In addition to Huang Jianyuan, there are two other people outside the hall, Zheng Yang and Wang Zhen.

These two people were much more calm, and when they saw Hou Shigui, they didn't forget to smile.

Hou Shigui didn't dare to communicate with these two people more, and stood honestly at the door of the palace for a while, before he heard the inner supervisor in the palace say:

"Hou Shigui, the head of the branch of the Ministry of Household Inheritance, enter the palace!"

Hou Shigui lifted his trouser legs, walked into the hall respectfully, and did not look up, but bowed directly ahead:

"Minister, Hou Shigui, meet Your Majesty."

Yang He's expression was not very good, not because he saw Hou Shigui.

It's that he hasn't been in a good mood all day today.

Anyone who knows that he has saved some money by saving food and spending money, but as a result, his greed is hundreds of thousands of taels per month, and no one will be happy.

Especially an emperor like Yang He, who is determined to establish immortal achievements.

So after Hou Shigui finished saluting, Yang He only said in a deep voice:

"The matter of the Ministry of Rites, you used the hands of Zheng Yang and Wang Zhen to report to the higher level and directly reported to me, what do you want?

Do you want to ask me directly? ”

"Panic!"

Hou Shigui bowed down again, sweating profusely, and was sincerely afraid:

"The stakes are high, except for Your Majesty, the minister doesn't know who else to trust.

Moreover, the former ministers were young and ignorant, arrogant, and provoked many people in Beijing, and the household was ...... Shen Shangshu of the household department was kicked to the ground by the minister in front of His Majesty.

It is related to the well-being of the minister's family, and the minister does not dare to trust it! ”

Yang He sat calmly on the dragon chair, pressed his palms to his knees, and held his head high:

"Look up at me."

Hou Shigui raised his head in response, and entered Yang He's eyes as deep as a deep pool.

Seeing these eyes, Hou Shigui only felt that his whole body was cold, as if an invisible pressure was pressing on his head and he couldn't breathe.

Isn't it just coercion? That's it.

Although Hou Shigui was disdainful in his heart, his body honestly lowered his head again, making a look that he did not dare to look at the emperor.

Seeing that Hou Shigui was scared by himself, Yang He snorted coldly:

"Cowardly as a mouse, no wonder you don't dare to admit to Zheng and Wang that the envelope was written by you.

Manchu courtiers, if they are all cowardly people like you, wouldn't it be ridiculous?!! ”

In the end, Yang He slapped the table case, and he was already angry.

Frightened, Hou Shigui sweated profusely, and shouted:

"Panic!!"

Yang He bowed his hand impatiently:

"Well, do you have any evidence for what the letter says?"

"Yes!"

Hou Shigui immediately took out the accounts sent by the household department in the morning, and an internal supervisor hurriedly came to take over the accounts, checked them, and confirmed that they were all right, and then sent them to Yang He.

Yang He looked through the accounts there, and Hou Shigui explained the mistakes and omissions in these accounts for Yang He one by one.

At the beginning, Yang He was only amazed by Hou Shigui's new bookkeeping method.

I thought that if I could keep accounts like this, how could the corrupt officials and corrupt officials in the world be corrupt? How dare you fake accounts?

But after hearing this, his mind was occupied by one huge amount of money after another.

Two hundred and thirty thousand taels ...... In just one month in September of the thirteenth year of the Great Chu Chucheng, the whole Ministry of Rites actually embezzled 230,000 taels of silver from the national dynasty!

"Bastard!"

Yang He was furious and threw the account under the case, so frightened that the surrounding palace people did not dare to squeak.

Even Hou Shigui shouted again:

"Panic!"

But Yang Heli ignored him, and only said to the inner supervisor next to him with an angry face:

"Go to the branch and bring me all the accounts of the Ministry of Rites for the past three years! Don't let anyone find out. ”

"Whoa."

The inner supervisor answered the word and went on his own.

It didn't take long for a fateful inner eunuch to hurriedly enter the main hall with more than 100 accounts and put them in front of Hou Shigui.

Seeing that Yang He was looking at him coldly, Hou Shigui also knew what he meant, so he immediately opened an account and looked at it in detail.

Every time he read a book, an internal supervisor would present the accounts he had read to Yang He, and then he would explain them one by one below.

And Yang He's face also changed from anger at the beginning, to Tie Qing, and then to expressionless......

Hou Shigui looked at these many accounts, and couldn't help but be frightened, he thought that the Ministry of Rites was greedy last month, and it was already too much.

Who would have thought that the Ministry of Rites' September is the least greedy January!

In August, the Ministry of Rites made a lot of money in the name of filial piety assessment, and the accounts were staggered, and the difference reached 800,000 taels!

Maybe it was because they ate too much in August, so they only greedily spent more than 200,000 taels in September.

As for the other months in the past three years, the Ministry of Rites has been greedy for ink every month, and it has not been 400,000 taels!

This year is not over yet, and the Ministry of Rites has been greedy for about five million taels of ink this year!

If you add the previous two years, it is already more than 20 million taels!

Yang He's face was calm at this time, and he didn't see the slightest bit of anger.

Instead, he smiled:

"I spent 13 million taels of silver on the treasury to repair the canal in the past five years, and I provoked the civil and military of the Manchu Dynasty, and there were many complaints.

Many officials of the Ministry of Rites resigned in anger and returned to their hometowns.

After that, I repaired the city outside the city and marched south, in order to raise enough money, I even disobeyed Liu Lao's opposition and vigorously collected taxes, and even I had to save money.

20 million taels...... 20 million taels...... is a knowledgeable and reasonable Ministry of Rites, and a good group of ministers who share my worries.

Such a deception...... Such a deception! ”

In the end, Yang He's voice was more melancholy and helpless.

When Hou Shigui heard this, his heart froze, thinking that the opportunity had come!

After considering the choice of words, he said cautiously:

"Your Majesty...... Your Majesty......"

Yang He glanced at him listlessly and said:

"Hou Shigui, you have made great contributions, plus the previous merits, what reward do you want, just say it."

Hou Shigui swallowed his saliva, as if he had made up his mind, and said:

"Don't reward your ministers! The minister only wants to be able to share his majesty's worries!! ”

Worried about me?

Yang He smiled in his heart, he was angry about the accounts found out today, but what could he do?

In three years, more than 20 million taels of silver have been embezzled, the amount is so huge, who can be innocent in the Ministry of Rites?

If it's just a small amount, you can do it yourself.

But the relationship between the six departments is intertwined, especially the Ministry of Rites, which is almost the retirement place of the older generation of famous people of all ethnic groups.

If you want to shuffle the Ministry of Rites, it is equivalent to provoking the family of Da Chutai and a half.

Yang He dared to do it and wanted to do it, but the timing was wrong.

At this moment, the canal has not been completed, the southern expedition has not been successful, and although the matter of casting the city is nearing the end, it has also reached the most critical moment.

No matter how big Yang He's heart is, it is impossible to annoy the Great Chu family and cause internal and external troubles.

Therefore, this arrogant Yang He has no other way at this moment except to calm down and force himself to calm down.

As for what Hou Shigui said about sharing his worries?

He just listened to it as a joke, and didn't take it seriously.

"After reading the accounts all night, I am also tired, so let's go down and rest first, and tomorrow I will have my own reward to send to you."

Yes, don't mention today's events to others, or I won't be able to protect you! ”