Datang: Acting as a celestial mystery at the beginning

Li Yi'an is a little embarrassed now, they all ignored his intentions, and finally the man he met once when he first came to Yantie Division sent him all the accounts.

"If there is another time, you can get out!"

Zheng Chengping stared at the man, his voice was so cold that it was about to freeze him.

The man was so frightened that he trembled all over, and then stepped back, not daring to say anything more.

Since three fires failed, Li Yi'an didn't bother with them. He took all the tax accounts to his workplace and read them one by one. He didn't read too much. .

Even so, there are already many, because there are definitely not many merchants selling salt in Chang'an.

Li Yi'an first found out about Zheng's family, but he hadn't finished reading it all. He only found the problem after reading the first few pages.

The Zheng family pays very little salt and iron tax. Will such a huge family pay less tax?Absolutely impossible, but their accounts are kept very clean, but no matter how clever the ancient methods of making up accounts, they can't hide Li Yi'an's modern soul.

After seeing the end, Li Yi'an found thirty or forty places where the accounts were falsified, basically covering all the merchants under the Zheng family.

After reading the Zheng family's, Li Yi'an found out the Wang family's.

The accounts of the Wang family were cleaner, and he immediately thought that the woman named Wang Rujing must have been tricked by her, but if he searched carefully, he still found many problems.

Li Yi'an found that not only the accounts in Chang'an were false, but even outside Chang'an, there were several counties under the management of Chang'an, none of which was true.

From Li Shimin's ascension to the present, the tax revenue of Yantie is only [-] yuan.

Such a false number, anyone who reads it will feel that there is a problem, it is a challenge to the court's bottom line.

However, the accounts are here, and the previous salt and iron envoys could not find any evidence or questions, and even if they found them, they would not dare to say anything about the five surnames and seven, or even make a memorial.

When Li Yuan was in power, he probably didn't care much about the salt and iron issue.

It has been less than a year since Li Shimin ascended the throne. In the early stage, he was dealing with the legacy of killing his brother and imprisoning his father. There was a drought at the beginning of spring, and he was busy with the food problem. He had no time to reach out to the interior of Yantiesi.

The combination of various reasons led to the existence of the Salt and Iron Division in name only, and the illegal salt outside became more and more serious.

"The water in Yantiesi is very deep, and I can't hold it if I'm not careful!"

When Li Yi'an saw it in the afternoon, he only read two-thirds of it, and there was still a small part that he didn't have time to read, but the questions he recorded, as well as the names of various people, were already densely packed.

Before he knew it, Li Yi'an would not stay and work overtime because of this kind of thing. After reading it, he still needs to go to the Ministry of Civil Affairs to rectify all the problems of salt and iron.

"Why, did you find out what's wrong?"

As soon as Li Yi'an came out of the work room, he saw Zheng Chengping folded his arms and looked at him, and heard him say with disdain: "If you want to stay in Yantie Division, you'd better not be smart."

Li Yi'an smiled and said, "If I think I'm smart, so what?"

Zheng Chengping grinned coldly: "Then I'll make you go hungry!"

After all, he no longer cared about Li Yi'an, and left with a group of people, extremely arrogant.

"You'd better not offend them in the future, the consequences are really serious."

said the man in fear.

"How serious can it be? That's all it seems to me!"

Li Yi'an said again: "By the way, what should I call you?"

"Chen Guangrui."

The man nodded.

"What did you say your name was?"

Li Yi'an was startled.

Who is Chen Guangrui?Isn't it the fictional Tang Seng's father in "Journey to the West", the number one scholar in the Zhenguan period, how could this fictional character also appear in reality?

"Chen Guangrui."

Chen Guangrui repeated it again and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Nothing, good name."

Li Yi'an shook his head, secretly calculated that this Chen Guangrui, an ordinary scholar from a poor family, should have the same name and surname as Tang Seng's father.

After saying goodbye to him, Li Yi'an returned to Ma Zhou's home in Chang'an, and it happened that Ma Zhou also came back.

"Sir, today is your first day here, how do you feel?"

Ma Zhou asked with a smile.

"I almost thought that this salt and iron envoy was not me, but a man named Zheng Chengping."

Li Yi'an said embarrassingly: "The water in Yantiesi is deeper than I thought!"

He briefly told the matter.

"Too presumptuous!"

Ma Zhou was furious, and immediately said: "I will enter the palace right away, and ask His Majesty to rectify the Yantie Division."

Li Yi'an waved his hand to call him back, shook his head and said, "It's not in a hurry, I have another plan. At the court meeting, help me impeach everyone in the Yantie Division, except me and Chen Guangrui."

Hearing that Li Yi'an still had plans, Ma Zhou felt at ease immediately, and asked again, "Do you have any other orders, sir?"

Li Yi'an thought for a moment, then asked, "Are you busy tomorrow?"

Ma Zhou shook his head.

"Then you'll be very busy soon."

Li Yi'an smiled meaningfully.

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Lu's.

"Success!"

Holding a piece of paper, Lu Yulin laughed and said, "According to Li Yi'an's method, we really made paper."

Movable type printing type, they are also making.

But they have already got the finished paper.

With these things, the Lu family can also create a Chang'an Daily to control Chang'an's speech, and even more than that, he has already thought of all the means to maximize the benefits of the paper.

"When we were making paper, we also discovered a very strange thing. There is also a phosphorous powder in the manufacturing method. If we add phosphorous powder to the pulp, it will not be successful. Only by removing the phosphorous powder will it be successful."

A craftsman beside him said suddenly.

"There is such a thing, so is there any problem with the paper produced?"

Lu Yulin asked nervously.

"No problem at all."

The artisan shook his head.

"Then don't add phosphor powder, throw it all in the warehouse, and make paper as soon as possible."

Lu Yulin didn't think too much about it, and added: "There are also those font models, and they must be made quickly, so there must be no mistakes."

Not long after the craftsman left, Lu Xiuran walked in angrily.

"Aye, I thought of the way to deal with Li Yi'an again."

Lu Xiuran said with certainty: "This time, it will definitely succeed."

He roughly stated his plan.

After thinking for a while, Lu Yulin asked, "Are you sure, can it be done?"

"It's definitely possible. I want to completely discredit his reputation and repay him with his own way. I want to see how Li Erlang maintains a notorious person! Then, use our newspaper to report this Maximize things."

"Since it's possible, let's do it. His reputation is rotten. Even if Li Erlang doesn't give up on him, he won't be able to make waves. In the end, he can give the Cui family a favor."