Chapter 202: Corporal punishment is a good choice

Xu Wenbi gave a reminder, and Zhang Juzheng also believed that the preparation of the Western Hills Coal Bureau would absolutely not go smoothly. Sure enough, a dense and rapid offensive soon began, and it still started from Wang Chonggu.

The impeachment of Wang Chonggu became dense, and the focus of the impeachment also changed from Wang Chonggu coercing the monarch and usurping the monarch's power to impeaching Wang Chonggu for incompetence.

The Great Ming Emperor had already specifically approved that the matter of usurping the monarch's power would not be pursued. Since the party concerned did not pursue it, it was redundant for the censors to impeach again. Moreover, Wang Chonggu had recently belonged to the "dedication faction"—dedicating to the emperor, closely following Zhang Juzheng's footsteps, and gathering wealth and profit.

The impeachment of Wang Chonggu for incompetence mainly concentrated firepower on the corner-cutting in the construction of the Great Longxing Temple pagoda supervised by Wang Chonggu.

In early November, the Shuntian Prefecture yamen, merchant Zhao Deyi, reported and exposed the corner-cutting in the pagoda construction. The court officials were in an uproar, and the public opinion questioning it became more and more frequent.

Ge Shouli and Hence Hai Rui requested an audience in the Wenhua Palace. Zhu Yijun summoned the two Censors-in-Chief and finished reading their memorial requesting an investigation.

"Must this matter be investigated?" Zhu Yijun looked at the two Censors-in-Chief with furrowed brows and asked. The little emperor knew for sure that not everything could be investigated. If something was found out after an investigation, wouldn't something happen?

If Wang Chonggu falls at this time, the wool official factory supervision will have to change people, and the supervision of the imperial palace, the Royal Academy of Things, and the pagoda will all have to change people. The construction of the Western Hills Coal Bureau will also be nothing but a reflection in the mirror.

If he falls, the court will need at least half a year to continue pushing these projects, and it is hard to say if it will be as smooth as it is now.

Not to mention anything else, the construction of the imperial palace will definitely not catch up with the emperor's wedding.

"Your Majesty, the current public opinion is too strong, and there is frequent criticism in the court. If there is no investigation, I am afraid it will be difficult to convince the public." Hence Hai Rui let out a breath of turbid air and bowed his head.

The Great Ming Emperor using national treasury funds to build the Bao'en Pagoda for Empress Dowager Li without clinging to power was unanimously recognized by the court in terms of intent. The harem not interfering in politics was the common cognition of the Ming and Qing dynasties. For six hundred years in the Ming and Qing dynasties, they maintained inertia in this matter. "Listening to politics from behind the curtain" only appeared in the late Qing Dynasty with Cixi.

Empress Dowager Li moved into the Qianqing Palace in the sixth year of Longqing. Actually, a considerable number of court officials were very worried that Empress Dowager Li's desire for power would cause immeasurable consequences.

Empress Dowager Li's return of power was a benevolent act, and very few people opposed the construction of the pagoda, although the construction of the pagoda held a malicious purpose, which was to clear the temples and Daoist temples of land held in false names.

In the specific construction process, the problem of corner-cutting appeared.

Ge Shouli also looked helpless. The two Censors-in-Chief had tried their best to suppress this wind of public opinion, but this wind of public opinion was massive. He bowed his head and said: "The Great Longxing Temple Bao'en Pagoda is consistent with the specifications of the Great Bao'en Temple Glazed Pagoda: twenty-three zhang four chi six cun high, nine stories and eight faces, thirty zhang in circumference. The nine stories are equipped with 146 palace lanterns. The top of the pagoda has nine rings of wheels, weighing a total of three thousand six hundred catties. There are two copper plates on the top of the pagoda, cast with wind-grinding copper, each weighing nine hundred catties. There is one treasure pearl heavenly plate, weighing four hundred and thirty catties."

"Eight iron chains hang down from the top rings, and copper balls hang under the iron chains to prevent wind."

Both pagodas have a large copper ball on the top floor to prevent strong winds from blowing the building down. This thing is a damper, maintaining the structure of the pagoda when the wind is howling.

Zhu Yijun looked at the two Censors-in-Chief and said very definitely: "It is not strange for people to take advantage of the situation in major construction projects. As long as the pagoda is built and doesn't collapse, that's fine. If the water is too clear, there will be no fish."

Engaging in major construction projects, isn't it necessary to leave some oil and water? Otherwise, the work will drag on and not be finished. Now the pagoda is the same principle. For the imperial palace construction, Wang Chonggu didn't dare to take any, but for the pagoda and the Academy of Things construction, Zhu Yijun had already tacitly allowed Wang Chonggu to take a little oil and water.

Just wanting the horse to run without giving the horse grass—this kind of thing will definitely not be done. If Wang Chonggu doesn't take any, the general supervisors cannot take any. If the general supervisors don't take any, no one can take any.

Managing it leads to death, and releasing it leads to chaos—this is the norm of administration. If there is no muddy water at all, there is no enthusiasm. Zhu Yijun values results, and he does not require everyone to be a clean official like Hence Hai Rui.

But now the public opinion is very clamorous. From the court censors' memorials to the long-winded reports in the miscellaneous papers, all have brought this pressure to a threshold where it is necessary to cut open the stomach to see exactly how many bowls of powder Wang Chonggu ate.

"Your Majesty, I have received Your Majesty's imperial order to supervise the matter of killing the wind of corruption. There are many questions in the court, and there is too much talk about the Minister of Justice cutting corners. If we investigate, if he is innocent, we will give everyone an explanation. If the Minister of Justice is not innocent, then we must kill the wind of corruption." Hence Hai Rui, the Censor-in-Chief in charge of investigating corruption, could not violate his functions.

"The Minister of Justice is also strange. He was impeached, but he didn't present a memorial to explain. This public opinion is one-sided. Alas, then let's investigate." Zhu Yijun had already tried his best. He had been blocking it, but the party concerned just gave up and wouldn't even present a memorial of explanation.

Zhu Yijun could only hope that Wang Chonggu didn't take too much, otherwise it would really be hard to end. If he just took a little, Zhu Yijun could naturally bring out the ancestral system of "eight pardons and eight deliberations" to be lenient. But if Wang Chonggu made a major corruption case, then it would not be something Zhu Yijun could be lenient about.

"What does the Senior Grand Secretary think?" Zhu Yijun asked for Zhang Juzheng's opinion.

Zhang Juzheng bowed his head and said: "Your Majesty is wise."

"Then let the Senior Grand Secretary supervise this matter." Zhu Yijun and Zhang Juzheng looked at each other, both revealing a smile of emotion.

Doing things is difficult.

What did Wang Chonggu say? Wang Chonggu said nothing.

Regarding the public opinion in the court, the Minister of Justice did not refute, nor did he explain, just like Zhang Juzheng, who put floating notes on all memorials impeaching the Senior Grand Secretary. Wang Chonggu did not refute.

Why did merchant Zhao Deyi want to tear his face off with Wang Chonggu? Mainly because Wang Chonggu wouldn't give him money.

To do earth and wood work for the court, the court directly conscripts commoners. This is corvée labor.

But some things must be purchased, such as bricks, stones, earth, and wood from the private sector. However, the repayment cycle is really long.

Taking Emperor Longqing's imperial mausoleum as an example, the court only approved the funds in December of the first year of Wanli, and until the fourth year of Wanli, it still owed money and hadn't paid it off.

Great Ming's system is severely rigid. A sum of silver is allocated layer by layer, with one approval and verification after another. If you want to get money, just wait. Secondly, the malpractice of bribery and leniency in Great Ming is rampant. This sum of silver, as it is allocated, still exists on the books, but in reality, it is gone, either diverted to other uses or taken away by someone who touches it.

Merchant Zhao Deyi must have suffered this muffled loss on ordinary days. Doing work for the court, many merchants have already anticipated that they will be taken for nothing by the court. This is also the real situation.

I, Wang Chonggu, taking your Zhao Deyi's silver and goods for nothing is giving you, Zhao Deyi, face. Why don't I take others for nothing? Stop being shameless.

Someone must have instigated Zhao Deyi. The public opinion in the court against Wang has always been very strong, and someone fanned the flames. Zhao Deyi, who was unwilling to suffer the muffled loss, did not stop until he said it out.

The moment to cut open Wang Chonggu's stomach had arrived.

Zhang Juzheng personally accepted the order, took the Censor-in-Chief Hence Hai Rui, two secretaries from the Ministry of Revenue, twelve supervising censors, Minister of Revenue Wang Guoguang, Vice Minister of Revenue Bi Qiang, and inner treasury eunuch Cui Min, and rushed straight to Wang Chonggu's Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Works, and the Great Longxing Temple construction site, seizing all the account books.

"Minister of Justice, I have offended you." Zhang Juzheng said with a complex expression.

Wang Chonggu held his hands and said: "It's nothing. We always have to go through such a round. Zhang Siwen implicated me, and His Majesty cut off a strand of my hair. He must be dissatisfied. It's a matter of time. Investigating now or later makes no difference. I have to be put on the scale and weighed."

"His Majesty is unwilling, but the public opinion is too great, and His Majesty is also in a difficult position." Zhang Juzheng looked left and right and whispered: "Minister of Justice, give me the bottom line. Exactly how much did you take, so that His Majesty and I can prepare? We still have the eight pardons and eight deliberations."

"I said I didn't take any. Do you believe me?" Wang Chonggu's expression was exceptionally strange. That His Majesty still wanted to protect him was what surprised him the most.

If the monarch wants the minister to die, the minister has to die.

At the beginning, the leniency in the Huangji Palace, in Wang Chonggu's view, must have been that the emperor was full of anger, but for the sake of the stability of the Northwest, he spared Wang Chonggu himself and his family to prevent the conflict from further intensifying.

Zhang Siwen and the twenty-four dismembered criminals had already been imprisoned, and more than seven hundred people had been beheaded. San Niangzi had entered the capital again to discuss the horse price silver. It was not just the court officials who felt that the time to kill Wang Chonggu had arrived; even Wang Chonggu thought so. He had reached the time when he should die.

"Since the Minister of Justice didn't take any, why refuse to present a memorial to explain? You don't speak yourself, how can His Majesty protect you?" Zhang Juzheng was furious when he heard Wang Chonggu say this!

If you didn't take any, you didn't take any. Just present a memorial to refute those censors. What are you afraid of?

The emperor was indeed inclined to favor him, but you, old Wang, didn't explain yourself. Only one side was singing the play, which made His Majesty very passive and could only listen to one side.

One side is chasing and beating, and the other side says nothing. Isn't this the result?

Zhang Juzheng soon took a pile of case files and began to balance the accounts. This time the balancing was very meticulous. Imperial Uncle Zhu Zaiyu brought out his eighty-one-column large abacus.

And Wang Yaozhuo, as Zhu Zaiyu's disciple, was also in the ranks of abacus users. The inner eunuchs, the Ministry of Revenue, and the Academy of Things conducted a tripartite audit.

Zhu Yijun watched Wang Yaozhuo's hands dancing on the abacus and felt exceptionally wonderful. These hands could not only play the abacus but also play the zither, which was truly eye-catching.

In two days, the audit results were presented to the imperial front. The answer was that the accounts for the Academy of Things, the pagoda, and the imperial palace construction had no problems.

The accounts had no problems, which did not mean the project had no problems. Soon, the backfilled earth at the pagoda construction site would be dug open to see if the foundation was built according to the specifications of the original Great Bao'en Temple Glazed Pagoda.

In mid-November, the construction site was dug into a large pit.

Zhu Yijun personally came to the pagoda construction site. The earth around the pagoda had been backfilled. Digging open the foundation this time was to see the depth of the foundation piles.

"Backfilling with construction waste is still a troublesome matter. It's three-in-one soil. Just digging it open takes more than ten days." Zhu Yijun's tone was unkind. He had a deeper understanding of cheap Confucians delaying matters.

Actually, when the three-in-one soil was excavated, some people realized something was wrong. According to merchant Zhao Deyi's confession, the backfilling of the earth was done by them. Because it was a steel-concrete structure, it was all randomly backfilled with waste. But when excavating, it was discovered that it was all backfilled with three-in-one soil.

When they dug to a depth of eleven zhang, the answer was revealed: there was no corner-cutting.

And Zhu Yijun just came to take a look and confirm this fact.

"The Minister of Justice's design exceeded the standard. Are these thick pillars a bit too conservative?" Zhu Yijun naturally did not go down into the pit, just looking at the foundation piles in the pit. According to the construction specifications of the Yongle Glazed Pagoda, a pagoda twenty-three zhang four chi six cun high only needed a foundation of three zhang. Just by visual inspection, it exceeded five zhang.

Wang Chonggu said quite calmly: "Isn't it because the court gave a lot of silver? If I didn't take it, I could only build it better."

Building a pagoda with five hundred thousand taels of silver, without taking any, that is the construction quality. It's rock hard. Three hundred years? Five hundred years and it won't collapse.

"Your Majesty, please listen. Zhao Deyi was the one who contracted the backfilling of the earth. He didn't use three-in-one soil, so I fired him. The reason I didn't give him money is that he backfilled it, and I hired other people to dig it open and backfill it again." Wang Chonggu finally agreed to explain, telling the whole story of this matter.

Actually, it's not complicated. Zhao Deyi cut corners on backfilling the earth. Wang Chonggu heard about it and immediately fired Zhao Deyi, replacing him with a batch of people who used three-in-one soil. Zhao Deyi naturally couldn't get the money; he hadn't done much before he was fired.

The reason Wang Chonggu was determined to use three-in-one soil for backfilling was that when the emperor inspected the imperial palace construction, he had said that the strength of steel-concrete structures was extremely high, and one could just backfill with waste.

In the matter of corner-cutting, His Majesty's method was even more professional than his!

If this was corner-cutting, wouldn't it be equivalent to saying that Wang Chonggu was showing off his skills before an expert?

Since the stomach had been cut open and Wang Chonggu really only ate one bowl of powder, these clamorous censors had to pay a price, but it was not easy to punish them. After all, they were an important error-correcting force of the country.

The degree of punishing the ears and eyes of the officials: if it is too heavy, it blocks the path of speech; if it is too light, it cannot correct the atmosphere.

Zhu Yijun furrowed his brows, and then his eyes lit up. He said to Zhang Juzheng: "I have an idea."

"Your Majesty, you have an idea again?" Zhang Juzheng immediately shuddered, looking at His Majesty like he was facing a great enemy, full of vigilance. His Majesty was becoming more and more like a scholar. When his eyeballs turned, it was an idea.

Zhu Yijun put his hands on his hips and looked at the large pit in front of him, saying: "This backfilling of earth is still a troublesome matter. Senior Grand Secretary, summon all the censors who impeached the Minister of Justice and the writers who created the public opinion, and let them come here to fill back the pit I dug!"

"The censors must do it themselves. They cannot ask others to do it."

"If you have nothing to do, go to the brothel to listen to music. You spend all day picking bones out of eggs and can't find any. It's shameful."

Zhu Yijun made the scholars take off their long gowns and run to the construction site to fill the earth. Zhu Yijun wouldn't calculate the delayed construction period and losses for them, but the backfilling of this pit must be done by these censors and those writers themselves.

"Minister of Justice, watch them. Make sure they complete it with quality and quantity." Zhu Yijun looked at Wang Chonggu and said meaningfully.

These guys had all fallen into Wang Chonggu's hands. Wang Chonggu could pick bones out of eggs just like the censors, saying this one is done poorly, that one is done incorrectly, and physically torment these censors as much as he wanted.

"Ah, this... I obey the decree." Wang Chonggu's eyes widened in great surprise. He naturally heard His Majesty's subtext.

Making the scholar-officials take off their long gowns and work at the construction site was absolutely much stronger than the court beating in terms of insult and physical punishment. "Of all things, the scholar is the most useless." Many censors had no strength to truss a chicken. Taking off their long gowns and wearing short clothes to work in the fields was even more uncomfortable than killing them.

But they couldn't not do it.

The emperor's decree—if you don't do it, you can only go home. If you want to continue to be an official in the court, you must do it.

It had already been dug open, proving that Wang Chonggu didn't take any. The losing side of the struggle must have punishment.

Corporal punishment is a good choice.

The first round of the struggle over the Western Hills Coal Bureau ended with Wang Chonggu really only eating one bowl of powder. And as the referee, Zhu Yijun did not let go of the officials who stirred up trouble, fiercely humiliating them, throwing all their dignity on the ground, rubbing it constantly, and spitting on it fiercely.

The second round of struggle soon began, and this time the struggle was full of gunpowder, because rural ruffians began to exert force. They warned the porters among the porters not to carry coal for the official kilns.

This matter had been brewing for a full month. When the coal mined by the official kilns piled up, Wang Chonggu immediately realized that someone was making waves. Autumn and winter are the peak periods for coal use. During this period, they could actually let the coal pile up in the factory and not be transported out. Obviously, someone was deliberately creating trouble.

And Wang Chonggu, who was responsible for supervising the Western Hills Coal Bureau, was the Minister of Justice.

Wang Chonggu didn't indulge these ruffians at all. He arrested people everywhere. Once caught, they were sent to the coal yard to mine coal, threatening and luring them with three years of hard labor. Those who smashed commoners' houses were sentenced to ten years of hard labor, and those who injured people were sentenced to beheading. For a time, the security environment in the Western Hills was greatly improved.

By early December, twelve ruffians had been beheaded, with great intensity. After this round of rectification, the coal from the Western Hills Coal Bureau began to flow smoothly to Xizhimen.

The timelines of the first and second rounds of struggle surrounding the Western Hills Coal Bureau were not completely separated, but mixed, but both ended with Wang Chonggu's victory.

"Today is the Great Snow." Zhu Yijun, wearing a cloak, came to the Coal Market Entrance at Xizhimen with Wang Chonggu.

Great Snow is a solar term. Also in the fourth year of Wanli, on the day of Great Snow, goose-feather snow began to fall in the sky. In previous years, coal from the Western Hills could not reach the capital smoothly, and the price of coal would soar several times.

"To allow coal to reach the capital smoothly, I specially designed a coal road. Please, Your Majesty, move your steps." Wang Chonggu led His Majesty out of Xizhimen and saw that coal road.

To reduce the impact of wind and snow on coal prices, Wang Chonggu specially designed a coal road paved with stone roads and wooden sleepers. The stones were the roadbed, the sleepers were responsible for maintaining the horizontal height, and there were table-sized coal carts on the wooden rails.

It snowed, and the porters could continue to push coal on the coal road. The problem of slippery roads was solved. When encountering downhill roads, the brakes on the coal carts were two iron rods inserted into the stone road surface. In this way, they could effectively slow down. Zhu Yijun was very interested in this thing.

"These sleepers can use lime road sleepers, and these wooden rails can be replaced with iron rails. Iron rails seem to have a large investment, but wooden rails are easily damaged. For long-term operation and maintenance, iron rails are still cheaper." Zhu Yijun studied the coal carts and coal roads and put forward his own guidance.

Sleepers and wooden rails can be replaced with more solid lime road sleepers.

"Your Majesty, timber in the capital is extremely expensive. Lime road sleepers are indeed cheaper. We can only make do with it for now. After the imperial palace construction, the lime from the lime factory can be used here. I will keep it in mind." Wang Chonggu sincerely accepted His Majesty's opinion.

Timber in the capital is expensive.

In the Western Hills coal kilns, during the Zhengtong reign, there was a disturbance because mining coal disturbed the imperial mausoleum, causing water seepage. Such a big thing happened, but the Western Hills coal kilns were repeatedly banned but never stopped. In the end, the court also closed one eye and opened one eye, tacitly allowing coal mining in the Western Hills.

Because the trees around the capital had long been cut down, if coal was not mined, there wouldn't be much wood. How could daily life be maintained?

This is also the common dilemma of Great Ming's cities with over a million people. A city gathers energy for a hundred years. Great Ming has twelve cities with over a million people. It's not whether to use coal or firewood, but that they can only use coal; there is simply no firewood.

Timber is expensive, and sleepers and wooden rails are indeed expensive, but for now, the production capacity of the lime factory on the banks of the Yongding River can only supply the imperial palace construction.

"Stopping the imperial palace construction for a while is not impossible. Let's prioritize the people's livelihood first." Zhu Yijun heard that it was a production capacity problem and immediately decided to stop the construction, prioritize repairing the road and opening it.

Wang Chonggu immediately said: "Your Majesty, please listen. We can open a few more kilns in the lime factory. The imperial palace construction cannot be stopped."

Hearing that the imperial palace construction was to be stopped, Wang Chonggu immediately chose to increase production by overcoming all difficulties. The imperial palace construction absolutely, absolutely could not be stopped.

"Hmm." Zhu Yijun tightened the cloak on his body and said: "Then increase production."

Because the coal road had limited transport capacity, it could currently only supply the official kilns. Therefore, to some extent, Wang Chonggu spent three months realizing part of the story he told, which was to ensure the coal supply in the capital.

Zhu Yijun was very optimistic about the story Wang Chonggu told. The preparation of the Western Hills Coal Bureau had been completed, and the rest was to fight with the private kilns.

This was another bloody fight. The market is the only touchstone. Whether it can work or not needs to be left to time to verify.

Zhu Yijun gave the support he could give. Whether it could be done depended on Wang Chonggu's ability. If he couldn't do it, it didn't matter. Contradictions release all truths, and the development of all things has the law of quantitative change leading to qualitative change. If Wang Chonggu couldn't do it, then change someone else to continue doing it!

Zhu Yijun did not return to the imperial palace immediately, but went to the first audit office jointly run by the Ministry of Revenue and the Academy of Things. The audit office faced all private merchants, specifically responsible for helping to audit accounts, checking documents, and helping major firms audit account books.

Although Zhang Siwen was dead, the lesson he left behind still made the proprietors shudder. The head manager trusted by the proprietors actually kept most of the profits in his own hands, which made the proprietors feel a heartfelt doubt about their own accounts.

But Great Ming didn't have many talents in mathematics, and most of them were controlled by the court.

Therefore, the establishment of the audit office was to solve this dilemma.

Actually, the court officials had no confidence in the establishment of the audit office, because merchants would definitely not choose the audit office to check accounts. The audit office is a government-run yamen of the court. The accounts would definitely be sent to the tax room for tax auditing. If these merchants ran to the audit office, wouldn't that be seeking their own death?

But when Zhu Yijun's carriage arrived at the street where the audit office was, seeing the long queue, he was somewhat confused.

"Zhang, didn't the Senior Grand Secretary say that no merchants would come to this audit office? Why are there so many people?" Zhu Yijun's carriage stopped very far away. He asked Zhang Hong somewhat puzzled. Is the demand for auditing accounts so great?

"Your Majesty, the Senior Grand Secretary is not a merchant." Zhang Hong said very definitely: "The Senior Grand Secretary's thinking is completely different from that of merchants. Merchants first consider profit. The tax room issues payment notices for tax auditing. As long as they pay on time, the tax room will not make things too difficult. After all, the tax room is only responsible for tax auditing."

"These proprietors can calculate an account clearly. The court's tax is not very high, six out of a hundred. But these managers, if they take it, it's not just 6%, it's at least half or more. Guarding against thieves day and night, it's hard to guard against thieves at home."

Zhang Juzheng looks at problems by looking at where the buttocks are sitting. In his view, merchants are unwilling to let their secrets be known by the court.

But for most merchants, this is a matter of interest. The court wants 6%, but these managers who eat inside and out are afraid that 60% won't fill their stomachs.

The Great Ming court once specifically checked the account books in Zhang Siwen's and Wang Chonggu's homes. After this news spread, the proprietors finally realized the seriousness of this problem.

"That's the carriage of the Duke of Dingguo Xu Wenbi's family, right? He came too?" Zhu Yijun's eyes were poisonous, and he saw the carriage of Xu Wenbi's family. The Duke's mansion also needed to worry about this problem.

Xu Wenbi did not come personally, but sent his confidant to ask the audit office to check the documents.

Zhu Yijun looked at the long queue and didn't intend to disturb the accountants at work. If he went over now, the Embroidered Uniform Guard would have to clear the field, the officials would have to have an audience, and all the work in the accountants' hands would have to stop to salute. If he went over, he would just be looking for trouble for people.

The audit office's fees were not cheap. Checking accounts and issuing reports were charged according to the number of people used and the time used. The accountants and the audit office split the accounts fifty-fifty.

An ordinary accountant was one qian of silver per hour, and a second-class accountant was two qian of silver per hour. If you wanted to invite the Prince of Zheng's son, the special god-calculator hired by the audit office, it would cost at least one tael of silver per hour.

One must know that a Great Ming capital soldier could only receive eighteen taels of silver a year. A court-certified accountant only needed to work for three hundred and sixty hours to get these eighteen taels of silver.

There were only two special god-calculators in total: one was Zhu Zaiyu, and the other was Cheng Dawei. If you wanted to invite these two, it wasn't just about having money.

According to the court officials' expectations, it was that when the court needed to balance accounts, the accountants of the audit office would be responsible for auditing. As a result, the audit office was exceptionally popular, and even the Ministry of Revenue's business had to queue up.

This made Wang Guoguang very unhappy. The yamen set up by the Ministry of Revenue! The Ministry of Revenue had to use it itself, and still had to queue up!

Is there any law left!

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