After crossing, I made the country in chaos

Chapter 420 Aren't you going back to Muzhou?

Hua Yao has seen the ledgers that Chu Xun sorted out. Although some places are very secretive and it is easy to find out the situation, he is someone who has stayed in the imperial capital.

The officials of the household department want to balance the accounts, and they all calculate up and down one million taels.Even if Chu Xun is not a member of the Ministry of Household Affairs, he has been with these officials, and he is also a knowledgeable person.

Therefore, in Chu Xun's view, this kind of county government's current accounts for the past three years, although the loopholes are not obvious, are clearly not tolerant of sand.

Hua Yao slammed the account book in the face of County Magistrate Liu, and calculated for him: "You have been the county magistrate for two years and four months, and the shortfall is as high as 12 taels. The 400 taels of silver you are about to lose from the hall is 3 taels. This silver is almost half of my relief funds this time. How much blood and sweat of the people and taxes from the treasury have you, the county magistrate, collected? Silver? Death penalty is inevitable."

"Your Highness, check!" County magistrate Liu has been under house arrest in this room, and his mind has long been muddled.He also vaguely knew that this time he lifted a rock and shot himself in the foot, and it was impossible to escape.

County magistrate Liu originally had a small calculation, thinking that the current East Palace is a woman, and I heard that she was a famous idiot princess in the imperial capital before.

Even if she had made some political achievements in Guanzhou last year, she was assisted by many people. There must be many masters and capable people around her, so it may not be that she herself has any real abilities.

In addition, County Magistrate Liu was under the banner of eradicating locust plagues, and those chicks were really distributed to the people. It is difficult to find out this muddled account.

But now Liu Qing sent out the small black accounts inside, and Chu Xun found out all the hidden problems in the accounts, which completely cut off the county magistrate Liu's retreat.

County Magistrate Liu was so paralyzed that he couldn't even kneel, so he lay on the ground crying and begging for mercy.

Hua Yao didn't bother to talk to him, let alone hear him crying for help.and ordered them to take him down.

Then post a notice to appease the hearts of the people, and let all the farmers who have taken the chicks come here to receive relief, and let these people have to keep the chickens until the time of the locust plague next year.

After that, the home of magistrate Liu was searched and all his private property was confiscated in order to make up for the shortfall in the account.

However, Huayao did not kill them all. Magistrate Liu became a corrupt official, but his family members were not convicted.Hua Yao also excluded one of his residences, which was not confiscated.Let the family of one hundred and ten people move in, it can be regarded as a shelter.

The crime is not as good as the family, and the clan is not implicated. This is already the greatest tolerance and mercy given by the East Palace.

County magistrate Liu was imprisoned, Hua Yao personally approved the official document, and then was escorted to Beijing to wait for the unified punishment from the Ministry of Criminal Justice.

It has been ten days since everything was done, during which Chu Xun only left for three days, and then hurried back to stay by Hua Yao's side.

That night, Hua Yao leaned on the couch and looked at the roster, planning to choose someone to represent the county government.As soon as he looked up and saw Chu Xun lying on the window sill, he asked, "Aren't you going back to Muzhou?"

"I'll come back when you're safe. There's no rush." ​​Chu Xun didn't turn his head, still staring at the moon in the sky.

Hua Yao felt strange, so she asked, "What are you looking at? The moon is so beautiful?"

"Well, it's pretty good. The moon waxes and wanes." Chu Xun said casually, then lowered his head as if he was calculating something.

Hua Yao was very puzzled, always feeling that something was wrong with Chu Xun.So she put down the roster in her hand and walked over, lying on the window sill next to her and looking up at the moon.

(End of this chapter)