Zhu Qi originally thought that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince asked him and Zhu Di to plead for the officials, but when Zhu Qi followed Zhu Di and the others to the Crown Prince Zhu Biao, he realized that things were not that simple.

When Prince Zhu Biao saw the two of them coming, he immediately went up to meet them and asked:

"Third brother, what does the fourth brother's father say? Did you leave this matter to the third brother to be responsible?"

Zhu Qi was stunned. Unexpectedly, Zhu Biao guessed so accurately. He nodded and said.

"Yes, brother, my father has handed me over this matter. Where can I do it well? I'm hesitating in my heart, what should I do?"

After he said this, he saw Zhu Biao in front of him, with a hesitant look on his face. Zhu Qi said:

"Brother, you didn't mean to contradict your father on purpose just now, right? Then let this matter fall on me."

Zhu Qi had just finished speaking, and Zhu Di next to him also reacted suddenly, but Zhu Biao smiled bitterly and then said to Zhu Qi:

"Of course I didn't do it on purpose, but I thought the same as my father. Only you can do this, the third brother."

Zhu Biao continued:

"Many of those officials are really dedicated to the country and have no malice.

Third brother, you must clearly distinguish it when investigating, and don’t accidentally hurt the loyal and good-natured.

As for those who are willing to fill their own pockets and infringe on the court’s taxes for their own sake, they will naturally deal with it impartially."

Zhu Qi showed a embarrassed expression and continued:

"Brother, I understand everything you said, but it's too difficult to do it."

Zhu Biao sighed, patted Zhu Qi on the shoulder and said:

"I know this will offend many ministers in the court. And my father would definitely rather kill the wrong person than let him go.

But brother, please ask you for this matter not for your own selfish interests, but for someone in our court.

All these ministers were killed, so who else would do anything? Wouldn't it be a shame to the hearts of the people?"

Zhu Biao is indeed right. In history, the air seal case involved tens of thousands of officials. Basically, all officials below the deputy department of the six ministries were killed by Zhu Yuanzhang.

Otherwise, the occupation with the highest mortality rate in the entire Hongwu year was an official.

Zhu Biao's meaning was obviously to protect as many officials as possible, but this was contrary to Zhu Yuanzhang's meaning.

Zhu Yuanzhang would rather kill the wrong person than let him go!

Zhu Qi listened to the elder brother, not to ignore the elder brother, it can be said that he was in a dilemma.

But to be fair, Zhu Qi was not very interested in killing these officials.

As Zhu Biao said, a large part of the officials involved in the empty seal case were out of official habits, so they brought empty documents to reconcile the accounts.

However, it is not ruled out that a small number of corrupt officials use this loophole to be corrupt.

When Zhu Biao saw Zhu Qi's embarrassing expression, he said:

"Brother also knows that it is too difficult to investigate who is the honest official and who is the corrupt official..."

Zhu Qi smiled and then said to Zhu Biao:

"Brother, if you really want to find out, it's not as difficult as you think."

Zhu Biao was stunned when he heard Zhu Qi say this, and then asked Zhu Qi:

"San Lao, according to your opinion, can you find out clearly?"

Zhu Qi did not nod directly, but said:

"If you want to find out who is embezzled and who is not, just pair the taxes investigated by the central government and local governments.

Those who have too big gaps will most likely have problems.”

After Zhu Qi said this, Zhu Biao, who was beside him, said to Zhu Qi:

"Last brother, you may not be in the court and have no idea about this matter.

If there were no such empty seal documents, in previous years, the central and local finances would not match the annual central and local finances.

If the officials are sentenced to guilt by this basis, I think no official in the world can escape the guilt."

Of course, Zhu Qi understood this truth. Not to mention the Ming Dynasty, even if modern times have such a systematic audit, the reconciliation of central and local fiscal funds will be a difficult problem every year.

Because it is impossible for you to give this account a perfect match. Even if you can reduce the error to 1% in the 21st century, it is a very amazing thing.

This is only possible with the help of the system that the error can be reduced to this range.

In the Ming Dynasty, there was no help from computer systems. If you want to investigate clearly, the tax details in each place would be a fool!

Therefore, one can only set up an approximate range, and within this range, local officials are mostly more decent.

If this range is exceeded, you can investigate whether there is any problem.

According to the research of historians, this range is ten percent.

Of course, if all the central officials are colluding with the local government, for example, it would be hard to say.

Maybe someone else’s account is done with the central and local accounts. What are you going to check?

That was really like Zhu Yuanzhang said, all the officials were thinking about how to suck blood on the court.

Under such circumstances, even the gods can't save them.

Of course, the Hongwu period was when the Ming Dynasty was just founded, so naturally such a thing did not exist.

Let’s not talk about whether central officials are willing to collude with local officials.

Even Zhu Yuanzhang's ability to work as a spy can also ensure that if the central government and local officials have any letters or special close communication, they can know it as soon as possible.

There is no way, I can't monitor all officials from all over the country, and there is still no problem in monitoring the central officials.

Zhu Qi felt that this was also the reason why Zhu Yuanzhang was angry. Perhaps most of the officials in these six ministries had contact with local officials.

It happened that the empty seal case appeared again at this time. Such a big case, so Zhu Yuanzhang was so angry!

But these are just Zhu Qi's guess. Is this true? Zhu Qi actually does not have a particularly great desire to explore.

After Zhu Biao finished speaking, he saw Zhu Qi's confident look, and knew in his heart that the third brother must have some good ideas, so he asked:

"Stern brother, do you have any way to distinguish between loyalty and treacherous?"

Gu Ju/span   Zhu Qi said:

"There are solutions, although they may not be easy to use, they are better than thinking about it.

But the project volume may be relatively large, and I need some extra helpers."

Zhu Qi already had the help of the Jinyiwei, but these Jinyiwei may be more good at spies, but they are not good at math, so they have to ask questions.

Since Zhu Qi wanted to investigate and deal with the empty seal case, the first thing he did was to clarify the central finance and local finances.

Only by clarifying these two finances and comparing them to see how many errors are there can we find the direction of the sponsor.

This requires a large number of personnel to calculate. Although Zhu Qi is very confident in his mathematical ability, it is really a dream to rely on him alone, or even add several other craftsmen to calculate the taxes of such a huge organization in the Ming Dynasty.

Even in the court, it was the result of thousands of people spending a long time together to calculate.

When Zhu Biao heard Zhu Qi say this, he immediately patted his chest and said:

"San Lao, don't worry, as long as you have a solution, no matter what kind of help you want, I can find a way for you."

Zhu Qi was waiting for Zhu Biao to say this, and he immediately clapped his hands and said to Zhu Biao:

"Brother, this is what you said, so please lend me all the students and students from the Imperial College for use!"

Zhu Biao was stunned and asked:

"What do you want the students of the Imperial College to do? They only know how to study, and it is probably a bit too embarrassing for them to distinguish loyalty and treacherous."

Zhu Qi said with a smile:

“Sometimes, it is a great skill to be able to read a book well.

Didn’t I offer a mathematics course some time ago? Many students in the Imperial College have already studied in this course, and it’s been a year since then.

In the mathematics, numbers will never lie."

When Zhu Biao heard this, he immediately understood what Zhu Qi wanted these students to do, but Zhu Biao quickly said:

"Last brother, what are you going to do? I probably know, but those students can calculate what so many imperial officials have not calculated?"

"I definitely couldn't calculate it before." Zhu Qi said confidently:

"But as long as I have studied mathematics courses in the Imperial College and can pass the exam, I believe there will be no problem."

Zhu Qi was full of confidence in his heart. He was very confident in modern mathematics teaching, but Zhu Biao did not know the power of mathematics, so he was also a little upset in his heart.

But now Zhu Biao has no other way, and if he can really help those officials who are not guilty to get rid of the crime, Zhu Biao is still willing to help.

So Zhu Biao stopped saying anything, and quickly took out his token and handed it to Zhu Qi.

With this prince token, let alone those students, even officials from the Sixth Ministry could be mobilized.

However, now a large number of officials in the six ministries are locked up in prison, and they are still waiting for others to rescue them.

After Zhu Qi said goodbye from Zhu Biao, he soon became busy.
To be continued...