Two lakes, Xiangzhou.

If in the "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" series, Xiangzhou is the place where Guo Daxia and Qiao Huang Rong die for their country, and it is also where they resisted the Mongolian cavalry for more than ten years in one go.

Thanks to them, the Southern Song Dynasty lasted for more than ten years of national destiny.

In history, Xiangzhou is really so important.

Relying on the two major barriers of Xianshan and Han River, it has become the central city of the Han River Basin and has been an important town for the two lakes since ancient times.

The prince led the Eastern Palace ministers and the first stop for their group to supervise disaster relief was Xiangyang.

The prince has always been known for his simplicity and respect. Although his abilities may not be outstanding, these two advantages are highly valued by all ministers in the court.

Even though he came outside the Jingji area, it was the first time he went out of Beijing as the prince to supervise disaster relief. The prince did not move into the wealthy business mansion prepared for him by the prefect of Xiangyang, but instead stationed at a small inn outside the city.

Of course, the five thousand soldiers and two thousand Yulin Guards who accompanied the cavalry guards were also stationed around.

Zhang Tie, the general of the Cavalry Guard, has always been known for being as stable as Mount Tai. Before the five thousand soldiers set up camp, they had already begun the first step of digging trenches and other defense measures. By the time they were completely settled, the station had basically become a heavily guarded military camp.

With the last painful lesson, General Cheng Jiashan of the Yulin Guard asked the two thousand Yulin Guards to leave only one thousand people to guard the prince in the center of the post station. The remaining one thousand people were all in groups of ten, scattered densely across twenty miles away. Once there was any accident, they would send a signal as soon as possible.

Such caution made Zhang Tie unable to help but smile bitterly.

With so many soldiers accompanying you, the disaster relief and grain transport convoy can reduce most of the escorts and save resources as much as possible.

The prince has been in Xiangyang for three days with the disaster relief grain truck convoy.

During these three days, the prince rushed to the government office every day to provide relief to the disaster relief porridge and the victims, almost from morning to night.

Although there were many guards around him, this could not stop the prince from contacting the people on the front line, giving them comfort, and giving them some necessities for daily life.

In addition to making porridge in the disaster relief porridge shed for the people, all the daily necessities distributed by the prince were purchased in the Gyeonggi area before he came.

The cloth bag usually contains a bag of five kilograms of rice or flour, a small bag of salt, a hundred copper coins and a pair of cloth shoes.

In the past three days, he has distributed at least more than 3,000 gifts of condolences to the poorest and most difficult families.

The prince's health is not bad, but he is so tired that he is almost paralyzed after working hard every day.

Not only does my feet have blisters every day, but I also don’t even want to eat rice.

The same is true today. He almost fell asleep while sitting in the room soaking his feet, but the pain of the maid carrying water to wake him up.

He suddenly spasmed, and the maid was so scared that she quickly leaned over and knelt down: "Your Highness, did I hurt you?"

"Oh, no, no." The prince rubbed his head and smiled, "I have to thank you for letting me wake up, otherwise it would delay the trouble...you keep going, don't worry!"

As he said that, he shouted to the outside world: "Who is outside?"

"Your Highness, I am here." The voice of Prince Xima Shen Mingqin came over.

"Ah, Yunzhi, you are back, come in!" the prince said happily.

The door opened, Shen Mingqin, who was in his forties and looked ordinary, walked in.

"Yun Zhi, what kind of information has been found in the past two days?" the prince asked casually.

"In fact, there is a very important thing that needs to be reported to you..." Shen Mingqin stopped talking.

The prince smiled slightly and said to the maid who was squatting and picking her feet for her, "You go out first, come in later."

"yes!"

The maid understood that they were going to talk about things, packed up the prince's feet with a towel, and closed the door and went out.

As soon as she left, Shen Mingqin's face became gloomy: "Your Highness, we have discovered a huge fact of greed and ink stealing the sky and changing the sun!"

"Hmm?" The prince was suddenly shocked, "What's wrong?"

"So far, more than 200 places where porridge is given inside and outside Xiangyang City are basically mixed with a lot of bran and given to the people as pure rice porridge!"

"Bran? What?"

"Bran bran is wheat bran and rice bran, that is, the layer of skin that is made when harvesting wheat and rice is rough and difficult to swallow. The price is very cheap. It is usually used for breeding poultry such as chickens, ducks, geese, horses, donkeys, and mules." Shen Mingqin explained.

The prince was suddenly shocked, "That means... they exchanged the bran used for feeding animals for food to give them to the people?"

"Yes." Shen Mingqin said, "We secretly sent someone to thirty porridge to get rice porridge, and clearly discovered this fact."

"Impossible, impossible!" the prince shook his head, "The grain was distributed directly from the warehouse in Beijing. We followed us all the way. It was impossible for anyone to transfer the package. In addition, the people have never said it!"

"It's enough for them to have a bite. Even if they find out, what dare they say? Don't you eat it?" Shen Mingqin said, "Besides, it's not all bran. There is still some rice in it. After cooking for a long time, it won't feel difficult to swallow."

Shen Mingqin did not rashly talk about the issue of food transportation. This matter was too important and sensitive, and it was not something he could get involved in.

The prince's face also darkened.

He believed that Shen Mingqin would not come specifically to deceive himself.

Then the problem must be the food itself.

The grain allocated by the Imperial Palace was given from the Qiu County warehouse.

Qiuxian warehouse is a place where rice is stored every year. It is one of the two most important warehouses in Jingguo. There are spot checks every month. It is impossible for them to use bran as an impersonator, otherwise the Ministry of Revenue will be dismissed and even executed in the autumn.

It is completely impossible to deceive the Imperial Guards led by Yu Linwei and Zhang Tie on the way, and it is completely impossible to get so much food out of it.

If others have such ability, it would be easy for Da Kang Chao to lose his second prince.

Therefore, there was only one place to make such a sensational transfer plan.

It’s in this Xiangyang City!

It's in the granary in Xiangyang City!

Only when entering Xiangyang City can the prince and others not get in touch with food directly, and can give those dirty guys the opportunity to steal the blame, exchange the food sent by the court with hard work for bran for animals, and then give it to the common people.

The exchanged food was taken elsewhere by them and sold to the rich people at a high price!

Unforgivable!

Unforgivable!!

The prince's face was swollen and red.

The first time he was responsible for disaster relief, he was actually treated with such a large transfer plan, and at least hundreds of thousands of stones of grain was exchanged. What a shame?

Thinking of this, he said in a deep voice: "Yun Zhi, invite General Zhang and General Cheng to me."

"yes!"

Shen Mingqin was expecting something big to happen, and his voice was trembling.

...

Late at night, without notifying anyone, thousands of soldiers of the Yulin Guard and the Knight Guard who had already gathered together knocked on the gate of Xiangyang City with the prince's seal of defense, and then rushed straight to the largest granary in the city.

The guards of the granary were panicked, but they were all controlled by the imperial guards at the first time and could not move at all.

General Cheng Jiashan of the Yulin Guard ordered all the Yulin Guard soldiers to tell all the warehouse guards that if they dare to move around and dare to have evidence of destruction, they would be killed without mercy.

The group of warehouse guards were so scared that they were trembling all over, and they wanted to just faint.

"You, what do you want to do?" The warehouse manager Ge Chi was trapped with both hands, but he still shouted: "This is the main warehouse of the Ministry of Revenue, which is related to the life and death of millions of people in Xiangyang. How dare you be arrogant?"

"Shut up!"

Cheng Jiashan snorted coldly, and pointed his shoulders in his hand, "I think you are the one who is presumptuous? Wait, Your Highness the Crown Prince will come soon. Are you innocent? You will know later."

Ge Chi was stunned for a moment, "Your Highness the Crown Prince is coming? What's going on? Do you know about the prefect Zhu?"

Cheng Jiashan smiled and said, "The prince should do his job and wish the prefect know?"

While the two were talking, a group of guards from the East Palace rushed in, and then Ge Chi saw the prince walking in surrounded by a group of people.

Really the prince?

Ge Chi hurriedly knelt down and saluted, "Ge Chi, the director of Xiangyang Prefecture, the Granary Store of the Ministry of Revenue, has seen His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!"

The prince glanced at him and said in a low voice: "Come on, bring me a hundred bags of food."

The soldiers of the Yulin Guard opened the doors of more than a dozen warehouses side by side and moved out a hundred bags of food from it.

"Now open them and let me see what it is inside!" the prince continued to order.

"yes!"

The next moment, all the food in the bag was dumped out.

The prince walked up to check in person and found that there was snow-white rice inside, but more of them were black and yellow powder like wheat flour.

The prince was so angry that his whole body shivered, and pointed at him, "Ge Chi, explain to me, what is this!"

When Ge Chi saw it, he immediately replied: "Go back to Your Highness, this is bran."

"Bran bran?Bran bran?...hahaha..."

The prince raised his head and laughed. When the laughter stopped, his face was full of murderous aura, "Ge Chi! The court has given you the important task of guarding food, but you openly reselled food and used bran feeding animals to feed the common people! Where is your conscience? Ah?!"

Ge Chi said inexplicably, puzzledly: "Your Highness, wasn't this bran sent by the imperial court? How did it become a humble official reselling food? I have never done it!"

"The court gave up bran?" The prince's voice became colder and colder: "You are being arrogant! Are you insulting the imperial court and the emperor?"

"It was really sent by the court. I have a receipt here, so I can't be wrong!" Ge Chi shouted loudly, "Your Highness, you can't slander good people!"
To be continued...