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Chapter 186 - 186 182 Calculating Against Each Other
Chapter 186 - 186 182 Calculating Against Each Other
?Chapter 186: Chapter 182: Calculating Against Each Other Chapter 186: Chapter 182: Calculating Against Each Other Prefectural Government’s backyard, Li Chunhui was leading people in inventorying the assets in the courtyard.
This time, his main task is to confiscate property. As the head official of the Ministry of Revenue, all these assets are to be transferred to the national treasury of the Ministry.
Of course, handling a property confiscation isn’t something he can manage by himself; beside him, there’s an Imperial Censor from the Imperial Examination Hall, a young eunuch from the palace, and a principal official from the Ministry of Criminal Justice.
Li Chunhui is just a worker, while the Imperial Censor and the young eunuch from the palace supervise them.
After spending half a day, they had sifted through everything inside and out, packing all Silver Coin and gathering all valuable items for storage.
Looking at the inventory list in his hand, Li Chunhui’s eyes flickered.
“Mr. Yu, the property confiscated this time seems to not match our expectations!”
“Not matching!”
Mr. Yu looked quite young, probably only around twenty years old, with a fair complexion and a slightly shrill voice.
“What is mismatched? How much property did you expect to confiscate?”
He looked at Li Chunhui strangely, could expectations even be made for confiscations?
Isn’t the property just confiscated based on what is found?
But Li Chunhui said with a smile: “Of course, we can estimate. Generally, we make an estimate of the property before confiscation, based on the confessions of the criminals.”
“Look!”
He said, taking out a booklet from his bosom, “This is Lin Xuan’s confession.”
“According to the description, Lin Xuan had received bribes from the Liang family amounting to eighty thousand taels in the last five years, along with various gold, silver, jewelry, antique paintings, furs, fabrics, etc.”
“But look at what we confiscated, only twenty thousand taels in Silver Coin and just over a thousand various items, with a total value of approximately fifty to sixty thousand taels!”
“There’s a shortfall of over twenty thousand taels!”
Li Chunhui had made his position as a principal official in the Ministry of Revenue through competence.
He had a very detailed understanding of market prices, and was experienced with official tasks like property confiscation.
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