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    Neither Xiaohong nor Zhan Wenfeng came over, the two female officials were too conspicuous.

    The person in charge of leading the team to investigate the case was a fifth-rank inspector named Wu Wendu.

    "Where's Xiao Liu?" Wu Wendu asked.

    Wei Gan said: "Haven't come back yet. He sent a letter through the post office, saying that he had gone to Shaanxi, and in Shaanxi, it has been confirmed that there are grain merchants who sell grain illegally. Lintao, Taozhou, Ningxia, Yulin, these four places  The inspection department must conduct investigations. Strictly speaking, the armed police of the inspection department belong to the army, and the procuratorate cannot intervene.

    This matter must be reported to the Ministry of War and the Governor's Mansion.  "

    Having something to do with the military, Wu Wendu suddenly felt dizzy, and said depressedly: "I'll write a letter, don't be afraid. Report to Huang Xiantai first, and Huang Xiantai will contact Nanjing."

    These people are stepping up their investigation in Shanzhou, but Li Dayong, the magistrate of Lingbao County next door, is getting angry at the head of the business department:

    "How many times have I said to stabilize the price of grain, to stabilize the price of grain. The county made a private visit yesterday, and asked in the grain store. His mother's wheat is 25 cents a catty. Although this year's disaster, the grain price increase is understandable, but  Damn it¡¯s just autumn now! At this time, Mai¡¯s family has 25 Wen, and when it¡¯s too late next year, how much will it cost to get into his mother¡¯s?¡±

    Wang Ze, head of the commercial department, said with a bitter face: "The official price has been set, and the maximum price for a catty of wheat is 15 Wen. But this official price can only be guided, not forced."

    The official guide price is really only a guide.

    Directly use administrative power to interfere with the market, if you don't pay attention, you will screw up, and the lightest will cause grain merchants to hoard grain and not sell it.  When Zhao Han rebelled back then, of course he could copy the houses of grain merchants. Now that the new dynasty is established, it is impossible to give local officials the power to search homes at will.

    At least, the county magistrate is not allowed to ransack the house at will, otherwise the government will be easily corrupted, and I don't know how many innocent people have suffered.

    If the price of grain sold by merchants is too high, the county government will impose administrative fines at most, or simply revoke their grain store licenses.

    Li Dayong said: "Contact Datong Bank to transfer a batch of wheat from the Changping warehouse, and let the price of grain in the county be lowered first."

    Wang Ze hesitated to speak, but finally couldn't hold back.  He looked around the house, blinked at Li Dayong, and signaled the magistrate to back away first.

    However, Li Dayong is a rough guy, born as a domestic slave in Anhui.  Although he could read some words, his brain was really not good enough. He was promoted to the county magistrate purely by his qualifications and hard work. He didn't know what kind of trouble Wang Ze had. He even asked, "Is there something wrong with your eyes?"

    Wang Ze almost fell down, so he changed to Nuzui.

    Li Dayong reacted for a long time, and finally he was not stupid enough, and said: "I'll go to the latrine, you wait."

    Wang Ze quickly said: "The lower officials are also anxious."

    The two came to the toilet of the county government office, and after careful inspection, no one was there, so Li Dayong asked, "What exactly do you want to say?"

    Wang Ze said in a low voice: "Master Xian, I'm afraid there is not much food left in Changping's warehouse."

    "How could there be no food in the Changping warehouse?" Li Dayong asked strangely.

    The grain in the Changping warehouse is the land tax handed in by the farmers, and a batch is stored every year for emergency.  If the farmers all pay money, the government will give money to the bank and ask the bank to transfer a batch of grain into the warehouse.

    After the warehouse is full, the old grain will be regularly cleaned up and sold to private grain merchants at a low price, so as to prevent the grain from being stored for too long and becoming moldy and rotten.

    Li Dayong remembers that when he first took office three years ago, the Changping warehouse in Lingbao County was full.

    This is the country under the rule of Zhao Han. The court complained every year that there was no food, but in fact it had been slowed down a long time ago, and the grain reserves in some counties were full.  It's just that these grain reserves do not belong to the central government, but are preserved by the local government itself.

    ?Compared to Daming, when Xinzhi County took office, the county government treasury was so poor that mice would starve to death.  Even if there is a financial balance, when the previous magistrate leaves, he will try his best to evacuate it.  The treasury is the county magistrate's private treasury, which can easily fill his private pockets.

    But now, all the money and grain of the local finance are kept by Datong Bank, and it is easy to be discovered if the county magistrate wants to embezzle it privately.

    Similarly, if Datong Bank was swallowed up privately, the county magistrate would be so eager to kill with a knife.

    At this very moment, Li Dayong wanted to kill someone.

    Wang Ze said: "Three years ago, not long after the county magistrate took office, a businessman from Shaanxi came to buy grain. The price was higher than the market price, and he didn't have to transport it himself. The Shaanxi businessman would be responsible for transporting it away.  The appetite of Shaanxi businessmen was not enough, so they put their ideas on the Changping warehouse. Anyway, it was just embezzlement, and they would make up for it in the next year. But for three years in a row, Shaanxi businessmen came to Lingbao to collect grain at high prices.  Food has never been replenished."

    Li Dayong said doubtfully: "Last year, the county inspected the granary in person, and found nothing wrong."

    Wang Ze said: "The warehouses outside are full

    Wu Wendu originally wanted to investigate secretly for a while, but who knows that such a big commotion has occurred, so he can only investigate it in the open.

    He called the county magistrates and Dianshi of the three counties, mobilized the police force, detained grain merchants and bank officials for severe interrogation.

    Half a month later, the first batch of confessions was placed in front of Xiaohong.

    Wu Wenduhui reported: "Most of the main officials of the Datong Bank in the three counties were involved. But it is hard to be sure, because they did not embezzle grain, but embezzled grain and mortgaged it to grain merchants.  The bank. The two parties have agreed that after the next year¡¯s harvest, the grain merchants will collect grain from the private sector to make up for it, and the bank will return the mortgaged money. Is this embezzlement of public grain? Is it favoritism? Or is it corruption?¡±

    Xiaohong sneered: "The grain in the Changping warehouse can only be kept by the bank's grain station. It needs the official document stamped by the county magistrate to have the right to retrieve it. Even if you are dealing with the old grain in Changping warehouse, you also know that the county seals it. Who cares?"  Charged with moving the Changping warehouse, none of the principal culprits can keep their heads!"

    Wu Wendu added: "Even those grain merchants are not sure where the grain was finally sold. They all said that merchants came from Huayin County, Shaanxi Province, and bought the grain at a high price. The rest are all guesses.  It was sold to Xihai, some said that the grain was sold to Hetao, and some said that the grain was sold to Hami."

    Xiaohong said: "No matter where it is sold, let's go to Huayin County first, and arrest the grain merchants there for trial!

    As for the inspection department on the Shaanxi border, they will handle it themselves when they wait for the Ministry of War and the Governor's Mansion to come. We all need to cooperate with the Procuratorate.  "

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