Imperial Palace, inside the Palace of Diligence.

Chang You carefully handed a piece of music to Qi Mao and said, "Your Majesty, Lord Qian Gangqian, the head of the household department, just handed over the excerpt and said that there is no problem with the tax and silver of the state capitals after the accounting has been completed. ”

"Hmmm! I see. Qi Mao said lightly.

Seeing this, Chang You said again: "Your Majesty, the Lord Protector has important matters, and I ask to see you outside the noon gate." ”

"Protector?" Qi Mao raised his eyebrows and asked suspiciously, "Is the Protector's injury healed?" Did he come to see me for something? ”

Chang You bowed down and said: "Back to Your Majesty, the Lord Protector said that he can only talk to His Majesty." ”

Qi Mao looked surprised, put down the music in his hand, and said, "Xuan! ”

Chang Youyou answered and turned to leave.

Qi Mao said to the historian on the side: "You guys go down first!" ”

According to the normal situation, the historian cannot leave at any time.

However, Qi Mao's temper was extremely strange, and the historian had long been accustomed to it, so he hurriedly closed the historical record and walked out of the Qinzheng Hall under his armpit.

After a short time, the Protector stepped into the Qinzheng Hall with a tiger, and then bowed to the ground and said loudly: "Minister Mengliang pays a visit to my emperor, may my emperor live long live long live." ”

"Meng Aiqing, hurry up!"

Qi Mao said and said to the little eunuch on the side: "Someone! Throne! ”

A little eunuch hurriedly brought a chair.

The Lord Protector sat down without hesitation.

Qi Mao glanced at Chang You.

Chang You withdrew from the Qinzheng Hall with the little eunuch, closed the door of the palace, and stood outside the door.

Qi Mao opened his mouth and asked, "How is Meng Aiqing's injury?" ”

"Thanks to Your Majesty, the minister is now fine!"

"That's good!"

At this time, the Protector saw that Chang You and the others had retreated, and hurriedly took out a piece of paper from his sleeve and handed it to Qi Mao.

After Qi Mao looked at it carefully, he looked incredulous and asked, "This method is not in line with common sense!" ”

Protecting the country and justice: "The minister also thought the same way at the time, but after the minister verified it, he realized that this method is really useful!" ”

Qi Mao was willing to believe there, and said to Chang You outside the hall: "Let people go to the Inner Servant Province and bring a few account books over, and find a few eunuchs who can do arithmetic!" ”

The size of the palace has always been taken care of by the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Chang Youyou answered and immediately complied.

At this time, Qi Mao asked again: "The eunuch came back and said that Jin Ge said that he was sick, what is going on?" ”

The Protector said: "Jin Ge has often had convulsions these days, and Imperial Doctor Huang said that he was caused by anxiety......"

After Qi Mao and the Protector chatted together for a while, the Protector left the Qinzheng Palace.

After a short time, he often took four account books and took a dozen eunuchs into the Qinzheng Palace.

Qi Mao followed the method of paper and asked them to classify the account books.

Half an hour later, the classification of the books was complete.

Qi Mao waved his hand, and several eunuchs left with the account books.

Qi Mao looked down at the classification on the paper.

He also looked at the method given to him by the Protector of the Kingdom to check the false accounts, and saw that it was written: "All forged accounts are headed by five or six, and the number is the most ......."

Qi Mao slapped the table and said angrily: "Let Liu Fang, the head of the inner chamberlain, come to see me quickly!" ”

About a quarter of an hour later.

Liu Fang's pleading and Qi Mao's roar came from the Qinzheng Palace.

Then Liu Fang, the chief of the inner chamberlain, and more than a dozen officials, large and small, were directly killed in front of the eunuchs and palace maids in the palace.

In an instant, the eunuchs and palace maids in the palace were so frightened that they didn't dare to take a breath......

At the same time, Jin Ge was also summoned to the palace.

Jin Ge knew that Qi Mao would summon him into the palace, and when he entered the Qinzheng Palace, when he saw Qi Mao, his face sank like water, and he hurriedly bowed down.

"Chen Jinge, meet Your Majesty!"

Qi Mao said angrily: "Didn't you say that you were sick?" How? Are you willing to come now? ”

I often hear it, and I rejoice in my heart.

Jin Ge felt Qi Mao's anger and said, "The minister has been accounting for some accounts of the household department in the past few days. ”

Qi Mao's face was still ugly, and he said, "Aren't you sick?" ”

Jin Ge said: "The minister has to be sick......

Qi Mao heard what Jin Ge said, and said coldly: "I, I don't like to go around the bend!" ”

Seeing Qi Mao like this, Jin Ge opened his mouth and said: "Your Majesty, on the first day the minister went to the branch yamen of the household department, Langzhong Lin Ping asked the minister to calculate the accounts of the fourth quarter. ”

"Not long after the minister handed over the results of the accounting, Lin Langzhong inexplicably asked the minister to go to Jingzhou ......"

"So you're called sick, aren't you?" Qi Mao was very unhappy in his heart, and said, "Hmph! Do you think I'm going to let you go to Jingzhou to take risks? ”

Jingo: "......"

At this time, Qi Mao's face softened slightly, his eyes looked at Jin Ge, and said, "Yesterday, the Protector told me about your method of auditing. ”

"The Protector and I have already verified it, and although this law does not conform to common sense, it is an indisputable fact."

"If this method is used to verify accounts in the future, it will definitely have a great deterrent to corruption, and this is the law of clean government......

"This time your credit is great, and you deserve to be rewarded, but now that you have walked in six parts, the entire court has objections to this, if you reward it again, I am afraid it will cause criticism......

Jin Ge hurriedly bowed down and said: "Your Majesty, the minister doesn't care about the so-called reward, he just wants to share his worries for His Majesty!" ”

Qi Mao's heart trembled, and the hairs on his body stood up.

Jin Ge glanced at Qi Mao and said very seriously: "Your Majesty, what the minister said is from the bottom of his heart!" ”

Of course, Qi Mao knew and nodded.

Jin Ge spoke again: "Your Majesty, who else knows about this method? ”

"It's just me, the Lord Protector, and you."

Jin Ge said: "This method is not trivial, and it must not be passed on. ”

Of course, Qi Mao knew the stakes, nodded and said, "You get up!" ”

Jin Ge stood up and said: "Your Majesty, in the past few days, when the minister was in the mansion, when he was accounting for the account books of the household department, he found that there were problems with some accounts, and it was suspected that someone had manipulated the account figures. ”

Qi Mao's face immediately became gloomy, and he asked, "Is this also the way to go?" ”

Jin Ge shook his head and said, "No! ”

Qi Mao looked puzzled.

Jin Ge compared the "Guangzhi of the Great Qianzhou Prefecture" with the accounts, and said the problems he found.

Qi Mao didn't expect that Jin Ge could deduce that someone was greedy for a large amount of tax silver just by relying on a few sentences in "Guangzhi of the Great Qianzhou Mansion".

He looked at Jin Ge, who was clear-eyed and personable.

Suddenly, I felt a little numb in my scalp, and I felt a creepy feeling.

He was glad that Jin Ge could be used for himself, if ......

Qi Mao didn't dare to think about it.

Jin Ge continued: "The minister thinks that the embezzlement of the imperial court's taxes and silver cannot be done by a single household servant......

A few years ago, because of Wei Li's incident, tens of thousands of people were implicated.

I don't know how many people will be involved in this tax and silver matter.

Qi Mao frowned and bowed his head silently, and after a long time, he said to Jin Ge: "You go back and recuperate!" ”

Jin Ge walked out of the Qinzheng Palace, looked at the dark sky, exhaled slowly, and quickly left the palace and returned to the Protector's Mansion.

That night, more than 20 horsemen secretly went out of Chang'an City.

The people of Chang'an City still work at sunrise and rest at sunset, and their lives have not changed.

The court was also very quiet.

However, behind this seemingly calm, a bloody storm has already begun to brew......