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Mara glanced at the Crown Prince's expression, then peered at the investigation report in his hand, and immediately said, "Your Highness, please give me some time. If they have indeed committed embezzlement, I will certainly be able to uncover it!"
Upon hearing this, Joseph's brows still did not relax.
He believed that with Mara's "dogged" spirit, sooner or later, he would be able to dig up those officials' dirty secrets—even the evidence of the Governor of Poitou's corruption had been unearthed by him—but still, the time that it would take was too long.
If he could not deter in the shortest possible time those officials who dared to oppose the abolition of the Tax Farmers system, more people would follow suit, accepting bribes to join the chorus against him.
After all, even if the postal system were to "collapse," at worst, it would be chaotic for a month, so one must make a quick decision to convict all these forty-some people.
