Chapter 435 The sky is high and the emperor is far away
Chapter 435 The sky is high and the emperor is far away
Suddenly someone reported it, Kang Shiwen immediately stopped the whip in his hand. He glanced at Li Mingquan who couldn't even open his eyelids, then put down the whip and prepared to greet him.
But when a man wearing a black cloak appeared, he immediately frowned.
There was a man wrapped in a black cloak, even his face was hidden in the black robe.
If the other party didn't hold a gold medal, he wouldn't be able to associate such a dress with an imperial envoy.
"Is this the Imperial Envoy?" Kang Shiwen looked at the person coming and looked him up and down.
The visitor nodded, and then Shi Shiran sat on a chair nearby.
That chair was previously occupied by Kang Shiwen. Faced with this person's rudeness, Kang Shiwen was a little displeased.
"I wonder who you are? Why don't you show your true face?"
Kang Shiwen thought this man was really strange. Who did the emperor send here? When facing him, he actually had to conceal his identity?
The cloaked man pointed at Li Mingquan, "Continue the interrogation!"
Kang Shiwen snorted coldly at this person's rudeness. However, since he was holding a gold medal, it showed that it was the emperor's intention, so he couldn't say much.
His voice was hoarse, and even his hands were covered with finger gloves. It was impossible to guess the identity of this person.
Turning his attention to Li Mingquan again, Kang Shiwen hit him with a whip.
We were all colleagues before, but Kang Shiwen showed no mercy at all and beat Li Mingquan until blood oozed from his mouth.
"Tell me! Who ordered you?"
Li Mingquan shook his head slightly and said angrily: "No one instigated it, it was just my oversight."
"Didn't you find any clues? I have sent people to check the accounts and found that the accounts are completely complete. You said you just made an oversight?"
Kang Shiwen interrogated him for a whole day, but couldn't find anything out, so he couldn't help but feel a little impetuous.
"There have been some discrepancies in the past years, but they are all so smooth. I have always turned a blind eye, just to get some benefits. I have already explained it before, you can check it out."
Li Mingquan endured the severe pain and gritted his teeth.
"I think you won't cry until you see the coffin!" Kang Shiwen snorted coldly, and then whipped him again.
Blood splashed out with the whip and spread on the ground in front of the cloaked man.
Li Mingquan groaned and his vision became blurry.
Seeing that Li Mingquan lowered his head and remained motionless, Kang Shiwen wanted to crack the whip again, but heard the officer next to him say: "Sir! He has fainted!"
"Drag him down and keep him under guard. Remember! Keep him under guard. If anything goes wrong, you are the only one to ask questions."
After Kang Shiwen scolded him coldly, he then ordered: "Bring Fu Chunwei up."
When Fu Chunwei was brought out, he was shivering, wearing only his undershirt, and his hair was messy, looking depressed and pitiful.
"Tie the person up." Kang Shiwen pointed at the shelf, with a trace of cruelty flashing in his eyes.
Fu Chunwei had been frightened when he heard Kang Shiwen's screams before, and now that he was tied to the stake, his face was even more frightened.
"Master Kang, don't! Don't do anything. I'll tell you everything I know. I'm too old to bear this!"
Fu Chunwei quickly expressed his stance, his expression full of fear.
"Oh? Then tell me!" Kang Shiwen sneered.
He was very disdainful of Fu Chunwei's cowardice, but he also hoped to find clues as soon as possible.
"This batch of goods sent from the border includes horses and armaments, including 123 BMWs and 767 ordinary war horses. We also got a batch of iron ore."
Su Yizhao could see that Fu Chunwei was already trying very hard to remember.
"However, after the horses were bought back, they became acclimatized and some died. There are records in these files."
"Aren't you accustomed to the local environment?" Kang Shiwen sneered, "No! I think I was eaten alive by some people."
He threw a stack of files in his hand on the table, "Forty-three BMWs died, and 358 war horses died? The imperial court spent more than 40,000 taels in total to purchase these war horses, but only two were obtained.
More than thirty thousand taels of goods."
Su Yizhao's eyes turned to the stack of files on the table. She had not yet gotten the files back from Dali Temple, so she did not know the details in them clearly.
"Not to mention the batch of iron ore, the weapons produced are far less than the previous times, and the amount of raw iron has been decreasing."
How could Kang Shiwen not know the truth? It was easiest to make money at the border crossing, but they were getting more and more excessive. Did they think that because the sky was high and the emperor was far away, there was nothing the emperor could do to them?
Officials in the imperial court had long impeached the Ministry of Husbandry and the Ministry of War for covering up the border, and they worked together to enrich themselves.
No evidence of crime has been found before, so this time the emperor must have made up his mind and started to deal with it.
"But it has the seals of the officials from the Ministry of War and the Metropolitan Procuratorate at the border. From the general to the sergeant who made the purchase, every link is stamped with official seals. I can't go to the border to check it out in person, so that's all I can do.
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Fu Chunwei looked aggrieved. This was an unwritten rule. In fact, he wasn't really greedy.
"The court will send people to check those people, but don't you see any clues about this batch of goods? Don't pick yourself up, you have nothing to do with this matter."
Kang Shiwen felt that these officials were disgusting. This huge dynasty became corrupt because of such moths.
"I really don't know! Even if I can see the clues, I'm only a fifth-rank official and my arms can't hold my thighs!"
Fu Chunwei sighed deeply, what does his greed mean? But if he doesn't join in the corruption, then his position as a fifth-rank official will not be in prison.
"Then why didn't you report it? This matter has a lot of implications. This time there is a thorough investigation of the border armaments, and no one who has anything to do with it will be able to escape." Su Yizhao said in a low voice.
Kang Shiwen glanced at Su Yizhao in surprise. This imperial envoy was really unpleasant to look at.
Why do you have to hide your identity from yourself? Could it be that the emperor doesn’t trust you?
Fu Chunwei now regrets his mistake, and this time he will bring trouble to his family.
Su Yizhao looked at the performance of the two men and analyzed that Fu Chunwei should not know much.
But Li Mingquan, the doctor from the Ministry of Finance, is a little suspicious. If you carefully observed his expression just now, you should know something.
After Fu Chunwei signed and stamped the document, Su Yizhao immediately asked Kang Shiwen to prepare all the files, and she wanted to take them back and examine them carefully.
Even though Kang Shiwen was a little dissatisfied, he still ordered someone to prepare the dossier.
After watching Su Yizhao leave Dali Temple in a cloak, Kang Shiwen immediately said to the entourage beside him: "Follow him, I want to see who he is."
After Su Yizhao left Dali Temple, he got on the carriage that had been waiting at the door. The carriage entered Fangshi and passed through it, followed closely by the people behind him.
Seeing a restaurant ahead, Su Yizhao immediately ordered the carriage to stop and entered the restaurant.
As soon as Su Yizhao entered, she went straight to the kitchen of the restaurant. When she came out, she had already changed into the clothes of a waiter.
She runs this restaurant. She has inspected the environment before and knows where the corner door of the courtyard is.
I have changed the name of Li Mingquan, the doctor in the household department, so that it will not affect everyone's reading.
I have something to do today, so I can only post one chapter. Everyone, go to bed early! Good night!