Of course, Gao Wei knew that it was very unauthentic for him to use people as guns like this, and he left Gao Xi for a meal, so he comforted him, which was regarded as reassuring Gao Xi, and the two talked about the afternoon, and Gao Xi did not leave until the twilight.

In the morning, it was still a good spring, and in the afternoon, there was a cow-like rain, which made people so irritable.

Gao Xi weighed many matters in his heart, his brows were tightly locked, and the long palace gate seemed to have no end. A middle-aged man in civilian clothes with a serious description approached him, temporarily interrupting his train of thought:

"Right Prime Minister, Xiaguan Zhang Yanjun has been waiting here for a long time."

Gao Xi glanced at him in surprise, then showed joy on his face, took his hand enthusiastically and said, "You came just in time, I don't know where to look for you, who knew that you actually returned to the capital early!" I've just finished talking to Your Majesty about something, and I'm having some questions for you."

Since you want to start from the warehousing aspect, of course, you have to ask Zhang Yanjun, who has just finished the inspection and knows the warehousing situation well.

Gao Xi's face suddenly became serious: "What is the situation of the warehouses you inspected, I don't want to generalize, the more detailed the better."

Zhang Yanjun sighed and sighed:

"The situation is very bad, Your Majesty wants me to fully cooperate with the right minister, and I will not hide it from the right minister, my storage in Jinyang, Jinnan, Jinzhong, and Hedong is actually less than forty percent of the book, and the Jinzhong warehouse is the most serious, according to the book, there should be 600,000 yuan, 417,000 and 50 stone of rice grain, but in fact, there are only 170,000 stones of old rice, and a lot of sand is mixed with it, and the money is all replaced with old money."

Gao Xi's voice froze: "When did this happen?"

His eyes were staring at Zhang Yanjun.

Such a huge deficit certainly did not happen overnight.

And if he remembers correctly, the warehousing in Jinzhong, Jinnan, Luoyang, Jinyang and other places has always been managed by Zhang Yanjun, as the big steward of the front line of the Qi army, the Northern Qi attacked the Northern Zhou, and all the baggage, money and grain on the front line had to pass through Zhang Yanjun's hands, and Zhang Yanjun couldn't find out what was under his nose, which was a very serious crime of dereliction of duty.

Zhang Yanjun couldn't cry or laugh, and said: "It was the problem that Yang Su discovered first, the storage of Luoyang Cang was insufficient, Yang Su sent a document to find Jin Zhongdao, and Jin Zhongdao shirked left and right, but he couldn't send it, Yang Su secretly told His Majesty about this matter... It's really a negligence on the part of the lower officials."

The anger in Gao Xi's heart calmed down a little, and after thinking about it, he felt that he couldn't blame Zhang Yanjun, although Zhang Yanjun was a Jinzhou Daoxingtai, but being in charge of the front-line warehousing was just after Hu Luguang and Duan Shao fought the great victory in Fenzhou, from then until the beginning of the war against Zhou, the imperial court put on a posture of sending troops at any time, and paid special attention to the warehousing around the front, and a large amount of money and grain gathered at the front line, and it was normal to find out the problem at that time.

How do you check this?

People report that the road is far away, and there is a lot of loss of money and grain halfway, which is also normal to say, Hedong, Jinzhong to Guanzhong is so long and rugged, it is a bad supply line.

After Guanzhong was taken, Chang'an was garrisoned by the king of Lanling and 50,000 standing soldiers and horses, and there was no need to pile up a lot of money and material resources on the front line.

After Gao Xi knew that Zhang Yanjun was not the one who was arranged by the emperor to "beat" him, his expression softened slightly:

"Who did you find out? It's not some petty officials who have the courage to do it."

"Yes. When we used the army, there were still a lot of things that were not used up and stored there, and since then they have decreased year by year, and some of them have indeed been directly transferred to Luoyang for public use, but they can't be said to be so much less at once. Yang Su sent three official letters in a row, and the warehouse couldn't send money and grain, there was only one reason, they were greedy for money, grain and materials layer by layer."

"My people went all the way to investigate, and found that some local officials such as Captain Duma, Fenzhou Thorn Shi Cui Da, Jinzhou Daolu Sidao, Lu Yi, Xue Daoheng, and Shanggu Guard General Chamberlain were all involved, and it was not clear..."

Gao Xi almost laughed angrily:

"Look, you now know why Your Majesty has let so many people from Sanhe not use it, and wants to use me, the Zhou State, to descend people, right?"

The big surnames in Hedong and Hebei relied on their own family backgrounds and connections, and they dared to treat public property as private property and not treat the imperial court

Majesty in the eyes!

In comparison, at present, in the eyes of His Majesty, the wealthy families in Guanzhong are much more cute and obedient. Over the years, His Majesty has suppressed the Xianbei nobles too much, which has caused an imbalance in the balance of power...

"You immediately sort out what you have seen and heard, write an official letter and send it to me, especially the accounts you have found, which will be originally forwarded to Your Majesty, and the copies must be handed over to my house clearly and clearly."

"Yes." Zhang Yanjun was very cooperative.

"Also," Gao Xi suddenly had a nasty figure floating in his mind, stopped, and Zhang Yanjun looked at him puzzled: "Does Pei Shiju also know about this matter?"

Zhang Yanjun: "Since he and Yang Su supervised the construction of Luoyang together, the affairs of Luoyang cannot be hidden from his eyes."

"I said why did His Majesty transfer Pei Shiju back to the capital at this time..."

Zhang Yanjun hesitated a little: "The right minister plans to show the carriage and horses directly? Wouldn't it be too risky, I think it would be good to just order them to track down and close the loopholes..."

He gradually understood.

I don't know how many people's interests will be affected in the matter of restructuring, and if we are not careful, the new policy will be shattered along with the people who are in power.

With His Majesty's cautious character, even if Gao Xi is sacrificed, he will never bury the overall stability of the imperial court, once Gao Xi's new policy fails, he must be ready to be sacrificed and step down, and Pei Shiju is the person used by the emperor to replace him.

Because of this, Pei Shiju must keep his distance from this matter.

He also didn't want to be swept up in it.

"Although this person is capable, he is still too hesitant when it comes to big things.

"The husband is good when he does things, as long as he stands upright, what else is there to be afraid of?"

Gao Xi glanced at him, sneered in his heart, and his mind suddenly cleared up a lot. A momentum of "saving the society and dying is what else I am" surged up again, saying, "Ridiculous! Don't check? So so we have so many warehouses that have become their home?"

"If they want to pay taxes, they prevaricate and shout poor one by one, and deliberately don't pay it, and those materials that are missing in the warehouse, those things that are originally the things of the imperial court, if the imperial court wants to get them back, will it beg them in a low voice!"

In the Taiji Hall, Gao Wei sat on the dragon couch, listening with great interest to the words of the spies listening to the root of the wall, and the prince stood aside holding a pink and tender little milk doll.

Princess Shouyang seems to be a little stronger than a few days ago, very cute and cute, but very naughty, feeling very uncomfortable being held in her brother's arms, she keeps kicking her short legs and babbling in protest.

Seeing that the prince was struggling, he still didn't dare to let go, for fear of falling his sister. Gao Wei had a little smile in his eyes, and reached out to hug Shouyang.

Gao Heng looked at his father, and finally opened his mouth: "Grandpa, I don't understand."

"What don't you understand?" Gao Wei finally stopped his daughter bouncing on his lap, and turned his head to look at his son, the eldest son who had been pinned on by him since birth.

"Grandpa knew that this matter was very important, so he was so relieved to leave it to them?"

Cushman & Wakefield patiently said:

"Do you know how many years it takes for the imperial court to train a qualified official, and how much it costs? Do you know how much effort and resources I have to spend to be promoted from an ordinary official to the prime minister? You are a king, they are ministers, and the courtiers eat the king's fortune, don't you just want to share your worries for the king? I spent so much money to cultivate them, did I let them eat dry food?"

A few rhetorical questions made Gao Heng not know how to refute.

"Biao'er, for you, this case is a trouble, but for many people who want to do things and want to do things below, it is an opportunity."

Cushman looked at him with kindness and majesty, patting the seat under his buttocks:

"You are the prince of this country, the future son of heaven, and in their eyes, you are high and noble. You don't have to do it yourself, what you need to do is hand it over to the people who see the opportunity, and then put the benefits right in front of them and tell them that if they can solve the problems, they can take all the benefits."

"This is... The most basic way to control your subordinates."