Clan Rise: Starting as a Grandfather

Chapter 80: Chapter 79: Do you dare to lay a hand on me, an official? Are you looking down on me? Chapter 80: Chapter 79: Do you dare to lay a hand on me, an official? Are you looking down on me? In the accounting room, Yang Zhenshan sat decisively at the desk, while Xu Zhen and others outside exchanged puzzled looks.

“Lord, there was a shortage of thirty bushels of grain last month!”

“Lord, there was an issue with the disbursement of silver coin in May, they actually purchased thirty bolts of silk!”

“Lord, there are twenty fewer tendons bows in the storeroom!”

As Yang Chengxu and a few others audited the accounts, one problem after another was laid before Yang Zhenshan, causing the officials waiting outside to break into a cold sweat on their foreheads.

Yang Zhenshan’s eyes narrowed slightly, “Tendon bows?”

“Yes, in March of this year, a hundred tendon bows entered the warehouse, but now only eighty remain with no records of them being checked out!” Yang Chengxu said.

The outflow of military equipment was a serious matter.

If found out, it could lead to losing one’s head.

Yang Zhenshan glanced at Xu Zhen and the others outside, nodding nonchalantly.

Xu Zhen couldn’t sit still any longer, “Lord Thousand Households, may I have a moment to speak with you?”

“What is there to speak about? Just say it here!” Yang Zhenshan looked at him with a smirk.

“This~~”

Xu Zhen hesitated for a while before finally gritting his teeth and moving closer to Yang Zhenshan, whispering, “Lord, this was Mr. Zhang’s doing.”

“You didn’t participate?” Yang Zhenshan asked.

“No, definitely not!” Xu Zhen’s head shook like a bobblehead.

Yang Zhenshan couldn’t be bothered with him, waiting quietly for Yang Chengxu and the others to continue the audit.

About two hours passed, and Yang Chengxu and the rest finally finished auditing the accounts.

There were numerous issues, and many of them were quite severe. If all were exposed, they would be enough to sever the heads of the corrupt officials before him.

“Do you have anything to explain?”

Yang Zhenshan asked indifferently.

Xu Zhen and the others all remained silent, as if they had all turned mute.

“Since there are no explanations, I shall take it that you have acknowledged your guilt!” Yang Zhenshan continued.

Xu Zhen suddenly looked up, his eyes full of disbelief.

Acknowledge guilt?

Why acknowledge guilt?

Isn’t this a common matter?

What guilt is there?

He didn’t think he was guilty because this was the way they all did it.

Perhaps in his eyes, these matters were very normal.

Instead, it was Yang Zhenshan’s insistence on using these issues to make them acknowledge guilt that seemed abnormal.

“Does the lord wish for our lives?” Xu Zhen finally came to his senses.

Yang Zhenshan shook his head slightly, “It is not I who wants your lives, but it is you who have breached national and military laws!”

He was not someone who liked to stir up trouble; if there were useful officials, he wouldn’t mind accepting them.

But he could not tolerate a bunch of corrupt officials doing things under his watch. There was much he needed to do later, and he couldn’t afford to have corrupt officials dragging him down.

So, adhering to the principle of preferring a shortage to an abundance of such people, he intended to cleanse the ranks of all the corrupt officials first.

“Aren’t you afraid of offending the masses, my lord?” Xu Zhen, annoyed, glared with murderous intent.

“The masses? Are you the masses, or are those poor soldiers out there the masses?”

“You ask me if I’m afraid of opposing the masses. I’d like to ask you, aren’t you afraid of the soldiers under your command rebelling?”

Yang Zhenshan laughed dismissively; the practice of officials protecting one another seemed the norm in Chongshan Town.

If this had been in a fortress city, Yang Zhenshan would certainly not have been so rash as to expose these matters, but this was Yinghe Castle, where he was the commanding official, and his superior was an official of Yinghe Castle.

This matter could be managed not only by him but by Zhou Lan as well.

This is the importance of clinging to powerful legs.

“Take them!” Yang Zhenshan had already decided to hand these people over to Zhou Lan.

“Who dares!”

At the brink of life and death, Xu Zhen couldn’t help but go crazy.

Before the surrounding soldiers could make their move, he actually took the initiative to attack Yang Zhenshan.

The long fist swung, carrying a fierce wind, and struck straight at Yang Zhenshan’s face.