The Minister of Revenue He Zhongkai stood there with an extremely ugly face. His eyes looked at Sheng Shitong from time to time, and deep disgust and coldness appeared in his eyes.

He Zhongkai is a very simple person. Since Zhao Zhi ascended the throne, he was transferred from the local governor to the Ministry of Revenue. For more than 20 years, He Zhongkai has been staying in the Ministry of Revenue. After five years of Chengping, he finally took the most important step in his life and entered the Political Affairs Hall as a prime minister. It has been more than ten years since then. In this time, He Zhongkai is also considered an old prime minister.

He Zhongkai has served in the Ministry of Revenue for more than 20 years and has a deep experience, so he not only knows Shengshitong, but also is very familiar with it, but this familiarity is not friendship, but deep personal grudges.

He Zhongkai is not greedy, but he is never honest. He can only be said to be a normal person.

He Zhongkai is also very talented, otherwise Zhao Zhi would not have handed over the Ministry of Revenue to him. In addition to Yang Daosi and Liu Jie who were in political interests and occupied the left and right ministers for a long time, Zhao Zhi was able to serve as the chief official of a yamen for more than ten years, which was almost the only one. From this point of view, it is not difficult to guess that He Zhongkai's position as the Minister of Revenue did play a great role in Zhao Zhi and the country.

He Zhongkai entered the Ministry of Revenue several years earlier than Shengshitong, and soon made a name for himself, did many very practical things, and was appreciated by Zhao Zhi. However, with Shengshitong's reinstatement and a series of subsequent actions, He Zhongkai quickly compared him. Of course, Shengshitong had a straightforward personality and had no intention of doing things. He Zhongkai was also very cunning and very polite to Shengshitong on the surface, but in fact, he had already developed jealousy in his heart, and used deceitful means in secret, intentionally or unintentionally to frame Shengshitong.

At that time, Yuan Ren, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, was very old and sick, and he had already wanted to retire. He Zhongkai, who was the right minister of the Ministry of Revenue, was the most popular job of successor to the Minister of Revenue. Once he succeeded, he would successfully enter the hall and become the prime minister and reach the peak of his life. However, during that period, Zhao Zhi's appreciation of Shengshitong was obviously greater than himself. Moreover, most of the officials in the Ministry of Revenue Department's yamen also highly praised Shengshitong, hoping that he would take over the position of the Ministry of Revenue.

Where there are people, there will naturally be conflicts. From this period, the political struggle between He Zhongkai and Sheng Shitong began fiercely, but one was to take the initiative and the other was to be forced to deal with it.

In the fifth year of Chengping, He Zhongkai's nephew He Minghui also worked in the Ministry of Revenue at that time. He beat his colleagues drunk and beat his colleagues to death by mistake. The servant's status was very low and he was beaten to death by mistake. This was an unintentional mistake. If someone operated it from it and paid a sufficient price, it would be no big deal. Things could be big or small.

He Zhongkai had cleared everything and paid enough price. However, Sheng Shitong was honest and did not let go when he grasped this matter. The more he made a big fuss, he eventually became publicly discussed in the court. He Minghui was dismissed from office and never hired. He Zhongkai himself was severely scolded by Zhao Zhi for bribing others.

Just when everyone thought that He Zhongkai had failed in this battle for the position of Minister of Revenue and Sheng Shitong was about to take office, to everyone's surprise, He Zhongkai took office as Minister of Revenue and successfully entered the hall to be the prime minister after half a year, while Sheng Shitong was transferred to the local area and served as the Jiangnan Transportation Envoy.

This time Shengshitong was transferred back to Fengjing, He Zhongkai has always firmly opposed it, but Yang Daolin, Qin Anming and other ministers agreed with this. He Zhongkai did not stop it and could only watch Shengshitong return to the Ministry of Revenue and take charge of the daily affairs of the entire Ministry of Revenue as the right assistant minister of the Ministry of Revenue.

He Zhongkai was not in the capital for this period. His original wife, who had been with him for nearly 50 years, died of illness in his hometown. He Zhongkai went home to handle the funeral. It took him more than a month to handle the matter. He had just returned to Fengjing for less than three days and had not met Shengshitong yet. A major case broke out completely because of him.

After Sheng Shitong returned to Beijing to meet Emperor Zhao Xun, the court gave him three days off. The journey of cultivation was tiring, but Sheng Shitong gave up automatically. The day after meeting Zhao Xun, he immediately went to the Ministry of Revenue to take office.

On the first day of taking office, Shengshitong checked the accounts and asked the filing office officials for the accounts. He asked dozens of clerical officials in a row. As a result, the vast majority of officials even knew the amount of the deposit and cashiers in the department warehouse, the cashier situation and the profit and loss, and even did not even settle the accounts or check the accounts. A few officials were hesitant and concealed even if they spoke the names and numbers. Seeing that the filing account of the Ministry of Revenue, which was related to the lifeline of the state's finances, was so confused, Shengshitong was furious and immediately dismissed more than ten officials, convened the main officials of the Ministry of Revenue, and announced on the spot that they should conduct a thorough investigation on the matter and seriously rectify the order of the Ministry of Revenue.

Afterwards, Shengshitong himself did it himself, checking the accounts in detail and then checking the three databases.

The so-called three libraries are both silver libraries, satin libraries and pigment libraries.

Among them, silk and pigment are the collections of physical tribute products in the world. The warehouse is piled up like mountains and there is no rules. Pigments, silk and paper are mixed together, and they accumulate every year, and most of them are moldy and rotten. In addition, rats bite insects and insects, and poisonous snakes are in groups. The accounts are mostly liquidated, with no clear or broken, and they are different from the account books of this library. The accounts are chaotic, and the problem of the bank bank is even greater. There are no officers who do not embezzle or steal, and the cashiers are in charge of the bank bank bank bank bank bank bank bank bank bank bank bank bank bank bank bank bank bank bank bank bank bank bank bank bank bank bank bank bank bank bank bank bank bank bank bank bank bank bank bank bank bank bank bank bank bank bank bank bank bank bank bank bank bank bank bank bank bank branch office, reporting more and earning less, embezzling national money.

Shengshitong went against the norm and spent a lot of effort to personally enter the warehouse and count the accounts carefully, and checked the inventory files, and checked the inventory and cashier accounts of Zhao Zhi for decades. Through the investigation of the accounts, Shengshitong found out the biggest rat of the Ministry of Revenue, He Zhongkai's nephew, known as the little prime minister. He Mingxiao, the head of the Ministry of Revenue who was in charge of the banking treasury. Shengshitong ignored everyone's plea and objection and immediately detained He Mingxiao, imprisoned the Ministry of Revenue, and immediately met Zhao Xun to report on the affairs of the Ministry of Revenue. After hearing this, Zhao Xun was also very angry and immediately ordered the Ministry of Revenue to interrogate He Mingxiao severely, and asked Shengshitong to thoroughly investigate and rectify the entire Ministry of Revenue.

Shengshitong's decisive and tough measures, with in-depth investigation and prosecution, suddenly brought out many dark stories, the most eye-catching of the Jinyang Mansion military expenditure reimbursement case.
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