From Lincheng back to Linzi County, Li Yun has been busy with one thing, that is, to investigate the case of Lincheng officials and businessmen embezzling the silver of the Moxi Imperial Court for disaster relief, and he accidentally got the news, which shocked him.

If it weren't for Tao Yuan getting drunk and confiding in the truth, maybe Li Yun would have really been kept in the dark.

However, it doesn't matter if you don't check, after the investigation, Li Yun was really scared into a cold sweat, and by checking the county government accounts of previous years, he found that a Linzi county and district evaded taxes a year is 100,000 taels, leaving aside other expenses, as well as the disaster relief funds of the greedy Mo court, there are 200,000 taels a year.

One Linzi is still like this, so what about the entire Lincheng? How many great emperors are there in the city?

When Li Yun came to Linzi, he thought that he was just investigating the truth about the slaughter of his mother's family, but unexpectedly, a large-scale ink corruption case was involved.

There are not a few officials involved in such a big ink corruption case, not only that, but all the major businessmen in Lincheng are involved, and the merchants of salt shop, rice shop, and foot are all important members of it.

Officials are greedy for ink, and businessmen are responsible for money laundering, and the two cooperate with each other, and the cooperation between the two is really close.

In the county office, Li Yun has been looking through the accounts of previous years, while Lin Qingzhu on the side is responsible for checking and checking, and Cheng Chumo is arranged to secretly investigate the relevant witnesses involved in the corruption case.

The three of them perform their own duties, and a case to track down corruption in Lincheng is in full swing.

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After just half a month, Li Yun finally found clues from the accounts of the county government, and the annual accounts are done seamlessly, but there is a saying? If you don't want people to know, you can't do it unless you do.

Since it is artificial, it has flaws.

This is the account of the previous county magistrate during his tenure, and through checking, it was found that the previous county magistrate also participated in the reconciliation and write-off, and in the county government's account book, the two numbers of the account and the account entry were obviously not correct.

And the person involved in the account keeping is the master who has left office.

"Iron Bull! You personally led someone to arrest the departing Master Qian to the court and forced him to ask about the accounts!! Li Yun commanded.

Cheng Chu was silent: "Okay, this will be done." ”

"But by any means, pry open his mouth, whether it is dead or alive, I only need evidence." Li Yun added.

In the last life, he hated corrupt officials, because his family had no power and power, and he was bullied by corrupt officials.

In this life, as the prince of the Tang Dynasty, he will not show mercy to corrupt officials.

"I understand, my means guarantee that Master Qian will not survive and die." Cheng Chumo can't do it, if you want to say that torturing people is definitely a good hand.

As soon as Cheng Chumo left, Lin Qingzhu hurriedly walked over and whispered: "Son, the disaster relief funds of the imperial court have been allocated, and the Taishou asked the county commanders to go to Lincheng to collect them in person. ”

There are six counties and districts in Lincheng, and Linzi County is one of them, and the imperial court allocated 600,000 taels of silver, which means that each county can divide an average of 100,000 taels.

Of course, due to the different circumstances of the disaster, the need for Taishou varies from person to person. Among the six counties, Linzi County was the most severely affected, and the biggest expense was to build rivers and embankments.

Once the flood season comes, the water volume of the Yellow River will increase, and the current dam alone will definitely not be able to stop the surging water of the Yellow River.

Li Yun put down his work and rode his horse to Lincheng, and when Li Yun arrived, the other five county orders had been waiting in the lobby for a long time.

After the other five people saw Li Yun, their eyes were full of repulsion, and the five people talked and laughed at each other, but none of them stepped forward to talk, after all, these people were all involved in the corruption case, and Li Yun was a clear stream, and they were on the same footing, so they naturally wouldn't talk to him.

And he also offended the Gao family, and everyone hated to stay away from him.

Li Yun didn't care about this, they didn't want to deal with themselves, and they didn't bother to talk to them, anyway, these people themselves would arrest them and put them in prison sooner or later.

About half an hour later, Tao Yuan came late, everyone got up to salute Tao Yuan, and Tao Yuan was also straightforward: "Today, I will wait for you to come, and there is not much nonsense, this year's disaster relief funds from the imperial court have been allocated, according to the rules of previous years, each person will receive a copy for disaster management in the county." ”

The others are also familiar with the road, no need Tao Yuan to say more, not long after, the remaining five counties and districts stepped forward in turn to receive the bills, and there is the amount of money in the counties this year on the bills.

Li Yun was the last, and when he got the bill, he opened it and saw that the amount of disaster relief money on it made him stunned for a while.

Forty thousand taels?!

The imperial court allocated 600,000 yuan, an average of 100,000 yuan per county, but now, Linzi County is not even half of the average, and among the six counties and districts, Linzi County needs to spend the most, but he gets the least share of disaster relief.

Seeing these numbers, how can Li Yun not be stunned?

"My lord, why did the lower officials only get 40,000 taels?"

Rao is Li Yun can endure it, and he must not bear this nest of anger, he stood up and asked sharply, this is the silver taels related to the survival of the people, what can you do with this mere 40,000 taels?

Tao Yuan had long expected him to be like this, and anyone else would be angry, he said, "Sit down and talk!" Calm down! It's also the respect of a county! ”

"Among the counties in Lincheng, Linzi County needs the most disaster relief silver, but you divided 40,000 taels with me, and how can I calm down?" Li Yun said angrily.

Seeing that Li Yun was angry, the county magistrates of other counties, including Tao Yuan, laughed.

"What are you laughing at?" Li Yun asked.

Tao Yuan waved his hand and asked the other county orders to open the bill for Li Yun to see.

As a result, after Li Yun read it, he was all confused, his own bills were 40,000 taels, and other people's bills were about the same, and some were even 30,000 taels.

It turned out that the other people all shared about the same amount of money, and the total calculation was almost 250,000, while the imperial court allocated 600,000, which was a deficit of 350,000.

"What does that mean?" Li Yun asked again.

Tao Yuan got up and laughed: "Lord Lin, you are still too young, the way of being an official has a long way to go, and you still need to slowly comprehend it."

"Please make it clear to Lord Taishou, but the lower officials still don't understand."

The so-called way of being an official is like this, the silver taels allocated by the imperial court will naturally be deducted when they take office, and it is good to be able to use three or four, and it is impossible for all the money to be used for disaster relief.

And the 40,000 taels in Li Yun's hands are used for disaster relief, and the rest of the people's money is used to bribe officials, which is the unspoken rule of officialdom, which is nothing more than this since ancient times.

"My lord, this money is the life-saving money of the people." Li Yun asked.

"The lives of the people are lives, aren't our lives lives?"

"What do you mean by that?"

"If we don't deduct money from it, we'll die."