It wasn't long before a major event occurred in the imperial court—a shocking embezzlement scandal broke out, causing everyone to fear for themselves.
In Jiangnan, floods raged disastrously, with countless crops and livestock submerged, and the number of deaths and injuries was beyond count. The cause was the collapse of the dykes.
However, the imperial court had allocated a substantial sum of money not long ago to reinforce the dykes, which theoretically shouldn't have collapsed so easily under the flood.
Si Chu sent people to investigate and found that the materials used to build the dykes were shoddy substitutes for good ones. Where, then, had that large sum of silver gone?
There was only one possibility, it had gone into the pockets of some parasites!
