In April of the first year of Taixing, with the continuous advancement of the Central Plains disaster prevention and control plan, materials from all over the world began to gather in various states and counties in the Central Plains. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

In view of the fact that the Yellow River has a bad record in its history, which has caused a large area of disasters due to perennial breaches, the cabinet took advantage of the disaster to renovate the water conservancy in the Central Plains, and the control of the Yellow River is almost a bottomless pit, requiring a lot of manpower and materials to build dikes.

How could the ruined Central Plains have the financial resources to support such a huge project?

Therefore, a large number of materials need to be transported from other places, but fortunately, in the past ten years, Hu Cao, the predecessor of the household department, has been able to establish a large number of warehouses in various places and reserve countless materials.

The transfer of a large amount of materials has also provided convenience for certain corrupt officials and profiteers, and many officials, because of their inflated selfish desires, have embarked on the road of violating law and discipline and colluding with profiteers to trade power for money.

At present, the official who manages these warehouses is the head of Cangcao - Pei Guan, Pei Guan was originally born in a wealthy family like the Pei family in Hedong, and he was related to Pei Wei, one of the giants, and Pu got a lot of convenience as soon as he entered the officialdom.

In addition, Pei Guan's own ability is not weak, and his background is very strong, so he quickly climbed from the bottom to the middle-level officials, and finally served as the head of Cangcao.

At first, Pei Guan looked at the mountains of materials in the warehouse and didn't have any other ideas, but took his subordinates to live diligently guarding the materials. It wasn't until he 'unintentionally' met a maritime merchant named Wuyi that Pei Guan's inner thoughts all changed.

After martial arts took 'leisure' a few times, Pei Guan gradually became contaminated with bad habits such as gambling and liking enjoyment. However, the officials' wealth was not enough to support him to live a luxurious life, and eventually Pei Guan set his sights on the materials in the warehouse.

The materials stored in each warehouse are prepared in advance for disaster relief and various crises, except for the inspection of the Imperial History sent by the Ombudsman from time to time, under normal circumstances, no one notices the changes in the materials in the warehouse.

This gave Pei Guan the opportunity to get his hands on it, as long as he could get rid of the imperial history who came to inspect, then the materials in the warehouse were almost at his disposal. Of course, it's almost impossible to buy all of the Imperial History, and the best way is to get the time and place of the Imperial History's inspection in advance, and then move it left and right to deal with it.

Gradually, Pei Guan embarked on the illegal and criminal road of reselling warehouse materials, and he sold the materials stored in the warehouse to major maritime merchants through martial arts, and made huge profits from it.

Originally, this matter went very smoothly, and Pei Guan also lived an arrogant and lascivious life, but with the sudden order of the cabinet this year to transfer various warehouses and materials to support the Central Plains to fight the disaster, his good life came to an end.

In Pei's study, Pei Guan was discussing countermeasures with several henchmen, who were all his contacts for the resale of materials, and several people colluded up and down to weave an impermeable corruption network.

"My lord, now from King Yan to Xiaomin, they are all staring at the Central Plains to fight the disaster, and a large amount of materials are pouring into the states and counties of the Central Plains like flowing water. At present, we must have more supplies in our hands to last half a month, and once a new order comes down in another half month, I am afraid that we will not be able to take out a grain of grain or a piece of cloth. ”

As soon as these words came out, the atmosphere in the room became more and more dull and solemn, everyone here was born as a native official of Yan State, how could they not know that the laws of Yan Country were strict, especially in terms of officials knowing the law and breaking the law, Yan Wang Weishuo even took it upon himself to forcibly pass many harsh laws.

As long as what they did was exposed, from Pei Guan, the head of Cangcao, to the ordinary officials, as long as they were involved in the case, there was almost no chance of being spared.

After being silent for a long time, Pei Guan, as the backbone of everyone, finally spoke, "Li Treasury, you give me the bottom, how long can the materials in the warehouse be supported?" If I buy from outside, how long will it take to raise enough supplies? ”

"My lord, according to the previous speed of material allocation, the materials in the warehouse can support half a month at most. In the unlikely event that the disaster situation in the Central Plains changes, it is difficult for the cabinet and the household department to ensure that they will not increase the mobilization of materials, and I am afraid that we will not be able to survive even seven days. ”

"As for buying from the outside world, not to mention that we don't have the money to pay for our expenses, even if we have enough money, I'm afraid we won't be able to buy enough supplies."

"Who else doesn't know that there is an imminent catastrophe in the Central Plains? Those businessmen had dog-like noses, clutched their supplies early, and easily did not make a move at all, just waiting for the disaster to occur and make a lot of money. ”

Speaking of this, Li Kufang looked up at Pei Guan, who was expressionless, and hesitated: "Unless ......"

"Unless what?"

"Unless you get the authorization of the cabinet to buy from major businesses in the name of the cabinet, only then can you hope to buy materials at a parity or a lower price."

Pei Guan pondered for a long time and said: "I will solve the problem of funds, as for the authorization of the cabinet...... I'll figure it out as well. I have only one request for everyone, and that is not to panic, and to calm down. We must be confident that as long as we work together, we will be able to overcome this difficult time. ”

Hearing Pei Guan's assurance, everyone's originally hanging hearts relaxed slightly. The reason why everyone dared to get on Pei Guan's thief ship was because he took a fancy to his deep background. Everyone believed that as long as Pei Guan found someone to dredge up in front of Pei Wei, an elder of the same clan, it would be a piece of cake to get the authorization of the cabinet.

I have to say that Pei Guan is eloquent, and I don't know what he said to Pei Wei, and finally moved the cabinet chief.

Fortunately, Pei Wei knew that this matter was important, so he did not easily agree to Pei Guan's request, and only proposed to wait for the cabinet to discuss before deciding.

Originally, the Ombudsman had conducted a secret investigation into Pei Guan, but it had not been disclosed to the outside world. The details of the case, except for Wei Shuo, are only known to the relevant imperial historians who are in charge of the investigation of the case.

When Wei Shuo heard Pei Guan's name from Pei Guan's mouth, he immediately realized that the corruption group with Pei Guan as the core had begun to save itself.

"The concealment of details of the case from the cabinet members is not out of mistrust, but out of the system. According to the regulations, no person, including the Cabinet, has the power to intervene during the investigation of a case by the Ombudsman. Therefore, it is impossible for me to ask Guojun to announce the case to everyone in advance until the case is clarified. ”

"And this time it was completely unexpected, if it wasn't for Wen Ji mentioning the people involved, and I was worried about affecting the investigation of the case, I had to confide in the cabinet in advance. But I hope that as a scholar, I will never confide in the outside world, and if I know that someone has leaked the case to the outside world, don't blame me for not being emotional. ”

"No! The ministers did not dare to defy the law. ”

Looking at Pei Wei with an ugly face, Wei Shuo waved his hand, and after the others completely withdrew from the room, he said: "Wen Ji don't want to be angry about this matter, Pei Guan has his own national law to deal with it, what does it have to do with you?" What does it have to do with the Pei family? You don't think I'm going to be angry with you and the Pei family, do you? ”

Pei Wei shook his head and said bitterly: "The minister is not worried about the lord, but angry that the Pei family's children know the law and break the law, how long has it been?" There is such a scum. ”

"This is what I often say, governing the country is like cooking a small fresh, especially the rule of officials, you need to simmer slowly. I have never had the luxury of expecting to make the Yan State officials clear overnight, this process may take ten or even twenty years, but as long as we continue to grasp it, the government will improve one day. ”

"The current occurrence of Pei Guan can be said to be my expectation, has the General Supervision Bureau arrested fewer corrupt officials over the years? There are quite a few, but Pei Guan's case is a bit special. First of all, it is the first time that it has appeared in the form of a corruption group, and the perpetrators are from famous families and have relationships with Wen Ji and the princess. ”

"Alas, if this incident affects the reputation of the princess, the minister will die!"

Then Pei Wei said categorically: "Please rest assured, the minister will go back and write a letter to the family, so that they can minimize the impact of Pei on the princess, even if this black pot is carried by our Pei family, it will not let the princess have any impact." ”

Wei Shuo said with a smile: "Wen Ji is serious, although Pei Guan has dealings with the palace, they are all ordinary human contacts, and the princess is not involved in corruption." ”

But Wei Shuo's comfort did not stop Pei Wei's determination, and after he came out of the political affairs hall, he quickly issued instructions to the Pei family. (To be continued.) )