Fortunate Young Gentleman

"Servant Fang?"

Tang Ning paused as she was about to walk out. She had already handed in the completed account books. What did Fang Zhe want from him?

Even though he had been at peace in the past few days since he came to Hubu, he did not let down his guard.

Fang Zhe is the left minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, and he firmly holds the second position in the household department. Although the person actually sitting in the second position is Minister Han, a skinny camel is bigger than a horse, and a minister with no power is not something he can do as a principal. Touched.

Think about it from another angle, if he were Fang Zhe, the person who had beaten him happened to be his subordinate, and he would see him every day without looking up. If he were Fang Zhe, the person who offended him would have been killed long ago. .

After looking at countless different angles, Tangning felt that she couldn't go on this trip.

"Go tell Mr. Fang that I have gone home." Tang Ning waved her hand and quickly walked out of Duzhi Yamen. The moment she stepped out of the door, she saw Fang Zhe standing in front of him with his hands behind his back. He turned around and looked Looking at him.

"What a coincidence, I was just about to meet Mr. Fang..." Tangning stopped, looked at him and asked, "I wonder what Mr. Fang wants to see me for?"

Fang Zhe looked at him and said calmly: "Come in and talk."

Tang Ning followed him into a check-in room with a gloomy look on her face. Shilang Han was not there, so he must have left. There were only two people in the check-in room, Tang Ning and Fang Zhe.

Fang Zhe waited for him to walk in and then closed the door. Tang Ning didn't care.

If Fang Zhe wanted to do something in this check-in room, he would be humiliating himself. He was not worried that Fang Zhe had ambushed someone in this small check-in room. Looking around, he could see that there were hidden places where people could be hidden. Even when it is full of people, he has nothing to fear.

It was a fact that he couldn't beat Tang Yaoyao, but for him, it was also a fact that no one in the entire household department could beat him.

"The accounts settled by Duzhi Yamen have been handed over to Qian Shangshu." Fang Zhe sat down in his seat and said, "Did you encounter any problems during the calculation of the accounts?"

"No." Tangning shook her head and said, "Duzhi Yamen is only responsible for settling accounts, not checking them. Without the ins and outs of the figures, what problems can we encounter?"

Fang Zhe looked at him and said calmly: "You may not know that Minister Han is Prince Duan's secret agent in the household department."

Tang Ning was surprised. Han Ming, the right minister of the Ministry of Finance, was pretty good to him. Although he knew that there was another secret agent of Prince Duan in the Ministry of Finance, he was not sure whether it was Minister Qian or Minister Han, and whether it was from the court or among the people. , there is not even a little rumor about this. Fang Zhe slept in the Hanlin Academy for fourteen years, how could he be better informed than Su Mei?

Even though Su Mei never told him explicitly, after the last incident, he could guess that naturally living in Beijing, there must be a huge and incredible intelligence network.

He looked at Fang Zhe and asked, "How did Master Fang know?"

"As long as something has happened in this world, there will definitely be some clues." Fang Zhe looked forward and said, "If you look carefully, you can always find something."

Who knows if Fang Zhe is tricking him? Since Han Ming is a member of King Duan and King Duan hates him to the core, how can he be safe and sound during these days in the Hubu?

As if knowing that Tang Ning didn't believe it, Fang Zhe handed over a booklet and said, "This is the tax account book of each state calculated by the Du branch from the 20th to the 23rd year of Xingyuan. Take a look."

Tang Ning took the account book. What was recorded on it was the tax situation of the various states in Chen State in the past four years. Since Fang Zhe asked him to take a look, it meant that there was something wrong with the account book, but Tang Ning's brain was not a computer, so she couldn't take a look at it. He analyzed whether there was a problem with the account book, and this was only partial data. In the absence of data, the methods he knew were of little use.

Even he couldn't figure it out. If Fang Zhe could find the problem from this pile of data, Tangning would admit that he was really a beast.

Fang Zhe took a sip of tea and continued: "Look at the tax figures of Bozhou, Xiangzhou, and Weizhou in recent years."

Tangning glanced at the paper and said, "What's wrong with Bozhou, Xiangzhou, and Weizhou? The tax revenue has been stable in the past few years, with increases and decreases, but not by much. It's not normal anymore. What's the problem?"

Fang Zhe put down the tea cup and said: "Bozhou Chronicles, Volume 53, Section 10."

It is a history book compiled by the Hanlin Academy. It records the system and customs of the Chen State in detail, including the major and minor events that occur in each state capital every year. This is what Cui Lang did in the Hanlin Academy. This set of books, Tang Ning When I was in Hanlin Academy, I had already seen the latest compilation.

"Bozhou Chronicles, Volume 53, Section 10..." Tang Ning recalled for a moment in his mind and murmured: "In June of the 21st year of Xingyuan, there was a slight drought in Hebei Province. Bozhou, Xiangzhou, and Weizhou Especially when people are in exile..."

Fang Zhe looked at him with a slightly strange expression on his face: "Scholar Zhou said that you have photographic memory. It seems that what he said is true."

Putting aside the question of whether it was true or not, Tangning found that he couldn't keep up with Fang Zhe's rhythm. He was talking with a hammer here and a stick here and there. He still didn't understand what he meant by saying so much.

When he glanced at the book in his hand, he looked at the numbers on the paper and finally found something, his expression was slightly startled.

"In June of the 21st year of Xingyuan, there was a slight drought in Hebei Province, especially in Bozhou, Xiangzhou, and Weizhou, and the people went into exile...", this is what it says, but the problem is, in the 21st year of Xingyuan, this Taxes in the three states are actually the highest in the past four years.

The people have all run away, who will the governments of these three states turn to to collect taxes?

Under normal circumstances, this possibility will not happen unless someone has tampered with the tax figures and ignored the actual situation of these three states.

The tax figures for the 21st year of Xingyuan are higher than those for the past three years, which means that the taxes for these three years have been tampered with. It is audacious to tamper with the taxes directly!

Bozhou, Xiangzhou, and Weizhou are only three states in Hebei Province. All the states added together are probably not as good as a state in the rich land of Jiangnan. It is normal that they are not taken seriously on weekdays. The Ministry of Revenue will not think of these when clearing the accounts. After all, the taxes in recent years are almost the same. Who has nothing to do will check whether there is a drought in these states...

Facts have proved that there are still people who have nothing to do.

It can be inferred from the few words in the corners of Chen Shu that someone has tampered with the taxes of Bozhou, Xiangzhou, and Weizhou. This kind of person is too terrible, and we must keep a distance from him in the future.

Tang Ning still had one thing he didn't understand. He looked at him and continued to ask, "Han Shilang is in charge of the taxes in Hebei Province. He is involved in this matter. But even so, how did Lord Fang infer that Han Shilang is the man of Prince Duan?"

"Prince Duan is different from Prince Kang, who has the support of the powerful in Beijing. Prince Duan is backed by the Tang family and the civil servants belonging to the Tang family in the court. The characteristic of civil servants is poverty, so Prince Duan's financial resources should be far inferior to Prince Kang, but the fact is just the opposite. Prince Duan's financial resources are the best among all the kings."

Fang Zhe took another sip of tea and continued, "The crime committed by Han Shilang is a great crime of the Yi people. He is a poor minister and does not have such courage and sufficient reasons to do such a risky thing. What's more, if he really did it for himself, where did the huge wealth he embezzled over the years go?"

Tang Ning poured himself a cup of tea to moisten his throat. Han Shilang was so bold that he directly reached out to the court for taxes, which could not shock him.

The seemingly honest Han Shilang was actually the Prince Duan's hidden man in the Ministry of Revenue, which did not stir up much waves in his heart.

What made him feel a little scalp numb was that Fang Xiaopang's father, based on the sentence above, "In the 21st year of Xingyuan, in June, there was a slight drought in Hebei Province, especially in Bozhou, Xiangzhou, and Weizhou, and people fled...", he deduced that Han Ming, the right Shilang of the Ministry of Revenue, was the Prince Duan's hidden man, and embezzled a large amount of tax silver from the court, including the whereabouts of the tax silver...

He raised his head and looked at Fang Zhe, who had thick eyebrows and big eyes and was elegant, and suddenly felt a little creepy...

This is a monster!

The real monster!

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