Ministry of Revenue, Li Jie led the Jinyiwei here again, and saw the Imperial Guard surrounding the entire Ministry of Revenue. Without his orders, no one was allowed to enter and exit, so the officials of the Ministry of Revenue were all here in the past two days.

Of course, house arrest is definitely not a long-term solution. The blockade will be opened sooner or later, but it doesn’t matter. As long as Li Jie moves fast enough, the case can be solved before the blockade is unlocked, such as now.

Li Jie, Huang Hua and others stepped into the Ministry of Revenue. Du Zheng, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, did not give him a good face when he saw Li Jie. After all, he is so old, but now he is still under house arrest and suffers in the Ministry of Revenue. He is suspected to be related to the Taicang theft case. Although he, the Minister of the Taicang theft case, has an unshirkable responsibility, but Li Jie is really too bullying.

However, Li Jie, no matter what Du Zheng thought, after he arrived at the lobby of the Ministry of Revenue, he immediately asked someone to summon several major officials of the Ministry of Revenue to come here, including Meng He, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, whom he had met before, and Liu Kang, the doctor of the Ministry of Revenue.

Soon, these senior officials from the Ministry of Revenue came to the lobby. Most of them were like Du Shangshu, with an indignation on their faces, but Li Jie smiled coldly, then looked at Liu Kang in the crowd and said, "Dr. Liu, don't hide in the crowd and speak!"

When Liu Kang heard Li Jie ask for him by name, his body was slightly shocked, but his face was silent. Instead, he walked out of the crowd calmly and saluted Li Jie and said, "I have seen the prince consort, but I wonder what the prince consort has to find the prince consort?"

"What's the matter?" Li Jie sneered, "The death of the assistant minister Xu Zhou has been found out. He was stunned by his younger brother Xu Qing with medicine, and then pretended to commit suicide!"

"What! Didn't Xu Zhou commit suicide?" As soon as Li Jie finished speaking, Du Shangshu shouted in shock. All other officials could not believe it. After all, Xu Zhou was their colleague. He had clearly said that he committed suicide fearing guilt, but now it was revealed that he was killed. This was so shocking.

However, compared to others, Liu Kang's face turned pale and his expression became very stiff. Although he tried his best to control himself and not show any abnormality, it was useless at all, and Li Jie was also observing his performance.

"Dr. Liu is not surprised at all. Have you known for a long time that Mr. Xu did not die of suicide?" Li Jie asked Liu Kang with a sneer again.

"Why did the prince-consort say this? I... I was just shocked that Mr. Xu was harmed. How could he know in advance?" Liu Kangqiang said with a smile.

However, Li Jie's words attracted other gazes to Liu Kang. At this time, many people discovered Liu Kang's abnormality, which also aroused a lot of suspicion.

"Hmph, you're still stubborn when it's time!" Li Jie slapped the table in anger at this time, which scared Liu Kang to tremble all over. "Xu Qing has confessed that the reason why he killed his brother Xu Zhou was because of your instructions, and you wanted to send someone to kill Xu Qing to silence him afterwards. Fortunately, Xu Qing hid outside the city cleverly, and then escaped!"

"This... this is just a slander. The official has never done these things!" Liu Kang refused to admit it at this time, but he looked panicked at this moment. If he observes carefully, he will find that he keeps looking at another person in the lobby with his eyes.

"I won't cry until I see the coffin!" Li Jie sneered again, then turned his eyes to another official present and said, "Mr. Meng, can you really calm down. Your subordinates have been exposed, so don't you say something for him?"

As soon as Li Jie said something, everyone turned their eyes to the minister Meng He. Only then did someone realize that Meng He's expression was also a little wrong. And after he came in, he had been huddling behind the crowd. If Li Jie hadn't revealed his name, I'm afraid no one would have noticed him.

"What does the prince consort mean? I really don't understand!" Meng He's face looked ugly, but he could still remain calm. He also stared at Li Jie and asked back.

"You don't understand what I mean? Do you think the officials in Taicang can really stand the interrogation of the Jinyiwei?" Li Zaoguang stared at Meng He and questioned.

During the interrogation of the Jinyiwei, the officials in Taicang quickly confessed that the food in each Taicang was lost. Although these Taicang officials were involved, the direct instructions were Meng He, the assistant minister of the Ministry of Revenue, and Liu Kang, the doctor. In other words, Xu Zhou, who was killed, was innocent.

Faced with Li Jie's questioning, Meng He's face also became very ugly. In fact, since the Emperor's Mausoleum rushed into the Ministry of Revenue yesterday and put all of them under house arrest, Meng He and Liu Kang had already had a premonition of something wrong. Last night, both of them had no sleep at all, but they still had a hint of extravagance in their hearts, but now this luxury has been broken by Li Jie.

"Meng He! Liu Kang! Is it really yourselves in Taicang that theft of food?" Du Shangshu finally reacted at this time and pointed at Meng He and asked angrily.

Facing Du Shangshu's questioning, Liu Kang was so scared that his face was pale, but Meng He sneered and stopped talking, which was equivalent to acquiesce. However, looking at his appearance, he seemed to be fearless, as if he had some help.

"Mr. Meng's concentration is really good. He still looked calm at this time, but I want to know who else has participated in this case except you?" Li Jie asked with a sneer again.

The food theft in Taicang, to be precise, is that the food was not transported to Taicang at all. This is definitely not only possible by a minister of the Ministry of Revenue, but other officials are involved, and even local officials may participate.

"Ha, the prince-consort is indeed well-known. I found out when I first came to Nanjing. Since that's the case, I will not deny it. Yes, I did the food theft in Taicang, and I was not the only one involved in this matter." Meng He admitted very simply at this time.

"As it turns out, let's talk about it, who are involved in this case? With Mr. Meng's intelligence, I don't think I'll try the Jinyiwei's methods." Li Jie sneered again and asked.

"In addition to me and Liu Kang, the Ministry of Revenue has several officials, including Sun Hui, the Minister of Personnel, Li You, the doctor of the Ministry of Justice, and Cui Ning, the Chief of Nanjing Prefecture..."

Meng He was very bachelor and directly signed up the officials involved in the Taicang theft case one by one. At the beginning, the others were still full of indignation, especially Du Shangshu. He did not expect that under his rule, there were so many people staring at the granary of the Ministry of Revenue.

However, as Meng He reported more and more names, even in addition to the six ministries and local officials in Nanjing, some other foreign officials also participated, which made everyone feel something was wrong, because there were too many officials involved in the case. As the saying goes, the law does not punish the public. The court cannot arrest all the officials involved, right?
Chapter completed!