"Enlighten the saint, the minister is ordered to inspect Taicang, and today it has been completed, and I have come to reply to the saint." After Zhu Ping'an got up, he took out a piece of folding from his sleeve and respectfully held his hands on the top of his head.

Huang Jin walked down from Emperor Jiajing's side, took the fold from Zhu Ping'an's hand, and handed it to Emperor Jiajing.

Emperor Jiajing took the fold, did not open it, casually put it on the dragon case in front of him, looked at Zhu Ping'an and said, "You tell me what the results of the inspection are." ”

"Qi Qi Sheng, the minister was ordered to inspect Taicang, focusing on the account books and books of Taicang in the past three years, and taking stock of gold and silver in the silver treasury. Taicang's books record that 2,127,200 taels of silver and 720,000 taels of gold were deposited. However, after checking the account book for several days, he found that there were 367,543 taels of silver on the account book that were in deficit and false accounts, and could not be reconciled. Zhu Ping'an stood respectfully in front of the hall and replied.

"How much?" Emperor Jiajing's color changed, he suddenly got up from the dragon chair, looked at Zhu Ping'an angrily and asked.

Hearing the number Zhu Ping'an said, Emperor Jiajing almost suspected that his ears had heard it wrong, and when he held down what Ping'an said, half of Taicang was empty!!!!

This kind of deficit, thousands of years ago, from the Shang and Zhou dynasties to the Tang, Song and Yuan dynasties, has never happened!

If it is true, it is the first major case that has never been seen before!

Emperor Jiajing recognized himself as Mingjun, but he didn't expect to be so fooled by the people below that he emptied half of the treasury!

This was a bolt from the blue for Emperor Jiajing.

Now one of the biggest problems facing him in power is that the finances are tight, the north and the south are in trouble, natural disasters and man-made disasters, money is needed everywhere, and in recent years, it has been like flowing money, which has made Emperor Jiajing even thrifty in cultivating and refining pills.

It is conceivable that when Emperor Jiajing heard that his treasury was depleted by half, he was in such a state of distress, which made Emperor Jiajing how he could endure it.

Emperor Jiajing's fury was expected by Zhu Ping'an.

However, although he had long expected Emperor Jiajing's anger, and although he also knew that Emperor Jiajing's anger was not aimed at him, when facing the emperor's anger, Zhu Ping'an still couldn't help but feel a chill on his back. The wrath of the Son of Heaven, millions of corpses, bleeding and drifting, this is not a joke.

"Back to the saint, there is a deficit of 367,543 taels of silver in the Taicang account and a false account, a deficit of 889,950 taels of silver and 400,000 taels of gold in the Taicang warehouse, and another 903,800 taels of silver that are not pure silver, and 125,500 taels of gold that are not pure gold...... calmed down for a while, Zhu Ping'an repeated again.

"Are you sure? How is the deficit on the account? Emperor Jiajing's voice overflowed from between his teeth, and his face was gloomy, as if the sky was before a storm.

Wechen is sure that it can be guaranteed by the head of the item. For example, the salary of the Ministry of War recorded in the account books of Taicang is an obvious one, the year before last the Ministry of War received 108,000 taels, plus a reward of 32,000 taels, it was only 140,000 taels, but last year the Taicang account carried the Ministry of War to withdraw 199,000 taels of silver, almost doubled. According to the minister's investigation, last year the Ministry of War only added three new vacancies of officials, and it was possible to pay nearly double the salary. There are still many such falsehoods and shortcomings. This is a record of Wechen's review, in which the falsehoods and deficiencies have been recorded. ”

Zhu Ping'an raised his head, replied with convincing words, and then gave an example of a fake account, and after speaking, he took out a roll of thick rice paper sewn with needles and threads from his sleeve, and held his hands respectfully above his head.

This stack of rice paper is the Taicang Treasury account book re-counted by Zhu Ping'an with the re-examination accounting table, which is very thick and large, densely packed with tables and small characters, among which the deficits and falsehoods, Zhu Ping'an also specially marked out.

Emperor Jiajing listened to the example given by Zhu Ping'an, and his face was full of anger and clouds in an instant, but this fake account was a loss of more than 90,000 silver!! More than 90,000 silver, which is enough to relieve the drought and flood disasters in Shufu!

Huang Jin came down and took the double-entry account sheet from Zhu Ping'an's hand, and respectfully handed it to Emperor Jiajing with both hands.

Emperor Jiajing casually turned a page, and saw a completely different method of bookkeeping from today, at first glance was stunned, but Emperor Jiajing is also a person who is talented and intelligent, and after a while, he understood Zhu Ping'an's retest accounting table, and then found the advantages of this retest accounting table, among which the false accounts and deficits are very obvious.

Everywhere

At a glance

Shocked, the more Emperor Jiajing looked at his face, the darker it became, and the temperature around him also dropped again and again, all of which dropped below zero, and within a radius of three meters, it was as if he was in an ice cellar.

After reading it, Emperor Jiajing suddenly kicked over the several cases in front of him, and said murderously: "I'm angry!" I'm angry! These rats! Silverfish! Eat inside and out! Guards steal from themselves! Wasted trust! Someone came, spread my will, and escorted all the officials of Taicang to the Criminal Department, and they were strictly guarded by the factory guards! ”

"Yes."

One of the attendants in the main hall responded to the decree and walked quickly outside the hall to announce the decree.

"Huang Ban, the purpose. Since my accession to the throne, the successive treasurers and the ministers who have sent the king of Chaku have all been close and high-ranking officials, and they have also followed the same path without being aware of it, and none of them have been able to commit adultery, and they have even been appointed. I don't know if the kings and ministers are ashamed. I blame myself for ignorance and shame, and I am all handed over to the Ministry of Officials to check the name of the post and deal with it strictly. In this case, Yan Song, a scholar of Huagaidian University, Xu Jie, a scholar of Wenyuange University, Li Mo, a scholar of the Ministry of Officials, and He Ao, a scholar of the Criminal Department, jointly tried the case of the deficit of the Taicang treasury. All the former treasurers in Taicang, the imperial history of the treasury, and the treasury soldiers are waiting to find out in detail, and all the officials involved in the case, no matter what grade and meritorious service, will be severely punished. All senior officials of the third grade or above in Beijing should attend the side trial. All officials below the household department are to be circumvented in accordance with the rules and must not participate, and if there is a violation, they will be punished as the same party involved in the case. ”

After the oral edict, Emperor Jiajing instructed Huang Jin to draft a holy decree, hand it over to the Wuyi Palace, and distribute it to various government offices.

When the holy decree was transmitted to the Wuyi Palace, the ministers of the full hall were shaken, and the impact was comparable to that of the great ceremony, and soon the entire government and the opposition were shaken.

So far

The biggest case of the treasury deficit in history has been unveiled.

The rut of history has also been deflected here, there was no such treasury deficit case in the history of the Ming Dynasty, of course, the treasury deficit must exist, and it must be so serious, but this cover has not been covered by all parties, and has not been untied. However, now Zhu Ping'an has instigated butterfly wings and lifted the lid, exposing this big case to the world.

maybe

After this case, the deficit of the Ming Dynasty's treasury will be curbed, and the treasury will be more abundant than in history.

maybe

When natural and man-made disasters occur, the Ming Dynasty has the financial resources to provide disaster relief; When foreign enemies invaded, the Ming Dynasty had the financial resources to reorganize the army to defend against the enemy.

maybe

Emperor Chongzhen did not have to hang the coal mountain, but became the lord of Zhongxing......

Of course, who will say for sure in the future?

In fact, when His Royal Highness Zhu Ping'an heard Emperor Jiajing's dictation of the holy decree, he was still a little unwilling in his heart.

Zhu Ping'an also knew that he was not qualified to try this case, but when he heard that Emperor Jiajing handed over the case to Yan Song for trial, Zhu Ping'an still felt a little helpless.

Emperor Jiajing still trusted Yan Song in his heart.

But in Zhu Ping'an's view, this case has a lot to do with the Yan Party, and this is definitely the case. But if Yan Song presides over the trial, it is destined to fail to find the root cause.

But fortunately, Xu Jie, Li Mo and others participated in the main trial together, so although they couldn't find the root cause, some big fish couldn't run.