Sui and Tang Dynasties: Killing Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty to sacrifice to heaven at the beginni

Chapter 486 Gao Yan's Combat Strength.

Yang Guang grounded Li Mu in the mansion, which actually meant to let Li Mu temporarily avoid the limelight.

As the old saying goes, the bird with the gun shoots the head.

Li Mu has been in the limelight recently, so he just took advantage of this opportunity to avoid it for a while, and gave Gao Yan the frontal battlefield in the court.

Needless to say, as soon as Gao Yan took office, people knew what it means to have three fires when a new official takes office.

The first thing Gao Lin did after taking office was to check the accounts.

What is the Ministry of Households in charge of? This is in charge of the money and food of the Great Sui Dynasty. Gao Yan wanted to find trouble with the aristocratic family, so he naturally started to investigate those old accounts.

Household Yamen, the main hall.

Looking at the ledgers piled up like hills in the lobby, the officials of the household department all felt that their heads were getting bigger.

Gao Yan really has turned over all the old accounts that have been going on for an unknown number of years.Looking at it like this, it means that if you don't torture yourself to death, you have to torture the powerful family to death.

However, the officials of the household department feel that if the account continues to be investigated like this, Gao Yan will probably exhaust himself to death, and he will not be able to find out why.

These accounts are the accounts of taxes paid by various places over the years.

Even if there are problems in these accounts, it is definitely not possible to find them out by this kind of aimless investigation.

In those prefectures and counties controlled by powerful families, it is common practice for them to work together on taxation.However, one is that no one reported it locally, and the other was that the court did not investigate it.

I didn't delve into it at the time, but now that it's been so many years, I'm trying to find fault with the accounts.

All I can say is, it's even harder.

"Gao Shangshu, I don't have any clue where to check these accounts!" The servant of the household department looked a little ugly.

This old account is the most difficult to check, especially when it comes to taxation.

You know, if it is a good year, the tax can still be traced, but if it is a bad year and the harvest is not good, the court will often reduce or exempt the tax. Whether it is more or less is hard to measure.

It is not very easy to understand the taxation of this place.

From the perspective of the present, even if there is a problem with the account, these aristocratic families are not fools, will they take the initiative to hand over the handle?

There is no doubt that these tax accounts are carefully designed, and no one can see the slightest defect.

The officials of the Ministry of Household Affairs felt that Gao Yan was wasting his efforts, even if he investigated back then, he might not be able to find out any clues.

What's more, what Gao Yan is looking for now is some old almanacs.

In fact, Gao Yan himself thought that such an investigation would probably not find anything.However, his audit this time was actually instructed by Li Mu.

A few days ago, Li Mu patted his chest and vowed to Gao Yan: "If you check these accounts according to his method, you will definitely be able to find the problem."

Gao Yan thought about it, and murmured in his heart: "The smaller the number, the higher the probability of appearing in the first place, and the larger the number, the lower the probability of appearing in the first place."

"The probability of one appearing should be 30.00%. If a large number with a high probability appears in the first place, then most of the accounts are fake accounts."

This is the method that Li Mu gave to Gao Bin a few days ago, but Gao Bin didn't understand the principle behind it.

Li Mu didn't explain it carefully to Gao Yan, but just patted his chest to reassure Gao Bin that if he followed his method to investigate, he would definitely be able to find out the clues.

For Li Mu's words, Gao Yan still believed, and that's why he took the action of checking the old account books from previous years today.

The method that Li Mu taught Gao Xing to distinguish whether it is a fake account is the Benford's law of later generations.

The meaning of Benford's Law is that, for a group of numbers that appear randomly and are not calculated artificially, there must be a certain pattern in the first place of this group of numbers.The smaller the number, the higher the proportion, for example, the proportion of 1 is 30.00%, the proportion of 2 is 18.00%, and so on, the proportion of 9 is less than 5.00%.

False accounts must be obtained through human calculations, so it must be impossible to follow Benford's law.

In other words, as long as the ratio of 1 as the beginning of this account is too large to 30.00%, or if large numbers appear frequently as the beginning of this account, then there must be a problem with this account.

Find the problematic accounts among the accounts piled up like a hill. After you have a goal, the accounts will naturally be much easier to check.

"Later, the old man will find out the problematic accounts. Then, you will check them carefully!" Gao Yan said, and began to check these accounts one by one.

Each of these accounts is a county's land, a year's tax details.

Gao Yan used the method Li Mu taught him to check the accounts carefully.I don't know if I don't see it, but I was really scared when I saw it.

Using Li Mu's method, it turns out that many of these accounts are unreasonable.

Gao Yan did not teach the method Li Mu taught him to these subordinate officials of the household department.After all, Gao Yan didn't know whether any of these people were from powerful families.

If this method is taught to them, it is very likely that big numbers will be avoided when the aristocratic family makes false accounts.

About half a month later, Gao Yan had already checked out these old accounts of the Ministry of Accounts.

If you don't check, you don't know. If you check, you will be shocked.It was only after this investigation that Gao Yan found out that the tax revenues that had been cut by powerful families in recent years accounted for at least one-fifth of the imperial court's tax revenue.

These accounts are mixed with true and false. If Gao Yan had not had Li Mu give him a method, I am afraid that it would be difficult to see the tricks in it.

However, with Li Mujiao's method, it would be different.From these accounts, first find out the problematic accounts, and then carefully verify and compare them, then it is easy to find out the problems.

As the saying goes, if you want people not to know you have to do nothing, as long as you make a move, then there will be traces.

For half a month, Gao Yan only slept for two hours a day, and led the officials of the household department to check the accounts overnight, and had all the evidence of tax withheld by the powerful family in his hands.

In this household department, there is naturally an inner ghost of a powerful family, so the powerful family knows more or less about the news.

Daxing City, Xue Daoheng Mansion.

"The big thing is not good, that old clapper Gao Yan really has a few brushes. Those old accounts of the Ministry of Accounts, he actually really let him find out!"

"There should be news from the insiders of our household department. Gao Yan already has real evidence in his hands, and it is estimated that we are going to be impeached!" said a minister of the powerful family.

"Who is he, Gao Yan? This is the old master's humerus minister. Our laws of the Sui Dynasty were all revised by this person."

"Our accounts are seen by Gao Yan, which makes sense!" Pei Yun said in a deep voice.

"Hey, this Gao Yan is no easier to deal with than Li Mu!" Cui Jin also sighed.

(ps: My thumb was squeezed by the car door a few days ago, and my fingernails were squeezed out. It was inconvenient to code words. In recent days, the code words have been a bit slow! In order to keep full attendance, sometimes I can only paste and copy some things. It will be revised in two days.)
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