see him."

"No." Li Yunze, who was eating roast leg of lamb for dinner, refused without raising his head, "I will not see any prefectures and counties along the way."

"Wait."

Called Wang Chengen who was about to go out, "Let Qin Tianjian go and see if it will rain here tomorrow."

"According to the order."

Wen Tiren and Luo Yangxing returned soon and reported, "I have checked the account books of various granaries, and there is nothing suspicious."

What responded to them was a half-eaten leg of lamb that flew over.

Li Yunze slapped the table with a slap, "Are you guys out of their minds, or did you accept filial piety? Check the account books to find out a ghost. We need to open the warehouse for inspection! Check carefully to see if the grain in the granary is the same as that in the account books. Open the grain bag to test whether it is a counterfeit sediment
, Is it old grain, rotten grain!Check the books?Think I'm a fool, go back and check again! "

Wen Tiren and Luo Yangxing's brows were sweating, and they repeatedly pleaded guilty and withdrew.

After leaving the tent, Luo Yang felt lingering fear, "Our emperor knows everything."

Old Yinbi's Wen Tiren smiled and said nothing, and would never accept such remarks.

But he still said, "Here in Taicang, Tongzhou, someone is going to be unlucky."

After Li Yunze had eaten, Wang Chengen came over and reported, "Qin Tianjian said that there will be clouds and wind tomorrow, but the clouds are not thick enough so it may not rain."

"That's fine."

Li Yunze got up and called Wang Chengen, "Find some people to wait outside."

Li Yunze, who returned to the modern world, directly appeared in the warehouse he rented.

No matter which world he was in, where he was when he left, he was still in the same place when he came back again.

Li Yunze drove a forklift and transported the box with the artificial rainfall system to Ming Dynasty Time and Space.

Summon Wang Cheng'en and others to come in and "take good care of it. If it is lost or damaged, then you go to work as river workers to dig through the Hui River."

After arranging things, Li Yunze returned to the back tent to rest.

After getting up and washing up the next morning, Li Yunze asked Wang Chengen and others who hadn't slept all night to push the box to the open space outside.

Then unpack the box and start assembling according to the instructions.

Looking at the clouds passing by in the sky, Li Yunze clapped his hands after adjusting the angle and said, "Wang Banban, do you want to make a bet? I can call wind and rain."

"The emperor is the son of heaven, so calling the wind and calling the rain is a common thing." Wang Chengen, who has a deep understanding of the way of flattering, immediately offered a sweet fart, "How can you be a servant, dare to bet with the emperor."

"It's boring."

Li Yunze waved his hand to make the people around him back away, and then shot the cylinder containing the catalyst towards the clouds in the sky.

A few muffled sounds, like thunder, made the whole camp a little commotion.

Cao Wenzhao and others immediately patrolled the camp and reprimanded them, and quickly calmed down.

Fortunately, it was dawn now, it would definitely not be so easy at night.

After waiting for a while, it still hadn't rained, and Li Yunze, who was a little nervous, fired two more shots.

This time it finally rained.

Wang Chengen, who witnessed this scene with his own eyes, looked like a miracle to him, and immediately bowed down and shouted "Holy Son of Heaven~~~"

In a good mood, Li Yunze called Wang Chengen to put all his things into the tent.

While he was having breakfast, Wen Tiren and Luo Yangxing, who had also not slept all night, came to report the inspection of the granary.

"Long live, there is a shortage of grain stored in granaries in Tongzhou, and the total number should be more than 50 million shi."

"Long live, I wait to open the bag for inspection. Most of the grain in the granaries is old grain, and what's more, the bag is filled with straw and sand!"

"Hey."

Li Yunze picked up the bowl and sipped the porridge with a sigh.

"What are you waiting for, go to seal the city and arrest people for interrogation! Ask me clearly, where is my food?"

The storage of grain in Tongzhou is related to the feeding problem of the entire north, but at least half of the grain is problematic right now.

Li Yunze knew that Daming was already very bad at this time, but he didn't expect it to be so bad.

He was in a bad mood, and he didn't have a good face all morning.

When eating at noon, I was even more angry and couldn't eat.

Just at this time, the pattering rain gradually stopped, so Li Yunze simply called Wang Chengen to call Cao Wenzhao and others, as well as those honorable disciples, and got on his horse and went straight to Tongzhou City.

Li Yunze's riding skills are indescribable.

That is to say, there is a gentle horse under the crotch, and the senior eunuch of the Royal Horse Supervisor can lead the horse to move forward smoothly.

Tongzhou City had been sealed off at this time, and the Jin Yiwei guarding the gate saw that Li Yunze had come in person, and immediately opened the door to greet him.

After entering the city, Li Yunze didn't go straight to the granary in a hurry, but pointed to several families on both sides of the road, "Go ask the people of these families to come out and talk."

The Jinyi guards accompanying him immediately stepped forward and knocked on the door.

For Jin Yiwei, they usually smash the door.

It was only because Li Yunze said please that he changed smashing into knocking.

A dozen or so people from several families stood together in horror.

Wang Chengen stepped forward to reprimand them to salute, but Li Yunze waved his hand directly, "No, I just asked you a few words and responded truthfully."

The clothes of these Tongzhou people are okay, the clothes of the adults are rarely patched and very clean, and a few women even have copper hairpins.

Adult males are all above 1.6 meters tall by visual inspection, and they look fine.

This is completely different from the images Li Yunze had seen on the Internet, those black-skinned, short, skeleton-like images in the late Qing Dynasty.

"How is your family's income?"

Facing Li Yunze's question, a strong man among the crowd responded respectfully, "The villain fights against grain bags on the canal. When he is alive, he can get more than twenty cash a day."

Then the man signaled to the men around him, "This is He Laosan, who does odd jobs in Fulin Building and earns more than ten coins a day?"

Then He Laosan nodded repeatedly, "Yes."

"This is Chen Liuzi. He works as a carpenter at home. How much?"

The Liuzi Chen hurriedly responded, "The villain sells wooden wares for more than a hundred Wen, and when he is young, he also has seven or eight Wen."

"This neighbor is Zhao Dayou, who works at Yuantai Grain Store and earns more than ten Wen wages a day."

Zhao Dayou nodded repeatedly.

Li Yunze nodded, "What is the price of grain in Tongzhou? How much is it for a catty of meat?"

"Tongzhou Doumi is ninety yuan, and mutton is sixty yuan a catty."

Hearing the price, Li Yunze immediately took out his phone and started calculating.

One stone is ten buckets, that is to say, one stone of grain is nine hundred cash.

The weight of a stone in the Ming Dynasty was 150 three and a half catties, but it was only a catty in the Ming Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, a catty was 594.6 grams, which is 188 catties in conversion?

In other words, you can buy a catty of grain for less than five Wen.

If they eat meat, these people can buy a catty of tooth-beating sacrifices every once in a while.

Of course, to be more specific, brown rice and polished rice are also divided. In addition to meals, there are also expenses such as diesel, salt, sauce, vinegar, tea, and cloth.

Moreover, this is Tongzhou, where the grain transported by water is stored here, and it is normal for the grain price to be cheaper.

Generally speaking, life can barely go on.

Compared with those people who lived on sweet potatoes in the late Qing Dynasty, their lives are already happy and perfect.

It's a pity that with years of natural disasters and wars, everything will collapse under the soaring prices.

Li Yunze nodded and motioned to Wang Chengen, "Give them two taels of silver per household."

The group went straight to the official warehouse in Tongzhou City, where Li Yunze saw with his own eyes the mostly empty granaries, the grain bags filled with straw and soil, and the old grain that had been difficult to feed livestock for who knows how many years. .

He didn't say a word, and immediately turned his horse's head and went straight to the Tongzhou government office after checking.

Among the accompanying Xungui disciples, many of them looked anxious.

The food business in Tongzhou City is so big, and there are many nobles involved in it.

When he came to the Tongzhou government office, Li Yunze got off his horse and rubbed his sore inner thighs, and walked in directly with his riding whip.

At this time, the trial was going on in the lobby, Wen Tiren held high in the middle, and on both sides were Luo Yangxing and Wang Wenhua, the magistrate of Tongzhou.

Those who were interrogated were the stewards of more than forty granaries in Tongzhou.

Seeing Li Yunze walk in directly, with a dignified Wen Tiren, he hurried down to salute.

"Long live~~~"

Tongzhou didn't get the slightest news before. It was only last night that there were rumors that the emperor had arrived outside the city.

At this time, seeing the emperor appearing here with his own eyes, many of the granary stewards could no longer control their sphincters.

The expressionless Li Yunze stared at Wen Tiren, "How is the question?"

"Long live, I will conduct a strict interrogation to get some clues, but there are too many criminals, and it will take some time."

'Snapped! '

Li Yunze flicked his horsewhip suddenly, making a crisp sound.

"Tell me the result!"

Wen Tiren's scalp was numb, and he gritted his teeth and said, "This matter is due to the collusion between the supervisors of various granaries and many grain shops in the city."

Li Yunze looked around at the people lying on the ground, "Who is from the grain shop?"

No one answered.

"Ok?"

Wen Tiren buried his head deeply, "Long live, the grain merchants haven't been caught yet."

"Wen Tiren." Li Yunze went straight to sit down under the plaque hung high in the mirror, "Do you not want to do it anymore?"

At this moment, Wen Tiren felt a pain in his heart.

He is very clear about the way here, but there are too many senior dignitaries who are engaged in the grain business in Tongzhou, so he dare not offend.

I originally wanted to make a big deal into a small one and take these executives as the blame, but I didn't expect the emperor to watch so closely!
Wen Tiren has only one creed in life, that is to be an official, a high official.

Now that he has finally obtained the position of the cabinet assistant, he is absolutely reluctant to lose it.

He kowtowed again, "I know I was wrong, so I'll arrest those grain merchants now."

Li Yunze hummed noncommittally.

Wen Tiren winked at Luo Yangxing, and a large number of guards in Jinyi immediately dispatched.

After a short time, there was a commotion outside.

"I'm the housekeeper of Duke Cheng's mansion! Who dares to arrest me?!"

The arrogant words came, and the entire lobby fell silent.

Misfortune comes out of the mouth, this unlucky boy can be regarded as a trap for Duke Cheng's mansion!
Li Yunze tapped the table in front of him with a whip, "Break the leg first, and then bring it in."

(End of this chapter)