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Chapter 107 Rebellious Officials of the Former Dynasty 38

"Second Reporter: The quantity of fodder for the warhorses is incorrect compared to the actual number of warhorses. The error is... The person responsible is..."

"Number Three..."

"Number Four..."

In the entire tent, apart from the crackling of the candlelight, the only sounds were Ling Yi turning the account books and her indifferent voice.

Gradually, the clerk, who had something amiss in mind, loosened his grip on the brush the moment he heard his superior's name, leaving a huge black mark on the paper.

Ling Yi glanced at him and said calmly, "Drag him away, and send the Imperial Guards to take his place!"

Then, she began rapidly recounting the discrepancies in the accounts.

Everyone noticed that while she was talking about those accounts, her eyes were looking at other accounts that were completely different from hers.

In other words, she first memorized all those accounts, and then, while multitasking, she looked at the others and calculated the ones that were unusual!

Is this still a human brain?

After one night, the clerks were exhausted, so the imperial guards took over recording the accounts.

These soldiers, who came from respectable families, were all literate, although a few of them had poor handwriting.

Apart from the one who was dragged out first, the others, exhausted, sat pale-faced in the corner of the tent, listening to Ling Yi slowly undress Da Ying.

There was a clerk who was ostracized by everyone for many years because his superior had never been corrupt.

As he listened to Ling Yi read out the crimes of those people one by one, he became so excited that his face turned red.

Seeing that Ling Yi was resting and drinking tea again, he gritted his teeth and stepped forward: "Your Highness, I have something to report!"

Ling Yi raised an eyebrow.

What she had been waiting for finally came.

"explain."

"It's useless to preach like this in the camp now. In the past, under the rule of that man surnamed Sun, soldiers who had any dissent all died without knowing why."

His superior officer was also sent out to fight several tough battles against the barbarians, and his military merits were even stolen.

If it weren't for the fear that if his superiors made further merits, people from other places would discover something amiss, Sun Gaoshuo would have given him far more than just a cold bench.

"Oh?" Ling Yi said slowly, "He actually went so far as to act against the natural order? He's utterly arrogant."

Hearing her emotionless sigh, the clerk could only laugh.

That arrogant person had his throat slit in front of officials of all ranks. Who was truly more arrogant?

"I'm willing to persuade my fellow soldiers to come and report this," he said through gritted teeth. "If even one person dares to break this taboo, the others will follow suit!"

"Alright, go ahead." Ling Yi glanced at the account book again and said calmly, "Take the Imperial Guards with you, lest you die before you even get started."

The clerk bowed slightly, thanked the princess, and strode outside.

At this moment, only one box of account books remained that Ling Yi had not yet read.

She stood up and stretched her limbs before turning her gaze to the scribes huddled in the corner. She smiled and said, "Number Three has gone to persuade the soldiers. What do you all say?"

The clerks exchanged glances, then the wise one stepped forward: "We are also willing to serve as the Queen's henchmen!"

As clerks, they were naturally less greedy than those brutes with soldiers under their command.

If I make a contribution, will I be spared from death?

They were terrified by the princess who dared to kill the general without an imperial decree; they dared not have any other thoughts and only wanted to save their own lives.

"Then I'll have to trouble you all." Ling Yi cupped her hands in a half-hearted gesture, indicating that the Imperial Guards should also follow these people to the main camp.

one two three four……

Eh?

Ling Yi looked down at the document, whose eyes were wide and whose face was full of defiance as it stared at her, and laughed: "Why are you still here? Aren't you going with them?"

The clerk snorted and stood up: "How can we scholars submit to tyranny? The princess has attacked an official of the court without imperial decree; His Majesty should punish her!"

"Before that, I disdained to associate with a criminal!"

Ling Yi looked down at the fine fabric he was wearing and smiled: "I remember you. Your surname is Sun, and you are a distant relative of Sun Gaoshuo."

The man's face stiffened, and he turned his head away, letting out another cold snort.

When news of Sun Gaoshuo's death reached the camp, he knew he was finished.

Because that idiot didn't understand what accounts were, let alone how to tamper with supplies.

All the gold and silver he obtained since coming to the northern desert was handled by him, the clerk, and he even received no less than Sun Gaoshuo!

Sun Gaoshuo is dead, how could he possibly be alive?

Last night he tried to sneak out of the military camp, transfer his family's belongings, and escape.

Unexpectedly, all the places he could leave were blocked by the Imperial Guards, so he had to return empty-handed and was even taken to this camp to keep accounts for some princess.

At that time, he thought the princess was unaware of the intricacies of the military camp, let alone his position in the matter.

But after recording the expenses for the night, he no longer dared to harbor such wishful thinking.

This princess can find out how many horseshoes others have embezzled, so how could she not find out his role in this corruption case?

So now, all he can do is stubbornly insist that the gambling queen dare not kill again.

He only hoped that his sons would be smart enough to notice the strange things in the military camp and escape with the family property as soon as possible.

In that case, his death wouldn't be considered unjust!

His worthless life wasn't even worth tens of thousands of taels of silver!

Ling Yi smiled and looked at him: "I like the idea of ​​someone who would rather die than submit. I like people who would rather die than submit."

"It would be more interesting to chop off someone's head than to chop someone's head off."

Sun Wenshu's suppressed fear gradually intensified under Ling Yi's words.

"You're probably thinking that your son will run away with your wife and elderly mother, right?" Ling Yi casually poked at his thoughts, and as his eyes widened in astonishment, she slowly delivered another blow: "Don't even think about it, it's impossible!"

"When I arrived, I had your residence surrounded. I heard that your mother couldn't handle the shock and fainted."

She leaned down to look at Sun Wenshu, her voice like that of a demon: "I've heard that Sun Wenshu is a filial son, kneeling in front of the clinic for three days straight to save his elderly mother?"

"What do you want to do!" Sun Wenshu could no longer control his emotions and stood up abruptly, but was pressed back down by the Imperial Guards.

“It’s not what I want to do, it’s what you want to do.” Ling Yi smiled as she looked at Sun Wenshu, who had collapsed over just one sentence: “If you can do it to my satisfaction, I, the princess, will give your mother a clean cell and the right to medical treatment before she is beheaded.”

Even at this point, Ling Yi refused to give a single promise not to kill him.

If this promise is given, what about the soldiers who suffer because of these people's corruption?

What about those soldiers who died without compensation and were wounded without medicine?

The entire Sun family must die, including Sun Wenshu's family and Sun Gaoshuo's family!

"If you let them go, they won't know anything!"