Chapter 33: The Outsider (2)

After packing up his things, Qian Yan sat at the table to study the affairs in the Treasury Department, and the people who used to be in the Treasury Department were generally some relatively knowledgeable weak scholars. Because the Treasury Department does not receive much attention in the Ministry of War, generally the more promising people are those who go to the battlefield to fight, and only those who make meritorious contributions on the battlefield may be rewarded by the emperor. Wai Lang, a member of the treasury department, is a six-grade official if he says something bad, he is nosy, and all miscellaneous things are in his charge. It can be said that on the battlefield, an eight-rank lieutenant is better than a sixth-grade member of the treasury, so many people look down on the position in the treasury.

Qianyan carefully looked at the records of the entry and exit of things in the treasury department in recent years, and carefully compared them little by little, but there were too many things in the treasury. Qianyan can only understand the savings in the treasury department through some simple ledgers now, but from these ledgers, Qianyan has also found many different small loopholes. Because of the small size, no one would pay attention to this little bit of vulnerability, but when Qian Yan read all the ledgers, he found that these small loopholes were added to some of the twentieth of what could already be said to be compared to the upper treasury department. In other words, in the previous time, some people took advantage of the convenience of their official positions to withdraw one-twentieth of the materials in the treasury from the treasury little by little.

After a rough look at the account book, I thought that since someone dared to secretly covet things from the treasury, then for him, the new official, it must be difficult to take office, and now it depends on who can't hold his breath first.

The next day, Qianyan had already gotten up, today was the first day of the new officer's tenure, and he wanted to move things to the military department. Moreover, the place of the military headquarters is far away from the small courtyard, and Master Yang also knew that Qianyan would go out a little earlier this morning. So he also got up very early, made breakfast for Qianyan, and watched Qianyan leave, with tears in the corners of his eyes.

Qianyan hired a carriage to pull the luggage, set off from the small courtyard, and walked for an hour before coming to the military headquarters, and now there are already soldiers in the military department who have risen to practice. And when the original new official took office, there were no officials from inside who came out to greet him, and it is impossible for so many officials not to know that there is a new official coming to the ministry today. Obviously, they all knew, and they were very unanimous in not coming to greet him, this was to give him a dismount first.

Chiyan came to his place of work with his luggage and was led by a soldier, who was obviously not happy with the new officer, and left immediately after taking him to the place, not wanting to stay longer at all. Qian Yan didn't pay attention to his attitude, thinking about what kind of leaders there were, what kind of soldiers there would be.

Looking at the place in front of him, which is now Chiyan's work, the house in front of him is dilapidated. It is much smaller than the houses on the left and right, and it looks like a deserted house that has been uninhabited for a long time. If you look inside from the outside, you can see that the dust has fallen all over the ground and there are cobwebs on the roof.

Qian Yan noticed that the rooms in some of the places in front of him were much better than the ones in front of him, and he could tell from the exterior decoration the luxury of the people living in this room. Comparing the room in front of him, Qian Yan sneered, as far as he knew, there seemed to be no one with a higher position than him in the treasury, it seemed that this person was the head snake here.

When new officials take office, they generally either succumb to the fact that the current officials live in the dirty house. Either they rush into the more luxurious house inside, get together the people who live in it, and then they will be covered by the ginseng of these old officials, and it is estimated that they will never be able to enter here again.

Qian Yan didn't rush up in anger, nor did he choose to live in, but ordered a small soldier to take him to the warehouse, and he wanted to go to the warehouse to check the account books.

But Xiao Bing said with an embarrassed face that the key to the treasury was in the hands of the principal, and the door of the treasury could not be opened without a key.

Qian Yan didn't intend to take the key from the hands of the two principals, he looked around and found a machete used for chopping wood. Directly picked up and slashed at the chain of the storehouse a few times, and directly cut off the lock, and the door of the storeroom was opened.

The two principals who were hiding in the room and watching the outside were so frightened that they couldn't hide anymore, and immediately came out of the room, saw that the lock in the warehouse was really broken, and said angrily: "Are you a new outsider?" This treasury is the most important place in the treasury, well, now you maliciously broke the locks of the treasury on your first day in office. Come to think of it, you don't want to stay here, and the library outside can't accommodate your big Buddha here. Now please go back, and I will tell Lord Shangshu to let him cure your sin. Now that there is no lock in the warehouse, if something is lost inside, Lord Shangshu has his own conclusion. ”

After Qian Yan finished chopping, he glanced at the person who spoke, and the person who spoke was a fat person with a ruddy face, which was different from the trained soldiers next to him, and it could be seen at a glance that he should have been greedy for a lot of oil and water.

Qian Yan looked at him and didn't speak, but the machete in his hand was already very lethal, and the master swallowed his saliva and didn't dare to speak.

Qian Yan looked at them and said, "Since I am the new member of the Treasury Department, it is only natural that I should check everything here. Since this lock was cut down so easily, it shows that it is already vulnerable. Besides, when a new official takes office, you, as the principal, do not come out to greet him, but hide in the house and provoke the boss, which is a crime. ”

The fat principal didn't dare to speak, and was bluffed by Qianyan. The thinner principal in the back pushed him before he reacted.

Only then did Qian Yan notice that the main person in the back was different from the fat main person in front, and the main person in the back had slender eyes and a pointed face, a typical little face.

The fat principal's surname is Zhang, and after being pushed, he reacted and said, "We didn't come out to greet you, mainly because we accidentally overslept." And who said I didn't come out to greet you, we just wanted to sleep a little longer, and you didn't come, and it can't be said that it's our fault. ”

Qian Yan snorted, obviously not wanting to talk nonsense with him too much, and walked in the direction of his own luggage.

The thinner principal's surname was Fang, and when he saw that Qianyan was leaving, he stretched out his hand to stop him: "Wailang, you can't just leave now, the door of this warehouse has been broken by you, so let you leave like this, if you lose something inside, we can't afford such a big crime, let's ask Lord Shangshu to come over." ”

Qian Yan raised the machete in his hand, and the blade almost slashed across Master Fang's face, he was startled and hurriedly got out of the way.

Qianyan put the knife back in its original place, and then found a lock in his luggage, this lock was the one he asked for from the Seventh Prince yesterday, as a precaution, sure enough, he used this lock now.

The two principals were watching what he wanted to do, thinking that as long as he got out of here now, then they could arrest him for damaging the storehouse and losing the contents of the storehouse, and they could also get a lot of benefits from it.

Qian Yan turned around with a brand-new lock, and took the two principals who were still fantasizing about being able to get a handful from the warehouse, and his face was anxious. hurriedly stepped forward to stop him: "Wailang, I'm afraid this is not in accordance with the rules, you don't know, all the things in this military department." It all needs to be stamped by the government, not to mention that such an important place as the treasury cannot be replaced by an ordinary lock. Director Fang said his words in a hurry as if he had just gotten up.

Qian Yan took the lock and showed them the official seal underneath, seeing their stunned appearance, Qian Yan smiled exceptionally innocently: "This is the lock I took out from the government, there is the seal of the government, now I can lock this lock at the door of the warehouse." It's okay to think about it, after all, you don't want to lose things in the warehouse, now everyone is there, I haven't been in the inside, now lock the warehouse door, the things inside won't fall, think you have no objection. ”

The two principals didn't expect that this newly appointed outsider was ready for everything, and now that so many people are watching, they can't stop him from locking him, if he stops, doesn't it indirectly show that the two of them are weak-hearted? So the two of them could only watch as Qian Yan changed the lock of the door of the warehouse, and the key fell into his pocket, they were just a principal, and the key to the warehouse could only be taken by the person in the highest position, and they were not qualified to take it.