Poor Family Chapter 515

  Chapter 515 True determination and investigation

In the blink of an eye, five days have passed since the third year of Xuanhe's new year, and Li Yanqing and his party have entered the tenth day of inspection in Zhending, and there are two days before the end of the inspection and return to the south. So far, they have not only arrived in Zhending County The first day I saw Liang Fangping, I never saw him again.

But the results of the inspection were shocking. Of the thirty-seven warehouses distributed in Zhending Mansion, they checked twenty-five of them, but none of them could be clean and innocent. There were so many people involved and the value of the case was huge. It's a complete case.

   "Perhaps this is why Liang Fangping dare not show up!"

In the attached room of a warehouse, Li Yanqing stopped writing and said to the Deputy Envoy Wang Zao solemnly: "Every warehouse has problems, and there are even serious problems. As a transfer envoy, how can he explain it to us? He should be thinking now. How to explain to the emperor!"

  Wang Zao said in a low voice: "The humble position means that some minor issues should not be included in the report, and those who write some major issues are enough for him to drink a pot."

At this time, they were inspecting the army reserve logistics warehouse in Xingtang County, Zhending Prefecture. Xingtang County is about a hundred miles away from the border of Song and Liao, and it is a very important logistics center. A warehouse group with nearly a hundred sub-warehouses stores a large amount of food and military supplies. It is one of the five large warehouse groups in Zhending Prefecture.

  Since they checked into the warehouse yesterday morning, it is now midnight, and the inspection is still busy.

This time the inspection of Zhending Mansion was divided into two teams. Wang Zao led Liu Fang to monitor the dozen or so warehouses in the south of Zhending Mansion. There were not many warehouses there, so Wang Zao was in charge, while Li Yanqing led others to be in charge. The main warehouse to the north.

  Wang Zao's supervision has long since ended, he rushed back to assist Li Yanqing in sorting out the manuscript, and at the same time cooperated in writing the supervision report.

As the problem became more and more serious, Wang Zao became a little scared. He felt that this would trigger a serious court storm and affect his career. Li Yanqing flatly refused.

  At this time, Mo Jun hurried over and said to Li Yanqing in a low voice: "Censor, Deputy Envoy Zheng please go over and have a look."

Li Yanqing nodded, got up and walked towards the door. When he reached the door, he said to Wang Zao: "The supervisory report will affect the situation of the Northern Expedition. If the Northern Expedition fails, it turns out that we have concealed the truth. I'm afraid you and I can't bear the responsibility." , Wang Yushi, think about it carefully!"

  Li Yanqing turned around and walked out quickly, Wang Zao's face turned red and then pale, Li Yanqing's words made him uneasy again, he felt that Li Yanqing seemed to see through something.

   Li Yanqing followed Mo Jun to a huge military warehouse, which was the largest of all warehouses, covering an area of ​​tens of acres, used to store siege weapons.

Ten large lanterns were hung in front of the warehouse door, illuminating the gate as if it were daylight. There was a table with seven or eight account books piled up on it, and a dozen township guards stood on both sides. Several warehouse officials were full of hair. Khan looked through the account books, it seems that there is also a problem here.

Li Yanqing walked into the warehouse quickly, and the warehouse was also brightly lit. Dozens of soldiers were using ropes to help carry items. Zheng Qiuren was holding a surveillance book in his hand and was bowing his head to record. Two officials on the left and right were desperately explaining. What?

   "Boss, we have counted three times, and we are sure that there are eight nest cars, no more." Several inventory soldiers deep in the warehouse said loudly.

  Zheng Qiuren snorted heavily, and asked the two officials, "How do you explain it?"

  At this time, a soldier shouted: "Li Yushi is here!"

  Li Yanqing walked over quickly, surrounded by several soldiers, "What's going on here?"

  Zheng Qiuren was very annoyed and said: "It's hard to believe, it's not a matter of discrepancy between the accounts and facts, it's purely something out of nothing!"

   "How do you say that?"

"Take this nest cart as an example. It is recorded in the accounts that there were thirty-eight, but in fact only eight were found, six of which were decayed and could not be used at all, and two were left over from the Shenzong era, and there were dozens of them. years of history."

  Li Yanqing glanced sharply at the head of the front and deputy warehouses. Both of them blushed, appearing anxious and uneasy. Li Yanqing asked again: "Is there any question?"

"There are still many problems. For example, there should be thirteen ladders in the warehouse, but I couldn't find any of them. The same is true for siege ladders. The actual inventory is only 20% of the account records. Thirteen kinds of siege weapons. There are problems with everything, as well as ropes, hinges, etc. There is a huge gap between the accounts, and I don't know why?”

A warehouse manager stepped forward tremblingly and said, "I would like to report to Li Yushi that there is indeed some discrepancy between the actual inventory and the account books, but this is not a problem only now. The old account was revealed, and the humble position had not taken office at that time, and the problem was already the same as it is now."

   "Don't try to shirk responsibility, I want to know why?" Li Yanqing asked with a glare at him.

"There are many reasons for this, such as poor storage, the physical object has been completely decayed and cleaned up, but the account has not been dealt with; there is also the fact that three old ladders were assembled into a new ladder during the repair, and the account has not been changed accordingly; and It is repeated records, the same batch of siege weapons, several warehouses are accounted for, and the damage list is reported to the Military Supervision, but there is no response from the Military Supervision, and they dare not modify the records without authorization. All kinds of problems have accumulated, and it has become what it is today.”

  Beside Zheng Qiuren, he was dissatisfied and said: "I see that most of the siege weapons in the account books were manufactured under the supervision of Shenzong. Could it be that in the past two or three years, they have called for the Northern Expedition to prepare for war every day, but nothing has been manufactured?"

   Cangtou sighed, "At the beginning of the year, a few officials from the Ministry of War and the Military Weapons Supervision came and asked us to summarize the various military funds in the account books and hand them over. Then they left and there was no more follow-up."

   "They didn't come down to see it?"

   "No! I have been in Cangtou for 30 years, and you are the first batch of court officials who came to check on the ground."

  Li Yanqing also understood in his heart that the imperial court's finances were extremely tight, and the funds for war preparations were seriously insufficient. It is estimated that the military inspectors saw that there were a lot of siege weapons in stock, so they did not arrange for new production, and used the funds for other purposes.

   "Li Yushi, what should we do?" Zheng Qiuren asked from the side.

   "You will count according to the actual situation, as much as you have, and finally report it together, so that the military supervision can handle it?"

   "Li Yushi, what about us?" the two cangtou asked tremblingly.

Li Yanqing glanced at them, and said calmly: "This time we monitor only things and not people. We only check the actual inventory situation. What happens to you has nothing to do with us, but I want to remind you that you'd better report all the reasons for the shortage Check everything out and find out the evidence, otherwise it will be very difficult for you to account for the transfer envoy who comes down to investigate the responsibility."

  Li Yanqing said to Zheng Qiuren and Mo Jun again: "You guys will work harder tonight, thoroughly check this warehouse, and we will return to Zhending County early tomorrow morning."

   After finishing speaking, Li Yanqing turned around and left the warehouse, only to hear Mo Jun yelling to the soldiers: "Next, I will count the battering rams again. There are thirteen items recorded in the account books. Let's see how many there are?"

Although Liang Fangping was unwilling to come to see Li Yanqing, it didn't mean he didn't care about this inspection. On the contrary, as soon as the inspector left a warehouse, he sent people to find out the situation. Fear, there are too many problems, and he can't cover them up.

  Liang Fangping was very nervous. There were two days before the inspectors would finish their return journey. Judging from the results of this inspection, it was very unfavorable for him.

  After pondering for a long time, he asked his staff member Cui Mi, "Do you think Wang Fu is reliable?"

This is the third time Liang Fangping has asked the same question. The first two times, Cui Mi spoke vaguely. It seems that Liang Fangping did not understand his hint. For Wang Fu, I'm afraid the ending will disappoint Shi Jun very much."

"Why?"

   "This time Cai Jing and Liang Shicheng joined forces. Wang Fu alone will definitely not be able to handle it. In the end, he will probably protect himself and put all the responsibility on the envoy. This is not the first time he has done this."

   "Then what do you say?"

   "It's still the suggestion of the humble official last time. If you want to get rid of this difficulty, you must find Li Yan."

   "But. But his price is too high, two hundred thousand coins, how can I pay it?"

   "This is just a humble suggestion."

  Liang Fangping took a few steps with his hands behind his back, and then said slowly: "If I give Li Yanqing 50,000 guan, can I keep his mouth shut?"

  Cui Mi shook his head, "I'm afraid this will only become evidence against Shi Junxin."

   "Can't you buy him?" Liang Fangping asked a little unwillingly.

   "He is just a pawn, with Cai Jing and Liang Shicheng watching from behind, even if he has the heart, he may not have the courage."

  Liang Fangping was at his wit's end, he finally gritted his teeth and said, "Okay! I'll give Li Yan a mansion in the capital. If even he can't do it, then I can only admit it."

   "My lord, don't forget about Wang Fu!"

   "I know, I will give him another ten thousand taels of silver. If he disappoints me, don't blame me, Liang Fangping, for being ruthless."

   "Li Yanqing and the others will probably be back tomorrow. Do you want to see them?"

  Liang Fangping shook his head, "I don't want to see them. I will go to Zhaozhou tomorrow morning and ask Deputy Supervisor Qi to see them. Besides, you'd better find a way to get me a report."

  Cui Mi smiled darkly, "Leave this matter to the humble official, and the humble official has a way to get the report."

  (end of this chapter)

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