"It's very simple. When the King of Chu handled the canal project, it was all assisted by Kangcheng. I know you were transferred here not long ago, but I know very well that the people in the Hu family are very serious about their work. You must have read those account books. After passing it, there must be some discrepancies in the middle, so you might as well change it back to the original state and send it to the Ministry of Finance."
Within a day, the prefect of Kangcheng urgently sent the book to Beijing.
This envelope was the first to reach Pei Yu's hands. After reading it, he felt a little strange.
Isn’t this discount too timely
In the evening, another case was sent directly to Dali Temple.
Su Huo was stunned after seeing it. The teacher was actually stabbed to death
What made him even more angry was that the teacher was actually tortured to death!
The autopsy results one after another made Su Huo, who had always been calm, almost lose his mind.
But before he went to meet the emperor, Pei Yu went to the palace first.
The canal project had been completed long ago, but Jiang Yue still frowned when he heard Pei Yu mention it again.
"Your Majesty, Hu Yinghao has just been transferred to the prefect of Kangcheng. The Hu family is very careful. He must have discovered such false accounts while checking the account books."
"Is there any inspection at the Ministry of Household Affairs?" Jiang Yue felt that it would be abnormal if Jiang Yuancheng was too honest.
Pei Yu nodded: "I have already checked that this is just the tip of the iceberg. For the canal project, the treasury allocated 300,000 taels of silver at the beginning, but at the end there was still 30,000 taels of silver left. Normally, 300,000 taels of silver should not be enough." Yes, but the King of Chu actually had thirty thousand taels of silver left."
"What does Mr. Pei want to say?" Jiang Yue finally opened his eyes.
Pei Yu knelt down and replied: "Sir, recently the Marquis of Pingguo has been assisting me in investigating the shortage of military pay in Ganzhou. I discovered that some of the money flowed back to the capital. According to my investigation, it is not all the people of Prince Ning who have embezzled money." of!"
"Has Cheng'er also intervened?" Jiang Yue finally faced the matter seriously.
Pei Yu nodded: "I feel that the King of Chu must have intervened. Prince Ning cannot fully absorb so much military pay. Even if the ministers work hard on the canal project, they will not be able to spend all the money and still have some leftover. Moreover, I have already There is evidence that the King of Chu smelted a batch of official silver during the canal project!"
"Why didn't you tell the Prime Minister about this earlier?" Jiang Yue began to suspect that the King of Chu might not have no military power.
He sent Zhang Ke to Ganzhou at the beginning. Zhang Ke could get started with Ganzhou affairs so quickly, which ordinary people would never be able to do!
Unless Zhang Ke has handled Ganzhou's internal affairs in advance!
"I couldn't determine where Ganzhou's silver flows before, but now it seems that it has filled the vacancy of the canal!"
Pei Yu knew that this was a coincidence, but King Chu was getting more and more excited.
King Ning's city is far inferior to that of King Chu. If he wants to ascend the throne, he must first get rid of Jiang Yuancheng.
He was on Prince Ning's side.
Pei Yu prefers a simpler emperor than a scheming emperor.
"Isn't that just right?" Although Jiang Yue was angry in his heart, he restrained his anger on his face.
Pei Yu raised his head and looked at the emperor and said: "Your Majesty! Ganzhou is short of one million taels of silver. The 300,000 taels of silver for the canal project is not enough, but it will never exceed 400,000 taels of silver! What's more, there is still money left for this project. Many people have donated money. According to preliminary statistics, the amount is two to thirty thousand taels of silver!
King Ning's ministers roughly estimated that as many as one hundred thousand taels of silver might have been embezzled, but where did the other half a million taels of silver go? It’s not clear now! The King of Chu took out 30,000 taels and said it was left over from the canal project, but where was the remaining 400,000 taels of silver!
His Majesty! Please think twice! The King of Chu has been in charge of finance for so many years, and he has no shortage of money at all! But he had already focused on military pay! The army of Da Qi Dynasty is the foundation of the country! Doesn't Your Majesty find it strange that Jiagu Pass was lost? The troops stationed there are not entirely from King Ning! "
Pei Yu didn't say the rest, he just admired him deeply.
King Ning was in charge of military power, and King Chu was in charge of finance. They should have been clearly separated.
But the King of Chu began to plan for the fall of Jiagu Pass early. This was to use the dignity of the Qi Dynasty to challenge the emperor's bottom line.
Jiaguguan has always been a place that is easy to defend but difficult to attack, but now it was lost once in the hands of Emperor Shunde.
This is destined to be an indelible stain in the history books.
Although it was caused by internal fighting, this result was caused by the connivance of Emperor Shunde.
Pei Yu saw Jiang Yue very clearly.
He is obviously a ruthless and suspicious king, but he wants to whitewash himself as a kind and loving king!
Regardless of whether Jiang Yuancheng did it or not, until now, all this can only be done by him.
After a long silence, Jiang Yue finally gave the order: "You go down first."
When Pei Yu came out, he happened to meet Su Huo standing at the door.
Su Huo saluted him and said hello, holding a letter in his hand.
"Master Su is so anxious to enter the palace, but what's the important matter?"
Su Huo looked at Pei Yu. There was nothing going on in the capital now, and he also came into the palace.
However, he still answered Pei Yu: "The old dean of Wenxin Academy was stabbed to death!"
Pei Yu frowned for a moment and glanced at the book in his hand: "Is it possible to identify the murderer now?"
"It's okay for the time being, but there are still a few obvious characteristics. The specific situation needs to be determined by your Majesty." Su Huo explained briefly, turned around and walked in.
Pei Yu's heart became heavy, and he always felt like he was being led by the nose.
That night, Su Huo didn't leave the palace, and he didn't leave until dawn the next day.
After he left the palace, he went directly to Mr. Cui's house.
Immediately afterwards, Mr. Cui, who never went out, got into the carriage with Su Huo and rushed to Kangcheng together.
In the palace of Prince Chu, Jiang Yuancheng turned to Zhui Feng and asked, "Is there any news from Zhang Ke?"
"not yet."
At the same time, in the Cannes military camp.
Zhang Ke never expected that he would be plotted against.
He looked at Qin Shou in front of him and said, "Master Qin, you tied me up like this. Did I commit any crime?"
"I see you're unhappy!" Qin Shou hates literati, especially scheming literati like Zhang Ke.
The reason why his eldest brother died was because King Chu wanted to seize power.
Chi Yu is now in a difficult situation, also because of Zhang Ke's supplementary planning.
Zhang Ke closed his eyes: It seems that he can't ask anything from Qin Shou.
It's just that King Chu's men are about to take control of the entire Kangcheng military camp. How could Qin Shou dare to kidnap him
In a courtyard in Cannes.
Wen Qingzhu leaned on the couch, looked at the stars in the sky, and asked Chi Yu: "I heard that you have a lot of research on the stars, why don't you come and tell me about it."
Chi Yu couldn't sit still, still not sure: "Madam, aren't you afraid that Hu Yinghao will betray you? His boy is notoriously greedy for life and afraid of death. If nothing else goes wrong, the people of the King of Chu will find out that Zhang Ke is missing, so they should send him People are looking for him.”
"Hey, Mr. Chi, this is not something you should worry about." Wen Qingzhu turned around and looked at Chi Yu carefully. With his delicate features, he changed out of his military uniform and put on a scholar's gown, with an elegant temperament.
It's just that he still liked beautiful women more or less before. Why is he so behaved today
Chi Yu said nothing and did not dare to look around.
Wen Qingzhu looked at the beautiful woman on his right, who was holding the pipa and harp in his arms, which was particularly enchanting.
It's just that she specially invited Chi Yu, but he didn't look at it, so she had to wave her hand: "You all can go down."
"Yes." All the beauties bowed out.
Seeing that they had disappeared, Wen Qingzhu turned around and looked at Chi Yu with a smile: "Master Chi, it's just you and me now. If you have anything, just ask."
Chi Yu had been away from the capital for a while. If he hadn't found the right opportunity to seduce Jiang Yijia, he might still be struggling to qualify at the border.
So although he had heard a lot about the current situation in the capital, he didn't know much about the specific details.
"Is King Ning or King Chu more powerful in the capital now?"
Wen Qingzhu sneered: "It doesn't matter if the situation is great now, the one who laughs at the end is the winner."
"I understand what Madam means, but we always have to take advantage of the situation to get twice the result with half the effort." Chi Yu now has no choice but to side with Wen Qingzhu.
As for Jiang Yijia, he asked for help many times but did not respond. He must have been stopped by King Ning's people.
From this point of view, he is also a person who has been abandoned.
Wen Qingzhu continued to look up at the sky: "I understand that the situation will lead to favorable conditions, so I came to Kangcheng. It seems that fate will not deceive me."
"Destiny?" Chi Yu looked suspicious. Did someone say something to her
In his mind, this kind of thing is nonsense.
However, Wen Qingzhu asked, and he happened to understand something, so he replied: "Most fortune tellers are magic sticks. Madam, don't worry about it. Really powerful masters can easily be born."
Hearing his words, Wen Qingzhu sighed: "It's not that the powerful master has never been born, but he has been killed."
"What is Madam referring to?"
"Have you heard of Deng Yezhou?" Wen Qingzhu looked away and looked at Chi Yu.
When King Shou was in power, the Chi family was very prosperous. Chi Yu was a minor official and happened to hang out in Si Tiantai.
Chi Yu suddenly became serious: "Madam, did you come to Kangcheng to see the old dean because of Lord Deng's affairs?"
"Otherwise, what do you think? I'm really curious about Master Deng's prophecy. In addition, Deng Yezhou's incident also determines whether I should let the Deng family members out."
"Is there anyone alive in the Deng family?" Chi Yu was no longer shocked at this time.
He had stayed in Sitiantai, and although no one usually dared to mention Deng Yezhou, he could see that everyone in Sitiantai respected Deng Yezhou.
As far as he knew, Deng Yezhou had perfected many of Si Tiantai's algorithms.
And all of his prophecies were actually fulfilled one by one.
This is what Chi Yu admires but also finds terrifying.
If he were in Emperor Shunde's shoes, he would kill him without hesitation.
However, the timing of Emperor Shunde's ascension to the throne was not very good. If he used murder to deal with everything, I'm afraid things will turn upside down.
Therefore, for the Deng family, the Shunde emperor was slowly trying to figure it out.
This also gives those with power the opportunity to fish in troubled waters.
Many famous families were destroyed and disappeared in those conspiracies.
"Master Chi, are you surprised? When I mentioned Deng Yezhou, I was naturally considering whether to use a descendant of the Deng family." Wen Qingzhu didn't mind telling him.
After all, Chi Yu is also a rare talent.
Some minor problems of coveting beauty are not big problems.
"Madam, don't hesitate, believe me, you must use him!" It was the first time that Chi Yu showed such strength to Wen Qingzhu.
Wen Qingzhu simply sat up and became interested: "Then tell me the reason why he must be used."