On the big boat, Zhu Kuan quickly walked to Zhang Xuan and bowed, "Report to the Grand Marshal, he caught a big fish!"

"What a big fish?" Zhang Xuan asked with a smile.

"There are 50,000 stones of food, 180 cargo ships, and countless spears, swords, bows and arrows, and at least 100,000 miles."

Zhang Xuan's eyes lit up. It was really a big fish. He came to Hu'er to find six warehouses. The total grain was only 45,000 stones. This warehouse seized 50,000 stones of grain, which was really unexpected.

Zhang Xuan asked with a smile: "How did you find out that the other party is not from the Huang family?"

Zhu Kuan then explained the process of their search in detail, and waved his hand and said, "Bring it up!"

Two soldiers pushed the deacon who was tied up like rice dumplings. Zhang Xuan looked at the person. Seeing that the person was very thin and had a timid look, he looked like a timid person. Seeing that he was tied up like a mouse, Zhang Xuan smiled and waved his hand, "Unlock his rope!"

The soldier untied the rope, and the deacon immediately knelt in front of Zhang Xuan, kowtowing like pounding garlic, "Your Highness of the King of Qi spared the life of the villain, and the villain would never dare to do it again."

Zhang Xuan said lightly: "If you want to survive, you will never dare to do so again. You must make meritorious service and atone for your sins."

"The villain is willing to do anything, just want your highness to spare his life."

Zhang Xuan nodded and asked again, "Who are you?"

"The villain used to be the manager of the Huang family warehouse. The warehouse here has always been managed by the villain. Last time His Highness sent someone to transport pig iron, the villain also participated in the inventory and handover."

"Then why do you want to play for Du Fuwei?"

The deacon lowered his head for a while and said, "The Huang family was reported to Jiangdu for privately harboring pig iron. The emperor was very furious and ordered the Huang family members who were officials in various counties in Jianghuai to be dismissed. He also ordered the prefect of Liyang County to severely punish the Huang family. In the end, the warehouse was abandoned. The villain was irritated by the Huang family and was punished to come to take charge of the abandoned warehouse. At the beginning of the year, Du Fuwei personally led the army. He took a fancy to the warehouse and rebuilt and expanded it to become his most important transit granary and directly supplied his army. He just bought 30,000 shi of grain from Jingzhou last month, but he had not had time to transport it away."

"Du Fuwei trusts you so much and lets you continue to be a manager?" Zhang Xuan asked again.

"No, the villain has been doing odd jobs here. Last month, Du Fuwei asked the villain to be the manager in order to pretend to be the Huang family warehouse."

Only then did Zhang Xuan realize that it was to pretend to be the Huang family warehouse. He pondered for a moment and asked again: "Does the Huang family know about this?"

"The villain dares not say it!"

"Say!" Zhang Xuan stared at him sternly.

The manager stuttered: "The Huang family will definitely say that they don't know, but in fact they know."

"Have they been here?" Zhu Kuan asked beside him.

"No! I haven't been here once. It's because I haven't come once that the little man said they knew that the Huang family often sent people to come in the past because it was just temporarily abandoned and they would open it in the future. However, since Du Fuwei regarded this place as a transit warehouse, the Huang family has never come again."

At this moment, Zhang Xuan suddenly remembered an extremely important thing and immediately asked: "You just said that the food here is directly supplied to his army, so you should know where his nest is?"

Du Fuwei has three holes in his cunning rabbit. Zhang Xuan knew that Du Fuwei had at least five foundations. Since Du Fuwei retreated to Jianghuai, he has disappeared. There are traces of army activities in the five foundations, which makes Zhang Xuan difficult to judge for a while. He suddenly realized that food would not be fake, and it could tell him that Du Fuwei's true hiding place.

Zhang Xuan stared at the manager with sharp eyes. The manager was so scared that he kowtowed repeatedly, "The villain doesn't know, the villain won't know about such things."

"Who will know?"

The manager lowered his head guiltily, his expression could not be hidden from Zhang Xuan's eyes. Zhang Xuan snorted and ordered: "Come here!"

Several personal soldiers stepped forward at the same time, "Here!"

Zhang Xuan pointed to the manager and said, "Drag this person down and chopped him, throwing the body into the Yangtze River to feed the fish!"

Several personal soldiers were like wolves and tigers. They stepped forward and grabbed the manager and dragged him down. The manager was so scared that he cried loudly, "I said! I said!"

Zhang Xuan waved his hand and let him go. Zhang Xuan squatted in front of him and said coldly: "You have to understand who you are facing. I will warn you first. If you dare to be a little dishonest, I will chop your head with your own hands."

"The villain really doesn't dare!"

The manager shivered all over and cried, "There is a bald man with a fleshy face among the arrested people. He is the real leader of the warehouse. He is Du Fuwei's personal guard. All Du Fuwei's orders will be sent to him."

Zhu Kuan next to him gritted his teeth with hatred, "It turns out that bastard is pretending to be honest than anyone else. I will torture him now."

Zhang Xuan nodded, "Let all the soldiers take action, carry all the food onto the ship, and prepare to transport it back to Jiangdu,"

"Abide by the order!"

Zhu Kuan hurriedly left, and Zhang Xuan said to the soldiers again: "Take this person down and let him go home after destroying Du Fuwei!"

The manager was so excited that he kowtowed repeatedly, "Thank you Your Highness for your life! Thank you Your Highness for your life!"

Zhang Xuan waved his hand and asked the soldiers to take him down. At this time, Du Wenxun, the joining army, whispered: "Your Highness, the Huang family should not hide this matter from us."

Zhang Xuan shook his head, "It is not easy for aristocratic families to survive in troubled times. Sometimes they have to do things they are reluctant to do. Don't blame the Huang family, it has done its best to us."

After pausing, Zhang Xuan said again: "But it is necessary to let the Huang family know that Du Fuwei lost 50,000 stones of grain, and it is very likely that he would think that it was the Huang family betrayed. It is best to let the Huang family move to Jiangdu immediately."

Zhang Xuan immediately wrote a letter asking a personal soldier to deliver it to the Huang family.

At this time, Zhu Kuan walked quickly and presented a confession to Zhang Xuan and said, "You have reported to the Grand Marshal that the interrogation has ended. Du Fuwei and Fu Gongyou each led an army to hide in Yinlong Mountain and Banyang Mountain in Lujiang County, respectively. The two places are 150 miles apart. This is a detailed confession!"

Zhang Xuan took the confession and looked at it. He immediately wrote another military order, asking the soldiers to pass it to Lai Huer and Luo Shixin with flying pigeons, and asked them to send scouts to confirm the two places. Zhang Xuan could not be completely sure of it with just one confession.

Although the incident happened in the Huang family warehouse was just an unexpected encounter, it was of great significance. First, using grain as a clue, Zhang Xuan initially found Du Fuwei's hiding place. Secondly, he harvested 50,000 stones of grain and 180 cargo ships. Together with the grain and ships seized by Hu'er, they had already obtained nearly 100,000 stones of grain and 400 cargo ships, which was enough for Li Qingming to form a powerful freight fleet.

Grain can also be handed over to Li Qingming to establish a regular warehouse to stabilize grain prices at critical moments.

A few days later, Zhang Xuan's fleet arrived at the Jiangyang County Wharf. Li Qingming, who had received the news first, and ****, who had just arrived in Jiangdu to be responsible for disaster relief, came to the wharf to greet him.

Zhang Xuan walked off the board, and Li Qingming and **** immediately stepped forward and bowed, "I'm going to see Your Highness!"

Zhang Xuan looked at **** and asked, "Has Huang Jun ever contacted his family?"

"Weichen just arrived in Jiangdu this morning and had not had time to contact his family."

"I wrote a letter to your grandfather. I guess they will come to Jiangdu in the next few days. You have to arrange a residence for them first."

"The Huang family has a house in Jiang, so there is no need to prepare it specifically. But what happened to the Huang family?" **** asked in confusion.

"It's nothing. The Huang family has made another contribution and let us take Du Fuwei's largest granary."

Zhang Xuan turned around and said to Du Wenxun: "Du joins the army, come and tell Huang Envoy!"

Du Wenxun bowed and waved his hand and said, "Envoy Huang, let's go here!"

The two walked aside to discuss in detail. At this time, Li Qingming hurriedly said: "Your Highness, there is the latest news from Zhongdu."

"Has the two sides reached a compromise?" Zhang Xuan asked with a smile.

“That’s right!”

Zhang Xuan laughed. As he expected, instead of throwing away the entire Bingzhou, it would be better to redeem Hedong City first. Although the 1.5 million stone of grain was a little cruel, Li Yuan could take it out. There were three million stones of grain stored in Yongtong Cang alone, which was enough to pay the ransom.

"Su Prime Minister Su sent someone to deliver the letter, hoping that Your Highness would rush back to Zhongdu immediately and sign a new armistice agreement."

"I understand, let's talk about this later."

Zhang Xuan pointed to the fleet that was slowly docking at the dock and smiled at Li Qingming: "There are 180 cargo ships and 50,000 stones of grain here. Soon there is still a batch of cargo ships and grain to be delivered. I will hand over this batch of cargo ships to you. Let's do it according to the last idea and establish two cargo ships. The grain is used to provide relief to refugees or establish a permanent warehouse. This is up to you."

Li Qingming was overjoyed. With food and ships, many of his plans could be implemented.

At this time, Zhang Xuan laughed in a low voice and said, "These ships are actually cargo ships from the three ships, don't let them know."

Li Qingming held back his smile and said, "Don't worry, your highness has many ships in the world. They have any evidence to ask for it. Besides, they don't dare to come if they give them a hundred courages."

"That's true!"
Chapter completed!