"Master Li, go slowly!" The man sent Li Yu away, and then a monk came over and asked, "Is there any problem? The recent incidents caused by Duke Ping always make everyone a little uneasy."
"There should be no problem. He is indeed Mining Secretary Li Yu who just returned from Fuso. I've heard that he is honest and upright, hahaha, but how can a cat not eat fishy food?"
"With so much gold right in front of you, the only one who can control it is a saint."
"Since there is no problem, that's good!" The monk nodded, took a ledger from the man's hand, and walked further back.
Naturally, he didn't know that there was a pair of eyes high in the sky that was always watching him. Even when he entered the house, there was a thermal image that was always locking his position.
"Are you actually in the Luohan Hall?" After twists and turns, when the monk came out of the Luohan Hall, he no longer had the account book in his hand.
"He stayed the longest just now, probably at this location." Lao Cui pointed to a corner of Luohan Hall and said.
"Well, take people to get back the account books tonight. There should be more than this one."
Tang Ping recorded the location, and then followed Li Yu with a drone. He also wanted to go to several other large temples in Chang'an.
Some of these temples even communicated with each other. When Li Yu arrived at Caotang Temple, the monks inside even knew that he had deposited two million in Daxingshan Temple.
So Li Yu’s arrival is very welcome.
In one day, Li Yu deposited the eight million given by Tang Ping into four temples, and Tang Ping also locked the places where each temple used to hide its account books.
The most elite special warriors of the Tang Dynasty were dispatched at night. Although some of these temples were tightly guarded, they still managed to steal all the ledgers without anyone noticing.
"Good guy!"
"Good guy!"
"Good guy!"
Tang Ping repeatedly exclaimed that although he was very rich, the sum of the deposits in these temples was probably a little worse than that of Tang's Commercial Bank, but it was still an astronomical sum.
The key is that the source of the money ranges from aristocratic families to court officials.
I think some of them are here to avoid taxes, and some are just like Li Yu pretended to be, they are funds from shady sources.
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The involvement was so extensive that even Tang Ping didn't know what to do. He packed two large boxes of ledgers and quietly entered the palace overnight.
You can just find out this kind of thing yourself, and let Li Shimin deal with it.
Li Shimin was already asleep. Hearing that Tang Ping secretly entered the palace late at night, he went to the Xiande Hall to wait for him.
"Second uncle, here are the secret ledgers of the four largest temples in Chang'an City." Tang Ping pointed to the two big boxes: "I don't know what to do with them."
Li Shimin was not very surprised, as if he had expected it: "Many aristocratic families are temporarily dormant just because I am strong. I am afraid that many of them are from major aristocratic families, right?"
"They hide their assets in temples. Firstly, they can avoid some taxes, and secondly, they can hide their own strength."
"Then there are many who must be officials at all levels, right? Datang has developed too fast in the past few years, and money is used everywhere. As long as they are willing and have various supervisory agencies, they can still make money."
"Many people don't dare to use this money, or even keep it at home. They can only keep it in the temple to make money. I don't know what they do with so much money."
"So what is the second uncle going to do?" Tang Ping asked curiously: "Have all these people been dealt with?"
"It can't be cleaned up." Even Tian Khan Li Shimin could only smile and shake his head: "They are all intertwined. If we have to clean them all up, how can we find so many people to fill the vacancies at once? The Tang Dynasty may be paralyzed."
"Then let them go like this?" Tang Ping asked unwillingly.
"How is that possible!" Li Shimin smiled again, and this time he looked a lot happier: "Don't I still owe you a bank loan? The national finances have been tight, and I can just harvest a batch of leeks."
"You can rest in the palace tonight, and I will show you the show tomorrow morning."
Tang Ping originally planned to let it go, but after hearing what Li Shimin said, he agreed.
When they went to court the next day, officials at all levels were surprised to find that Tang Ping, the Duke of Ping, who never appeared in the hall early in the morning, was sitting at the front wearing casual clothes and dozing off.
"Tang boy, what's wrong with you?" Cheng Zhijie came over and asked, "You're not even wearing official uniform, are you really being repaired by your majesty? I'll tell you later."
Don't you want us to beg for mercy for you? "
"Thank you, Lao Cheng!" Tang Ping raised his eyes and looked at him: "I'm sorry, I didn't sleep well."
He got up, stretched out, and asked the waiter to take away his chair: "I couldn't sleep, so I came here to wait, but when I came here, I squinted for a while."
"What happened?" Cheng Zhijie rolled his eyes and asked in a low voice, "Tell me, is there something big going to happen today?"
"Well, something big is going to happen. No matter what His Majesty says for a while, you just don't say anything."
Although he didn't know what was going on, since Tang Ping said this, Cheng Zhijie cupped his hands and said thank you before standing in his position.
Soon the chamberlain announced that he was going to court, and Li Shimin also walked out.
"Your Majesty, what's going on?"
"I do not know!"
"Is there going to be a war somewhere?"
There was a murmur of discussion in the court, because Li Shimin did not wear a dragon robe today, but walked out in a military uniform.
Before walking to the dragon chair, Li Shimin did not sit on the dragon chair as before. Instead, he glanced down, and with a sudden sound, he pulled out the long knife from his waist.
"Do you think my sword is disadvantageous?"
The long knife was pointed at the courtiers below. Everyone looked at each other, and then fell silent.
Cheng Zhijie said in his heart that something big had happened, and then followed Tang Ping's instructions, observing his eyes and nose, observing his heart, and stood there as silently as a Bodhisattva.
Finally, Wei Zheng stepped forward and asked, "Your Majesty, why is this happening?"
"Why?" Li Shimin put away the knife and shouted: "Bring it up."
Two large boxes were carried up by several chamberlains. The courtiers below still didn't know what they were and could only whisper about what happened.
"If you just look at this box, it's probably very strange. What's in it? Right?"
"Let me tell you, it contains ledgers collected from the four largest temples in Chang'an, including Daxingshan Temple and Caotang Temple."
"Or it's a secret ledger. If I say so, shouldn't you all know what's in it?"
As soon as Li Shimin finished speaking, many people below changed their expressions.
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