Agriculture Escape: Ultimate Boss Has A Space Pocket!

Zhang Tong's back was covered with sweat, and he tried to pretend to be calm and said, "The villain dared to ask his family to remove Baimianer only after asking Mr. Qian's consent."

"If you don't believe me, you can ask Lord Qian!"

Qian Tu was just a small yamen servant before, and he was ordered to go to the Syrian people to buy grain. He did a good job, so he was appointed as the chief grain officer, responsible for counting the grain.

With the establishment of Xiaoyao Kingdom, Qiantu's value is also rising day by day.

After being summoned by Cui Shize, he seemed very calm. After saluting Cui Shize, he took out an account book from his sleeve as if he had made sufficient preparations, and said respectfully: "My lord, Bai Mianer has inspected it. According to the food safety of the Empress According to the standard, many of these batches did have serious flaws, and the lower officials couldn't bear to destroy them like this, so they privately decided to sell the white noodles at a low price to those in need, but the minister never filled his pockets, and every account It's all here!"

"The lower officials are also confused, thinking that they can reduce some losses for the court and increase the income of the common people, so they do this." He said with a bit of grievance in his words.

Cui Shize took the account book and read it carefully. Qian Tu's account book did record in detail the whereabouts of every catty of flour.

Qian Tu secretly peeped at Cui Shize's face, feeling a little complacent, he was just selling expired noodles to the common people at a low price for the sake of the court, and he didn't make any profit.

There are three unqualified standards for white noodles, namely, the color, smell, and presence of insects.

If one of the three does not meet the standard for human consumption, it will be treated as fertilizer.

Regardless of whether there is any problem with the white noodles, Qian Tu sold the white noodles to others without authorization, and did not report the incident until after the incident. He has committed a felony.

As an official in charge of food, it is impossible to not even have this basic common sense.

There must be tricks in this.

Cui Shize's face was gloomy, Qian Tu panicked, and knelt down to plead for himself: "My lord, the lower officials are only temporarily soft-hearted because they see their life is not easy, and give them white noodles. If they know that they use them to make steamed buns and sell them for money , I will definitely not agree!"

There are more poor people than Zhang Tong's family, why did Qian Tu give it to Zhang Tong's family, and privately ordered other people not to say anything, which is clearly a deliberate collusion for profit.

Cui Shize detained Zhang Tong in the cell, turned his head to the warehouse where white noodles were piled up,

Check to see if the pasta is really expired.

Bags of white noodles were neatly placed together. Cui Shize randomly selected a few bags, opened them and checked them one by one.

He walked towards Baimianer who was judged by Qian Tu as unqualified.

When I opened the bag, the flour was yellowish in color and there were some small bugs in it, but the taste and smell were normal.

How could this happen to the same batch of flour.

Cui Shize asked Sheng Huaixuan again to ask if Yu Suisheng had falsified when purchasing grain.

It is impossible for Yu Suisheng to do such a thing, and when buying food, he has to go through careful inspection.

Not only that, Sheng Huaixuan also found many people to testify that the grain purchased by Yu Suisheng was intact until it was transported to southern Xinjiang.

The grain warehouse was specially treated with moisture-proof treatment when it was built, so that all the grain can be properly kept, and there will be no insects or mildew in the short term.

Then, there is only one possibility left, that someone intentionally created the illusion that the white flour was broken.

Cui Shize squatted down, picked up a small bug and looked at it carefully, and found something unusual.

The worm in his hand was a long-nosed rice worm, not a hard-shelled face worm.

In the past, Cui Shize would not have been able to tell the difference between rice worms and flour worms. He has been farming in Youjia Village for so long, and he has been working with the people every day, and he knows everything that farmers should know.

How can the rice worm crawl into the face worm.

Someone must have put it on purpose.

Cui Shize found an important clue, his eyes lit up, and he grabbed a handful of flour and sniffed it under his nose, it smelled of soybean powder.

This shows that the color of these expired white noodles was dyed yellow by soybean powder, and insects were also put in them deliberately.

Cui Shize immediately asked the soldiers to arrest everyone guarding the warehouse and interrogate them carefully.

So many white noodles have been made like this, it is impossible for them not to know.

Some people are timid and recruited immediately.

It was Qian Tu who ordered them to do this. He ground a bucket of soybean flour and asked them to go to Baye City to get some bags of moldy rice grains.

They are all small bugs, and no one will notice them if you don't look carefully.

And even if someone noticed the subtle difference, they could explain it as just crawling in from the rice bag.

The evidence is conclusive, but the only thing that is not clear is why Qian Tu went to such lengths to sell the flour for only a little money.

Cui Shize asked Zhang Tong to be brought up, "Qian Tu and the others have already recruited. You used soybean powder and rice worms to deliberately concoct expired white flour to cover up people's eyes and ears for profit. Now that you confess, I will give you a chance to reduce your sentence."

Zhang Tong's eyes widened, he couldn't believe it, and when he met Cui Shize's serious and majestic black eyes, he was immediately frightened, and pitifully shirked his responsibility: "Master, it's none of my business, Qian Tu forced me , He is a powerful official, and asked me to cooperate with him in entrusting expired flour to sell steamed buns, I have no choice but to obey, if I don't listen, he will wear small shoes with me, and I have no choice but to do so!"

"We got 10% of the money earned from selling the buns, and he took the rest, my lord, please spare me!"

Cui Shize lowered his eyes for a moment, that's why!

Qian Tu wants to make a profit, but is afraid of getting burned, so he deliberately uses Zhang Tong as a shield. Not only does someone specialize in getting money for him, but if something goes wrong, someone can also take the place of the dead ghost.

"We've been terrified all day long, and all the money has gone into his pocket. We don't want to, but how can we beat him! My lord, please spare the villain this time!"

Only now did he feel that he was afraid that he would be demoted to a lowly status, that his whole family would suffer with him, and his children would never be able to be officials.

The fields that are about to be moved in and cultivated by the family will also disappear.

Zhang Tong's begging for mercy did not arouse Cui Shize's sympathy, he had many ways to get rid of Qian Tu, but he did not do so.

Up until now, he was still covering up for himself and Qian Tu, indicating that he must have actively cooperated with the matter of using white noodles for profit.

Cui Shize ordered someone to bring Qian Tu up for interrogation, and as expected, the persecution Zhang Tong said was his idea to please Qian Tu and take the initiative to send him to his door.

It's just that he never expected that the bun shop would be watched by the Empress herself, and she would investigate the matter carefully.

If it were other officials, maybe they could really let them get away with it.