Tang Ning paused as she was about to walk out. She had already handed in the completed account books. What did Fang Zhe want to do with him?
Even though he had been in peace and quiet in the past few days since he came to Hubu, he did not relax his vigilance.
Fang Zhe is the left minister of the Ministry of Revenue, and he firmly holds the second position in the household department. Although it is actually the minister Han who holds the second position, a skinny camel is bigger than a horse, and a minister with no power is not something he can do alone.
Touched.
Think about it from another perspective, 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
Hold him.
"What a coincidence, I was just about to meet Mr. Fang..." Tangning paused, 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. Minister 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 many places where people could hide.
Even when it is full of people, he has nothing to fear.
It was a fact that he couldn't beat Tang Yaoyao, but it was also a fact that for him, 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. If there are no contextual 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, treated him well. Although he knew that there was another secret agent of Prince Duan in the Ministry of Revenue, he was not sure whether it was the Minister of Qian or the Minister of Han, and whether it was the court or the people
, there are not even the slightest rumors about this. Fang Zhe slept in the Hanlin Academy for fourteen years, how could he be more 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 Mr. 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: ""Chen Shu", Bozhou Chronicles, Volume 53, Section 10."
"Chen Shu" is a history book compiled by the Hanlin Academy. It records the system and customs of the Chen State in detail, including major and minor events that occur in various states every year. This is what Cui Lang did in the Hanlin Academy.
As for the set of books, Tang Ning had already seen the latest revision when he was in the Hanlin Academy.
"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, 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 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 there, and he still didn't understand what he meant by saying so much.
When he glanced at the book in his hand, looking at the numbers on the paper, he 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 is written in "Chen Shu", but the problem is that in the 20th year of Xingyuan
In one year, the tax revenue of these three states was actually the highest in the past four years.
With all the people running away, who do 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 but ignored the actual situation in these three states.
The tax figures on the 21st of Xingyuan were higher than those in the previous three years, which shows that the taxes in these three years have been tampered with, and it is audacious to directly manipulate the tax revenue!
Bozhou, Xiangzhou, and Weizhou are just the three states in Hebei Province. All the state capitals put together are probably not as good as a state in the prosperous land of Jiangnan. It is normal that they are not taken seriously on weekdays. When the Ministry of Revenue is settling the accounts,
I wouldn't have thought of this. After all, the taxes in the past few years have been almost the same. Whoever has nothing to do would check whether there is a drought in these states...
Facts have proved that there are still people who have nothing to do.
From the few words in Chen Shu, we can infer that someone has tampered with the taxes of Bozhou, Xiangzhou, and Weizhou. This kind of person is too scary, and we must keep a distance from him in the future.
Tang Ning was still confused about something. She looked at him and continued to ask: "Shilang Han is responsible for the taxes in Hebei Province. He has nothing to do with this matter. But even so, how could Mr. Fang deduce that Shilang Han is the employee of Prince Duan?"
people?"
"Prince Duan is different from Prince Kang, who is backed by powerful people in Beijing. Behind Prince Duan are the Tang family and the civil servants belonging to the Tang family in the court. The characteristic of civil servants is that they are poor, so Prince Duan's financial resources should be far inferior to Prince Kang, but in fact
On the contrary, King Duan has the greatest financial resources among all the kings."
Fang Zhe took another sip of tea and continued: "The crime committed by Minister Han is a serious crime of the Yi people. As a poor minister, he does not have the courage or enough reasons to do such a dangerous thing. What's more,
If he is really for himself, where has the huge wealth that he has accumulated over the years gone?"
Tang Ning poured herself a cup of tea to moisten her throat. Minister Han's audacity to directly raise money from the imperial court could no longer shock him.
The seemingly honest and honest Minister Han turned out to be Prince Duan's secret agent in the Ministry of Household Affairs, which did not cause much turmoil in his heart.
What made him feel a little numb was that Fang Xiaopang's father only relied on a sentence in "Chen Shu", "In June of the 21st year of Xingyuan, there was a slight drought in Hebei Province, especially in Bozhou, Xiangzhou, and Weizhou.
"Moreover, the people were in exile...", so we inferred that Han Ming, the right minister of the Ministry of Revenue, was the secret agent of King Duan, and had embezzled a large amount of tax money from the imperial court, including the whereabouts of the tax money...
He raised his head and looked at the handsome Fang Zhe, who had thick eyebrows and big eyes, and suddenly felt a little creepy...
