These are not small roles. They are all middle-level officials starting from the seventh rank, and they are middle-level officials in core central agencies such as the Financial Department. When they are exposed to the local level, they are important middle-level officials of a county magistrate and a prefectural prefect.
As expected, these unlucky guys will either be shot or imprisoned, and the worst-case scenario is that they will be exiled to overseas colonies.
As for those who just lost their official positions and were demoted to common people, they are not qualified to be arrested by the Inspectorate. The dismissal of officials is just an internal administrative matter. It is a matter of the Ministry of Personnel and has nothing to do with the Inspectorate.
Whenever the Supervisory Office intervenes, it is a criminal case.
And Chen Lifu didn't want to be arrested like these unlucky guys, nor did he want to do nothing and then wait to be dismissed from office. He also wanted to make achievements in the Finance Department to continue to be promoted.
It was his dream to become a high-ranking official in the ministry, enter the royal study, and assist the Holy Emperor in creating a prosperous age of peace and prosperity. This was his dream, a dream engraved in his bones.
For this reason, he gave up his reputation as a scholar and gave up enjoying a comfortable life at home!
When he first served in the Inspection Office, his teachers and friends regarded him as a scum among scholars and drew a clear line with him. It can be said that his entire life was ruined. But has he given up? No.
Because he knows that when he finally brings order to the chaos, he will eventually go down in history and become a famous minister.
When I was on patrol in the Inspection Division, I endured all kinds of hardships. Thinking about those days is hard to look back on!
Because of the poor conditions when going out on patrol, the chopsticks used for eating can only be silver chopsticks instead of the ivory chopsticks at home.
The carriage they traveled in was just an ordinary high-end carriage, not the luxurious four-wheeled carriage worth nearly ten thousand taels of silver at home.
For meals, you can only eat a dozen dishes prepared by ordinary restaurant chefs, instead of meals specially prepared for you by exclusive chefs from various major cuisines.
Even the girl who warms the bed is just an ordinary courtesan, not the stunning beauty in the house.
Those hard days, don’t mention how uncomfortable they are!
But Chen Lifu endured it!
What is it for? It’s not just to realize your ideal!
But if the Inspectorate, or Song Ruan Gao, continues to do this, the Financial Department will become a large base for harboring criminals, and we don't know how many people will be arrested.
Calling yourself sick? No!
No matter whether you ask or not? Who knows when this fire will completely ignite yourself!
Asking Qian Zuoli for help? Nonsense, Song Ruangao was waiting for him to do this. Maybe the fate of the former director would be the fate of Chen Lifu.
After thinking hard for a long time, Chen Lifu found that he was in this situation all because of one thing, that is, he belonged to the Qian Zuoli faction!
Well, although Chen Lifu himself has never regarded Qian Zuoli as his benefactor, let alone a member of Qian Zuoli's faction, you know, his dream in the early years was to kill all the way and finally become
When the Minister of Taxation entered the imperial study, he wanted to squeeze out Qian Zuoli's position.
What's more, although he has never revealed it, he, like many people, believes that Qian Zuili is a traitor who has harmed the country.
Yes, Qian Zuoli regarded him as one of his own, but Chen Lifu never regarded Qian Zuoli as one of his own.
But the outside world doesn’t see it that way!
People outside all think that they belong to the Qian Zili faction, and Song Ruangao probably thinks so too.
At noon, Chen Lifu dealt with a few unimportant matters and left the Financial Department Office in a hurry. Now that the Financial Department Office was in turmoil, he wanted to save himself!
After thinking about it for a long time, Chen Lifu decided that he could no longer let the outside world think that he was a member of Qian Zuoli's faction!
He, Chen Lifu, is Chen Lifu and never belongs to that faction!
Even if we have to talk about that faction, then he is a serious imperialist!
In the entire Tang Dynasty, apart from the Holy Emperor who could gain his loyalty, others also wanted to gain Chen Lifu's loyalty? Are you kidding me? When did Chen Lifu's loyalty become so cheap?
Qian Zuili can't do it, Song Ruangao can't do it either, and the others can't do it either!
After leaving the Yamen, he returned to his house in Jinling City and began to write a memorial!
Yes, he is not looking for Qian Zuili or Song Ruangao, he is going to write a letter directly to the Holy Emperor!
The content of his memorial is simple: impeachment!
Impeaching corruption within the Financial Department, and also impeaching the Inspection and Supervisory Board for indiscriminate behavior, making the Financial Department panic!
He said in the brochure that the problems in the Financial Department are serious diseases. Even if they need to be treated, strong medicine cannot be given. Otherwise, according to the intensity of the investigation by the Supervisory Office, the officials in the Financial Department will not say 100%, but
Nine times out of ten, you'll end up in jail!
After all, when officials are corrupt and bend the law, among a hundred officials there may be some who are wronged, but at least 90% of them are actually guilty!
If you add in issues such as dereliction of duty, lifestyle, and attitude of loyalty to the emperor, you can kill a hundred of them and not even one of them will be wronged.
Others may not know this, but as the director of the Inspection Division, Chen Lifu, who has killed countless gentry, landlords and officials, knows very well that when there is a tax problem in a place, the officials in the local tax agency and the local
The officials were all killed, and no one could be wrongly accused.
Even if there is no corruption, there must still be crimes such as dereliction of duty!
Otherwise, he would not have killed so many people in the past few years, thus earning the nickname Chen Rentu. The people he arrested at the beginning all had solid evidence, and he would not unjustly accuse people casually.
Is there a problem in the Finance Department?
There definitely is!
is it serious?
The director has already been killed. Do you think it's serious or not?
Want to rectify it?
necessary!
but……
Even if we want to rectify it, we can't paralyze the entire Financial Department like now. This is a central agency. The entire financial industry and even officials in the world are watching. Even if we want to kill people, we must kill them slowly and secretly.
Kill.
If it is done so violently all at once, it will affect the overall financial stability of the empire!
An impeachment memorial, on the surface, mentioned corruption and chaos in the Supervisory Council, but in fact Chen Lifu impeached both Qian Zuili and Song Ruangao!
Because behind the corruption of the Finance Department, it must be Qian Zuoli, and behind the chaos of the Supervisory Office, it is because Song Ruan Gao is causing trouble again!
The purpose of impeaching Qian Zuili and Song Ruangao at the same time was to express an attitude to the Holy Emperor: He, Chen Lifu, does not belong to any faction. He is a minister of the Tang Dynasty and is only loyal to the Holy Emperor!
He wants to be a lonely minister!
And Chen Lifu indeed thinks so!
No matter it was before or now!
In the past, for the sake of future, especially since we had not yet stepped out of the big framework of the tax department, the tax department was very special and promotions, appointments and dismissals were all done internally.
Chen Lifu was able to select the tax department to serve in Xingquan Mansion before, which was just a special case. However, even this special case was later eliminated because he was transferred to the Ministry of Finance before he took office.
As for the Ministry of Finance, to put it bluntly, it was split from the Ministry of Taxation. Most of the current officials of the Ministry of Finance were actually officials of the Ministry of Taxation before. Therefore, strictly speaking, Chen Lifu's transfer to the Ministry of Finance also belongs to the traditional tax department.
Ministry and cabinet promotion.
At that time, of course, I couldn't offend Qian Zuili, otherwise I would die, let alone become a lonely minister, and it was not certain whether I could survive in an important organization like the Inspection Office.
But now, it is different. Chen Lifu has already singled out the tax department!
Although the Ministry of Finance was split from the Ministry of Taxation, it was split after all, and the Ministry of Finance will be the same as other departments. Promotions, appointments and removals will follow the procedures of ordinary civil servants. In other words, today
He, Chen Lifu, can be appointed in the Ministry of Finance, and tomorrow he may work in the Ministry of Rites. Unlike when he was in the Ministry of Taxation before, he could only work in the Ministry of Taxation.
In this case, if you offend Qian Zuoli, you will be offended!
But Chen Lifu will not lean directly on Song Ruangao. Although to a certain extent, this is a rational choice for many officials. Now many officials from the tax department in the Ministry of Finance have already expressed their opinions to Song Ruangao.
Be loyal.
However, Chen Lifu cannot and does not want to do this!
No, that's because the label of Qian Zuoli on his previous body was too obvious, and he himself knew that his ability to serve in the Department of Finance was the result of Qian Zuoli's operation. If he directly invested in Song Ruangao, it would be easy for others to do so.
A negative impact of turning one's back on one's master and surrendering to the enemy.
What's more, in his opinion, Song Ruan Gao was not a good bird, but a traitorous official who harmed the country.
The Minister of Finance, who had just taken office, did not think about developing the empire's finances and sorting out the empire's finances, but he spent all his time thinking about eliminating dissidents. Isn't this a traitor to the country?
In Chen Lifu's opinion, such people are no different from Qian Zuili. They are all traitors of the empire and traitors around the Holy Emperor.
The reason why there is so much chaos in the empire is because they are slandering the Holy Emperor!
In the future, Chen Lifu will definitely pull them down, take their place, and then assist the Holy Lord to create the prosperous age of Xuanping.
Therefore, Chen Lifu did not intend to get close to either Qian Zuili or Song Ruangao. On the one hand, it was because of his own political ideals, and on the other hand, it was also for self-protection.
Since neither party is close to each other, how can they protect themselves in this chaos?
Nonsense, naturally you are moving closer to the Holy Emperor!
After Chen Lifu went home and wrote the envelope, he dried the ink and ironed it before sealing it with his own hands, and then went out with the envelope to deliver it himself.
He knew what would happen once he handed over this envelope.
I am afraid that I will immediately be regarded as a thorn in the side of both Qian Zuoli and Song Ruangao!
Because although he didn’t say it clearly in the transcript, everyone could see it. On the surface, he was talking about corruption and political issues in the Financial Department, but in fact he was impeaching Qian Zuoli for his poor management of the Financial Department in the past, and impeaching Song Ruan Gao.
I don't care about the overall situation today.
When the time comes, who can protect him?
Only the Holy Emperor!
Chen Lifu’s discount was quickly passed on!
And it was just as he expected, because this envelope quickly caused waves!
According to rumors, after the morning meeting the next day, Emperor Sheng summoned Qian Zuili and Song Ruangao at the same time!