Yu Chaoen looked at it with a sad face, the data counted by the subordinate officials was mixed in his heart, and this month's data had dropped by several percentage points compared with the previous month, which caught him off guard.

Since he was in charge of the railway bureau, he has been working hard to maintain the operation of the railway, and his achievements have always been sesame blossoming, which made him very pleased, and also made the emperor quite satisfied, and praised Yu Chaoen many times in front of many great eunuchs, saying that Yu Chaoen would do things, and should be greatly rewarded, and rewarded Yu Chaoen with a lot of money.

The reward of money is relatively secondary, and the improvement of status is the most satisfying for Yu Chaoen, after being recognized by the emperor, there are more people looking for him to do things, and gifts are even more commonplace, and even, because there are too many gifts, Yu Chaoen's residence can't be piled up.

In addition, many businessmen, large and small, in order to allow their goods to be transported to their destinations by rail as soon as possible, also bothered Yu Chaoen in every possible way and gave him too many benefits.

Over the years, Yu Chaoen has lived a very comfortable life, and his small life is too moisturizing, although sometimes, he will be forced by many people to jump into the well, but overall, his life is very rich, and it is a good day that many people envy.

But in the second half of this year, Yu Chaoen's troubles came, with the gradual slowdown of the income growth of the Railway Bureau, he began to be a little anxious, such a result is bound to be difficult to satisfy the emperor, it is very likely to be reprimanded, and such a result is also difficult to fake, which makes him quite distressed, but he is helpless, and he doesn't know what to do.

There are many subordinate stations and lines under the railway bureau, and most of the subordinate units, the income and expenditure are basically balanced, some are slightly profitable, some are slightly loss-making, only the newly opened units are more profitable, far more than the old units.

The vast majority of the employees in the unit did not know each other before, and the leaders in charge of the overall situation and the people in charge of finances were strangers who had never seen each other, and there was no trust in each other, and no one could figure out what kind of person the other party was.

It is precisely because the new units are strangers that everyone is more honest and does not dare to do things that are greedy for money, even the top leader and the bookkeeper do not dare to do it easily, and as time goes by, these strangers will always be familiar with each other, and after going to the Qinglou and the restaurant together, they will become familiar with each other, and even, they can test each other's minds at the wine table, and then everyone will go to be a big rat who steals food, and all the money that can be greedy is greedy.

People's courage is a little bigger, these big rats and big moths, will increase the amount of greedy money little by little, and eventually let the greatly profitable departments, into a basic balance of income and expenditure departments, the less courageous will make a little profit, so that the account is better, and the bolder, will make a loss of accounts, after all, in some remote lines with few people, even if all are Qing officials, it will be a loss, they will be compared with these lines.

But those are the strategic railways of the imperial court, even if the losses are very large, and the construction costs cannot be recovered for a long time, but the imperial court is also willing, because this involves national defense and is conducive to the imperial court's control of these remote areas, which is the value of strategic railways.

Yu Chaoen and many officials of the imperial court are aware of the decrease in the income of various departments under the Railway Bureau, which is an open secret in Datang, everyone knows what is going on, but some departments have little oil and water, even if there is this phenomenon, it will not attract attention, but the Railway Bureau is too fat, once the income growth is significantly reduced, it will be discovered, after all, no one is a fool, the railway transportation is busy, but the income growth cannot catch up with the growth of expenditure, which is obviously a big problem, It's okay if you don't investigate it, but as long as you investigate, it's basically a check.

Yu Chaoen, as a leader, is of course qualified to investigate, but he himself is not very clean, and he is somewhat weak-hearted, in case the subordinates he investigates hold a grudge and bite him when he is dying, it will cost him his life.

In addition, there are not one or two subordinate units with major acts of corruption, but many, and cracking down on one or two at random will have no effect, and will not save the railway bureau's book results.

And once these subordinate units with corrupt behaviors are cracked down, then this is a big incident, which will have a huge negative impact on the railway bureau, and Yu Chaoen's fat water errand will not be able to be done.

The railway bureau is such a good unit, Yu Chaoen has been working for so many years, how can he be willing to give up, but the current development of the situation has exceeded his expectations, he originally thought that the small fish and shrimp below, just greedy for ink, it is rich enough, but the reality is that the greed is not enough to swallow the elephant, even if the official position is very small, there is also the ambition to be greedy for huge sums of money, and even, many subordinate small shrimps, greedy for more money than Yu Chaoen, it is estimated that Yu Chaoen will be surprised if he knows.

With the financial data recently reported by the subordinate units, Yu Chaoen became very troubled, these data were clearly written, and on the surface there was no problem, but he was sure that there must be a problem here, a big problem.

In the Chinese Empire, book fraud has been a common thing since ancient times, and many bold officials will partner with officials in charge of finance, greedy for the property of the imperial court, and put it into their own pockets, and the means of fraud are as many as cattle hairs, and often have a certain degree of concealment, and the layman will definitely not be able to see it.

This situation was also very common in later generations, and there was serious falsification in both the units of the imperial court and the private accounts that needed to be made public.

In terms of the income and expenditure of property fees in various communities, Li An remembers that he once lived in several communities, and the income and expenditure of property fees are always lost, not only that, but also to investigate in other communities, it is found that there are also losses, almost all property companies are losses and small profits, such as property income of 990,000, then, the expenditure is 1 million, the loss is 10,000 a year, and the property income is 10 million, the expenditure will be 10,000, and the loss is 10,000, in short, the higher the income, the higher the expenditure, and always be able to maintain a balance. Even, a slight loss or a small profit.

This point made Li Ang a little puzzled, since the property company is losing money every year, why is it still in the community? Do they want to do a loss-making business and serve the public for free?

Merchants have been unprofitable guys since ancient times, and even if they become conscientious, they will not make a loss-making business! Moreover, it is not a property company, almost all companies are losing money, and they are all losing money and making money.

This kind of fraud can only deceive students who have just come out of school, for any adult with social experience, know that the account is false, the above expenditure details are too general, not specific to each small cost, in addition, the community will plant trees from time to time, a tree that does not look very good, the quotation can have tens of thousands, if you plant a few hundred trees, then, the huge expenditure has fallen.

As for why the property in the community has to do a basic balance of income and expenditure, and even lose some money, it is naturally to show a good image of serving the owners everywhere, if you tell you a profit of several million a year, it is estimated that someone will immediately go to the court to react and ask for a reduction in property fees, so their interests will be violated.

And if you lose millions of dollars in your own accounts, it will definitely not work, so, the loss is so huge, why does the property company still rely on it? Why didn't it go bankrupt, isn't this a serious violation of common sense, and let the income and expenditure be basically balanced, so that all the problems will be solved, as for others who don't believe it, then there is no way, anyway, they can make the books helpless, you can help him.

In short, as long as some people want to be greedy for money or hide their finances, they will always try their best to make false accounts in order to seek the greatest benefit for themselves.

"There are many railway lines in Luoyang, the traffic is quite busy, this month's income is actually lower than last month, but the expenditure is more than a little higher, the income and expenditure are offset, this month's profit is only three hundred and fifty-eight, fish to things, there must be a problem with this account, not only this month, the income and expenditure of the recent year are very problematic, the income does not rise but falls, the expenditure is increasing step by step, it is about to exceed the income, so go on, next year this line will lose money!"

A confidant eunuch spoke.

"The fish give things, this railway is the Ministry of Industry is responsible for the construction, the early investment is also spent by them, we are only responsible for the operation, Luoyang is such an important hub location, the transportation of people and goods every day is endless, how can it not be done like this, a month's profit is more than 300 times."

A henchman eunuch said helplessly.

"Fish to do things, their accounts are quite professional, no matter how you pick them, they can't find any faults, but there must be something greasy in this, and it is impossible for the Luoyang Railway Branch to have such a little income, there is a big problem here!"

The third henchman eunuch also felt that there was a big problem with the Luoyang City Railway Branch.

When Yu Chaoen heard this, he didn't say a word, how many problems there are, how could he not know that every year when the year is approaching, several leaders of the Luoyang Railway Branch will give Yu Chaoen a large number of gifts, and this year's gifts have also been delivered, more than last year's gifts.

The value of these gifts is far greater than the net income of the Luoyang Railway Bureau in a month, and the gifts sent by many leaders add up to the value of more than the total profit of the Luoyang City Railway Branch this year.

Other railway sub-bureaus will also give gifts to Yu Chaoen, there are very few who do not give gifts, when receiving gifts in the past, Yu Chaoen is always very happy, very proud, and this time, Yu Chaoen feels that this gift is a little hot, and he has received it for so many years, even if he does not receive gifts this time, he can't stay out of it.

That is to say, although Yu Chaoen's head is sober, he has completely fallen into it, and no matter how hard he thinks, he can't seem to find a way to escape from this quagmire, his mansion is in Chang'an City, which has accumulated the belongings he has saved in the past few years, as long as it is confiscated, then, his corrupt behavior will not be completely covered.

He also thought about retreating, but he was just a eunuch, he didn't have any heirs, no one could inherit his property, and no one could be truly loyal to him, besides, although the world was big, but the world belonged to the emperor, where could he flee to, the only end of fleeing with money was a dead end.

But if he doesn't escape, the huge assets he has accumulated will be a time bomb, which may take his life at any time, and the income of the railway bureau will plummet, and once it touches the limit of the court's patience, the court will inevitably take action, so that his good days will come to an end.

"Greed is not enough for a snake to swallow an elephant, greed is not enough for a snake to swallow an elephant!"

Yu Chaoen sighed helplessly.

His eyes were very helpless, he thought that the subordinates of the various units below could be relatively gentle and greedy for ink money, and don't make such a big move, so that even if they have been greedy for ink for decades, they will not be noticed by the imperial court, but these guys are too greedy, and the extent of their greed for ink is getting bigger and bigger, so that the imperial court can't get any income, which is obviously a very dangerous behavior, and these guys are not only not afraid, but also blatantly give gifts to Yu Chaoen.

Perhaps, in their opinion, as long as Yu Chaoen, the top boss, is done, then they can be greedy for money to their heart's content, or they feel that they have completely kidnapped Yu Chaoen, so that Yu Chaoen has to protect them, because once something happens to them, Yu Chaoen, who has received gifts for many years, will not be able to run away, if you want to be happy, everyone will be happy together, if you want to die, then everyone will die together.

Yu Chaoen also felt that he had been kidnapped, when the subordinate officials gave him gifts at first, he was still very proud, but slowly he was kidnapped by these subordinates, and became a community of destiny with these subordinates.

Therefore, even if he knew that there was danger, Yu Chaoen was helpless, and there was no good way to get rid of all this, so he could only take one step at a time, maybe the court would not pursue it, or the emperor would see that he was loyal and would open up to him.

It's just that this possibility is too low, he knows that the probability of being able to avoid it is not high, so he can only enjoy it, he should eat and drink, he can eat and drink more, and if something happens, he will not be able to enjoy anything.

It's a pity that Yu Chaoen is a eunuch and can't enjoy the love of men and women, otherwise, at this time, he will inevitably go to a place like the Qinglou to vent his desires.