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

Chapter 162 Enchanting!

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

Facing Zhu Xiongying's question, Zhan Hui was stunned and asked, "Your Highness, where did you come up with this statement?"

Zhu Xiongying said lightly: "You don't need to worry about where Gu's method came from, just say you believe it or not?"

Zhan Hui didn't know how to answer for a while.

In fact, what Zhu Xiongying said is a well-known law in later generations, called Benford's law, which is a law often used to test financial reports.

Most of the data obtained in nature and daily life conform to this law, but these data must span a large enough span, and the data of artificial rules do not satisfy Benford's law.

Formal financial data basically satisfy Benford's law, so it can be used to check whether financial data is falsified.

Benford's Law is a phenomenon that may sound strange and counterintuitive at first, but it is there.

After thinking about it for a long time, Zhan Hui said slowly, "Forgive me for speaking bluntly, I don't think this method is credible. Logically speaking, from one to nine, these nine numbers should all have the same probability of appearing."

Zhu Xiongying didn't refute, but said: "Go, take an account book that you have verified as real."

"This……"

Zhan Hui was a little embarrassed. After all, this sounded like an obviously wrong method, and it took manual verification, which was really time-consuming and labor-intensive.

However, Zhan Hui had a delicate mind, knowing that His Highness the Grandson would not give up easily, so he changed his words and said, "Okay, I'll let someone try it."

Soon, Zhan Hui came over with an account book, and he wanted to verify it himself.

The books are not thick.

Zhan Hui went through about [-] accounts in detail, and then calculated silently in his heart.

Do the math.

Zhan Hui's face changed completely.

"Go! Get another copy!"

Another account book came over, and Zhan Hui continued to calculate in his head.

Although he is not very old, but in his 30s, he is already a second-rank official in the imperial court, and he is also the head of two key departments of the Metropolitan Procuratorate of the Ministry of Officials. Few people in the world can surpass him in mental arithmetic.

At this time, Zhan Hui's hand holding the ledger began to tremble slightly.

"How could this be? Go get another copy!"

Soon, another account book was brought.

Wait for Zhan Hui to verify.

His lips were already trembling.

After taking a long breath, Zhan Hui silently drank the account book and closed his eyes.

The whole person looked extremely excited.

"How about it?"

The officials on the side were anxious.

Zhan Hui opened his eyes and looked at Zhu Xiongying excitedly: "Genius, no, it's a monster, Your Highness is really a monster!"

After all, Zhan Hui felt that something was wrong again. How could he say that His Highness is a monster today?So the old face was slightly embarrassed, cleared his throat and said:

"Intuitively speaking, the first place is one, and it should be one in nine."

"If the person who fakes it will definitely believe in his intuition, and the numbers in the account book should be the same."

"But in fact, according to the rules proposed by His Highness, the probability of occurrence of numbers with one as the first digit is about [-]% of the total number, which is close to three times the expected value of one-ninth expected by intuition!"

"So, as long as the ministers check the account books and see which ones account for one-ninth of the data in the first digit, they can probably determine which batch of account books is fraudulent."

As Zhan Hui spoke, his whole body trembled violently.

"In this way, it doesn't take months at all to identify fakes, it only takes a few days!"

"This is incredible! It's incredible!"

quiet!
The audience was silent, and a needle could be heard.

Everyone was frowning and thinking, digesting what Zhan Hui had just said.

They are all masters in numbers, and they understand it quite quickly, but at the same time, they are also surprised how His Highness would find such a rule that goes against common sense.

Can't wait.

They can't wait to verify the correctness of this rule.

One took the ledger, two took the ledger...all took the ledger.

"hiss--"

"hiss--"

"hiss--"

The sound of sucking air continued to sound, and the surrounding air became hot and dry.

Facts have proved that the rules proposed by Zhu Xiongying are completely correct.

After Zhu Xiongying left, Zhan Hui slowly sat on the teacher's chair, muttering to himself, "This method... is almost against the sky, His Royal Highness is really a monster..."

……

The next day, the household department.

This place has already been sealed off by Zhu Xiongying's people, without his order, even a mosquito would not be able to fly in.

Inside the account.

Everyone enthusiastically threw themselves into the bookkeeping army.

Like more than twenty accountants, they sat in front of a desk.

The books and documents in front of everyone are piled up like a mountain.

After hastily eating breakfast, I started to work on the accounts, but this time it was not as complicated and disorderly as before. Stacks of account books were quickly brought and taken away.

a time.

The sounds of abacus and paper in the accounting room are intertwined...

……

Five days passed in a flash.

A stack of sub-account books was placed in front of Zhu Xiongying.

These are the fake accounts selected by Zhan Hui and the others from countless account books.

Seeing these fake accounts, Zhu Xiongying was furious.

Unexpectedly, the household department in charge of Daming's finances was so corrupt, and it was committed by a group.

The officials of the household department headed by Zhao Mian actually joined hands to profit from various financial expenditures, and they checked at various levels, colluded with each other, and kept the account books airtight. If Zhu Xiongying hadn't proposed this unprecedented method, I am afraid that It's really hard to find out.

The most important thing is that Zhu Yuanzhang's government is strict, and it can be said that corruption is unprecedentedly harsh, but there are still officials who take bribes and take bribes.
This made Zhu Xiongying feel that since ancient times, corrupt officials have never been killed.

While expressing emotion, Zhu Xiongying also felt infinite regret, regretting Zhao Mian.

Zhao Mian was born in a poor family, he was successful in doing things, and as diligent as his name, he did not want to embark on the path of corruption...

Zhu Xiongying sighed softly, and looked at Jiang Yu: "Go, control the Minister of the Household Department, Zhao Mian, and all the officials, big and small, of the Household Department!"

"As ordered!"

Jiang Yu took the order and left...

……

On the other side, Zhao Mansion.

Zhao Mian obviously got some news, he was restless and sweating profusely.

After Fang Jianzhong paced back and forth for an unknown amount of time, Zhao Mian finally couldn't help but want to go out.

As soon as he reached the door, he was stopped by Jin Yiwei's people.

"I want to see His Highness the Grandson!" Zhao Mian yelled at the people in Jinyiwei.

Jin Yiwei didn't change his expression, he still stood in front of him: "I'm sorry Mr. Zhao, no one can leave without the order of His Highness the Grandson."

"Ah--"

Zhao Mian snorted softly: "Do you still know that I am Mr. Zhao? I have something important to report to His Royal Highness, why don't you report it quickly? If it is delayed, can you afford it?"

Jin Yiwei said: "Lord Zhao, don't embarrass the little one."

"If you don't report, then I will go myself!"

Zhao Mian said that he was about to go out: "I want to see what you dare to do, and if you are brave enough, I, a second-rank official, will be executed on the spot!"

Zhao reluctantly rushed through the pass, and Jin Yiwei didn't know what to do for a while.

After all, the other party is a dignified second-rank official. Without formalities, he can't really be executed on the spot, right?

Just when they were in trouble, a voice sounded:

"Master Zhao, there is no need to report, His Royal Highness Taisun will let me invite you over now."

Zhao Mian heard the words and looked around, it was none other than Jiang Yu who spoke...

(End of this chapter)