In the blink of an eye, five days have passed since the New Year of the third year of Xuanhe, and Li Yanqing and his entourage have also entered the tenth day of supervision in Zhending, and there are still two days to end the supervision of Nangui, so far, they have never seen him except for Liang Fangping on the first day of their arrival in Zhending County.

However, the results of the inspection were shocking, they had inspected 25 of the 37 warehouses distributed in Zhending Mansion, and none of them could be clean and innocent.

"Maybe that's why Liang Fangping didn't dare to show up!"

In the distribution room of a warehouse, Li Yanqing stopped his pen and said solemnly to the deputy envoy Wang Zao: "Every warehouse has problems, and even serious problems, as a transfer envoy, how can he explain it to us?" He should be figuring out how to explain it to the Son of Heaven now! ”

Wang Zao said in a low voice: "Humble position means that some minor issues should not be written into the report, and writing some major issues is enough for him to drink a pot." ”

At this time, they were in Zhending Prefecture Xingtang County's army reserve logistics warehouse supervision, Xingtang County is about 100 miles away from the Song-Liao border, is a very important logistics place, more than 100 years, the Great Song Dynasty has built a warehouse group with nearly 100 sub-warehouses here, storing a large amount of grain and military resources, is one of the five large warehouse groups in Zhending Prefecture.

Since yesterday morning, they checked into the warehouse for inspection, and now it is one shift at night, and the inspection is still being carried out intensely and busily.

This time, the supervision of Zhending Mansion was divided into two teams, Wang Zao took Liu Fang to supervise more than a dozen warehouses in the south of Zhending Mansion, there were not many warehouses there, so Wang Zao was in charge, and Li Yanqing took others to take charge of the main warehouse in the north.

Wang Zao's supervision had long since ended, and he rushed back to assist Li Yanqing in sorting out the manuscript and at the same time cooperating in writing the supervision report.

As the problem became more and more serious, Wang Zao was a little scared, he felt that this would cause a serious court storm and affect his career, so he hoped that Li Yanqing would be merciful and minimize the situation, but Li Yanqing rejected it.

At this time, Mo Jun hurriedly walked over and whispered to Li Yanqing: "Yushi, Deputy Envoy Zheng invites you to go over and take a look." ”

Li Yanqing nodded, got up and walked towards the door, and when he walked to the door, he said to Wang Zao again: "The monitoring report will affect the Northern Expedition situation, if the Northern Expedition loses, and finally finds out that we have concealed the truth, I'm afraid you and I can't afford this responsibility, Wang Yushi think about it!" ”

Li Yanqing turned around and walked out quickly, Wang Zao's face was red and white, and Li Yanqing's words made him feel uneasy in his heart, and he felt that Li Yanqing seemed to have seen through something.

Li Yanqing followed Mo Jun to a huge military warehouse, which was the largest of all the warehouses, covering an area of dozens of acres, which was used to store siege weapons.

Ten large lanterns were hung in front of the storehouse, illuminating the gate as if it were daylight, and there was a table with seven or eight account books stacked on it, and on both sides stood a dozen village soldiers and guards, and several warehouse officials were sweating profusely to check the account books, and it seemed that there was a problem here.

Li Yanqing walked into the warehouse quickly, the warehouse was also brightly lit, dozens of soldiers were using ropes to help carry items, Zheng Liren was holding a monitoring book in his hand and bowing his head to record, and the two officials on the left and the right next to him were desperately explaining something?

"Chief, we counted three times, and we determined that there were eight nest cars, and there were no more." Several inventory soldiers in the depths of the warehouse said loudly.

Zheng Liren snorted heavily and asked the two officials, "How do you explain?" ”

At this time, a soldier shouted: "Li Yushi is here!" ”

Li Yanqing walked over briskly surrounded by several soldiers, "What happened here?" ”

Zheng Yuren was very annoyed and said: "I can't believe it, it's not a problem that the accounts don't match the facts, it's just something out of nothing!" ”

"What do you mean by that?"

"Take this nest car as an example, the account records that there are thirty-eight, but in fact only eight have been found, six of which have decayed and are not usable at all, and two are left over from the Shenzong era and are also decades old."

Li Yanqing glanced at the head of the main and deputy warehouses sharply, the two of them blushed, looking anxious and uneasy, Li Yanqing asked again, "What else is the problem?" ”

"There are still many problems, such as the ladder, there should be thirteen in the warehouse, but I didn't find any of them, the same goes for the siege ladder, the actual inventory quantity is only two percent of the account book records, thirteen siege weapons, everything has problems, as well as ropes, hinges, etc., the gap between the accounts and the reality is huge, I don't know what the reason is?"

A warehouse head stepped forward and said tremblingly: "Qi Li Yushi, there are indeed some discrepancies between the actual inventory and the account books, but this is not a problem that only exists now, it was like this decades ago, the humble post just turned over the old accounts thirty years ago, and the humble post had not yet taken office, and the problem was already the same as now." ”

"You don't want to pass the buck, I want to know why?" Li Yanqing glared at him and asked.

"There are many reasons for this, such as poor storage, the physical object has been completely decayed and cleaned up, but it has not been dealt with in the account; In addition, when repairing, three old ladders were put together into a new ladder, and the account was not changed accordingly; There is also repeated records, the same batch of siege weapons, several warehouses are recorded, and then there is the destruction list reported to the ordnance superintendent, but the ordnance superintendent did not respond, and this side did not dare to modify the record without authorization, so the accumulation of various problems for hundreds of years has become what it is today. ”

Zheng Liren next to him was dissatisfied: "I see that most of the siege weapons in the account book were made by Shenzong during the reign of Shenzong, could it be that in the past two or three years, he has been shouting every day for the Northern Expedition to prepare for war, but nothing has been made?" ”

Cangtou sighed, "At the beginning of the year, a few officials from the Ministry of War and the Ordnance Supervision came to ask us to summarize the various military resources in the account books and hand them over, and then they left, and there was no follow-up. ”

"They didn't come down and check it out?"

"Nope! I have been in the position of Cangtou for 30 years, and you are the first batch of court officials to come to the field to investigate. ”

Li Yanqing also understood a little in his heart, the imperial court's finances were extremely tight, and the funds for war preparation were seriously insufficient, and it was estimated that the ordnance supervision officials saw that there were a lot of siege weapons in stock here, so they did not arrange for new ones, and used the funds in other aspects.

"Li Yushi, what should we do?" Zheng Yanren asked on the side.

"You will take stock according to the actual situation, how many are as many, and finally summarize and report them together, so that the ordnance superintendent can handle it?"

"Li Yushi, then we ......" the two cangtou asked tremblingly.

Li Yanqing glanced at them and said lightly: "This time, we only supervise things and not people, we just find out the actual situation of the inventory, how you are has nothing to do with us, but I want to remind you that you had better find out all the reasons for the lack and find out the evidence, otherwise it will be difficult for you to explain the responsibility of the transfer envoy." ”

Li Yanqing said to Zheng Yuren and Mo Jun again: "You guys work hard tonight, thoroughly check this warehouse, and we will return to Zhending County early tomorrow morning." ”

After speaking, Li Yanqing turned around and left the warehouse, only to hear Mo Jun shouting to the soldiers: "Let's count the battering rams again, and record thirteen items in the account books, see how many there are?" ”

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Although Liang Fangping refused to come to see Li Yanqing, it did not mean that he did not care about this supervision, on the contrary, as soon as the inspector left a warehouse on the front foot, he sent someone to understand the situation on the back foot, and the situation he learned again and again made him afraid, there were too many problems, and he couldn't hide it.

Liang Fangping was very nervous in his heart, there were still two days before the inspection envoy was about to end his return trip, judging from the results of this inspection, it was very unfavorable to him, once he was impeached, his guilt was inevitable, no matter what, he had to settle this matter.

After pondering for a long time, he asked his staff member Cui Mi: "Does Mr. think Wang Hao is reliable?" ”

This is the third time Liang Fangping has asked the same question, the first two times Cui Mi said it was more vague, it seemed that Liang Fangping did not understand his hints, Cui Mi had to sigh and said: "If the envoy only puts the bet on Wang Hao, I am afraid that the ending will disappoint the envoy." ”

"Why?"

"This time it is Cai Jing and Liang Shicheng who have joined forces, Wang Hao alone will definitely not be able to bear it, and in the end he is likely to protect himself and put all the responsibility on the envoy, this is not the first time he has done this kind of thing."

"So what do you say?"

"It's still the suggestion of the humble post last time, so that if you want to get out of this difficulty, you must find Li Yan."

"But..... But his price is too high, asking for 200,000 yuan, how can I pay it? ”

"It's just a lowly suggestion......"

Liang Fangping took a few steps with his hands in his hands, and said slowly: "If I give Li Yanqing 50,000 yuan, can I seal his mouth?" ”

Cui Mi shook his head, "I'm afraid this will only become evidence of Junxin's crimes." ”

"Can't you really buy him?" Liang Fangping asked a little unwillingly.

"He is just a chess piece, with Cai Jing and Liang Shicheng staring at him, even if he has this heart, he may not have the courage."

Liang Fangping finally had nothing to do, he finally gritted his teeth and said, "Okay! I will give a house in the capital to Li Yan, if even he can't do it, then I can only admit it. ”

"Envoy, don't forget that there is also Wang Huang!"

"I know, I'll give him another 10,000 taels of silver, if he disappoints me, don't blame me Liang Fangping for turning his face and being ruthless."

"Li Yanqing and they are estimated to be back tomorrow, do you want to see them?"

Liang Fangping shook his head, "I don't want to see them, I'll go to Zhaozhou early tomorrow morning and let Deputy Supervisor Qi go to see them, besides, you'd better find a way to get me a report." ”

Cui Mi smiled gloomily, "This matter will be handed over to the lowly position to do, and the lowly position has a way to get the report." ”