Chapter 714 Pull out the radish and bring out the mud
Corrupt officials are many capable officials. Li Chengqian, who has many years of experience in participating in politics, has a deep understanding of this sentence. He has personally arrested or seen many corrupt officials fallen into disarray, his family is destroyed, and his wife is separated. Of course, they have such reasons, such as career, money, beauty, etc. After all, no one who is in the face of huge benefits cannot guarantee that he will not be moved!
But what happened in the Ministry of War is really unexpected. Someone actually made trouble in the food problem of the Ministry of War's office, which caused the consequences of pulling out the radish and bringing out the mud. I really don't know if they are too brave or are too unfair to take the constitution seriously!
Anyone who is familiar with all departments knows that from the Shangshu to the small officials, everyone has endless work and endless social engagements every day, so few people really eat this big pot meal. Unless they are sure to be on duty, who would like to eat this kind of food with bad taste!
Yes, if this was just a food problem for officials No. 100, it would not have alarmed Du Ruhui, and would not have been able to hit the emperor. But it was Dou Ying, a doctor who took advantage of food, and also took into account the supply of military supplies and weapons. This made Du Shunteng directly pull them out in a bunch of ways.
As we all know, in addition to military pay, the materials distributed have a certain amount of losses. Moreover, because the amount of losses is really small, from the Ministry of War to the various guards, the Zhechong Mansion will also reissue them on the grounds of depreciation or scrapping. There is no problem on the book, and just transport the things back.
Taking scrap and damaged weapons as an example, the Ministry of War reported damage according to the specific quantity when entering the warehouse, and when it was released to the Ministry of Works to recast it, it was calculated based on the weight, which gave Dou Ying a lot of room for operation. You should know that the Tang army's standard equipment is the best in terms of material use and work, especially in terms of steel, which is difficult to find for the people.
Dou Ying worked in this position for three years. He had never seen anyone ask the question of the difference in quantity. Looking at the mountains of steel and other materials piled up in the warehouse, Dou Ying could not control his greedy heart. Some of them did it but would not be discovered. Why not do it!
So this guy took advantage of some vendors through a special way, using his position and using money as an offensive, and coerced the scrap warehouse personnel of the Ministry of War to resell the "scrap steel" at a high price. The income this year was worth more than their ten-year salary? So everyone was gradually becoming extremely close by money as a bond.
But people are not satisfied with their hearts and swallow elephants. Dou Ying is a person who is good at discovering and exploiting loopholes? Seeing that the food is profitable? So he couldn't control his greedy little hands and stretched his hands in. But he didn't expect that he couldn't pull out his eyes? He bought him and everyone in for some money for tea and wine.
The loss of military steel is not a trivial matter. Du Ruhui would not naively think that those guys who spent a lot of money to buy steel were just to make kitchen knives. He controlled the situation immediately? After arresting the corresponding personnel? Old Du hurriedly posted a chapter, which caused Li Shimin to get angry in the lobby of the Ministry of War.
In fact, whether it is a corrupt official or the whereabouts of the stolen money, it is easy to say? As long as the person is in his hands, it can always be found out. But who the buyer is and where the materials flow are, this is the most critical and deadly information. But Dou Ying is a simple financial fan. He is a character who only recognizes money but not people? Whoever gives more money will naturally sell the things to? There is a way to keep the buyer in check, which makes it even more difficult to recover the materials.
There is never a shortage of people with evil intentions in this world? Don’t look at the fact that everyone is usually a person with five or six people, but what do you think? What is the final choice? Don’t say that Li Chengqian doesn’t know? Even the emperor is not sure. There is one of the most important things in the emperor’s mind, that is, suspicion, especially when it comes to the military, it is better to kill three thousand by mistake than to let one go.
In this way, the scope of buying and selling steel in private is large. No matter who is in the hands of aristocratic families, nobles, local gentry, gangs, or those opponents who cannot be killed, it is not a good thing.
According to the emperor's suspicious personality, many people have probably been on his blacklist. If they are not controlled, there will be a massacre in the blink of an eye, because he cannot tolerate any one engaging in subversion activities under his nose.
The reason why Du Ruhui was anxious to call Li Chengqian was very simple, that was, he hoped that the prince could awaken the emperor who was angry. After all, nothing had happened yet, and touching too many people would cause panic. He had to blame for his lack of discipline and negligence, so he could only ask for help from the prince.
Of course, Li Chengqian understood that no one of the wealthy families had no weapons to defend themselves. Can they still learn from Qin Shihuang to capture all the soldiers of the world? Just kidding! Not to mention what the people think, all the nobles of all the nobles will stand up and oppose it. Standing on the opposite side of the royal family, this is absolutely not possible.
Besides, who can tell the private transaction clearly? You have to reverse the flow of materials. The specific number of transactions in each company is different!
Therefore, Li Chengqian entered the Ministry of War without saying the main topic. He just made a joke and coaxed everyone out. Then he sent someone to spread Fang Xuanling, coaxing and cheating the emperor and tea in the lobby, and then waited for everyone to talk.
After seeing the confessions of Dou Ying and others, Li Chengqian frowned and then bowed and said, "Father, these confessions cannot explain anything at all. My son thought that the trial should be further detailed to capture the details they ignored during the transaction, such as accent, appearance, clothing, ornaments, etc., and to discover more valuable clues as much as possible."
"That's right, Your Majesty, the old minister thinks what the Crown Prince said is. Now is not a time to draw a conclusion or commit crimes in a hurry. Don't ban the order and find out the case clearly."
After Changsun Wuji finished speaking, he kicked Du Ruhui down. After receiving the signal, Old Du quickly replied: "Your Majesty, the old minister will go outside and issue a ban order!"
Seeing that Li Shimin was worried and rubbed his temples, Fang Xuanling quickly added: "Your Majesty, why not give it to the inner guard. They are experts in secret investigation of the case. With the leader of His Royal Highness the Prince, you will definitely get the result you want in the most severe time." In order to help your old friend get rid of the embarrassing situation, it is not impossible to sacrifice the prince slightly, anyway, he has already stood up!
Chapter completed!