The bad emperor of Tang Dynasty

After the evening drum was knocked and the sun set, Hanguang Street welcomed the Tubo envoys the day before yesterday. Now the grand ceremony scene has disappeared, but there are still many traces of celebration firecrackers and fireworks and colored paper left on the street.

The Li wine in the restaurants around Hanguang Street is very good. This street is close to the main gate of the imperial palace and it is also close to Honglu Temple, which receives foreign guests. Therefore, foreigners consume a lot of goods, such as wine served in black luminous cups. I heard that The day before yesterday, the caravan from the Western Regions brought a batch of the most mellow and sweet wine from Tuyuhun. Guo Nuan came here as a wine worm, so he went to the Chunfeng Restaurant on Hanguang Street alone to have fun after dealing with official business.

According to Guo Nuan's own plan, Ah Fu was recruited by him into the Military Arms Supervision Office to replace Wang Yan's cousin who often drank and made troubles. It's a trivial matter for the clerk to review the accounts of the material loss of the Military Ordnance Supervision.

After more than a week of audits day and night, Ah Fu plunged into the military weapons supervision account room and became a workaholic. He read and reviewed all the account details of the military weapons supervision in the past 30 years, sitting in the yellowed room of the warehouse. Ah Fu's eyes were red from being boiled in the pile of old papers. He went through the accounts in just ten days, and Guo Nuan was amazed.

Originally, he planned to ask Ah Fu to complete the task within a month, but he did not expect to finish the work in a shortened time. This kid is not in vain. He worked so hard for his master.

That day, in the signing office of the Chief Supervisor of the Military Armament Supervision, the exhausted Ah Fu's eyes were bloodshot, but his expression was extremely excited. He took advantage of the idle people in the room waiting to retreat, and he handed over a new accounting report to the office. It's on Guo Nuan's case.

It is said that Ah Fu is extremely talented in auditing accounts. His keen intuition and meticulous financial thinking are like having a pair of piercing eyes in front of books of fraudulent accounts. There is nowhere to hide these false account data. What Fu is best at is undoubtedly sorting out the closest actual amount among the wrong numbers to find the shortfall.

At that time, after flipping through the audit report and auditing accounts of Ah Fu, Guo Nuan was shocked, and then he had an idea, and he let out a long sigh of relief while lying on the armrest chair.

"That's right, Ah Fu, thank you for your hard work, I'll let you go on vacation these few days,"

Guo Nuan's conservative estimate of the corruption figures turned out to be so different from the actual amount of Wang Yan's gang, which undoubtedly shocked him greatly.

The deficit incident involved more than a dozen departments. Falsifying accounts is considered an open secret in the Military Weapons Supervision. The operation of the accounts involves the Ministry of Finance for appropriation, the Ministry of War that allocates weapons and equipment, and a part of the Ministry of Industry that cooperates with the Military Weapons Supervision. Fortifications, as well as the decision-making Zhongshu Province, have contacts with almost all major institutions.

Guo Nuan found clues from a series of strange amounts of money, a series of intricate and intricate cobwebs of deficits consumed in the transactions of various government offices, this is an astonishing corruption network.

Guo Nuan drank alone in the elegant room of the restaurant, he drank a little absent-mindedly, and couldn't help muttering to himself at the moment.

",, if Wang Yan is pulled off the horse, it will affect the whole body. How many big brothers behind him will be involved in this mess, grandma, maybe everyone is as jealous as fangs The evil spirit is going to eat brother alive, and the biggest backer, Yuan Zai, is probably going to go crazy."

Guo Nuan touched the account book in his arms, no doubt it was a big bomb that could detonate the capital's political arena in an instant, either the faction exposed completely defeated the corrupt faction, or the clean faction and the corrupt faction completely turned against each other to fight to the death In an all-out war of confrontation, the weak faction was hit hard and perished in the political arena.

Two days ago, Guo Nuan found an excuse to get rid of several yamen officials from Wang Yan's faction, and he recruited several newcomers from the Imperial College to replace them.

Guo Nuan deliberately nitpicked. He removed those officials according to the crime of dereliction of duty. The crime of dereliction of duty was big or small.

In the Military Weapons Supervision Compound, the military officers were ordered to beat the dereliction of duty officials with [-] sticks each, to carry out the fourth-class punishment, and then to pack up and go home. Undoubtedly, this was extremely deterrent to the remaining old officials like Wang Yan. .

However, it seems that Guo Nuan always finds excuses to make things difficult for Wang Yan and the others, which makes them less lazy in their work. For half a month, they have really worked hard, with Guo Nuan's radar-like eyes on the military monitor all the time. During the scan, they had no chance to be lazy or make false accounts to make money, and they all took the initiative to work as if they had been beaten with chicken blood and dared not stop.

With the arrival of the Tubo envoys, Guo Nuan's participation in polo training has also increased in vain. It seems that Emperor Daizong attaches great importance to the polo exchange match with Tubo, but the cooperation between the crown prince and King Jun in the polo team is somewhat depressing. On the surface, the two brothers did not have any common language exchange except for ordinary greetings. It was not easy for the entourage of the two princes. For example, Guo Nuan felt the strong smell of gunpowder between the two brothers.

However, Guo Nuan is under the enemy's back, and he firmly stands on the side of Prince Li Shi, so he will inevitably and will not be welcomed by King Jun. Of course, when playing polo, he always feels that there is always a pair of hot and resentful eyes behind him, which makes Guo Nuan feel uncomfortable. Guess, he also knew that it was the resentment emanating from that brat Yuan Fang.

Recently, Guo Nuan was in a heavy mood, and Guo Nuan was a bit dissatisfied with drinking. Normally, in this restaurant, one person would have to drink an extremely expensive old jar of fine nectar. At this moment, he just drank a small bottle by himself.

Speaking of which, the shopkeeper of Chunfeng Restaurant has a lot of connection with Guo Nuan. This restaurant is owned by the Fenyang Prince's Mansion. After careful study, Guo Nuan, as a direct descendant of the Guo family, can be regarded as the backstage of the hotel's owner.

The old shopkeeper is over [-] years old, and he worked as an errand in the Fenyang Prince's Mansion when he was young, and now he manages part of the property for the Guo family, including this Chunfeng restaurant.

This day, the old shopkeeper looked a little unhappy when he saw his young master drinking alone.

"Master, look at you drinking alone and not serving food. Drinking strong alcohol on an empty stomach is easy to hurt your health," the old shopkeeper walked to Guo Nuan's elegant table and reminded him nicely.

"Oh, if it wasn't for Uncle Kang's reminder, I wouldn't have paid attention to it," Guo Nuan was just about to drink a cup of white wine in a porcelain cup, when the old shopkeeper stepped forward and said.

"Hehe, it's not fun to drink high-grade wine recently. I wanted to entertain myself, but the more I drink, the more chaotic my mind becomes, and the birds fade out of my mouth. It's no fun if I don't drink. By the way, Kang Bo, what is there to drink in the restaurant? Is the new variety good wine that is not on the top?"

"Not topped wine,"

Kang Bo pondered for a moment, then he slapped his forehead with a chuckle and said, "By the way, I have a friend who does business in Tubo and brought a jar of Tubo wine back to Chang'an."

"What's it called?" Kang Bo thought for a while and then said, "Yes, highland barley wine, a wine made from special grains in the west. I tasted a glass of it. It tastes really good. It's sour and sweet. At the meeting, my friends said that this is the high-quality highland barley wine brewed from the spring water at the foot of the Golden Pagoda, a sacred place in Tibetan tradition, and it also has the effect of sobering up.”

"Quick, let me taste it," Guo Nuan was curious for a moment, saying that he had never tasted highland barley wine in his previous life, so how could he let this opportunity pass now.

"Okay, master, wait a moment,"