Chapter 31: The Straw Bale Falls

"I'm talking about Lord Qi! Ning is here today, you and I know what is going on, so there is no need for the two of us to rectify those false and polite gifts, you say, right? Hurry up and bring me all the tax books for this year! Although Xu Mengmeng is not tall, he is not inferior at all in terms of momentum.

This Qi Shuhong did not postpone it, and soon asked people to move several large stacks of account books to an empty table, Xu Mengmeng sat down at the table, picked up a copy and flipped through it carefully.

The tax account is more complicated, if Xu Mengmeng is simply asked to look at it, she can't understand it at all, but fortunately, she has been exposed to it in her original memory.

But Rao is like this, she also read it very hard, and it took almost two or three hours to read the first book, the most important thing is that there is really no problem with the one she reads, and after a short break, she picked up another book and read it.

"No problem! I still don't believe it! "After reading three or four books in a row, it was dark, and the others had already left, but Xu Mengmeng still didn't give up.

"General, it's getting late, we should go back!"

"I'm not going back today, you go back and change for seven nights, by the way, help me bring some food, and tell Yinyue that when the first batch of military uniforms is ready, let him, Mu Feng, and Danmo personally send them to the north, Beiwei is about to attack, let them stay there for the time being and retreat with General Lin!"

After watching it for most of the day, there was no clue at all, Xu Mengmeng was not only anxious, but also a little unwilling, so he had a plan to fight at night.

Seeing this, Gu Xuan had no choice but to go back first, Xu Mengmeng took another copy and flipped through it.

stayed in the household for two days in a row, Xu Mengmeng was stunned that he didn't pull the pigtails of the household, which made people very irritable.

When the people in the household department went home again, she was the only one left in the whole hall, rubbing the corners of her sour eyes, she stretched and got up, leaving the table and wandering around everyone's desks, intending to relax.

"Hey, this unlucky guy is quite talented, and he even knows several fonts, no wonder he has risen from a show talent to today's household servant in just five or six years!"

Xu Mengmeng took out a piece of paper from under a book on Song Jinyan's desk, this was a manuscript paper, but surprisingly the words on it were in different fonts, which made her have to admire Song Jinyan a little.

Putting the paper back in its place, Xu Mengmeng casually picked up an account on the table and flipped through it.

"Huh? The salt tax in Diancheng is five million taels of silver? I remember seeing it as if it was 500,000 taels! After turning a few pages, a record suddenly caught her attention, and she hurried back to her previous table with the accounts, and flipped through the books she had already seen.

"Three years ago, it was five million, and three years later, it will become 500,000, this Qi Shuhong really has a big appetite!" Xu Mengmeng was simply happy by his own discovery, no wonder he couldn't find out the problem after turning over most of the accounts of the past two years, it turned out that people didn't do it this year at all, and he didn't know much about these, how could he know how much the tax in a place was?

Afraid that he had wronged them, Xu Mengmeng simply flipped through a few old accounts of other cities in the household department, compared them, and sure enough, this year's ones have been doubled on the basis of previous years.

"Go home, prepare a sedan chair, I want to enter the palace!"

Xu Mengmeng picked a few books from the pile of ledgers and brought them with huge differences, and hurriedly returned to the house to change into official clothes and head towards the palace.

"Your Majesty, General Ning has something important to see!" Sima Wei was reviewing the recital, and he heard that Ning Jun asked to see him, and looked at the sky outside that had already darkened, he was a little puzzled, after all, if he remembered correctly, it would be a great dynasty tomorrow.

"Xuan"

"Ning Jun, see the emperor," Xu Mengmeng entered the door and hurriedly knelt down.

"Aiqing is flat, you don't have to be polite, besides, you still have injuries on your body, I don't know why Aiqing is in such a hurry to enter the palace?"

"Your Majesty, Weichen has checked the tax accounts of the household department in the past two days, and found that in recent years, when the household department has recorded the tax revenue of most areas, it has been several times less.

"What? How can this be true, who gave them such courage! Rao is Sima Wei was calm, and he was also shocked when he heard the huge amount, and after the shock, he became angry.

"Your Majesty is angry, I believe Your Majesty can also guess, they will not be so bold, the minister guesses that there is someone else who will profit in the end, that person's identity must not be low, and it is very likely to be a certain prince of His Majesty, if Your Majesty wants Wechen to continue to investigate, Wechen will do his best, if you want to end here, Wechen will no longer interfere!"

Xu Mengmeng lowered his head to hide the emotions in his eyes, and said neither humbly nor arrogantly.

Although she really wanted to find out that person herself, she had too many things to worry about now, if this matter was really related to the prince, and the truth was revealed by her, it would be tantamount to letting her slap Sima Ji in the face!

"Ning Aiqing, this matter will end here!" After a long time, the Eastern Jin Dynasty Emperor sighed and said.

"Yes, Wechen obeys! Wechen retires! Xu Mengmeng bowed and exited the hall.

"Ning Jun, if you and the Criminal Department investigate this matter to the end, it will be a great achievement to find out the truth, do you know that if this matter is concluded here, then your previous efforts will be in vain, and all your injuries will be in vain, Aiqing, are you willing?" Just when Xu Mengmeng's figure was about to disappear completely, Sima Ji's voice sounded behind him.

"If the Weichen made the truth public, how chilling the thousands of soldiers would have been to know that the royal family they believed in had put their lives on the line for their own selfish interests! Moreover, the emperor, Ning Jun's official career has never been here where the emperors are vying for the prince and making meritorious contributions, but on the battlefield of defending against foreign enemies and guarding the Eastern Jin Dynasty! Xu Mengmeng's footsteps stopped for a moment, and after speaking, he strode out of this oppressive place.

Xu Mengmeng, Xu Mengmeng, he is an emperor, but he is also a father! You knew it would be like this, didn't you? But why are you still a little disappointed?

But who are you to be disappointed? Aren't you yourself trying not to be rejected by the emperor so as to keep your official career? Isn't it just as selfish? Aren't you just as ashamed of those thousands of soldiers?

"The general doesn't have to blame himself so much, even if you investigate to the end, what can you do if you force the emperor to dispose of his son in front of the ministers? He is the emperor, and he wants to keep his son, but there are many ways, but when the time comes, he will not be able to give the soldiers a notarization, which will make the soldiers even more chilled!

If this is the case, use Qi Shuhong as the scapegoat, so that they can understand that His Majesty is a Ming Jun, and the faith in their hearts will not collapse! And the most important thing is that Qi Shuhong was not clean in the first place, and now he deserves it! ”

"But Akabane, not everyone in the household department is greedy for ink, they must be implicated this time!

Akabane, do you think that position is really that good? Couldn't the blood of millions of people extinguish the greed in their hearts? And on what basis are they? "Why is it so justifiable to care only about yourself and not about others?

Akabane didn't speak, just stood quietly beside her, he knew that his young lady didn't actually want him to answer.

Is that location good? He doesn't think it's good to be watched by the world in everything he says and does, and he doesn't think it's good that he can't express his emotions to the fullest!

On the second day, Xu Mengmeng said that he was ill and did not go to the court, but he only heard that Qi Shangshu's house was raided and beheaded all over the house, and some of the other people in the household department were demoted and some were raided, and even Song Jinyan's official position was demoted by one level. It seems that in order to save his son and reputation, the emperor did deduct this rotten hat on the head of the household.

Two days later, a major event happened in the court: the emperor felt that the third prince was too old to stay in the palace, and even pointed out a fief to him and let him go directly after the queen mother's birthday. In this way, it can be regarded as completely eliminating his desire to compete for savings!