readx; Li Qing'an values Anxi the most, that is his foundation, all his upward growth power comes from Si, Anxi is like his son, he struggles in that rich land, throws blood, he dedicates the most brilliant youth to that land, in his mind, it is a piece of white jade flawless jade, he will never tolerate anyone to defile it. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Maybe he can tolerate Cui Ping's corruption, maybe he can Pei Zunqing's power-hungry, but he can't tolerate corruption in the land of Anxi, and there is a monopoly of power.

In order to maintain the balance of power, he let the military and political study power, set up the Anxi political affairs hall, even in the political affairs hall, he also implemented the three power reading power, Wang Changling's administrative power, Pei Min's supervision power, Cen Shen's right to refute, said that he didn't ask about military and political affairs, but all military and political affairs need his Li Qing'an's final approval.

Although others left Anxi, Anxi's military power and supreme administrative power were still in his hands, and he was now the envoy of Anxi's festival, or the protector of Anxi's capital, controlling Anxi from afar.

In order to control Anxi, he did not hesitate to spend a lot of manpower and material resources to build the Tang Straight Road, and set up a post station every 100 miles, equipped with the best horses, Anxi's important documents to the North Court as a starting point, in an expedited way of 800 miles to Chang'an to relay the letter, half a month, the document can be sent to his desk, not only that, but he also trained the eagle to send letters between the North Garden, Qiuzi and Broken Leaves, in order to ensure the speed and speed of the information.

All these efforts have not been in vain, and despite his absence, Anthy has been able to maintain a good and efficient way of functioning.

It's just that Li Qingan never imagined that a certain dark place in Anxi also appeared [***], a young regime will never tolerate the existence of this [***], if left unchecked, this [***] will spread rapidly like a cancer cell, and finally destroy Anxi.

Li Qingan paced back and forth in the room with his hands behind his back, he was thinking, where is the loophole in Anxi's grain? Not only does he have to cut off this mass of carrion, but he also has to systematically prevent [***] regeneration.

Anxi's grain comes from three pieces, one is Juntun, the second is Mintun, and the third is the grain of Xinde and Tianzhu, with the permanent army of the Anxi Army reduced to 100,000 people, the grain of Xinde and Tianzhu is no longer supplied to Anxi, but directly transported to Guangzhou or Yangzhou by sea ship.

Then the problem should appear in the military tun and the people, the grain in the military tun is directly supplied to the army, Li Qingan does not believe that Feng Changqing will be corrupt, even if there is, the officers below will denounce him, and the military discipline of the Anxi army is like an iron bucket.

What worries him the most is Mintun, Mintun is actually a field of twenty taxes and one tax, which is more complicated, if the account books are tight, it is also difficult to do anything, at this time, Li Qingan suddenly remembered one thing, since the year before last, Anxi Zhengshitang began to buy peasants' grain storage from the market, and the old grain is changed every three years, and the old grain replaced is generally transported to Hexi to exchange horses with local herdsmen, and the amount is quite huge, is the problem here?

"General, General Hu is here, waiting outside the door."

The sound of the pro-soldier report sounded at the door, Li Qing'an was in good spirits, this must be Hu Peiyun found out something, he immediately ordered: "Let him in!" ”

After a while, Hu Peiyun hurriedly walked in, knelt down on one knee and said, "See the general!" ”

"Get up!"

Li Qingan sat down, staring at him with blazing eyes, waiting for Hu Peiyun to tell him the answer.

"General, the humble duty has seized the Huhang rice shop, and after interrogating the shopkeeper of the rice shop, the shopkeeper has confessed that the proprietor of the rice shop is Pei Jiangtian, the envoy of the Hexi Transit Branch."

"It turned out to be him!"

Li Qing'an's pupils slowly contracted, Pei Jiangtian was just a small person, the key was Pei Jiangtian's father, Anxi supervised the imperial history Pei Mian.

"Is this rice shop operating normally?"

This is the focus of Li Qing'an's concern, if the rice shop is operating normally and has a normal purchase price, even if the rice is transported from Anxi, then Pei Mian is only a private shop in violation of the law at most, and at most he will be warned and his son will be dismissed from public office, but if it involves embezzlement of Anxi grain, it will be a big crime.

Hu Peiyun replied: "We haven't found concrete evidence yet, but according to the shopkeeper's explanation, their proprietor even allowed them to sell it at a price of 50 yuan per bucket. ”

"Fifty Wen!"

Li Qingan couldn't help sneering, the price of grain in the Anxi market is still 80 wen per bucket, and the cost of transporting it from Anxi to Chang'an will add at least 20 wen, and he can sell it for 50 wen, you can imagine how 'low' their purchase price is.

Hu Peiyun said again: "General, I also got a piece of information from my humble position, this Pei Jiangtian is now in Chang'an, and he went to the rice shop the day before yesterday, but now I don't know where?" ”

This news was beyond Li Qing'an's expectations, he walked a few steps behind his back, and immediately ordered: "Immediately use all forces to arrest this Pei Jiangtian, no matter what, he is not allowed to escape back to Anxi." ”

"Obedience!"

Pei Peiyun turned around and went down, Li Qingan only felt a pain in his heart, and he had a faint premonition, since the shopkeeper said that transporting grain to Chang'an was a business, it was very likely that Pei Jiangtian was using the official camel team, if that was the case, then it was necessary to get the approval of the Anxi Political Affairs Hall, so Pei Mian was likely to be involved in the case.

If Pei Mian is involved in the case, it will be the biggest scandal since he Li Qing'an took charge of Anxi, surpassing the official sale case of the servant Huai'en, and the second-ranked senior administrative official in Anxi is involved in corruption, which simply makes him Li Qingan a little crazy.

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Pei Mian's ancestral home is Wenxi County, Hedong, although it is also regarded as the Pei family, but it is only a side branch, and the Pei family has little to do with it, the earliest Pei Mian is the Sima of the Hexi March, belongs to Ge Shuhan's subordinates, a few years ago Cheng Qianli served as the governor of Liangzhou, and Pei Mian and others had a bad relationship, Pei Mian, Du Hongjian and others went west to Anxi and defected to Li Qing'an.

At that time, Li Qing'an was thirsty for talent, Pei Mian and others undoubtedly made Li Qing'an greatly excited, he immediately reused these Hexi high-ranking officials, Du Hong gradually became the governor of the court, Pei Mian was even more to achieve the high position of the Anxi camp field envoy, and later promoted to the Anxi supervision of the imperial history, entered the Anxi political hall, and became the second high-ranking official of Anxi government affairs, second only to Wang Changling, the long history.

Pei Mian has two sons, the eldest son Pei Jiangshan, the current governor of the Hui Governor, Pei Jiangtian, the second son, has been following Pei Mian, because of his father's relationship, the current Hexi transfer envoy, responsible for the transportation of materials between Anxi and Hexi, the official position is not big, just a small official from the eighth grade, but this position is recognized as a fat shortage, and he is fully responsible for transporting Chen grain to Hexi and exchanging horses with herdsmen.

Therefore, he is the proprietor of the old store in Huhang, which makes him suspicious of transporting Anxi old rice to Chang'an to sell it for profit.

According to the confession of the shopkeeper of the old store in Huhang, Pei Jiangtian also owns a jewelry store in Dongshi, called Qianhu Jewelry Store, which sells all kinds of jewelry from Anxi and Xinde Tianzhu.

In the afternoon, when people came and went in Dongshi, and business was booming, nearly 1,000 internal security soldiers suddenly appeared on Dongshi Street, temporarily closing the gate of Dongshi, and a group of soldiers rushed to the location of the jewelry store.

More than 300 cavalrymen galloped to the Qianhu jewelry store, surrounded the store, murderous, the shopkeepers and customers were frightened, and they fled one after another, but were stopped by the cavalry and were not allowed to leave.

"We're just arresting one person, and we have nothing to do with anyone else, so please don't be impatient!"

A cavalry general shouted loudly, and the shopkeeper stepped forward tremblingly and asked, "May I ask who committed the crime in the shop, and we are willing to assist the officers and soldiers." ”

Lang pointed his horsewhip at him and asked, "Are you the shopkeeper?" ”

"Yes! The villain is exactly. ”

"What about your proprietor?"

"The proprietor..... Not in the store. ”

"Fart! Someone just saw him enter the store. ”

More than 200 soldiers arrived, and General Lang waved his horsewhip, "Thorough search!" ”

More than 200 heavily armed soldiers rushed into the store, and at this time, Hu Peiyun also rode to the front of the store and asked, "How is the situation?" ”

General Lang immediately clasped his fists and saluted: "General Hui, the spies we sent have confirmed that the suspect entered the store a quarter of an hour ago and did not come out, and the soldiers have entered the store to start a comprehensive search." ”

Hu Peiyun nodded, he looked at this store, the scale is medium in the East Market, there are more than 20 customers in the store, indicating that the business is good, it is said that the jewelry sold in this store is cheaper than others, and the owner of the store is a high-ranking official in Anxi, which makes people wonder whether there is a possibility of tax evasion in Anxi.

There was a sudden stirring in the shop, and someone shouted, "Let me go!" ”

I saw dozens of soldiers grabbing a man out of the shop, the man was about twenty-five or sixteen years old, and his appearance was quite delicate, Hu Peiyun had seen Pei Mian, and when he saw this man, he immediately judged that this person must be Pei Mian's son, who looked like his father.

The man was pushed in front of Hu Peiyun, he gradually stopped struggling, this person is Pei Mian's son Pei Jiangtian, he obviously knows Hu Peiyun, Hu Peiyun was the lieutenant general of the Anxi Military Discipline Supervision Office back then, stern and tough, ruthless, known as the cold-faced general, and now he actually appeared outside the store, indicating that the matter is serious.

Pei Jiangtian lowered his head weakly, no matter whether he did anything illegal or not, he should not appear in the capital at this time, he was an incumbent official, and he entered Beijing without official business, which was a felony to be expelled from public office in Anxi.

Now Pei Jiangtian is counting on his father's face to enable him to escape this catastrophe, and he doesn't know that the old Huhang store in Xishi has been seized.

Hu Peiyun asked coldly: "You came to Chang'an on business?" ”

Pei Jiangtian slowly raised his head and replied calmly, "You can go and ask my father." ”

"Your father?"

Hu Peiyun sneered and said, "I'm afraid your father only hates not having your son." ”

With a wave of his hand, he ordered, "Take him away!" ”

The soldiers tied him up, put a black cloth bag around his head, and pushed him into a carriage, which was followed by hundreds of horsemen.

With the seizure of the Thousand Lakes Jewelry Store, the temporary martial law in the East Market is over, and the East Market has returned to normal order, and everyone is talking about it, not knowing what happened?

Two hours later, the sky was getting dark, Li Qing'an came to the Inner Guard Yamen located in the Imperial City, the Inner Guard Yamen is the original location of the left prison guard, covering a vast area, can garrison 20,000 soldiers, at present 10,000 internal guards are stationed here, the internal guard intelligence hall is next door to the Inner Guard Yamen, is the original Zuo Wuwei Yamen.

As soon as Li Qingan walked into the yamen, Hu Peiyun greeted him, "Report to the general, he has recruited them all." ”

"Hmm!"

Li Qingan answered, and if he didn't confess when he entered the Internal Security Intelligence Hall, it was Hu Peiyun's incompetence, Hu Peiyun led him into the innermost prison, which is the place where the intelligence hall detains prisoners and interrogates them, and walked to a stone house, Li Qingan looked inside from the small window on the door, the stone house was full of various torture instruments, Pei Jiangtian was naked, tied to an iron pillar with his backhand, his head drooped, and he could see that he was tortured.

Li Qingan sneered and walked into the room next to him, there was a large table in the room, and the table was full of various documents and account books, which were all kinds of records copied from the old store in Huhang and the Qianhu jewelry store, and several clerical staff were busy sorting them out.

Li Qing'an sat down on a circle chair next to him, and a guard served him a cup of tea, and he took a sip of tea slowly.

"What's the catch?"

"Yes!"

Hu Peiyun held a wooden box and put it in front of Li Qingan, "This was found in Pei Jiangtian's luggage, it was three approvals, and there was also an account." ”

Li Qing'an put down the cup and picked up an approval document, which was issued by the Yingtian Division of the Anxi Political Affairs Hall: 'I hereby transfer 3,000 stones of rice to the Dunhuang warehouse'.

"What does that mean?" Li Qingan frowned and asked, he was a little incomprehensible.

"General, this is to exchange good new rice and old rice, according to Pei Jiangtian's confession, nominally he sold 50,000 stone of old rice to Hexi herdsmen every year, in exchange for horses, but in fact it will only sell 42,000 stones, and the remaining 8,000 stones will be intercepted by him, and Pei Mian will transfer good new rice 8,000 stones to the Dunhuang warehouse, and replace it with his Chen rice, and finally the 8,000 stone grain will only be recorded and stored in the warehouse 5,000 stones, and the rest will be used as road loss, in fact, the road loss is only 1,000 stones, so that he has 10,000 stone grain in his hands, Every year, it will be transported to the capital to be sold, and one stone will be counted as earning two yuan, and he will make a net profit of 20,000 yuan for grain alone. ”

"Food alone? What else? Li Qingan couldn't hold back the anger in his heart.

"And jewels!"

Hu Peiyun took out the account book in the wooden box again, turned a few pages and said, "General, please look here." ”

Li Qing'an looked at it, and there was a list on it, which read: 'A batch of Huren jewelry was shipped in June, totaling 438 pieces, and the details are as follows.......

I saw that there were all kinds of jewelry written below, and there was actually Pei Min's signature in the lower right corner.

"What's going on?"

"Does the general remember the three private warehouses?"

Li Qing'an woke up to the fact that five years ago he set up a three-private warehouse under the Anxi Supervision Department, which was specially used to store all kinds of confiscated materials, including jewelry goods smuggled by Arab merchants, smuggled goods sold by Sogdians to the Uighurs, and smuggled goods seized for tax evasion, and so on, including jewelry, gold, silver, jade, and various cotton cloths, and other items.

"Could it be that these jewels are from the Sanfu Treasury?"

Hu Peiyun nodded, "According to Pei Jiangtian's explanation, all the supplies of Qianhu Jewelry Store come from the Sanfu warehouse, and it has earned 150,000 yuan in profits in the past two years. ”

"Bastard!"

Li Qingan was so angry that he slapped the account book on the table, he was extremely angry, the last thing he wanted to see happened, Pei Mian actually used his power to embezzle the public treasury materials, and it has been two years, he actually didn't know at all.

"Didn't anyone report it?"

Hu Peiyun shook his head, "Pei Jiangtian confessed that before they started, they had replaced all the managers with their own people, and some people with lowly positions were afraid of Pei Mian's power and did not dare to report it. ”

Li Qingan walked back and forth in the room with his hands behind his back, the evidence was conclusive, Pei Mian had nothing to deny, he was thinking about how to deal with Pei Mian's father and son and all the accomplices, severe punishment was necessary, the key was to keep the official face, secretly dispose of Pei Mian and his son, or deal with it publicly, and make an example of him.

Li Qing'an stopped, at this moment, he made up his mind that he must make an example.

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The night is already very deep, Li Qingan is still sitting in the inner study quietly thinking about Pei Mian, he can't sleep, the second person in the Anxi Political Affairs Hall, Pei Mian, who has served as the right minister in history, will be a big rat, two years, embezzled 20,000 stone grain, more than 4,800 pieces of jewelry, worth 200,000 yuan, using the loopholes of altering the account book and no one to supervise, it was done seamlessly, no one exposed, if it wasn't for his accidental private interview, then when will Pei Mian's father and son be corrupt?

Li Qingxin felt a chill in his heart, this was still discovered, and the corruption that was not discovered was coded? Definitely, it's just hidden deeper.

Li Qingan couldn't help but feel very disappointed in Wang Changling, it should be said that Wang Changling had the responsibility of negligence in this matter, he believed that Wang Changling himself was honest and upright, and there would be no problems, but Wang Changling's weakness was also very obvious, he was too upright, and almost everyone disliked him, so that it was difficult for his decrees to be implemented well.

It can be seen from Pei Jiangtian's confession that for more than two years, the three private warehouses have never been checked, so that the accounts have been altered every year and no one cares, which is of course Pei Mian's excessive power, but it can also be seen that Wang Changling's weak side, his qualifications in the officialdom are too shallow, and he can't overpower Pei Mian, and the people of the Yingtian Division even issued an order for Pei Mian to adjust grain.

This is also Wang Changling's most fatal place, his officialdom qualifications are too shallow, he can't suppress the people below, when he was in Anxi, maybe the officials below were afraid of their authority and did not dare to disobey Wang Changling's decrees, but once he left Anxi, Wang Changling's prestige was immediately gone.

Wang Changling must be replaced, he can't end up ruining his foundation because he can't get over it, Li Qingan pondered for a moment, in fact, he had already thought of a person, who has both Wang Changling's honesty and integrity, and Wang Changling's lack of officialdom qualifications, and is extremely capable, this person is Zhang Hao, let him go to Anxi to govern, it is easier to establish a strong Anxi administrative office.

Li Qingan secretly made up his mind.

At this time, the door was gently pushed open, and Li Qingan's wife Dugu Mingyue walked into the room with a cup of ginseng tea, she put the teacup on the table and gently massaged Li Qingan's head.

"Da Lang, it's so late, don't you still sleep?"

"Anxi has a big corruption case, I can't sleep!"

"Da Lang is a little worried, where is there no corruption and perversion of the law? There's no way to stop it, I remember my grandfather said that some people are killed, and he will also be greedy when he goes to the underworld, don't worry, go to bed early! ”

"I also know, but I'm unwilling! Anthy is my son, and I can't watch my son get sick and leave it alone. ”

"Actually, my grandfather said that when Emperor Zetian was in power, he established the Four Queans, which led to the rare occurrence of corruption and perversion of the law, why didn't Da Lang follow suit?"

Mingyue's words reminded Li Qing'an, Wu Zetian's so-called four boxes, in fact, are four big iron boxes, encouraging the people to submit complaints, Wu Zetian is certainly used to eradicate political enemies, but it does play the role of supervising officials, its essence is to mobilize the people and low-level officials to supervise corrupt officials, Pei Mian is greedy is of course he is too powerful, and the people below dare not report it, for fear of retaliation, on the other hand, it lacks a supervision mechanism.

If he set up four boxes in Anxi to encourage the people to submit letters to expose them, and then let Chang'an's Supervision Department supervise them, this will undoubtedly be a huge deterrent to Anxi officials.

Li Qingan nodded, change to a strong ruler, and then establish an effective supervision mechanism, two-pronged, there must be no second Pei Mian appear.

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(To be continued)