Liu Qichang was a cautious man. If he wanted to withhold grain for disaster relief, he would naturally do all kinds of tricks perfectly. He claimed that he could collect the grain distribution books and show them to Wang Xijue for inspection, precisely because he was convinced that there would be no clues from these books.
What a flaw.
Disaster relief grains are distributed to thousands of households. In order to facilitate management, the head of each village usually takes people to the prefectures and counties to collect them. After receiving them, they sign and pledge them as proof. Liu Qichang's method is to let the prefectures and counties first distribute the food.
The grain book was prepared, but when it came to the distribution quantity, the writing was extremely sloppy and specious. For example, when the government officials distributed 10 loads of grain to a village, the book said "ten". After the village chief Hua Ya left.
, the scribe added a few strokes to "one" and changed it to "five", so that 10 dan became 50 dan, and the 40 dan of grain that was left out naturally fell into the pockets of the officials.
If someone really wants to investigate a scheme like this, they can naturally find it out. As long as they take the book and confront it with the director who receives the grain, they will be able to find out the problems. But to do this, investigate
The person who investigated the case had to travel to various villages and towns, but the court officials were unwilling to do this kind of hard work. Liu Qichang was well versed in officialdom, so he dared to hide the truth like this.
Hearing Liu Qichang keep saying that he wanted to collect the disaster relief food book for inspection, Wang Xijue smiled and shook his head and said: "This is too troublesome. When I was chatting with Gai Zhi a few days ago, he said that he knew about it.
Why don't you let me talk about it?"
"Su Gaizhi..." Liu Qichang's expression suddenly changed and he turned his attention to Su Hao, who was sitting beside him.
"President Liu, I'm being presumptuous. In fact, I have no intention of interfering with the disaster relief food issue the year before last. It's just that my soldiers live in the village and listened to some peasants' chatter. You also know that these soldiers
I couldn't keep things in mind. After I heard about it, I reported it to me, so I knew what happened. Magistrate Liu, please don't think that I am deliberately trying to embarrass Magistrate Liu..." Su
Hao stood up and started talking a lot of nonsense.
It can be said that Liu Qichang dared to be angry with Su Hao but did not dare to speak out. Runing's case ended with Su Hao's victory. All Liu Qichang could do was to barely protect himself. In front of Su Hao, he no longer had any prestige.
Now that he heard that Su Hao was involved in the disaster relief food matter two years ago, Liu Qichang couldn't help but feel frightened. He waved his hand and said, "What you said, Master Su, is wrong. You were sent by the imperial court."
Sir, it is your duty to investigate my every word and deed, so how can I dare to complain?"
"Hmm, Magistrate Liu is so reasonable and reasonable, which really makes the younger generation admire him." Su Hao said with a bit of ridicule. Since Liu Qichang calls himself me, he simply calls himself a younger generation. He turned around and said to Wang Xijue: "Wang
Sir, please allow me to allow my bookkeeper and Mr. Wu Zhicheng from the Runing Academy of Sciences to attend the meeting and make a statement."
"Yes." Wang Xijue had already been angry with Su Hao and knew what Su Hao was going to do next.
Su Hao walked out of the lobby to say hello, and after a while he came in with an old master and a young woman. He introduced to everyone that the old master's name was Wu Zhicheng, a great Confucian, and he was currently in the Rufu Office run by Prince Chong.
The young woman was named Cheng Yi, and she was a bookkeeper in the survey camp. The officials in the hall were not interested in Wu Zhicheng. They were quite surprised to see Cheng Yi, because at that time, women could work in the military.
Things are rare, let alone a technical position like bookkeeping.
"My lords, I am the bookkeeper of the survey camp. I have been ordered by Academician Su to report to you the results of our survey camp's interviews with the villagers in Runing's prefectures and counties. I ask for your approval." Cheng Yi Luoluo.
She generously told the officials that she was originally from a family of officials, so she was no stranger to such occasions, and she didn't feel stage fright.
"Miss Cheng, tell me." Wang Jiaping said with a smile.
"Thank you, Sir." Cheng Yi saluted Wang Jiaping, and then said: "Some time ago, in order to thoroughly investigate the illegal occupation of rural land by Runing's powerful forces, Su Xueshi sent officers and soldiers from the Survey Battalion to various states, counties and villages to visit farmers.
When asked about the court's disaster relief two years ago, many rural farmers said that they had indeed received disaster relief food at that time."
"Oh? So, you can prove Liu Qichang's innocence?" Wang Jiaping felt a little surprised. He originally thought that the people Su Hao brought would be detrimental to Liu Qichang, but he didn't expect that Cheng Yi came up and endorsed Liu Qichang, saying that rural farmers
They all received relief food.
Cheng Yi smiled slightly and said: "Sir, please don't be impatient. We asked the farmers how much grain each household received at that time. Some of them said they received one load, and some said they received six or seven dou. The amount
There are different opinions."
"That's for sure." Liu Qichang interjected, "Each household has a different population, and the disaster situation is also different. It's not surprising that the amount of food received varies."
Cheng Yi ignored Liu Qichang's explanation and continued: "In order to find out how much grain the Runing Prefecture distributed in total, we followed Xueshi Su's instructions and conducted a sampling survey in various states and counties."
"Sampling survey?" Wang Jiaping was a little confused, "What is sampling?"
"Is it up to me to explain this matter?" Wu Zhicheng, the old master who couldn't help but want to speak for a long time, rushed to say, "This sampling means to pick out a few people from the crowd. As long as the drawing is clever, you can pick out a few people from just a few hundred people.
, you can calculate the conditions of billions of people, saving time and effort, and it is foolproof."
As a geological expert, Su Hao is very proficient in sampling surveys. Of course, the sampling he did in his previous life was all about geological phenomena. Back in Fengcheng, in order to get rid of Wu Zhicheng's entanglement, Su Hao
Wu Zhicheng compiled several mathematics booklets, which also included the content of simple probability theory. Wu Zhicheng is indeed a great scholar. He has thoroughly understood these books compiled by Su Hao, and by drawing inferences from one example, he has also mastered the technique of sampling survey*
*Not leaving ten.
It is difficult to find out the specific amount of disaster relief grains that Liu Qichang embezzled from the account books. But disaster relief grains will eventually be distributed to farmers. If the disaster relief grains received by farmers can be calculated clearly, then the reverse will be true.
We can then deduce the amount of corruption committed by Liu Qichang.
There are hundreds of thousands of farm households in Runing Prefecture. It would be time and cost prohibitive to ask each household how much grain they received that year. But such a thing was not difficult for Su Hao, so he directly designed a sampling
Plan, selected at several levels in various states and counties, and finally obtained the appearance of more than a thousand farmers. Based on these samples, he directly handed over the process of calculating the total to Wu Zhicheng. Old Master Wu was full of interest in such things.
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Many people know that sampling can reflect the overall situation. But to what extent the results of sampling can represent the overall situation, and how much error there will be when taking many samples, this cannot be judged by experience alone.
, need to do some mathematical and statistical calculations. Wu Zhicheng, inspired by Su Hao, has mastered this calculation method. At this time, with a bit of showoff mentality, he told everyone his calculation results.
An introduction was made.
"According to Lao Cao's calculations, the amount of disaster relief grain distributed by the entire Runing Mansion ranges from 19,000 to 23,000 dan, which is absolutely no surprise." Wu Zhicheng said firmly.
Hey... Hearing Wu Zhicheng's calculation results, Liu Qichang took a breath. This number happened to be the actual amount of disaster relief food he distributed. He originally thought that if others wanted to figure out this number, they would have to visit all the people who received the food.
, but I didn’t expect Wu Zhicheng to calculate the results through more than a thousand samples. What kind of skill is this.
"Prefect Liu, is what Mr. Wu said true?" Wang Xijue asked Liu Qichang calmly.
"This... I beg your pardon to disagree." Liu Qichang said, "Mr. Wu must be extremely knowledgeable, but what kind of sample... I don't know who the sage created it."
"I somewhat believe in Mr. Wu's calculations." Wang Xijue said, "I just heard Mr. Wu say that the disaster relief grain distributed by the entire Runing Prefecture was actually only 19,000 to 23,000 dans, and I suddenly remembered
, instead they found the book of Fushan Grain Store, and there was indeed an account of 78,000 tons of grain, the source of which was unknown. Magistrate Liu, would you like to send the shopkeeper of Fushan Grain Store to ask him about the 78,000 tons of grain?
Where did the thousand loads of grain come from?”
Liu Qichang's back was covered with sweat, and he replied nonchalantly: "This matter... I really don't know about this matter. I want to tell the boss of Fushan Grain Store, my official..."
"Bang!" Wang Xijue suddenly slammed the table and shouted: "Liu Qichang, you still want to deny it until now! To tell you the truth, I have already checked the forged grain receipt books that you and the magistrates below have forged.
Instead, I have found some district chiefs who received grains back then. After reading the books, they all said that the figures they received were wrong. You think you are doing things carefully, but don’t you know that the Skynet is very comprehensive and there are no omissions?"
"I am... unjustly accused!" Liu Qichang no longer cared about being polite, and knelt down on the ground with a plop, saying with tears: "I have no choice but to do it for myself. The main reason for withholding disaster relief grains is to get those farmers to voluntarily help.
The superior's fields are handed over, but those fields are not occupied by the subordinate himself, but by someone else."
By now, Liu Qichang knew that paper could not cover the fire. The vicious Su Hao had calculated the amount of grain that Liu Qichang had embezzled. If Wang Xijue wanted to investigate further, it was impossible for Liu Qichang to hide it. He had to resort to
The last resort was to pull the tiger's skin to make a banner.
"You said there was someone else, who was it?" Wang Xijue asked angrily.
"It's King Chong!" Liu Qichang responded loudly. (To be continued...)