THE NOT-GOOD MAN Book 5
by Meiling Cao · Vast Fiction
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Chang'an, 754. Chang Nine is not hired any more; he is sent. The censor whose signature struck his register notation has a target — a transport Vice-Commissioner at Shaanzhou whom somebody wants removed — and Nine finds what he was sent for in two weeks: gifts taken, a nephew placed, two boats borrowed, books kept badly. Then a tally-boy goes off a wet bank into the river, and Nine decides in ninety seconds that it is murder, and is wrong. The real crime is a percentage: every reload in the empire's grain relay carries an allowance for loss, and at the gorge the allowance is the big one. Nobody has stolen anything. The grain was lost. There is a form.