He Zhongkai, the head of the household, stood there with an extremely ugly face, his eyes looked at Sheng Shitong from time to time, and his eyes showed deep disgust and coldness.

He Zhongkai is very simple, since Zhao Zhi succeeded to the throne, he was transferred from the local assassin history to the household department, more than 20 years, He Zhongkai has been in the household department, and in Chengping for five years, finally took the most important step in life, into the political hall for more than ten years, in terms of this time, He Zhongkai is also a veteran Xiangguo.

He Zhongkai has served in the household department for more than 20 years and has deep qualifications, so he not only knows Sheng Shitong, but is very familiar with it, but this familiarity is not friendly, but has deep personal grievances.

He Zhongkai is not greedy, but he is by no means honest, he can only be said to be decent.

He Zhongkai is also very talented, otherwise Zhao Zhi would not hand over the household department to him to take care of, in addition to Yang Daosi and Liu Wei are out of political interests, long-term occupation of the left and right sides, Zhao Zhi once, can serve as the chief official of a yamen for a long time, as long as more than ten years, almost unique, from this point it is not difficult to guess that He Zhongkai's position in the household book, whether it is for Zhao Zhi or for the country, has indeed played a great role.

He Zhongkai entered the household a few years earlier than Sheng Shitong, and soon made a reputation, did a lot of very practical things, and was appreciated by Zhao Zhi, but with the reinstatement of Sheng Shitong's officials, and a series of subsequent actions, he was soon compared to He Zhongkai, of course, Sheng Shitong has a straightforward personality, and he does not mean anything, and He Zhongkai is also very deep in the city, and he is very polite to Sheng Shitong on the surface, but in fact, his heart has been jealous, and many times in the secret to use deceitful methods, intentionally or unintentionally framed Sheng Shitong.

At that time, the head of the household Shangshu Yuan Ren was old and sick, and he had the intention of giving office, and He Zhongkai, who was the right attendant of the household department, was the biggest hit to succeed the post of Shangshu, once successful, he would smoothly enter the hall as a prime minister and embark on the pinnacle of life, but at that time, Zhao Zhi's appreciation of Sheng Shitong was obviously more than himself, and the vast majority of officials in the yamen of the household headquarters were also very respectful of Sheng Shitong, hoping that he would take the position and be in charge of the household department.

Where there are people, there will naturally be fights, and from this period, the political struggle between He Zhongkai and Sheng Shitong has been fierce, but one is taking the initiative and the other is forced to deal with it.

In the fifth year of Chengping, He Zhongkai's nephew He Minghui, who was also serving in the household department at that time, beat his colleagues to death because he was drunk, and beat his colleagues' entourage servants to death by mistake, the status of the servants was very low, and he was killed by mistake, which was an unintentional mistake, if someone operated from it and paid enough price, it was not a big deal, and the matter could be big or small.

He Zhongkai has dredged everything up and paid enough price, but Sheng Shitong is upright, and he will not let go of this matter, and the more trouble he makes, the more trouble he makes, and finally the trouble is discussed in the court, He Minghui was dismissed and exiled and never hired, and He Zhongkai himself was severely reprimanded by Zhao Zhi for bribing others.

Just when everyone thought that in this battle for the position of the head of the household department, He Zhongkai had failed, and Sheng Shitong would succeed in taking the position, to everyone's surprise, the final result of the matter, He Zhongkai was appointed as the head of the household department, and half a year later, he successfully entered the court, and Sheng Shitong was transferred to the local government and served as the Jiangnan transfer envoy.

This time, Sheng Shitong was transferred back to Fengjing, He Zhongkai has been resolutely opposed, but Yang Daolin, Qin Anming, and some other ministers are in favor of this, He Zhongkai can not stop it, and can only watch Sheng Shitong return to the household department, and take the position of the right attendant of the household department, in charge of the daily official affairs of the entire household department.

He Zhongkai was not in the capital during this time, and he was with him for nearly 50 years of the original wife, died of illness in his hometown, He Zhongkai went home to take care of the aftermath, a full month to deal with things, just returned to Fengjing less than three days, has not yet met with Sheng Shitong, a big case is because of him and completely broke out.

After Sheng Shitong returned to Beijing to meet the emperor Zhao Xun, the court gave him a three-day vacation to recuperate the tiredness of the journey, but Sheng Shitong automatically gave up, and the next day after meeting Zhao Xun, he immediately went to the household department to officially take office.

Sheng Shitong took office on the first day to personally look at the accounts, and asked the stall secretary to ask the accounts, and asked dozens of clerical officials, as a result, it turned out that the vast majority of officials even the treasury of the Treasury and the cashier's situation and profit and loss, and even the accounts, the accounts will not be counted, even if some officials say the names and figures, it is also a lot of spitting, there are many concealments, seeing that the accounts of the household stalls that are related to the lifeblood of the country's finances are so confused, Sheng Shitong was furious, immediately dismissed more than ten officials, and convened the main officials of the household department, announced on the spot, It is necessary to conduct a thorough investigation into this matter and seriously rectify the order of the households.

Subsequently, Shengshitong himself did it himself, checked the accounts in detail and then checked the three libraries.

The so-called three warehouses are silver warehouse, satin library and pigment library.

Among them, the silk and satin, the pigment two warehouses are the world's physical tribute collection place, the library is piled up like a mountain, there is no order, the pigments, silk, paper are mixed together, the months are accumulated, most of them are moldy and rotten to be unusable, plus the rat bites and insects, the poisonous snakes are swarmed, the accounts in and out are mostly running accounts, there is no clear and no settlement, and the comparison with the account book of the treasury is different, the accounts are chaotic, the problem of the treasury is greater, the errand and the official who manages the treasury are not corrupt and steal, and the treasurer and Lang Zhong are colluding with each other, reporting more and less entering, and wantonly embezzling the country's money.

Sheng Shitong is abnormal, spent a lot of strength, personally into the inventory, carefully check the account files, and check the entire Zhao Zhi Dynasty for decades of inventory and cashier accounts, through the audit of the library, Sheng Shitong found out the biggest big rat in the household, He Zhongkai's nephew, known as the small Xiangguo, in charge of the treasury of the head of the household He Mingjun, Sheng Shitong regardless of everyone's pleas and opposition, immediately detained He Mingtun, went to the prison department, and immediately met with Zhao Xun, on the matter of the household, a detailed report, Zhao Xun heard about it, but also angry, Immediately issued a Zhao, ordered the Punishment Department to interrogate He Mingjun severely, and let Sheng Shitong thoroughly investigate and rectify the entire household department.

Sheng Shitong's vigorous and resolute and tough methods, with the in-depth investigation, suddenly set off many shady scenes, the most eye-catching of which is the Jinyang Mansion military reimbursement case.

The reimbursement of military expenses has always been a way of embezzlement between the reimburser and the head of the household department and Langzhong, and the reimbursers can include the money that is not military expenses into the military expenses for reimbursement, and put a large amount of money into their private pockets, and the household officials in charge of the affairs will be reimbursed knowing that there are malpractices, so they will have to take bribes privately, and the military reimbursement of Jinyang Prefecture has already begun to be fraudulent as early as seven or eight years ago.