After hearing this, all the Jinyi guards quickly went to compile the account books.
Hu Changan was also looking at the accounts while waiting for them to finish compiling.
After a while, Mao Xiang handed over ten books of mixed true and false accounts to Hu Changan.
Hu Changan took the account book and read it patiently.
After two hours, Hu Changan came to his own conclusion: "Everyone, there are four false accounts and six true accounts here. I have picked out all the false accounts."
However, when Mao Xiang heard this, he smiled: "Shilang Hu, I think you are going to lose this time."
"Of these ten account books, only three are fake accounts that have just been compiled. The remaining seven are real accounts extracted from the account books of these ministers."
With that said, Mao Xiang lightly took out the three account books that Jin Yiwei had marked with special marks.
Looking at the last authentic account that Hu Changan identified as a fake account, Mao Xiang smiled and said: "Shilang Hu, I know your Arabic numerals and four arithmetic operations are very good, but don't be overconfident."
"As the saying goes, there is always someone outside the world, but not all new methods are effective."
"I think Mr. Hu should just follow the old method to check for false accounts."
Hearing this, all the royal guards breathed a sigh of relief.
Now they finally felt somewhat balanced.
If Hu Changan really does the decathlon, would ordinary people like them still have to live?
However, Hu Changan did not take it seriously, and still replied with the presence of the old god: "Sir Mao, this is just an account selected from the account books submitted by the ministers."
"Who said this account must be the real account?"
"When I look at this account, he just made it up!"
Mao Xiang was happy when he heard this: "Shilang Hu, do you really think that we selected the remaining seven accounts at random?"
"The ministers we selected are all ministers who have always enjoyed a good reputation."
"Among the ministers in the imperial court, these ministers are the least likely to be corrupt."
"So the account books they handed over are probably true."
Hearing Mao Xiang's words, Hu Changan laughed: "Why, doesn't Master Mao allow some people to be sanctimonious?"
"Perhaps those ministers may appear innocent on the surface, but they may actually be huge corrupt officials."
"I see, Mr. Mao, don't make such an arbitrary conclusion."
Seeing that Hu Changan refused to admit defeat for various reasons, Mao Xiang was also a little helpless.
In Mao Xiang's view, Hu Changan was used to smooth sailing in the past, which made him even more unable to accept the current defeat.
Looking into Hu Changan's firm eyes, Mao Xiang could only take a step back and said, "In that case, why don't Minister Hu take some people to search this minister's house?"
"Anyway, we have to search sooner or later. It's better to do it sooner rather than later. Let's just take this opportunity to test your method, Mr. Hu."
Hu Changan also nodded after hearing this.
So early the next morning, Hu Changan led ten imperial guards and set off in a mighty manner.
Of course, no one believed that Hu Changan could find out anything.
After all, this minister is a highly respected veteran.
Even among the Jinyi Guards, there are no negative rumors about him.
No one believed that this veteran's family accounts could be fake.
Soon, Hu Changan and the Jin Yiwei began the inventory process.
But upon further investigation, these royal guards discovered something was wrong.
"Shilang Hu, your account says there are only 5 pieces of cloth, but there are actually 10 pieces of cloth in the warehouse!"
"Shilang Hu, there are actually 100 shi of grain in this granary, which is 50 shi more than what was recorded in the account!"
Report after report confirmed that this family was committing fraud!
In this case, the Jin Yiwei followed the inventory process and checked the house mercilessly.
This investigation took much more time than the previous one.
Until sunset, everyone still hadn't finished checking.
Therefore, everyone could only seal the items that had been inspected and prepare for inspection the next day.
On the way back, everyone seemed very silent.
On the one hand, it is hard for them to believe that an old man who has always been highly respected in the government has actually committed such a thing as corruption!
And according to what was just discovered, this minister embezzled a lot of things.
This is definitely enough to behead someone.
Even killing the Nine Clans is not an exaggeration.
Everyone felt a little heavy when they thought that all the people they just saw in the yard would have their heads dropped.
However, they couldn't say anything.
When they embezzle people's money, they have to think about the consequences of doing so!
On the other hand, they also admired Hu Changan's methods.
I didn’t expect that Hu Changan’s so-called method actually worked!
This is simply incredible!
In this way, they can quickly sort out the false accounts from the true accounts and conduct focused inspections.
In this way, the inspection time can definitely be greatly reduced!
After everyone returned, Mao Xiang also knew the cause and effect of this incident.
At this time, Mao Xiang really had nothing to say to Hu Changan.
This is definitely an arithmetic genius!
It is simply miraculous that Hu Changan could come up with such an ingenious idea.
It seems that I wrongly blamed Hu Changan before!
Mao Xiang walked up to Hu Changan and said sincerely: "Servant Hu, you will lead them to check the accounts."
"I, Mao Xiang, am convinced!"
Hearing this, all the Jin Yiwei nodded in agreement.
Now in their eyes, Hu Changan is no longer the ordinary minister of the Ministry of Industry.
Hu Changan's status in their eyes instantly became higher.
Let them listen to Hu Changan's orders, and they will be convinced!
When Hu Changan heard this, he also smiled slightly and quickly started to arrange the work.
Two months passed in a blink of an eye.
As soon as he went to court that day, Zhu Yuanzhang saw two people who should not be here.
Hu Changan and Mao Xiang appeared in the court at the same time.
When Zhu Yuanzhang saw this, he was also quite puzzled.
Why did the two of them suddenly appear in the court?
Have they finished what they are doing?
This is too fast!
At this moment, Mao Xiang took the lead and gave Zhu Yuanzhang's affirmative answer: "Your Majesty, I have already completed the things you asked me to do. The family accounts of all ministers have been thoroughly investigated!"
However, after Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he was not happy. Instead, he said seriously to Mao Xiang: "Mao Xiang, I want you to check every household carefully."
"How come the investigation has been completed in just two months?"
"You can't let any minister go!"
As Zhu Yuanzhang spoke, his eyes narrowed dangerously.
He simply did not believe that Mao Xiang could investigate all the ministers in such a short period of time.