After Li Luxi's expedition, Li Dingguo, as the prince of Great Britain, sat in Broken Leaves and handled government affairs for his father.On that day, Li Dingguo was sitting in his study, carefully checking the financial accounts submitted by various localities.Suddenly, he found a very subtle problem in one of the account books: "100,000 British dollars" in one account book was artificially changed to "50,000 British dollars", that is, adding three strokes to "ten" became "five".Li Dingguo gasped after seeing this, and the difference of one word caused the country to face the crisis of losing 50,000 yuan.At the same time, he also secretly admired the person who changed the accounts, which was difficult to find if he didn't look closely.Who is so bold as to revise the government's financial accounts without authorization?
What is its purpose?
Corruption, it must be corruption.When Li Dingguo thought of the word money, the roots of his teeth hurt.Although Li Dingguo was born in a wealthy family, he was deeply influenced by Li Lu, and he was given to Luo Luo by his father to cultivate when he was a child, Luo Luo took him deep into the people, so he knew the suffering of the people, so he had a heartfelt pity for the poor people, and an unusually strong hatred for corrupt officials.Therefore, he made up his mind to investigate the matter clearly and severely punish the cheating and embezzlementers.Just when he was angry, his wife Xue Linglong held their children, accompanied Princess Changle and Wu Mei and Yue Liduo and a few others walked in, the thoughtful Wu Mei looked at Li Dingguo's appearance, and knew that there were moths in these folds, so Wu Mei, as one of the prime ministers of the British Empire, asked, "Dingguo, what's wrong?"
”Seeing that it was Wu Mei who asked, Li Dingguo pushed the account book in front of Wu Mei, "Third Auntie, look, these bastards are really angry with me........"
Wu Mei was stunned for a moment, and then took a closer look, and she understood the problem, she was also very angry when she held the account book, "Dingguo, this account book should be reported by Guo Huan, the left waiter of the household department, you can call him, let's ask ....... clearly" After Wu Mei finished speaking, she whispered a few words to Li Dingguo, and then said to Li Dingguo, "Dingguo, this matter must be clear, you can't let your father go out on the expedition, but let those thieves dig the corners of our empire......
As for me, I still have something, so I won't watch you fight corrupt officials here......"
Li Dingguo nodded, and then after Wu Mei and the others left, before Guo Huan arrived, according to Wu Mei's explanation, he also followed Guo Huan's example and added a "ten" in the narrow gap in the middle of "50,000 British dollars", and "50,000 British dollars" immediately became "500,000 British dollars".After a while, Guo Huan came with a big belly, and after seeing Li Dingguo, he stood obediently to the side.Li Dingguo suppressed his anger and asked Guo Huan: "Guo Shilang, I came to ask you, you submitted this account book, right?"
”Guo Huan took the account book and looked at it, and replied cautiously: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, this account book is presented by the lower officials. ”"Did you check it carefully when you presented it?"
Li Dingguo continued to ask Guo Huan."
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, the lower officials have verified the truth, please ask His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to investigate."
Guo Huan said."
Okay, then now I'll let you recheck, is there anything missing."
After Li Dingguo finished speaking, he threw the account book to Guo Huan.Guo Huan took the account book, feeling uneasy, he couldn't guess Li Dingguo's original intention.But when he carefully read the account book, a cool breath immediately appeared on his back bones, and he didn't expect that his carefulness was still exposed.He looked at the numbers that had just been changed by Li Dingguo in a daze, and he didn't come to his senses for a long time, and his face became more and more ugly.But he still pretended to be calm and asked Li Dingguo: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, the account book has been changed." ”"Oh?
Tell me where it was changed. ”Li Dingguo looked surprised."
Your Royal Highness the Prince, this is the tax paid by Xindu Province, but it is only five to one hundred thousand dollars, and this account book is 'five hundred thousand dollars', and the 'ten' in it is filled in later."
Guo Huan still said in a calm tone."
Really?
But that's not all, right?
Take a closer look at what hasn't been changed. ”Li Dingguo further said."
Nope."
Guo Huan replied."
Really?"
Li Dingguo asked in an accentuated tone.Guo Huan was excited and realized that Li Dingguo was about to exert his might.But he still pretended to be calm and said, "Forgive the official's clumsiness." ”As soon as Li Dingguo heard this, the fire slammed up, slapped the table, and pointed at Guo Huan with his finger and reprimanded loudly: "Okay, you Guo Huan, eating imperial grain and holding Yulu, but you are greedy.You say, where did the $50,000 on the ledger go?
”At this moment, Guo Huan had no rut and collapsed on the ground all of a sudden.Li Dingguo immediately ordered Guo Huan to be sent to prison, and then he personally went to the Dali Yuan and asked the chief justice of the empire, Di Renjie, the secretary of the Dali Temple, and the General Administration of Integrity to work closely together to find out Guo Huan's corruption case.That's right, Di Renjie should have been famous in the Tang Dynasty, but because Di Renjie's father Di Zhixun followed Li Lu to the west, and Di Renjie grew up in Broken Leaves to study and become an official, Di Renjie in this time and space has become the current chief justice, the Shangshu of Dali Temple, and has become the leader of the judicial department of the British Empire.Under Di Renjie's deployment, the relevant departments worked closely together, and a shocking case surfaced.Guo Huan colluded with petty officials of the six ministries of criminals, rites, soldiers, and industry, as well as provincial bureaucrats, to embezzle taxes, grain, fish, salt, etc., which was converted into 15 million British dollars in cash, and also embezzled a large amount of gold and silver.There was such a shocking case, Li Dingguo Wumei they did not dare to slack off, and quickly passed the news to Li Lu, who commanded the battle in the west, Li Lu was naturally furious after seeing it, he ordered Guo Huan and other twelve high-ranking officials of the six departments and tens of thousands of co-defendants below the left and right squires to be sentenced to death, and many of the same party members were sent to those newly expanded places to be slaves....... after this big case, Li Lu suddenly realized the importance of numbers in financial accounts, and also felt that the current figures were very easy to change, If it continues to be used, it will be infinitely harmful, so he decisively issued a regulation in Anatolia, changing the Chinese characters for recording financial figures "one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, hundred, thousand" to capitalization, and replacing them with "one, two, three, four, wu, lu, qi, 捌, jiu, pick, bai, thousand".After this decision was passed on to Broken Leaves, Li Dingguo and Wu Mei naturally admired Li Lu even more, so that some corrupt officials who still wanted to be demons in numbers would not dare to blatantly tamper with the numbers.