I am not a deposed emperor of Han Dynasty

Chapter 28

Liu He pretended to say some words of encouragement to Tian Bian, and then sent this "worm" away.

When Liu He and Yu Wuyou were the only ones left in the Changyi Palace, they sat on the pile of wooden slips on the left and right, not knowing what to do.

This amount is a bit beyond their imagination.

Liu He picked up a wooden tablet and weighed it in his hand. It wasn't too heavy, but it was covered with densely packed small characters.

"On the tenth day of the second lunar month, take ten millet dendrobium and five hundred cash, and send it to Qiongtai, the cook."

"On the tenth day of the second lunar month, take seven millet dendrobium, four hundred money, and send it to the gardener Bujing."

"On the tenth day of the second lunar month, take six dendrobiums of millet and three hundred coins, and send them to Qu Gai, a musician."

……

Liu He read seven or eight articles in a row, and the format of the text was almost exactly the same. It seems that it should be the monthly money and monthly food that Changyi Palace distributed to the employees in February.

The servants of the royal palace are divided into slaves and servants. The former has no monthly payment, but the latter has monthly payment and monthly food.

After Liu He finished reading, Yu Wuyou didn't seem to see any problems.

"Your Highness, the amount of money and food seems to be adequate."

"When checking the accounts, the word [seems] is a big taboo. There are at least a hundred hired workers who receive money and food from the palace every month. This person reports one more millet and ten more money. It seems inconspicuous. But it adds up to an astronomical sum.”

"What's more, the monthly money and monthly rations are only one of the items. In addition, there is also the monthly food, grain, oil, firewood, and lamp grass. If you are greedy for one money in one item on this day, the dozens I don’t know how much I have been greedy over the years.”

"But this... seems to be all our conjecture." Yu Wuyou had no experience in checking accounts, and he was a little panicked when he looked at the mountain of wooden tablets.

"Worriless, don't get caught up in it. There really isn't anything wrong with these accounts at first glance, but there are some signs that can reveal the problem."

As Liu He spoke, he picked out a few wooden tablets and put them together.

"Look, on these wooden tablets, there are traces of new cutting and scraping on the number; look at these wooden tablets again, the names of people are smeared with ink."

"These may be traces of Zida's unscrupulous manipulation."

"Find out all the similar suspicious things, and then find everyone one by one to check, and then add up all the detailed figures, and finally see if it matches the total."

"All?" Yu Wuyou asked a little discouraged.

It was the first time that Liu He saw the other party showing a flinching expression.

"Of course, you must be careful when checking the accounts. As long as it's fake, it won't be true. We check everything, and we can always find out."

"Worriless, Li Zhang is going to help Anle with the tricks. You are the only one in the palace who is proficient in arithmetic. You have to shoulder this heavy responsibility!" Liu He stood up and patted Yu Wuyou's face. Shoulder.

"Your Highness, there is another person who is more skilled in arithmetic than the official, please send him to help."

"Oh? Is there anyone in the palace who is proficient in arithmetic? Quickly tell the widow his name."

"That's your Highness, the subordinates learned arithmetic from you."

Only then did Liu He realize what the other party was saying, and he refused with a dry laugh.

"Hehe, the widow has a lot of things to do every day, so I'd better leave such trivial matters to Mr. Yu."

Yu Wuyou couldn't refuse anymore, so he had no choice but to cup his hands to express his acceptance.

The matter of checking the details has been settled, but there is another matter that has not been settled.

"The subordinate officials have done this, so who should investigate the transfer of warehouses?"

It is a method often used by cowards and warehouse officials for corruption on the grounds of borrowing and moving warehouses.

The purpose of shifting warehouses is to make room for new millet to be stored, and to remove a batch of old millet from the warehouse and deal with it at a low price.

It is the most important job of the warehouse officer in a year.

But those petty officials who cheated often falsely reported the price.

Chen Su, who sells for fifty renminbi a dendrobium, can be falsely quoted at thirty renminbi a dendrobium, and the difference in price becomes a fortune for corrupt officials.

What's more, they directly bought and sold the grain from the account on the grounds of mold and rot, and then secretly sold the defrauded grain at a price.

There are also some more daring and corrupt officials who are talking about removing Chen Su on the surface, but actually selling Xin Su directly: the official warehouses of the county state range from hundreds to hundreds. , which warehouse the grain in it corresponds to in the account, or how much old millet and how much new millet there is, only the cowards and warehouse officials know, and it is not difficult for them to fool Shangguan.

This can't be blamed on Shangguan's confusion, because arithmetic is not the focus of Confucian education, and those great Confucians who have achieved success in learning have no intention of studying it, so naturally they don't know the twists and turns inside.

Sometimes, even if they happen to meet a Shangguan who is good at math and likes to be serious, there is still a one-stop solution for the dirty officials, which is to set fire directly.

Whether it is burning the accounts or burning the granary, in short, it is a death without proof.

This is also the reason why Liu He is anxious to get the account—whether it is true or not, it is better than nothing.

"They must have played tricks on the matter of moving the warehouse. As long as we send people to investigate carefully, we will be able to investigate some problems. When the time comes, we will follow the vines and find out that Tian Buxie will always be caught."

"I will leave this matter to Dai Zong and the others, so you don't have to worry about it."

"promise."

When Liu He and Yu Wuyou were discussing how to deal with Tian Busting, the filthy official hadn't noticed it at all, and he was completely deceived by Liu He and Yu Wuyou's playfulness.

Because it was almost the time of the Youchu when we left Changyi Palace, Tian Bingzhi didn't go back to the Prime Minister's Mansion located in the northeast corner of Changyi City, but drove out of the north gate directly in a carriage.

After making several turns in the street with a guilty conscience, Tian Buyi's unremarkable carriage came to a secluded alley, and finally stopped in an unremarkable courtyard.

This courtyard is not too big, and you can't see any difference from the outside, but there is something special inside.

The servants who were busy in the courtyard and corridors were all good-looking and healthy, and each of them was worth at least ten thousand yuan.

And in this not too big courtyard, there are nearly ten servants busy.

After they saw Tian Buxie get off the carriage, they all stopped their work, bowed respectfully and said: "My servant greets the master."

At this time, Tian Buyi no longer had the kind of submissiveness in front of Liu He, and his face was full of indifference and arrogance. After he answered with a cold "Yes", he walked towards the main hall.

The decoration in the main hall is also very elegant. The shape of the copper lamps in the corners alone is very exquisite, even comparable to the palace lamps in the Changyi palace.

Just as Tian Buzhi entered the main hall, a seductive and charming woman came out from the back of the hall and said coquettishly, "Husband, you haven't been here for three days, and you want to die at my slave's house."

The sound made Tian Buxie's bones brittle, he immediately hugged the woman, and moved his mouth full of yellow teeth towards her.

(End of this chapter)