Chapter 141: The Deadly Ledger
Dabo Xinyi took an oil lamp and pushed open the door and walked into the study, the study was suddenly illuminated by the oil lamp, except for the position by the window, there were bookshelves around the wall, and a large number of bamboo slips, wooden slips, and book scrolls were placed on the bookshelf.
Dabo Xinyi took the oil lamp and put it on a low table in the middle of the study, on which there was pen and ink, he picked up a small bowl and poured some water in the inkstone, put down the water bowl, and picked up a good ink in the inkstone and began to grind the ink.
After polishing the ink, he got up and walked to the bookshelf on the left against the wall, and pushed the bookshelf to the right, but the bookshelf was pushed slowly but did not make a sound.
He took out the booklet and returned to the low table to sit down, opened the two booklets and spread them on the desk, picked up the wolf on the pen stand, dipped ink on the inkstone and began to write on his booklet.
In less than half a minute, Dabo Xiaoyi finished writing on the booklet, took the wolf hair and dried the ink on the booklet, read it again, then closed it, put away the booklet and walked to the wall, still in the groove.
The bookshelf was slowly pulled back into place by him, as if nothing had changed, and then he returned to the desk, picked up the oil lamp, turned around and walked out of the study.
As the door to the study closed, darkness fell into the study, with only a faint light shining through the corridor outside the window.
After a few breaths, Zhao Junsheng walked out gently from behind a row of bookshelves, he walked to the wall with keen perception and memory and gently pushed the bookshelf, the bookshelf was pushed open, he reached out and groped on the wall, and soon found the booklet in the groove, took it out, and then walked to the window and opened it in the faint light, glanced at it hurriedly, and couldn't help but curse: "I++".
I saw that the pamphlet read:
In the second year of Shiguang, on the fifth day of the ninth month, Zuo Lingshi, who was a subordinate of the grain and grass officer of the Governor of the Northern Expedition, was in charge of the purchase of medicines and gauze in the army.
On September 15, Zhu Yutian, a merchant of medicinal materials in Pingcheng, paid homage to two hundred and eighty gold and a pair of high-grade jade.
On September 16, Pan Zhengyan, a cloth collector, paid three hundred and fifty gold.
On September 20, he honored Liu Jie, the governor's grain and grass officer, a pair of high-grade jade, and honored the king of Beiping with 200 gold······
In the third year of Shiguang, on the tenth day of August, he joined the army as a subordinate of the grain and grass officer of the Governor of the Western Expedition, and was in charge of the purchase of military uniforms, fabrics, boots and socks.
On August 15, Wei Ji, a cloth merchant in Pingcheng, paid 300 gold and 30 brocades.
On August 18, Gu Tonghui, a shoe and socks merchant in Pingcheng, paid two hundred and sixty gold.
On August 20, the Governor of Beiping, Tuoba Song, two hundred gold, and twenty brocades······
In the fourth year of Shiguang, on the ninth day of the first month of March, Wei Ji, a cloth merchant in Pingcheng, paid two hundred and twenty gold and a horse.
On March 12, Gu Tonghui, a shoe and socks merchant in Pingcheng, paid one hundred and fifty gold.
On the fifth day of October, he served as the grain and grass officer of the governor of the army stationed in Jinling.
On October 12, he sold 3,000 stone of military rations to Wu Yan, a grain merchant; On October 15, he sold 300 rolls of woolen blankets to Zou Danian, a black market merchant, for a total of 232 gold······
"Da Bo Xiaoyi, Da Bo Xiaoyi, Lao Tzu doesn't care what reason you are embarrassed Lao Tzu, if you don't give Lao Tzu food and grass this time, Lao Tzu will make you unable to eat and walk around!"
Zhao Junsheng snorted coldly and put this booklet into his arms, his original purpose of visiting the Governor's Mansion at night was just to find out why Da Bo Xiaoyi wanted to embarrass him, but he didn't expect to let him get the account book of Da Bo Xiaoyi's bribery and bribery, with this thing, no matter how hard his backstage is, he has to give in obediently.
However, Zhao Junsheng didn't plan to use this account book to put Da Bo Xiaoyi to death, didn't the emperor know that the ministers and officials below were holding money? He knows it very well, but as an emperor, he understands the truth that Qingshui can't raise fish.
Dabo Xiaoyi's father-in-law Tuoba Song's matter of holding money is known to the world, and Emperor Tuoba Tao knows better, but he only exposed the fact of corruption when Tuoba Song disagreed with him in politics, and sent warriors to press Tuoba Song to the ground and kowtow to insult him, other than that, there was no other action.
From this incident, it can be seen how powerful Tuoba Song is, and it can also be seen that corruption and bribery are not a big deal at all in this era, and it is impossible to kill Tuoba Song with an account book, but it is not difficult to kill Da Bo Xiaoyi and die.
Zhao Junsheng hid the account book, moved the bookshelf back to its place, walked to the window, opened the window and jumped out.
With a "clang", Zhao Junsheng's clothes scratched the window when he jumped out, and a window on the left hit the frame and made a lot of noise.
"Who!" There was a loud shout from Da Bo Xiaoyi in the bedroom.
Zhao Junsheng was startled, immediately stepped on the windowsill and jumped up, grabbed the beam under the eaves with both hands and pulled it hard, retracted his abdomen, cocked his legs up, and turned over on the beam.
Dabo Xiaoyi rushed to the study and saw that the window was open, but there was no one else in sight, but he immediately shouted: "Someone, someone, catch the thief!" ”
As soon as the shouts rang out, the two patrols quickly ran in this direction.
Lu Xuanbo, who was hiding in the pavilion in the middle of the backyard, was knocking on melon seeds, and when he heard the shouting, he knew that Zhao Junsheng had exposed his line, he dropped a handful of melon seed shells, clapped his hands, pulled on his mask and jumped down, and strode towards the direction of the wall.
"The thief is here, catch him!" Someone saw Lu Xuanbo's figure running in black and immediately shouted.
The patrols and family members chased after Lu Xuanbo with weapons and sticks.
Da Bo Xiaoyi followed behind and shouted: "Catch this official alive!" ”
When the people in front of the window were all gone, Zhao Junsheng immediately jumped down and left quickly in the opposite direction, and disappeared into the snowy night after climbing over the wall.
The patrol team and the family members did not catch up with the thief and was scolded by Dabo Xiaoyi, and after scolding, he suddenly realized that he had missed something, and immediately left quickly in the direction of the study.
He pushed open the bookshelf and found that the ledger in the recess of the wall was missing, and he fell to the ground with a pale face on the spot.
A ledger of bribery is not an ordinary item, and who does not know that its existence is a hazard? But why do many corrupt officials have to keep some accounts of bribery and bribery? There's no other reason than that this thing is sometimes a talisman.
Early the next morning, Da Bo Xiaoyi ate breakfast with a pair of panda eyes and came to the front hall of the government to deal with official business.
Several of his henchmen walked in one after another to report to Dabo Xiaoyi, but they did not catch the escaped thief, nor were they able to recover what was stolen by the thief.
Nothing was lost, except for the ledger, which was clearly the thief's purpose.
Da Bo Xiaoyi was uneasy in his heart, if it was just a person sent by a political enemy, it would not be a big problem, with his father-in-law Tuoba Song covering, he would not have any major incidents, but if it was a person sent by the emperor, then the problem would be big, the emperor would still rely on Tuoba Song, and he would not do anything to Tuoba Song, but the emperor would not care about him as a petty official, and there were countless people who wanted to sit in his position.
What he was afraid of was that the emperor's ultimate goal was not to come to him, but to Tuoba Song, and this matter was even more troublesome!
When Da Bo Xiaoyi's heart was up and down, a soldier walked in outside the door and reported: "Master, someone outside the door sent a letter to the master, saying that it would be handed over to the master himself, and the master would open it himself!" ”