Five days later.
In Zhaohai Palace, Tang Youyin solemnly reported: "…The Ministry of Revenue has long-standing issues with corruption, entrenched habits are hard to change. No one dares to touch the gold and silver, and there's indeed a lot of trickery when handling the sale of field manors and land shops."
"The Gao Liang Prince Mansion has a total of seven field manors and nineteen commercial shops, most of which have been sold. Those coming to buy the field manors are mostly relatives or clansmen of officials from the Ministry of Revenue, and the selling prices are far below market prices."
"Take the field manor disposed of today as an example, it has a total of three thousand mu of fertile land and over thirty manor slaves. The market value is at least thirty thousand silver taels, but it was sold for only eighteen thousand taels."
