In the Chengtianfu Inspectorate, Gong Wenbao, who had just met Shi Wuyan, had just returned, and someone came to him in a hurry, and this person was also one of his cronies, although he did not serve in the anti-corruption department, but he was temporarily transferred from other departments to help investigate Chen Lifu's case.

Seeing the person in a hurry, Gong Wenbao frowned slightly, this person has also been with him for a few years, when he was serving in Ganzhou, Jiangxi, he followed him, and he was promoted to Chengtianfu, and when he served as the president of the Chengtianfu Inspectorate, which can be said to be the most important local inspectorate in the world, he was also brought over.

On weekdays, he is quite steady, but today he is flustered, and he does not have the demeanor of an official of the imperial history at all.

However, before he could ask anything, the man spoke: "My lord, there is an urgent report for your humble duties!" ”

"Oh? What's the matter, so anxious? ”

This person said: "The Chen family came just now, and they also brought all kinds of deeds for fields, houses, and shops!" ”

Hearing this, Gong Wenbao's eyebrows wrinkled, and his intuition told him that there was a problem, and it should still be a bad problem!

Sure enough, what the man continued to say confirmed his conjecture: "The documents they brought were issued by our dynasty, as well as the originals of the pre-Ming Dynasty, and there were also people from the Ministry of Taxation who accompanied them, and they brought the Chen family's tax payment records in the past few years!" ”

Hearing this, Gong Wenbao's face suddenly changed: "What? Originals from the pre-Ming era? So, these industries of their family already existed in the pre-Ming era? ”

"yes!" The subordinate said with a sad face: "I have personally checked it, those documents are indeed true, and many fields, shops and other industries have been registered, and their tax payment records show that they have paid tens of thousands of taels of silver every year in recent years!" ”

Hearing this, Gong Wenbao felt a little dizzy on the spot, numb, what did the people under his hands do, how could they not even find out whether the Chen family's property was owned or purchased later.

Also, those bastards from the Ministry of Taxation, why didn't they say it before, but waited until today to come!

If he had known about this too late, Nima, the application for the arrest of everyone in the Chen family had already been sent to the court.

After hearing this, Gong Wenbao calmed down, and his years of experience as an official told him that this case was not as simple as he thought, and he was very likely to fall into some kind of trap, maybe not only himself, but even his immediate boss, Lord Wu Yan, the left deputy capital of the Inspectorate, was likely to fall into this trap.

After pondering for a moment, he said, "You immediately find someone to conduct a thorough investigation of all the Chen family's properties, and tomorrow, no, this official will get a preliminary report tonight!" ”

Ma Dan, I have stabbed a big basket!

The more Gong Wenbao thought about it, the more scared he became, he didn't expect that he was just investigating an ordinary case, but he didn't expect that it would be so complicated behind it.

Why didn't anyone tell him before that the Chen family itself was extremely rich?

The few anti-corruption officials I trusted, did they not investigate themselves, or did they know but did not tell themselves!

There's definitely something wrong here!

There were so many possibilities in his mind!

Is there really a problem with Chen Lifu?

A quarter of an hour ago, Gong Wenbao thought that Chen Lifu had a problem, but now, this problem is debatable.

If Chen Lifu has no problem, then why would someone report him, and the content of the event is so detailed, all kinds of evidence are said at a glance, so that almost any imperial historian will feel that Chen Lifu has a problem and investigate it for the first time.

Besides, why did the housekeeper of the Chen Mansion hang himself on this jointed eye?

What is hidden behind this?

Gong Wenbao sat alone in the office, he felt that a political storm was coming, Chen Lifu was undoubtedly the center of the whirlpool of this storm, and he unknowingly walked to the edge of the whirlpool, which was a little careless, he could be caught in it, and then be beaten into the abyss of hell!

No, you can't sit still!

Now the tax department has sent someone over, and they have brought the Chen family's tax payment records over the years, what does this mean?

This shows that the bigwigs of the tax department may have directly intervened in this case, or in other words, the bigwigs of the tax department already believe that Chen Lifu has no problem.

If Chen Lifu really has no problem, how will this matter end for himself?

Directly check that there is no evidence, and then let Chen Lifu go, when nothing has happened?

Nonsense, if they dare to do this, they are ready to bear the wrath from the Ministry of Taxation, and they are not dry food, their Inspectorate casually investigates their core middle-level officials, and they are also the deputy director of the Inspection Division, the next Director of the Inspection Division, today is the beginning, how will the Ministry of Taxation live in the future.

They're definitely going to fight back!

Continue the investigation and find evidence to convict Chen Lifu?

In this case, it can be regarded as a way, regardless of whether he is really guilty or falsely guilty, but as long as the evidence is sufficient, the Inspectorate will be sure to send Chen Lifu to prison, so as to declare the correctness of the Inspectorate.

But when the time comes, the forced investigation and the inability to convict him, Gong Wenbao is almost certain that his career will come to an end!

What should I do? Check, or don't check, what is best for yourself!

Now, Gong Wenbao actually doesn't care whether Chen Lifu is guilty or not, and now what he is thinking about is how to take himself out and paralyze the situation is dangerous, and if he doesn't do it well, he will lose his official position and go to work!

I knew that he would not have investigated this case at the beginning, but unfortunately it is useless to regret it, and now that this situation has been created, then it must be resolved.

For a whole afternoon, Gong Wenbao was meditating in his office, drinking pot after pot of strong tea, and he didn't even leave the office when it was time to get off work in the evening, let alone go home.

Of course, in the evening, he finally got a report from his subordinates that many acres of land, shops and other industries found in Chen's mansion today, except for the flour mill, which had just opened, all the others already belonged to the Chen family in the pre-Ming era.

And they also checked Chen Lifu's account in the Royal Bank, which showed that Chen Lifu had already opened this account in the Tang Royal Bank before he took up the official position of the Tang Dynasty, and maintained a deposit of at least 50,000 taels and sometimes as much as 100,000 taels of silver all year round.

At the same time, many big starts are also able to find a place to go.

Referring to the tax payment records provided by the Ministry of Taxation, it is almost certain that many of the Chen family's properties are the original properties of the Chen family, and they were not purchased by Chen Lifu after he became an official.

But there is also a loophole here, that is, the large amount of gold and silver in their cellar is difficult to prove that it is the original of their Chen family.

Even after the appraisal of professional and technical personnel, they have always concluded that most of the gold and silver in the submission are old things, and the casting time of some gold bars can even be traced back to decades ago!

However, this does not mean anything, these gold and silver do not say that the engraving is the silver bars minted by the Chen family themselves, and most of the gold nuggets are official silver in the pre-Ming period.

No one stipulates that after Chen Lifu deducts taxes, he can't exchange them for gold and silver!

Nowadays, there are still a large number of official silver and copper coins in the pre-Ming Dynasty in circulation!

You say that this is what your Chen family has accumulated for decades, but people still say that it is the old gold and silver that Chen Lifu exchanged for after deducting taxes.

In other words, what Gong Wenbao is facing today is still a dilemma, whether to continue to investigate or not to investigate!

Gong Wenbao looked at the investigation report for most of the night, and did not fall asleep in a daze until the second half of the night, and waited until the next morning, he called all the six or seven imperial historians in charge of this case in the anti-corruption department, and then gave an order, that is, let the guards put them all in the inspectorate's own guest house, and at the same time, the picket office inside the Chengtianfu Inspectorate will interrogate them severely!

Ma Dan, he dared to conceal and omit the report, and he fell into such a dilemma, if there was no problem here, he Gong Wenbao dared to take off his head directly and use it as a urinal!

Subsequently, he rebuilt the team to investigate Chen Lifu's case with the henchmen who reported yesterday as the team, and there were only three imperial histories, all of whom were people who investigated the Chen family's property yesterday, and they had not participated in Chen Lifu's case before.

His order to the new team was to continue the investigation, but the focus of the investigation could be changed, focusing on investigating whether this astonishing amount of gold and silver belonged to the Chen family or whether it was only after Chen Lifu became an official in the past two years.

In addition, he also had to focus on investigating the strange death of the Chen family's housekeeper, and his intuition told him that this person must be the core figure in this case, and he would definitely be able to find a breakthrough point from this person.

After the order was completed, he once again dragged his tired body and red eyes to the Central Inspectorate, and he wanted to go to Shi Wuyan to report the situation.

Ma Dan, for Chen Lifu's case, in just a few days, he has been in and out of the Central Inspectorate many times.

If it's a good thing, forget it, it's a hot potato.

After entering Shi Wuyan's office and meeting him, it was just as he expected!

When he reported to Shi Wuyan the details of the Chen family's industry and the reaction of the Ministry of Taxation, Shi Wuyan immediately became furious, if it weren't for the dignity of being a high-ranking official, I am afraid that he would have slapped Gong Wenbao in the mouth on the spot.

But even if he didn't do anything, Shi Wuyan scolded Gong Wenbao fiercely, and when he scolded, the saliva was sprayed directly on Gong Wenbao's face, and Gong Wenbao didn't dare to rub his face, so he could only let the saliva on his face dry on his own!

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