Wen Jinhe glanced at it quickly and opened the last few pages of the account book, "This has been changed."
Li Junche stretched his head and looked at where Wen Jinhe was pointing, "Why didn't I see it? Isn't this quite normal?"
Wen Jinhe raised his chin and looked at Li Junche, "Since the sweet potatoes and corn seeds began to be transported to other cities and sold, the trend has been from high to low from the beginning. When they are almost sold out, there should be only a little foundation left to finish. Yes, why did he go up again?"
Li Junche frowned, "But there are people's fingerprints and names on every page of the signature sheet, which matches the government records."
After Wen Jinhe compared the account book with the roster, he suspiciously picked up the account book and placed it under the candlelight to read.
Why does it feel like the thread is a little loose?
"All autumn and all winter."
The two people standing outside the study opened the door and walked in, "Princess."
Wen Jinhe asked: "How many pages does the account book produced by our bookstore have?"
Man Qiu replied: "A book with eighty-eight pages."
Wen Jinhe handed the account book to Man Qiu, "You two, count the pages in the account book on the table and take out any pages with wrong numbers."
Li Junche shook his head in confusion, "It's normal that the paper in each account book in the household department is different."
Wen Jinhe's eyes flashed with an unconcealable smile, "Your Majesty, I have all the eight royal merchants of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in my hands. The papers used in the palace and the court are all sold from our bookstore. I guarantee that every copy The number of pages in the ledger must be eighty-eight. If not, it must have been altered. "
Li Junche suddenly realized as he took the account book that he had almost forgotten that his princess was very capable.
"Your Majesty, something happened in Su Gucheng." Butler Li walked in from the outside with an anxious look on his face, "Master Song is already waiting in the front yard."
Wen Jinhe turned his head and looked at Li Junche with some worry, "Your Highness, go ahead and leave this place to me."
Li Junche nodded, then left the study and walked to the front yard.
Song Zhiyuan walked up and down the hall with a gloomy face. When he saw Li Junche come in, his tone was full of furious indignation, "Your Majesty, the people we sent to Sugu City have just arrived, and the prefect of Sugu City, Mr. Zhao, was discovered. He committed suicide by hanging himself in the Yamen room."
"What? What about other cities?" Li Junche immediately thought of the safety of other prefects.
Song Zhiyuan shook his head, "No news has been sent back yet, so it must be safe. But the matter will spread soon, and the original witnesses may be afraid of it and unwilling to testify again."
Even the prefect is dead, and ordinary people still have to be frightened out of their courage.
The other party's move of killing a chicken to scare the monkeys went too far. He was an official of the imperial court and would kill as he was told.
Moreover, a confession letter was found in the room where Mr. Zhao committed suicide by hanging from the beam, which stated that he alone was responsible for raising the price of grain seeds. Seeing that the matter could no longer be covered up, he took a preemptive strike and pinned the blame on the Ministry of Household Affairs. .
Li Junche frowned, realizing the conspiracy behind this matter. If all the prefects involved in this matter hang themselves in fear of guilt, then this corruption case will definitely go unsolved.
"Go to Su Gucheng immediately." The murderer of Mr. Zhao must be caught, and at the same time, extra manpower will be sent to protect other witnesses.
Wen Jinhe was a little worried when she knew that Li Junche was going to Su Gucheng overnight. The last incident had left a huge blow to her.
Li Junche looked at Wen Jinhe with comfort in his eyes, and held her red cheek with his right hand, "Don't worry, after last time, almost all the secret guards under Li Yuheng were killed. There are not enough manpower to do it again in such a short period of time, and I I will bring more people.”
Wen Jinhe nodded sadly.
When the city gate was opened at night, Li Junche and the others could not hide their actions from Li Yuheng.
"Let them investigate. The longer it takes, the better." In order to protect the position of Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, Li Yuheng planned to make two preparations.
On the one hand, he asked the Minister of the Ministry of Finance to blame the unknown people who handled the case. On the other hand, he destroyed the witnesses and completely cut off the source of Li Jun's thorough investigation of the case.
Man Qiu and Man Dong found all the problematic account books. There were seven books in total, involving the west city.
Each volume has five extra pages.
The next day, they compared the list in the house register and circled the problematic ones.
Man Qiu stared at those names. There was usually no problem with the local government's roster, but these people actually bought so many seeds. Do they really have so much land?
"Tell the prince the names above. They are in Sugu City. You will know if they are true or false after a quick trip." Wen Jinhe shook his neck sorely, stood up and went for a walk in the garden.
I stayed in the study all day, with my head bowed and my western limbs stiff.
Li Junche took Song Zhiyuan and others on horseback and rushed to Su Gucheng.
There were still scattered people talking outside the Yamen. When they saw Li Junche and his men arriving, they subconsciously pointed, "This is someone from the capital."
"It's probably because of the prefect's case. Mr. Zhao usually focuses on serving the people and doesn't seem to be a corrupt person. Why did he commit suicide out of fear of crime?"
"Wealth and silk touch people's hearts, but ordinary people like us don't know about the twists and turns in the government."
The master of the Su Gucheng Yamen quickly came to the morgue with Li Junche, "Your Excellency was fine when we had dinner yesterday. Halfway through Unitary Time, the yamen servants in the mansion discovered that Lord Zhao had committed suicide by hanging from a beam in the room. His body was put down. He was no longer breathing."
Li Junche lifted up the white cloth covering the body. There was a clear bruise on the neck of the body. According to his autopsy report, it was determined that he died of suffocation due to suicide by hanging from a beam.
Then, based on the Book of Ten Thousand People submitted by the Prime Minister at that time, they found out the people whose fingerprints were pressed and visited them one by one.
I found that some of them had traveled far away, while the rest avoided them and kept silent even if they met.
Song Zhiyuan asked with an ugly expression: "Did someone come to threaten you?"
The peasant woman wearing a headscarf looked down at the ground and shook her head in panic, "No, we don't know anything about the Book of All Nations, we have never done it."
Song Zhiyuan was so anxious that he was sweating profusely, and his heart sank to the bottom of the lake, "But your names and fingerprints are in the Book of All Peoples."
The man standing next to the woman arched his back and shook his head silently.
Song Zhiyuan looked back at Li Junche in embarrassment, what should he do?
It is impossible for them to threaten these innocent people like Li Yuheng and others.
At the door of the next room, two small faces were hiding behind and peeking, their eyes full of fear and awe.
Li Junche looked around at the simple environment.
The vegetables on the cutting board were full of wormholes and dried.
There were only a few steamed buns in the bowl.
This is what the family of six in front of me eats for a day.
Li Junche looked at the man and said, "I am Li Junche, the second prince of the current dynasty. I have been ordered by the emperor to thoroughly investigate the case of raising the price of grain seeds. If you change your mind, you can go to the Sugucheng Yamen to find me."
