Ancient Wenheng looked at him with a smile. "Mr. Liu, I'm afraid I don't follow. If there's a problem, it's my duty to solve it. But this matter is beyond my authority, so naturally I have to seek a ruling from my superiors."
Seeing the furious glare in Liu Xuan's eyes, Ancient Wenheng sighed. "Mr. Liu, you should focus on how you're going to fix this."
For an impoverished province like Yi, several hundred thousand taels of silver was an astronomical sum.
He had just glanced at the ledgers himself. The accounting methods were truly covert. If Qianqian hadn't specifically trained him for this kind of thing, he might not have been able to uncover it at all.
'He figured Liu must have been stalling for time, not just to make me late, but also to throw me off balance. The idea was that I'd be too flustered to immediately check ledgers that were supposedly already closed.'
'If anyone else had come to take over, they would have been completely fooled.'
