Ren Tianxiang sat on the sofa in the middle of the room, drinking the remaining half of the tea in his hand.

He propped his head with one elbow against the arm of the couch and flipped through a report with the other.

This report is a summary report on the financial revenue and expenditure of the Linshi City Lord's Mansion in the past ten years, which Jian Xiuming brought back from the Audit Office of Linshi City.

Their work at this time has been accelerated a lot because of the addition of An Youqing and Mo Huan, and Hu Yaoyu and others have completed about 10% of the audit of all the financial reports of the Linshi City City Lord's Mansion in the past 20 years.

This is because An Youqing and Mo Yu are very familiar with this aspect of work, so they can help Hu Yaoyu to a certain extent.

It's just that until now, He Kang and Wang Yixian, who personally protected He Kang, have not come back - I think it should be the reason why Panshan Road is a little long away from now, and it is difficult to find the engineering team and the store that provided materials back then.

However, Ren Tianxiang is not in a hurry at the moment, this is the second day of their work, and there is still a lot of time.

And now he is still waiting for news from Zhang Bantang - he can't fully trust the audit office in Linshi City, everything has to wait for Zhang Bantang's inspection to make the next decision.

At this time, Hu Yaoyu walked over with several reports in his hand.

He gave the report to Ren Tianxiang, and there was a lot of data circled in red ink on it.

Ren Tianxiang looked at this report carefully, and heard Hu Yaoyu say on the side: "My lord, this is the financial report of Linshi City that we have reviewed so far. Twenty years ago to seventeen years ago, there were some problems with the financial reports of Linshi City, but because the city lord Zou Chang was not a temporary city lord at that time, we would like to ask you to take a look. ”

"Seventeen years ago?" Ren Tianxiang stretched out his finger and pointed to one of the outlined places, and said, "Can you talk about the problem here?"

Hu Yaoyu glanced at the place Ren Tianxiang was pointing to, and found that he was talking about the problem of the previous city lord's mansion financial officer in Linshi City, so he immediately explained:

"The previous city lord of Linshi City reimbursed expenses indiscriminately, but the audit office did not find out at that time. After Zou Chang took office, there was a problem with the report they found out, but at that time, the previous financial officer of Linshicheng had already returned to his hometown, and the matter was over. ”

"Isn't there a law of accountability in the Star Empire in terms of auditing?" Ren Tianxiang frowned, as if he was not satisfied with the final handling of this city lord.

For example, in modern China, auditing has the effect of accountability. Whenever a problem is discovered, as long as the people involved in the matter, whether these people are still in the post or not, the audit team will hold them accountable - of course, if the person dies, the accountability effect will not work.

Ren Tianxiang was not familiar with the laws of the relevant procuratorial departments of the Star Emperor State, so he did not know whether the Star Emperor State had relevant regulations. But according to his understanding of the laws of the Star Emperor Kingdom, these laws have undergone thousands of years of revision, and they should be very perfect, and this should not be the case.

"Naturally, there are regulations. Hu Yaoyu smiled bitterly twice and explained again, "But when the audit team went to the previous financial officer to investigate, they found that they had lost the trace of the city lord...... In the end, they could only condemn the financial officer as absconding in fear of crime. ”

"Absconding in fear of crime? I don't think so. Ren Tianxiang sneered for no reason, and said leisurely, "Maybe he was killed because he had some secret." ”

"We don't know about that, at least not yet, the prosecutor's office hasn't found the treasurer. Hu Yaoyu shrugged his shoulders and expressed his helplessness.

That incident was more than ten years ago, even earlier than the time when Zou Chang took office as the City Lord of Linshi City, and this matter had nothing to do with Zou Chang's problem, and there was no need for them to continue to investigate in depth.

"Let's put that aside for a while, and then look at the rest. Ren Tianxiang sighed, put the report on the table in his hand, and then he looked at Hu Yaoyu and said, "By the way, how about the audit report of the Linshi City Audit Office?"

"Ah, this, I was about to tell you. Hu Yaoyu took out a rolled-up report from his pocket and handed it to Ren Tianxiang.

Ren Tianxiang took the report, glanced at it casually, and found that it was the part of the content that Hu Yaoyu and the others had checked at present.

"Well, what's wrong with this part?"

"Nope. Hu Yaoyu frowned, but he quickly realized that his description was not accurate, so he continued to explain, "I mean, there is no discrepancy between the financial documents we are checking and the audit report given by the Audit Office, which means that at least in the current content, there is nothing wrong with the Audit Office." ”

"But that was the audit report from 17 years ago. Ren Tianxiang pointed out the problem pointedly, "Even in a remote place like Linshi City, the change of officials will not be delayed until 20 years. At that time, the personnel of the audit office who audited the City Lord's Mansion of Linshi City should not be the same as now, right?"

"That's right, uh...... Specifically, most of them should be correct. Hu Yaoyu pursed his lips, and then pointed to a place in the report in Ren Tianxiang's hand - where the auditors of the year were written.

"Xue He, Qiu Wenle ......" Ren Tianxiang whispered out the two names that Hu Yaoyu was referring to, then looked up at Hu Yaoyu and asked, "Is there anything wrong with these two people?"

"These two people participated in the audit of the City Lord's Mansion of Linshi City back then, and now they are the director and deputy director of the Audit Office of Linshi City respectively.

And the subsequent audit of Panshan Road was also carried out under the leadership of the two of them. ”

"You mean there might be a problem with these two guys?"

"Not necessarily, after all, we still have any reports of problems with the audit office in Linshi City. Hu Yaoyu shook his head lightly and said, "But if there is a problem with the audit office of Linshi City, the two of them will definitely make it the core." ”

"I know about it. Ren Tianxiang nodded, put this report together with the previous report, and was not ready to continue to discuss this issue with Hu Yaoyu.

He said: "This matter is not in a hurry to investigate first, we will wait for the news of the sugar to come back, if their audit is really problematic, I guarantee that none of them can escape." ”

"Well, these things may have to be bothered by the adults. Hu Yaoyu is also self-aware, and he was counted as one when he did not apply for the arrest of the Audit Office.

He knows very well what his cultivation is, if the other party has the protection of an unknown master, his own cultivation is no different from going to deliver food. On the contrary, Ren Tianxiang is an immortal-level monk from the Dragon Regiment, and he is good at fighting, and the opponent's master should not be Ren Tianxiang's opponent.

"By the way, I have some things to tell you here. Ren Tianxiang saw that Hu Yaoyu was about to continue to work after saying something, and hurriedly stopped him.

"What's the matter, my lord?"

"I think what I explained to Zou Chang is that I'm here to investigate Kou Zhemao's assassination, and it's inconvenient to stay here all the time. Ren Tianxiang picked up the tea on the side, but he didn't drink it immediately, but looked at the tea leaves floating in the cup, and said to Hu Yaoyu.

"My lord, do you mean that you are really going to investigate the assassination of Lord Kou next?"

"Pretty much. Ren Tianxiang's tone was a little helpless, "After all, I've already told Zou Chang, but I still can't let him suspect anything." Tomorrow I will go to the inn where you lived before to investigate, and Wang Hongyu will stay here to continue to protect you. ”

"I see, sir. ”

"But this investigation is not supposed to last long. Ren Tianxiang sighed, still with some helplessness in his tone, "After all, it has been so long, and that inn may not have kept the scene, and it is too difficult to get any news from there." ”

Seeing that Ren Tianxiang was troubled by Kou Zhemao's matter, Hu Yaoyu suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly said: "My lord, if you really want to investigate this matter, you can go to the Dali Division of Linshi City to take a look, and they should have corresponding records over there." ”

Hearing Hu Yaoyu say this, Ren Tianxiang also thought of such a solution.

At that time, the assassination of Kou Zhemao caused a lot of turmoil, and the Dali Division of Linshi City and even the Criminal Prison Department of Jincheng sent people to investigate, but the killer was too hidden, and they did not have any results.

But just because there are no results doesn't mean they don't have a record. The Dali Department of the Ministry of Justice itself is investigating these criminal cases, and the processes in all aspects are perfect, and there are even many clues that Ren Tianxiang can't find even if he goes to the scene, and they should have a record.

It's just a pity that the Ministry of Justice of the Star Emperor only set up the Criminal Prison Division, a subordinate department of the Ministry of Justice, in the capital cities of the province, and only the Dali Division and the Civil Security Division will be set up in the major cities. Otherwise, Ren Tianxiang believes that the commissioner of the Criminal Prison Department should be able to grasp more clues.

However, because Ren Tianxiang has not dealt with the departments of the imperial court, he did not think of this stubble before, and now that he thinks about it, Hu Yaoyu is right, as the executive agency of the Ministry of Justice, the Dali Division must have a complete record of this case.

"Okay, tomorrow after I go to the inn, I'll go to Dali Division to have a look. ”

"Then I won't bother the adults, there are still many things going on over there. ”

After saying this, Hu Yaoyu said goodbye to Ren Tianxiang and returned to his post.

Ren Tianxiang looked at the busy people, his fingers caressed his chin, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

Wang Hongyu beside him sat on another sofa and listened to all the conversations between Ren Tianxiang and Hu Yaoyu just now. At this time, when he saw Hu Yaoyu leaving, he asked in a low voice, "My lord, do you really need me to accompany you tomorrow?"

"No, you don't. Ren Tianxiang smiled at Wang Hongyu and said, "I don't think there should be any monks in this Linshi City who can threaten me. ”

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