Caught and brought to justice?

Mr. Lu sneered: "Arrest me? On what charge?"

Master Xu on the side could not sit still for a while. He stood up and said, "Master Yu Shi really said that?"

The official almost nodded and added: "Your Majesty the Censor said that all the officials in our transfer department will be interrogated personally!"

Master Xu shouted: "Nonsense!"

"He is a censor from the capital, and you just let him do whatever he wants?"

"If you want to arrest someone from our yamen, where is the evidence? Where is the crime? Just rely on his censor's words?"

The official came to report a message, but was scolded again and again. He said bitterly: "But, that's what the Censor said!"

"He said that our transportation department's account books are a complete mess and full of loopholes..."

"Yes, I did say that..."

Outside the door, Liu Ruyu had already stepped in with someone.

Mr. Xu stepped forward and said with a smile: "Mr. Liu, why do you say this?"

Liu Ruyu looked at them and sneered directly: "The black and white letters and accounts all tell your crimes. Do you think I want to arrest you for interrogation?"

Master Xu saw the confident look on his face and couldn't help but glance at Master Lu suspiciously.

Mr. Lu didn't panic at all and said directly: "I heard that Mr. Yushi spent five days compiling the accounts of our transportation department in the past few years. How can we trust these accounts?"

Liu Ruyu took the account book handed over by the person next to him and threw it directly into Master Lu's arms.

"This is the final result verified by my official. As for whether it can be believed, Mr. Lu will know after seeing it?"

Mr. Lu squinted his eyes, picked up the account book in his hand, opened it, and started reading.

In order to take care of those people who couldn't understand, Liu Ruyu directly asked someone to repeat it in words.

"In the fifth month of the year Renxu, Yu Yan led a total of 30,000 salt to various cities and disappeared..."

"July...seventeen thousand salt guides..."

The further he looked down, the uglier Mr. Lu's face became.

The data are clear and concise, accurate to each month, the total amount is probably correct, and even the debits and expenditures are clearly written...

Even if you say this is a coincidence, no one would believe it.

Some of the amounts were not even known to him.

Is the account compiled in just five days really feasible?

Mr. Lu glanced at it casually, rolled his eyes in a circle, and closed the ledger.

His hands were trembling slightly, but he still remained calm.

"Haha, my lord, this account is really outrageous. I don't have a clue at the moment."

"We have to discuss it in the long run and conduct a careful review."

Liu Ruyu stared at him and said slowly: "In just three years, more than 100,000 pieces of salt from your salt farm have disappeared. As a salt department manager, you have done a good job with your accounts, right?"

At first, Liu Ruyu thought that after he checked out the accounts, he would ask the people from the Salt Department to trace his accounts.

But he didn't expect that the deficit in this account was so huge that his lungs almost exploded with anger!

This group of people can be said to be lawless and regard the imperial court as nothing!

This evidence is conclusive. If he doesn't interrogate these people, will he still drink tea and chat with them?

Lord Xu on the side also saw the clues, and he quickly echoed: "Lu Yan Kesi is right. Although you are the imperial censor, you can't just give out some data at will, so you said you want to arrest us."

"I don't know where I learned a method for checking accounts, but I'm not convinced that we, the imperial officials, are going to be arrested!"

Liu Ruyu knew that they would not admit the account, so he calmly said: "What nonsense are you talking about? I have made several random checks on these accounts, and there are no problems."

"As a censor of the imperial court, how could I be so reckless as to just take an account book and falsely accuse you?"

"You two have summoned all the people from the Transportation Department to the main hall. I'll give you a thorough interrogation, won't you know?"

Lu and Xu looked at each other and quickly looked away.

This would allow him to arrest everyone and interrogate them all?

Mr. Xu straightened his official uniform and said unmoved: "Mr. Liu's words are serious."

"Since you are the censor of the imperial court, you should act cautiously. How can I be guilty? You want to deal with my entire transfer department just because of your empty words. Mr. Liu is so bold!"

"Even if Mr. Liu wants to punish us, he must make us convinced."

"At least, we have to wait until our people from the Transportation Department re-check all the accounts before we talk about the punishment, right?"

Liu Ruyu said righteously: "I am the salt patrol censor appointed by the Holy Emperor. I have the responsibility of taking charge of the salt management department, supervising the production of the salt industry, patrolling illegal salt, and supervising the officials in the transportation department."

"I said that you will be interrogated. How dare you resist?"

The two people seemed to be frightened by Liu Ruyu's words, and there was silence in the room for a moment.

Mr. Xu rolled his eyes and suddenly changed his words and said, "The lower official was being reckless."

"Master Liu, please come to the main hall later. I will take people to inform everyone in the transportation department."

Liu Ruyu was a little stunned when he saw that they were so easy to talk to.

Is this different from what was promised?

I thought these two people were going to fight tooth and nail, but didn't expect such cooperation?

Liu Ruyu said: "I will investigate this matter clearly and will never wrongly accuse anyone."

Mr. Xu smiled and said: "Haha, I believe that you will be fair."

After saying that, he asked someone to take Liu Ruyu to the main hall.

After Liu Ruyu left, Mr. Xu's eyes flashed and he said to Mr. Lu next to him: "What about the account book?"

Mr. Lu then said in a panic: "Sir, the method of deification that he learned from Zhao Yishi seems to be really effective."

"That account...Xia Guan spent so much effort to smooth it over, but he found everything!"

"He found out some things that even the lower officials didn't know about!"

Hiss~

Mr. Xu could no longer remain calm and took a breath of air.

Two salt patrol censors have come here before, but basically found nothing from them.

Now this has turned their accounts upside down!

Division Chief Lu Yan asked in a panic: "Sir, what should we do now?"

Mr. Xu quickly calmed down and said, "Don't panic yet."

"The court may not know about his method of checking accounts."

"There's someone behind us. I'll write a letter and then we'll have to wait..."

"Sir, this is so urgent, how can we delay it?" Master Lu asked.

Mr. Xu's head was spinning rapidly, and he said: "It can be delayed!"

"Go and make arrangements and let the kitchen households and those private salt dealers below take the lead in making some noise."

"But it can't be so big that the imperial court sends troops to encircle and suppress it. All we need to do is attract the Salt Patrol Censor over there."

"When he slowly handles the matters at the salt farm, I will write a letter and have it delivered."

When Mr. Lu heard this, his eyes immediately lit up.

He praised: "Your Excellency, what a plan! I have learned from you."

Mr. Xu seemed to think that his plan was quite good. He touched the beard on his chin with some pride.

"Go ahead and make arrangements. I will inform the others slowly."

Mr. Lu nodded and walked out quickly.

Most of the yamen guarding outside were taken away by Liu Ruyu, so he simply walked directly to the gate.

"Someone is coming!"

There was no one at the door, so he muttered suspiciously, "Huh? Where are our people?"

He stepped forward and walked near the door to take a look.

This sight made him stunned.

Zhao Ce was followed by a group of soldiers, walking leisurely towards him.
Chapter completed!