Zhou Lin rushed to Ezhou as soon as possible to deal with the civil-military dispute. He finally arrived in Ezhou in early March in the fifth year of Hongwu and the fourth year of Longxing.

After arriving in Ezhou, Zhou Lin was welcomed by local officials. Song Chen led Ezhou officials of all sizes to meet Zhou Lin, and he gave a welcome banquet.
Zhou Lin took it with him, didn’t drink much, ate something hastily and began to ask about the specific situation.
At this moment, Song Chen had already arranged everything in Ezhou, waiting for Zhou Lin to come to inquire about the situation, so he embellished what was written in the playing table and told Zhou Lin, and then took out the account books and took Zhou Lin to the warehouse to check.
When Zhou Lin came, he brought a group of accountants who were ordered to check the books, statistics and warehouse certificates, and Song Chen didn’t lie.
Two days later, the specific amount completed by the inspection workers was indeed correct, but the quality was indeed very problematic.
"Yao Zhong accused you of colluding with the thief Junliang to sell it to the army. Is this the case?"
Zhou Lin was very unhappy when he looked at those ordnance with complicated quality.
Song Chen looked depressed.
"The" xianggong "official swears to heaven that these things haven’t been touched at all, and it’s not been a day or two. I’m afraid you’ve heard about it?"
This is also the quality problem of ordnance produced by the imperial government-run workshop. Zhou Lin has indeed heard about it, and many troops have complained for a long time.
Not to mention these local troops, even the new army outside Lin’ an has encountered such a thing. It can be said that some people are too black-hearted and cruel
There is no better way for Zhou Lin to do this, because his own hands are not clean, but he has never fought against the army
"So what Yao Zhong said is false?"
Zhou Lin looked at Song Chen.
Song Chen looked bitter and didn’t forget to give Yao Zhong eye drops.
"This also said? Everything you see with your eyes can’t be false, can it? Yao Zhong is arrogant and arrogant. None of us civilian officials are in his eyes. He often says that how can the military achievements gained from fighting on the battlefield be lost to your Jinshi? He can also say such arrogant words, which shows that this person is not a good generation. "
Zhou Lin nodded his head and believed in Song Chen’s words by seventy percent.
However, things are not over. After the inspection of Ezhou, Zhou Lin set off for Xiangyang to meet Yao Zhong and ask about his situation.
Although he is not familiar with Yao Zhong, this matter is so important that the future and official position of a general can not be underestimated.
Moreover, Zhou Lin denied that Yao Zhong would collude with China in secret.
When the Southern Song Dynasty was in such a difficult situation, Yao Zhong insisted on fighting with the Jin Army to protect Sichuan and Shu. How could he flirt with the country at this time?
He can’t figure it out.
But it turns out that sometimes if you can’t figure things out, you will naturally have a reasonable explanation.
The night before Zhou Lin arrived in Xiangyang, three of Yao Zhong’s five big warehouse weapons caught fire.
The fire burned out of control, and by the time people in the army found out, the fire had been curbed.
Yao Zhong had fallen asleep at that time, and by the time he was awakened by rubbing his eyes, the fire had engulfed more than half of the three warehouses.
Looking at the burning three warehouses, Yao Zhong was still a little stunned at first, but he immediately reacted that these three warehouses are all those ordnance, and most of them are among these three warehouses.
This is his important weapon against Song Chen.
But now …
These times are gone. They were all burned. I don’t know what happened. I don’t know if it was a natural fire or arson.
Of course, it doesn’t matter. What matters is that they are on fire, burned and gone.
Yao Zhong stood there for a long time before he remembered that it was already Gua Tian Lee’s situation for himself.
It doesn’t matter who burned it, but how Zhou Lin recognized it when he arrived here soon.
It is very important for Zhou Lin to know who burned it.
And how would Zhou Lin recognize who burned the three warehouses by himself?
The answer is obvious.
When Zhou Lin saw that it was still smoking black smoke and three piles of burnt waste, he was shocked and unbelievable. Looking at a face of bitterness, he couldn’t say Yao Zhong.
"Yao controls this?"
""xianggong ""I really didn’t do it. I don’t know what happened. It burned up last night. Here, all the remnants of ordnance were brought from Ezhou before. I’m going to show you … "
"No more talking"