It was night!
Jia Xu returned to the old treasury.
The Embroidered Uniform Guards took over the Wei family's evidence and immediately cleaned it up.
A large number of merchants from the Central Plains were involved in this. If it was light, they would go bankrupt, and if it was serious, they would lose their families.
The disaster relief in Liangzhou officially began.
With the support of countless grains and the supervision of Cao Cao, the porridge in the bowls of the victims was so thick that chopsticks could stand up.
For a moment.
The people of Liangzhou were grateful and worshipped him like a god. The prestige of the Provincial Governor's Office resounded throughout the northwest.
……
Early morning.
At the Provincial Governor's Office.
Jia Xu sent the letter of worship.
"Lord Commander!"
Cao Cao did not bother to put on his shoes and socks and hurriedly went out to welcome him."How has Your Majesty been recently?"
"Greetings, Saint!"
Commander Jia cupped his hands in the direction of the capital in response. His tone was neither close nor distant, but there was a faint smile on his face.
"Serve the tea!"
Cao Cao's heart skipped a beat, but his expression did not change. He asked his subordinate to serve tea and probed,"May I ask what the commander wants to teach me?”
"I wouldn't dare!"
Jia Xu blew on the hot tea. After it cooled down a little, he took a sip and nodded."Adding milk to the tea, the taste is not bad. This skill must have been passed down from the frontier, right?”
"Probably so. If the commander drinks it well, you can take some with you when you leave.”
"Forget it, I can't taste much when I drink tea. It's enough to taste the magic!”
Commander Jia closed the teacup and chuckled.""This commander has come this time to understand something.
He also hoped that Provincial Governor Cao would answer truthfully. Otherwise, he would have to ask Provincial Governor Cao to change a place to drink tea!”
"Commander, please speak."
"His Majesty once bestowed the Son of Heaven Sword to Provincial Governor Cao. May I ask how Provincial Governor Cao used it?”
"Transfer the troops."
"Other than that?"
"The Emperor's Sword never left my sight.”
Cao Cao pointed at the sword boy outside the door. That sword was the Emperor's Sword.
"Very good!"
Commander Jia nodded and stopped smiling. He said coldly,"Provincial Governor Cao, please answer the meaning of the Son of Heaven's Sword!”
"If Your Majesty comes personally."
"So, you mobilized the armies of Liangzhou and Youzhou in the name of His Majesty with the Emperor's Sword to solve your own predicament?”
Commander Jia's gaze was like lightning as he interrogated,""All the grain merchants in the Central Plains have grain stored in the Wei family's granary. You used His Majesty's name and the country's laws to kill the Wei family and plunder all their grain.
While saving the Liangzhou people, you offended the grain merchants of the entire Central Plains, put His Majesty in an unjust position, and framed the officials. However, you, Provincial Governor Cao, used food to win the hearts of the people of Liangzhou!
What a good method!"
The Son of Heaven Sword.
The armies of the Liang and You Prefectures.
The former represented the Emperor, while the latter represented the Imperial Court.
Adding the two together, it was as if Cao Cao had been instructed by the Emperor and the Imperial Court to plunder the Wei family's granary without spending a penny and obtain the food to feed the millions of people in Liangzhou.
Once such news spread, it would be a huge blow to the Emperor and the Imperial Court's reputation.
In reality, all of this was Cao Cao's idea. The Emperor and the imperial court had become scapegoats.
"Why don't I understand what the commander is saying?”
Cao Cao pretended to be confused and asked in surprise,""The Provincial Governor's Office received news that the Wei Clan was colluding with the barbarians and secretly selling forbidden items.
I'm the governor of Liangzhou, in charge of military and political power. Is there a problem with mobilizing the Liangzhou army?
The reason why I mobilized the Youzhou Army was because I heard that the Wei Clan was hiding prohibited weapons. In order to ensure that nothing goes wrong, I invited General Gongsun.
There are files on all of these. If the Commander or the Embroidered Uniform Guards want to check them, I can get them.
Why did the Commander say that about " trapping His Majesty in injustice and trapping all officials in inhumanity "?”
"There's no need for the dossier. I want to ask, where did the Wei family's news come from?”
"A spy has reported."
"Where is the informant?"
"Regrettably, that night, the granary was in chaos. The informant fled in a hurry and was hacked to death by a flurry of knives.”
Cao Cao squeezed out a tear, as if he was crying for his dead "informant".
The corners of Commander Jia's mouth twitched. Cao Mengde was simply inhumane. He had created an unwarranted informant and even arranged for this informant's ending to be so miserable.
"Commander, if you want to see the informant's body, I can bring you there.”
"No need!"
Commander Jia felt a chill down his spine. He had just said that he had been hacked into a bloody mess. Was he going to look at a pile of rotten meat?
"It seems that this Commander and the Brocade Guard don't need to investigate General Ma Teng of the Liangzhou Army and General Gongsun of the Youzhou Army anymore. His Majesty and the officials will definitely take the blame for this!”
"Lord Commander, the grain merchants of the Central Plains will only hate me, hate me for being cruel and heartless. They will hate His Majesty and the officials, but they won't dare to.”
Cao Cao raised his head and smiled." Besides, the person behind this farce will not bring the flames of war onto Your Majesty. That would be courting death."”
"What do you mean, Provincial Governor Cao?"
"Yuan Shu, after the incident at the Wei family's granary that night, Yuan Biejia hurried back to Luoyang. Calculating the time, he should have arrived. Commander, can you guess who he is looking for?”
"Situ Yuankui!"
……
Luoyang.
Situ Manor.
Early in the morning, the door was knocked loudly.
"Who is it?"
The gatekeeper rubbed his sleepy eyes and opened the door in an unfriendly tone. Without saying a word, he scolded,"Why are you knocking so urgently?”
"Bastard!"
The horsewhip hit the gatekeeper's face, and a bloody scar ran from his forehead to his chin. Fresh blood gathered into drops and rolled down.
"Second…Second Young Master!"
"Get lost!"
Yuan Shu glanced at him in disgust, then rode his horse into the mansion and looked for his uncle's study.
Sure enough, at this time, his uncle used the morning meal to write and draw in the study to cultivate his character.
"Uncle!"
"It's the highway, why are you back?”
Situ Yuankui saw his reckless nephew return and subconsciously frowned. A bad feeling rose in his heart and he asked.
"The Wei family is finished!"
Yuan Shu sighed helplessly." Cao Mengde, that black bastard. Seeing that he couldn't buy any food, he dared to defy the world. He used the Emperor's Sword to mobilize Ma Teng and Gongsun Zan. He surrounded the Wei family's granary with 50,000 troops!
What's worse is that the Wei Clan has hidden a large number of crossbows, and the letters they sent to the grassland tribes have also been found. Our plan has been ruined!”
"Then, why did you come back?"
"I came back to find you, uncle, to ask if there's any other way for me to sit on the position of Liangzhou Provincial Governor.”
"Cao Cao plundered the granary of the Wei Family, and the food inside is enough for the people of Liangzhou to eat for three years. If you don't come back and compete with Cao Mengde in disaster relief, I can use some tricks to make you surpass him!”
"Then should I go back to Liangzhou now?"
"What for? The stomachs of the Liangzhou disaster victims were about to burst. It was already too late. Just stay in Luoyang obediently!”
Yuan Kui looked at his nephew in disappointment. If this wasn't the son of the Yuan family, such a descendant should be thrown into a clan property to wait for death.
"Uncle, I don't think it's too late. The grain merchants have suffered a lot of losses and will definitely be unwilling. What if we bewitch them a little and make them rebel?”
[PS: I'm still short of 400 flowers to add more. Dear readers, please work harder. The author is so excited. Let's go ~]
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