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Lu Zihong glanced at Chen Xin and said, "Get up."

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

Chen Xin led the Yungang City officials to stand up, all of them lowered their heads, not daring to look up at Lu Zihong.

Lu Zihong glanced at them and said, "Take me to the granary."

Chen Xin and other officials trembled when they heard the words, and hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, after the granary was burned down, there is filth everywhere. I am afraid that your Majesty's eyes will be dirty, so I still..."

"Zheng!"

Before he could finish speaking, Lu Zihong drew Longyuan sword out of its sheath, put it directly on his neck, and said coldly: "Either lead me the way, or I will kill you right now!"

"Gollum!"

Chen Xin swallowed, not daring to say any more, and hurriedly led the way.

Soon, Lu Zihong, Yang Zaixing and Jia Xu followed Chen Xin and other Yungang City officials to the gate of the burnt granary.

The cast iron gate became pitch black, and there were even traces of melting in many places.

Lu Zihong frowned slightly. How could an ordinary fire cause the iron gate to melt?

"Your Majesty, something is wrong."

Yang Zaixing's complexion changed slightly, and he said, "The air here seems to smell of burning sea oil."

Lu Zihong's eyes suddenly changed when he heard this.

Burning sea oil is a very special kind of oil unique to the Northern Qin Kingdom, because it burns extremely fast, and after the flame rises, it must burn the burning material before it goes out, and it cannot be extinguished even with water during the period !

That's why it got the name of burning sea oil, which means that as long as there is enough fuel, even the sea can burn up.

The production process of this kind of oil is complicated, so it is very rare and precious, and it has been used by successive emperors of the Northern Qin Kingdom as a weapon for defending the city.

However, because it is too precious and rare, except for a few important cities on the border and Beiqin City, the capital of the king, other places are not allowed to own it at all.

Once possessed, it is a felony of decapitation!

How dare this Yungang City exist?

Lu Zihong turned to look at Chen Xin.

"thump!"

Before Lu Zihong could ask, Chen Xin knelt down on the ground and said anxiously, "Your Majesty, we didn't get the fuel sea oil, but the grain officer who was in charge of looking after the army's granary. He used this fuel sea oil." The oil burns the granary, so whatever we do to fight the fire is useless."

"Yes, Your Majesty, we brought people here as soon as we got the news that the granary was on fire, but the burning of sea oil was too fierce, and we couldn't extinguish it even with our best efforts."

Lu Zihong glanced at them and asked coldly, "Where is the grain officer?"

"He... threw himself into the fire."

Chen Xin, the county magistrate, lowered his head and said, "After he set the fire, we got the news and rushed over. Seeing that there was no hope of escape, he threw himself into the fire."

"And according to our investigation just now, this grain officer is a spy arranged by Anbei King Lu Yanwu in Yungang City, so he ordered the burning of the granaries of various legions in Lu Yanwu to do the evil deed of burning granaries!"

Lu Zihong sneered twice when he heard the words, and said: "It's a clever plan to push all the crimes on a dead person with a few words."

"Your Majesty, it's not that we're trying to shirk, but this is the truth, and everyone has seen it with their own eyes." Chen Xin said hastily.

The other officials also quickly agreed, but no one objected to this statement.

Lu Zihong took a look at these officials and said nothing, but led Yang Zaixing and Jia Xu into the granary.

Everything in the granary had been burned, and the iron plates that originally partitioned it had also fallen to the ground.

"Zaixing Wenhe, the two of you go to check the other two granaries." Lu Zihong ordered.

"Yes!"

Yang Zaixing and Jia Xu led the way.

Chen Xin, the county magistrate, stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, we have already seen here. The sea oil burnt the grains very cleanly, not even a single piece of rice was left."

Lu Zihong ignored him, but carefully inspected the granary.

It's just that the more he looked at it, the tighter his frown became, because he found that the sea oil burning places in the outer part of the granary were mostly normal, but it was very abnormal in the inner part.

Some of the burning traces on the inner wall were one meter down, and going deeper, the burning traces even reached below [-] centimeters!

Similarly, there is only a thin layer of burning residue on the ground!

You know, the three legion granaries in Yungang City can be regarded as upper-middle granaries in the entire Sili area. They contain a full 30 tons of grain, which is enough for [-] troops to feed for more than four months during wartime. It is more than enough to eat for half a year.

So much grain is enough to completely fill these three granaries!

So how could the burn marks on the wall be only one meter?

And with so much food and grass, no matter how fierce the sea oil is burned, the burning residue left behind cannot be just a thin layer.

Lu Zihong's complexion became extremely gloomy.

Things are very clear at this point!

Apparently, the local officials stole the grain and sold it privately. Then it happened that Lu Yanwu ordered the granary to be burned down, so they followed suit and burned the granary clean, destroying the corpses and eradicating traces.

Even the grain officer guarding the granary was killed by them, and there was no proof!

In his previous life, Lu Zihong saw too many such news from various platforms. The officials in charge of guarding the granary stole and sold the grain privately. Mostly it was a charge of poor guarding.

Although the crime is not small, compared with the crime of selling military rations privately, it is too small and too small.

What Lu Zihong didn't expect was that what happened in the previous life would happen in this Wuling Continent!

"It seems that even in the Sili area at the foot of the emperor, there are not many corrupt officials at all!"

Lu Zihong sneered again and again.

But it didn't happen immediately, he was waiting for Yang Zaixing and Jia Xu to come back with the situation of the other two granaries.

And Chen Xin, magistrate of Yungang City, and others looked at Lu Zihong's movements with their hearts raised in their throats.

"My lord, do you think the emperor will find out about the problem?" Yungangcheng county magistrate asked in a low voice beside Chen Xin.

"Don't worry, it'll be alright."

Chen Xin whispered: "Even if we are discovered, we can still push the matter to the grain official who was burned to death. Without evidence, even the emperor suspects that we can't do anything to us."

The county magistrate heaved a sigh of relief when he heard the words.

Soon, Jia Xu and Yang Zaixing came back, both of them looked very unhappy, because they also found the same problem in the other two granaries.

"Your Majesty, there are too many rats in Yungang City, do you want to kill them directly?" Yang Zaixing asked directly.

"Not urgent."

Lu Zihong sneered: "When Ji Bing arrives, let him use Jin Yiwei's method to interrogate them well!"

"I don't believe that a small county magistrate dares to move the rations in the granaries of the three legions!"

"Yes!"

Yang Zaixing took the order and suppressed the killing intent in his heart.

Jia Xu looked worried, and said, "Your Majesty, what happened in Yungang City, will there be such problems in the army granaries in other places in the Sili area?"

Lu Zihong didn't speak, but his face was very ugly.

If such a thing can happen in Yungang City, will other places really be spared?

The odds are slim!

But now there is nothing he can do about it!

The only thing that can be done is to hope that there will be no more news of the Legion's granary fire.