Chapter 377 Construction of the Morgue.

The next day, Hua Lang and the others got up very late, and after getting up, they felt dizzy, and at this time, Hua Lang secretly swore in his heart that he must drink less in the future.

But how can you make friends with a group of proud people, and don't drink?

Today's sunshine is still scorching, Hua Lang washed his face after getting up, and then he was ready to go to eat something with Yin Wuyi, but when they passed by Bao Zheng's study, they suddenly heard a very harsh scolding inside, and it was Bao Zheng's voice.

This made Hua Lang and them very puzzled, not to treat prisoners, Bao Zhengke had never been so angry.

After hesitating, Hua Lang knocked on Bao Zheng's door, the door creaked open, Bao Zheng's dark face had obvious anger, he saw that it was Hua Lang, and he didn't talk much, just sat back in his chair, waiting for a state official who was kneeling on the ground.

Hua Lang still didn't understand what was going on, so he asked, "Why is Brother Bao so angry?" ”

Bao Zheng snorted angrily and said: "Early this morning, I wanted to ask Mr. Ledger to take out some silver from the treasury to rebuild the morgue, but this Mr. Ledger did everything possible to shirk, which made me very suspicious, so I took the account book to the treasury to check, and the result was good, the treasury was empty, and there was no money to rebuild the morgue, but the account book was written how many tens of thousands of taels of silver, it turned out that the entire Duanzhou Prefecture had become an empty shell, hum!" ”

Hearing this, Hua Lang and the others were surprised, how could the dignified Duanzhou Prefecture not even be able to come up with the money to build a morgue?

At this time, Bao Zheng said again: "I asked this Mr. Ledger what was going on, he couldn't even say why, only said that when Mo Sigong was in office, although he was Mr. Ledger, but only nominal, only let him deal with the income on the account books, and he was not allowed to check the treasury, so he didn't know the situation of the Treasury in Ludao, only after I took office, he went to see it once, and was very scared after discovering this situation, and he didn't dare to tell me, so he had to hide it." ”

Hwarang held his chin and looked at the bookkeeper who was kneeling on the ground and asked, "Is that really the case?" ”

The bookkeeper was sweating profusely, and then nodded again and again: "That's the case, how can there be no money in the warehouse, I really don't know what to do!" ”

Looking at the appearance of this bookkeeper, it doesn't look like a lie, if he knew that there was nothing in the treasury, I'm afraid he would have told Bao Zheng a long time ago, in this way, Bao Zheng is angry, and he can't be angry at his account, it will only be the dead Mo Sigong.

Hua Lang thought for a moment and said, "Brother Bao, don't be angry, how about we go to the treasury again?" ”

How could Bao Zheng not be angry, but he still nodded, how to accompany Hualang and they went to the treasury again.

The treasury in Duanzhou is very large, but there are indeed not many things in it, Hua Lang turned around in it, and was able to find spider webs, he frowned, how to check it carefully in it, and only got up and said: "Brother Bao, don't blame the bookkeeper, there was indeed a lot of money in it, but it was moved away more than a month ago, or earlier, you see, there are spider webs here, which means that no one has come to settle the treasury silver here for a long time, and then there is here, there is a pull mark here." , most likely left behind when those men were carrying the treasury silver. ”

After Hua Lang finished speaking, Bao Zheng fell into deep thought, more than a month ago, Mo Sigong had just stepped down from Duanzhou, ready to go to Maozhou to take office, at that time the treasury silver here was looted, so it is very likely that the person who did this is the person from the Tsing Yi Society who colluded with Mo Sigong, and now that Mo Sigong is leaving, these treasury silver will be left to the next one They will lose a lot, so after Mo Sigong left, they immediately moved away, so that even if the next Zhizhou found out, Mo Sigong could not help it, because this is after Mo Sigong left office, The blame can only be blamed on the unfavorable protection of the state government.

What's more, now that Mo Sigong is dead, they can't count him even more.

But if the imperial court sends someone to check and finds that a large number of treasury silver is missing, it will definitely be counted on Bao Zheng's head, so now Bao Zheng and them must find the treasury silver.

The more Bao Zheng thought about it, the more angry he became, the more nervous he became, and he looked at Hua Lang and asked, "Brother Hua has a good plan?" ”

Hua Lang didn't have a good plan at this time, but he suddenly found an opportunity to make a fortune, if he helped Bao Zheng find this batch of treasury silver that was taken away, could he ask for some reward from these treasury silver, from the marks on the ground and the records in the account books, there should be a lot of money here, and it is okay to ask for more.

Hua Lang thought like this, so he laughed unconsciously, Bao Zheng saw Hua Lang laughing, thinking that he had a good plan, so he hurriedly continued to ask: "Brother Hua has any good plan, tell it quickly." ”

Hua Lang recovered from his meditation and hurriedly replied: "Actually, it's not a good idea, but you have to find out first, whether there is really a lot of money in this treasury, the bookkeeper didn't come in to see it, and anyone can fake the account book." ”

"But how do you figure it out?"

"This is simple, just call the big tax payers in Duanzhou to the state government to inquire about it."

After listening to Hua Lang's idea, Bao Zheng immediately ordered that the dynasty Ma Han, Zhang Long, Zhao Hu and others go to call the big tax payers in Duanzhou to the state government.

After everyone sat down in the living room, Bao Zheng said: "It doesn't mean anything to call you here today, it's just because I first came to Duanzhou Renzhizhou and found some problems in the treasury, so I want to ask, have you paid all the taxes every year?" ”

When everyone heard this, their faces suddenly turned ugly, and one of them got up and said: "Master Bao Mingjian, our taxes are paid every year, not only in full, but also in various miscellaneous taxes, but it is really miserable!" ”

"All sorts of miscellaneous taxes?"

The man nodded again and again: "That's right, in addition to collecting the taxes stipulated by the imperial court, the former governor also used various methods to collect our taxes, so that we were miserable, and some of our peers were even bankrupt because of various miscellaneous taxes!" ”

After hearing these words, Bao Zheng's brows furrowed even tighter, he didn't expect that Mo Sigong's so-called political achievements were actually obtained through various strict taxes, but the various miscellaneous taxes he collected were not recorded in the account books, could it be that he swallowed those miscellaneous taxes privately?

This is extremely possible, if it wasn't for Mo Si who swallowed the money privately, how could that money not be recorded?