The governor was the official with the most offices.

Because their main task was to inspect their jurisdiction, in addition to the main office, each prefecture and county built an administrative office for them.

For example, the governor's office of Kunshan County is located in the left market area of ​​Xishan Lane, and the governor's office of Huating County is located in the northeast of Shajia Bridge in the southwest of the city.

Shanghai County was naturally no exception. In the northeast of the county, a grand governor's headquarters was built for the Yingtian governor.

I saw that on Yuanqian Street, there was a gate on the east and west sides of the road. The one on the northeast was engraved with "Gangji" and the one on the west was named "Xunxuan".

At this time, the two gates were guarded by soldiers and county officials, and no one was allowed to approach the governor's office.

This is important.

The first is to avoid disturbing the Zhongcheng's rest, and the second is to not give the unruly people who want to file a complaint to a higher level an opportunity to take advantage of it.

The entire headquarters was built in strict accordance with the regulations of the governor's office without any discounts. I don't know how much money it cost.

In the middle of the two gates is the main entrance of the government office with five pillars and three rooms, painted in red lacquer with gold nails, and hanging a plaque with the words "Duxian Xingtai".

Under the plaque, eight fully armed soldiers stood solemnly.

There are five outer gates inside the outer gates, and three ceremonial gates inside the outer gates. Inside the ceremonial gates are where the clerks and servants of the governor's office work and live.

There are three pavilions after entering the ceremonial gate. Inside the pavilions are where the staff and officials work and live.

Entering the gate, you will find the courtyard where the governor lives. There are five front halls and five bedrooms in the back. There is also a pavilion, rockery, seasonal flowers and lush green bamboo in the backyard.

Although the governor cannot come once a year, the feelings of the people below cannot be compromised in the slightest.

Otherwise, why does everyone want to be an official, and officials all want to be high-ranking officials?

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At this time, Lin Run washed and dressed in a moon-white Songjiang cotton robe. He stood with his hands behind his back in the signing room at the back bedroom, watching the soldiers carry in the sealed boxes one by one.

Lin Zhongcheng had never expected that a mere branch of a money shop would have so many account books that they filled up the huge outer room without any room to move.

The last few boxes had to be stacked on top.

When all the wooden boxes were brought in, Captain Feng reported back, "Zhongcheng, all the inscribed boxes on Wanyuan are here."

"Okay." Lin Run nodded and instructed him, "Don't let your guard down over at Wanyuan. First, prevent someone from taking advantage of the chaos to rob, and second, don't let anything happen to the people in the store."

"I understand!" Captain Feng nodded in agreement.

"Go ahead." Lin Zhongcheng waved his hand, signaling Captain Feng to leave, and then smiled at Zheng Yuanshao who was still confused, "What are you standing there for? Help us check the accounts."

"Ah, yes." Zheng Yuanshao hurriedly rolled up his wide sleeves and imitated Lin Run to remove the seal of the wooden box, but he couldn't help but smile bitterly:

"What exactly do you want to investigate? Zhongcheng, you have to tell me clearly, right?"

"First, find a transaction of 20,000 taels of silver in July this year. The recipient is called... Ronan." Lin Run gave the order while rummaging through the account books in the box.

"Naked man? Is there anyone with this name?" Zheng Yuanshao muttered, becoming even more confused.

The two of them opened the boxes one by one and began to search carefully.

As he searched, Lin Run finally understood why a money house would have so many account books.

Apart from other things, in order to prevent wrong entries and avoid leaking the amount of money deposited by customers, Wanyuanhao has established a separate account book for each depositor.

Shanghai Wanyuanhao has a history of nearly a hundred years, and it has as many account books as it has customers.

Fortunately, the bank's archival science was not low, and they indexed all customers by surname and name, and divided them by the amount of deposits. In this way, they only needed to check the more than ten boxes of index books to find the target.

Even so, the two of them searched until the sun went down before they found the bank's transfer record book for July this year, as well as the personal account of a man named Ronan.

On the cover of that personal account book was written 'Yi Household No. 337'.

Zheng Yuanshao flipped open the thin booklet and saw that there were only two pages with words on them.

One page contains the customer's information, as well as the secret seal and stamp for record.

The other page had only two lines of text. One line was Ronan's account opening record, followed by the signature and seal of the account opening guarantor.

The second line records the deposit of 20,000 taels of silver.

Seeing that there was nothing interesting, Zheng Yuanshao was about to close the account book when his pupils suddenly shrank.

His eyes fell on the guarantor column, and he saw that the name was 'Xu Liu'.

Zheng Yuanshao didn't know Xu Liu, but he was now allergic to this surname.

Moreover, Zhongcheng had just hit a snag in Xujiagang, and instead of returning to Huating, he came to Shanghai, taking a considerable risk to seal up the Wanyuan.

At this time, any person with the surname Xu who appeared would make him sweat.

Lin Run was unaware of this and was concentrating on looking through the transfer records in his hand until he finally found the one he was looking for.

'On July 16, 20,000 taels of silver were transferred from Household No. 27 of Type A to Household No. 337 of Type B.'

Household No. 337 of Type B belongs to Ronan.

Lin Run felt like he had discovered a new world. He had never known that the bank's accounts would be so clear and complete, with all the past activities of all customers in the bank recorded clearly.

Through these account books, every transaction that has occurred in the past can be restored, and they can be used as evidence for conviction!

"It turns out that the case can be investigated this way..." He couldn't help but think of what Zhao Hao reminded him before leaving Suzhou.

"If necessary, Zhongcheng can check the accounts of Wanyuanhao. I believe you will find everything you need."

The young man did not deceive me.

Lin Run smiled for the first time in a long time and murmured, "Who is the person in No. 27 of the Jia-Zi household?"

Zheng Yuanshao quickly rummaged through the box containing the account books of Household A. After a while, he picked up the account book numbered "27" and slowly opened the title page.

The account holder's file comes into view.

Xu Liu, whose courtesy name was Jinglei and whose pseudonym was Lixing Jushi, was from Huating County, Songjiang Prefecture.

Seeing that he was right, Zheng Yuanshao's heart trembled and the booklet in his hand almost fell to the ground.

"Are you okay?" Lin Run asked with concern.

"No, it's okay. Maybe I got up too early today and I feel a little dizzy." Zheng Yuanshao quickly covered up with a bitter smile and said, "Time is unforgiving."

"Let's stop here today." Seeing that the light in the room was dim, Lin Run took the account book from his hand and said, "Go to bed early. We'll continue tomorrow."

"Okay." Zheng Yuanshao nodded, and the two of them left the signing room. Lin Run locked the door and told the guards outside:

"We will double up tonight and no lights or candles are allowed."

This is also the reason why he doesn't work late into the night. The room is full of account books, and if he accidentally clicks on one, he will be in big trouble.

"Yes, sir!" the guards responded in unison.

The long-time attendant held a lantern and led Lin Run back to the inner bedroom for dinner.

Lin Run invited Zheng Yuanshao to have dinner together, but Zheng Yuanshao politely declined, saying that he felt dizzy and wanted to vomit, and would not affect Zhongcheng's appetite.

Only then was he able to escape and return to the East Courtyard where he lived.

Then he saw his long-time attendant standing at the gate of the courtyard with an anxious look on his face.

"Master, you are back." The long-servant came up to him and whispered, "Those two are waiting for you in the room."

"Ah?" Zheng Yuanshao was so shocked that he almost cried out. Is he trying to commit suicide?

ps. There is still half of the next update, so hurry up and write it.