Those account offices and stewards were willing to honestly admit their crimes, and they all pulled their necks and shouted injustice: "Lord Qingtian, if we make false accounts, we will not die well!" ”

The prefect's face was cold: "Do you do not make fake accounts, the official will send a few old account rooms to check and know, you don't need to call!" ”

None of the bookkeepers and stewards were afraid.

Jiang Mingzhong sent those fake account books to the officials of the household department who specially checked the accounts.

Even those sharp-eyed household officials can't see the flaw, how can those bookkeepers see the problem? So everyone has peace of mind.

The prefect was about to issue an order for the officials to bring a few powerful account offices, and Yu Qing said: "My lord, don't bother, the grass people themselves can see the problems with those account books." ”

When the prefect heard this, he asked Yuqing to speak out in court.

Yu Qing pointed out the doubts one by one, and let those stewards and accounts explain them.

The faces of those stewards and the account office all changed, they never thought that Yu Qing could see all the problems in the account book at such a young age as a god.

The steward and the bookkeeper faced her questioning, all of them were dripping in cold sweat and tried their best to quibble.

But Yuqing is sharp and sharp-tongued, and can always pierce their sophistries in a few words, driving them to a dead end, and having to admit that those account books are all fake accounts.

Only then did Yu Qing kowtow to the prefect and said: "Although there is no cat in the world that does not steal, from the imperial court to the ordinary people, there is no account without any problem."

If these bookkeepers and stewards only do some tricks and feet properly, and are greedy for some silver taels, the grass people can accept it.

However, they took advantage of my second uncle's distribution of the Grange to my family, bullied me for being young, and embezzled almost all of the Grange's income over the years. ”

The prefect stroked his beard and said, "This is natural." ”

Then he slapped the wood, and ordered the officials to make all the accounts and stewards thirty boards each, and ordered them to spit out all the embezzled silver and return it to Yuqing.

Those stewards and bookkeepers were all frightened, they could hold on to the thirty boards, but they could make them pay for the shortfall of the grange, what would they pay?

They all knelt on the ground and kowtowed like pounding garlic, and shouted in their mouths: "The little ones are only doing this at the behest of Master Jiang."

The little ones only took a few hundred taels of silver, and most of the silver went into Lord Jiang's pocket, hoping that the adults would check it out! ”

When the prefect saw that Jiang Mingzhong was involved, he ordered the officials to summon him to the court.

At this time, Jiang Mingzhong was like an ant on a hot pot, and he was taken to the court before he could come up with a countermeasure.

When he arrived at the court, he gritted his teeth and refused to admit that he had instructed the stewards and the accounting office to almost empty the property of the grange allocated to Yuqing's family.

If he doesn't admit it, he still has a glimmer of hope to get out of this matter, and admits that not only will he return the silver taels he embezzled, but his own reputation and even the reputation of the old mansion will be completely finished.

This is not the most serious, what is even more serious is that if Xia Ruohan's eunuch learns that he is so secretly plotting, he will definitely not spare him.

Those bookkeepers and stewards were grief and indignation, but what could they do to Jiang Mingzhong?

They couldn't come up with ironclad evidence to prove that Jiang Mingzhong instructed them to do that.

Just when the two sides were at a dog-eat-dog stalemate, I saw a Ti Rider galloping on a horse.

The people who were crowded under the court to watch the bustle immediately dispersed, and ran far away, looking at the rider in horror.

The man rode in front of the yamen, turned over and dismounted, walked straight to the court, handed over a payment book, and then stepped aside in a whisper, with the potential to supervise the prefect's trial.

The prefect flipped over the ledger, then threw it at Jiang Mingzhong's feet, and asked sharply, "Lord Jiang, do you recognize this ledger?" ”

Jiang Mingzhong bent over, picked up the account book with trembling hands and flipped through it, his face changed greatly, and he snorted: "Next...... The lower official recognized that this account book was the account book of the lower official's family. ”

The prefect nodded: "It's good if you admit it." ”

"You keep saying that you have nothing to do with the false account incident, and you have never embezzled a penny from your nephew's Grange, so do you dare to let this official take your account book to check your family's property?

If your family's property is not much different from this ledger, you can prove that you have not touched the property of your nephew's Grange.

If your family's property is far greater than what is registered in this ledger, the magistrate should hear the source of your dissolution of property that is not registered in the ledger. ”

Jiang Mingzhong's face suddenly turned to ashes.

If the prefect is allowed to investigate, not only can it be found that he has embezzled the property distributed to Yuqing's family's grange, but even the matter of the silver tickets and cash that were given to Yuqing's family has been exposed, so he has to nod and admit his guilt.

This is already a contradiction within the family, plus Jiang Mingzhong is an official of the imperial court, although the prefect is his superior, he can't do anything to him.

Therefore, he was fined a sum of silver and ordered to return the embezzled property to Yuqing, and the case was closed.

Yu Qing still saved the money for Brother Sheng'er alone.

The shopkeepers and men of the shops that the Jiang family gave to Yuqing's family were ready to pick a pick.

Seeing that Yuqing has been helped by Dongchang many times, even Master Jiang has been planted in her hands, who dares to act rashly, they all work honestly.

Yu Qing didn't pay attention to the shops for the time being, and after three days, she settled the wages of all the tenants in the Grange, and was busy recruiting stewards and bookkeepers.

Yu Qing waited for a day, but only a middle-aged man with a face full of scars and a disfigured face came to apply.

Yu Qing asked some questions about managing the Grange, and the middle-aged man answered them all fluently, and seemed to be very knowledgeable.

But Yuqing also wants to see other applicants, so that she can be admitted on the basis of merit.

The disfigured middle-aged man spoke: "This little man, you don't have to wait, there will be no other applicants." ”

Yu Qing raised her eyes and asked, "How do you say this?" ”

The disfigured middle-aged man told her frankly that all the job postings she had posted had been torn up by him.

Yu Qing asked him why, and he was right, thinking that he was capable of the job of stewardship.

Yu Qing was speechless: "Even if the uncle is competent for the job of stewardship, you can only occupy one place."

I have several granges, I need several stewards and several account offices, you tore up all my recruitment notices, you delay my recruitment, you have to bear the consequences! ”

The middle-aged man slammed to the ground: "Since you dare to tear up the recruitment notice of the little boy, you dare to bear the consequences."

Although he asked for the position of steward, he asked for the post of chief steward.

If the young man is hired, he will help you recruit the sub-manager and the account office, and ensure that the little boy's grange and shop are well organized. ”

Yu Qing secretly wondered in her heart, and she didn't know if this uncle was bragging or really capable, so she would give him a chance to see if he was bragging.

Therefore, he was promised to be hired as the chief steward for a probationary period of three months, during which he was only covered with food and lodging, and no wages were paid.

If the probationary period is passed, the salary for these three months will be made up.

Despite the harsh conditions, the disfigured middle-aged man readily agreed.

Yuqing asked him what his surname was, and the uncle told her that his surname was Jiang.

This is a bit of a coincidence, she is also surnamed Jiang now, but she has the same name as Uncle Jiang.