At this time, the Ministry of Revenue Lobby.

The Minister of Revenue was worried.

He had previously agreed to Qingyuan Hou at Qingyuan Hou and wanted to deal with Chen Xiao.

However, then I saw the Ninth Princess beat Qingyuanhou's face because of Chen Xiao, and almost cut off one of his hands...

This really scared the Minister of Revenue.

So he is very confused now. He is listening to the Marquis, to deal with Chen Xiao, or not to deal with him?

The main reason is that I am afraid that Long Jiuling will cause trouble for him...

But then he thought, if Chen Xiao made a mistake in the Ministry of Revenue, then it would be the emperor who would deal with him. The Ninth Princess would not find her own trouble, right?

Thinking of this, he made plans and tried his best to face it with the attitude of Shangguan. As long as he was not a direct enemy of Chen Xiao, who could do anything to him?

"grown ups……"

A minor official came in, and it was the minor official who first brought Chen Xiao into the Jinshi Department Chief Office Hall.

The Minister of Revenue said, "How is it?"

"Sir, Chief Chen has already responded to his chief minister's office!" the minor official spoke.

"Did you tell him those accounts?" asked the Minister of Revenue.

The minor official said: "I have told him, but... sir, all the accounts have problems, basically all the bad accounts, and even a large part... a part is... the account books that some high-ranking officials and nobles borrowed money and did not repay them.

These are not suitable for any reason, so Lord Shangshu, let the new head figure out these accounts, how can we figure out this clearly... how can we make up for the vacancy..."

The Minister of Revenue sneered: "If you can't match it, you can't make up for the vacancy. That's the problem of his chief of the Jin Ministry. At that time, I will check it out and find him in the chief of the Jin Ministry if you have any problems!"

The little official bowed his head and said nothing. Obviously, the Minister of Revenue was very unfriendly to Chen Xiao...

In the Jinbu Department’s head office, Chen Xiao looked at the pile of accounts on the table and was very confused.

Are you sure you have not offended the officials of the Ministry of Revenue?

So he took an account book and looked carefully. It was some records of income and expenditure, but there was no problem with the records.

However, it was inconsistent with the income and expenditure of another silver bullet.

The problem here is obvious, there must be corruption, otherwise the account book and bank records will not be incompatible.

I spent a little more money but not much money on the accounts. Isn’t this a fake account?

Chen Xiao had no way of understanding this, as Chen Xiao came, he had no way to understand it. It was all bad debts left by the past.

I opened another account book and looked carefully. This account seemed to be the loan account. It recorded who borrowed money to whom it was lent, and it clearly stated.

"Zhou Zheng, the boss of Dingyuan, borrowed 500 taels of silver from the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of Revenue in the spring of 101 years of the Longli period..."

Chen Xiao frowned: "A count actually received five hundred taels of silver? And... Isn't the 100-year-old dragon calendar a few years ago? Isn't it paid back yet?"

"Zhenyuan General Zhao Dajin borrowed 100 taels of silver from the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of Revenue in the winter of the 100th year of Longli..."

Chen Xiao rubbed his forehead: "Damn, a general, borrowed 100 taels? The problem is that you haven't paid it back yet, are you that poor?"

What's even more terrifying is below. Chen Xiao looked at the latest loan records:

"The Seventh Prince Long Shengge borrowed fifty taels of silver from the Ministry of Revenue in the summer of 105th year of Longli..."

"Good guy, I understand if you borrow money..." Chen Xiao smiled bitterly.

Holding this account book, Chen Xiao came out of the main hall and saw a few minor officials not far away, so he walked over and said:

"Well, I'll ask you something!"

Several minor officials did not know Chen Xiao's official position, but they were all wearing a blue official, which showed that they were officials from the fifth to seventh ranks, so they did not dare to neglect them and bowed them all.

"Why did this previous chief of the Jinbu Department disappear?" Chen Xiao spoke.

Upon hearing this, one of the minor officials said, "Don't you know yet? Because of the bad debts. Don't look at the miscellaneous things under the Kinderma Department, some accounts and money are also under the Kinderma Department.

Some accounts were jointly made by our Ministry of Revenue and other departments, and made small moves in the place where we spent money... You know, it is... greedy! So, the project is not up to par.

You can't really have someone checked if you can't match this account? Then check it, it's over? So, someone will take the blame every once in a while, and you'll get a charge of getting the account wrong. Click..."

He seemed to be a big mouth. When he said this, several other officials had already winked at him and signaled that he had said too much.

The little official also reacted, looked around and said to Chen Xiao: "Sir, you should understand!"

Chen Xiao came back to his senses and said, "Ah, I know, we don't talk about this sensitive topic. Let me ask you, just some princes, nobles, and senior officials and generals, do you also like to borrow money from the Ministry of Revenue?"

This topic is much easier, and a few minor officials don’t think there are any taboos, so another one said:

"This is not a secret. This phenomenon is very common in the imperial capital. Because the salaries of officials are not large, but some officials spend very large amounts.

So there was a case of borrowing money from the Ministry of Revenue. Not to mention princes, nobles, high-ranking officials and generals, even royal relatives and concubines in the harem often borrow money from the Ministry of Revenue.

Our Ministry of Revenue, not only the Ministry of Revenue of the court, has become the Ministry of Revenue of all officials. Among them, some officials with little money come to borrow money from time to time."

When Chen Xiao heard this, he suddenly remembered what happened in his world during the Qing Dynasty. Of course, disasters occurred everywhere, and the Ministry of Revenue could not afford the money because all the money was borrowed by officials in the capital.

Obviously, the borrowing of money happened in the Ministry of Revenue in the imperial capital of the Dragon Kingdom, but it was not that serious.

"So that's the case. Then these officials borrowed some of them by themselves. The account is not small, and it is difficult to take it back!" Chen Xiao said.

Another minor official smiled: "It's hard to take it back? I can't take it back at all. Otherwise, how did you think the head of the Jinbu Department die?"

"Didn't you say that it was because of embezzlement that the accounts were not matched and the head took the blame, and that they were caught?" Chen Xiao asked.

The little official smiled: "This is one reason, and another is that the money lent cannot be collected back, resulting in a shortage of accounts. Together, the head of the Jinbu Department cannot die. Alas, some people are greedy for money, some people borrow money, and some people fill their lives..."

Hearing this, Chen Xiao took a deep breath and thought, it was true.

At this time, another minor official said: "The chief of the Jinmao Department is dead, so those who make fake accounts and borrow money and don't repay them for a while, and there will be a new chief of the Jinmao Department during this period.

Then after a while, he will take the blame for these two problems. Alas, I don’t know who will do this unlucky task this time. I guess he is also a short-lived ghost!”

Chen Xiao smiled: "That's not necessarily the case. I may have a short life, but I don't want to be the scapegoat!"

Several minor officials were stunned when they heard this and looked at Chen Xiao.
Chapter completed!