Damn it, I'm in the garbage book I wrote

Chapter 195 Let's Be Decent
After Fu Duzhi left the General's Mansion, he rushed into the Salt Administration Office, which was busy checking the accounts. He led a number of people in and pointed at the accountants who were using abacus and shouted, "Stop! Stop! I'm talking to you, can't you hear me?"

It happened that Xia Lin had just finished lunch and was sitting on a chair in the back hall, reading a novel on his phone. When he heard the noise in front, he stood up and walked out slowly.

As soon as he walked out, he happened to see the Duzhishi who was furious and forcefully ordered his men to seize the account books from the accountants.

At this moment, Xia Lin coughed, and walked in front of them with his hands behind his back, looking at the ruddy-faced envoy with a smile: "Oh, this lord, you look good."

Fu Duzhi turned to look at Xia Lin, and seeing that he was young and in casual clothes, he did not take him seriously for a moment and just continued to bang the table and scold him.

Xia Lin listened for a while, and when the people brought by the Duzhi envoy were about to come over to overturn the stall, Xia Lin hooked his finger at the soldier guarding next to him. At that moment, seven or eight soldiers on both sides of the room drew their swords at the same time, and the atmosphere in the room was solemn and murderous.

The Duzhi envoy also sensed something was wrong at this moment. He turned his head and looked at Xia Lin: "Who are you?"

"Wait a minute." Xia Lin raised a finger. "Before you asked me who I am, have you considered a few questions? The first question is, my presence here without any evasion means that I am responsible for this. The second question is that this place is sealed outside, and I have not started working here yet. Who do you think I am? The last question is, did you see the soldiers next to you? You dare to overturn the table with a few bare hands? Aren't you looking down on me? You seem to be a high-ranking official, so why are you so uncalm?"

"I don't care who you are! I am the financial officer of this place, and I have the final say on all the accounts!"

Envoy Fu Duzhi had lost his mind at this moment. He was not afraid. In his opinion, even if the kid opposite him had great power, he was just a newborn calf who was not afraid of a tiger. He did not even consider who was behind this place and dared to speak nonsense here.

"Is that what you said?"

Xia Lin whistled, stepped back a few steps and sat on the chair: "Take it down."

The steel knife was unsheathed and placed on his neck. At that moment, Fu Duzhi's eyes suddenly became clear. The coldness of the steel knife penetrated his skin into his bones, making him shiver uncontrollably.

"Now, I suspect that you are involved in the assassination of the Arab envoy. I hope this gentleman can cooperate with the investigation, otherwise you will be treated as a murderer."

"You! You lunatic! Do you know who I am?"

"It doesn't matter who you were before, what matters is who you are from now on." Xia Lin sneered, "If you perform well, you will be someone who has made meritorious contributions to your crimes. If you perform poorly, you will be a criminal who committed suicide out of fear of punishment. I don't need to say more, right? Take him away and let this gentleman reflect on himself in the hut."

With the steel knife in his body, Fu Duzhi had no chance to resist and could only be escorted to the small room at the back. There were two soldiers guarding the door outside. This time he laughed out loud, and his chest rose and fell violently as he sat on the chair inside. He knew that this matter would definitely not end well, but he actually didn't believe that this young man could do anything. He would just wait for him to suffer a big loss.

Xia Lin's behavior was actually very provocative. Not only did he check the salt transport accounts, but he also detained the Duzhishi. This showed that he had no intention of giving face to the commander here.

That night, express horses had already delivered the news to Jinyang. When Commander Chen heard the news, he became very excited. He took his men and set out for Yanmen Pass early the next morning.

At this moment, Xia Lin's accounts have been checked. As for whether there are any problems, what a joke! How could there be no problems? Let alone a place like Yancao, even the accounts of any good restaurant would be in deficit of more than a hundred taels in a year.

But wasn't his main purpose to investigate the case of the envoy's death? So he picked out a passage in the account that was about the trade between the local salt transport and the Arab Empire, and then insisted that the local salt transport envoy became angry and humiliated after the failed negotiations with the Arab envoy, and finally committed intentional murder.

It doesn't matter whether it was him or not. Anyway, there is no evidence on one side and the evidence is solid on the other. After all, there is a big discrepancy between the actual collection and the planned accounts every year. Just say that he took kickbacks. Now that he can't get the kickbacks, it is normal to kill someone.

But at this moment, the commander of Hedong Road, Chen Qi, had already arrived. He was at the same level as Guo Ying so there was no need to inform the local garrison and he just brought his men to kill them directly.

This frontier official was of course very impressive. He immediately surrounded the entire Salt Transport Office and then walked into the office with a sullen face.

At this moment, Xia Lin was writing a document about the information that the murder case had been solved, which he planned to submit to the Censorate, the Dali Temple and the Ministry of Justice.

However, the arrival of the commander still disrupted his thoughts. Even Xia Lin had to take the initiative to go to the front to greet him. After all, the commander was a fourth-rank official and had real power. If he behaved disrespectfully, Xia Lin would be in big trouble.

"Are you Xia Lin?"

Commander Chen rolled his eyes and looked at Xia Lin who came out. His tone was actually very bad. In fact, even if he ordered someone to arrest Xia Lin, it would not be a big deal at this time. But after all, this was Yanmen Pass. If he wanted to arrest someone, he had to see Guo Ying's attitude. But today, Guo Ying didn't know what was wrong with him. He actually went to the Free Trade Zone for inspection. He was a marshal, and he went to inspect in person. If this wasn't hiding from people, what was this? Everyone was not stupid, right?

Okay, let's hide, right? Chen Qi was already full of anger, and when he saw Xia Lin, he sneered, "What a young boy, you actually put your hand here?"

Xia Lin said calmly, smiling and cupping his fists, "You must be Commander Chen, I have heard a lot about you."

Chen Qi waved his sleeves and said, "How dare you detain the governor of Hedong Province? You are so brave! If I hadn't known that you were an imperial envoy, I would have arrested you."

"Oh." Xia Lin curled his lips: "Then you can arrest me, or better yet, kill me. By the way, I'll remind the commander that the last person who arrested me was called Wang Shichong."

When Commander Chen heard the three words "Wang Shichong", his ears buzzed. This was the special bonus brought about by the sudden increase in blood pressure.

Before he could say anything, Xia Lin continued to shake his head and said, "The commander is a fourth-rank frontier official, and I am a fifth-rank inspector. The commander obeys the emperor's orders, and I also obey the emperor's orders. You and I both obey the emperor's orders, so we should be of one mind, right? But now it seems that Commander Chen seems..."

"Don't talk nonsense!"

Chen Qi felt cold sweat on his back in the middle of winter. Was he afraid of Xia Lin? Of course not. He really didn't take a mere inspector seriously.

What was he afraid of? He was afraid of the dignitaries in the court, the life-and-death struggle in politics, and even more afraid of the earth-shaking changes that he had not yet received the news of.

At this sensitive juncture, Wang Shichong had just rebelled and people in the court were in panic. He actually had no idea what the purpose of sending the censor was.

The young man in front of him just said that the last person who captured him was Wang Shichong. Everyone knows what happened to Wang Shichong in the end, and the entire Wang family was brought down with it.

Moreover, anyone with a little bit of common sense knew that the imperial envoy could not be touched. Thinking of the Guo family army guarding Hedong inside Yanmen Pass, he even imagined a scene in his mind where he was forced to rebel and then his head was cut off by the Guo family army and sent to the emperor to seek credit.

This is a purge!

The moment this word appeared, Chen Qi looked at Xia Lin with a lot more thoughts. After all, no one wanted to be regarded as a typical example of the Great Purge, and Chen Qi did not have the ability to start a rebellion like Wang Shichong.

After figuring out this link, Chen Qi sobered up. He was no longer red-faced or manic. He smiled as soon as his eyes turned away. "The imperial envoy has misunderstood. I am not here to accuse you. It's just that the imperial envoy's behavior is a bit against the rules. Whatever the Duzhishi of Hedong Road says, it is up to Hedong Road to take care of it."

"Okay." Xia Lin raised his eyebrows, walked to the table, picked up the excerpts of the wrong and missing accounts and the memorial to be presented, and solemnly placed them in front of Commander Chen with both hands: "Please have a look, Commander. At that time, your Finance Commissioner said that these accounts were under his responsibility. I just couldn't find the person in charge, so I could only reluctantly detain this Finance Commissioner."

Chen Qi took the report and the accounts. When he opened the first page, his hands began to tremble and his breathing trembled.

What is this? This is the steel knife that chopped off his head. Someone wants to kill someone, so this person is handing the knife over, right? These accounts and account books involved more than 120 businesses, more than 600 officials and businessmen, and involved a turnover of 17 million taels of silver, as well as the life of an envoy of a country.

This is not... this is fucking... this...

"Master Chen, I am a young man who doesn't know how to do things properly. Please don't blame me. After all, I am following the emperor's orders and dare not make mistakes. Now the account books and accounts are in your hands. I hope you can show me a way forward."

Chen Qi's hands were still shaking. He raised his head and glanced at Xia Lin, and suddenly an idea came to his mind.

"Don't panic, sir. These are all transcripts. They have been sealed in the military warehouse to ensure they are safe. There is no way a fire dragon can burn down the warehouse."

Huh? Chen Qi was stunned for a moment, then he looked at Xia Lin and thought about it again. He came up with a plan...

"Oh, by the way, Lord Chen, I am a cowardly person, so I said before I came here that if anything goes wrong, it must be caused by bad people. At that time, all 671 censors of the Censorate will come out to investigate the matter, and even Zeng Pushe and the Regent Lin'an Prince will come together."

(End of this chapter)