Looking at Sun Tu and scanning the accounts of the granary in and out of the two years that took four days to sort out by those state government scribes, Qi Kun's eyes flashed with a trace of contempt.

From the performance that Sun Tu hadn't come once in the past two days, he thought that the other party was just making a show, after all, the accounts here had taken a lot of effort to come out, and how could a few state officials find out the problem? What's more, these people have also benefited early on, and it is impossible to really help a new military attache to investigate the malpractices of the granary.

And he didn't believe that a young martial artist could see anything from these complicated accounts, at most he was just pretending, maybe this Sun Tuanlian would pretend to do these things in order to explain in front of the soldiers, right?

His cranky thoughts were not thrown aside until Sun Tu put down the last account book and looked up, and a humble smile appeared on his face again: "Sun Tuanlian, these accounts can already show that the lower officials and others have indeed not used their power for personal gain, and they are greedy for military rations, right?" As for why those village soldiers are like this, or because of the corruption of military discipline, they just casually prevaricate with such a reason......

Sun Tu smiled and waved his hand, interrupting Qi Kun's chatter, and then patted the stack of newly entered account books and asked, "Qi Guan Gou, have you read the contents of these accounts before handing them over to this official?" Can you confirm that what is written here is correct? ”

"The lower official naturally checked and confirmed that there was no problem before he dared to hand it over to the group training." Qi Kun hurriedly nodded and said, "Not only that, but now the group training can even send people to inspect the warehouses of my granary, and the amount of grain in it is not the slightest error with the final record." When he said this, he also subconsciously patted his chest, looking like he was willing to pack the ticket.

In order not to let Sun Tu catch any handles, this time he didn't put a lot of effort into it, and even used his relationships over the years, so that the whole account could be made seamless, so that people couldn't find any mistakes or omissions.

Sun Tu nodded: "That is the case, that official really has a few questions that he wants to ask you." As he spoke, he skillfully took an account book and threw it at the other party: "This is a detail from last year, since March, I have seen that half a treasury of 300 stone of grain has been left in the warehouse, but it has not been disposed of. It wasn't until October, with the need to send 500 stone of military rations to the Xiang army, that these grains suddenly disappeared from the books. ”

Qi Kun was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly looked through the account book, and after only a moment, sweat appeared on his forehead, and he didn't know how to explain it. He really didn't expect Sun Tu to look at the accounts so carefully, and he would pay special attention to such an inconspicuous batch of Gu Lai. You must know that the average person only pays attention to the amount of grain in and out, but does not pay attention to the fate of the batch of shriveled grain stored in the granary, because it is of almost no value, and even he himself has long forgotten about it.

Sun Tu glanced at him and continued: "As far as I know, the grain is only used to feed the horses at most, did you give this batch of grain to the Xiang army to feed the horses?" But my Jiangzhou is not the north, or there are only a hundred or so war horses in the camp, and I can't use so much horse material. ”

"Next...... Xia Guan ......" Qi Kun opened his mouth as if he wanted to explain something, but when he looked at Sun Tu's eyes that seemed to be perceptive, he couldn't say anything.

Sun Tu continued to take out another account book and threw it to him, but this time Qi Kun couldn't react at all because of the panic in his heart, so he could only watch the account book fall to the ground, and then bent down a little embarrassed to pick it up, but his hand was already a little trembling.

"In February and March this year, the records of you sending food to the township soldiers were marked in this account book, and there was even the mark of your predecessor Xu Tuanlian on it, which should be where you dare to say that you have no confidence in greedy for military food, right?" Sun Tu did not rush to ask the other party the previous question, but changed the topic.

Qi Kun no longer has the confidence he had just now, and he can't imagine that there are such loopholes between the accounts that he thought were seamless, so if Sun Tu brings up this matter now, has he also found a flaw? But after thinking about it carefully, he still didn't feel that there was any problem, so he could only hesitate and say: "The lower official has indeed never been greedy for military rations, and what is recorded above is empirical evidence......"

"Yes, according to what you say, even if those township soldiers really can't receive military rations, the problem should be Xu Tuanlian's body, maybe he deceived and deceived the subordinates to take the military rations for himself." Sun Tu looked at Qi Kun, who subconsciously nodded in acknowledgement, and suddenly his face sank, and he slapped the table and said, "It's really ridiculous, do you think that a person who has already died in battle has the ability to covet this grain of hundreds of stones?" I don't know if you know that Xu Tuanlian was martyred as early as early February this year while fighting bandits on the Xunyang River. Let me ask you, how did a man who died as early as February put his seal on this account? Did he give you a dream? ”

The last sentence Sun Tu shouted violently, so frightened that Qi Kun almost knelt down with his knees weak, and at the same time, his face turned pale, and the whole person had already begun to swing: "Sun Tuanlian, this matter is ...... This matter ......, "He really didn't expect that his momentary negligence would be caught by Sun Tu in such a big flaw."

In fact, this is also a method that has been used by the people in the army's granary for a long time over the years, and they will ask the relevant officers to leave the vouchers for the rations a few months in advance, and then they can use them for accounting. The result of this is naturally to let these relevant beneficiaries including officers divide the food and salary that should be distributed to ordinary soldiers, and when the imperial court wants to investigate, they can use this to prevaricate.

Anyway, most of the Great Song Dynasty is blind to corruption, as long as the army doesn't make any trouble, who cares if you really send the food and salary to the soldiers. Moreover, whether these village soldiers or van soldiers, they are actually no different from ordinary people, they have long been accustomed to being obedient, since the government does not give them food, they will only work in various parts of the city to make money, instead of trying to poke things out.

But who would have thought that the newcomer Sun Tuanlian in front of him would actually make up his mind to investigate this malpractice to the end, and even be able to understand such complex accounts, and quickly find out the flaws? This made Qi Kun frightened, and he stood there with a bloodless face, and he didn't know how to reply.

"I can understand you eating empty quotas, but what I can't accept is that you have been so greedy that you don't leave even the slightest room for the villagers to survive. Not only have you embezzled the food and wages that should have belonged to them, but you have even deprived them of the land on which they depended for their livelihood, and you really can't find out anything as a magistrate? Sun Tu had slowly stood up as he spoke, walked slowly to Qi Kun's side, and patted him on the shoulder: "What did you say that this official didn't come to you for the past two days, and didn't go to the barracks?" There are some things that you think you have done skillfully, but you don't know what you can't do unless you don't know what to do.

"You have thought of cutting off the way out of the villagers, and then you will pocket the land that the court has given them at a very low price while their whole family is waiting to be fed. It's really easy to calculate, it's easier to deal with ordinary people, and they don't even need to choose a natural disaster year before making a move, after all, the land they own is limited, and it is impossible to feed the whole family. ”

Every time he heard Sun Tu say a word, he patted him on the shoulder, Qi Kun's body would tremble, and his legs were weak. By the time Sun Tu finished speaking, the army granary manager had already weakened his legs, and he knelt on the ground with a pop.

I thought that the inside story hidden in the shadows was actually exposed by Sun Tu in a few words, and the impact on him was too great. And he knows better that once the matter is really exposed, he is afraid that without the imperial court's action, those angry sergeants will be able to devour their entire family alive.

"Do you know why the officer was convinced that there was something wrong with you before he even checked? Just because you wanted to bribe me with one or two thousand taels two days ago. If there really is no problem in this granary, how can you come up with so much money? Sun Tu sighed and said: "But it's a pity that this official is here only to train a usable army and horses for my Great Song Dynasty, not to get the so-called benefits, but to live up to your good intentions." ”

"There must be more implications in this malpractice, and this official has no intention of really catching you all, but the mistakes you have made must always be made up. I'll give you three days to send the food you owe to the barracks, and then I'll act as if I don't know anything. By the way, what I am saying is not the March grain, but the food that you have used to deduct the township soldiers by various means in the past three years, and I think you should know the specific amount better than me. Sun Tu said, ignoring Qi Kun anymore, and strode out of the slightly cramped tent.

Qi Kun sat on his knees and was stunned for a long time before he finally came back to his senses slowly. His expression also slowly changed from the panic just now to a little distorted - in the past three years, they were afraid that the amount of food they had withheld from the mouths of the villagers was not as much as a thousand stones, which was a figure he could not afford at all, otherwise his family would have to be ruined.

"Since you don't give me a way to live, then I can only fight you to the end. Do you think that I, a miscellaneous officer, would not dare to be your enemy? You are wrong, there are still many Jiangzhou officials behind me, as long as you drag them into the water together, even the Taishou will have to back down by three points. You forced me! Qi Kun, who was already at the end of his rope, suddenly raised his head, gritted his teeth and said softly, for the sake of his own interests, he could only give it a go and make things bigger.