goddess above

Chapter 414 Reconciliation
Su Yu understood the filth here after thinking about it. The next day, when Jingyu went out again, she also packed up and went out. Now there are disaster victims everywhere. smoothly.

On the other hand, Jing Yu suddenly had to look at all the tax books in Chenzhou for the past five years early in the morning, which caught all the officials in Chenzhou by surprise.

Chenzhou is the granary of Dongchuan, and there has been no major disaster for many years. Moreover, the Empress exempted Chenzhou from the corvee tax and head tax, and only collected Chenzhou's grain tax and commercial tax, excluding the 300 million taels of silver that filled their own warehouses every year. The rest are handed over to the state treasury, so there are not many account books.

Jing Yu was sitting on the inner steps of the yamen lobby, and the account books were spread all over the floor. She flipped through and said, "My lord started to rule in the seventh year of Yuanhong, and I haven't heard of any troubles in Chenzhou for three years. In the seventh year of Yuanhong, Chenzhou The fertile land totaled 1 two acres and seven-thirds of it. The grain tax paid to the state treasury totaled 860 taels, and the commercial tax was 78 million taels. Chenzhou kept 1507 taels and put it into the treasury. Two, where is it used?"

The account book didn't calculate these carefully, but she said it.

Chenzhou prefecture has a bit of a toothache: "In the seventh year of Yuanhong, the mountain road was opened to facilitate merchants to come and go. I used silver. I don't remember how much I used silver. However, it cost another sum to build roads in various parts of Chenzhou later."

Jing Yu looked away from the account book: "Which mountain road is opened? How long? How wide? How many people will be employed? How many days will the construction period be? How much will the wages be?"

As soon as she asked a few questions, officials, big and small, were confused. It has been more than three years, who still remembers these things.

Jing Yu looked at them around and scolded: "It's good to play foolishly with me, then let me tell you, you drove the Biboling road, and you asked for a discount at that time, and the empress approved 20 taels for you." Yinzi, I specifically told you to use feldspar to pave the road, but the road in Bibo Ridge is only ten miles long and twenty paces wide, and it is paved with yellow sand. After one month of repairing, thirty craftsmen each earned three taels of silver."

She remembered it so clearly that the state government didn't dare to quibble: "That's right."

The account book fell to his feet: "Then you wrote me 80 taels of silver in the account book? Is that yellow sand gold?"

The state capital knelt down immediately, not daring to speak.

She picked up the second book again: "In the eighth year of Yuanhong, the empress decreed to open up wasteland, and the fertile land opened up was exempted from tax for three years. However, Chenzhou overcharged these peasant households with a total of 27 taels of head tax, and the grain tax handed over to the state treasury was 69. Ten thousand taels, commercial tax 1303 million taels, Chenzhou kept 50 taels in the treasury, no disasters and no use but 63 taels less than Yuanhong seven years, where did it go?"

The state government's cold sweat broke out: "The lower officials don't know."

Jing Yu walked up to him: "The treasury must keep 300 million taels of silver. Yuanhong spent 150 million taels of silver in eight years, but only 50 taels were put into the treasury that year. The treasury is short of 100 million taels?"

The state government lowered its head and dared not answer.

Jing Yu continued to look through the account books: "In the ninth year of Yuanhong, that is, last year, the grain tax in Chenzhou was 100 million taels, and the commercial tax was 2709 million taels. The treasury kept 180 million taels for itself. Where did the extra 80 taels go? ?”

The state government's complexion was already very bad, and he didn't dare to speak at all, and the others had already been stunned by Jing Yu.

Chenzhou is rich and rich, and everyone has to get involved with the officials who have plucked the wild goose, but who will care about this, as long as the court has enough money, how can anyone come to investigate, even if they do, without the comparison of the accounts of both parties, who will remember these things?

(End of this chapter)