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""What on earth are you and the emperor up to?""

""We're going to Henan," Xiao Tian replied. "The emperor suspects that the Provincial Administrator and the Commander-in-Chief of Henan are in cahoots. They've been fabricating military expenditures to line their own pockets.""

"Yi Qing asked, "What do these two officials do?""

""The Provincial Administrator is in charge of finance and personnel, while the Commander-in-Chief is responsible for military affairs," Xiao Tian patiently explained. "Normally, the court appoints these two officials in one region to separate local and military powers. But in Hebei, the two families are related by marriage, and their connections are extremely complex.""