"With sugar, you may need to worry a little more for the next three days. ”

Just passed the inspection gate of Linshi City's winding mountain road, Ren Tianxiang rode on his horse, and while looking at the overlapping mountains in front of him, he said leisurely to Zhang Bantang beside him.

"Yes, my lord, I will try. "I just felt Ren Tianxiang's anger, and Zhang Bantang didn't dare to anger Ren Tianxiang anymore, so he had to be honest and obedient.

"Let's go, let's see as we go. Ren Tianxiang said, then shook the reins in his hand, regardless of whether Zhang Bantang followed or not, just walked to the front by himself.

Seeing this, Zhang Bantang naturally understood that Ren Tianxiang was in a bad mood, so he sighed for him and followed.

In fact, Ren Tianxiang's current mood is also very complicated. Xingheng wanted to train him, so he gave him this task, and also asked him to return to Star City before the coming-of-age ceremony of Xinglingluo.

As he said, if Xingheng's shadow guard came to investigate this matter, I am afraid that Zou Chang would be arrested as soon as possible, and he may have been executed now.

But Ren Tianxiang is just a newcomer who doesn't know anything, and he can only arrange an investigation through what he knows. Fortunately, none of his ideas deviated from the process of the prosecutor's inspection, so until now, Hu Yaoyu only said a few words at most because Ren Tianxiang was too bold, but he did not completely disobey his orders.

But it is precisely because of this that Ren Tianxiang feels even more guilty in his heart.

He believed that many people's eyes must have noticed Lin Shicheng's side now, in addition to Xingheng and Li Siming and other court officials, maybe Kou Zhemao's family was also waiting for Ren Tianxiang to give an answer.

However, the more this is the case, the more pressure Ren Tianxiang puts on himself in his heart, he doesn't want to disappoint these people, and he doesn't just tell Xing Lingluo so bluntly that he is incompetent in these aspects, and the future affairs in the court can only be handed over to Xing Lingluo.

These things were supposed to be done by Xing Lingluo, but Ren Tianxiang couldn't bear to be so affected by Xing Lingluo, so he chose to take on these things for Xing Lingluo.

But now reality is telling him that he is not good at this at all...... Heh, he Ren Tianxiang is not so easy to defeat!

While walking on the winding mountain road, Ren Tianxiang asked out loud: "Companion sugar, you said that if you cut corners on these roads, can you see it clearly?"

Hearing Ren Tianxiang's question, Zhang Bantang, who was originally carefully observing the surroundings, thought carefully for a moment, then shook his head and said, "No, if you don't dig up the corresponding part, no one knows what material is used in it." ”

Feeling the horses under him stepping on the solid ground, Ren Tianxiang smiled and said, "Okay, I'll change the question...... You've already walked this road before, if it were you, how much money would you be greedy for on this road?"

"Me?" Zhang Bantang didn't expect Ren Tianxiang to ask him like this, and he hadn't thought about this question before.

So he immediately fell silent, silently recalling the situation of the entire winding mountain road he had walked before, and then frantically calculated the consumption in his heart.

In fact, for Zhang Bantang, he really didn't calculate the cost of the project from the reverse. In his opinion, these inspectors should be upright and bright, and they can't have any crooked thoughts, so they didn't think that they would one day calculate how to embezzle a project.

After a moment, he raised his head to look at Ren Tianxiang and asked, "What about the materials, what kind of materials are used?"

"It's up to you. Ren Tianxiang pointed to the ground and said with a smile, "This still needs to be judged by you, a professional, but the materials used must at least be able to keep this entire road not easy to be destroyed in a short period of time." If it collapses the next day after it's built, won't it be easy to find out that you've embezzled a lot of money?"

"I see. Zhang Bantang nodded, then immediately lowered his head and began to calculate how much money he could embezzle from this project.

About twenty minutes later, Zhang Bantang finally raised his head and looked at Ren Tianxiang, his sideburns had already shed cold sweat at some point, and he didn't know if it was because of calculations or for some other reason.

"Settled?"

Ren Tianxiang's patience now is extremely good, and he has given Zhang Bantang enough time to calculate. And he was also secretly surprised that Zhang Bantang was able to process this part of the data by mental arithmetic alone without applying the draft...... Even Ren Tianxiang himself can't do it to such an extent.

"Forget it. Zhang Bantang reached out and wiped the cold sweat from his sideburns, and then slowly spoke, "My calculation result is...... You can save more than 37,000 gold coins out of 300,000 gold coins. ”

"Thirty-seven thousand gold coins......" Ren Tianxiang's mouth opened slightly, obviously shocked by this amount.

The appropriation given by the imperial court to Linshicheng plus the amount of money Zou Chang borrowed from Jincheng Jinpu was only 300,000 yuan in total, and he could embezzle more than one-tenth of it at this time, which made it difficult for Ren Tianxiang to calm down.

"About 37,000 gold coins. Seeing Ren Tianxiang put on this somewhat unbelievable look, Zhang Bantang thought that he thought that this amount was a little too little, so he hurriedly explained, "I am according to the most conservative estimate, if you calculate that the imperial court in the later period sent someone to strengthen the entire mountain road with earth elements, I am afraid that the materials of the entire mountain road will have to be streamlined, and it is conservatively estimated that there will be seventy or eighty thousand gold coins." ”

"That'...... That's a lot. The corners of Ren Tianxiang's mouth showed a wry smile, and he did not continue to respond to Zhang Bantang's mood.

If Zou Chang really embezzled 30,000 gold coins from this part of the appropriation, as Zhang Bantang said, then if they can't find out the whereabouts of the 30,000 gold coins, then there is something wrong with their team of inspectors.

30,000 gold coins is not a small amount, this amount of money is enough to repair two-thirds of the entire Dongcheng District of Linshi City, and even take out this money to rebuild the City Lord's Mansion, the Procuratorate Division, and the Dali Division of Civil Security in Linshi City.

And such a huge amount of money is really impossible to trace now, if it is known by others, will not laugh off the big teeth?

Or there is another possibility, that is, Zou Chang did not cut corners on the winding mountain road, and all his 300,000 yuan was invested in the construction of the winding mountain road...... But if this is the case, then where can Zou Chang earn gray income? Ren Tianxiang couldn't figure it out.

"With sugar, do you think we can destroy part of the pavement of the winding mountain road now and take a look at the material inside?"

With a lot of thoughts in his heart, Ren Tianxiang finally came up with such a whimsical idea.

However, Zhang Bantang, who heard Ren Tianxiang's words, smiled bitterly and replied: "My lord, this entire road is reinforced by the magic circle, not to mention whether we can destroy it, even if we can really destroy part of the road surface, then this magic circle will definitely be affected, and even lead to the collapse of the magic circle." ”

"Well, then I'll have to give up on that idea. Ren Tianxiang shook his head a little lowly, and then as if he suddenly remembered something, he turned his head to look at Zhang Bantang and asked, "Eh, Bantang, I remember hearing Captain Hu say before, you seem to be a person from Xifeng Province?"

"Huh?" Zhang Bantang obviously didn't keep up with Ren Tianxiang's thinking, but after figuring out that Ren Tianxiang was indeed asking about his origin, he scratched his head and replied honestly, "Well, I am indeed from Xifeng Province, and it is also a city not far from Linshi City." ”

"You're only in your twenties now...... You should know the reason for the construction of this winding mountain road, right?" Ren Tianxiang's eyes were a little burning, he seemed to attach great importance to this issue, "Actually, I have always been very puzzled, since Zou Chang was able to preside over the construction of this winding mountain road, then why didn't the city lord before Linshi City? I don't believe that only Zou Chang can see that people who can become city lords are not stupid." ”

"That's because about 20 years ago, there was a big earthquake in the nearby Xifeng Mountains. Referring to the earthquake that caused their family to be affected and he was the only one left in the family, Zhang Bantang's mood was a little low, "It was precisely because of that earthquake that part of the Xifeng Mountain Range was broken, forming a natural canyon, so that the engineering team could open up a passage in it."

At that time, at the time of the change of officials, the previous city lord expected that if he presided over the construction, he would inevitably return to his hometown before the completion of the mountain road, and gave this merit to Zou Chang in vain, so he left Zou Chang to preside over the construction after he took office. ”

"It turned out to be because of the earthquake. Looking at the cliffs on both sides, Ren Tianxiang could still barely see the traces of fractures on them, "This can also explain why the imperial court will specially send phantom-level monks to strengthen this entire route - because of the earthquake, this entire route is no longer safe, if there is no protection, it is not sure when the road will collapse." ”

"That's right, that's what the court thought at the time. ”

"Then why did you go to the imperial court? Do you want to be a big official in the imperial court?"

Zhang Bantang looked at Ren Tianxiang and didn't understand why Ren Tianxiang asked this question.

"I'm just asking, and if I don't want to answer, just ignore it. A big smile appeared on Ren Tianxiang's face.

"Well, there's nothing unwilling. Zhang Bantang tugged at the corners of his mouth and said, "Actually, my idea is so simple, I just want to get ahead...... This is the greatest expectation that my parents had for me when they were alive. ”

“...... Your mom and dad?"

"The earthquake that year caused widespread famine around me, and they left me with hope of survival. ”

“...... Sorry, I don't know ......"

"It's okay, it's been a long time. ”

“...... With sugar, if ...... I mean, if you can't be a big official in the court in the future...... Would you like to do something for me?"

"Do things for you?"

"You are very capable, and I believe that you will improve a lot in the future after you train in the prosecution department. As for what it does...... Actually, I didn't think about it, I just asked casually. ”

"If that's what the adults think...... I'd actually quite like to. ”

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