Landlord of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 188 Check warehouse (1)

"Oh, that's the only way to go..." All the grain merchants responded one after another, but they couldn't feel relieved. They drank a few cups of stuffy wine and left early.

Separated from Xia Xiandi and the others, Brother Wu didn't go home, but went to the Cangzhou Chamber of Commerce.As soon as he entered the Chamber of Commerce, Brother Ang rushed into a secluded room and knelt down: "My lord, everything is done, the heat is almost ready..."

The adult in Angkor's mouth is naturally Xu Qing.

Xu Qing said: "Xiao Wu has worked hard, let's go back."

"Well..."

It is said that Xia Xiandi went back to the hotel where he was staying, and said to one of his subordinates: "Have you been to Liu Siku's house?"

"That's right, Liu Siku and I are relatives in Wufu. The year before last, Liu Siku's family had a wedding, and I had a drink." The subordinate asked in a low voice, "What does the boss mean?"

"You go to his house." Xia Xiandi took out a letter of silver from his sleeve and said, "See if you can take our food first."

The subordinate weighed the weight, stared wide-eyed and asked: "Do you still need to give him a gift?"

"Nonsense." Brother Xia Xian sighed, "It's only the first day, and there are only so many people. There must be more people rushing to go tomorrow. When the time comes, the treasurer has the final say on who will receive the food and not? It's better to spend money and money, and be more stable." ..."

"Boss, I'm going right now..."

"Wait a minute, you are not allowed to take it privately. If you do a good job, I will naturally reward you, sir. You have to tell Liu Siku that there will be a big thank you after the work is done."

That subordinate went out with the money in his pocket, and came back half an hour later with the money: "The door of his house is closed, and the door said that it was getting late, and the master didn't see any guests."

"You don't know how to make money?" Brother Xia Xian had already got into bed at this time, and scolded: "Why are you so determined at this time?"

The subordinate said aggrievedly: "The little one did it, but the door is soft and hard. I have been grinding for a long time, but in the end I bumped into several colleagues..."

"It's also a gift?"

"Yes!" The attendant nodded depressedly.

"Ah," Brother Xia Xian sighed, "I'm not a fool, I'm afraid I'll pay for this trip..."

Xia Xiandi, like all grain merchants, tossed and turned all night and couldn't sleep.Everyone is calling Liu Siku what kind of lazy pig!In order to sleep, they don't even accept money at the door!

Liu Siku didn't sleep, he was eating!
Inspector Xu still ate this meal with him.

At that time, Angkor Angkor reported a letter saying that "the heat is almost ready", so Xu Qing thought that the food could be collected.There must be a place to store the grain. There are only two official warehouses in Cangzhou City-the regular warehouse and the emergency warehouse.If you add military warehouses, there are three.

Changping warehouse is Yongfeng warehouse, which is a good policy of the imperial court to stabilize people's livelihood.It has two main functions, one is 'Ping Tiao', which is the so-called buying in spring and selling in autumn to mediate grain prices.One is "lending". When the rural areas are in short supply, the people will be lent to the people to grow seeds and rations.The function of the emergency warehouse is just like its name, which is "relief". When there is a large-scale flood, drought and locust disaster, open the warehouse to relieve the people...

It is no exaggeration to say that the Changping warehouse and the emergency warehouse are the stabilizers of a state and a county. If this system works well, the people will be able to withstand the famine and their lives will be relatively stable.If the operation is not good, there will be bankrupt people from time to time, and there will be large-scale famine in times of famine, resulting in starvation everywhere and the loss of homes...

As the governor, Xu Qing was supposed to check these two large warehouses every season, but due to various reasons, Xu Qing never went to see them.Of course, one of the biggest reasons is that Xu Qing is too lazy...

When cleaning up the aristocratic family before, Xu Qing got a large amount of food.In order to prevent the state officials from colluding with the local family, Xu Qing put the large amount of grain in the military warehouse.A small part was put in Huang Shimei's house and Changping warehouse.Up to now, some of those grains have been sold cheaply, and some have been used by the military.This is also one of the reasons why Xu Qing was in a hurry to buy grain. In addition, he did not want to use the grain in his hands to deal with the victims, so he used this plan to attract a large number of grain merchants to come here.

The grain merchants had arrived and wanted to find a place to store grain, so Xu Qing thought of the Changping Warehouse and the Emergency Warehouse.Why not use an army barn?Because Xu Qing is lazy!There was no other way to use the military barn before, and there was a very big disadvantage in doing so, that is, all the accounts of grain collection and output had to be calculated by Xu Qing himself, otherwise they would have to be handed over to Xiaoyue.Now Xu Qing doesn't want to count and feels sorry for Xiaoyue, so he had to leave it to the state officials...

As soon as he said to check, Xu Qing quickly ordered [-] street patrols, and some [-] officers were sent to one place, and rushed to Changping warehouse located in the east of Cangzhou City.

After a cup of tea, I came to Changping Lane where the warehouse is located.As soon as Xu Qing arrived, Treasurer Liu Teng was already waiting at the gate.Ambassador Cang, the secretary office, and Min Zhuang are all on the sidelines.

Liu Teng is in his 40s, with a fat head and ears, and a corrupt appearance, but it is normal.There is a saying in the officialdom, "Being an official is worse than being a prostitute, and being a prostitute is worse than being a good man." The homonym is used here, which means that in terms of benefits, being an official is not as good as being in charge of a warehouse, and being in charge of a warehouse is not as good as being in charge of a grain depot.It can be seen that the treasurer of the granary is extremely rich.

When we met each other with the ceremony, Xu Qing's book office explained his purpose, so he went to sit inside.

Liu Teng was obviously surprised that Xu Qing came in person, picked up a large plate of keys, and led Xu Qing through several waterproof and fireproof courtyard walls, to the outside of the warehouse with the 'A' name.Liu Teng opened the warehouse door, and saw grain troughs built of bricks and stones filled with white rice.Du Ziteng stretched out his hand to grab a handful of rice and said, "Grain storage must be kept ventilated and dry. There is a fire dragon under the grain depot. If it is stored for ten days and a half a month, it will be burned once."

Xu Qing nodded and asked, "How much food is in the warehouse?"

Liu Teng replied without hesitation: "Not much, 500 shi of grain, and when the autumn grain enters the warehouse, more than [-] shi of grain will be disposed of this year."

"There are so many to deal with?"

"I don't know, Cangzhou is close to the sea and prone to tidal changes, so it's a lot to deal with. But I dare to say such a big word, in these coastal states and counties, less than [-]% of the waste grain can be counted with one slap..."

"Oh? That's amazing..." Xu Qing turned around and asked, "What kind of food are we going to deal with?"

"Old grain, mildewed grain, rats have pooped and pissed, adults can come and have a look..."

Liu Teng led Xu Qing to a warehouse. Before the door was opened, there was a pungent smell.Liu Teng was very used to it, so he opened the door indifferently.Go in, take out a handful of rice, throw it on the ground and step on it, it turns into powder.

Xu Qing was startled: "This person will die if he eats it!"

Liu Teng said: "There are pigs raised here, and everything that the pigs don't eat must be disposed of."

Xu Qing smiled slightly, and said, "I understand the general situation, so let's start taking inventory?"

"Pan... Panku?" Liu Teng's plump lips trembled.Isn't it just going through the motions?
"What's the problem?"

Xu Qing glanced at him lightly. Although his gaze was not sharp, it made Liu Teng tremble all over. He quickly shook his head and said:

"What's the problem..." He looked at the sky and said, "But it's already at this time, and I can't finish the disk, why don't you come back tomorrow morning..."

"Let's count as much as you want. The disaster victims are coming soon. I need to know the background of Cangzhou." Xu Qing clapped his hands, and a group of officers and patrols came in.Liu Teng opened his mouth, did not speak, took out his handkerchief to wipe his sweat and said:

"Let them do it, go drink tea in the adult's room?"

"Just drink it yourself." Xu Qing, with a straight body, shook his head slightly and said, "I'm not thirsty."

In the Changping Cangxu font library.A large dendrobium with the word 'official' written on it in big black is placed beside the grain troughs.Beside each grain trough stood a white-clothed clerk with a writing brush and account book in his hand. Xu Qing's street patrolmen shoveled grain into the dendrobium with a big wooden shovel.After a while, the warehouse was full of dust, which was so choking that people couldn't open their eyes.

Xu Qing sat outside and heard coughing and coughing inside, teasingly said: "There is a lot of dust in the food."

"No way, Chen Liang is like this, just get used to it." Liu Tengteng smiled awkwardly.

"I hope." Xu Qing narrowed his eyes, and at this moment, a humanoid object covered in dust came out of the warehouse, coughing and cursing: "It's too wicked, just add sand to the rice, and add lime! "

Judging from his body shape and hearing his voice, it should be Han Zibang. This time, he accompanied Xu Qing as an adjutant to inspect the warehouse.

"That's to prevent moisture and insects." Liu Teng quickly explained: "Get the vegetable oil quickly."

An old official quickly came over with a pot of vegetable oil, and the man washed his face, and it turned out to be Han Zibang, who bared his teeth at Xu Qing and said, "My lord, can you tell me...you should take a look at these grains first. "

Han Zibang said and brought a big ladle to Xu Qing.The grain in this storehouse is all indica rice without hulls. It is said that even if it is old rice, it should be light yellow, but Xu Qing saw that there were miscellaneous ingredients in this ladle... too much.

"Sieve it!" Xu Qing glanced at Liu Teng expressionlessly, and saw that his face was a little pale.A street patrol immediately brought a sieve, and sifted a bucket of rice finely. When there was only rice left in the dustpan, the large coarse cloth on the ground was already covered with rice husks, dead grass, soil, and white ash... When the rice was measured, it was less than six liters.

Xu Qing grabbed a handful of dark yellow rice and smelled a strong musty smell. He gave Du Ziteng a cold look and said:
"Isn't this rice too stale?"

"Hehe..." Liu Teng wiped his fat cheeks tremblingly, and said, "There are so many warehouses and nearly ten thousand stones of grain, so it is inevitable that there will be omissions." "Yes."

Xu Qing nodded and said, "We have to see if it's an omission or on purpose!" He turned to Han Zibang and said, "Tell the brothers, let's not check the quantity for now, but just check the condition of the grain itself."

"Okay." Han Zibang was overjoyed when he heard the words, and all the officers cheered when they found out about it, and they were finally relieved...

Liu Teng's fat body collapsed, and he begged, "Lord Inspector, please spare me..."

A hu-hu "grain" was carried out, and Xu Qing's eyes were burning. Fortunately, he didn't expect to rely on these grains to help the victims, but what if it was someone else?How can the [-] to [-] disaster victims survive?He pointed to Liu Teng and said, "Forgive me, you still want to spare your life, so please, it's okay to spare your life..."

"Go, take these rice and cook dinner for Liu Teng!"

So Liu Teng was left by Xu Qing to eat.Where can I swallow this meal?So Liu Teng didn't go home, and the family members didn't dare to see the guests, so there was a scene where the money was not needed at the door...

(End of this chapter)