Chapter 607

"I do not believe!"

Winslow finally lost his composure, his handsome face flushed red.

In his impression, the teacher has always been a majestic and cold personality. Whether it is the closest student or anyone in the Pallas Floating Void City, they are always trembling when facing the teacher, and they dare not even show their anger. Anyone who does things badly or dares to be disrespectful will never end well.

He couldn't imagine that someone dared to insult the teacher face to face!

He also said that the teacher is a villain!

Others in the meeting were also skeptical. The Duke of Redstone has a strict personality, and the upper echelons of the empire have more or less heard of it. Even though Ren is a student of Anse Wodoss, powerful and has a backer behind him, to be so arrogant in front of the Duke of Redstone is probably seeking his own death.

"Believe it or not."

Ren's eyes swept over everyone's faces, then returned to Winslow, and said indifferently: "You can ask Kelstone right now if I am lying. But in my estimation, you poked that The pain of the villain will inevitably be punished by him, it depends on whether you have the courage or not."

He smiled maliciously, as if he was watching a play.

Winslow was too overwhelmed to refute.

He really wanted to expose Ryan's lies on the spot, but seeing that Ryan didn't care at all, he couldn't help feeling suspicious.

The most important thing is that it was hit by Rennes.

The teacher was forced to land because of the attack on Pallas Floating Void City. So far, he has not found out who did it. There is so much anger in his heart that he has nowhere to vent. Who would dare to offend him now?

Is this because you think you have a long life?

Seeing that Winslow was silent, Gnaeus and the legendary wizards began to believe that Ren had scolded the Duke of Redstone to his face, and they were horrified.

Ryan's evaluation in their minds has risen again.

If the Duke of Redstone is a villain, then Ren is a ruthless one!

In the first internal confrontation after the establishment of the supervisory team, Rennes won a complete victory. Winslow had no power to fight back, whether it was in momentum, strength, or verbal attacks. The two were not even opponents of the same level. The Duke of Redstone obviously miscalculated.

Gnaeus was happy to see this, and came out to smooth things over: "Speaker Ren, please be careful, we still have to retain a certain amount of respect for Holy Soul wizards. Your Excellency Winslow, please sit down."

Ren nodded noncommittally.

Winslow stood up and reprimanded Ren just now, but in the end he was discouraged. He stood there alone and couldn't get off. He happened to sit down again on the steps handed by the consul.

The atmosphere in the conference room relaxed a little.

Gnaeus continued to preside over the meeting, and discussed with everyone to determine the working charter of the supervision group.

For example, during the quarterly accounting review period, at least two members of the supervision team must be present in the office lobby on the first floor to watch at all times; there is also a notification of the results of the audit, whether to report to the Supreme Council, and how to go about the process. If there is a dispute that cannot reach a consensus, the members of the supervisory team will vote with a show of hands, and the majority vote shall prevail. The consul who is the leader of the team holds two votes.

Hearing that the consul had two votes, Winslow's expression moved imperceptibly.

Ren sneered inwardly.

The eyes of the soul saw that Winslow's mood fluctuated violently, and he was obviously thinking about the two votes in Gnaeus's hand. If he could win over Gnaeus and Otiluk, plus himself and the sage Kelanna, he would have five votes to control the supervisory team.

Well calculated, but only to think about it.

Winslow didn't know that Gnaeus had already turned to the Modus faction, and unless Gnaeus didn't want to be re-elected as the next consul, it was impossible to turn back.

Otiluk also has his own ideas, which are not so easy to buy.

The meeting ended in just half an hour.

As a consul, Gnaeus has a lot of things to deal with every day, so he can't stay here for a long time, and he gets up and leaves after talking.

The other group members also disbanded, leaving only Ren and Otiluk to guard the hall.

The two went downstairs and sat on one side of the hall.

Ren watched the financial accountants busy. The mobile phone library had already been opened, copied hundreds of thick account books into the mobile phone, and then opened it in the field of vision.

After just watching for a while, he stopped.

Nether's account book is complicated and complicated, the numbers are vast, and the accounting method is relatively backward. Some things are very different from the previous life. I am not an accounting major, and I don't understand a lot of content, so there is no need to waste my time on it.

Professional things are left to professional people to do.

Ashleigh has been the chancellor of the exchequer for almost twenty years, if she can't even find out a few accounting problems, she might as well just hit her head to death.

However, Ryan has a way to judge whether Nether's account books are fake.

He randomly picked out a dozen account books and started to make statistics on his mobile phone. Regardless of the authenticity of those items, tax items, revenue and expenditure or other things, just look at the numbers on the ledger, count the number of digits at the beginning of each number, and arrange them from 1 to 9.

This is a very simple way to identify whether the data is falsified, called "Benford's Law".

Ryan has seen this knowledge before.

In a bunch of data obtained from real life, the probability of numbers starting with 1 is about 30% of the total number. Ordinary people's probability of guessing directly is one in nine, but the actual rate is nearly three times. The larger the number, the lower the probability of the first few digits appearing.

In layman's terms, the number with 1 as the first digit appears more often than the number with 2 as the first digit, and the number with 3 as the first digit appears less.

By analogy, the number with 9 as the first place appears the least, and accounts for the lowest proportion in the total, less than one-twentieth.

As long as it conforms to this rule, it is generally real data.

Allenhaus is also a decimal system, and the ledger is also data obtained from real life, so it is applicable to Benford's law.

Ryan had searched in the library before, and the mathematics in the Ellenus world was much behind that of the previous life, and no one had discovered this law yet.

More than two hours later, more than a dozen randomly selected account books were counted.

Ren looked at the results on the screen and couldn't help shaking his head.

In fact, he knew the result just now when the statistics were halfway through. The number with 1 as the first is still the most, but the total number is obviously low, only a little over 20%. The number with 2 as the first digit is also relatively small, just over 10%, which is almost the same as the number with 3 as the first digit.

The ratio of the number of numbers starting from 4 to 9 is also completely wrong.

Under normal circumstances, it is a gentle downward curve. If the data of these ledgers are made into a line chart, it will be like a roller coaster!

Nether's ledger is so fake it can't be faked anymore.

Ryan dared to bet that if the books were not falsified, he would have eaten all these hundreds of books. It is impossible to tell which parts are fake, he just needs to know the result.

In the office hall, the sound of pages turning and writing didn't stop for a second.

Dozens of accounting accountants are concentrating on their work. Their minds are all on the ledger, and they look up from time to time to record something on the paper next to them, and hand it over to Ashley after summarizing.

Ren observed these accountants, and the eyes of the soul found that several people were emotionally abnormal.

He didn't startle the snake, but secretly wrote down their names.

As the evening approached, Ashley handed over a document she had just written to Ren, and reported, "My lord, this is a summary of the problems found in the ledger today, please have a look."

Ren noticed that the accountants in the hall had their ears pricked up, so he greeted Otiluk, motioned him to stay and stare, and said, "Follow me."

The two went to a room upstairs.

Ashley followed behind Ren. Before entering the door, she took advantage of Ren's back to her, quickly and quietly adjusted her clothes and hair, and adjusted her expression.

Ren knew exactly what she was doing, but pretended not to know, and asked after sitting down, "How's the situation?"

Ashley replied: "It's just some minor issues at the moment."

"Hmm..." Ren looked down at the materials in his hand. It was indeed as Ashley said, but the discrepancies in some accounts were not correct, and the amount was not large. The total number of problems found throughout the day was only a few thousand. Golden Shield can be prevaricated by negligence in recording.

He read it quickly, but frowned.

Some of the ledgers I checked today overlapped with the ledgers I extracted, that is to say, Ashley didn't find any fake accounts.

Ren looked up at her, and the eyes of the soul made sure that the sorceress had no other intentions.

Loyalty is no problem, that is the problem of ability.

Ashley has so many years of financial experience, no matter how clever the fraudulent accountants hired by Nether are, it is not impossible to find nothing. The problem should not be with Ashleigh, but with those accountants who were in an abnormal mood, they joined forces to cover up the flaws in the ledger, even Ashleigh.

Needless to say, those few people have been bought or coerced by Nether.

"My lord..." Ashley seemed to have sensed something, and became inexplicably nervous.

Although she was much older than Ren and was a legendary high-level warlock, Ren's past achievements and status, just a glance, put tremendous pressure on her, and she felt more uneasy than facing the consul.

Ren asked lightly: "When did you call these accountants and notify them?"

"Five days ago." Ashley replied hastily.

Ren nodded. Five days is enough for Nether wizards to do a lot of things. He thought about it for a while, and then whispered the names of several accountants, "Come here first today, tomorrow you will find a reason to transfer the people who I named out to other places, and temporarily change a group of people. .”

Ashley immediately understood what Ryan meant.

These accountants have problems.

She gritted her teeth and said: "My lord, please rest assured that these people will not appear in front of you again. I will definitely rectify the financial department, report the matter to the consul, and clear them out."

"No need, they're just ordinary people, and it's impossible to resist Nether's intentions." Ren didn't want to anger ordinary people.

Ashley secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

These few people are all able-bodied under her command. If they are dismissed in one go, the financial department will suffer a lot, and it will be difficult for her to carry out her work.

"Thank you Earl for your tolerance." She was sincerely grateful.

Ren waved his hand and said seriously: "There must be something wrong with these books, we must find them out."

"Yes, my lord!" Ashley responded sweetly.

Wren continued to stare the next day. None of the problematic financial accountants showed up, and two of the temporarily transferred accountants were also insiders. He caught them out before the audit began and asked Ashley to send them back.

After clearing the team, the problem with the ledger was exposed in less than half a day.

Ashleigh used her ability to follow the clues she found, and quickly uncovered a series of forged data. In two or three hours, she sorted out a piece of material, involving millions of gold shields, which is not a small sum. .

And there are more fake accounts being found, and the number is still increasing.

"here you go!"

Ryan praised Ashley, which made her look excited.

Today, Ren and Sage Kelanna were planted in rotation. He gave the materials to each other for review, and before the alchemy sage from Ain Floating Void City responded or said anything, he said directly: " I'll notify the supervisory team members to come over immediately."

After a while, all members of the supervision team arrived.

Ren passed the materials in the conference room. Gnaeus and the legendary wizards all looked solemn, and Winslow pursed his lips, unable to say a word.

"The whereabouts of more than one million gold shields are unknown. This is not a small problem." Gnaeus had a serious face. He had communicated with Ren long ago and knew what to do. He said loudly: "I propose to summon Nether immediately. The elders and the relevant Nether wizards will conduct a face-to-face questioning."

Several legendary wizards from the Modu faction had already prepared.

Winslow, Sage Kelanna and Otiluk were shocked.

The interrogation that Gnaeus mentioned was actually an interrogation, which skipped several steps of the process previously set by the supervision team, and directly fast forwarded to the last step.

Winslow and the Nether elders secretly decided to delay, and used various means to delay the 15-day review period. Unexpectedly, they would face the most severe test the next day.

"Your Excellency the Consul, it's too impatient to ask face-to-face questions at the very beginning of the review. What if it's just an omission in the account book? Should we wait a few more days to confirm?" Winslow put forward his reasons, and then solemnly said: "I oppose this proposal."

As soon as he finished speaking, Ren raised his hand and said, "I agree."

Then the other three hands also raised, and Alamance, Andro, and Sidney Rickman said in unison: "I agree."

The proposal was initiated by Gnaeus, and with the four of Rennes, it was a foregone conclusion.

Sage Kailana, who hadn't had time to speak out, and Otiluk, who was thinking, felt helpless, and their two votes were irrelevant.

Although Winslow had expected this kind of scene before, but when it actually happened, watching things develop towards the worst, the feeling of powerlessness and frustration made his face livid and his fists under the table clenched. Tightly, but can't think of any way.

Gnaeus nodded heavily.

He ignored Winslow and Kelanna at all, and directly asked Ashley to come in, and ordered: "Notify the Nether elders, and go to the Dutch Palace to accept the questioning of the supervision team within an hour."

Ashley took the order and left.

Soon, several Nether wizards in the room next to the hall on the first floor rushed back to the floating city to report the situation to the elders.

Before the questioning started, the news had already spread throughout Northriel.

Numerous residents inside and outside the imperial capital raised their heads one after another and looked at the floating city of Nether hanging high in the sky. It was clearly a scorching sun, but they seemed to see a huge shadow enveloping it, which was about to cause violent turmoil.