After rebirth, I became a national teacher

That means you have to pay more.

Pei Xiao secretly hated these people's greed, but he had to accept their threats.

There are indeed many powerful people who take advantage of their power to bully others and manipulate things behind the scenes, but only their family has been made known to everyone.

He cannot leave any handle for His Majesty to strip him of his title.

The Jinyiwei and Silijian will each send another 5,000 taels today.

The total cost was thirty thousand taels.

In this case, how could the reward from the Right Deputy Censor-in-Chief of the Supervisory Office be less than the last time's five thousand taels?

Even the office of the Minister of War and Admiral Caojiang, who can make direct suggestions to His Majesty, will have to be taken care of this time.

The total amount for the three of them would be at least 16,000 taels.

After he had people send out the silver to supply the Jinyiwei and Silijian, he planned to go to the Ministry of War and the Supervisory Office.

Just as he was about to ask the butler to get the banknotes, the butler looked embarrassed:

"My Lord, the money in the treasury...is not enough!"

Pei Xiao frowned in disbelief.

Not enough money?

He is a marquis with millions of assets, but someone actually told him that the money is not enough!

"What's going on? I remember that there was still 110,000 taels of silver when the year-end bill was settled. It's only February now, how could there be no money?"

The chief steward counted with him the expenses of the Marquis' Mansion in the past two months.

The New Year gifts, daily expenses of the Marquis' Mansion, year-end rewards for servants, and the cleanup of two arson cases had cost more than 80,000 taels.

Now, there are only ten thousand taels left, and the cash is not enough.

Pei Xiao was not bad at math. After adding up all the numbers, he was still short of 19,000 taels.

It's only February, and there are already 19,000 taels that can't be counted.

This is not a small amount of money. The total assets of some middle and lower-level officials of ordinary backgrounds in the court are less than this amount.

This can only mean that someone is secretly stealing his money!

"There is still a shortfall of 19,000 taels. Where is the money?"

He stared at the butler with eyes as sharp as knives.

The butler was sweating profusely:

"This... this, these are the only expenses I know about... Why don't you ask Madam?"

How could he have the guts to take so much money from the Marquis's treasury?

But he didn't dare to say openly that it was his wife who did it.

How could Pei Xiao not understand the hidden meaning of his words?

He couldn't help but turn pale.

He originally thought that Zhang was a good person, gentle, virtuous, and good at managing the household.

Who would have thought that besides constantly causing herself huge troubles, she was actually a huge rat!

In just two months, he embezzled 19,000 taels from his treasury, and no one knew how much he had taken before!

Even if the Marquis's Mansion had millions of assets, it couldn't withstand her spending!

"Go get the account book."

In the Marquis's Mansion, Zhang and the chief steward each had their own set of account books, which was meant to check and balance each other.

But in recent years, Pei Xiao has trusted Zhang more and more, and the chief steward could only turn a blind eye to Zhang's attempts to make money in the Marquis' Mansion.

At this moment, the anxious Zhang asked for a meeting again.

Hearing the report from the attendant, Pei Xiao gritted his teeth:

"Just in time, let her in!"

Zhang finally got to see Pei Xiao and felt a little relieved.

However, as soon as she arrived, she saw Pei Xiao staring at her unkindly.

She rushed over, grabbed Pei Xiao's sleeve with one hand, raised her face and looked at him with tears in her eyes:

"My Lord, please listen to my explanation! I didn't mean to bring disaster to the Marquis' Mansion. I was coerced by that cunning servant Liu Ma to let Zhang Gui take the name card and banknotes to redeem He Wang! Who knew that I would fall into someone else's scheme..."

There was no trace of emotion on Pei Xiao's stern face at this moment.

But the attendant who knew Pei Xiao well knew that this was the calm before the storm.

When he gets furious, there isn't much emotion left on his face.

He will directly launch a counterattack that will cause people to feel pain to the bone.

Madam, I'm afraid you're going to be in trouble this time.

Pei Xiao narrowed his eyes and looked at her for a while, then pulled her hand away and pushed it away.

"Go away!"

Zhang was weak to begin with, and after being pushed, she fell to the ground and let out a scream.