Drive the RV back to Datang

Chapter 321 Chapter 331: Stealing chickens is not enough to lose money
Li Hao said slowly: "Because there are seven fire points, this is obviously not an accidental accident, but a deliberate arson."

"Seven fire points?" Chen Song asked with wide eyes when he heard the words, "How do you know there are seven fire points?"

Li Hao swept away the charcoal and broken bricks on the ground with his feet, and said, "Look here, and then look at other places, what's the difference?"

Chen Song compared them carefully, frowned and said, "The ground here is relatively dark."

"Yes, it's darker." Li Hao nodded and explained, "A general accidental fire will have a fire point, and the fire point will burn longer than other places, so the ground at the fire point will be darker. , here is a fire point, I have seen all over the place just now, there are seven fire points like this."

Chen Song looked at Li Hao in shock when he heard the words. Li Hao could find such clues. He had to admire Li Hao's shrewdness and wisdom.

Li Hao inspected the ruins of the granary for a long time, and suddenly saw a pile of black gray carbon, his eyes lit up immediately, and he was about to step up to check, but at this moment, a human voice came from outside, Chen Songning listened carefully , and then said in a deep voice, "Qin Miao is here."

Li Hao frowned, and said coldly: "Go and stop him, just say that I am here to investigate the case, and no one is allowed to come in. If he doesn't listen, tell Chen Bin to be polite."

"Yes!" Chen Song immediately took the order and ran out, and then Qin Miao shouted loudly. Obviously, he had a lot of opinions on Li Hao not allowing him to come in. After all, he was the governor of Dingzhou City. Li Hao It's just a military post, not qualified to investigate cases.However, his objection was ineffective, Chen Song conveyed Li Hao's words to Chen Bin, and Chen Bin took two hundred Xuanjia army standing shields to block the entrance of the grain and grass, the meaning was obvious, come, let's hurt each other.

Qin Miao was frightened by the 200 Xuanjia army. Although there were only [-] people in his body, it was like an elite army of [-]. He shuddered. He could only wait outside.

Regardless of the noise outside, Li Hao was very interested in the pile of gray carbon in front of him. This pile of gray carbon might tell him many things. He walked over to observe the pile of gray carbon carefully, and he could see traces of sacks one by one. It can be seen that this place was originally a grain pile, and this pile of gray carbon remains after burning. However, there is a phenomenon when burning, that is, some grass and woody things will retain the general shape before burning after burning, such as paper. If there is no wind, and if it is not touched, the dust left may still be a whole sheet, and sometimes even the words on the paper can be read clearly.

This pile of gray carbon is like this. This pile should be the innermost grain pile in the granary. When it was burned, it was not blown by the wind, and the burning time was the shortest, so leaving such a good grain pile still looks a bit like a A black sack was piled up there.

Li Hao poked lightly on a carbonized sack with his fingers, and the sack was pierced, exposing the black ash inside. Li Hao enlarged the small hole, took out his whole hand, and grabbed a handful of ash. come out.

Looking at the ashes in his palms, Li Hao smiled, with the corners of his mouth slightly raised, and said to himself with a light smile, "So that's how it is."

After a long time, Li Hao came out of the ruins of the granary without any haste. When Qin Miao saw Li Hao coming out, he said anxiously, "Mr. Li County, how can you do this?"

Li Hao pretended to be confused: "What's wrong with me?"

Qin Miao said: "How could you break into this granary without authorization? The case of leaking water from the granary has not been closed yet, and no one can enter here."

Li Hao raised his eyebrows and said, "This Marquis is also here to investigate the case."

Qin Miao snorted coldly: "The case of flooding from the granary is a case in Dingzhou, and I will handle it myself. Why do you need Lord Hou to bother, Li Xianhou only needs to do his best to protect His Royal Highness King Jin."

Li Hao didn't expect him to be very eloquent, so he sneered and said, "This Marquis was entrusted by His Majesty to assist His Royal Highness Prince Jin in disaster relief, and the fire in the granary this time is related to disaster relief, which has seriously affected the progress of disaster relief. Why can't it be investigated, and this is what His Royal Highness King Jin specifically asked Ben Hou to investigate, because King Jin suspects that the fire in the granary this time was deliberately caused by someone."

Qin Miao was robbed by him, her face was very ugly, and she snorted coldly: "I know that you are very smart, Mr. Hou, but investigating the case is not as simple as guessing. Everything must be based on evidence. Mr. Hou said that this fire Someone did it on purpose, what evidence do you have?"

Li Hao laughed and said: "It is precisely because there is no evidence for the time being, that's why I came here to collect evidence. When Ben Hou heard that the granary was flooded, a man named Wang Er was in charge of guarding the granary. There is only one person to guard, and now that such a big event has happened, Lord Qin may be suspected of dereliction of duty! If this causes the victims to mutiny and cause riots, Lord Qin is afraid that he will be blamed!"

"Master Hou, don't scare me." Qin Miao said loudly without any fear, "Dingzhou's granary has always been guarded by two people in turn, not only in Dingzhou, but also in any prefecture or county in Hebei Road. Just follow the rules, why dereliction of duty?"

"It's a good thing to follow the rules." Li Hao said coldly, "Now that the [-] shi disaster food has been reduced to ashes, what do you use to relieve the victims and cut your flesh?"

Qin Miao put on a dignified look, and raised his voice: "If your majesty orders to blame Qin Miao to cut his flesh to feed the victims, Qin Miao will never frown!"

Li Hao raised his eyebrows, this shit really knows how to act, he feels that his status as actor is almost lost, but it doesn't matter, this kind of thing, acting alone is useless, now is the time to work hard, Li Hao laughed Twice, and said: "Benhou heard that you arrested Wang Er, the person on duty that night, and wanted to convict him. Such a big case was closed in such a hurry. Don't Lord Qin think it hasty?"

"How careless." Qin Miao said righteously, "Wang Er's brazier was found at the scene of the fire, and Wang Er also confessed to the fact that he warmed the fire and caused the fire. How careless it is."

"The Marquis wants to interrogate Wang Er himself."

"Forgive me!" Qin Miao refused directly.

Li Hao was furious when he heard the words: "Lord Qin, when King Jin returns from Hengzhou, this Marquis will definitely report this matter to King Jin!"

Qin Miao snorted coldly and said, "I'm sitting upright, you can impeach me! Why should I be afraid!"

Li Hao flicked his sleeve angrily: "Let's go!" After saying that, he walked over and got on his horse, and left depressed.

Li Hao returned to the inn with an angry expression on his face. As soon as he entered the room, he suddenly changed his face, looked outside cunningly, closed the door, and said to Chen Song beside him: "Chen Song, I have sent you a mission."

Chen Song was stunned by his sudden change, and then he reacted and asked, "What task?"

"Help me find the [-] stone disaster relief official food."

Hearing the words, Chen Song almost cried out in surprise, quickly lowered his voice, and asked in surprise, "Didn't the [-] grains be burned to ashes?"

"According to my observation, it's not." Li Hao said with a sly smile, "When I was in Tingzhou, someone set fire to a granary. I observed carefully that the food was not clean after being burned. Because the grain is thick, if it is piled up in a pile, the fire will only burn to the surface. No matter how powerful the fire is, it will not be able to burn through the inside. There will be residual grain, because combustion requires air, and the grain that is piled up on the innermost surface is in contact with the air. It is very small, so it is difficult to burn completely. Moreover, the ash left after the grain is burned will have a strong burnt smell, and the ash is also quite special. I just observed at the granary site and did not see the ashes of the grain. I didn’t find any remaining grain, but it looked a bit like ashes of forage, and I didn’t smell the burnt smell of grain, so I’m sure that the [-] shi of grain was just transferred, not burned.”

Chen Song was a little confused after hearing his long speech, because it involved the physics knowledge of the future world, of course he didn't understand much, but he understood what Li Hao meant. Li Hao meant that the [-] shi The food was still there, but it was secretly transferred to other places.

Chen Song was stunned for a moment, then asked: "Then... where is the food hidden?"

"This is also the biggest question right now." Li Hao frowned and pondered, "If my guess is correct, this incident should have been planned by Qin Miao. It's always easy to guard against theft. This fire is just a cover. The only thing is to hide the fact that he has embezzled official food, fifty thousand shi of food is not a small amount, it cannot be hidden anywhere, think about it carefully, is there any place in the city where you can store food?"

"The Governor's Mansion?"

Li Hao shook his head resolutely: "Unless he wants to die, he will never hide so much food in the governor's mansion."

Chen Song frowned and said, "Where can I hide it? With so much grain, we can't sell all of it to grain merchants..."

Li Hao's eyes lit up when he heard the words, he clapped his hands happily and said, "That's right, it's a grain merchant! How many grain shops are there in the city?"

Chen Song was also surprised. Could it be that Qin Miao really sold those grains to grain merchants?He thought about it carefully, and came back: "There are about seven grain shops, but they are all owned by the Cui family. The entire Dingzhou, including the counties under the rule, all the grain shops are owned by the Cui family."

"They really colluded, hehe!" Li Hao's eyes became cold, and he whispered, "Chen Song, you can secretly go to all the grain shops in the city tonight to see how much grain they have in stock, and I will send Chen Bin leads people to support you, and once it is confirmed that their food reserves far exceed the normal amount, they will all be stolen from me."

"Okay." Chen Song nodded with a smirk, he likes to do this kind of bad thing the most, it's super exciting.

That night, all the Xuanjia soldiers took off their iron shields and heavy armor, put on night clothes, and sneaked into the night under the leadership of Chen Bin.

Not long after, Chen Song visited seven grain shops in the city, and found that the amount of grain stored in these seven grain shops was astonishingly large. Although he didn't have time to check it carefully, he did a rough calculation and found that the grain stocks in each of these shops amounted to ten thousand shi , adding up to at least [-] stone grains.

Next, those Xuanjia soldiers began to move ants. The strength they had developed during the training had not been used on the battlefield. They were used as porters first, but they were willing because it was for the benefit of the people.

Just after dawn, [-] shi of grain had been piled up in the yards of the post house, like mountains of food. You could see the small hills of grain in the post house from the street, and the bags were marked with the name of the Tang government. Of course, some grain bags bear Cui's mark, because [-] shi of grain is Cui's grain shop's own grain. Since they dare to steal official grain, Li Hao will return it to him in the same way. , not only stole the official food back, but also stole their food by the way.Before you come to ask for food, please explain how the official food is mixed with your private food, huh?

(End of this chapter)