Shi Wuyan told Gong Wenbao that this case must be done with caution!
These were Shi Wuyan's exact words, and Gong Wenbao also knew that in this case, Shi Wuyan would bear no less pressure than himself!
Because countless people are paying attention to this case, a group of big bosses from the tax department have not said anything about Chen Lifu's case yet, but everyone knows that the Inspectorate did not even say hello and directly sent them to the tax department.
The core middle-level official, the deputy director of the Inspection Division of the Grain Recruitment Department, was almost convinced that the next director of the Inspection Division would be taken away for investigation. This matter is definitely not simple.
If there is really a problem with Chen Lifu, it will definitely be a big scandal for the Ministry of Taxation. At that time, I am afraid that it will cause the Supervisory Office to conduct a thorough investigation of the entire Inspection Office and even the entire Grain Collection Department system, because people will be like Chen Lifu
If most of the people have withheld taxes, then other people must be even more miserable!
The Tax Department deals with money all day long, especially the Grain Collection Department. The taxes passed by are tens of millions of taels. If there is nothing fishy in it, the censors of the Inspectorate will dare to swallow the money directly.
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By then, I’m afraid the question won’t be whether there is a problem, but how big the problem is!
I am afraid that even the Minister of Taxation and the Minister on Duty in the Imperial Study Room, Qian Zuili, will be implicated to a certain extent, which will most likely make His Majesty dissatisfied with Qian Zuili.
As for the dissatisfaction of the Holy Emperor, this is the biggest negative impact.
If the final investigation finds that there is nothing wrong with Chen Lifu, then a group of big bosses from the tax department will definitely go crazy!
They are officials of the Department of Taxation. It is normal to be hated by others, and it is normal to be impeached. Especially the officials in the Grain Collection Department system, who are not impeached and reported every few days!
The director of the Grain Collection Department, Qin Bianping, is known as the most powerful third-rank official in the Tang Dynasty. Before becoming the director of the Grain Collection Department, he served as the third-rank director of the Guangxi Taxation Department. Later, Ping adjusted taxes.
He served as the director of the Salt and Tea Department of the Ministry of Agriculture. Because of his outstanding work, he was immediately appointed as the deputy director of the Grain Recruitment Department. Three months later, he was promoted to the director of the Grain Recruitment Department. This was one of the only directors in the Tang Dynasty who held the title of Zhengsanpin.
Long job!
Before he worked in the Grain Recruitment Department, few people impeached him throughout the year. But when he started to serve as the deputy director of the Grain Recruitment Department, there were a lot of memorials to impeach him. When he became the director of the Grain Recruitment Department,
After that, he was impeached every month with too many memorials to count.
He is the third-rank official who has been impeached the most times in the entire Tang Dynasty. When he first took office, he was a little scared and uneasy when he learned that so many people were impeaching him. But now, he has a very calm mind. If
One day no one impeached him, and he began to wonder if he had heard wrongly.
An organization like the Grain Recruitment Department is destined to attract the attention of countless people. Impeachment and reporting are also normal things. If there is such a big fight as soon as it is reported, then almost the entire Grain Recruitment Department system will not have to work, because all the requisition departments will
The officials of the Grain Department must be put on file for investigation!
It is impossible to find an official in the Grain Recruitment Department who has never been impeached or reported!
Even if there is only a seventh-level tax inspector, there will be a lot of people impeaching him!
There is a saying within their Grain Collection Department: A tax official who cannot be impeached is definitely not a qualified tax official!
Therefore, many people are waiting and watching regarding Chen Lifu!
Many officials outside got wind of the news and began to prepare two folds.
Why are there two documents? Because one is used to impeach the Inspectorate and the other is used to impeach the Ministry of Taxation. No matter who wins or loses in the battle between the Inspectorate and the Ministry of Taxation, they will be happy to step on it.
Which side lost the last round?
Because this Chen Lifu case, in the eyes of many civil servants, is dog eat dog!
The Inspectorate is naturally an institution disliked by other civil servants, because the censors stare at them everywhere like mad dogs. When they see the opportunity, they will pounce on them and bite them hard. If they are unlucky, they will
very happy!
As for the Tax Department, although it is said that the Tax Department is the God of Wealth organization that collects taxes and gives them money to spend, their Tax Department still doesn't have a good impression. On the one hand, it is envy and jealousy, but on the other hand, the Tax Department does not care about collecting taxes.
Are you an official?
Nowadays, officials of the Tang Dynasty have to pay personal income tax.
And a very important point is that these two institutions are self-contained and have little to do with ordinary civil servants. Whether it is the Inspectorate or the Ministry of Taxation, their officials are promoted internally and never cross boundaries.
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In other words, ordinary civil servants like them are destined not to work in the tax department in this life, so when they see the tax department being unlucky, there is no risk in stepping on it and making their presence felt.
As an official, when such a big event happens, how can you not feel your presence? If you don't make a statement to express your views at this time, how will the Holy Emperor know what your position is?
Even if you take this opportunity to let the Holy Emperor take a look at your name, you will still make money.
Many senior officials of the tax department are also waiting and watching. They want to know what is wrong with Chen Lifu before they can decide their own position. If Chen Lifu has a problem, the big bosses of the tax department will not hesitate to take Chen Lifu to the police as soon as possible.
Lifu abandoned him and then blamed all the problems on him to protect others in the tax department from causing a worse impact.
If Chen Lifu has no problem, then they will go crazy!
Even the senior officials of the Inspectorate were waiting and watching. Song Tieshu, the censor of Zuo Dudu, did not make any comment at this time, but handed over the matter to Shi Wuyan, the censor of Zuo Dudu.
And Shi Wuyan did not dare to make any extraordinary decisions. Although he ordered an investigation, he wanted the Chengtian Prefecture Inspectorate to conduct the investigation in strict compliance with the supervision regulations. The investigation process must be reasonable and legal, and must not be challenged by outsiders.
Something is wrong at all.
Regardless of whether Chen Lifu has any problems in the end, there must be no flaws in the investigation process of their supervisory office. Otherwise, it will be doomed.
Therefore, the deputy director of the Anti-Corruption Department of the Chengtian Prefecture Supervisory Office, who led the team to search the Chen Mansion, was very cautious and seized all the cash on the spot. At the same time, he also seized other gold and silver items in the Chen Mansion one by one.
Of course, this kind of seizure does not mean taking them away, but putting seals on them all and registering them. Such a registration shocked them all.
How much money has this Chen Lifu made in the past two years?
I wouldn't know if I didn't investigate. After I investigated, I found out that the Chen family actually had more than 3,000 acres of fertile land and more than a dozen farms. This was a super big landowner!
There are also many shops, and they even just invested in a flour mill.
Although the house in Chen's mansion is not too big, the interior decoration and furnishings are so luxurious that they are comparable to those of a royal palace, which made the three censors who led the team stunned!
Looking at the many properties of the Chen family, I was thinking about my shabby residence in the city. Damn, they were both officials in the Tang Dynasty, so why is there such a big gap?
This is what you call being an official, your life is so depraved!
This is simply...
This is simply enviable and jealous!
With shock and a thick stack of sealed account books, they left the Chen Mansion, and immediately reported it to Gong Wenbao!
Gong Wenbao looked at the large stack of seized account books in his hand, suppressed his excitement to immediately apply for arrest and prosecution, and then went directly to Shi Wuyan with the account books!
The Chen family has hidden so much dirty money. This is the most direct evidence!
At the same time, another team of investigators under him also discovered another very key clue. The key witness that the Inspectorate has been looking for was finally found. Who is this witness? Why is it so critical? Because this person is Chen Lifu
A housekeeper of the house, the report letter stated that this person accepted bribes on behalf of Chen Lifu and transported a large amount of withheld taxes from the local area back to the Chen Mansion in Jinling.
However, the housekeeper they found was a dead man!
Yes, when the censor found this person, he had already died tragically in the outer house. According to the housekeeper’s outer room, um, the concubine kept outside, the housekeeper had been staying with her these days,
And he was still nagging, as if he was worried about something.
And this morning, as soon as this poor woman woke up, she found that the man she slept with last night was hanging from the beam. She was so frightened that she quickly reported it to the police.
In this way, the patrol officers found the housekeeper!
What a pity it is a dead butler!
But it didn't matter that this person was dead, but they found a suicide note from him. In addition to the normal funeral arrangements, he also said that the matter was going to be exposed. He didn't want to implicate his family, so he died.
Things have been exposed. What has been exposed?
This kind of thing naturally attracted the attention of the censor, and it also attracted the attention of Gong Wenbao.
His intuition told him that there must be something wrong with this housekeeper. It was most likely that Chen Lifu threatened this person and forced him to commit suicide in order to eliminate witnesses.
Because if this person dies, many things will become unclear. It is difficult to convict Chen Lifu based solely on the dirty silver found in Chen's house. What if Chen Lifu says that all this money was accumulated by his ancestors?
what to do?
If you want to convict Chen Lifu, you must have a complete chain of evidence, including where the taxes were withheld from the money, how the accounts were made, how it was transported to Chen's house, and who handled it.
Otherwise, their supervisory office will be very passive when prosecuting!
So he had to go see Shi Wuyan, report the matter first, and then decide on the next direction of investigation.
He met Shi Wuyan smoothly. After reading the relevant files, Shi Wuyan said: "Well, continue to investigate, and we must get to the bottom of it!"
Gong Wenbao said: "Should we arrest Chen Lifu first? Otherwise, he will be released today. Some people think that there must be other people in the Chen family involved in this matter. As long as they are brought back and questioned one by one, no
It’s hard to find a breakthrough!”
But at this time, Shi Wuyan hesitated slightly, walked back and forth in his office a few times, and then said: "Then apply to the court for an arrest warrant, but it is not for Chen Lifu, but for other people in the Chen family.
Especially those housekeepers, stewards and clerks who may be involved in this situation, I will not leave any one behind and control them all!"
"As for Chen Lifu!"
After that, Shi Wuyan glanced at Gong Wenbao and said: "You are also a senior censor in our Inspectorate. Why are you still confused about this kind of thing? It is easy for you to arrest him now, but if he is fine in the future,
It will not be easy to get him out of the detention center on his own!"
"You have to remember, we are censors, and investigating cases is what we should do!"
"But, we are not his enemies!"
After hearing this, Gong Wenbao broke into a cold sweat!