As Liu Chenxing expected, tonight, the people from the Taicang Department staged a thief shouting to catch the thief.

Xiong Yuan said how to arrest the person who set the fire, and there are Song Ruxuan, Shaoqing of Dali Temple, Feng Tao in the Imperial History, and Jiang Yuan, the right attendant of the Criminal Department, these three people are important figures in the three divisions, and they usually preside over the trial of the criminal prison.

The so-called strong dragon can't suppress the head snake, the water here in the Taicang Department is too deep, and almost all the hands and feet are not clean from top to bottom, and the news of how Liu Chenxing and his party will open a warehouse to check the grain this afternoon has spread far and wide, so the officials of the Taicang Department are anxious.

Once it is found out that the warehouses in the grain storage area are either moldy and spoiled grain, or the empty warehouses of the "double-storey warehouses" that cover their ears and steal bells, this will almost become a particularly serious corruption case, and in the current Guanzhong encounters a rare drought in 10 years, and there is an extreme shortage of grain, I am afraid that not only will I be guilty of a great crime, but will even affect my family and relatives.

After all, they and even the bigger magnates behind them did not expect that this was the first day of the formal investigation, and they would directly give them a salary draw, you must know how many officials came to investigate the Taicang problem before, and they all returned in vain. also made himself fishy, where could he have thought of Liu Chenxing's bad idea, so that they would be exposed on the first day of investigation.

The officials of the Taicang Department were anxious, and they could only take risks.

In less than half a day, the solution they thought of was actually good, and they were very ruthless in surviving.

It doesn't matter how taboo they set up a banquet during the investigation of the case by the inspection team, and it may even be impossible to implement it, they still set up a banquet in the Taicang Department with great fanfare, and took great pains to invite Zheng Xiaoyu, the hottest famous prostitute who is now the hottest and can barely come to the Forbidden Garden through identity investigation.

The Northern Taicang Order thought that there was no man who did not steal fish, and what King Wei did not get close to women, he did not believe it at all, so he strongly advocated that Zheng Xiaoyu hook the King of Wei, so that the King of Wei would be stumped, and Song Xuanru, Feng Tao and others would not leave the table in advance.

In this way, they could take advantage of the fact that the inspection team was dragged to the banquet, and they were most familiar with the grain storage area, so they just set fire to the empty warehouse that was covering their ears and stealing bells.

The reason for choosing an empty warehouse as a target is also very simple, the empty warehouse is evidence of direct corruption, and the moldy and spoiled grain can still be quibbled. Such a burn can somewhat annihilate some evidence, and it can also prevent the inspection team from continuing its investigation, in short, this is the only way they can think of at present.

In addition, the granary was burned, and the officials of their Taicang Department could not escape the blame, and the dismissal of the official was still light, and no one else would suspect that it was their thieves who shouted to catch the thieves and set fires, but improper storage is much lighter than directly convicting it of major corruption.

Everything was calculated very well, but unexpectedly, Shen Zhongyi had already taken precautions, and asked Xiong Yuan to lead people to ambush the surroundings early in the morning, and then just waited for the turtle to be caught in the urn and caught it.

Of course, the above causes and consequences could not have been recruited by the officials of the Taicang Bureau, but they were panicked and anxious, so they could only connect with a craftsman and a clerk who were in the grain storage area and set fire to them, these two people were found in a hurry, and they were not as secret as the carefully selected Deadpool - for example, on the night of the Shangyuan Lantern Festival two years ago, those who assassinated Shen Zhongyi committed suicide as soon as they were caught in failure.

The two of them were weak and panicked, and Song Xuanru and others were good at trying cases, but it was just one night, so they were called separately. Among them, the officials knew more, and they got Shen Zhongyi's words to make up for their mistakes, as long as they explained truthfully, they could avoid death, and ensure that their lives would not be secretly removed. This official also happened to be a person who was greedy for life and afraid of death, and immediately didn't care whether his family would be harmed if he explained it, and when he thought that the inspection team had found out the main thing, he explained in detail the causes and consequences of the scene tonight that the Taicang Department and others were waiting for.

Although they were seized and set on fire, the Taicang Department and others still couldn't help but stubbornly shout and refuse to admit it.

However, this is no longer important, the existing evidence has been directed at the officials of the Taicang Bureau, naturally all of them are circled, and then the burning warehouse is opened to take a look, and the surrounding area continues to use the bamboo pole that Liu Chenxing thought of to probe the bottom, and the biggest corruption evidence of the empty warehouse surfaced.

This is conclusive evidence, even if the crime of arson is not admitted, the charge of embezzling the national granary cannot be escaped, even if the North Taicang Order still does not admit it, as the supreme governor here, all the income and expenditure of the grain storage area must pass through him, plus there are stone tablets outside the empty warehouse to record the relevant storage materials and responsible persons, which is already a crime that cannot be denied.

If so, as soon as it dawned the next day, Song Xuanru, Feng Tao, and Jiang Yuan, the three heavyweights of the three divisions, got a list of the five hundred warehouses which were moldy and spoiled, and which were empty.

This day is the first day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, and the chronological order has already entered autumn, which is the time when autumn is high and cool.

When the sun rises in the east, a piece of sunshine shines.

The south door of the Taicang Office Hall was wide open, and the sunlight shone in a large area without obstruction, and the room in the hall was bright, so that everything was visible.

The inspection team led by Shen Zhongyi gathered in the lobby, did not even take a seat, stood directly under the hall, and circulated the transcript in his hand shockingly, without saying a word for a long time.

After a while, Sinong Shaoqing was the first to speak to Weicai, his voice hoarse, "The supervision of the lower officials is not effective, they are actually ...... How dare you! Saying that, I don't know if the amount of corruption is so huge that it is difficult to speak, or it is too angry to speak, Xiang Wei's words have just started, and he can't continue.

Seeing Xiang Wei like this, Song Xuanru, Feng Tao and others have been officials in the same dynasty for many years, even if they don't have much friendship in private, they also have a little bit of face love to see each other every morning, but they didn't say a word of comfort, it was really just one night, the results of this investigation are enough to shock the government and the opposition, and I don't know what to do if I investigate again.

In particular, the Taicang Department is subordinate to Sinong Temple, and now 240 of the 500 warehouses are double-storey warehouses, 200 are moldy and spoiled old grain for unknown years, and only 60 warehouses have edible grain. In addition, all the officials of the Taicang Department are involved in corruption from top to bottom, and all the officials of one official office are guarding and stealing, which is still in Chang'an, under the nose of the saint!

And they dared to act so boldly and recklessly, and they only investigated all night, and no one could say whether Sinong Temple had harbored or colluded with people, how did they talk to Wei with the second-in-command of Sinong Temple?

Fortunately, after the silence was not long after, Shen Zhongyi, as the person in charge of the inspection team, stood under the long case of the main position, and spoke, "Liu Nushi, you have contributed a lot to finding out the problem of Taicang so quickly this time, and you are also the one who knows the whole incident best. ”