dhibooks Chapter 68 68
Chapter 68 68
Xie Fanghan was hiding something in his heart, he couldn't sleep well all night, and when he woke up, it was just dawn.
Yan Yutang on the bed was still soundly asleep, she walked over to pull the quilt for her silently, and then left the room lightly.
In the hall, the lieutenant general was discussing something with the school officer under him, and he was a little surprised to see Xie Fanghan who came down.
"Don't you want to sleep a little longer, General?"
"Wake up and get up." This lieutenant is under the chess player, and Xie Fanghan is also a little more relaxed, "What are you discussing?"
The deputy general pointed to the simple map on the table and said to her: "General, we were just talking about today's itinerary. According to our speed yesterday, we will be able to reach Lake City in three days."
Lake City was the city that suffered the most in this disaster report, and it was also their destination.
Xie Fanghan remembered what happened last night, frowned and said to him, "Quicken up your schedule and get to Huzhou as soon as possible."
"Yes" the lieutenant general didn't ask the reason, and started re-planning directly with the school officer.
Yan Yutang went to look for Xie Fanghan immediately after waking up.
After seeing the people downstairs, she breathed a sigh of relief in her heart.
She was really scared.
He was afraid that she would leave without saying a word, and that she would be injured again in a place where he could not see.
After setting off, Xie Fanghan didn't get into the carriage like yesterday.
She didn't have confidence in her acting skills to hide from Yan Yutang, especially since she knew it was about Concubine Shu, she simply avoided it.
Yan Yutang in the carriage was not very calm either, the speed of the carriage was much faster than yesterday, she could feel it.
Reminiscent of Xie Fanghan's suddenly ugly face last night, she faintly felt that something big was about to happen.
Xie Fanghan said that she is a so-called "book-wearing" person. She knows that some future developments will make her face so ugly, and it will not be a trivial matter.
If she asked by herself, most likely, Xie Fang Han would not hide it from her, but she couldn't think of asking at all, her subconscious was avoiding the truth.
Two days later, the group arrived in Lake City.
Yan Yutang opened the curtain of the carriage, looked at the desolate excuse, and felt a little strange in his heart.
Xie Fanghan also felt that something was wrong, but she couldn't tell the specifics.
"General." The deputy general called her from a distance.
Xie Fanghan regained his senses, turned his eyes away and said to him: "Set up the food and grass, let's go to the City Lord's Mansion first."
The deputy general took the order and went to the official granary first with the grain and grass.
There were not many pedestrians on the road, and most of them lowered their heads when they saw them, and quickened their pace silently.
The strange feeling in Xie Fanghan's heart became more and more intense, but she just couldn't tell where the blame was.
Fortunately, the dark guards were arranged in advance.
Xie Fanghan felt a little relieved when he thought of this.
The City Lord's Mansion of Hu City is in the center of Hu City. After receiving the message from the scouts, City Lord Zhao Weizhi brought people to wait in front of the City Lord's Mansion early on.
Before coming here, Xie Fanghan and the others had already read Zhao Weizhi's information. In summary, he is a person who is slick and capable of scrutinizing Duodu.
When Yan Yutang got out of the car, Zhao Weizhi gave a welcome speech as usual, and Yan Yutang responded with a few words indifferently, which was considered as the end of the scene.
Yan Yutang: "Lord Zhao, I'm a little tired from the journey these days, so the dinner will be skipped."
Zhao Weizhi understood Yan Yutang's meaning, and immediately bowed his head and said, "His Royal Highness Yan Qing has worked hard all the way, and the lower officials have already arranged for His Highness's residence. Please, His Highness come with the lower officials."
The layout of the room is quite exquisite, and it doesn't look too extravagant. It really deserves the evaluation of being exquisite in all aspects.
"Master Zhao has a heart." Yan Yutang said to him.
"It should be, it should be." Zhao Weizhi lowered his body, "Your Highness, rest well, if you have any orders, just order someone to summon the next official."
Yan Yutang nodded lightly: "I'm sorry."
After Zhao Weizhi left, Yan Yutang ordered them to rest up, and then dragged Xie Fanghan into her room.
Xie Fanghan: ...
When the door was closed, Yan Yutang saw her hesitant expression, and asked aloud, "What's wrong?"
Xie Fanghan looked at her with complicated eyes, and said helplessly for a while: "The sky is bright and white, under the eyes of everyone, you just pulled me in like this, don't you want to show yourself?"
Yan Yutang reacted for a moment, and after turning the corner to understand what Xie Fanghan said, her face flushed instantly. After all, she was a little girl with a thin skin.
Ever since she knew that Xie Fanghan was a woman, she had changed her mind about many things, but she forgot that Xie Fanghan's identity was only known to herself, and in the eyes of outsiders, she was still a "man".
Seeing her like this, Xie Fanghan's original helplessness turned into a chuckle, and he patted her on the head to comfort her, "It's okay, it's okay, we are a marriage contract that the emperor has decreed, and although we haven't married yet, our relationship is not abrupt." .”
Of course Yan Yutang knew that she was coaxing herself, but now that everyone in the same industry has finished watching what should be seen and what should not be seen, no matter how entangled it is, it will not help.
Xie Fanghan poured her a glass of warm water, and Yan Yutang drank it in small sips. After drinking the glass of water, she almost calmed down.
"Get down to business." Yan Yutang put down his glass and looked at her.
Xie Fanghan: "There is a lot of movement about our entry into the city, and the hidden guards should come over soon."
Yan Yutang turned her eyes to the closed door, as if she wanted to see the outside scene through the layers of walls.
"From the moment I entered the city, I felt that something was wrong."
Xie Fanghan was taken aback, then nodded: "Coincidentally, I also feel this way."
The two looked at each other and began to analyze the situation tacitly.
Yan Yutang: "The street is very depressed, but not chaotic."
Xie Fanghan: "The people I saw along the way were all neatly dressed, and they didn't seem to have been hit by a disaster."
Yan Yutang: "We didn't encounter any refugees along the way, including outside the city."
Xie Fanghan: "It's not ruled out that someone drove them away on purpose. We'll have to wait for the secret guards to come back for details."
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The two talked to each other until the dark guard came to report.
"What's going on in Lake City?" The two looked at the dark guard and said in unison.
Seeing this battle for the first time, the dark guard was stunned for a moment and replied in a deep voice: "Return to the little master, return to your highness, Hucheng has not suffered any disaster at all."
Xie Fanghan: "Is there no disaster? Zhao is crazy about it? How dare you lie about such a big event!"
The hidden guard: "It's not a lie. We checked overnight. Several important dams in Hucheng have been breached, and most of the nearby paddy fields have been flooded."
Hucheng is the largest grain-producing city in Dayan. According to what the dark guard said, this year's Hucheng, and even Dayan as a whole, will have a serious impact on grain.
Yan Yutang's expression became more and more serious, "If that's the case, why do you say there was no disaster?"
The dark guard took out something from his pocket and handed it to Xie Fanghan, and then continued: "This is the gravel we found from the gap in the embankment."
The stone is not big, Xie Fanghan checked it back and forth, and immediately found the problem.
She looked at the dark guard, her face was dark and frightening, "Did the embankment be deliberately sabotaged?"
The dark guard nodded silently, Yan Yutang looked at Xie Fanghan, Xie Fanghan turned the side of the stone towards her, and explained aloud: "This is the mark left by the chiseling of the utensils. If it was washed away by the force of the water, it is impossible to leave such a stone. trace."
Yan Yutang stared at the obvious scratch on the utensil, and then looked at the hidden guard: "Is it like this everywhere?"
The dark guard nodded: "Yes, we took all the gravel from the damaged embankment overnight, and without exception, there were traces of man-made damage."
"Who on earth is so bold!" Yan Yutang became angry, frowning tightly.
Dayan has suffered from constant natural disasters over the years, and his grain storage is already tight. Now that most of the lake city is flooded, if there is a war...
"One more thing." The dark guard continued to report.
Xie Fanghan: "Tell me."
Dark Guard: "There are no refugees in Lake City, not a single one."
There are no refugees in the [-]% flooded rice. What kind of concept is this?
The hidden guard: "We found a refugee camp, which is not small in scale. It should be run by the public. The lake city is weird. We observed it carefully for half a day, and it really made us realize that something was wrong. The people in the refugee camp said they were refugees. Why not?" Said to be a beggar.
Judging by the scale, all the beggars in the city should be there. "
Xie Fanghan subconsciously looked at Yan Yutang, and she happened to look over too. The two eyes met, and then separated at the same time.
The thing about Lake City can basically be concluded to be just a gimmick.
But there are still some details that have not been clarified, and who is behind the scenes.
Xie Fanghan's heart began to sink, and she felt that her guess that day might probably come true.
"Report to the general, I will report something at the end." The voice of the deputy general sounded outside the door.
Xie Fanghan gave the dark guard a look, and the eyes disappeared silently from their sight.
"Come in." She just said.
The door of the room was pushed open, and the lieutenant general saluted the two of them solemnly after entering the door, and then handed over a burlap bag in his hand to Xie Fanghan.
Xie Fanghan unfolded it, and took out a handful of rice ears with shells from it.
She looked up at the lieutenant general, waiting for him to give herself an explanation.
The deputy general received her gaze, bent over and began to report, "General, we were ordered to store the escorted grain and grass in the official warehouse. Master Xiang discovered this during the process of entering the warehouse."
When mentioning Xiang Chuansheng, Xie Fanghan raised his eyebrows indistinctly.
The deputy general didn't know about the "relationship" between the two, and continued to report in a deep voice: "Master Xiang said that this is last year's new rice, and judging by the dryness and humidity, it should be stored for a long time. What we brought this time is Lingnan rice." The rice is easy to distinguish from the one in Hucheng, it is not uncommon to have rice in the official warehouse, but Mr. Xiang said something is wrong."
"What's wrong." Xie Fanghan asked.
The lieutenant raised his head and glanced at Yan Yutang, hesitated for a while before continuing: "Master Xiang said that the warehouse is too clean and there is not even a single mouse, something is wrong."
Yan Yutang's face froze for a moment before returning to normal. Xie Fanghan looked at the rice in his hand, and nodded in understanding after a while.
"I understand."
Yan Yutang looked at her and gave her a look of "willing to hear more about it", Xie Fanghan put the rice back into the bag and put it on the table.
"There are mice in the granary is a very normal thing, or an inevitable thing, from the time we received the news of the disaster in Hucheng to the time we arrived in Hucheng, it was less than ten days, even if all the grain in the granary was distributed If you go down, the granary will not be so clean."
Xie Fanghan picked up the burlap bag casually, and asked, "Is there rice scattered on the ground in every warehouse?"
The lieutenant general nodded: "Yes, there are in every warehouse, and there is no sign of mice. We opened warehouses one by one, and we will be sure of this at the end."
Xie Fanghan looked at Yan Yutang and continued: "There are obviously new rice in the warehouse, but there are no mice, which only shows one problem, the new rice was sown before we came, and the warehouse has long been empty.
Or, it may be that last year's grain stockpile was not put into the warehouse at all. "
"Not in the warehouse?" The deputy general was startled by this thought, "Impossible, if such a large batch of grain is not in the warehouse, where can it be stored?"
"I'll save it." Yan Yutang looked at Xie Fanghan again, and the faces of the two were surprisingly calm.
Xie Fanghan followed her words and continued: "The most indispensable thing in Hucheng is the granary. If you don't put it in the official granary, you can also put it in a private granary, or break it up into parts and distribute it directly to every household."
After hearing Xie Fanghan's last words, the deputy general shuddered silently.
If Xie Fanghan's guess is right, then what they have to face is not just a few corrupt officials, but everyone in the whole city.