After dressing like a crazy princess, I turned the hero into a tyrant

Chapter 53 053 The Vanishing Grain Storage

Because of the blockade of Beijing City, it became very difficult for Stone to inquire about the news, and Chang Lin, who also felt that things were a little tricky, was taking a few soldiers under him to Qingzhou City, which is the closest to Beijing City.

After entering Qingzhou City, Changlin directly took the emperor's imperial decree to find the local magistrate, and explained to him his purpose of coming.

Originally, Chang Lin thought that this matter should be very simple.

One reason: this is food collected for war, and the people should be very happy.

Second: he has the imperial decree of the emperor on him, basically no one should be able to stop him.

But the fact is that Chang Lin was severely slapped.

At the beginning, the magistrate looked like he was easy to talk to, no matter what Chang Lin said, he kept saying "good, good, good".But when he turned around, it wasn't the case at all.

It was originally planned that it would take two days to collect the grain. Chang Lin stayed in Qingzhou City for a week abruptly.This made Chang Lin, who had been thinking about the battlefield ahead, very anxious, and went to the magistrate again.

The magistrate heard rumors from the servants in the mansion that Chang Lin was coming again, and immediately wanted to run around with his head in his arms, but Chang Lin didn't give him a chance to breathe, and directly led people in.

Chang Lin, who broke in, was pissed off by what he saw.

The magistrate, who has been talking about cooperating with him in collecting grain, is leisurely listening to his concubine singing a little song in the mansion at the moment, and there is still a maid standing next to him with a fruit plate, who looks like a water spirit .

"Is this what the magistrate said to be doing? I think the magistrate is living a leisurely life and enjoying it."

The magistrate heard the anger in Chang Lin's words, so he hurriedly bent over and ran over, and said to Chang Lin: "Oh, don't worry, my lord, there is no need for you and me to do such a small matter as grain collection , The lower official has already ordered the government officials to handle this matter, my lord, let’s sit and rest for a while, listen to a little song, and someone will come with food later.”

Chang Lin didn't gnaw, and let the prefect pull him to sit on the chair where the prefect was originally sitting.

"Your Excellency, try it, this is a specialty of Qingzhou City." Then, the magistrate motioned to the maid standing beside him to pick a fruit from the fruit plate and want to feed it into Chang Lin's mouth.But was avoided by Chang Lin.

"I came here with important matters. The magistrate should help me to complete the grain collection first. As for this Qingzhou specialty, I am afraid that I will not be blessed to enjoy it."

The look on the prefect's face after saying this was somewhat unbearable, and the smile on his face faded a lot. Seeing that Chang Lin didn't buy it, he stopped forcing it.

After a stick of incense, people from outside the mansion once again spread the word, saying that the person sent by the magistrate to collect food had returned.

Changlin didn't wait for the magistrate to greet him, and hurried out of the mansion.

As soon as he reached the gate, Chang Lin frowned.

There is no other reason, there are indeed yamen outside the door with some food, but not much.It is even said that it is not even a star and a half short of their original number.

"How is it? The lower officials said that such a trivial matter as collecting grain does not need to be done by adults." The prefect who followed behind said to Chang Lin.

Chang Lin ignored him and walked up to have a look.

After checking the food, Chang Lin's expression was ugly, and he turned to the prefect standing on the steps and said, "Why are there only these?"

The magistrate smiled and said: "I don't know, my lord. This year, the harvest of the people in Qingzhou City is not very good. Excluding the taxes to be handed over to the court, there is not much left, and the harvest of the new season is due to seasonal changes. The reason is that it hasn’t started yet, so the people’s families can’t afford any extra food.”

Hearing this, Chang Lin was furious. He didn't believe it at all. Before he set off, the emperor had told him that Qingzhou City was rich in food every year, and it was able to rank ahead of other cities in Daqing. But now Tell him that the people simply can't afford that much food.

"That's right, it's not the harvest time yet. How about this? Since the common people have no food left, then open your treasury. It should be enough for me to pull some directly from your treasury in Qingzhou City."

Unexpectedly, after the magistrate heard this, the smile on his face disappeared instantly.

"I'm afraid it won't work."

Chang Lin laughed angrily, "Why not?"

The magistrate said: "In the past years, it was necessary to open the treasury because of natural disasters and man-made disasters. Now, just relying on your words, my lord, if the lower officials open the treasury at will, if something happens, there will be consequences. Who will bear it?"

"When is this? Are you still trying to shirk responsibility? The soldiers on the front line will soon have no food to eat. How do you let them fight the rebels?"

Even though Chang Lin stood there and spoke impassionedly, the magistrate was still unmoved.I was anxious to be asked, and just said, "No."

Chang Lin had no choice but to carry out the imperial decree again.

But the magistrate seemed to have thought of the reason for the refusal long ago, and directly replied to Chang Lin: "Your imperial decree clearly stated that it was to collect food from the people, but it didn't even mention the need to open the treasury at all. , so forgive me for not being able to do so.”

It was the first time Changlin met someone who felt disrespectful and disrespectful, and he said angrily to the magistrate: "You ignorant villain, you dare to defy Shengming, it's useless to keep you, come and bring this person to me. The northern border awaits His Majesty's order."

Seeing that Chang Lin seemed to be coming for real, the magistrate immediately panicked, and said to Chang Lin tremblingly: "You dare, I am the official ordered by the imperial court."

Chang Lin sneered, "Heh, the court order officer? Do you think you are the only one?"

It can only be said that the magistrate is picking up dung with a lantern-looking for death.

The man was directly caught by the people brought by Chang Lin, and Chang Lin didn't intend to be polite with him at all, he took him directly to the treasury, until he came to the treasury, the prefect was still struggling, Refuse to open the treasury.

Seeing this, Chang Lin signaled his subordinates to forcefully open it, but when the door of the treasury was opened, Chang Lin and his subordinates were shocked by the scene inside.

I saw that the place that was originally used to store food was now empty.

Chang Lin came back to his senses, turned around with a dark face and looked at the prefect who was being escorted behind him, and said in a cold voice, "Where did the food go?"

Beads of sweat dripped down from the prefect's head, and he looked terrified, while shaking his head, he said to himself: "I don't know, don't care about my business."

The food was not confiscated, but a big moth was found instead, which made Chang Lin extremely speechless, angry and anxious.

The emperor put all his hopes in Qingzhou City, but now there is not a grain of grain in the treasury here, so what about the rations of those soldiers on the battlefield?
Where should he get so much food?
(End of this chapter)