After sending away the people around him, Liu Dehai immediately spoke respectfully to Qian Ruoyu.

"My lady, what happened today? Could this matter have anything to do with you?"

After all, Liu Dehai is one of them, so Qian Ruoyu nodded without hesitation.

"You are right. This matter does have something to do with me."

Qian Ruoyu said even more directly: "The Ministry of Revenue owes my husband one million taels of silver. I decided to teach them a little lesson."

After hearing what Qian Ruoyu said, Liu Dehai was immediately impressed.

Liu Dehai never thought that Qian Ruoyu could use such a method to deal with the Ministry of Revenue. He clapped his hands in delight.

"My queen, I didn't expect you to be so generous. It's really great. I have been annoyed with these people in the Ministry of Revenue for a long time!"

"The Ministry of Revenue also owes our Imperial Household Department a sum of money, about 300,000 taels. This money was originally intended as a reward for the Imperial Household Department staff, but it was eventually embezzled by the people in the Ministry of Revenue."

After hearing these words, Qian Ruoyu frowned even more.

Because Qian Ruoyu had never expected that the people in the Ministry of Revenue would be so arrogant that they even dared to swallow the money from the Imperial Household Department.

It is for this reason that Qian Ruoyu decided to join forces with Liu Dehai in front of him.

"Manager Liu, I wonder if you have any idea of ​​teaching these people from the Ministry of Revenue a lesson. If so, I have a way."

Liu Dehai nodded immediately.

"All is subject to Madam's orders!"

Qian Ruoyu then continued to tell the story.

"Since the people from the Ministry of Revenue are so arrogant, let's cut off their water and food supplies, and find a way to hint to them to hand over the 1.3 million taels of silver."

When he heard the 1.3 million taels, Liu Dehai was even happier.

This means that Qian Ruoyu also has to help him take out the 300,000 taels of silver.

In this way, as long as he could return 300,000 taels of silver to the Imperial Household Department, he, the new chief steward, would certainly be able to establish even higher prestige in the Imperial Household Department.

Liu Dehai immediately became excited at the thought of this, but he also spoke with some concern.

"This... is a good method, but cutting off water and food supplies might make the people inside unhappy... If His Majesty is offended by this..."

Qian Ruoyu smiled.

"Don't worry, it's just to teach them a lesson. Besides, you are representing His Majesty. They already have the plague. Can you really accommodate them?"

"I believe you have many ways, and you will never let me down. By then, you will be able to take out all the 1.3 million taels of silver."

After listening to Qian Ruoyu's words, Liu Dehai immediately built up his confidence.

At this time, a horse-drawn carriage carrying water slowly stopped at the gate of the Ministry of Revenue.

After seeing this scene, Liu Dehai walked straight forward.

Just as the water delivery man had just carried down the first bucket of water, Liu Dehai had already spoken.

"Okay, okay, leave the water at the door for now. Your Majesty's soldiers also need water."

The water delivery man was stunned.

"This...this sir, the Ministry of Revenue normally requires six buckets of water to be delivered every day. This is just one bucket of water. It's not enough for the sir inside."

But Liu Dehai gave an even more stern order.

"I'll send you a bucket if you ask me to. The rest will be left for your majesty's soldiers to drink. What? Do you want to disobey the emperor's order?"

After hearing these words suddenly, the water delivery man stepped back in fear, his hands shaking constantly.

After all, he was just an ordinary citizen and had never seen such a scene. When he heard these words, he was shocked and trembling all over.

And it was only after this that Liu Dehai spoke.

"It's nothing. You can go back now. Bring six buckets of water tomorrow as usual. You only need to leave one bucket. Also, don't tell anyone about what happened in the Ministry of Revenue. If the news gets out, the whole family will be executed!"

The water delivery man was so frightened that he dared not speak. He lowered his head quickly and even almost knelt down to Liu Dehai.

After he put the remaining six buckets of water aside, he hurriedly pulled the carriage away.

Liu Dehai even said to a squad leader beside him.

"Distribute the water to the brothers. They will drink some. Standing guard is very tiring."

After hearing this, the sergeant naturally nodded quickly. After all, there was water to drink, so he naturally began to execute Liu Dehai's orders, and Liu Dehai also gained the favor of these soldiers because of this.

By noon, several ministers had arrived at the door of the yamen one after another and looked outside.

At the same time, one of them said, "Manager Liu, we usually go home for dinner. Now that the government office is closed, we should notify our families and ask them to bring us food..."

Several other people also spoke up.

"That's right, Manager Liu, you can lock us up, but you can't deny us food. Otherwise, we have a lot of things to deal with in the afternoon..."

"Manager Liu, please help notify our family members!"

But after hearing this, Liu Dehai just sneered.

"Do you have a lot of things to deal with? It seems that our Ministry of Internal Affairs still has some things to deal with. You have been dealing with these things for such a long time, and there are so many people dealing with them, but you can't even handle anything properly. And you still want to eat?"

"It's not that I won't give you food, it's just that there are too many of you. Forget it, I'll give you an hour to write out a list. We will notify the people on the list and have their families deliver the food."

After saying this, Liu Dehai ignored them.

Although the people inside were anxious, none of them could get out. After all, the soldiers guarding the door were all from the imperial palace and were not something their Ministry of Revenue could manage.

Finally, after half an hour, someone came to the door and wanted to hand over the list, but Liu Dehai pretended not to see it.

It was not until half an hour had passed that it was the one hour that Liu Dehai had mentioned. Liu Dehai turned around and put the list away.

The people in the Ministry of Revenue had never thought that Liu Dehai would behave like this, but they had no way to deal with Liu Dehai at this time. Instead, several people immediately returned to the yamen and reported the matter to Zhang Qiang.

"Is there anything else in the Ministry of Internal Affairs that we haven't dealt with yet?"