Shi Wuyan said to Gong Wenbao that this case must be cautious!

This is Shi Wuyan's original words, and Gong Wenbao also knows that in this case, Shi Wuyan will not bear less pressure than himself!

Because countless people are staring at this case, a group of bigwigs in the Ministry of Taxation have not said anything about Chen Lifu's case yet, but everyone knows that the Inspectorate did not even say hello, and directly took away the core middle-level officials of the Ministry of Taxation, the deputy director of the Inspection Division of the Grain Collection Department, and almost the director of the inspection department of the next office, for investigation, which is definitely not simple.

If Chen Lifu really has a problem, then it will definitely be a big scandal for the Ministry of Taxation, and I am afraid that it will cause the Inspectorate to conduct a thorough investigation of the entire inspection department and even the entire grain collection department, because people like Chen Lifu have deducted taxes, so what about others, it must be even more unbearable!

The Ministry of Taxation deals with silver all day long, especially the Department of Grain Collection, and the taxes that are handled are tens of millions of taels of silver, and if there is no greasy in it, the imperial historians of the Inspectorate will dare to swallow the silver directly.

When the time comes, I'm afraid the question will not be whether there is a problem, but how big the problem is!

I'm afraid that even the secretary of the Ministry of Taxation and the minister on duty in the imperial study, Qian Aoli, will be implicated to a certain extent, and it is very likely that His Majesty will be dissatisfied with Qian Aoli.

And the dissatisfaction of the Son of Heaven, this is the biggest negative impact.

If the final investigation found that Chen Lifu had no problem, then a group of bigwigs from the Ministry of Taxation would definitely be furious!

They are officials of the Ministry of Taxation, it is normal to be hated, and it is normal to be impeached, especially the officials in the system of the grain collection department, which one is not impeached and reported in three days!

The director of the grain collection department, known as the most powerful Zheng Sanpin official Qin Bianping in the Tang Dynasty, before serving as the director of the grain collection department, he served as the director of the Guangxi tax department from the three products, and then the director of the salt and tea department of the tax department, because of his excellent work, he was immediately appointed as the deputy director of the grain collection department, and three months later he was promoted to the director of the grain collection department, which is the only one of the few directors in the Tang Dynasty with the title of Zheng Sanpin!

Before he worked in the Department of Grain Collection, few people impeached him throughout the year, but when he began to serve as the deputy director of the Department of Grain Collection, the twists and turns of impeaching him were piles and piles, and when he became the director of the Department of Grain Collection, he was impeached every month to the point that he could not count.

It is the official of the third grade who has been impeached the most times in the entire Tang Dynasty, and when he first took office, he was still a little frightened and apprehensive when he learned that so many people had impeached him, but now, he is already very peaceful, if no one impeaches him one day, he has to wonder if he heard it wrong.

This kind of institution is destined to be concerned by countless people, and it is normal to impeach and report, if it is reported to be so aggressive, then almost the entire system of the grain collection department will not have to work, because all the officials of the grain collection department have to be investigated!

It is impossible to find an official in the grain collection department who has not been impeached or reported!

Even if it's a tax inspection with only seven products, it's a bunch of people impeached!

There is a saying within their grain collection department that a tax official who is not impeached is definitely not a qualified tax officer!

So Chen Lifu's matter, many people are waiting!

Many officials outside who learned of the news began to grind their fists and palms, preparing two folds.

Why do you say that there are two excerpts, because one is used to impeach the Inspectorate, and the other is used to impeach the Ministry of Taxation, and no matter who wins and loses in the battle between the Inspectorate and the Ministry of Taxation, they are happy to step on which side loses.

Because this time Chen Lifu's case, in the eyes of many civil officials, it is dog eat dog!

The Inspectorate, of course, is an institution that other civil officials do not like, because those imperial historians are staring at them everywhere like mad dogs, and when they see an opportunity, they will pounce on them and bite them fiercely, and if they are unlucky, they will be happy!

And the Ministry of Taxation, although it is said that the Ministry of Taxation is the God of Wealth institution that collects taxes and spends their money, but their Ministry of Taxation still has no good feelings, on the one hand, it is envy, jealousy and hatred, and on the other hand, the Ministry of Taxation collects taxes regardless of whether you are an official or not.

Nowadays, the officials of the Tang Dynasty have to pay personal income tax.

And the key point is that these two institutions are self-contained and have little to do with ordinary civil officials, whether it is the Inspectorate or the Ministry of Taxation, the officials in them are promoted internally, and never cross borders.

In other words, these ordinary civil officials are destined not to work in the Ministry of Taxation in this life, so there is no risk of stepping on them when they see the Ministry of Taxation unlucky, and brushing their sense of existence.

And as an official, when such a major event happens, how can you not brush up on your sense of existence, you don't express your views at this time, how does the Son of Heaven know what your position is?

Even if he took this opportunity to let the Son of Heaven take a look at his name, it would be earned.

If Chen Lifu has a problem, then the bigwigs of the Ministry of Taxation will not hesitate to abandon Chen Lifu as soon as possible, and then push all the problems on his head to protect the rest of the Ministry of Taxation and avoid causing a worse impact.

If Chen Lifu doesn't have a problem, then they will go berserk!

Even the high-level officials of the Inspectorate were also waiting, and Song Tieshu, the imperial history of the left capital, did not make any statement at this time, but handed over the matter to Wu Yan, the imperial history of the left deputy capital.

And Shi Wuyan did not dare to make any out-of-the-ordinary decisions, although he ordered the investigation, but it was to let the Chengtianfu Inspectorate conduct an investigation in strict accordance with the supervision regulations, the investigation process must be reasonable and legal, and the outside world must not be allowed to find the slightest fault.

Regardless of whether Chen Lifu has problems in the end, there must not be any problems in the investigation process of their inspectorate, otherwise, it will be impossible to recover.

Therefore, the deputy director of the anti-corruption department of the Chengtianfu Inspectorate, who led the team to search the Chen Mansion, was very cautious, and seized all the cash silver on the spot, and at the same time seized other gold and silver in the Chen Mansion one by one.

Of course, this kind of seizure is not taken away, but all the seals are affixed and registered, and such a registration makes them themselves stunned.

How much money has this Chen Lifu made in the past two years?

I don't know if I don't check this, but after a check, I found that this Chen family still has more than 3,000 acres of fertile land and more than a dozen granges, this is a super big landlord!

There are also many shops, and even a flour mill has just been invested.

Although the mansion in Chen's Mansion is not too big, the interior decoration and furnishings are as luxurious as the royal mansion, which makes the three leading royal historians stunned!

Looking at the many industries of the Chen Mansion, thinking about his shabby residence in the city, Nima, they are all officials in the Tang Dynasty, why is the gap so big.

This is what people call being officials, life is so depraved!

It's simply ......

This is simply envious, jealous and hateful!

With shock and a thick stack of seized account books, they left the Chen Mansion, and then reported to Gong Wenbao as soon as possible!

Gong Wenbao looked at the large stack of seized ledgers in his hand, suppressed the excitement of immediately applying for arrest and prosecution, and then went directly to Shi Wuyan with the ledger!

This Chen family has harbored so much dirty silver, this is the most direct evidence!

At the same time, another team of investigators under his command also found another very key clue, the key witness that the inspectorate has been looking for has finally been found, who is this witness? Why is it so critical, because this person is one of Chen Lifu's housekeepers, and the report letter says that this person accepted bribes on behalf of Chen Lifu and transported many deducted taxes from the local area back to Jinling Chen's mansion.

But the butler they found was a dead man!

Yes, when Yushi found this person, this person had already died tragically in the outer house, according to the butler's outer room, well, the concubine who was kept outside, this butler has been staying with her for the past few days, and he is chattering, as if he is worried about something.

And this morning, as soon as the poor woman woke up, she found that the man she had shared the bed with last night had hanged himself on the beam, so frightened that she hurriedly reported to the official.

In this way, the patrolmen found this butler!

It's a pity that it's a dead housekeeper!

But it doesn't matter if this person is dead, but they found out a suicide note from him, in addition to the normal aftermath arrangement, he also said that the matter was going to be exposed, and he didn't want to affect his family, so he died a hundred times.

Things are exposed, what is exposed?

This kind of thing naturally attracted the attention of the imperial history, and also attracted the attention of Gong Wenbao.

His intuition told him that there must be something wrong with this housekeeper, and it was very likely that Chen Lifu threatened this person in order to exterminate the witness, forcing him to commit suicide.

Because if this person is dead, then a lot of things are the ins and outs, just by virtue of the dirty silver seized in Chen's mansion, it is difficult to convict Chen Lifu, what if Chen Lifu says that all this money has been saved by their ancestors?

If you want to convict Chen Lifu, you must have a complete chain of evidence, where the money was deducted from taxes, how the accounts were made, how it was transported to the Chen Mansion, and who handled it.

Otherwise, their inspectorate will be very passive when it comes to prosecuting!

So he had to meet Shi Wuyan and report the matter first, and then decide on the direction of the next investigation.

He met Shi Wuyan very smoothly, and after Shi Wuyan read the relevant files, he said: "Well, continue to investigate, we must find out!" ”

Gong Wenbao said: "Do you want to arrest Chen Lifu first?" Otherwise, they will be released today, and there are also lowly positions that believe that there must be other people in the Chen family involved in this matter, as long as they are brought back and interrogated one by one, it will not be difficult to find a breakthrough! ”

But at this time, Shi Wuyan hesitated slightly, walked back and forth in his office a few times, and then said: "Then apply to the court for an arrest warrant, but it is not Chen Lifu's, but the rest of the Chen family, especially those housekeepers, stewards and associates who may be involved at this time, this official wants to keep none of them and control them all!" ”

"As for Chen Lifu!"

After that, Shi Wuyan glanced at Gong Wenbao and said: "You are also a veteran of our inspectorate, how can this kind of thing still be confused, it is easy for you to arrest him now, but if he is okay in the future, if you want to let him out of the detention center by himself, it will not be easy!" ”

"You have to remember, we are the imperial history, and investigating the case is what we should do!"

"But we are not his enemies!"

Gong Wenbao was also shocked into a cold sweat when he heard this!