Chapter 1021: The whereabouts of rations
Chapter 1021 The whereabouts of rations
Against the strong Khitan, it is not easy to win. But looking at Jiang Liu's pretty and murderous little face, Uncle Qiu nodded calmly and responded with a smile, "Okay."
Uncle Qiu is the backbone of Zuo Wuwei, he just needs to have confidence. Jiang Liu sat down and said, "Do we have a female general in Zuo Wuwei? If you always need it, I can also go on the field to kill the enemy."
There are female generals in Zuo Wuwei, but Uncle Qiu can't let Miss Six carry a mace on the battlefield to smash people, not to mention Jiang Er Ye and Young Master are reluctant, and he is also reluctant, Six Girl can do far more than that. Uncle Qiu turned his head, "I heard that the girl got an errand from the second master?"
When mentioned the errand, Jiang Liu immediately became serious, "Exactly, I led the errand to find Jiang Jinzong's hidden grain and grass. You always know about the grain storage? What valuable clues have you investigated?"
"Perhaps only a girl can do this errand." After Uncle Qiu said, he told what he knew about Jiang Jinzong's storage of grain.
The Great Zhou army was divided into the forbidden army and the wing army. The ten guards and 200,000 imperial guards are the main force of defending the home and the country. They go out to fight in wartime, but guard the border and practice during wartime; more than 500,000 soldiers are under the prefectures and have various tasks. , Road construction and bridge construction, water and land transportation, shepherding horses and fields, guard officials, etc.
Let's not mention the food and grass of the Xiangjun army, there are two sources of food and grass for the forbidden army: 30% is the unified allocation of the capital; 70% is the grain produced by the military fields supporting the forbidden army. Among the military fields allocated to the banned army in the states where the banned army was stationed, about 60% of the fertile land was cultivated by the Xiang army; Jiang Liu's eldest uncle, Wang Fangyu, was assigned to Wen Su, who was assigned to work as a laborer in reclaiming wasteland.
Whether the food and grass ration divided by Sanqi is reasonable or not will not be mentioned here for the time being, but since Jiang Jinzong was appointed General of Zuo Wuwei, Zuo Wuwei's ten thousand hectares of fertile land, regardless of the age, has been in shortfall every year due to various reasons. Hand over the memorial, requesting more allocation of food and grass. With Qin Tianye present, it was not difficult for Zuo Wuwei to ask for food, so nearly 60% of the food and grass allocated to Zuo Wuwei in the capital actually accounted for nearly 60%.
What is even more extreme is that after these grains and forages were transported to Suzhou, they were exploited layer by layer by officials, and finally less than half of them were transported to the army to nourish the soldiers!
After Jiang Erye and Uncle Qiu arrived in Suzhou, they investigated through various channels and found that there was no major flood and insect disaster in Suzhou in the past ten years, and the fertile fields were harvested year after year. So where did all the food and the food Zuo Wuwei asked for from Beijing go?
Some of these grains were taken away by Qin Tianye; some were sold by Jiang Jinzong to foreigners such as Xiongnu, Khitan, and Turks; some were hidden by Jiang Jinzong.
The grain taken away by Qin Tianye was not shipped out of Gyeonggi at all, but was transported to Mount Siguniang to raise private soldiers. One can tell how much grain and grass can be eaten by more than 1,000 private soldiers. Although the second part is difficult to check, Uncle Qiu. In two years, I have also mastered the real evidence, which is also a major crime evidence that Jiang Erye requested an order to kill Jiang Jinzong on the spot.
As for the third part, according to Uncle Qiu's calculations, among the military rations transported to Zuowuwei and the grains produced in the military fields of Suzhou in the past five years, there are a million stone that have not been found.
What is the concept of Million Stone Grain? The 25,000 people in the Zuowuwei Imperial Army were open to eat, and the food for a month was more than 390,000 shi. That is to say, one million stone is enough for Zuo Wuwei to eat for two and a half months, and it is not a problem to eat for four months with tight waistbands.
Where did Jiang Jinzong hide such a large amount of food?
Uncle Qiu said, "Su Zitong, Song Ke and Zou Gaoping, who are close friends of Jiang Jinzong, are not aware of it."
Jiang Liu speculated, "For the sake of hiding people's eyes and ears, Jiang Jinzong didn't use the forbidden army?"
Sure enough, it works! Uncle Qiu nodded, "As a general who wants to hold the Imperial Army firmly, he has no food in his hands. Therefore, Jiang Jinzong can't exchange all of the millions of stone grains and grasses for gold and silver finance, and will definitely hide most of them. According to the old man It is speculated that these grains and grasses should not be hidden in the same place, and it is possible that Jiang Jinzong's private soldiers, Xiangjun or yachai who helped Jiang Jinzong hide the grains. Suzhou civil and military officials are in tune, and it is not difficult for Jiang Jinzong to mobilize the Xiangjun and the yachai. In the grain case, the second master once asked Fu Kaiwen, the appeasement envoy of Su Xuan Road, and Zhong Dangtian, the prefect of Suzhou, although they knew that the grain and grass were scarce, but they did not know where the grain and grass were going."
Jiang Liu said firmly, "It's impossible for them not to know!"
Uncle Qiu smiled, "The ants are still alive, let alone people? The girl captured Qin Tianye, and the second master killed Jiang Jinzong..."
Jiang Liu reminded, "Uncle Qiu, Qin Tianye was captured by Long Live."
The noble character of not being greedy for merit, the sixth girl is more than the second master. Uncle Qiu changed his words with kindness, "Long live let Qin Tianye be captured. After the second master killed Jiang Jinzong, Fu Kaiwen and Zhong Dangtian also knew that their lives were hanging by a thread, and they were uneasy. The second master promised them that if they could stand Great merit atonement, they will save their lives. Under such circumstances, they still say they don't know, they should be really ignorant."
This is indeed the truth, Jiang Liu nodded slowly, it seems that this matter is more difficult than he imagined, Jiang Jinzong is really an old fox.
Uncle Qiu said, "Jiang Jinzong has raised a group of people, but these people are mixed in the Zuo Wuwei, so it is very unlikely that Jiang Jinzong will use them to store food. Suzhou civilian officials did not know, so the old man turned his attention to the Suzhou Xiangjun commander. Let Wang overcome difficulties. Although this person is not a good person, he is timid and cautious, and the second master has not found any crimes that could lead to death in him."
In other words, threats didn't work, Jiang Liu nodded and asked, "How many people are there in the Xiangjun Army in Suzhou?"
"There are more than 2,000 people in total." Uncle Qiu said, "Wang Kenan also flatly denied it, swearing and swearing that he did not know about Jiang Jinzong's storage of grain."
Jiang Liu followed the clues mentioned by Uncle Qiu and analyzed, "Wang Kenan has only 2,000 people, and if Jiang Jinzong directly called 100 people, he would not know it. So there are two possibilities: one is that Wang Kenan knows or refuses to. Second, Jiang Jinzong did not pass Wang Kenan, and directly called Xiang Jun to help him."
Uncle Qiu praised, "Second Master is right, with the ability of the sixth girl, she is worthy of being an autumn official."
When the second master and Uncle Qiu showed off their little girl's ability, they said that they could be the "Minister of Punishment", and Uncle Qiu praised Jiang Liu for using "Qiuguan" at the moment. According to the "Zhou Li", in the four seasons, the autumn is the master of gold, and the gold is the killing and the main punishment, so the autumn officials are in charge of the prison. Strictly speaking, Qiuguan refers to the high-ranking officials in charge of punishment. Qiuguan is a more powerful official than the Minister of Punishment.
Jiang Liu Shushuo didn't know about this. Anyway, it's all compliments, and it's no different here in Jiang Liu, she said modestly, "My father said that, just listen to it, how can I have that ability. Who is the official closer to Jiang Jinzong?"
Uncle Qiu shook his head, "I'm ashamed to say that, due to the limited time and energy, the old man is really incapable of doing things, so the investigation will have to trouble the sixth girl. The sixth girl doesn't need to be too anxious, as long as the imperial court can still deliver food for us, The soldiers and civilians in Suzhou will not be in a desperate situation.”
Uncle Qiu said so, but Jiang Liu did not dare to neglect. Because my father opened a warehouse for disaster relief, most of the grain warehouses in Suzhou were already empty. Once the passage for transporting grain and grass was cut off, Suzhou would be in danger.
She wanted to find a way to find out the rations that Jiang Jinzong hid as soon as possible.
(end of this chapter)