Concubine

Chapter 188 The rain is coming
The matter is urgent and we must make a decisive decision. Yang Qiuchi said: "I suspect that Mi Yuanwai, a wealthy businessman in Wuchang Prefecture, is involved in this matter, but there is no evidence yet. You send a deputy thousand households and a hundred Jinyi guards to Mi Yuanwai's house and stay on guard. You can't let him leave, and prevent him from transferring food. You take the other [-] Jinyiwei and follow me to the magistrate's yamen to picket this matter!"

"I obey!" Luo Qianhu replied, and assigned a deputy Qianhu behind him to take a hundred Jinyiwei to Mi Yuan's house.

When they approached the magistrate's yamen, they found that there were more and more hungry people on the street, and they could not ride forward.Looking forward, the road has been blocked by layers of hungry people.From time to time, someone in the crowd could be heard shouting:

"Hey~! The ones in front go forward! What are you doing standing there stupidly? Go forward!"

"Damn it, if we don't release food, let's rush in and grab it!"

"Go grab food! Go away, coward!"

"Yeah, anyway, his mother is starving to death, grab the food!"

"That's right! I lost my head with a big scar, beheading is better than starving to death!"

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From time to time, there were clamors in the crowd, and everyone's faces were full of excitement.Emotions are a little out of control.

Yang Qiuchi immediately stood up and looked up. There was a dark crowd in front of him. It was impossible to get through, and he couldn't see the situation in front of the yamen.

Yang Qiuchi said to Song Yun'er: "Go up to the room and see what's going on in front of the yamen."

Song Yuner nodded.When she came out of the post station, she had already brought her night travel equipment, and immediately went to the room with Flying Claw and walked along the beam.

After a while, Song Yuner came down and said nervously to Yang Qiuchi: "There are a lot of people, the gate of the yamen is closed, and there are many officers, soldiers and arresters in front, all armed with knives and guns, and fences are set up to separate them. Some people stopped throwing stones at the officers and soldiers, and the officers and soldiers were also cursing, and some people who looked like officials were shouting something, and they couldn't hear clearly."

Yang Qiuchi turned around and asked Luo Qianhu: "Is there any other way to enter the magistrate's office?"

Luo Qianhu shook his head: "The yamen usually has only one gate, but it seems that the magistrate has a back gate, but it goes to the north, and it takes a long way around. It is probably blocked by hungry people."

"Go over the wall!" Yang Qiuchi said.

Yang Qiuchi and others walked around to a place next to the yamen where there were fewer hungry people, drove away the hungry people, borrowed some long ladders from a street shop and put them on the wall, and climbed over the wall.Under the protection of Song Yuner and Nan Gongxiong, Yang Qiuchi also climbed over the wall.

Yang Qiuchi ordered Nan Gongxiong to lead fifty Jin Yiwei to the magistrate's yamen granary to check whether the food was still there, and then led the rest of the people to the yamen lobby, which was brightly lit.

Some yamen servants were standing guard at the entrance of the lobby, listening to the noisy noise outside and the clamor of rushing in to grab food, they all showed horror.Seeing Lord Luo of Jin Yiwei Qianhu suddenly appearing with a large group of Jin Yiwei, he thought that reinforcements were coming, he was surprised and happy, and hurriedly led everyone into the lobby.

The lobby is full of officials, all of whom are the chief secretary who has participated in politics, counselors, experience, etc., as well as officials such as the magistrate and the magistrate.There were four people sitting in the middle, two were the two chief envoys of Huguang, and the other was the inspector of Huguang. Yang Qiuchi had met all three of them, and the remaining one didn't know each other. Only later did he know that it was Huguang. They all command Master Wu.

With such a big incident happening in Wuchang now, the situation is about to get out of control. All the top leaders of the Huguang party, government and military department are here, and tens of thousands of hungry people gather in the yamen, making them sit on pins and needles.

The top leaders of several local areas were also very happy to see Luo Qianhu and the others, but they were more apprehensive - Jin Yiwei was here at this moment, it was a night owl who came into the house and came for nothing.

Before they could speak, Luo Qianhu said first: "Just in time, several adults from the third division are here, and even the Commander-in-Chief is also there. I have urgent military affairs, and I need to discuss with several adults, please follow me to the back hall Talk. Prefect Tan, please come in too." After finishing speaking, he walked towards the back hall.

Although Luo Qianhu is a small official, only a mere fifth-rank, Jin Yiwei is the emperor's man and has the power to pick up all the officials.Luo Qianhu is the highest leader of Jinyiwei in Huguang Province, and now he declares that it is an urgent official business. How could the chief envoy and others dare to say no, and hurriedly followed behind to the back hall.

Master Tan, the prefect, turned pale, and followed into the back hall.Hearing footsteps from behind, he turned his head and saw Yang Qiuchi and others following in. He was so chaotic just now that he didn't notice Yang Qiuchi. Only now did he see clearly the county magistrate of this small remote county who spoke neither lightly nor seriously. Also followed in.

Tan Zhifu was taken aback. When he was in a bad mood, he saw Yang Qiuchi and thought he was here to trouble him again, so he couldn't help being furious: "How did you get in? Do you know where this is? Get out soon !"

Yang Qiuchi put his arms around his shoulders and looked at him coldly.

Tan Zhifu shouted: "Come here! Give him to me..."

"Master Tan!" Luo Qianhu hurried forward, "This is Master Yang, the special envoy of Jin Yiwei Commander! Don't be rude!"

When Tan Zhifu heard this, he was frightened out of his wits.

He also received the official document from the special envoy sent by Jin Yiwei, and he knew that the special envoy was the special envoy of Ji Gang, the highest leader of Jin Yiwei, who was in charge of drafting documents. It was stated in the official document that this special envoy had the privilege of beheading first and playing later, which was also equivalent to an imperial envoy. Minister.

My own disaster relief was a mess, and a riot was about to break out. At this moment, the special envoy suddenly came, obviously targeting me, and this special envoy turned out to be the little county magistrate who came in the afternoon, but his words were not good. He goes.

Thinking of this, Tan Zhifu's face turned pale, his face flushed and he stammered: "Special, special envoy, my lord, humble, humble, humble..." I couldn't think of how to continue.

Yang Qiuchi didn't look at the prefect Tan, walked up to the two chief envoys, took out the belt badge of the command envoy of Jinyiwei from his arms, and handed it over.

The two chief envoys glanced at each other, the left chief envoy Mr. Qian took the badge, the two of them saw that it was indeed the special envoy's badge, they were both surprised and frightened, it turned out that the person who came to visit this morning was actually Commander, Special Envoy, fortunately, I am not overly rude.Respectfully handed the waist badge back to Yang Qiuchi, cupped his hands and said: "I have seen the special envoy."

There is a reason why the two chief envoys of Huguang Province gave Yang Qiuchi, the command envoy and special envoy, the courtesy of the next official.

You know, the commander of the Jinyiwei was originally a third-rank official, one level lower than the chief envoy, but the current commander Ji Gang is a big celebrity in front of the emperor, and because of the Guaman plagiarism incident, he was promoted to the second-rank governor and commander of the Jinyiwei. Already higher than the chief envoy.

In addition, Ji Gang is a domineering and vengeful person.It was once recorded that the commanding dumb Timur held the same official rank as Ji Gang, and did not avoid the road on the road, so Ji Gang beat him to death with an excuse.Yang Qiuchi is a special envoy sent by Ji Gang, which is equivalent to Ji Gang's personal visit. Besides, there is also the imperial edict of the emperor, which is equivalent to an imperial envoy.

Therefore, it is not surprising that the two of them gave Yang Qiuchi, a senior official of no rank, the gift of being an official from a second-rank senior official.

Mr. Shi's brow was sweating, and he secretly rejoiced that when Yang Qiuchi came to visit in the morning, he spoke decently.He hurriedly bowed his hands and saluted.

Du Commander Master Wu has never seen Yang Qiuchi before, and he didn't know that a crow turned into a phoenix, so he was not particularly surprised. This Du Commander is a second-rank official, higher than the chief envoy, and at the same level as Ji Gang, and holds military power.However, the Ming Dynasty emphasized civility over military affairs, and the status of generals cannot be compared with civil officials of the same level, let alone Jin Yiwei.

Yang Qiuchi took back his waist card, bowed his hands to return the gift, and said: "Four lords, my humble official suspects this disaster relief. Someone dared to risk the world's disgrace, deliberately set fire to the chief secretary's granary, deliberately delayed the distribution of disaster relief food, and even Internal and external collusion, selfishness and fraud, enriching private pockets, what's more, they deliberately created chaos for the victims, attempted to attack the government office, and caused riots to achieve their ulterior motives!"

When the two chief envoys heard this, they were so frightened that they broke into cold sweats. Although they dare not say that Yang Qiuchi's words were aimed at them, if such a major event happened in their own jurisdiction, they would not be able to escape their responsibility.

This disaster relief belongs to the duties of the chief envoy, and has little to do with the two adults, the procurator and the command envoy, so they are not very nervous and just wait and see what happens.

Yang Qiuchi turned his head to look at the shivering Tan Zhifu behind him, and said coldly: "Master Tan, let me ask you now, where is the relief food brought by the court?" .

Tan Zhifu trembled and said, "Yes, it's in the granary."

Yang Qiuchi only guessed that there was no grain in the magistrate's yamen granary, but he was not sure. Nan Gongxiong hadn't come back to report on the inventory of the granary, so he immediately asked, "Then why didn't you release the grain?"

"Not yet, the inventory has not been completed yet." Prefect Tan said with his head down.

"How long has the relief food been delivered?"

I dare not hide this, and I can't hide it, Tan Zhifu said: "Five, five days."

"Five days? Do you know how many hungry people were starved to death in five days? Huh?" Yang Qiuchi said angrily.

Tan Zhifu was even more panicked, bent even lower, cupped his hands and said: "Humble job, humble job and incompetence..."

The right minister, Mr. Quan, rushed forward and kicked Tan Zhifu to the ground, shouting: "You man, didn't I order you to put out the food immediately? Why have you delayed until now?" Walking to the door, he shouted: "Come on!"

Several yamen servants rushed in.

Master Quan pointed at Tan Zhifu and shouted: "Put him in prison, and after this matter, he will be punished!"

"Yes!" Several yamen servants came up to arrest Tan Zhifu.

At this moment, suddenly there was a faint noise outside, and it was unknown what happened.Immediately afterwards, a yamen servant ran in to report: "My lord, it's terrible, thick smoke is rising from the direction of the granary, it seems to be flooded!"

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