Chapter 110 A sum of silver
As the only force in Gangnam Province after the war, the Cai family played a crucial role in the reconstruction of Gangnam Province and the reforms carried out after its annexation to Huaiyang Province.
Xie Yi is indeed one of the ten who will hit the Cai family's forces in Jiangnan Province, and he is far from being able to pose a threat anymore. But you must know that it is not only the Cai family that has been hit, but all the major forces in Jiangnan Province have been hit, and now the Gu family, who can suppress the Cai family faintly, did not even have the qualifications to carry shoes for the Cai family at that time.
Even if you don't save one, what's the matter? Ninety percent of this land was originally mine, but now everyone is not one out of ten, so that means that I still have ninety percent of this land now.
Therefore, the Cai family responded to Wang Shangshu's call and vigorously launched a major reform.
In this tide of feudal construction, the Cai family became a loyal dog of the Wang family.
Even if it is difficult to survive under the emperor's suppression, the family background is thicker than twenty years ago, isn't it?
Xie Shence found that in the process of the Great Jin Dynasty's resurgence, the emperor was always able to separate the Xie family and the Cai family from time to time.
The emperor did this to avoid contradictions.
And now, the contradiction has arisen again.
If Xie Shence thought that marrying the Cai family was not Wang Laoshangshu's intention, then Xie Shence could be sure that it must be the emperor's instructions.
Since the emperor can no longer tolerate the Xie family, why should he let Xie Shence take over as the Tiqi Division? Since Xie Shence has already been asked to take over as the Tiqi Division, why do you want to stir up disputes?
Can't wait?
Xie Shence thought about it a lot, and felt that it was really annoying for him to guess the intentions of the big guys here, so he was going to do something.
......
Xie Shence rolled up the file, and then let Xie Laosan hold it, except for Ti Qisi.
He was the Admiral of the Cavalry and had access to all the files without keeping them on file. In fact, Xie Shence did not go through the formal procedures to access the documents at all, he asked Xie Laosandao and Zhou Jinmian to take them directly.
Zhou Jinmian couldn't figure out why he was suddenly interested in the Cai family for a while.
Is it because you want to be a relative in the future?
Xie Shence took all the files of the Cai family in recent years, and then transferred a group of staff from Xie Sheng to start checking all kinds of information about the Cai family.
Since Xie Shence used his actions to destroy Wang Cai's marriage, he had to start with the Cai family. Starting from the Cai family is not to say to the Cai family that Wang Qingyan is mine, you should quickly repent of the marriage, but he wants the Cai family to never turn over.
Of course, the Cai family will not regret their marriage, this is their only chance to turn over. Xie Shence would not let go of Wang Qingyan, and it was impossible to persuade the Cai family to let go, so he had to defeat the Cai family.
It's that simple.
Anyway, your family has an enmity with my family, and now that I have an excuse, of course it's better to kill you now.
Xie Shence has never had the habit of raising tigers for trouble.
Xie Yi's sin will not be returned by their two brothers in the future? Since you're going to have to pay it back sooner or later, why not give you a knife when you're at your most vulnerable?
Sure enough, Xie Shence checked it like this, and he really found out that there was a problem.
On the second night, the staff reported back that the Cai family had a problem with a sum of money.
Xie Shence narrowed his eyes.
It's finally here.
The file that Xie Shence transferred directly from the Tiqi Division was naturally not the kind of statement that could be made public by the Ministry of Households, but was obtained after passing strict verification and investigation in advance. The Tobe's statements are indeed detailed, but in many cases they are based on Tiqi's investigations.
In the second year of the Cai family's Zhenglong, a sum of silver was transported from Wuxi to Kyoto, and then disappeared without a trace.
The 100,000 taels of silver were mentioned in the table of the household department, and the record on it was later transferred to the river repair work, but the staff patiently searched for the river work appropriations in the first year of Zhenglong and the third year of Zhenglong, but found that each allocation had a clear source, and none of the silver was from the tax silver paid by the Cai family in Wuxi, Huaiyang Road.
So where did the money go?
According to the advice of his staff, Xie Shence transferred all the financial revenue and expenditure files of the Zhenglong period from the Tiqi Division.
Xie Shence didn't go to Ti Cavalry for five days in a row.
The Tim Cavalry Division is an independent and complete department, quite mature, even to the point of not needing leadership. Xie Shence did not issue any new orders within a month after taking office, and he was walking according to the plan made by Wei Liao before, so the people of Tiqi basically did not feel uncomfortable.
This state of affairs made some of them not feel that Xie Shence had not come to the Ti Cavalry for five days in a row. In fact, Wei Liao rarely set foot in the Tiqi Division during his tenure.
Xie Shence spent the past five days in the small courtyard checking all kinds of data, from river repairs to relief to disaster victims, to repairs to the city walls and military supplies, as well as various expenses of Tiqi himself.
Finally, one day in late July, he found the clue.
In the autumn of the second year of Zhenglong, the Cai family should have handed over a sum of 100,000 taels of tax silver, which was the tax silver that the Cai family should pay after obtaining a part of the Taihu Lake aquatic products selling and selling rights through bidding with the government.
The silver itself was intended to be used to build the Yellow River Dati, which was slightly shortcut in the summer of the second year of Zhenglong, but there is no record in the records of the Ministry of Industry. This is a normal thing, because there is a situation of appropriation or borrowing in every country. There is no record from the Ministry of Works, but there is a clue in another payment from the Ministry of Households, which has an extra amount of 100,000 taels of silver on an expenditure of Zhenglongsan, which is used for the replacement of horses in the Northern Army.
The Northern Army is a border army with seventy percent of the defense, and there are few attacks, and more often it is used to deter the 100,000 iron cavalry of the two military towns of Fanyang in Youzhou, Northern Yan. The replacement of war horses is generally rotated every three years, and this rotation does not count the losses in wartime and peacetime, and generally costs about 200,000 taels of silver every three years. And the third year of Zhenglong is not the regular rotation year of the war horses of the Northern Army, so where did the 100,000 taels of silver go?
Xie Shence and his staff found clues in another record.
The silver was broken up and divided into three parts, part of which was used for the exchanges between the king of Qi and the ministers, part of it was used for the replacement of equipment for the soldiers of Sima Bi's Northern Army, and part of it flowed back to Huaiyang Road from the appropriation of the household department for the construction of the Taihu port.
This is the only amount of silver that is related to the Cai family and cannot be recorded in the upper household department.
Okay, just to verify this clue, it took a total of fifteen days before and after.
When I found out what the money was for, it was August.
At this time, it has only been twenty-one days since Wang Qingyan and Cai Kang exchanged marriage letters.
Such silver embezzlement can be seen everywhere in the household records of the Jin Kingdom, but because it is related to the Cai family, Xie Shence pays special attention.
However, this matter does not seem to have anything to do with the Cai family.
Because the Cai family handed over the tax silver that should be paid, and it was a lot, and the household department had already issued an approval document and stamped it. The Cai family has done their job. As for how to use the silver, it is not something that the Cai family can care about.
It's not something that the Cai family can control.
But Xie Shence instinctively sensed that there was something strange about this matter.
There must be something strange about this!
Xie Shence's intuition has maintained an unerring record until now, so when he faced the data submitted by his staff members who had been working tirelessly for nearly half a month, he immediately believed his instincts.
It's not a blind belief, thanking Shence is well-founded.
Because this matter involved King Qi and Sima Bi.
The relationship between King Qi and Sima Bi was no secret in the Great Jin Dynasty.
Sima Bi is the uncle of King Qi, the most middle-class pillar of King Qi's party, and the tightest and thickest thigh of King Qi.
The reason why it is said that the king of Qi hugs Sima Bi's thigh instead of Sima Bi's thigh is very simple, Sima Bi can leave King Qi, but King Qi can't do without Sima Bi, that is, the queen mother does not leave Sima Bi at night - her own brother.
The tax money submitted by the Cai family in the second year of Zhenglong turned out to be used on the Qi Wang Party and himself in the third year of Zhenglong.
This made Xie Shence realize the trickiness in it.
The 30,000 taels of tax silver handed over last year turned out to be back in his pocket again this year after he played a fold that needed to be repaired at Taihu Port.
The cost of King Qi, the cost of Sima Bi, and the cost of the Cai family add up to exactly 100,000 taels.
Xie Shence then transferred two more files from the Cavalry Division during the Zhenglong period, one was the expenses of the Qi Palace, and the other was the military expenses of the Northern Army.
Again, this will be a huge undertaking.
Xie Shence now understands the reason why Qian Bo'an made the old Shangshu of the household department disgusted back then.
Xie Shence did this for his own convenience, but Qian Boan forced Wang Jianghuai to spend ten days checking the ten taels of silver with almost everyone in the household.
It's strange that Wang Jianghuai doesn't hate Qian Bo'an.
The results still have to wait.
But time is running out to thank Shence.
So Xie Shence used a letter from Grade A to ask Wang Wang Jiehua to find a way to postpone the time of exchanging marriage letters.
asked his fiancée to help his little lover, and it is estimated that only Xie Shence can come out and succeed.
Wang Jiehua agreed almost without the slightest hesitation. Of course, Xie Shence didn't see the reply.
Even for a letter processed by Class A, it takes five days to travel from Jindu to Chuzhou. If Wang Jiehua agreed, naturally there was no need to reply to Xie Shence. If Wang Jiehua doesn't agree......
What are you kidding, how could Wang Jiehua not agree. Wang Jiehua is an extremely intelligent woman, she knows Xie Shence's character very well, if she doesn't help Xie Shence this time, then she will put a thorn in Xie Shence's heart. This thorn will have a profound impact on the foundation of the relationship between the two of them.
Wang Jiehua and Wang Qingyan are the sisters who get along best in the third generation of the Wang family, and they are almost inseparable, and since Xie Shence appeared, it has been even more so. In the past ten years, the scene that the Wang family has seen the most is that Xie Shence took the third and fourth ladies of the Wang family to wander around.
As the person who gets along with Wang Qingyan the most, Wang Jiehua is actually the person who knows Wang Qingyan best.
Because they are not only sisters, but also rivals in love.