One thousand two hundred and sixty-eight chapters Han Tong's illustrious name
Li Xuan knew that many officials in the Tang Empire were corrupt.
Even though the Tang Empire was very strict in rectifying officialdom and had very strong supervision, corruption of officials has never been eradicated from ancient times to the present, and the same cannot be said for the Tang Dynasty.
So most of the time, Li Xuan turns a blind eye. As long as the officials below don't go too far, he won't get angry specifically about it. Otherwise, he will get angry every day!
tired!
Therefore, as long as the Inspectorate continues to crack down, Li Xuan won't have much objection.
However, it’s okay to engage in corruption and abuse of power for personal gain. At such a critical moment, there are still people who dare to take advantage of disaster relief funds!
Li Xuan cannot tolerate this kind of thing!
This disaster relief fund is related to the livelihood of tens of millions of people. Without the disaster relief fund, it is unknown how many people will starve to death, and they will definitely become refugees by then, thus shaking the foundation of the rule of the Tang Dynasty.
How could Li Xuan tolerate this kind of thing?
Absolutely intolerable!
Li Xuan read the report carefully. The report only talked about things in Taoyuan County. It said that there were problems in the five resettlement sites under Taoyuan County. The problems were all relatively similar, that is, the victims were not able to receive the benefits.
They should get farm tools and food.
Specifically, a large number of people did not receive the wages they should receive during the work-for-relief program, and were paid less or not at all.
The Tang Dynasty's disaster relief work began very early. Unless there were special circumstances, it generally would not directly distribute food and other materials to the victims for a long time. Instead, it would provide them with job opportunities within their capabilities and let them work.
Earn wages and exchange them for food and other supplies.
However, in the work-for-relief program in Taoyuan County, many victims were owed wages. In some places, officials even used the excuse of being called up to serve, telling the victims that their labor was free and they were not paid.
But in fact, the official finance allocates funds for every project, and the wages of workers are given priority.
After all, the purpose of providing relief for work is not to build any projects, that is just incidental, but to allow the victims to have a job and make money to support their families.
Sometimes there are even seemingly ridiculous projects. For example, the scheduled trench is dug one meter deep and one meter wide. However, during actual construction, it often becomes two meters deep and three or four meters wide.
Why? In fact, it is to increase the amount of work, so that the work-for-relief program can cover more laborers and extend the time.
Work-for-relief was actually an important method used by the Tang Dynasty to carry out water conservancy facilities and various infrastructure projects in recent years. Even in places where there were no disasters, the government would hire workers during slack times in the name of work-for-relief.
The local youth dug canals and built roads.
But in Taoyuan County, the work-for-relief program has resulted in no wages or less wages. How can you let the victims survive?
Stay alive!
What should I do if I survive? Starve to death?
impossible!
No matter how cowardly the peasants are, they will burst out with amazing fighting power in the face of hunger. If a few bold and ambitious people encourage them, it can immediately turn into a rebellion.
Check, we must investigate strictly!
Li Xuan directly gave instructions to Hantong to conduct strict investigations, not only in Taoyuan County, but also in other prefectures and counties. Once verified, the evidence would be handed over directly to the local Supervisory Office.
After receiving Li Xuan's instructions, Hantong quickly took action.
As a spy organization, Hantong's methods of investigating cases were much richer than those of the patrol police, and they did not have too many limitations. Soon, the situation in Taoyuan County was investigated and came to light.
During the investigation, Hantong also discovered a very interesting situation, that is, the work-for-relief project in Taoyuan County was not organized by the government itself or an enterprise affiliated with local finance.
Instead, they were entrusted to several private enterprises!
This is unusual. In the past, relief-for-work projects were all water conservancy and various infrastructure projects. Generally speaking, they were either directly organized by the government and recruited manpower to build them, or they were entrusted to local financial institutions.
Enterprise recruitment personnel construction.
But it is rarely handed over to private enterprises.
These cash-for-work infrastructure projects in Taoyuan County have been handed over to private enterprises, which recruit manpower to build them.
And it is these private enterprises that deduct wages from workers.
And when the people from the Supervisory Yuan directly asked these companies to pay wages, they went bankrupt, and large amounts of project funds had been transferred out through various business cooperation.
In this way, when we really want to pursue the case, we can only arrest those few management who were obviously pushed out as scapegoats.
At this time, even if you clearly know that the money has been transferred, it was transferred out through normal business activities, and there is no way to recover the money.
Even the follow-up cannot be traced.
But this involves hundreds of thousands of taels of money. The Inspectorate can't do anything, which doesn't mean Hantong can't do anything either.
Hantong continued to investigate and finally found out that these funds flowed into the stock market through layers of transactions and bank transfers, but the stocks purchased with the money had already become junk stocks.
In other words, all the money has gone up in smoke!
But it didn't matter. Hantong continued to investigate and finally found out that a securities company had made huge profits through related junk stock transactions.
There is nothing wrong with this securities company itself. The key funds for operating this stock belong to a fund under this securities company, and the main investor of this fund belongs to the Chen family, a large gentry in southern Anhui.
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Unfortunately, Chen Yibao, the fifth-grade director of the Public Works Department of Huai'an Prefecture, is a descendant of the Chen family!
Although according to the existing laws of Datang, Chen Yibao has nothing to do with the above series of transactions.
But will this stump Han Tong?
joke!
On the night when the truth was found out, Hantong arrested Chen Yibao!
It wasn't house arrest, nor was there any questioning. People were arrested directly, and they were taken directly from the government office. The scene at that time was quite scary.
Ordinary people may not know the reputation of Hantong Eagle Dog, because Hantong's business is mainly to monitor civil strife, counter-espionage, and catch corrupt officials. This is not their business scope. The reason why they arrested Chen Yibao is not because he is corrupt.
, but because he dared to take action on disaster relief funds. Damn it, this would cause great turmoil.
He is so courageous, even if he is not arrested, he will not be able to live up to Hantong's illustrious reputation.