Concubine

Chapter 189

"What?" Everyone was stunned. Don't make any more troubles at this moment. There are so many hungry people gathered in front of the Yamen. If there is a fire, the granary will be burned. After the last hope is cut off, the hungry people may go crazy. Rushing in to grab food, the consequences would be disastrous.

The two chief envoys repeatedly ordered: "Quick! Quickly dispatch the water dragon team to fight the fire! Quick!"

"Yes, people have been sent to call the water dragon team!"

"Send people to put out the fire again, and we must never let the fire ignite!" The right chief envoy stamped his foot.

"Yes!" The yamen servant ran out.

Yang Qiuchi thought to himself, as expected, there should be no food in the granary at all, so someone deliberately set fire to destroy the evidence, and cause riots outside. After seeing the fire, the hungry people rushed in and found the food. Without it, it will cause greater disturbances, and may well lead to riots.

Although he had expected it, Yang Qiuchi was even more nervous. There was no food in the yamen, what should he do? Is it really necessary to collect food from other rice officers for disaster relief?Who knows who is behind him!
The right chief envoy said to the command envoy: "Master Commander, quickly order the army to be on alert to prevent the hungry people from rushing in."

Commander Wu's face has also changed at this moment. Although he is the highest commander of the Huguang army, the army is scattered all over the province. There are not many troops available in Wuchang City, and only a few thousand people can be mobilized. Guarding the four gates, there are only two to 3000 people concentrated in the yamen now.Using these troops to fight against tens of thousands of hungry people, he can imagine the result with his toes.

At this moment, another yamen servant ran in in a panic and said, "Report, sir: the hungry people outside saw thick smoke rising from the direction of the granary, and they all shouted that the granary was on fire, and they wanted to rush in through the fence to grab grain and fight with our people." Wake up, many officers and soldiers Kuaiban brothers have been injured!"

Yang Qiuchi's heart sank, what he was most worried about happened, what should he do?
The faces of the two chief envoys changed in fright. If these tens of thousands of hungry people rushed in, it would not only be a matter of looting food. Looking at Yang Qiuchi.

The right chief envoy frightenedly ordered: "Quickly, pass on my order, those who dare to cross the fence will be killed without mercy!" After that, he said to the commander of the capital: "Master Wu, give an order quickly, and those who dare to attack the yamen will be killed!" The rioters will be killed on the spot!"

Master Wu panicked and lost his mind: "Okay, okay, pass my order..."

"Slow!" Yang Qiuchi yelled, and gave the right chief envoy a glance. "At this time, we can only appease. If we make a strong move, it will cause even greater riots! It may even lead to riots!"

"Comfort? Hmph! How do you calm down?" The Chief Minister on the right sneered, then felt something was wrong, and hurriedly bowed again: "Master Yang please give instructions."

Yang Qiuchi glanced coldly at Youbuzhengquan, the right minister, first walked to Song Yuner's side, said a few words in a low voice, then returned to the field, and said loudly: "Give food to appease!"

"Release food?" The chief envoy and others glanced at each other, knowing in their hearts that the only way to appease the victims is to release food immediately.

At this time, a group of people rushed in, the leader was Yang Qiuchi's personal guard Nan Gongxiong, and behind him Jin Yiwei escorted several men in black.

Nan Gongxiong walked up to Yang Qiuchi, cupped his hands and said, "My lord, we just caught the thief who was trying to set fire to the granary!" He turned around and said, "Come up!"

All the Jin Yiwei escorted the five or six men in black and pushed them to the ground.

Nan Gongxiong said: "We were inspecting the granary and found thick smoke rising from a granary. We rushed over and found that these people were setting fire to the granary. The granary had already been ignited. The subordinates and others restrained them and put out Big fire."

The chief envoy on the right asked, "Where's the water dragon team?"

Nangong Xiong rolled his eyes: "I didn't see it. Our people put out the fire with bare hands and got burned several times. The water dragon team didn't even see a shadow!"

Yang Qiuchi walked up to the men in black and asked, "Who told you to burn the granary?"

The men in black glanced at each other and bowed their heads in silence.

Yang Qiuchi didn't have time to interrogate, so he turned to Nan Gongxiong and said, "Where is the food? Is there any food in the granary?"

"No!" Nangong Xiong said in a deep voice, "All the granaries are empty!"

ah!Everyone was stunned, how could the relief food disappear!
Yang Qiuchi turned his head and stared at Prefect Tan: "Master Tan, what do you say? Where did all the relief food in your yamen's granary go? You won't say you don't know, will you? Huh?"

Tan Zhifu slumped on the ground with a groan, his whole body trembling like chaff, unable to utter a word.

The right chief envoy angrily pulled out a saber from the waist of a guard in Jinyi, and slashed at Zhifu Tan's head.

There was a flash of white light, and there was a clang, and the waist knife in the right chief envoy's hand was hit by a flash of white light, and the jet flew up and nailed to the pillar.

Song Yuner held a short sword in her hand, and looked at the right chief envoy coldly.

It turned out that Yang Qiuchi had noticed that the right chief envoy's expression was wrong just now, so he told Song Yun'er to pay attention to him. Therefore, when the right chief envoy slashed Tan Zhifu with his sword, Song Yuner made a timely move and knocked his waist knife away.

Yang Qiuchi said: "Lord Quan, what are you doing?"

"He, he embezzled the relief food, I will execute him!" The right chief was terrified, just now Song Yun'er knocked his waist knife away with a sword, and now his right hand is still numb.

"Execution? Mr. Tan is a fourth-rank official of the imperial court. I thought I was the only one who had the power to kill first and then act later. So, Mr. Quan, you have it too!" Yang Qiuchi said coldly.

Just now he narrowly escaped death, Tan Zhifu was terrified, and shouted hoarsely: "He, he wants to kill someone!"

"What's going on?" Yang Qiuchi looked at Quanbu Zhengshiquan coldly, and then stared at Tan Zhifu: "If you don't tell the truth, I will kill you on the spot!"

"He forced me to do all of this. He and Mi Yuanwai, a wealthy businessman from Wuchang Prefecture, conspired to set fire to the granary in the Yamen last time. This time it is the same!" Tan Zhifu knew that hundreds of thousands of catties of relief food were in his own hands. Not to mention anything else, just for this one item alone, the command envoy can kill himself first and then play!
"Nonsense! How dare you slander me!" the envoy Quan yelled bitterly.

"Did he wrong you?" Yang Qiuchi asked, "Lord Quan, how did the granary of your chief envoy catch fire?"

Quan Buzheng said: "The guard accidentally caught fire while keeping warm. I have already arrested the guard and prepared to punish him. What's wrong?"

"I went to your yamen again in the afternoon, and specifically looked at the burnt granaries in your yamen. Let me ask you, is there really any relief food allocated by the imperial court in your burnt granaries?"

Chief Quan trembled slightly, then straightened his neck and roared, "Of course! How could it not be!"

"I have checked that the burnt granary was deliberately set on fire, not a fire! Moreover, there is no trace of burnt grain in the ruins at all! Now there is evidence of the accomplice of the prefect Tan, how dare you talk nonsense up to now !" Yang Qiuchi waved his hand and shouted coldly: "Take them down for me!"

Nan Gongxiong and several Jin Yiwei guards rushed forward, knocked off the black gauze hats on their heads, twisted them to the ground, and tied them up with hemp rope.

Quan Buzheng couldn't help but keep saying that he was wronged.Yang Qiuchi doesn't have time to interrogate him now. Distributing food for disaster relief is a top priority, so he urgently asked Tan Zhifu: "Where is the food? Where did it go?"

"They were all sold to Mi Yuanwai's Mihang in private. It was discussed by the Chief Envoy Quan and Mi Yuanwai. Although I was there, it was their idea."

The chief envoy of Quan shouted: "You are talking nonsense, I didn't!"

"I'm not talking nonsense. The tens of thousands of taels of silver that Mi Yuanwai gave you are still in your yamen's inner house. Mr. Yang, you can send someone to search immediately! It's in his inner house, divided into two times, 4 taels each time, A total of 8 taels. I personally brought someone to deliver it to him!"

Yang Qiuchi asked Tan Zhifu: "How much silver did Mi Yuanwai give you? Where did you put it?"

Tan Zhifu hesitated for a moment, and at this point, concealing it would be tantamount to death, so he whispered: "Twenty thousand taels, most of it was taken away by him. The silver that Mi Yuanwai gave me is placed in my inner house." Tan Zhifu said in a low voice.

Yang Qiuchi said to Luo Qianhu: "You immediately take two hundred brocade guards to the inner houses of the envoy Quan Buzheng and Tan Zhifu to search to see if there is so much silver. If there is, immediately detain the owner of the inner house on the spot , The stolen property is sealed up on the spot, and no one is allowed to move. Anyone who violates the order will be beheaded!"

"Obey!" Luo Qianhu ordered the deputy Qianhu to stay here with the remaining [-] brocade guards, followed Yang Qiuchi's command, and hurried away with the other [-] brocade guards.

The envoy of Quan's face was ashen, and he threatened: "Master Yang, you have wronged me, and I will sue you to the emperor!"
Yang Qiuchi sneered and said to the Minister of Quan: "Okay, but, Quan, although you are in the second rank, you know how much your salary is. If it is found out that you suddenly appeared in your home You can’t even earn so much silver, and there are people to testify, how do you explain to the emperor? You should know how the emperor deals with corrupt officials!”

Hearing this, the chief envoy Quan suddenly felt cold all over his body, and the fear of death immediately filled his whole body.

Yang Qiuchi then said in a cold voice: "However, I'm afraid you won't be able to see the emperor. You also know that I have the right to kill you first. If you still want to resist to the end and refuse to confess, I can immediately arrest you after verifying the truth." Rectify the law on the spot, and then report to the emperor. If you are determined to fight to the end, you can give it a try!"

The chief envoy of power seemed to have seen the grinning grin of death.

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