The First Young Master of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 1865 Attitude
"So, part of the money that Zheng Jun got out of the bank was missing, or he hid it himself, or it was sent to the Zheng family and handed over to other members of the Zheng family." Xuan Shijing said.

"Perhaps so." Jin Yang said, with a dignified expression on his face. If it involves the Zheng family, the matter will be more troublesome than it is now. If you want to go directly to Chang'an for this matter, first sort out the Zheng family?

"These accounts should be sent directly to Chang'an, and handed over to your brother. Let's check the bank outside. It involves Chang'an officials. We are outside, far away from Chang'an, and it is difficult to handle. Your Majesty is in Chang'an, and the palace Let your Majesty decide to deal with the matter over there." Xuan Shijing said.

Jin Yang nodded.

This time the Zheng family was really involved.

Now that the money handed over by Zheng Jun has been taken, and if it has nothing to do with the bank, who will believe it.

But if Li Chengqian really runs the Zheng family in Chang'an, I'm afraid the other six great families will also be alerted.

Before being sent to Chang'an, all the ledgers will be copied and left in Xuan Shijing's hands. Xuan Shijing will also use this ledger to deal with the remaining problems in Luoyang City.

Although Chang'an and Luoyang are far away, for Baiqisi, three days are enough to send the news to Emperor Li Chengqian. What will Li Chengqian look like after seeing the account book?Was he furious, or did he appear indifferent because he had already prepared himself psychologically?
Xuan Shijing didn't know about this, he only knew that Li Chengqian would quickly fill the vacancy of Luoyang county magistrate.

Isn't the preparation for these years all for these?

Chang'an, Longshouyuan, Xuanzheng Hall of Daming Palace.

Li Chengqian was sitting in front of the desk in the Xuanzheng Hall, and there were several courtiers sitting on both sides of the lower part of the hall. They were all important ministers among the three provinces. Headed by Changsun Wuji, they sat silently, not daring to speak.

After Li Chengqian got the ledger from Baiqisi and heard what happened in Luoyang City, he ignored other political affairs for the time being. The more he looked at the ledger in his hand, the more annoyed he was. The two servants of Shangshu of the household department were summoned to the palace.

"I have an account book in my hand." There was a long silence in the Xuanzheng Hall, and Li Chengqian finally opened his mouth.

After hearing Li Chengqian's voice, everyone in the hall raised their heads and looked at Li Chengqian. To be precise, they looked at the ledger in Li Chengqian's hand.

"It has been a few years since the establishment of the bank in the Tang Dynasty. Everyone here should also know that the bank was first proposed by the Supreme Emperor and the Duke of Qi, and then the Ministry of Households collected folk materials. It took more than half a year, a lot of preparation, and a lot of effort. This is how the bank was established. People in the household department should know about all the hardships that the whole Tang Dynasty has spread, right?" Li Chengqian looked at the three officials of the household department.

"Yes." The three people from the household department responded.

And among these three people, there is one who is an acquaintance of Xuan Shijing, that is, Fang Yiai. He was in the household department at the beginning of the bank affairs and participated in the whole process. When the vacancy came out, Fang Yiai took over.

"However, now, someone is actually manipulating the bank without permission, seeking huge sums of money from the bank, competing with the imperial court and the national treasury, shorting the bank, and creating false accounts to deceive the court." Li Chengqian laughed back angrily: "If I don't investigate this matter, Does it mean that I have to wait until the bank can no longer be opened, and then the local government can offer a discount, and I will know about this kind of thing?"

"Your Majesty, please calm down. At the beginning of the establishment of the bank, there were always problems, large and small. The court addressed these problems and improved them one by one." Changsun Wuji said.

"Master Changsun is right." Li Chengqian said with a smile: "Improve them one by one, but when the problem of the bank is improved, the court will completely lose the trust of the people." Li Chengqian said: "It's just this account book in my hand. According to the records in the Internet, in just two years, the bank shorted 300 million yuan, that is to say, the national treasury lost a full 300 million yuan. How about the sum of the banks? What kind of amount is this? Everyone, can you guess a rough idea in your heart?"

Li Chengqian didn't like Changsun Wuji's perfunctory attitude very much. The matter of the bank was so important, and when the matter came, he could still say such grandiose words so plainly.

"Your Majesty." Fang Yiai cupped his hands and said, "There is a deficit of 300 million yuan in just one bank, and the entire Tang Dynasty has tens of thousands of banks, no matter it is a prosperous place or a barren place. , If it is all calculated, I estimate that it will definitely not be less than 200 million yuan, so I dare not estimate this amount, but I know that the rectification of the bank is already imminent."

"Fang Shilang is right." The other two officials from the Ministry of Accounting also stood up to help Fang Yiai to speak. At the beginning, the money bank was the hard work of their Ministry of Accounting for more than half a year, and it took more than half a year just to investigate the information of the people. Well, there is still a year to prepare for the bank, and finally the bank was pushed out. The officials of the household department sat in the official residence of Chang'an City and waited to collect the money into the treasury. If you spend too much money, it’s not the imperial treasury that loses money. What is the responsibility of the household department? Most of it is to guard the treasury for the imperial court. How did you get the title of miser?It is because the imperial court used to look for them no matter where the money was spent, and they knew that there was no money in the treasury, so how could they give money?

People in the household department have been counting on the bank to fight a turnaround. Who doesn't want to be rich and powerful, have face and status in the court, and now some people come out to play the bank's idea, which is tolerable or unbearable.

Besides Fang Yiai, there are three other people in charge of the Ministry of Household Affairs, and there are two other people who do not belong to the seven great families. If there were, Li Chengqian would not have found them in the Xuanzheng Palace.

Since Li Chengqian is concerned about the bank, so the Ministry of Household Affairs has the final say, and among the people who can decide things, there will never be people from the seven great families. At that time, he was transferred away. Although there are still people from the seven great families in the household department, most of them are in idle positions, and they can't take care of big things. three people.

Perhaps these three people still have some friendship with the seven great families, but at the moment, in front of the emperor, they need an attitude, whether they want to serve the emperor, the court, or the seven great families, this attitude If you can't explain it, then the next unlucky one is none other than them.

(End of this chapter)