Outside the county town, Yang Yuanqing and five hundred personal soldiers were waiting for news from Cheng Yaojin. Several old men looked depressed. They went to see the Yichuang Grain Depot. As Xu County Magistrate said, the Yichuang Grain Depot was empty. ([] )

In addition, they also looked at the ledger. It was indeed in January this year that tens of thousands of stones of charity grain were taken away by Dou Jiande's army. There were specific dates and quantities, as well as handprints and signatures of the person in charge.

Since there is no hope, they can only return to the village dejectedly. Qiaocun was approaching and bowing deeply to Yang Yuanqing, "Thank you for your decision to be the common people. I have neglected your highness last night. I can only allow us to make up for it next time. We will say goodbye first."

Yang Yuanqing could feel their helplessness and understand the depression in the hearts of these villagers. The food he had worked hard to grow was stored in a charity warehouse, but it was gone in the end. It was like the money that was left in the bank in later generations.

This is actually a kind of bankruptcy of national credit, and officials are still those officials, and the people are still those people. If they do not recognize the accounts of the previous dynasty, who will still believe in the charity warehouse, and who will still be willing to store grain in the charity warehouse.

This is not an exception to Fangzi County. I believe that this problem will occur in every other place. As the actual leader of a country, he must express his opinion on this matter, not just about these old farmers.

Last night, Yang Yuanqing thought about this matter all night, and he had an idea in his mind, corruption is corruption, but the Sui Dynasty had to admit the grain of the previous dynasty's warehouse.

"Don't worry, Qiaocunzheng! Whether it's Qingmiao profit or the grain in the charity warehouse, I will give you an explanation. Please wait patiently, there will be news."

Qiao Cun was very happy. When the King of Chu was willing to say such things, their food would have hope. He hurriedly bowed again, "We will not cause trouble. We will definitely wait for news from Your Highness."

Several old farmers left. Yang Yuanqing said to the county magistrate Xu Shouxin again: "The county magistrate will go back! Let me explain to the villagers what happened in the future. We are not allowed to deal with it perfunctorily. I hope you can learn from this lesson."

County magistrate Xu Shouxin and several county magistrates were both uneasy. Now they could only find a way to deal with this matter after the King of Chu left. Xu Shouxin hurriedly bowed and said, "I understand the money of Qingmiao. Regarding the money of profits from Qingmiao, the interest is still borne by the government. We will find ways to raise it. We must not break the rules of the court and affect the reputation of the court."

Xu Shouxin knew in his heart that if he did not spit out the profit money, the King of Chu would not spare them. As for the grain of the Yi Cang, they did everything seamlessly. Even if the censor came to investigate, he could not find out the problem. At that time, there was indeed a grain transfer, but the grain of the official warehouse was transferred. The Yi Cang next to the official warehouse did not move. The signature and handprint were true. At that time, the county government thought that the grain had been transferred. So Xu Shouxin was not worried, and the matter would definitely be left alone in the end.

Yang Yuanqing nodded, "The Yicang Grain Court will have an argument, you can go!"

"Go away from me!"

Xu Shouxin took several officials to leave and returned to the city. Soon, a personal soldier who followed Cheng Yaojin ran out of the city on horseback and whispered a few words in Yang Yuanqing's ear. Yang Yuanqing was stunned and immediately ordered: "Lead ahead!"

He turned his horse's head and ran southeast with his personal soldiers. A large group of personal guards disappeared into the field like a gust of wind.

Above the city, the county magistrate Xu Shouxin looked at them far away, and was extremely worried. When the King of Chu returned to Taiyuan, he should go northwest. Why did he go the opposite southeast? Could it be that they discovered something?

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Yang Yuanqing led his personal soldiers to run for more than ten miles, and came to a village. He saw another personal soldier at the intersection of the village. He stepped forward to report, "Your Highness, you have found it."

"Take me to see!"

The personal soldiers took Yang Yuanqing to a large mansion in the village. The door was already open. Yang Yuanqing led hundreds of personal soldiers into the house. He saw Cheng Yaojin and a man in his early thirties standing in the yard, with a look of horror on his face, his legs trembling, and he seemed extremely scared.

Cheng Yaojin grabbed the man's neck and pulled him in front of Yang Yuanqing. The man was so scared that he knelt down and kowtowed, "King of Chu, spare your life, spare your villain!"

"Who is this?"

Cheng Yaojin hurriedly said, "This person is the Guangchu Lord Bo of Fangzi County. His surname is Chen. He was once the book boy of Xu Gouguan. He has been with him for twenty years and is Xu Gouguan's confidant, and he knows Xu Gouguan's true feelings."

Speaking of this, Cheng Yaojin kicked Chen Zhubo, "I will repeat what I said to me just now."

"Yes! Yes! I said."

Chen Zhubo dared not hide anything in front of Yang Yuanqing, "Your Highness, it is the county magistrate's idea to collect the money from the Qingmiao and profit-making money. The county magistrate's family opened a di shop, so he borrowed money from the di shop and then distributed it to the farmers. In the end, he collected hundreds of profit-making money. However, the county magistrate did not ask for the money, and all gave it to the county magistrate. In this way, when the grain in the charity warehouse was divided, they reached a 30% account, the county magistrate wanted 30% and the county magistrate's share 70%."

Yang Yuanqing said coldly: "So, the grain in the Yichuang Cang was indeed not taken away by Dou Jiande. Is that true?"

Master Chen pointed to the house timidly and said in a trembling voice: "Your Highness... Your Highness, you will know when you enter the house."

Yang Yuanqing walked into the house quickly and saw that the house was filled with bags of grain, the windows were closed, and the other houses were also filled with grain, at least five or six thousand stones.

Chen Zhubo whispered behind him: "These grains are charity warehouses, a total of 6,000 stones. The magistrate Xu hired a resident from other places to transport them. This house is also the property of the magistrate Xu. He is planning to sell the grains to Henan Road."

Even though Yang Yuanqing was calm, he was still angry by the situation in front of him. A small county magistrate dared to embezzle 6,000 stones of food. Especially when the food was so tight, he burst into murderous intent in his heart. He turned around and said to Cheng Yaojinling: "Catch the county magistrate and the county magistrate for me, and go immediately!"

"Abide by the order!"

Cheng Yaojin led a hundred personal soldiers to speed towards the county town. In less than half an hour, a burst of rapid footsteps sounded at the gate of the mansion. Cheng Yaojin carried the county magistrate Xu Shouxin in like a chicken, threw it in front of Yang Yuanqing, and the county magistrate behind him was also escorted.

"Mr. Xu County, I didn't expect that we would meet again so soon. Please explain to me what happened to this grain?" Yang Yuanqing said coldly.

Xu Shouxin was so scared that he collapsed. He said a word with trembling. Yang Yuanqing whipped his face with a whip and cursed: "You are so brave. You dare to embezzle 6,000 stones of food. You are not worth mercy!"

"Come!" Yang Yuanqing shouted loudly, and dozens of personal guards stepped forward.

Yang Yuanqing pointed at the two men with a horse whip and said, "The family of these two dog officials was executed, and the heads were displayed at the city gate. The dog officials peeled off their skins and filled them with straw. He ordered Ziwei Pavilion to be sent to various counties and counties for inspection. Anyone who dared to embezzle the grain in the charity warehouse will serve as an example!"

"Gudong!" The county magistrate and the county magistrate fainted at the same time.

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In the Great Sui Dynasty, officials committed crimes that required impeachment by the censor, Dali Temple was imprisoned and interrogated, the Ministry of Justice convicted, Ziwei Pavilion was initially tried, and finally the Regent approved it, and there was a very strict system.

If the family had not been guilty of the great crimes, the whole family would not have been executed. At most, the man was exiled to guard the border, his wife and daughter entered the Yeting Palace or the sect, and there was no torture like peeling and filling the grass.

Although Yang Yuanqing did not want to violate this system he personally finalized, he still could not control his murderous intent in anger.

A small county magistrate dares to embezzle 6,000 stones of food. If torture is not imposed, more people will follow suit. This is a warning.

The big case that happened in Fangzi County was like a gust of wind, spread throughout Hebei and Taiyuan within three or four days. When Yang Yuanqing was about to arrive in Taiyuan, Ziwei Pavilion held an emergency discussion specifically for the case.

According to the regulations of Ziwei Pavilion, the ruling work is a round of ten days. Whoever ruling work is the prime minister on duty, in charge of the seal of Ziwei Pavilion and has great power.

This system is also to prevent the situation of deceiving superiors and hiding subordinates and holding power alone. If someone dares to deceive superiors and hiding subordinates, it will be discovered in ten days, which is also a relatively democratic and balanced approach.

The prime minister on duty today happened to be Su Wei. When he received news from Fangzi County, he immediately ordered someone to summon the other six prime ministers to discuss the matter urgently.

In Ziwei Pavilion, most prime ministers were extremely dissatisfied with the King of Chu's affairs and handling the case without authorization. Yang Shidao said angrily to everyone: "Disposing officials is not a marching and fighting. If you want to kill anyone, you must kill anyone. You must destroy the whole family without asking. In order to express my dissatisfaction, I decided to resign from the position of prime minister. I would rather go home to cultivate land than tolerate such tyrannical things."

Yang Shidao's statement was supported by Lu Yu and Cui Hongyuan. Lu Yu said: "The country cannot be established. Common people have laws and regulations for common people. Officials have rules for officials. They should be killed, but they should be killed without interrogation and conviction without being convicted. How can they be killed? Cui Xiang and I also decided to resign from the position of prime minister. We cannot afford to serve such superiors."

Du Ruhui sneered aside without saying a word. He knew in his heart that Yang Shidao's dissatisfaction was indeed because the King of Chu did not respect the system, and he really wanted to resign.

Lu Chu and Cui Hongyuan's dissatisfaction was just a matter of using the problem to gain some of their own interests by using this matter, so they would not really resign.

Su Wei was the convener of this Ziwei Pavilion meeting. His original intention was to discuss with everyone how to ensure the safety of the Yichuang grains and how to learn from the lessons of Fangzi County. Unexpectedly, the discussion theme turned into dissatisfaction with the King of Chu who committed suicide without authorization. There were still three prime ministers who wanted to resign.

This really made Su Wei anxious and hurriedly said, "Everyone, there are two things here. One is whether the King of Chu deals with the system of officials and the other is the issue of the Yi Warehouse Grain Depot. We should discuss it separately. The most urgent thing is the issue of the Yi Warehouse Grain Depot. Then we will discuss the issue of His Highness the King of Chu's violation of the system. Everyone must not act voluntarily."

At this time, Du Ruhui also said slowly: "Georg Su is right. We must understand the anger of His Highness the King of Chu. A small county magistrate dares to embezzle thousands of stones of charity grain. Especially at the moment when food is so tight, I believe His Highness the King of Chu was also angry for a moment. Everyone should understand that the key now is that His Highness the King of Chu just passed by Fangzi County and discovered the corruption of charity grain. So what about other counties? Everyone, this is actually our responsibility!"

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