The man smiled flatteringly: "I didn't know that Your Majesty is coming here, but I am not welcomed from afar. Please forgive me, Your Majesty!"
"On business?"
Li Rui said with a bit of disdain: "Where are you going on business? What are you doing?"
"This..." The master froze there, swallowed unnaturally, and then continued: "Your Majesty, what the county magistrate wants to do will not be told to me, a little master!"
"Since you don't know, I'll ask you what you know!"
While speaking, Li Rui looked at the master in front of him quietly.
"Who allowed you to receive this year's annual gift?"
"And, are they still charged at this time?"
Li Rui's eyes narrowed slightly, his voice was cold, and then he asked: "Why don't I know that this year's annual gift will be collected in advance? I have never received this news.
Pass……"
"Oh, no!"
Li Rui laughed!
"This king came to Liangzhou, and this Liangzhou is my fiefdom. The taxes should be set by me, right? Didn't I remember to give the order to collect this year's annual taxes in advance?"
After finishing speaking, Li Rui stared at the master in front of him.
The corner of the master's mouth twitched fiercely, and he immediately knew why the great god in front of him came.
"This is the meaning of the county magistrate. The county magistrate said that if the prince wants to be exempted from the tax, that is his own business. We only want to make our own money and do not interfere with each other..."
"Bang……"
Li Rui suddenly smashed the gavel in his hand towards the master's head.
"Hahaha, the water in the well does not interfere with the water in the river!"
"It's so damn good that water from a well does not interfere with water from a river!"
The master's forehead was smashed directly by the gavel, and red blood flowed down his face. His body fell there, covering his forehead with one hand, but he did not dare to say a word.
"Xu Tong!"
Li Rui roared angrily.
Xu Tong stood up hurriedly: "Your Majesty, what are your orders?"
Xu Tong could feel Li Rui's emotions, so he was a little more solemn in his address.
"No matter what method you use, bring Wang Zhifeng to me within an hour. If you can't do it, you will be dealt with by military law!" Li Rui's eyes seemed to be filled with flames.
"Got the order!"
Xu Tong did not dare to be careless and went to do it in a hurry.
Li Rui looked at the master next to him and took a deep breath: "Go and take out all the county government's account books. From this Wang Zhifeng to this county government, I want to go through all the accounts one by one!
"
"Yes, Your Majesty..."
The master's body was shaking violently, and he tried to stand up with support, but his body was weak and he fell to the side again.
"Hel him up and take him to do things!"
Li Rui waved his hand, and two soldiers came over and took the master down.
Li Rui asked as he smelled a stinky smell, and looked around, only to find that there were a series of water stains on the way where the master was left.
"snort!"
Li Rui snorted coldly, not feeling pitiful at all.
Sitting in the lobby of the county government office, looking through past accounts. I have to say that the magistrate and master of Qinghe County did a good job in keeping the accounts. It is not that easy for ordinary people to find clues. But for Li
To Rui, these are just childish dramas.
When I was a researcher, the numbers I dealt with were hundreds of times more complicated than this.
Look at each one.
After reading half of it, Li Rui couldn't stand it anymore and looked at the master: "There is no need to use these accounts to deceive me. Where is the secret account?"
This county government definitely has two accounts. It is not easy to keep the open account watertight, but it is not impossible. But there must be a secret account. If not, they may not even know how much money they have made.
The most important point is the handle, the inspection officials, and the relationship between Beijing and China, all of which must be maintained through accounts.
No one who hangs out here is a fool.
"Go back to your lord!"
The master was frightened: "The secret account is with the county magistrate. I am just responsible for recording it. And I have to record it under his eyes. After the record is completed, he will put it away. As for where to put it,
Even the villain doesn’t know! Your lord, I have told you everything I know!”
"Everything here is the county magistrate's intention. I'm a humble person and I can't do anything at all! Please spare my life!"
"Spare you? I wish I could kill you right now!"
Li Rui roared: "But the details will have to wait for you."
Then he sat there quietly. Although the account was done well, Li Rui still found a lot of problems. The simplest one is that it is up and down. As long as it is passed in the hand, it can be deducted from it.
With an income of about 20%, Wang Zhifeng has been the county magistrate of Qinghe County for nearly five years, and the money he made from it is absolutely an astronomical figure.
After closing the ledger, Li Rui heard a commotion outside.
It seemed like someone was making a noise.
"What's going on outside?" Li Rui asked softly.
"I'm reporting to the prince. It was the common people who heard that the prince wanted to thoroughly investigate the Qinghe County government office, so they spontaneously came to complain! However, the guards stopped them all."
"What are you stopping for?"
Li Rui snorted coldly and looked at the master.
He said calmly: "Come on, let's hear about the bastard things you have done. In addition, all the folks who came to complain today, let them line up outside and come one by one. I want to rectify this place today.
Qinghe County Government!"
Soon, the soldiers had already placed the first civilian.
It was a man who looked to be in his mid-thirties. When he saw Li Rui for the first time, he burst into tears and then fell to his knees on the ground: "My lord, you have to make decisions for the common people!"
"He said, remember it. If you remember a word wrong, your head will fall on the ground!"
Li Rui looked at the master coldly.
The master swallowed with a gulp, stood up shakily, sat on the master's chair next to him, spread out a piece of straw paper, and waited quietly.
"Prince Qi!"
"The Cao Min's family runs a tavern. Qinghe County officials, from the county magistrate to the yamen servants, often go to the Cao Min's tavern to eat and drink. But they never pay in cash, they are all posted on the account. The Cao Min made statistics and found that it is enough
There are as many as two hundred and forty-three taels!”
The man's body was trembling: "The grassroots people came to the county government several times to collect debts, but they were all kicked out. Only once, the county magistrate settled the grassroots for one tael of silver! But the grassroots' small business operation is really unsustainable! Again
Coupled with this year’s floods…”
Li Rui looked at the master with an unkind expression.
The master laughed sarcastically: "Your Majesty, more than a hundred taels of this were owed by the previous county magistrate when he was here..."