Chapter 1086: Xuanping Ten Years Chen Lifu Returns to Beijing
In the tenth year of Xuanping, outside Jinling City!
Chen Lifu, who looked slightly tired, got off the boat. As soon as he got off the boat, he saw a young official wearing official uniform and wearing a rhinoceros badge on his chest, which represented his status as a seventh-grade official, and quickly came up to him.
As soon as he arrived in front of him, he bowed and said: "I respectfully welcome you back to the capital!"
Chen Lifu looked at the direct subordinates of the inspection department and nodded slightly: "Let's go!"
Although the young man saw that Chen Lifu looked tired, he wanted to say something but hesitated.
What kind of person is Chen Lifu? He has dominated the officialdom of the Tang Dynasty for several years. He killed countless people with just one signature pen. He is called Chen Rentu by outsiders. His eyes are naturally very sophisticated. He immediately frowned slightly: "Yes."
Just say whatever you want to say, no matter how secretive you are!"
This young man who was able to appear at the Xincheng Pier to greet him today was naturally not an ordinary person, but a direct subordinate of his butcher Chen. Moreover, many people did not know that the relationship between them was still teacher and student.
In his early years, before Chen Lifu passed the imperial examination and became a Jinshi in the Ming Dynasty, he opened a private school when he was bored and taught children from nearby villages. This young man was his early student.
It's just that he was just a teenager in those days, but now he has grown up. He passed the exam last year, got the top grade, and was finally assigned to work in the tax department.
After Chen Lifu inspected him for several months, he felt that this student was quite smart, so he took the opportunity to recruit him to serve in the Inspection Division.
Of course, not many people know about the teacher-student relationship between them, because Chen Lifu taught him for a few months in the early years, and it was just a name.
No one will investigate.
Naturally, Chen Lifu would not be polite to his early student!
The young official hesitated for a moment, and then said: "Sir, I heard that someone reported you to the Inspectorate again!"
Hearing this, Chen Lifu didn't take it seriously: "They're just a bunch of clowns, don't worry too much!"
In the past few years, many people have reported him. Not to mention reporting to the Inspectorate, even if they directly gave His Majesty the excuse to impeach him, there are countless people.
Why?
Who told him that Chen Lifu was the director of the Inspection Division of the Grain Collection Department of the Ministry of Taxation, and he was almost the most powerful official in the world!
Not to mention that the nature of the tax inspection work of the Inspection Office would arouse the hostility of countless civilians, especially those landlords and businessmen. Even within the officialdom of the Tang Dynasty, and even within the tax department, there were not a few people who hated him.
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Because almost every time the inspection office goes to a place to inspect taxes, it means that there is a tax problem in the local area. Tax evasion is a very serious problem, and the empire pays more attention to it than military problems!
When a tax problem occurs in a place, the first thing the tax inspectors dispatched by the Inspection Office will do is to rectify the local tax agency. In the process of rectification, it is natural that some of the worms and tax officials who are corrupt and bend the law will be exposed.
Dig them out, and then send them all to the Procuratorate for prosecution. In the end, those who deserve to be exiled will be exiled, and those who deserve to be killed will be killed.
After rectifying the local tax agency, the tax inspection will start the next step of investigating local tax evasion and tax evasion problems, and then start to catch the typical cases. Basically, they will catch a group and kill a group.
It’s understandable to arrest people. As for killing people, the tax department has a tax inspection team. When they come to arrest people and ransack their homes, some of those big landowners and big businessmen will resist. For such people who are armed to resist taxes,
The tax inspection team usually fires all guns blazing!
In the past two years, the tax inspection team under the Ministry of Taxation has become more and more professional. Based on the reform experience in Jiangbei and Wanbei provinces, Chen Lifu promoted the reform of the tax inspection team nationwide and transformed the previous
The hooligans and the like were cleared out en masse, and then retired soldiers were recruited to serve.
At the same time, the tax inspection team was also split internally. On the whole, it was split into three agencies. One part was purely civilian and was responsible for administrative and logistical matters. One part was investigators. This was similar to ordinary patrol police. The other part was
They are law enforcement officers.
Yes, the tax inspection team has law enforcement powers. They can investigate and arrest tax evaders in accordance with tax laws.
In the process of law enforcement, it is normal to have exchanges of fire with people who evade taxes or even armed tax resisters. When patrol officers arrest people, the prisoners will also resist!
It's just that the law enforcement officers of the tax inspection team have much higher military literacy and weapons and equipment than those of the patrol police. They are basically all veterans. They are equipped with army standard flintlock rifles, pistols, shotguns, and plate armor and swords.
Not to mention.
So when the tax inspection team enforces the law, there is a little bit of noise!
The nature of the work of the Inspection Office determines that they will be hated by many outsiders, and reporting and impeachment are common occurrences.
There is even a rumor within the Inspection Office that a tax inspector who is not reported or impeached is not a good tax inspector, because this means that he has not offended anyone.
As for doing tax work, if you don't get offended, it basically means that you haven't made any achievements!
The tax department does not need good people, it needs people who can collect taxes!
Therefore, when Chen Lifu heard that someone was reporting him again, he was too lazy to pay attention. In the past few years, more and more people have reported and impeached him. Impeachment was not a problem. After all, it was just a matter of conveying the details of the impeachment to the emperor. Generally speaking, if the emperor did not make a decision,
If it is necessary to deal with it, then these impeachment tricks will basically be left undisclosed. In other words, the emperor will pretend that he has not seen it.
Therefore, this situation is generally not made public and does not enter judicial proceedings.
But reporting is different. If the report is accepted by the Inspectorate, it will basically enter the judicial process, and the Inspectorate will investigate.
Of course, the Inspectorate had already stumbled upon Chen Lifu a few years ago, and he was stupidly used as a knife. Therefore, the Inspectorate has been much more cautious in reporting Chen Lifu in recent years.
Without enough evidence or great confidence, they will basically not open a case for investigation. Of course, this does not mean that they do not want to investigate Chen Lifu. Every time they receive a report, even if they do not open a case, they will not open a case.
We will investigate secretly, but we won't make it public.
I just investigated and investigated, but I didn't find anything obvious wrong with Chen Lifu!
Of course, Chen Lifu was not a perfect man, and he naturally had his flaws. For example, Chen Lifu, who was born as a traditional scholar, especially liked to travel around the mountains and rivers, um, take the girls from the brothels with him.
There are also several women living in the house outside, and they all have several illegitimate children.
But the most you can say about this kind of thing is that he has a problem with his life style. If it really makes a big fuss, the most you can do is fine him a salary or something, but he is not short of money!
Yes, Chen Lifu is really not short of money!
He comes from a scholarly family and has a lot of property. Not to mention that the Chen family has invested in new industries in recent years and successively opened a textile factory and a flour mill. I heard that this year they also entered the machinery manufacturing industry and built a
Chen's Machinery Company is engaged in the research, development and production of professional textile machinery.
Damn it, this Chen's Machinery Company's initial investment alone is over two hundred thousand taels of silver!
Today, there are many officials in the family business, but none of them are as successful as Chen Lifu.
Some people may also ask, if this official is doing business, there must be something wrong with it. The Supervisory Office often investigates officials whose families are also doing business. They may often find problems and arrest them easily.
But Chen Lifu is good, there is no problem, he does not evade taxes when doing business, nor does he use his influence to do business!
Chen Lifu's family is so rich that they don't even need some sideways methods and can earn huge amounts of wealth by doing serious business!
And Chen Lifu, who has made more money, still needs to be corrupt and use his power to make money for himself?
No need at all!
He had so much money that he had nowhere to spend it, and the Inspectorate basically could not find any financial problems with him. Even if there were real problems, it was Chen Lifu who bribed others, not others who bribed him!
Economic issues were originally the easiest direction to investigate. Since this direction was blocked, the Inspectorate had no choice but to look for other directions. However, for the time being, they have not found it yet.
No key evidence was found. Even if they often received reports against Chen Lifu, they would basically not file a case.
But this does not mean that they do not want to send Chen Lifu to prison!
However, although he was not too worried, when he returned to Jinling City, even if he heard that someone was reporting him, Chen Lifu would naturally not be happy there. He immediately ordered his entourage to investigate and saw that those bastards were reporting him again.
Is it because I have intensified tax inspections on the raw silk industry in the past two days, which caused the raw silk merchants in the northern Zhejiang and Jiangnan areas to cause trouble? Or is it because a group of tea businesses that evaded taxes were inspected some time ago, so those tea merchants want to engage in trouble?
Something happened? Or maybe it was the black hand of his political opponent?
Chen Lifu is no longer a young man. He knows very well that behind every report, there are those whose interests have been harmed because of him, including landowners, businessmen and officials.
But no matter who it is, Chen Lifu will basically scare him away every time!
A good person will be bullied by others, a good horse will be ridden by others!
Is Chen Lifu kind?
You kind ass, you think his nickname of Chen Rentu was for nothing!
Moreover, Chen Lifu is a person with lofty ideals. Although he is currently only a fifth-rank director of the Inspection Division, he is always eager to achieve better results, then continue to be promoted, and finally enter the imperial study room.
, became the right-hand man of the Holy Emperor.
At that time, it is time for him to display his ambition and create a peaceful and prosperous age!
But before that, he must not fall down easily!
In order to establish a prosperous age and for the common people in the world, he must stand proudly above the officialdom and climb up step by step. Any stumbling block that interferes with him will be kicked away without mercy!
This time, someone came to report me again. This is to hinder my career and hinder my ambition. I must investigate who is behind it, and then use thunderous methods. I must strictly investigate their tax issues!
Strictly investigate, find out the problems, raid homes and arrest people, we will never tolerate it!
Because these small group of saboteurs want to destroy the prosperous age of Xuanping and poison the people of the world. How can Chen Lifu tolerate these people? If he tolerates it, then he is no longer Chen Rentu!