Chapter 562: The Killer

Hu Mu said, Zhu Di is already frowning, he has obviously heard the words.

Zhu Di then propped his palms on the imperial case and actually stood up slowly.

Zhu Di did not think that this postal division of Hu Mu, actually will be involved in the yellow book.

The yellow book of things, Zhu Di is largely satisfied, because the increase of the world’s 70% of the population, which for Zhu Di, is a rare happy event.

Just at the moment when Zhu’s expression was grave.

The university scholars, although they were all somewhat dismayed, but very quickly, they also calmed down.

Especially Xie Jin, even a matter of concern, hanging high attitude.

Instead, it was Hu Guang, whose heart thumped.

He couldn’t help but curse his own stupid son in his heart, good for nothing not to do his postal division transit ambassador, prefer to wade through the muddy water, his own advantages of this father, really not learned a bit.

With these words alone, Hu Mu has offended everyone in the world.

Not only that, the yellow book matter, his majesty rare dragon face, but just in this stall, any zheng speech, once the response is not good, may lead to backlash.

Not only will His Majesty be displeased, but it is necessary for this hundred officials to rise up against him.

It was such that Hu Guang even had the urge to stand out directly and speak out to ‘remind’ him.

It’s good to know that I know that this Imperial Court, he held back after all.

As for the metropolitan police up and down, but one by one to reveal the color of surprise, but also can not help but heart born of vigilance.

The yellow book of things, all up and down the Academy, have received the emperor’s flags, and many people therefore to recount the merits, now, but suddenly someone mentioned, enough to make people feel a little unusual.

Zhu Di still has a calm face, seemingly breezy appearance, only smiled and said, “Yellow book? What’s the matter with the yellow book?”

Hu Mu glanced at Zhang Anshi, as if from Zhang Anshi’s body, drew courage in general, and so continued, “The Postal Department recorded the world’s households, and from this …… came the total number of households in the world.”

Zhu Di said, “The court has just gone through a purge, why, this Postal Department has also been purged?”

These words were not actually asked to Hu Mu, but to Zhang Anshi.

Zhang Anshi immediately replied, “Your Majesty, it is not that the Postal Department takes the initiative to check, but in order to deliver letters, as well as subscribe to the Di Di newspaper and other businesses, it is necessary to check the thousands of households in the world. If we don’t know their people and their addresses, then how can we deliver letters efficiently and quickly?”

Zhu nodded his head, he then smiled and said, “A mere postal division, a few months of work, and it’s already cleared out?”

To know, this time the court’s great inventory, although it is also a few months time inventory out, but after all, mobilized the court, the three divisions, the government, the county, and countless a long and the head of the bailiff, and so on, so the world’s officials, are used.

In addition, most of them are in the prefectures and counties know the local situation of the parents of the officials or A, the head of the security, but even so, it took several months of effort.

Although the Postal Service also spent a lot of money and food, but this is, after all, the establishment of only more than half a year, the vast majority of people, are newly recruited, as for this Hu Mu, is also young, seniority is also very shallow.

To say that they are more efficient than the world’s prefectures is something Zhu cannot imagine.

Hu Mu replied, “It has indeed been cleared out.”

Zhu Di smiled, gazed at Hu Mu, and said, “Good, then I would like to hear how many men and women have been cleared out?”

Hu Mu then said, “Back to your majesty, today’s world, the two capital provinces, the people and households inventoried …… for ……”

Humu paused here and then said, “Twenty-two million seven hundred thousand households.”

This statement was made ……

There was a deathly silence in the hall.

Zhu Di’s gaze, from the flatness of the party, turned to become gleaming.

Even his tiger’s body, he couldn’t help but tremble.

Followed by an aggressive tone, “How much?”

“Two thousand two hundred and seventy thousand ……” Hu Mu is also very nervous at this time, seems to be afraid that Zhu Di thinks that he is false, so the answer is more detailed: “Another nine thousand four hundred and fifty-nine households.”

Chu: “……”

The temple remained silent.

Wen Yuan Pavilion the university professors, already one by one will not head to another place to go.

At this point, it’s safer to leave things as they are!

Hu Guang, however, was suffocating.

Obviously, the numbers don’t add up.

No, it’s more than right, it’s a world of difference.

Originally, the number of households in the world was more than eight million, but since then it has gone through an inventory and has risen greatly to twelve million seven hundred thousand.

But now …… has almost doubled on top of that, and has actually reached 22 million households ……

The difference is enough to bring the heads of millions to the ground.

The question is, who is going to have their head on the ground, the 100 officials, or this stupid son of his?

Either way, it wasn’t what Hu Guang wanted to see.

At this point, Hu Guang’s heart had begun to beat the drums, and he turned to glance at Zhang Anshi with a grudging look.

He had always known that Zhang Anshi was a mongrel, always speaking out of turn.

Now it’s good, he Zhang Anshi did it himself, and even dragged Hu Mu into the water.

In the midst of these mixed emotions of worry and fear, finally, whispers began to appear in the hall.

The royal historian was already discolored.

Even as stupid as they were, they were well aware of the terrible consequences that could be triggered once this number came out.

The smile on Zhu’s face, however, has long since disappeared, and his gaze, has begun to become even sharper.

“Twenty-two million seven hundred thousand households?” Zhu Di seemed to be a little less convinced of his own ears and reconfirmed.

Hu Mu said firmly in his tone, “Exactly.”

“But a falsehood?”

Hu Mu had to say, “I …… do not dare to deceive, this is to enter the palace audience, report to inform your majesty …….”

Zhu Di still seems to have some disbelief, because in fact, if there is an omission, he can understand.

Zhu Di is not a person who cannot tolerate sand in his eyes, and he also knows that …… in the actual process, there must be some wrongdoing and omission.

But he was also confident that he was under the wrath of the dragon’s face, the hundred officials in order to make up for their own faults, will certainly have to sell some, to give him an account of the emperor.

As a result, he was able to accept the previously reported result of 12 million households. He thought that even if there was still an error, it should be at most around one million households.

But Zhu did not expect that this omission and wrongful concealment would be on the scale of ten million or more.

Zhu Di also seems to hope, from Hu Mu, to find what traces, to make judgment, then said: “Do you know, deceive the king is what consequences?”

Hu Mu said, “I know, extermination!”

Hu Guang shuddered.

Zhu Di looked at him solemnly and said, “Since you know the consequences, how dare you make false statements?”

Hu Mu said, “If I report a mistake, I would rather exterminate my family!”

Zhu subconsciously glanced at Hu Guang.

In fact, it was everyone’s eyes that fell on Hu Guang.

Hu Guang people have been numb, only the heart beats extremely fast!

Probably scared!

He felt like he should clarify a few things, but he opened his mouth, but his throat felt like it was blocked and he couldn’t make a sound for a moment.

Zhu Di’s eyes had narrowed to a slit, and then he dropped his gaze on Hu Mu’s body.

He questioned, “More than twenty million households? But why did the imperial court inventory only twelve million households?”

“Your Majesty, the truth is even more frightening than the disparity of data on the surface.” Hu Mu had apparently also gone out on a limb, and was actually a bit more composed than he had been in the party.

Scarier?

Zhu said in disbelief, “Where is the horror?”

Hu Mu more and more calmly said: “The fact is, recently in many of the prefectures, the situation of the demolition of the household, and even …… also appeared, the family father and son two people, the original original for a household, the same under one roof, but had to be demolished as two households. What’s more, there is a man, there are two sons, the eldest son is only nine years old, the second son is seven years old, but was split into three households …… and the eldest son’s age, was changed to seventeen years old …… without authorization.”

Zhu Di heard here, eyes slightly open a little wider, for no reason, actually also feel creepy up.

Zhu Di such a person, is a mountain of corpses in the sea of blood out of the kill, extraordinary courage.

In the past, even if the corpses were everywhere, he would never frown.

But when I heard this, I actually felt an indescribable chill.

Zhu Di sat down, seems to be in the uniformity of their own breathing, the face remains calm, staring at Hu Mu said: “Where do these …… know?”

Immediately, Hu Mu said, “The Postal Service clears to the households and also to the people, so naturally, it can be known.”

“Your Majesty!”

Just then, someone let out an angry roar.

The crowd subconsciously looked, but it was Shi Zhongcheng, the Left Capital Royalty.

Speaking of the left imperial historian, it is the most noble, since the original left imperial historian Chen Ying was convicted, Shi Zhongcheng took his place, and has since become the head of the imperial historian.

As the chief official presiding over the Duzhaoyuan, Shi Zhongcheng, although his reputation is not prominent, but his status is quite high.

After all, this left is only on the surface of the third grade, the official position is even lower than the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Justice, but once you want to promote, but will never be subordinate to the Ministry of Industry or the Ministry of Justice, often the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Army, or the Ministry of the Ministry of the Household, and even the Ministry of the Ministry of Justice may not be possible.

Shi Zhongcheng at this time the face is very ugly, usually are all impeachment of others, but today, this Hu Mu words, but equal to this person will be impeached the entire Academy, not to mention the world involved in the matter of the state government.

Shi Zhongcheng tensed a face and said: “Your Majesty, this son’s words, not enough to believe, in the process of investigation, there are some unlawful acts, I believe, but this investigation, the court ministries are not only all the best efforts, Wen Yuange is also day and night to supervise, the lower three divisions, the prefectures and counties, there is no need to mention mention! This world, how come the 22 million households? As for what the words of the sub-division of households, perhaps …… may not be a small part of the favoritism of people, falsehoods! But if …… said …… that the world is mostly like this, I …… thought that this statement is just claptrap, not worth mentioning.”

He spoke eloquently, but even Hu Guang could hear it at once, that there was a murderous aura in the words.

On the one hand, Shi Zhongcheng talked about this clearance, is the emperor, Wen Yuan Pavilion, ministries and the world’s hundred officials work together, that is to say, this Hu Mu dare to overthrow this result, is tantamount to ……… declaring war on all the people in the world.

On the other hand, he then also left a trace of leeway, there is such a situation, of course, is not surprising, can take some of the localized situation, want to take this attack on the expulsion of the Qingcha, then …… enough to see this person wolf wild heart.

The other imperial historians, driven by this Left Imperial Prefect, also nodded their heads, and some immediately stepped forward and began to perk up their voices.

For a moment, the scene was out of control.

After all, …… Hu Mu s words, once His Majesty is convinced, the consequences are unpredictable.

Even if it wasn’t for bravado, it couldn’t be done for the sake of his own head alone.

Perhaps because Hu Mu’s report is too horrible, so Zhu Di can not distinguish a moment, so simply silent, dry watching the imperial court began to question, but he took this, see a little bit of clues.

Thus, Zhu Di did not stop this.

Zhang Anshi at this time, but said, “Why not ask the postal department transit ambassador …… to finish his words.”

Shi Zhongcheng was arrogantly said: “I have not heard of any postal department transporter, only heard of the salt transport department transporter, I do not know this transporter, the imperial examination ranked a few a, after joining the dynasty, seniority geometry?”

Zhang Anshi instantly caught fire and said angrily, “He is the son of Grand Maester Hu Guang.”

Hu Guang: “……”

Hu Guang people and numb, at this time, he was completely messed up, once he heard Hu Guang son of four words, he subconsciously wanted to argue, but found that this is the truth, is the real discernment of no discernible reason.

Shi Zhongcheng at this time has been a burst of anger, gas prancing said: “Even if it is Hu Guang such a mouth slanderous words, the old man still want to righteousness, the old man only look at the right and wrong, do not look at who is the person, even for the university sergeant Hu Guang, and what are his qualifications, and what is the right to say such words?”

Hu Guang: “……

Zhang Anshi laughed coldly: “When the time comes, we will have our own evidence, why do you need to deliberately want to take the opportunity to make trouble here!”

Shi Zhongcheng face green, eyes are even wider, showing teeth and cracking color, after all, …… this has been related to his own life, where at this time to care about the other, who messed with him, he will bite who.

At that moment, Shi Zhongcheng couldn’t help but laugh out loud and say, “A good credentials, both have real credentials, that old man, on the contrary, has words that he wants to ask this son of Hu Guang for advice.”

His tone was full of mockery, and he no longer even bothered to address Hu Guang as Lord Hu.

At this point, you Hu Guang connived son wants to put everyone to death, did not shout you Hu Guang is Hu Guang old dog even if it is polite.

Shi Zhongcheng said, and only then did the cacophony of voices in the hall barely subside a bit.

Shi Zhongcheng immediately, furiously toward Hu Mu said, “You both dare to play the report, then …… dare to ask, on what basis do you say that there are 22 million households in the world?”

“The Postal Division …… has written down the number.” Hu Mu’s voice obviously does not have the party’s footsteps. In fact, at this time Hu Mu, there are some timid, after all, the first encounter with such a big scene.

Shi Zhongcheng, however, felt that he was holding on for dear life, so he laughed out loud and said, “Is it all right to keep track of a number?”

Hu Mu said, “Every number, too, has a basis.”

“Each one?” Shi Zhongcheng cost still wanted to press on step by step, but when he heard every one, he seemed to immediately find out the loophole in Hu Mu’s words, “You mean …… that every one of these twenty-two million households, you have proof?”

Hu Guang heard, has been anxious, he was insulted by the left imperial historian, in fact, Hu Guang does not care, because things have reached this point, their own father and son, how to get out of it, is the most important issue.

But now, he has obviously foreseen that his own son, is really foolish, it has not been long yet, all of a sudden, Shi Zhongcheng seized the words.

Shi Zhongcheng at this time has been calmed down a lot, but is calm and calmly grabbed his beard and said, “Good, the old man would like to see, this two thousand two hundred and seventy-seven million households, how to do every one of them! Would also like to ask, these people …… origin where, age geometry, children more or less, parents in peace, how the appearance ……”

“There is ……” Hu Mu heard this, actually people are also calm, after all, …… debate is not his specialty, but it happens to ask his best field, but not people are shaking up? The first time I heard of this, I was also calmed down.

“Yes, all of them, year, place of origin, name, shape, and each one, with a newspaper box hanging in their home, has their number ……”

Shi Zhongcheng: “……”

He suddenly, his face hardened, and a flash of hesitation darted across his eyes.

In fact, in Shi Zhongcheng’s understanding, just a few months of work, the district a postal service, it is obviously impossible to have such a detailed inventory, at most, but also just counted a number, used to claptrap just.

But he didn’t expect to ask questions that happened to be in the areas that people were good at.

So Shi Zhongcheng had to continue to put on a calm demeanor and said, “Hum …… two thousand two hundred and seventy thousand households, all of them?”

“Yes, all of them!” Hu Mu replied with great certainty, not a single moment of hesitation.

Shi Zhongcheng’s face, too, began to become slightly less confident.

He took a deep breath and settled his mind before saying, “Where is it? In that case, why don’t you fetch it and test it.”

That being said, that’s the way it has to be.

Hu Mu, however, frowned and began to become embarrassed left and right.

A see Hu Mu face with doubt, Shi Zhongcheng seems to have confidence again, the whole person jittery up, since I feel that this must be their own poke each other’s pain points, when the cold words mocked: “How …… can not get?”

“It’s not that it can’t be taken out …… it’s …… really …… too much ……” Hu Mu said with difficulty: “Dozens of warehouses …… even if they are moved to the palace …… for fear of a moment …… also… …also …… need a day or two of effort …… not to mention those documents, most of which have been divided into categories, if you move without authorization, I’m afraid that …… by then again To spend a lot of manpower and resources to clean up ……”

Shi Zhongcheng: “……”

Zhu Di has been coldly watching the two people you a word, at this time to see Hu Mu s appearance, but feel …… that this matter may not be impossible.

At this very moment, a royal historian said, “This is nothing more than excuses; this man’s drumming lips and wagging tongue are by no means good, so do not listen to his nonsense.”

Zhu Di’s mind moved slightly, so he said, “The paperwork is all in the Postal Department?”

Hu Mu said, “Your Majesty, they are all in the Postal Department.”

Zhu Di swept a heavy-faced officials a glance, only to say: “This is a matter of great importance, if not personally verify, how to convince the public? I today, have to recognize the right and wrong can not be, come on people, driving, to the postal service!”