After the rebirth, the queen took the Meiqiang tragedy script

Chapter 161
The emperor's decision seemed to be beyond Chen Yuansi's expectations, he frowned slightly, and glanced sideways at Gu Shihai.

Sensing his gaze, Gu Shihai also turned his head to look at him.

The two looked at each other tit for tat, and then retracted their gaze at the same time.

"Mr. Lu stay here too." When the crowd dispersed, Ye Qinghuai suddenly called out to Lu Yanchen who was about to leave.

"Qin Yang is not here, and I have no guards by my side. I beg you sir to condescend to do it for you." Ye Qinghuai spoke respectfully to Lu Yanchen as always.

After saying that, she took off the sword at her waist and handed it to Lu Yanchen.

Ye Qinghuai didn't think there was anything wrong with this move, but it attracted everyone's attention, and Gu Shihai even frowned looking at the sword.

Even Chen Yuansi raised his eyes to look at Lu Yanchen, those old eyes were unfathomable.

Lu Yanchen made a full salute to Ye Qinghuai, and said, "This humble minister accepts the order. But your Majesty's humble minister with a sword dare not accept it."

After finishing speaking, he turned to Zhao Yinshi who was outside the door and said: "I also ask Commander Zhao to help find a weapon at hand."

Only then did Ye Qinghuai realize that her actions were inappropriate.

As an emperor, she gave the only weapon on her body to her courtiers, which was equivalent to entrusting her own life in form. This was a great trust and reliance.

However, if she treats her teacher like this, she will inevitably feel cronyistic and will arouse great jealousy.

Ye Qinghuai nodded, acquiesced to Lu Yanchen's request, and withdrew her sword.

In the end, only the four courtiers Chen Yuansi, Gu Shihai, Yu Jianghui and Lu Yanchen were left in the hall.

"Let's go everyone, let's go into the warehouse and have a look." Ye Qinghuai said.

Yu Jianghui stood still. He looked at Chen Yuansi anxiously, as if waiting for him to say something to the emperor.

But Chen Yuansi stood where he was, without even raising his eyelids, and said to Yu Jianghui, "Jiang Hui, find a steward to lead the way."

Yu Jianghui's face was already very ugly, and even his voice sounded a little pleading: "Mr. Ge..."

Chen Yuansi immediately interrupted him, and said sharply, "What? This huge warehouse can't move without Xue Song?"

Yu Jianghui's face paled a little after being drunk by him.

He lowered his head and said, "I'm going to find someone right now, sir."

After a day of tossing, Ye Qinghuai finally stepped into the door of the sub-warehouse.

As she expected, the grain in the warehouse was not only mixed with various sundries, but also far from enough.

"What's going on! How do you manage it? Go and call Xue Song... No, go get the ledger!" Looking at the pile of grain in front of him, Yu Jianghui was full of astonishment, and turned to the warehouse manager who opened the warehouse and led the way. Angrily said.

Unlike his rage, Ye Qinghuai did not have an attack. She said very calmly: "Don't rush to get the account book. Let's go through the other warehouses first."

According to the records in Wang Yunzhong's account book, she checked several heavily adulterated warehouses in turn.

The situation was even more serious than what Wang Yunzhong remembered.

Some warehouses are even full of piles of fine sand, only covered with a layer of rice grains on the surface of the sand pile, and you can see the trickiness with a poke.

Ye Qinghuai grabbed a handful and spread it out in her hand, looked at the "grain" in her hand from the dim candlelight, and said: "Xue Song said that there are evil spirits in this warehouse, you can't see the light, and you will die when you see the light." Human life. That's what I'm talking about."

If such rations were exposed in broad daylight, it would indeed kill people.

The officials, money and food department and even the household department in the whole warehouse, I don't know how many people will die.

"Do you know that there is such grain in the warehouse?" Ye Qinghuai asked the warehouse manager who led the way.

The man knelt down immediately, bowed his head to the ground facing Ye Qinghuai, and said: "Your Majesty, the villain is just a keykeeper, and the food in the warehouse is not in the hands of the villain. Your Majesty, please spare me!"

He had seen Ye Qinghuai dismiss Xue Song on the spot today, and he was a little afraid of the young emperor.

Ye Qinghuai didn't make things difficult for him. She turned to Yu Jianghui and asked, "Does Qing Yu know?"

Yu Jianghui's face was already pale, but when Ye Qinghuai called his name suddenly, his legs softened and he immediately knelt down, saying: "Your Majesty, I really don't know that they are so bold that they even dare to move soldiers and rations."

After he finished speaking, the nearly seventy-year-old Chen Yuansi also knelt down slowly, and said: "Your Majesty, it is the old minister who is not strict in governing you. Please punish him. The old minister will definitely investigate this matter and recover the lost military rations. An explanation from the imperial court will never let the front line have any worries about food and grass."

Gu Shihai, who had been watching the play from the sidelines, twitched a sneer.

He and Chen Yuansi had been officials in the same dynasty for more than ten years, and it was the first time he saw him in such a mess, he felt indescribably happy.

But things are not over yet.

Ye Qinghuai did not answer Chen Yuansi's words. She let the gravel in her hand flow slowly from her fingers, and murmured in a low voice: "Small mouse, big mouse, I can't eat my millet. I'm a three-year-old girl. I'm not willing to care. I'm four years old." I recited this poem when I was a child, and the master who taught me told me that the rats here are pests and bandits. But today I found out that the so-called rats may also be the imperial court."

She took out an account book from her bosom, threw it in front of the kneeling people, and said, "This is the account book left by Wang Yunzhong, the former warehouse owner, before he was burned to death. If the records in it are true, there are 200 million stones on the plateau. In the grain, 130 million stones are sand and bran."

As soon as her words fell to the ground, everyone present were shocked.Yu Jianghui frowned as he looked at the booklet, as if looking at a difficult problem.

"Old Chen Ge, can you recover the 130 million shi of grain?" Ye Qinghuai asked.

This number was too large, far exceeding Chen Yuansi's expectations, so that he paused for a moment before replying: "The old minister will definitely do his best to recover the shortfall."

"Mr. Chen Ge, it's not just about the shortage of soldiers and rations, but there are also two fire cases and the homicide case of the warehouse master that His Majesty just mentioned. I'm afraid you can't find out these things, and they have to be handed over to the Ministry of Criminal Justice for trial." Gu Shi Kaido.

"Now that the war is imminent, food and grass should be the top priority. As for the fire case and the homicide case, the Jingzhao Mansion has already tried it. If Mr. Gu Ge has any doubts, he can go to the Jingzhao Mansion to get the case files." Chen Yuansi answered tightly.

Ye Qinghuai was silent.

Chen Yuansi's meaning could not be more clear. Now that the matter has been exposed, he does not shirk and cover it up. He just wants to hold the power of investigation in his own hands.

He was right.

Ye Qinghuai just wanted to beat him up and let the household department find a way to make up for the shortfall in military rations, so that's all.

But the fire in the warehouse and Qin Yang's disappearance made her change her mind.

If the case had passed in a muddle-headed manner, it would be hard for anyone to respect her as an emperor.

That's why she also kept Gu Shihai, an outsider who seemed to have nothing to do with the warehouse.

She thought for a while, and said: "Food is the lifeblood of the country, and military rations are the most important thing. Someone dares to adulterate it, and even set fire twice, killing people to silence them. This matter is already a major event that endangers the fate of the country. Gu Ge Boss, you are in charge of the Ministry of Punishment, and I will give you full authority to investigate this matter, and you must investigate to get to the bottom of it."

(End of this chapter)