"I brought hundreds of soldiers from the Ministry of Personnel to ambush them outside. If we find evidence later, we will directly wipe out this place and then torture these people to find out the person behind the scenes.”
Inside a magnificent three-story building in Xi City…
The place was filled with merchants who brought their own goods to supply the Internal Affairs Bureau.
Of course, the supply of goods to the Internal Affairs Bureau had been monopolized by the royal merchants led by the Xue family.
They came here to sell their goods to the royal merchants to earn some meager profits.
Fortunately, there were many people in the palace. There were more than 6,000 eunuchs and serving girls in total, not including the palace guards.
There were at least 10,000 people in the palace, so the daily consumption of the palace alone was a large number.
And they were sitting here today mainly to go through the motions.
After all, the Ministry of Internal Affairs had stipulated that one had to compare the quality of the goods.
Similarly, it was taboo for the Imperial Household Bureau to monopolize the purchase of goods. The monopolized merchants would sell inferior goods to the palace.
"Very good. Today, we must get to the bottom of this matter.”
Hearing Jia Lian's words, Liu Wen nodded. Then, he thought of something and continued to say to Jia Lian,
"Just now, I thought about it. The Internal Affairs Office sends a bill to the Ministry of Revenue every day to check and collect the money, but I, the Minister of Revenue, actually didn't hear anything about an egg being sold for thirty-five taels of silver.”
"There might be their people in the Ministry of Revenue.”
Liu Wen's expression was very ugly when he said this.
His words represented that someone in the Ministry of Revenue had deceived his superiors and subordinates, keeping him, the Minister of Revenue, in the dark, to commit such a serious crime of deceiving the emperor.
"Do you have any suspects?"
Jia Lian's expression became serious after hearing this. He leaned closer to Liu Wen and asked him in a low voice.
" Assistant Minister Lu Da of the Ministry of Revenue…Other than me, he is the only one who has the authority to approve the documents. Moreover, this person followed Prince Yi Zhong. I have always suspected him of the Ministry of Revenue's deficit in recent years…However, I do not have any evidence…"
"Moreover, the Ministry of Revenue is in charge of the world's money and grain. I'm also busy with many things every day, so I don't have the time to investigate.
Now it seemed that the eunuchs in charge of the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of Internal Affairs had colluded.”
Liu Wen explained to Jia Lian with an ugly expression.
Hearing Liu Wen's words, Jia Lian couldn't help but be stunned. Prince Yi Zhong was a big shot.
In the original novel, Jia Baoyu fought for Prince Yizhong's favorite Qiguan and even humiliated Prince Yizhong, causing Prince Yizhong to bear a grudge against him.
It could be said that the destruction of the Jia family was not without Prince Yi Zhong adding fuel to the fire.
And this Prince Yi Zhong was a true relative of the royal family. Jia Baoyu was used to being pampered at home, so he didn't have the ability to offend the Prince.
The Jia family had risked their lives for generations to build up their wealth. The ancestors had racked their brains to pave the way for the Jia family's descendants until their deaths, but no matter how hard they tried, they could not resist the joint efforts of a group of useless descendants to squander their family and destroy their businesses.
Grandmother Jia, Jia Zhen, and Jia She were the leaders of the Jia family's prodigal families.
"Eunuch Tong, take a look at this girl's appearance. Even though she's dirty and messy, she's still a rare beauty after washing and changing her clothes.”
Just as Jia Lian and Liu Wen were discussing, they saw a person outside the door leading a girl dressed in ragged clothes and dirty clothes to a eunuch with a head full of white hair, a face full of wrinkles, and a pale face.
After saying this, he brought the girl to the eunuch called Eunuch Tong.
"This Eunuch Tong is the steward of the Internal Affairs Office. He is responsible for checking all kinds of food and drinks sent to the palace. After he checks that there are no problems, he can write a note to the Ministry of Revenue to collect the money.”
Liu Wen looked at the ghost-like Eunuch Tong and explained to Jia Lian.
"He doesn't even look like a human. He looks like he's seriously ill. But who is that person? Sending a woman to a eunuch? Isn't that flattery?”
Jia Lian looked at Eunuch Tong's face full of disgust, then pointed at the man who sent the girl to Eunuch Tong with a curious face full of disdain.
"You are wrong. Although this Eunuch Tong is a eunuch, it is rumored that he has a residence outside the Imperial Palace and has raised more than ten concubines inside.”
"I suspect that he is one of the masterminds.”
Liu Wen shook his head and explained to Jia Lian as he looked at Eunuch Tong's face full of disdain.
"Damn it, this thing has more than a dozen concubines outside. He's really not a f * cking thing. He doesn't look like a human and doesn't do anything.”
"F * ck, if I make a move later, I'll beat this bastard up first.”
Jia Lian was instantly furious after hearing this. He, a dignified transmigrator, only had one daughter-in-law, while you, a eunuch, had more than a dozen in name.
If I don't beat you up, it'll be hard to appease the hatred in my heart.
"Don't worry. As long as we have evidence, we won't be afraid of not being able to cure him. When the time comes, we'll save his father and the dozen girls.”
Liu Wen was also filled with anger, but he still held Jia Lian's arm to stop him from acting rashly.
"Yo…Not bad, you're a beauty.
In a while, you can send her to my residence and collect two hundred taels of silver.”
Eunuch Tong looked at the timid woman in front of him and was very satisfied. His face, which looked like a ghost at seven parts and a human at three parts, immediately revealed a smile that he thought was kind as he spoke to the man who gave him his woman.
"Thank you, Eunuch!"
When the man heard that he was actually given 200 taels of silver, he was instantly overjoyed.
One had to know that he had only spent five taels of silver to buy this girl, but he had earned 195 taels of silver from this.
How could he not be happy?
"Ah ~"
When Eunuch Tong and that man were happy, the woman who was scared when she saw Eunuch Tong's smile was so frightened that she screamed in fear. Then, her eyes rolled back and she fainted on the ground.
"Hey…what happened? We spend money on living things, we don't want dead things.”
Eunuch Tong couldn't take it anymore when he saw the woman pass out.
If he didn't think about how he looked, he would have thought that this woman was sick.
"How can I sell a sick woman to you, father-in-law? I guess this woman has been hungry for too long. I heard that the woman who is going to be father-in-law fainted from joy.”
When the man saw this, he panicked. Seeing that the silver in his hand was about to fly away, he quickly opened his mouth and made up a story.
In the end, he didn't forget to give this Eunuch Tong a pat on the back.
"Is that so? Fine, you wake her up. I'll see if she's fine before you take her away.”
Hearing this, Eunuch Tong was very happy, but he still didn't want to buy a weak woman and let that man wake her up in front of him.
"Alright, just wait and see, Eunuch.”
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