Empire

There was a loud shouting and clamoring from a house not far from the gate of the granary in the west of the city.

Chen Ziang and Shen Xiuxiu looked at each other, then walked towards the house with dark faces.

Li Changqing, the general of the hundred personal soldiers, put his hand on the handle of his knife and led a team of personal guards to follow closely.

In the dim house, there was a sour smell mixed with sweat. More than a dozen shirtless men were surrounding an eight-person table.

"big! big!"

"Small! Small!"......

In a large bowl on the Eight Immortals Table, a dice was spinning rapidly. Everyone stared at the spinning dice with tense faces, looking very nervous.

""Crash!"

But before the dice stopped rolling, the Eight Immortals Table was kicked over by Chen Ziang who stepped into the room, and the copper coins on the table scattered all over the floor.

"Who the hell is so brave?......"

A shirtless man saw the Eight Immortals Table being kicked over suddenly, and he cursed loudly in anger.

But when he looked up and saw Chen Ziang standing at the door, surrounded by a group of cold-faced soldiers, the man swallowed the second half of the curse back into his stomach.

Chen Ziang was wearing a new black military uniform and a black battle robe with two purple stripes embroidered on the sleeves.

The man also knew the level of the Qinghe Army. Those who could have purple stripes embroidered on their sleeves were at least senior generals at the level of deputy generals, and he was just a low-level general of ten men, so he naturally did not dare to offend them.

""Zhang Huaiyuan, the general of the 17th Battalion of the Qinghe Army, greets the general!"

The shirtless man hurriedly stood at attention, clenched his right fist across his chest, and saluted Chen Ziang.

The rest of the shirtless soldiers also stood up and saluted like a cat seeing a mouse.

Chen Ziang had a dark face and glanced at them coldly. The cold eyes immediately made Zhang Huaiyuan and the others feel as if they had fallen into an ice cave, and a chill ran down their backs.

"Put on your clothes and line up outside."

After Chen Ziang finished speaking, he turned and walked out of the house filled with turbid air. When the ten generals Zhang Huaiyuan and others saw Chen Ziang turn around and leave the house, they all hurriedly looked for clothes.

In just a moment, Zhang Huaiyuan and others ran out of the house and lined up in the open space according to Chen Ziang's instructions.

"Who is the garrison commander here?" Chen Ziang asked Zhang Huaiyuan who was standing there anxiously.

Zhang Huaiyuan hurriedly replied:"Reporting to the general, it is General Wang Qian."

"Where are the people?"

"should...It should be in the backyard."

Zhang Huaiyuan pointed to a row of houses behind the granary.

"Li Changqing, go and call General Wang Qian over to me."

""Yes!"

Li Changqing quickly led several guards to the backyard.

At this moment, in a room in the backyard, Wang Qianjiang, who was in charge of the place, was sleeping soundly with a woman in his arms, and he hadn't gotten up yet.

When Li Changqing and his men broke open the door and walked in, Wang Qianjiang was also awakened. The woman in his arms screamed, and hurriedly wrapped herself with a sheet and hid behind Wang Qianjiang.

"Who are you? Who let you in?!"

Seeing Li Changqing and others break into his room without permission, Wang Qianjiang was also full of anger and shouted loudly.

"General Wang Qian, I'll give you a cup of tea to get dressed, our general is waiting outside."

Li Changqing glanced at the panicked woman, left a word, and led his men out of the room.

General Wang Qian was stunned for a moment, then remembered that the new deputy general manager Chen Ziang seemed to be coming over today. Thinking of this, he cursed his bad memory, and ignored the woman, and immediately got out of bed in a hurry, grabbing his clothes.

"Deputy General Manager Chen, I am sorry for not welcoming you from afar. I am sorry for not welcoming you from afar. Please forgive me."

Soon, Wang Qian, who was dressed neatly, hurried to Chen Ziang.

"General Wang Qian's life is really comfortable, huh?"

Chen Ziang looked at General Wang Qian with a smile on his face and couldn't help but sneered

"I'm sorry to have made Deputy Manager Chen laugh. I'm sorry to have made you laugh."

"As the garrison commander of the city's west granary, do you know the importance of this place?!"

Seeing General Wang Qian smiling apologetically, Chen Ziang suddenly raised his voice and asked loudly

"I know. I know......."

Facing Chen Ziang's cold questioning, Wang Qianjiang nodded and bowed, with beads of sweat oozing from his forehead.

"Since you know the importance of this place, you still dare to indulge the soldiers to gamble and have fun, while you sleep with the woman in your arms! Do you know your crime?"

"Deputy Chief Manager Chen, there are no enemies here, so I was a little lax......."Wang Qianjiang tried to defend himself

"Tie him up for me!"

Chen Ziang didn't bother to listen to his explanation and directly ordered Li Changqing to tie him up.

Li Changqing waved his hand, and several fierce guards stepped out of the crowd, took away Wang Qianjiang's sword, and detained him.

"Deputy Chief Chen, I am Deputy Commander Xu's man. If you dare to touch me, Deputy Commander Xu will not forgive you!"

Seeing Chen Ziang kidnapping people without saying anything, Wang Qianjiang, who had been bowing his head, suddenly became tough and used his backstage to

"Let alone Deputy Commander Xu, even if the king of heaven came, I would still deal with you."

"Take him away and put him under guard first, I will deal with him later."

Chen Ziang sneered, waved his hand, and ordered his men to take the loudly shouting Wang Qianjiang away and put him under guard.

The entire western granary was originally guarded by a thousand-man team, but Chen Ziang sent someone to gather them.

Only to find that there were only less than two hundred of the more than a thousand soldiers left here, and the rest were nowhere to be found. How could Chen Ziang not be angry if the guards were so lax?

"Who is the warehouse manager?"

After Chen Ziang ordered the arrest of Wang Qianjiang, who was derelict in his duty, he once again turned his attention to the officials who had gathered at the city west granary.

""I am your humble servant."

Three officials in long robes stood up and respectfully showed their respect, not daring to be negligent in the slightest.

"How much grain is stored in the granary?" Chen Ziang asked.

A warehouse manager replied:"Reporting to the deputy general manager, there are 26 large granaries in the west of the city, with a total grain storage of 500,000 dan."

""Miss Shen, please take someone to check the inventory."

After hearing what the warehouse manager said, Chen Ziang immediately spoke to Shen Xiuxiu who was standing beside him.

Shen Xiuxiu nodded, and immediately took a few accountants to ask for the accounts here, ready to check the inventory.

When the warehouse managers saw that Chen Ziang was actually going to send someone to check the inventory, they looked at each other, and a trace of panic flashed in their eyes.

""Mr. Deputy General Manager, all the accounts are clear, so there is no need to count them. It will take a lot of time to count all the hundreds of thousands of dan of grain." A warehouse manager couldn't help but speak up.

"Why are you panicking? I have plenty of time. Just wait."

Since Chen Ziang was in charge of taking over the granary in the west of the city, he naturally had to make sure that all the accounts and grains matched up. Otherwise, if there was a deficit in the future, who would he go to for justice?

Faced with the good intentions of the warehouse manager, Chen Ziang ignored them at all. He brought Shen Xiuxiu and others here just to make the handover clear and explicit.