So what if I traveled through time? I'll continue to roll in another place

Although some court officials were excited, the emperor was young and Chu Yuanming was a sensitive person, so Song Pu presided over the morning court in the past. Today, Song Pu had just been assassinated, and the court was leaderless, so no one came out to take charge of the situation.

In addition to appointing Prince of Jin Chu Yuanming and Prime Minister Song Pu to assist in the administration, the late emperor also appointed four second-rank officials, including Minister of Personnel Zhao Lingji, Minister of Revenue Meng Zhengcheng, Commander-in-Chief and General Gao Mao, and Left Censor-in-Chief Que Yan, as regents.

These four people are in charge of selection and appointment, household registration and finance, military defense, and supervision and inspection respectively. Each aspect is the cornerstone of the empire's stability. The old emperor's love for his young sons is deep.

After Song Pu was attacked, Zhao Lingji, the second-in-command among the regent ministers and the Minister of Personnel, had to take over the responsibility of presiding over the morning court.

After listening to Zhou Yao's report, he named Lu Yu, a fifth-rank doctor of the Huainan Qingli Division of the Ministry of Revenue, to report back to Zhou Yao on the problem of the Jiangzhou prefect and others embezzling donations for grain and salaries, which led to the empty treasury.

Except for the Fengtian Prefecture Treasury, which was directly under the jurisdiction of the Right Vice Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, the Ministry of Revenue set up the Qingli Si in the other eight prefectures. Every year, the public warehouses and account vouchers of each prefecture treasury were checked, and the Ministry of Revenue registered and reported the local financial situation of the year to the emperor.

Although Zhou Yao's report only involved the disaster in one state, once an investigation is started, it will affect the entire state.

The Huainan Prefecture to which Jiangzhou belongs, the Yingtian Chengxuanzhengshisi to which Huainan Prefecture belongs, the Huainan Qinglisi of the Ministry of Revenue, the Supervisory Censor of Xijiang Road, the six departments of the Ministry of Revenue and other officials, both vertical territorial leadership and horizontal business guidance, and even independent supervisory agencies will be implicated.

Once you report it, you will become the target of public criticism. Blocking someone's financial path is like killing their parents. Ruining someone's job will lead to a ten-generation hatred, not to mention reporting such a serious crime that can lead to dismissal and death. It can be seen how high the cost and risk are to establish a life for the people and a heart for the world.

Lu Yu, Langzhong of the Huainan Qingli Division of the Ministry of Revenue, became the first opponent in a head-on confrontation.

"Your humble servant reports that each prefecture's treasury in Huainan Prefecture has account books every year, which have been reviewed and stamped by each prefecture and verified to be correct. Shen Xin, the head of the Huainan Qingli Division, and others went to each prefecture of Huainan Prefecture to inspect the treasuries in June of the first year of Xing'an, and the vouchers are complete. The reasons for various expenditures are clear and there are accounts to show, and they can all be handed over to the relevant government offices for review. I wonder if Lord Zhou has evidence to prove that Jiangzhou embezzled money and grain." Lu Yu responded calmly without being humble or arrogant, and directly won the battle.

Zhou Yao was fleeing and his ship was attacked and sank. Jiashu said that all the information collected by the original owner sank into the Han River.

Lu Yu guessed that Zhou Yao had no evidence. Even if the Censor-in-Chief could impeach an official based on hearsay or clues alone, words were not enough and it would be difficult to convict without evidence.

Huainan Prefecture had long been united, and the Xijiang Dao seal-holding censor was also one of their own, so the evidence that should have been destroyed had already been destroyed. He was still very confident that even if the court sent people to investigate, they would not be able to find any clues, and it would only be a series of twists and turns.

"I found evidence in Jiangzhou, but it was lost in a shipwreck during an attack. However, before going to the capital, I wrote a report on the relevant accounts and household registrations and sent it to Duan Pengjing, the censor of Xijiang Province. You can ask Lord Duan to verify each of the situations I reported." Zhou Yao had no evidence, and Duan Pengjing would surely have destroyed the original owner's report. It was useless to say it, but he had to say it now to avoid being too disadvantaged.

At this time, the Left Censor-in-Chief Zhu Hong stood up and said, "I, the Left Censor-in-Chief Zhu Hong of the Censorate, have come forward to report that the Censorate has not yet received the report forwarded by the Xijiang Circuit to Mr. Zhou. After Mr. Zhou fell into the water and disappeared, the Xijiang Circuit Seal-holding Censor Duan Pengjing sent the Supervisory Censor Luo Jun to Jiangzhou to inspect the disaster relief work. He reported that the money and grain had been distributed, but did not report that the money and grain accounts were wrong."

How shameless! If Duan Pengjing and Luo Jun were good people, would there still be riots in Jiangzhou? Would he still be hunted down and displaced? Why not say something else but use the words of these two as evidence? He couldn't help but curse these shameless and hypocritical villains!

"I, Zhao Congjian, the Right Assistant Censor of the Censorate, would like to make a report. If it is true as Lord Zhu and Lord Lu said, that the relief money and grain have been distributed and the people are living and working in peace, how can there be talk of a mob rebellion in Jiangzhou? Could it be that the people in Huainan Prefecture are really too greedy as they said?

Xu Guang, a commoner in Deyang County, Jiangzhou, gathered a crowd to rebel, killed the county magistrate Cai Yongshou, and confiscated his private treasury. Not counting the mountains of jewelry and antiques and other valuables, it is said that there were tens of thousands of taels of silver alone. At that time, the people of Jiangzhou were full of resentment, causing civil unrest in the five neighboring counties of Xindao, Anfeng, and Yongnian. Was it not the fault of the officials of Jiangzhou and the fault of the local supervisory censors? "Zhao Congjian asked a series of questions, coming out to support Zhou Yao.

"Xu Guang proclaimed himself Emperor Anding and named his country 'Nian Kang'. He claimed to have an army of 100,000. He successively captured eight counties including Deyang and Xindao, and massacred court officials wherever he went. Such a traitor has long had the intention of rebellion. He took advantage of natural disasters such as floods to slander court officials and discredit the court! Such evil words confuse the people and betray the grace of the emperor. Lord Zhao would rather believe the words of the treasonous traitor than the Censor, and he will also clear the traitor's name in the court?" Zhu Hong quickly occupied the moral high ground of the feudal dynasty and immediately put the hat of sympathizing with the traitor on Zhao Congjian's head.

Kill the dog officials, and that's it. Zhou Yao wanted to complain in his heart. If they only had one life, they could only kill once. If they could be resurrected, killing them a few more times wouldn't be a big deal.

However, Zhao Congjian and Zhou Yao had no evidence in their hands, so they were not at an advantage in the court debate.

Seeing that Zhao Congjian and Zhou Yao did not respond, Lu Yu, the Langzhong of the Huainan Qingli Division, submitted a memorial requesting an audience with Shen Xin, the Chief Official, and Zhao Lingji approved it.

Soon, Shen Xin arrived at the court. He coughed and said, "I, Shen Xin, the Director of the Huainan Qingli Division of the Ministry of Revenue, would like to report that according to the regulations, each prefecture's inventory is inspected every three years. Last June, I went to the public warehouses of various states and counties in Huainan Prefecture to check the account books and verify the actual items, and there was nothing wrong.

Taking the 38th year of Guangyong as an example, Huainan Prefecture collected about 3.31 million shi of rice and more than 87.31 million taels of silver. 65% was tributed to the emperor, 13% was retained in the prefecture, and 15% was sent to the emperor. Huainan Prefecture had a grain reserve of more than 990,000 shi and more than 26.19 million taels of silver. Among them, Jiangzhou was the richest, with a grain reserve of about 150,000 shi and more than 4.36 million taels.

I went to check and found that the rice, wheat, fodder, silk, cotton, silk cloth, household bills, miscellaneous tax bills, salt tax, tea tax, military farms and other gold and silver receipts and expenditures stored in the government offices of various states in Huainan Prefecture were all recorded, and I would never dare to deceive them. "Shen Xin had an expression of knowing everything.

"It's just that there has been abundant rainfall in recent years, and the water network in Jiangzhou is dense, so there are many floods in various places. The county governments often report to us for disaster relief and grain release. In order to save the people, we must do our best to support it. The huge consumption of stored money and grain is really helpless." He seemed to be very aggrieved and cried out in injustice.

"Your humble servant Chen Qing, the chief censor of the Ministry of Revenue, is reporting to the emperor that I have inspected the daily administration of the Ministry of Revenue and that there is nothing wrong with what Shen Xin, the chief of the Huainan Qingli Division of the Ministry of Revenue, reported."

My goodness, one after another jumped out to speak for Zhu Hong, Lu Yu and others. The content of their complaints was closely linked. As the first plaintiff, Zhou Yao seemed to be making unreasonable trouble.