Although Xiao Jin was fond of revelry, with his palace in the Prince of Jiangbei residence filled with music and singing every night, he was far from foolish. He couldn't be completely certain of the dirty secrets behind the disaster that stretched a thousand miles in Hengchuan Prefecture, but he had roughly guessed it, and was not far off the mark.
With the support of the Prince of Jiangbei household, who else could have bribed Wu Yi to misappropriate the three million taels of silver allocated by the Ministry of Revenue for the construction of the Hengchuan Prefecture embankments? It would have to be a power greater and a household more noble than that of the Prince of Jiangbei.
In Houliang, there were naturally quite a few households that were nobler than that of the Prince of Jiangbei. However, those lacking silver to such an extent that they would covertly target the embankments of Hengchuan, and possessing the audacity to do so, were indeed very rare.
