Water Margin Survival

What is the most important thing to conquer a capital?

Yes, that's right!Just to check the warehouse and see how much can be gained from this campaign. .Especially for Liang Shanbo, who is in financial crisis, whether the immediate seizure is rich or not is related to the development speed of the cottage in the following period.

"Is this all the silver in the treasury of the Daming Mansion?" Seeing the details in the treasury, Wang Lun was very disappointed.Traveling to this era for nearly two years, at least I have seen some things in the world, but the gold, silver and copper coins in the dignified mansion, the Yanjing City of the Song Dynasty, are not much more than those in the heyday of my own cottage treasury, it is really strange Strange.

Seeing that Wang Lun was rather disappointed, Xu Guanzhong turned around and asked someone to bring Wang Wancang up. This man is the prefect of the Daming Mansion. Even though he is a greedy villain, he is the official of the family and knows some inside information. It is just right to ask him about the affairs of the city. .

The trembling Wang Zhifu was brought up by two strong personal guards. When he saw Xu Guanzhong, he quickly knelt down and said, "Xu Zhuangshi, I know I'm wrong, I know I'm wrong! You shouldn't have framed Dr. Ma!" , It’s just that there are old and young in the lower officials, if the lower officials die, this family will be ruined, I beg for mercy!”

"You also know this truth? You killed Dr. Ma alone, but not his family!?" Xu Guanzhong ignored the ugly magistrate in front of him, and said: "This is the leader of my cottage, he has something to ask you!"

Seeing this, Wang Wancang paid homage to Wang Lun: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, it seems that you were born as a scholar, and your lower officials are also those who have studied hard for more than ten years. We... We are born from the same root, why are we so anxious to fight each other?" ah!"

Wang Lunjian said that he almost spit out a mouthful of old blood, and said, "Xiaosheng dare not climb up to your magistrate! Come on, don't talk nonsense, let me ask you, how much treasury money does this Daming Mansion treasury have?"

Wang Wancang saw how he dared to be negligent, and he wanted to say everything he knew in his heart, so that the person in front of him would look at him, and hurriedly said: "For the past six months, the wine tax is 11, 110 cash, and the commercial tax is 540. One hundred and eight pennies and 23 papers, and Duyi Liubaidao cashed in more than 7000 pennies, without any movement!"

"A dignified famous mansion, the treasury only has so much money!? Less than 38 guan? Where did the other income go?" Wang Lun remembered that Cai Jing's salt and tea law reforms made a yearly profit of tens of millions of guan. The money is collected from all over the country, and there is no bank account to remit directly at this time, so it has to go through the state and go to the government?

"Your Majesty's visit this time is not coincidental... Not long after the year, the left-behind Xianggong took the initiative to donate a sum of about 400 million yuan in finance and taxes to Beijing in order to relieve the worries of the officials, so the inventory is empty at this time!" Wang Taishou wiped his head. I was in a cold sweat and didn't dare to hide it at all.

Xu Guanzhong saw that this person remembered the wine tax and commercial tax very clearly, and they were all accurate to the last fraction. He thought to himself that this person must have lost his heart, but his head was not broken, so he immediately asked: "Send them all to the capital as an offering." What do you spend for the officials to enjoy themselves? What kind of money is this 400 million?"

"The big head is the balance of the treasury over the years, and the small head is half a year's income from salt, tea and other miscellaneous taxes!" Wang Taishou replied cautiously.

Wang Lun saw that he was deep in thought, but at this moment Xu Guanzhong asked: "My Daming Mansion is no better than other state capitals. As usual, a considerable proportion of taxes is withheld for emergencies. How could Liang Zhongshu dare to send such a large amount of property to the government?" Did you go to Tokyo?

"Who said it wasn't! The official persuaded the stay-at-home minister at that time. My famous mansion is an important town in Hebei, Yanjing in the Great Song Dynasty. If there is a war with the Liao Kingdom, money and food will be allocated from my mansion. Besides, there are dense rivers in my territory. Every year Dredging the river and strengthening the embankment will cost money. If you don’t leave some treasury money, there will be big troubles at the critical moment, but where will he listen? Because he is the boss of the lower official, and he is also a transshipment envoy on the East Hebei Road , This is a matter within his authority, and it is useless for the lower officials to say it!" Wang Taishou said bitterly.After talking about it, I only heard him mutter again:

"This money is all used by the officials to build gardens. They are all upright accounts. In the future, there will be people from the Ministry of Households and the Sansi Yamen to check. Who dares to chase after the officials? Besides, he has never been corrupt in this place." A penny, who is afraid to check? Besides, Mrs. Cai is in power, and it is impossible for someone to be full and ask for trouble!"

Xu Guanzhong heard the words and cursed: "Using the state's taxes to curry favor with the officials, but to find a way for himself. Liang Shijie, an official, has done a good job! I'm afraid that in the eyes of the officials, such a person is a national cadre." stop!"

Wang Taishou was speechless, and peeped at the scholar who was dressed in white but had never spoken a word. After looking at him for a long time, he felt that although this person was young, he was a bit of a man, and there was no joy or anger on his face. He lowered his head and thought for a while, then he took the initiative to say: "My lords, although my Daming Mansion doesn't have much money, but the people are wealthy. Lu Junyi, the richest man in our city, has millions of dollars..."

"Fart! Lu Junyi is an acquaintance in my cottage, you dare to break my loyalty and instigate me to rob him!?" Jiao Ting said angrily, "Brother, kill this guy, why do you keep him?"

"Don't say that I came to Liangshan this time because of Mr. Lu. Even if I don't know him, I can't steal people's property for no reason. You just think that my brother is the same kind of person as you and other moths?" Xu Guanzhong glanced at Wang Taishou, He is a member of the government, and seeing that the prefect is only talking about gossip and taking detours, his heart is like a bright mirror.

Wang Taishou slapped the horse's hooves with flattery, his heart was full of remorse, and when he was panicked, he suddenly heard Xu Guanzhong say again: "You are not honest when you are about to die! I only ask you. Famous ones, even the Khitan people call my Daming Mansion the 'Silk and Silk State', but you don't mention the raw silk and satin in the treasury, but you lead me to rob the people, what are you doing?"

Wang Taishou fell to his knees on the ground with a "thud dong", and begged, "I'm a fool, I'm a fool, I think the king only wants money, so I'm wrong!"

Wang Lun watched Wang Zhifu's forgetful performance, suddenly smiled, and said to Wang Zhifu: "Although we are rough people in the mountains, we don't just accept money! This famous mansion is my Song Yanjing after all, since we are here, we can't do it in vain. Come here, you have to bring something back as a souvenir, the military adviser said, right!"

Xu Guanzhong chuckled, seeing that it was getting late, and he didn't want to mess around with this fellow, he said, "How much do you know about the two horse prisons in my Daming Mansion, the granary in the city, the Jiazhan warehouse, and the tax warehouse?"

Hearing this, Wang Wancang fell limp to the ground, thinking that these people would break the city and they would retreat in a short time, but the other party had already figured out the bottom line, it seems that they will not give up until they achieve their goals, no matter what they say or not right now, The other party will take it by himself, at most it is a matter of time. After thinking about this point, Wang Wancang made a decision in an instant. He gritted his teeth and said:

"What Xu Zhuangshi said is wrong. In fact, there are not only two horse prisons in my Daming Mansion, but three, but the third one is in Mingzhou. There are first and second prisons in Mulongfang of my Daming Mansion. First prison There are [-] to [-] horses in the house, [-] to [-] horses in the second prison, and about [-] horses in the Mingzhou Guangping Horse Prison... There are nearly [-] official horses in the [-]th Square Horse Prison in Song Dynasty. , My Daming Mansion occupies more than [-]%..."

Wang Lun took a deep breath, and not counting the Mingzhou Horse Supervisor, the number of grazing horses in the Guangda Mingfu area was around [-] horses. Of course, all the horses grazing in this Daming Mansion may not be able to be used as war horses, but even if [-]% of the number is taken, there are about [-] horses, not to mention that there is a Mingzhou horse supervisor beckoning to him.

"Go on!" Wang Lun calmed down his excited mood, and gave Wang Wancang, who was very cooperative, an encouraging smile.

"The warehouses such as the Jiazhan warehouse and the granary are all in the city, respectively..." Since Wang Zhifu revealed the truth, he no longer concealed it, but at this time Xu Guanzhong waved his hand and said: "I know all these locations, you just pick me up Tell me if you know! Are there any guards on duty in each of the horse prisons?"

"No...no, it's just some side soldiers doing miscellaneous work there, adding up to less than a thousand people! It's just the situation in Mingzhou, I can't remember clearly!" Wang Wancang wiped the cold sweat from his brow, saw Xu Guanzhong nodded slightly, Then I heard him continue: "The Jiazhan depot of this government is responsible for the supply of the entire Hebei Road Imperial Army. At this time, there are about [-] sets of armor in reserve, and countless weapons, bows and crossbows..."

"What kind of armor are the [-] sets, how many bows and arrows, and how many god-arm bows? Are there any large-scale crossbows for defending the city?" Wang Lun asked for details.

"This... Xiaguan really can't remember clearly, Xiaguan... Xiaguan... is really insensitive to these things..." Wang Wancang said blushingly.

"That's all! Keep talking as far as you know!" This Wang Wancang talked about money, food and taxes in a clear and accurate way, but when he mentioned armaments, he became a little dumb. It seems that this guy might have won the Song Dynasty. The common fault of civil servants is that they look down on the military.Wang Lun didn't force him at this time, and when the time comes, he will find out the clues.

Wang Wancang bowed his hands to Wang Lungong, and then said: "The warehouse where the silk is stored is Liang Shijie's forbidden property. Not to mention other officials, even the lower officials can't intervene, and they dare not intervene. Only Liang Zhongshu knows the things here. It’s because the lower officials don’t know the details! When the kings go to check it in person at dawn, they will know!”

Seeing that the leaders in front of him were all nodding their heads without speaking, Wang Wancang swallowed his saliva and continued, "In addition, I remember that the granary was repaired by Xining ten years ago, and it was built on a scale of 450 million shi according to the decree. At that time, Tanzhou was also selected as an important grain storage town in Hebei together with our Daming Mansion, but it was 100 million shi less than our Daming Mansion, only 350 million shi. It’s just that the granary has not been full for more than 30 years. Now there should be less than 300 million stones!"

"300 million shi!? When Liang Zhongshu came to my Daming Mansion as an official, I just won the martial arts examination that year, but I know a little about this grain storage. At that time, it was still at the level of 380 million shi, isn't it!" I saw Xu Guanzhong attacking the case.This person picks up a lot of irrelevant past events, and when it comes to important things, he wants to muddle through them, how can he not be angry.

Wang Wancang was overwhelmed by Xu Guanzhong's words, he was dripping with cold sweat for a while, unable to speak.

"How many shi are less than 300 million shi? Where did the rest of the grain go?" Wang Lun thought in his heart that when these officials were slurred, they might have skipped the hundreds of thousands of shi of grain. Liang Zhongshu went to the Daming Mansion as an official In just a few years at most, nearly a million stones of stored grain have been lost. It is estimated that this person in front of him is also involved. It seems that Wang Zhifu and Liang Zhongshu are really not ordinary silverfish.

"It looks like more than 270 million less than [-]. It's probably distributed during the disaster relief..." Wang Wancang said at the end, his voice became softer and weaker. He knew that Xu Guanzhong was a local, and he must hide it under the guise of disaster relief. I can't go there, but I can't do it without an explanation. I can't say that I and Liang Zhongshu teamed up to steal and sell greedy ink?Even though his face has been specially forged, he still can't help but blush when talking about such dirty things. (To be continued.)