"You are so brave! You dare to be greedy for the things you pay tribute to Your Majesty. Do you really don't know how to write the word "death"?"

On the Tang Dynasty of Honglu Temple, Li Chengqian slapped the table hard and shouted loudly.

Zuo Yiming and others immediately fell to the ground and shouted loudly: "Your Highness is wronged. No matter how brave you are, you dare not have such a bad idea. Where should you start with this greed? "

"Don't dare? Haha... At the beginning of the year, Liuzhao paid more than 100 kilograms of ivory tribute, but in the records of the Honglu Temple, the number of ivory was only written with a few ivory. I went to the inner trunk to check it myself, but there were only two ivory sent into it... Where did the other ivory go?" Li Chengqian said as he took out a booklet from his cuff and threw it directly on Zuo Yiming, asking sternly.

"This, this..." Zuo Yiming was speechless immediately and didn't know how to answer.

"Also, the document records of the Honglu Temple. Last year, King Gaochang came to the court and there was a piece of jade in the offering. According to Gu's understanding, the jade given by King Gaochang was the best-quality Hotan Nuan Jade, weighing more than 100 kilograms, which can be said to be a priceless treasure. However, this piece of jade that should be a priceless treasure in the inner warehouse is just an ordinary jade worth less than ten thousand yuan... Can you tell Gu, what's going on?"

"And... the corals presented by Baekje in the third year of Zhenguan... the spices paid by Lingnan in the second year of Zhenguan... the tiger skin presented by Xue Yantuo in the eighth year of Wude... the sixth year of Wude..." As Li Chengqian revealed the problematic records he found one by one, Zuo Yiming's head sweated more and more, and his body trembled slightly.

Others, especially Wei Ziheng beside him, had a look of shock on his face, except for panic and fear. It seemed that he did not expect that there were so many problems!

After Li Chengqian finished speaking, he leaned close to Zuo Yiming with a gloomy face and said, "Tell Gu, have these things gone away? Others may have entered the Honglu Temple late and didn't know, but do you really don't know at all?"

"Hao...Your Highness..."

"What? Don't you admit it yet? Then Gu asked you again, you are a young master of the Honglu Temple, and your total annual salary is no more than a hundred stakes. However... According to Gu's investigation, since you served as the Minister of the Honglu Temple in the eight years of Wude, you have purchased no less than ten properties in Chang'an City and more than a thousand hectares of land in your hometown... Can you explain to Gu, where did you get so much money to buy these things? Do you think you are like Gu, can you make money every day?"

"Puu!" Faced with Li Chengqian's step-by-step questioning, Zuo Yiming finally couldn't resist and collapsed on the ground.

"Hmph!" Li Chengqian snorted coldly, "Come here, take Zuo Yiming down and hand it over to Dali Temple for strict investigation!"

"yes!"

Zuo Yiming didn't even have the minimum resistance, so he was taken down by the guards brought by Li Chengqian. The rest of Wei Ziheng and others were trembling all over, lowering their heads, and not daring to have any extra reaction!

"It's your turn now... I believe that Zuo Yiming's affairs cannot be done by him alone. Who is still involved? If you don't admit it at this time, do you still have to name it alone?" Li Chengqian asked loudly... In fact, he didn't know who else was involved in it at all, including the fact that he just asked Zuo Yiming, there was also the element of cheating him.

Although it was found that Zuo Yiming had a lot of income from unknown origins over the past decade, Li Chengqian had no time to investigate in detail whether these incomes were really related to the unclear accounts of the Honglu Temple!

Unfortunately, Zuo Yiming had a ghost in his heart, and Li Chengqian did not provide any direct evidence at all, so he showed his timidity and could not bear it anymore!

"Your Highness, your Highness, please spare me, I am forced to do it..."

"I am guilty, Your Highness, please spare me..."

"I confess my guilt, I confess my guilt, I hope your highness will spare my life..."

After Li Chengqian finished speaking, more than 20 people immediately cried and pleaded guilty!

This made Li Chengqian himself not expect that he was just deceiving these people, and did not expect that he could make these people admit it with just one word.

However, he didn't expect the effect to be so good... He didn't think about his identity, the crown prince of the Tang Dynasty, a crown prince who can determine his life and death in one sentence! There is a saying that "The king has no jokes", and Li Chengqian did not realize that although he is not the emperor, he is also the "king". Every word of his words is no less than His Majesty Li Er!

"Okay, very good! You really surprised Gu! There are less than 300 people in the entire Honglu Temple, and less than 100 officials. There are so many people involved in greed!" Looking at the more than 20 officials who took the initiative to admit their guilt, Li Chengqian was really shocked!

The entire Honglu Temple can be considered an official, with only fifty or sixty people, and now they are all here, but only these dozens of people have problems since more than half of them...

"Come here, take down all these people and send them to Dali Temple together!" Li Chengqian was too lazy to talk nonsense and ordered directly.

He was so sad that he was careful before coming today, just in case there were enough guards in the area, otherwise there would be no enough staff at this time!

This group of people was taken away, and only a few twenty people were left at the scene, led by Wei Ziheng!

Li Chengqian curled his lips speechlessly. He almost became the commander of the bare hands as soon as he took office. It is probably unprecedented. There is no one behind him, right?

"You are the only one left now..." Li Chengqian looked at the silent people, "Gu said just now, and took the initiative to admit that Gu Hui would be open to the Internet, but if someone still had a lucky mentality and thought that what he did would not be found by Gu..." Li Chengqian deliberately paused and continued, "I hope you really have no problems!"

After saying that, he shook his sleeves and left. Now he needs to go to his father to report his work, otherwise he would have half of the entire Honglu Temple official at one time... Even if he is the prince, he does not have the right to deal with these people directly!

...

"Father, although no direct evidence has been found, it is not difficult to see the problems in the Honglu Temple's accounts, internal treasury and treasury related records... Moreover, Ercheng just cheated the officials of Honglu Temple today. Unexpectedly, more than half of the officials, including Shaoqing Zuo Yiming, directly admitted the greed for the ink!"

In Liangyi Hall, Li Chengqian reported the affairs of the Honglu Temple to His Majesty Li Er in detail. During this period, he had been secretly paying attention to the expression of the current Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs and former Minister of the Honglu Temple Tang Jian standing aside!

The latter looked surprised and shocked, and it seemed that he had never expected that Honglu Temple would have such a serious problem!

"I really didn't expect that the method of recording property in Honglu Temple is so simple, and it can even be said to be full of loopholes... It's such a simple question, but no one has discovered it. Why is this?" Li Chengqian asked his own question.
Chapter completed!