Soft and crispy waist

After calling a halt, Qin Yang quickly stepped forward and pulled down the grain bag that was already on his shoulder.

Just weighing it in your hand, the difference in weight is obvious.

When I pulled open the straps at the cuff, I saw white grains of rice.

Qin Yang reached in and the gravel and wheat bran hidden inside floated up.

"Major General Qin." Before Qin Yang could turn around to question, the escorting officer took three steps forward, pressed the mouth of the grain bag with his hand, and asked, "But is there any problem?"

"Is there even a need to ask? Inside..."

"This is all newly harvested rice from this autumn, easy to cook. It's freezing outside the Great Wall, so we've picked it out specifically for the soldiers. It's been inspected at every level along the way, and the documents have all been stamped." The official interrupted Qin Yang. Seeing that Qin Yang was about to lose his temper, he lowered his voice so only the two of them could hear him and said, "Major General, just shout! This food was finally brought in, and it may not be shipped in later. What do you think will happen if the soldiers know they're not getting enough to eat?"

What will happen?

There will be chaos!

The soldiers had been hungry for many days. In this icy and snowy place, there was not even a blade of grass except snow. They finally saw hope and waited for this batch of food to last them through the winter, but in the end it was all empty-handed. How could they accept this?

Even if all the people transporting food were killed, it would be useless because hunger could not change the situation.

What's more, Boch's army is on the other side of the river. Once there is a commotion here, the other side will definitely get the news and take advantage of the situation to attack.

They do it on purpose.

"Whose servant are you? Embezzling military rations is a crime punishable by nine punishments!"

The official was not frightened by Qin Yang's harsh words. He continued smiling and said, "I am just a clerk following orders. As I said just now, the military rations have passed through many levels of control. If there is any problem, I will talk to the prince and then report it."

Sure enough, they were coming for Gu Yizi.

"The prince is injured and needs to rest."

"Then I can wait until the prince recovers."

"What if I don't let you wait!" Qin Yang's eyes flashed with murderous intent.

The official smiled faintly and released his hand from the grain bag. "It's fine if the Major General kills me. I won't complain."

Qin Yang wanted to chop off this man's head with just his hand, but he knew that this man was sent to die. Killing him would only make things more difficult and there would be no room for maneuver.

Qin Yang suppressed his anger with reason and tied the mouth of the grain bag with the belt again, saying, "The new rice must not be exposed to moisture. The ice in the grain tent has melted. Rebuild it. The remaining grain will be stored after the grain tent is completed."

After saying that, Qin Yang signaled with his eyes to his confidants to take people to guard the military rations and all the people escorting the rations, and then he went to the back tent.

They walked all the way to the deepest tent, where the self-defense troops surrounded the entire tent like an iron barrel. Seeing that it was Qin Yang, they did not stop him and let him angrily lift the tent curtain.

There were several pots of fire burning in the tent, but it didn't feel much warm in this bitterly cold place.

Gu Yizi lay motionless on the couch with a pale face. His breathing was extremely weak, and there was not even a trace of movement in his chest. Changfeng was serving on the side. When he saw Qin Yang coming, he bowed and then turned the mechanism under the couch.

I saw the couch and the person on it moved away, revealing a secret passage deep underground.

Qin Yang stepped down, walked for a while in the dark holding on to the wall, and finally reached the flat ground. He turned a corner, fumbled for the mechanism, twisted it, and the shelf opened, revealing bright lights inside.

Gu Yizi underground was completely different from the one on the ground. He had a handsome face, rosy lips and white teeth, without any sign of illness. He sat upright on a big chair, planning the next step of the battle on the sand table with the two old generals who had come down two minutes ago.

Seeing Qin Yang coming, he did not even look up, but simply asked calmly: "Has the military rations arrived?"

"We did arrive, but those unscrupulous people were so arrogant. Except for the first cart of white rice, the rest were mixed with a lot of gravel and wheat bran. Less than 20% of the rice was white. And that's just the situation after the first few carts. I'm afraid it will be even worse after that. There might not be a single grain of rice left."

Thinking about what just happened, Qin Yang was so angry that his chest seemed to explode.

Corruption in the Great Zhou was a long-standing disease. The old emperor was able to suppress it when he was young, but with the death of the crown prince, the emperor was plagued by illness, and after several internal and external troubles, in order to stabilize the situation, he could not punish severely, and those people became more and more rampant.

Corruption was rampant everywhere, including in military rations, but it had never been so excessive, not to mention that this was a war to defend the territory of the Great Zhou.

An army of 100,000 men will be defeated if they run out of food, with countless casualties and the loss of land and slavery.

This is not taking the lives of the soldiers seriously. They are sucking blood from the already emaciated backbone of the Great Zhou. The Great Zhou has been corroded by these maggots!

"Tell me exactly what the people who are holding the grain said."

Qin Yang suppressed his anger and repeated everything that had happened from beginning to end. He became more and more angry as he spoke. Finally, he couldn't help but punch the sand table, smashing the flag camp inside into a mess.

At this moment, the two old generals didn't care about the sand table, and their faces were ashen.

"These people are so brazen! They're clearly using the rumors of your death to tamper with the grain. If the rumors are false, they can force you to show up for the sake of the soldiers and the battle situation. If the rumors are true, they have nothing to fear."

This is a dead end.

Gu Yizi showed up, but he was thousands of miles away from Kyoto, and the roads were blocked by heavy snow, making it particularly troublesome to pull him there. Moreover, no one knew what the situation was over there, whether it was a trap. In the end, the blame might be put on those who came here to die today.

But no matter what, the food problem cannot be solved. Once it is eaten up, the war will be lost, and Gu Yizi will definitely be punished, or even executed.

If Gu Yizhi insisted on not showing up, they would have exposed the embezzlement of military rations in a few days, causing great chaos in the army and the result would have been the same.

"But this doesn't make sense. If they are so well-connected, why would they wait until today to act like this? There are so many checkpoints along the way. Even if most of them are their people, there are still a small number who are not. There is also the Supervisory Office. How could they have been transported all the way here?" Another old general was puzzled. This didn't make sense.

Gu Yizi, who had been keeping a calm gaze, understood something and said, "Maybe something happened in Kyoto."

"You mean the emperor?" The two old generals said in unison, and suddenly understood what was going on, and their faces changed drastically.

If something really happened to the old emperor and Gu Yizi was sealed here, then the Great Zhou... would be destroyed.

"It's still uncertain." Gu Yizi hesitated to make a decision. After a moment's consideration, he said, "Qin Yang, you must immediately return to Kyoto. Don't hide it. Return with great fanfare and tell them that you want to invite Dean Qiao for me."