The west of Nanjing is close to Xiaoling, which is the concentration of Taicang in Nanjing. More than a dozen of them are nearby. Because the west of Nanjing is close to the Yangtze River and the water vapor is too heavy, the granary has been built to the east to facilitate the preservation of grain.

Li Jie led a group of people to gallop, and soon stopped in front of a camp gate of Taicang. Then a group of people stumbled their saddles and dismounted. The censor Wang Ming, who followed Li Jie, immediately helped introduce: "Mr. Concubine, this Taicang is the most stolen of all Taicangs, and the food inside is almost half reduced."

Li Jie dismounted and looked at the Taicang in front of him. He saw that there were troops stationed outside the door, and there were also round barns arranged closely inside. It looked quite large. According to what he learned in advance, this was one of the largest Taicang in Nanjing, and it could store more than 500,000 stones of grain.

"Where is the chief officer here?" Li Jie quickly withdrew his gaze and asked Wang Ming that the stolen grain in Taicang was found by Wang Ming, so he was responsible for the case at the beginning.

"The ambassador and deputy envoy who manage Taicang have been detained, but they have been bitten to death and refused to give up. Until now, they have not explained who their superior family is!" Wang Ming replied in a serious voice.

In fact, this time, the Taicang grain theft case was easy to investigate, because such a large-scale grain theft must have been involved, especially the ambassadors and deputy envoys who managed Taicang, who were executors, must have also participated, so Wang Ming immediately arrested all the chief officials of Taicang.

However, these officials were unanimous to the outside world. No matter how Wang Ming interrogated, they refused to explain. Moreover, Wang Ming was under pressure from all sides of Nanjing during the interrogation, which led to him not daring to torture the officials, so naturally he could not find anything.

"Hmph, there are no tigers in the mountains, and monkeys are called kings. When Emperor Taizu moved the capital, all kinds of demons and monsters jumped out!" Li Jie also snorted coldly when he heard this. He knew that this would happen, so the first thing he did when he entered Beijing was to block the various yamen, put all officials under house arrest, and when to find out the case and when would he let it go.

"Go in! Go and take a look!" After Li Jie said that, he walked in, and Wang Ming and Huang Hua also followed immediately.

Taicang had already received news, so when he saw Li Jie and the others come in, several small officials immediately followed him to greet him, and then took Li Jie and the others to visit Taicang. Wang Ming also introduced on the side, telling Li Jie that these small officials were all transferred from other places, and the original small officials were all controlled, but the small officials knew only limited, after all, their level was too low and the people above could not reach them at all.

Several minor officials also carefully explained to Li Jie and the others. Although they were newly transferred, they used to work in the granary, so they also knew the situation in Taicang.

Li Jie also looked at the granaries here with them, and found that half of them were empty. Even some granaries with grain were not filled, and there were problems with the storage of the granaries, and many of the grains had become moldy and spoiled.

However, compared to food theft, poor preservation is just a small problem. The minor officials then took the accounts from Taicang. As a result, Li Jie almost tore up the accounts after a few glances, because the entire account was in chaos. If you want to find out, you may need to organize a large number of people to check them for several years.

"Mr., you have seen just now that many empty grains are covered with severe dust. Obviously, they have not stored food for a long time. Although the accounts are chaotic, in terms of total amount, there should be at least 400,000 stones of grain here, but now it is half less. From this we can see that those small grains have probably never been transported here." Wang Ming next to him also spoke again.

"I knew that this case might not only involve the Nanjing officialdom, but even the entire Jiangnan officialdom may also involve it!" Li Jie also said hatefully at this time that the grain in Nanjing was mainly recruited from Jiangnan. If the grain had never been transported to Taicang, there might be problems from the source of the recruitment.

"What the prince consort said is that this case is too much involved, so the officials did not dare to act rashly before, just because they were worried that they would affect their whole body!" Wang Ming finally found an opportunity to pour a bitter way towards Li Jie.

In fact, as the deputy censor, Wang Ming could find out this case by himself, but he was worried that this case would involve too many people, so he did not dare to investigate it and could only write to the court. Now that Li Jie is here, only people with the status of Li Jie dare to investigate it.

"Hmph, no matter how many people are involved, this case must be investigated to the end. I want to see how bad Nanjing will be in a few years after moving the capital?" Li Jie snorted coldly. He was not afraid of offending people. Zhu Yunyu sent him here, and he was originally to clear the officialdom, so no matter how many people he involved, he had to investigate.

"Zheng Wang, hand over all the officials in Taicang to the Jinyiwei. I don't believe it. They can withstand the interrogation of the Jinyiwei!" Li Jie ordered coldly. He was unwilling to use torture and confession, but now time is tight, and the entire Nanjing officialdom is in a mess, so now he can only use this method of cutting the mess with a quick knife.

"This... OK!" Wang Ming hesitated for a moment and finally nodded. As a civil servant, he didn't want to see the Jinyiwei use this case to regain his reputation, but now he has no other way. Although the Jinyiwei is notorious, he is indeed very good at handling the case.

"Don't worry, as long as it falls into our hands, even if it is a stone, I can let it speak!" Huang Hua was shocked when he heard Li Jie's words and said excitedly.

Since the Jinyiwei was split, its power has been greatly restricted. For example, in supervising all officials, they only have the power to supervise. Even if there are any problems with the officials, they need to join the Censorate and then write to the court, and then hand it over to the Dali Temple or the Ministry of Justice to handle it.

Therefore, the Jinyiwei had no power for things like torture officials, but now Li Jie ordered them to do it, which allowed them to openly interrogate these officials. After this case, the Jinyiwei's reputation must have increased sharply again.

Of course, Li Jie knew Huang Hua’s little thoughts, but the case is important now, so it is normal to use some extraordinary means. However, he is also a little trouble now. After the case is investigated, many officials will definitely be dismissed. By the time the vacant number of officials will be released, what will the court use to fill it in? In addition, how can this case be prevented from happening again in the future?
Chapter completed!