Uncle Palm Seal is an honorific title, and his identity is not a yamen officer, but an official's personal retinue or domestic slave.

When the people in the yamen want to use the seal, they must find the palm seal master to stamp, and of course, it is indispensable to use the seal money, which is one of the unspoken rules in the yamen.

Regarding the entry and exit of the official silver of the treasury, especially the entry and exit of large quantities, it must also be sealed and passed from the palm seal uncle.

The suicide of Uncle Palm Print hanging from the beam is an independent incident, and the burning of the treasury books is also an independent incident.

But when these two independent events happen together, it doesn't look like an independent event, as if forming a "brain chain".

With normal logical thinking, it is generally inferred that there is no proof of where some of the silver in the treasury has gone.

Hearing that the old cronies who had followed him for many years said that it would be gone, and that he had thrown down such a big indescribable black cauldron, Shi Zhifu suddenly became anxious.

He asked the officer aloud, "What is unusual in the government today?" ”

The messenger secretly glanced at Lin Daguan and replied, "There is nothing unusual about it. ”

If there is any difference between the government and the past, it is that there are officials and soldiers who have entered various parts of the government in the name of protecting the safety of the ministers and deploying guards in advance.

But that's not an anomaly, is it? This is just a normal security arrangement, after all, the safety of the minister is very important.

The investigation of whether the Shi Governor's Mansion embezzled official silver seems to be at an impasse.

The minister of the Qin Mission, without any account books to corroborate, pointed to the treasury and said that there must be no corruption in the Shi Governor's Mansion!

Now the most anxious is not the minister of the Qincha, but the prefect of Shi!

"There is also a backup account book of the treasury in the house, which can be taken and surveyed!" Shi Zhifu hurriedly said.

The secretary of the household house reminded: "The treasury official bank account book is sent to the household room for backup once a month, so the treasury account book kept by the household is only up to the previous month.

And the records of the five thousand taels of official silver that the minister wanted to investigate were from this month, so there was no one in the backup account book. ”

Shi Zhifu remembered something again, and shouted to the treasury clerk: "Don't think that this official doesn't know, you have another secret book in your hand!"

You are accustomed to scribbling on the open book of the yamen, but you are registered in detail in the dark book in your private hands!

Now you will hand over the secret book in your hand, and you will not be blamed for the past! ”

When the scribes looked at each other, they suddenly heard the senior official Lin next to them say, "Shouldn't the dark book be in the hands of the palm seal uncle?" ”

This sentence sounds extremely brainless and mentally retarded, and no one with a little IQ will think so!

The dark book of the warehouse is something that the officials live in peace and play games with the officials! It is something that can be passed down to three generations in one volume along with the position of a clerk!

To take the most extreme example, if there is no hidden book in his hand, and the chief official embezzles the silver and lets the little official carry the black pot, what can the little official use to resist?

So how could such a thing as a dark book be in the hands of Uncle Palm Print?

Besides, isn't the palm seal uncle of the government already dead?

Well? He's dead? So the scribes suddenly had an epiphany, if they didn't have an epiphany, they were afraid that they would be the same as the palm print uncle.

If you don't ask, how can they have such a thing as a dark book in their hands.

Seeing this, Shi Zhifu was also very helpless, and he couldn't force it too much.

If it is to find out the problem, it may be useful to torture the officials of these treasury.

But the purpose of the Qin Cha is not to find out the problem, if these officials are forced to be urgent, there will be no problem!

So by now, the investigation is really deadlocked.

Lin Daguan proposed: "I don't think Li Qincha needs to be embarrassed, just report to the court truthfully!" ”

Li Shida frowned tightly, how can he be truthful?

Let's just say that there was a fire in the treasury during the investigation, and then the cronies of the Shi Governor's Mansion committed suicide, and the rest relied on the princes of the imperial court to make up for it?

"That's it for today!" Li Qincha commanded.

I can only give Shi Zhifu time again and see if there is any other way.

Lin Daguan was very offended and suggested: "It's best not to delay, otherwise it is easy to have a big incident." ”

The minister suddenly erupted and reprimanded, "What else can happen? ”

Lin Daguan only looked at Shi Zhifu with bad intentions, "I'm afraid that someone won't be able to bear the pressure, and I'm afraid of committing suicide." ”

Shi Zhifu snorted coldly, who do you look down on? How big can the pressure of five thousand taels of silver be?

Li Shida said to Shi Zhifu: "There are so many cases in the government today, give you three days to investigate and rectify!" ”

After that, Li Shida turned around and left, leaving the mansion and going back to the Gusuyi Mansion.

Sitting in the sedan chair, the minister's mood was very depressed.

I thought it was a simple little task to go through the motions, but I didn't expect it to be so difficult.

For a local bully like Lin Tailai, whose power is pervasive, after tearing his face, he can't be guarded against!

can only stabilize for a few days, and then slowly find a breakthrough to give Shi Zhifu a clean slate.

When he was pondering, suddenly the official sedan chair stopped, and the long attendant reported outside the sedan chair: "It seems that someone is blocking the road to complain!" ”

Li Shida said impatiently: "What does it have to do with this hospital? Although this court is a Qincha, it doesn't care about the name of the local punishment! ”

Then from outside the sedan chair, the voice of the guard officer surnamed Lin came: "Li Qincha had better come out and take a look!" ”

The sedan curtain was lifted, and Li Shida walked out, but saw a dirty, tattered, and swarthy old man sitting in the middle of the street.

If you look closely, this old man's legs are broken, and he doesn't know how precisely he appeared here to block the way.

Next to the old man, there were three children less than ten years old, dressed in rags, all skinny, timidly surrounding the old man.

Seeing that the other party has become miserable like this, Li Shida can't turn around and leave, he still wants word-of-mouth and reputation.

The old man raised his hands full of dirt and said, "The little one is from Wu County, and his family is extremely poor, and he has recently run out of grain, so he went to the county Zhongji Agricultural Warehouse to borrow grain."

However, the Jinongcang document said that Jinongcang now has no surplus rice and grain to borrow. ”

Spring is the time when the green and yellow are not harvested, and it is also the peak period for the poor to borrow grain from the Jinong warehouse, and then repay it again at the autumn harvest, and generally do not charge interest.

Lin Tailai next to him asked, "Nonsense! Wu County's Jinong warehouse is full of reserves, how can there be no rice and grain loaned? ”

The dirty old man continued to pray: "I heard that a few days ago, the government government took five thousand taels of silver from the county treasury, so the county government is short of money.

A few days ago, the county government temporarily embezzled 10,000 stone from Jinongcang for emergency, resulting in Jinongcang having no grain to borrow, and poor people like villains have no way to live!

Some people say that the money is greedy for the prefect, but the villain doesn't believe it!

I only implore the lord of Qincha to call the shots, and let the government return the silver to the county government, so that the county government will not occupy the Jinong warehouse again! ”

Li Shida turned his head to Lin Daguan and asked, "Is this what you say is easy to make a big deal?" ”

Lin Daguan replied: "At least thousands of poor families have been affected, how can it not be a big deal?

They were hungry and anxious, and they heard that the prefect had embezzled 5,000 taels of silver, so it was very possible to gather people to go to the prefect to discuss the law, or besiege the prefect. ”

Feeling a strong sense of threat, Li Shida said angrily: "Jinongcang is a matter of the county, what does it have to do with the government?" ”

Lin Daguan replied again: "Li Qincha may not understand, my Suzhou City has its own city here!"

In the first two years, the government government forcibly took away tens of thousands of stone of rice and grain from the two county Jinongcang, and finally lost 20,000 stone.

Fortunately, last year, a good person from the Lin family took over the operation of the county's Jinong Warehouse and worked hard to make up for the shortfall. ”

Li Qincha interrupted Lin Daguan's explanation, and asked sensitively, "The good man of the Lin family?" ”

Lin Daguan replied without changing his face: "This good man of the Lin family is called Lin Yunlai, you won't think it's me, right?" ”

Then he went on to explain: "So in the hearts of these poor people who rely on the help of the agricultural barns, they are very sensitive to the government office.

This time, when I heard it, it was the government that took the money from the county government, which led them to be unable to borrow rice and grain from Jinongcang normally.

What happened the year before last, this year happened again, can you not be extremely indignant? ”

When Li Shida heard this, he secretly screamed "bad" in his heart!

Coupled with the fact that the silver treasury was on fire and the palm print uncle committed suicide, it is estimated that rumors of corruption in the prefect will be derived.

This is not the pressure of five thousand taels of silver, but the pressure of thousands of poor households! And there must still be thousands of poor families in the organization!

I don't know if Shi Zhifu can withstand the pressure, will it be very reasonable to "commit suicide in fear of crime"?

After discovering this fatal problem, Li Shida immediately said to Lin Tai: "Don't mess around yet!" ”

Lin Daguan responded lightly: "It's too late to say this now." ”

Li Shida finally felt that this was a new type of bully he had never seen before!

It's hard to see how much money you make, but this organizational ability and resource mobilization ability are terrifying!

I can't write anymore, go to sleep. Ask for a monthly pass, it's the end of the month, and there must be one in your pocket! Tomorrow to continue!

(End of chapter)