"Yes, I knew that I shouldn't have sent the report letter to him in the first place, and it should have been sent directly to the Central Inspectorate, which has our people in it, although the grade is lower, but it is enough to meddle in some key details."

"Alas, but I want to use Gong Wenbao to be promoted, and we also need more people in the Chengtianfu Inspectorate, so it is easier to promote this matter, but I didn't expect Gong Wenbao to be so cautious!"

"If we continue to let them investigate now, I'm afraid this matter will end in nothing, but it's a pity that such a good opportunity, without Chen Lifu as the fuse, what we want to do is probably hopeless!"

"Forget it, this thing can't be done, it can't be done, anyway, I don't expect to succeed all at once, not this time, next time we will find another opportunity, this huge tax department, full of loopholes, can always find another opportunity!"

"That's right, that's it, failure is failure, but this matter won't be implicated, right?"

"Don't worry, we can't find our bodies, at most a few people will be pushed out at that time!"

"That's good, forget it, let's not talk about it, in the past few days, news has come back from Jiujiang, saying that the war in the southwest is not going well, I'm afraid you and I will be busy again!"

"Yes, although it is said that the Son of Heaven is personally in Jiujiang, the final victory of the war in the southwest will undoubtedly belong to our Tang Dynasty royal division, but if this war lasts for a month, it will cost millions of taels of silver, and now the war is not going well, I am afraid that in the budget meeting at the end of the month, those warriors will open their mouths again!"

"The military accounts for the vast majority of the annual financial expenditure, and this situation must not continue, and after the Southwest Campaign is over, the military expenditure must be reduced!"

"Yes, I don't know what the adults think, they have always connived at the military and the Ministry of Taxes!"

"Yes, the tax department should have been split up a long time ago, a mere tax department has the four powers of taxation, finance, budget, and salary, and over time, it will inevitably become a scourge to my Datang!"

"That is, now the military side spends too much military spending every year, and it is okay to spend so much military spending, but now the military generals are too domineering, and they are self-contained, and my cabinet has no means to restrain them except for recruiting soldiers!

Now that the Son of Heaven is in the court, he is naturally not afraid of what storms these martial artists will set off, but what about the future? What do we do to restrain these generals? ”

When these two people spoke, their expressions were full of worry!

At the same time, outside Jiujiang City, two knights were galloping on horseback, not caring about other pedestrians on the official road, but after the others saw these two people, none of them dared to stop them, at most they just scolded casually.

Because of the costumes of these two knights, many people are very familiar with them, they are military messengers!

The law of the Tang Dynasty stipulates that intercepting the military messenger is a capital offense!

These two military messengers will not care about the various eyes cast by everyone, they only care about burying their heads and riding horses and galloping, because they have urgent official documents on their bodies!

Three hundred miles expedited!

Although the importance is not as important as the five-hundred-mile expedited transmission, it is also extremely important, and there is a clear time limit for each post station to carry out the three-hundred-mile expedited transmission.

And beyond the time, they will be sentenced to very severe punishment!

In the urgent official document they carried, there was a report on Chen Lifu's case from Hantong!

This report was passed all the way west from Jinling City, and after the relay of countless knights, it finally came to the outside of Jiujiang City!

It will not be long before this report will be delivered to the Son of Heaven.

And Li Xuan saw this report half an hour later, but in fact, before Li Xuan read this report, it had already arrived at Li Xuan's desk a quarter of an hour ago, but Li Xuan was delayed because of a small meeting.

Just now, he met with a group of Hubei officials, including the governor of Hubei and the prefect of Hanyang Prefecture, mainly to discuss how to appease the local people in Hubei and restore the livelihood of the people in Hubei in the future.

Although the Tang Dynasty has not yet taken over the vast area of Hubei north of the Yangtze River, this does not prevent the Tang Dynasty from preparing many officials in Hubei in advance.

After the Tang Dynasty occupied the Huguang region south of the Yangtze River, Huguang was divided into two provinces, Hunan and Hubei, and Wuchang Mansion belonged to Hubei.

Therefore, the Hubei Province of Datang was established very early, but for a long time, there was only one prefecture in Wuchang.

However, after the Southwest Campaign began, the Ministry of Officials, as usual, prepared many officials from other parts of Hubei in advance, including the prefects of Hanyang Prefecture, Huangzhou Prefecture, Anlu Prefecture, De'an Prefecture, Xiangyang Prefecture, Xunyang Prefecture and other prefecture capitals, as well as some of the main officials in the local yamen.

Now these officials have arrived from all over the country, following the rear of the army, ready to take over their precincts at any time.

In addition to these ordinary officials, there is also a very special group of people who are also following the rear of the army, they are the officials of the Ministry of Taxation and the tax inspection team!

In fact, most of the time, the officials of the Ministry of Taxation and the tax inspection team were the first to follow the army into various places.

So many officials have gathered here, and they will take over all parts of Hubei in the near future, so Li Xuan also attaches more importance to them, and has held several meetings with them in the past two days, on the one hand, to show that he attaches great importance to Hubei, and on the other hand, it is also to make them more cautious when governing Hubei in the future.

The Huguang area is Zhang Yue's base camp, and after the Hunan region was captured by the Tang Dynasty, Zhang Yue put the focus of his business on the Hubei region, and according to the intelligence of Hantong, Li Xuan also learned about a very special situation in the Hubei region.

It's still not good news for the Tang Dynasty!

That is, the vast number of gentry and landlords in Hubei, and the slightly influential families, basically have children who participated in the supervision of Zhang Yue, or held civil official positions under Zhang Yue.

Even if it doesn't contribute, it's basically money and effort.

In Hubei, Zhang Yue's superintendent is almost integrated with the local gentry class!

Why did they become like this?

Because they were frightened by the many policies implemented by the Tang Dynasty, especially the unified agricultural tax, which simply killed them.

The Huguang area is already a very large agricultural production area in contemporary times, although it is not as important as Jiangnan, but it is not far from Huguang to mature the world.

This also led to the fact that the gentry at that time were not the same as the gentry in the Jiangnan area, in addition to the land, there were also a lot of channels and methods to get money, and the gentry of Huguang at this time were all on the land, and they were the most resolute in resisting the unified agricultural tax policy of the Tang Dynasty.

To this end, we will not hesitate to contribute money and efforts!

Otherwise, Zhang Yue would have become a rootless duckweed, which can be tenaciously occupied in Hubei under the strong pressure of the Tang Dynasty, and the scale of the supervision standard can also get bigger and bigger.

In this complex situation, when the Tang Dynasty defeated the governor militarily, it was very difficult to govern the Hubei region in the future.

At that time, as long as even one percent of the gentry families resisted, it would bring great trouble to the rule of the Tang Dynasty in Hubei.

Therefore, in the past few days, Li Xuan has convened a series of meetings of Huguang officials to discuss how to better govern Hubei.

After the Hubei meeting, he returned to his office, and then saw the Chen Lifu case report sent by Han Tong!

Chen Lifu?

He had some impressions of this name, and after recalling it slightly, he just remembered it, as if this person had killed the salt merchant in Yangzhou.

And I heard that Qian Aoli of the Ministry of Taxation appreciates him quite a lot, why did he make a mistake? and also alarmed Hantong's side to send a report to himself.

After opening the report and reading it, Li Xuan frowned!

Who is Chen Lifu, Li Xuan doesn't care!

Whether Chen Lifu committed a crime or not, Li Xuan didn't care to be honest, but what he cared about was that there were so many big people interfering behind this matter!

In this world, there are many people and things that can be hidden from Hantong, but in Jinling City, it is very difficult to do something big, and also want to hide from the eyes and ears of Hantong Eagle Dog.

Others don't know, but Li Xuan knows very well that the agents of Hantong have almost ambushed every institution and every middle and high-level official, and in Jinling City alone, there are at least more than a thousand Hantong spies!

Therefore, many people think that they are very secretive in doing things, only God knows that you know and I know, but it is above, in most cases, Han Tong knows.

However, Hantong never disclosed any information in this regard, and refused to allow other agencies to ask for any information, so outsiders knew that Hantong controlled hundreds of officials, but they did not know how closely Hantong was under control.

And what Li Xuan sees now is what many people have done that they thought were secret!

Just this preliminary report, the Han Tong side has investigated, at least three senior officials from the second rank are involved, and there are more than a dozen officials above the fourth rank who are connected, and they are more or less involved in Chen Lifu's case, of course, this is not to say that they are all framed Chen Lifu, but that they are wrestling with each other on the matter of Chen Lifu.

Hantong's report, like Li Xuan himself, also doesn't care whether Chen Lifu has committed a crime, and the focus of Hantong's report is actually not whether Chen Lifu is guilty or not, but focuses on a matter that other outsiders can't think of at all, but it is strictly monitored by Hantong: forming a party for personal gain!

The meaning of the existence of Hantong is to maintain Li Xuan's rule, please note that it is to maintain Li Xuan's rule, not to maintain the rule of the Tang Dynasty!

And this kind of thing is to form a party for personal gain, which will seriously endanger the imperial power, and then endanger Li Xuan's power!

This kind of thing is also what Li Xuan has always been strictly guarded against, he doesn't want any Donglin Party or other messy parties to appear in the political ecosystem of Datang.

There can only be one voice in the Tang Dynasty, my voice!

It doesn't matter if it's the Donglin Party, or the princelings, or some messy friends, Li Xuan doesn't allow it!

After Li Xuan read the report, he then called Li Daobing, the leader of the Han Dynasty, in, and pointed to the report on the table and said only two words: Strict investigation!