Daming: At the beginning, recognize Zhu Yuanzhang as grandfather!

Chapter 161 The way to investigate the case!
For Zhu Xiongying, it is impossible to say that he has no feelings for Zhao Mian.

Zhao Mian is just like his name, diligent and diligent, and he is in the prime of life, able to accept new things, and he is quite capable in doing things.

This is also the reason why Zhao Mian is only in his early thirties and has already taken the high position of Minister of the Household Department.

But if corruption is really involved, Zhu Xiongying will not be able to protect him.

Because what Zhu Yuanzhang hated most in his life was corruption, he made a rule that as long as the officials of Ming Dynasty were corrupted more than 60 taels of silver, they would be executed.

It stands to reason that since the law is so strict, it is enough for officials to be honest. However, there are officials who take bribes and take bribes, and the amount is particularly huge.

Zhao Mian didn't have an accident early or late, but it happened when he was gradually being reused by Zhu Xiongying.

It was obvious that someone was messing with him, and the deeper meaning was, of course, to mess with Zhu Xiongying, asking him to cut off his left and right hands with his own hands.

Of course Zhu Xiongying understood this, but there was nothing he could do.

Because if you have feces on you, Zhu Xiongying can't help you wipe the ass.

It's just that he wants to know if someone is secretly tripping him up.

The first thing to do now is to find out about Zhao Mian...

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Ministry of Accounts.

According to Zhu Xiongying's order, Zhan Hui, the censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, is in charge of investigating the corruption case of Zhao Mian.

When Zhan Hui led the team to arrive, Li Baochen, the left servant of the household department, naturally greeted him quickly. Now Zhao Mian has been temporarily suspended at home, and the household department is temporarily managed by him.

Now that the household department is the target of the investigation, Li Baochen's greetings from all aspects are naturally extremely thoughtful.

Zhan Hui didn't talk too much nonsense, and immediately proposed to check the account books of the household department.

Because all ministries, halls, states and counties have to report accounts to the Ministry of Accounts every year, and the Ministry of Accounts has to consolidate the accounts every year. These accounts must be closed. Starting from the account books, it is easiest to find out the problem.

Li Baochen, the left servant of the household department, did not panic, and raised his hands to express his welcome.

However, when the account books of the Ministry of Households were shown in front of Zhan Hui and others, Zhan Hui was dumbfounded.

Because the sum of the account books reported by various ministries and from the lower levels every year is about ten thousand. If you want to check the accounts, it is a huge workload.

Besides, even when making false accounts, it must be quite concealed.

Looking at a room full of ledgers, several officials from the Metropolitan Procuratorate brought by Zhan Hui were troubled and looked sad.

An experienced member of the Metropolitan Procuratorate sighed faintly and said, "Master Zhan, here...we only have a dozen people, when will this be investigated!"

After Zhan Hui heard this, he also felt troubled.

Such a huge project really embarrassed the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

For a while, Zhan Hui had no choice.

"There are more than ten thousand account books. It is not easy to find out the fraud."

Looking at Zhan Hui with a sad face, he thought for a while and said, "However, there is a way for the lower officials to improve efficiency a little."

Zhan Hui's eyes lit up, and he said, "Say it."

Experience said: "Check with historical data!"

"Ok?"

Everyone in the house is very confused, combined with historical data to check the accounts?What kind of charter is this?

The experience explained: "Check the historical materials of Ming Dynasty last year and this year, check natural disasters and man-made disasters, and then compare them with the increase and decrease of taxes."

Let's talk about experience.

Several people in the room suddenly became enlightened.

Zhan Hui glanced at the experience and said with a smile: "Very good, this method can indeed save a lot of effort."

The manager shook his head and said, "It just saves a little time compared to the normal accounting."

Zhan Hui waved his hand and said, "A little time is precious to His Royal Highness the Emperor Taisun!"

"Then let's get started!"

After Zhan Hui finished speaking, other officials of the household department had no choice but to nod with a bitter face...

More than [-] account books are really a huge project.

More than a dozen people from the Metropolitan Procuratorate were busy from morning to noon, and the survey was only able to figure out the clues of less than a hundred account books...

There is no problem with the final ledger!

Zhan Hui is always by his side...

At noon, Li Baochen came with a smile: "Lord Zhan, the food and drink have been prepared. Your lords have worked hard, go and eat quickly, don't get tired."

Li Baochen was very cooperative in checking the account books from the beginning to the end, and it could even be said to be a great help. The people from the household department followed Zhan Hui, but now that there is a problem with the household department, Zhan Hui dare not use it.

But there was a hint of mockery hidden in his smiling eyes, which couldn't escape Zhan Hui's eyes.

suffocated.

Zhan Hui only felt aggrieved.

It was very uncomfortable, as if a heavy punch had hit the cotton.

But he couldn't help it.

After eating, without taking a break at noon, a group of people plunged into the sea of ​​ledgers again.

Until it was time to light the lamps, everyone was dizzy and had double visions in their eyes, but with Zhan Hui sitting aside, they had to cheer up.

Zhan Hui closed his eyes, his face was expressionless, but in his heart, there were ten thousand muddy horses galloping past.

However, Zhan Hui's stubbornness also rose. He knew that there must be something in the household department. The more confident he was, the more likely there was a problem. This was his experience in handling cases for so many years.

The more confident the household department is, the more he has to check out these account books, and slap those hobs in the face.

Three days later, Zhu Xiongying came.

Zhan Hui came to Zhu Xiongying with some trepidation.

"How's the investigation going?" Zhu Xiongying asked calmly after taking a sip of tea.

"This……"

Zhan Hui faltered for a while, and replied: "Returning to Your Highness, the people in the Metropolitan Procuratorate haven't closed their eyes for three days, but they only checked the accounts of less than one level, and found no obvious mistakes or omissions."

Zhu Xiongying nodded, he had obviously expected such a result.

It has never been easy to find out the Ministry of Households, which is why there has always been corruption in the Ministry of Households in all dynasties, but it is extremely difficult to find out.

Because it is not difficult to create fake accounts in the vast account books, but it is extremely difficult to check them.

In the past few days, Zhu Xiongying has also been thinking about this issue.

So today Zhu Xiongying took the time to come here, just to improve their case handling efficiency, otherwise the household department would investigate a case for a year or so, causing people to panic, and the household department, a vital department, would be equivalent to a standstill.

Now that spring plowing is just around the corner, this is not an option.

Zhu Xiongying said slowly: "Zhan Hui, I have a question for you alone. In all the account data, what percentage of the total data do you think the number with one at the first place?"

Zhan Hui was startled when he heard the words, not knowing what the emperor grandson meant.

However, he pondered for a moment and replied: "The lower officials have not counted, but all the numbers are from one to nine. According to common sense, the first place is one, which should account for more than [-]%."

Zhu Xiongying nodded and said: "But there is a saying that in a bunch of data obtained from real life, the probability of occurrence of numbers with one as the first digit is about [-]% of the total number, which is close to [-]% of the expected value. times. Conversely, the larger the first digit, the less likely it will appear.”

"This statement... Do you think it is credible?"

(End of this chapter)