Beizhen Fusi received Jiang Qiulu's order and acted immediately.
Zhang Ying, the governor of the town, personally led a team to investigate.
Arriving at the Ministry of Household Affairs, Zhang Ying said nothing.
With a wave of his hand, the Jin Yiwei behind him kicked the door open.
At this time, Gu Yue, the Minister of Household Affairs, was working with various officials.
Suddenly, the door was violently kicked open, and everyone was startled.
"What are you doing? Do you know where this place is?" Gu Yue calmed down and scolded him immediately.
Zhang Ying ignored him and directly took out the note written by Jiang Qiulu himself.
"By the orders of His Majesty and Commander Di."
"The governor of this town wants to thoroughly investigate the household department."
"Master Gu, please cooperate with everyone."
Before Zhang Ying finished speaking, he noticed two people secretly moving to the back door.
Then he slipped out the back door.
Zhang Ying smiled slightly.
The next moment, the two men were picked up like chickens by two Jin Yiwei.
Immediately afterwards, Zhang Ying waved his hand, and the two of them were taken away directly.
"Zhang Ying, what are you doing?"
"Don't think that because of your status, you can arrest people at will." Gu Yue said unceremoniously.
"Hahaha."
"Master Gu is right."
"The entire city of Kyoto, including the princes and nobles."
"Down to the handymen and coolies, the governor of this town can arrest anyone he wants."
"This is your Majesty's privileged authority!"
"The two people just wanted to run away as soon as they heard that the town's envoy came to investigate."
"If you don't have shit on your body, why are you guilty?"
Zhang Ying laughed loudly and immediately moved Jiang Qiulu out.
Jiang Qiulu was directly responsible for the Zhenfu Department, and there was no process in between.
Wanting to arrest someone was just a matter of Jiang Qiulu's words.
To put it simply, it is not an exaggeration to say that the Zhenfu Division is Jiang Qiulu's boss.
"you!"
Gu Yue was stunned speechless.
Although Gu Yue could not understand Zhang Ying's work style, he did not dare to disobey Jiang Qiulu's instructions.
"Zhang Ying, you came here for a thorough investigation on His Majesty's order. I have nothing to say."
"But if you dare to arrest people at will, indiscriminately."
"I will definitely report it to Your Majesty and ask Your Majesty to make a decision." Gu Yue threatened.
But Zhang Ying didn't listen to him at all.
"Master Gu, please do as you like."
"As long as you don't do anything that violates the law, the Governor will not make things difficult for you." Zhang Ying said.
"Hmph! Then check it out quickly." Gu Yue snorted coldly and moved out of the way.
Immediately afterwards, Zhang Ying led several Jinyi guards to launch an investigation.
The first is the account book of the Ministry of Accounts, which records various expenditures of the treasury.
Zhang Ying checked for a while and found that the funds allocated to various ministries were all normal amounts.
"Master Gu."
"All the funds allocated to various ministries under the Ministry of Household Affairs should be spent here." Zhang Ying asked.
"What else?"
“The allocation of funds to various ministries is recorded on it.”
"In addition, there are various tax and royal industry profits and other accounts." Gu Yue said angrily.
But it couldn't interfere with official duties, so I explained it to Zhang Ying.
"I see."
"The amount of money allocated is also consistent with the accounts, right?" Zhang Ying asked Gu Yue again.
Hearing this, Gu Yue's face darkened.
"Zhang Ying, what do you mean?"
"Are you suspecting that I'm making false accounts?" Gu Yue said coldly.
"Hahaha, Mr. Gu made a strong statement."
"I'm just asking casually." Zhang Ying said with a smile.
"Do you know what the consequences will be if you commit fraud?"
"As minor as taking off official uniform, you are not allowed to enter the palace."
"The worst case scenario is to put him in jail directly. Even if he is caught and beheaded, it would not be an exaggeration." Gu Yue said.
"That'll be easy." Zhang Ying put down the account book in his hand.
"I won't beat around the bush and explain it to you directly."
"Your Majesty discovered that the Ministry of Operations has not allocated funds for three consecutive months."
"I have no choice but to rely on making appliances and selling them to obtain income."
"Furthermore, there has been a certain amount of deductions from the Ministry of Industry's funds."
"Do you know about this?" Zhang Ying put the question directly.
"That's nonsense!"
“I personally review the funding accounts of each department.”
"How could such a situation happen?"
"I think you're here to spit on people!" Gu Yue immediately retorted.
"That's strange." Zhang Ying chuckled.
"According to Commander Di's information, the operating department's funding has been gradually decreasing since the beginning of the year."
"In the past three months, not even one tael of silver has been allocated."
"The funding for the Ministry of Industry has also increased from 10,000 taels before to 8,000 taels."
"Then where did such a large amount of silver go?" Zhang Ying looked at Gu Yue with a joking look on his face.
"This..." Gu Yue immediately realized something was wrong.
The two people from the household department wanted to escape just now, plus these news.
Even if Gu Yue had no brains, he would still realize the problem.
"You mean, someone secretly misappropriated these silver coins?" Gu Yue was shocked and his whole body began to tremble.
"That's right!"
"This is exactly the reason why the governor came here to investigate."
"Master Gu, as the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, you are in charge of the entire Ministry of Household Affairs."
"Such a big thing happened now, but you didn't notice it at all."
"How do you explain the loss of so much silver from the beginning of the year to now?"
Zhang Ying directly began to hold accountable.
Gu Yue knew that things had become like this, and that he had a relationship that he couldn't escape.
If we don't come up with a reasonable explanation, the position of Minister of the Ministry of Revenue will be unsafe.
"I will go to see the Holy Spirit in person and explain this matter to His Majesty face to face."
Gu Yue is also impatient and is ready to meet Jiang Qiulu directly.
"I'm afraid it's too late to meet His Majesty now."
"The only thing you can do now is to assist in the investigation and find the whereabouts of this silver."
"Or the instigator of this."
"This will allow His Majesty to treat you lightly." Zhang Ying said.
With the Minister of Household Affairs participating in the investigation, Zhang Ying believes that a lot of trouble will be saved.
Gu Yue lowered his head and sighed deeply.
"Okay, I will cooperate with the Zhenfu Division's investigation."
"From now on, I will help find out the truth about this matter." Gu Yue said.
"Hahaha, then it's up to you, Sir."
"Then let's get started."
Subsequently, with the cooperation of Zhang Ying and Gu Yue, a joint investigation was launched.
The entire household department also checked all the expenditures in the past year.
According to the final calculation, a total of nearly 500,000 taels of silver disappeared.
Five hundred thousand taels, what is the concept?
That was the military expenditure of the entire Daxia Dynasty army for half a year.
This number shocked both Zhang Ying and Gu Yue.
"Mr. Gu, besides you, is there anyone else who can handle these funds with you?" Zhang Ying asked.
"have!"
"Secretary of the Ministry of Finance, Ji Zheng." Gu Yue answered immediately.
"Where is he now?"
"He said he has contracted an illness in the past few days and is recuperating in the mansion."
