Originally, the emperor asked him to mobilize several corrupt officials in the Ministry of Revenue to serve as a warning.

Chen Xiao was originally thinking that the Minister of Revenue would start the operation.

Who knew that his boss, Kinbeji, and Yuanwairou, were embezzled first.

Moreover, the two of them were corrupt and did not bring Chen Xiao, one of the three chief officials of the Jinbu Department.

It would be fine if Chen Xiao didn't take him to embezzle, but he actually embezzled Chen Xiao.

How could Chen Xiao bear this?

So I was going to take the surgery with Kinbeji Doctor and Yuanwairou.

He picked up the salt tax account book, looked at the Kinbeji Doctor and Yuanwairo, and then turned around and left.

The doctor and Yuanwailang were anxious. Corruption was a fact. If Chen Xiao found out that corruption was found, the matter would be serious.

So he quickly wanted to stop Chen Xiao, but Chen Xiao didn't listen to anything and directly took the minor official to leave the Ministry of Revenue.

The doctor and Yuanwailang hurried to find the Minister of Revenue and the two ministers.

Chen Xiao followed the records in the account book and went to the salt merchants one by one and asked them how much salt tax they had paid.

After asking this, I realized that every salt merchant paid more taxes than the ones recorded.

Even basically, the actual salt tax paid is more than several times more than the recorded salt tax.

After roughly calculating, in just half a month, two hundred salt taxes were collected, and each of them paid an average of 100 taels, totaling 20,000 taels of salt tax.

The average tax of each company recorded in the account book is 20 taels, totaling 4,000 taels.

I actually paid 20,000 taels, minus the 4,000 taels recorded in the account book, and there are still 16,000 taels of silver. Where did I go?

Chen Xiao was shocked after he settled the account clearly.

Half a month, the salt tax, embezzled 16,000 taels. Is this so brave?

This is not counting as iron tax, tea tax, etc.

In addition, if there are people who embezzle the population tax and commercial tax, how terrible it is?

Chen Xiao felt that this was no longer the time he was embezzled, nor was it as simple as the emperor asked him to investigate corruption.

Such terrible corruption is like a borer, and it is the foundation of eating the country!

Therefore, Chen Xiao must check it out and check it to the end.

Not just salt tax!

The next day, when he arrived at the main hall, he immediately started to find out the tea tax and iron taxes, and went to investigate one by one according to the merchants recorded above.

Finally, it was found that the actual and records of iron tax were 5,000 taels different from the actual and records of tea tax were 4,000 taels different from the actual and records of tea.

The total difference between these three taxes is 25,000 taels.

This is a real crime of death.

Generally speaking, no one is greedy.

However, there is an unwritten standard, which is to be greedy for dozens or hundreds of taels, which is generally not concerned by the imperial court.

After all, it is strange that officials are not greedy.

However, corruption cannot be carried out by thousands of taels.

Thousands of two were dismissed from prison.

Tens of thousands of two, the heads fell to the ground.

The Kinbeshi Doctor and Yuanwairon have embezzled more than 10,000 taels of salt tax, which is definitely enough for them to die.

Chen Xiao sorted out all the tax collection books and the actual tax collection books of the merchants he investigated, and then at noon that day, he took these fake books and actual tax accounts to the palace.

In the imperial study, the emperor was very confused when he saw Chen Xiao coming: "Chen Xiao, what's wrong with you here this time?"

"Your Majesty, I have collected evidence from the two officials of the Ministry of Revenue. Your Majesty can take a look!" As he said that, he handed out the fake account books and the actual tax accounts he had investigated this day.

The old eunuch took the two accounts to the emperor, and the emperor said, "So quickly? In more than a day, you have collected conclusive evidence?"

"The main reason is that they embezzled me. My salt industry paid 500 taels of tax, but was recorded to pay 50 taels of tax..."

After Chen Xiao finished speaking, the emperor was stunned, and a hint of coldness appeared in his eyes.

Then, he stopped talking and carefully opened the account book. The two account books were compared with each other.

"Dahai Salt Industry actually paid 120 taels of tax. The Ministry of Revenue's Ministry of Finance collects 52 taels of tax...

The most ruthless salt industry, the actual tax is 500 taels. The Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of Finance collects 50 taels of taxes..."

The emperor looked up: "Why are the accounts of your salt tax in the Ministry of Revenue so different?"

Chen Xiao said: "Maybe because relatively speaking, my salt industry is newly opened and I have made a lot of money, so they are greedy for fake accounts, which is not easy to find out. After all, many salt industries have taxes for forty or fifty."

The emperor said: "So, why do you open the salt industry so profitable?"

He was really curious about this.

Chen Xiao said: "Because the salt I extracted is purer and has almost no impurities."

"Oh?" The emperor's eyes lit up.

"I have heard that you are making salt. Salt is something that concerns people's livelihood. If you can make better salt, it will definitely be a good thing. It's just..."

The emperor fell silent.

Chen Xiao had long guessed that his large-scale entry into the salt industry would attract the emperor's attention.

No matter which dynasty, salt was strictly controlled by the court, and legal salt merchants were required to do salt business.

In the salt field, the Ministry of Revenue’s Jindu Department specially sets up salt tax, which shows that salt tax is very important.

Therefore, the imperial court also strictly controlled many large salt industries.

Even, I am not willing to see the rise of the big salt industry.

There are already political issues involved.

Because salt is indispensable to the people, if this indispensable thing is controlled by a large number of people, then wouldn’t it have some huge risks?

For example, monopoly emerges? Or, a large number of people who control salt use salt to control the people?

After all, there is a saying that having milk means being a mother.

To some extent, this salt is like grain.

If the Dragon Kingdom is concerned, there is one person who controls a lot of food.

So, do you think the people will listen to this person or the court?

Nonsense, who can give me food, who will I listen to!

So, this is probably the same thing as salt.

Therefore, the emperor was absolutely unwilling to see merchants like grain merchants and salt merchants who were concerned about people's livelihood to grow bigger.

Chen Xiao naturally understood the emperor's concerns, even if he could become his son-in-law.

But if he had salt with very good purity and very popular, then the emperor would definitely be worried.

So Chen Xiao quickly said, "Actually, this business is not my own. Jiuer has investment in this business and is also the boss of the most ruthless salt industry!"

"Is that?" Sure enough, when the emperor heard this, he looked happy.

If the salt industry is involved in the royal family, and even his favorite daughter, he will feel much more at ease.

He looked at Chen Xiaohou meaningfully, and the emperor smiled and thought to himself, this kid is sensible!

So, I continued to look down at the account book.

The more you read this account book, the ugly the look.

At the end, his face was already dark.

"Half a month, salt tax, tea tax, iron tax, actual tax paid for 40,000 taels, and accounting for 15,000 taels. A total of corruption... 25,000 taels?"

Chen Xiao nodded: "Yes, there are ten thousand taels more embezzled than those reported!"

The emperor slapped the table, and in an instant, the table shattered.
Chapter completed!