Volume 1 Chapter 539 Interrogation of the Audit Office

Walking to the audit office in Linshi City, Ren Tianxiang seemed a little familiar. Probably because Ren Tianxiang followed Hu Yaoyu and others to the Linshicheng Audit Office before, he had already memorized the location of the Linshicheng Audit Office, and now he didn't need Zhang Bantang to lead the way, so he could go there by himself.

Outside the yamen that came to bring the audit office, Ren Tianxiang saw that Wang Hongyu, a saint-level monk, was dutifully standing outside the door of the yamen of the audit office in Linshi City, obviously he was abiding by the order given to him by Ren Tianxiang, prohibiting people from the audit office from entering and leaving the yamen.

Seeing Ren Tianxiang coming over, Wang Hongyu immediately greeted him, and then clenched his fists and said, "My lord, just now I followed your order and covered the entire Linshi City Audit Office with my divine consciousness to ensure that no one can enter or leave here. ”

"You're doing a great job. Ren Tianxiang nodded at Wang Hongyu, very satisfied with his approach.

In order to prevent someone from escaping from the audit office, Wang Hongyu even covered the entire audit office with his divine sense, obviously Wang Hongyu's guarantee is reliable, and even if there is a secret passage in the audit office, they will definitely not be able to escape Wang Hongyu's divine sense.

Pushing the door into the audit office, for some reason, the guards who should have been guarding the door of the audit office have disappeared - of course Ren Tianxiang will not think that these guards are going to the rescue, and the order he gave to Wang Hongyu is not to allow anyone to enter or exit.

"What about the guards here?" Looking at the empty front yard, Ren Tianxiang looked at Wang Hongyu again and asked.

"Your Excellency, you don't allow anyone to come in or out, so I'll drive them in. Wang Hongyu said honestly, and didn't feel that there was anything wrong with his behavior.

Ren Tianxiang nodded and didn't say anything more. Then he walked briskly into the hall of the Audit Office and met the inspectors of the Audit Office who had gathered in the hall at a loss.

After looking around, Ren Tianxiang didn't see Xue He, the director of the Audit Office, and Qiu Wenle, the deputy director of the Audit Office, so he left a sentence: "What about the director and deputy director of your Audit Office? Let them come out to see me." ”

After saying this, Ren Tianxiang walked to the reception room of the audit office with ease, looking like he didn't regard himself as an outsider at all.

The dΓ©cor of the auditor's office meeting room is good, except for four ornate sofas around a coffee table, and the surrounding greenery makes it much quieter and more elegant. When you enter this room, you feel a sense of tranquility and relaxation.

But now Ren Tianxiang will not be affected by such an environment, after seeing the hellish scene on the side of the winding mountain road, whenever he wants to relax, he seems to be able to see the hellish scene in front of him.

The raging anger made Ren Tianxiang not care about other things at all, and now what he wanted to do was to directly arrest the culprit of this matter.

Therefore, after seeing the slightly gorgeous decoration of the reception room, a fire of ignorance rose in Ren Tianxiang's heart - in his opinion, the decoration here can be so gorgeous, it should all be exchanged for the hard-earned money of the common people.

Probably because the director and deputy director of the audit office were in the audit office at this time, so about two minutes after Ren Tianxiang and the others entered the reception room, Xue He, director of the audit office, and Qiu Wenle, deputy director, walked into the reception room.

Seeing Ren Tianxiang, Xue He still smiled flatteringly at Ren Tianxiang like last time. He rubbed his hands together and asked with a smile: "My lord is here, and I am really ashamed that I have missed the distance." I wonder if you came to my audit office today, what is the matter?"

Looking at Xue He and Qiu Wenle's faces, Ren Tianxiang sneered. He asked Wang Hongyu to block the audit office and didn't hide it from anyone, if Xue He and Qiu Wenle didn't know what happened at this time, it was that the two of them were playing dumb.

Sitting on the sofa, Ren Tianxiang tugged at the corners of his mouth, showed a sneer at the two people in front of him, and asked rhetorically: "Oh? Could it be that Director Xue and Deputy Director Qiu still don't know what happened?"

"Things have been a bit complicated recently, I don't know what the adults are talking about?" and got Ren Tianxiang's approval, Xue He pulled Qiu Wenle to sit on the sofa opposite Ren Tianxiang, and then greeted him with a smile, "I heard that the adults have been investigating the matter of the mountain road, I don't know what major problems the adults have found?"

"Are there any important questions, don't you know?" The smile on the corner of Ren Tianxiang's mouth was still there, he wanted to see how long these two people could pretend!

"What is clear, what can we know?" Because it is not known what kind of information Ren Tianxiang has for the time being, Xue He and Qiu Wenle still have no signs of admitting guilt.

Perhaps there is still a glimmer of hope in their hearts - what Ren Tianxiang learned is that the audit office has evidence of Zou Chang, not evidence of their association with Zou Chang.

However, Ren Tianxiang was not prepared to entangle with them for long, and even said: "The winding mountain road has collapsed, the two of you should know about this matter, right?"

"What! The winding mountain road has collapsed!" Hearing this, Xue He and Qiu Wenle immediately stood up, their eyes wide, as if they were ...... The first time I heard the news, it was the same.

After seeing the expressions of the two of them, Ren Tianxiang immediately understood why they had acted like that before.

It should be that Ren Tianxiang asked Wang Hongyu to come over to block the audit office too timely, resulting in the audit office not getting the news of the collapse of the mountain road. And since Xue He and Qiu Wenle didn't know that the Panshan Road had collapsed at this time, it was not surprising that the two of them dared to show that they didn't know anything in front of Ren Tianxiang just now.

As soon as he thought of this, Ren Tianxiang sneered again, and then took out the storage ring from the report that Hu Yaoyu had given him before about the suspicion of the Linshi City Audit Office and the report that Zhang Bantang had just written, and then slapped it heavily on the coffee table in the center of the sofa.

"After the collapse of the road, my auditors risked their lives to go deep into it and inspect the materials used in the road. Ren Tianxiang said patiently and slowly, but it was his slow and slow pace of speech that made Xue He and Qiu Wenle sound extremely frightened.

This is like Ren Tianxiang putting them on top of the cutting board and cutting off their heads little by little with a sharp knife.

"It is conservatively estimated that the construction cost of this winding mountain road only needs about 200,000 gold coins, even if you add the wages of the workers. As far as I know, when the Panshan Road was built, the imperial court allocated 200,000 gold coins, and later Zou Chang borrowed 100,000 gold coins from Jincheng Gold Shop, spending a total of 300,000 gold coins...... Do you say yes, Director Xue?"

Hearing that Ren Tianxiang had already explained their investigation in such detail, Xue He's legs were already shaking like chaff at this time - it was obvious that their secret had been discovered by Ren Tianxiang!

As if he had brought a crying tone, Xue He's face was wrinkled together. I heard him say, "My lord, we ...... We ...... back then"

"Back then, you and Zou Chang forged a fake audit report, which confused the auditors of that year...... It also confuses us. Ren Tianxiang saw Xue He's hesitation, so he directly said it for him.

Speaking of this, the smile on Ren Tianxiang's face was even worse, looking at Xue He's appearance, he knew that he was already on the right path.

Then he knocked on the armrest of the sofa, so that Xue He and Qiu Wenle's attention were focused on him.

Then he said: "If I remember correctly, because the Panshan Road project was extremely important, it was personally audited by Qiu Wenle, the deputy director of the audit department, and the corresponding supervisor was Xue He, the director of the audit department, who was one level higher...... I'm not wrong, am I?"

Although Ren Tianxiang was asking Xue He and Qiu Wenle now, his words were basically in a positive tone.

In fact, things were very simple back then, and the reasons why they have not been able to find out are also very simple.

Zou Chang presided over the construction of Panshan Road that year, cut corners on the building materials of Panshan Road, and later relied on the phantom-level monks of the Prime Minister's Mansion Engineering Institute to stabilize the entire road.

At that time, Qiu Wenle, the deputy director of the audit department, who was an auditor, personally audited, and Zou Chang colluded with him, forged audit documents, tampered with real data, and concealed Zou Chang's embezzlement of 100,000 gold coins for the project-

If it was an audit office in another place, this matter would probably be discovered by the officials who supervised the audit personnel, but Zou Chang was so good that he even bribed Xue He, the director of the audit office who supervised Qiu Wenle's audit.

So the three of them worked together to keep a forged audit document in the audit office, which led to the fact that no matter how the investigators investigated, the audit report data of the audit office could be matched with the data of the city lord's mansion - because these financial documents were forged by these three people!

To put it simply, this is the corruption of the auditors - this is a very terrible thing, if even the officials who enforce the law are corrupt, what is the point of the law of the Star Empire?

That's why Ren Tianxiang is so angry, whether it is Xue He or Qiu Wenle, as the prosecutors of the Audit Office, they are derelict in their duties and corrupt, and they are simply ashamed of the expectations placed on them by the people of the Star Emperor Kingdom.

And if they hadn't done such a thing with Zou Chang, maybe the tragedy on Panshan Road would not have happened, and so many people would not have lost their lives.

And when Xue He heard Ren Tianxiang's question, he also knew that his matter with Zou Chang had been revealed, and the whole person suddenly drooped down like a deflated balloon.

He nodded slowly and said in a low voice: "My lord is right, it was indeed the project of Panshan Road that we audited at that time, and it was also we who concealed from the procuratorial department that Zou Chang cut corners when he was building Panshan Road. ”

Seeing that Xue He and Qiu Wenle finally confessed, the burden in Ren Tianxiang's heart was suddenly relieved by half. Then he reached out and patted the armrest of the sofa again, and said, "Now that you are guilty, then I hope you can tell me what Zou Chang did in this place." ”

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