Chapter eight hundred and forty-ninth Chen Lifu who endured humiliation
Of course, if Chen Lifu is promoted and becomes a provincial inspector, he will first have to rectify the tax work of Songjiang Prefecture.
After Chen Lifu arrived at Songjiang Mansion, he ignored the many criticisms outside and just scolded him. He had heard this kind of words too many times. Even his former teachers and classmates had letters to scold him. Ordinary people's scoldings could no longer be tolerated.
He was moved.
After arriving at Songjiang Prefecture, he continued to study the taxation work of Songjiang Prefecture for several days, especially the internal tax system of Songjiang Prefecture. Then he swung the butcher knife and chopped directly at the internal officials of Songjiang Prefecture's tax system!
On the fifth day after arriving in Songjiang Prefecture, Chen Lifu personally led the team, with the cooperation of the Songjiang Prefecture Patrol Police Bureau and the Supervisory Office, and arrested more than 20 officials in the Songjiang Prefecture Taxation System. What is interesting is that Chen Lifu arrested the deputy director of the Songjiang Prefecture Taxation Bureau.
The directors were all arrested for a very simple reason: corruption!
And this deputy director's rank is from the fifth rank, which is higher than his rank.
However, these officials in the tax system, under Chen Lifu, a special inspection officer of the tax department, have no power to resist at all, because after being assigned to the local area, theoretically, Chen Lifu has all the power over the local tax system
, including arresting and dismissing officials within the local tax system. Of course, he did not have the power to appoint officials. That was the power of the Ministry of Personnel. No one in the world except Emperor Li Xuan could interfere with the power of the Ministry of Personnel to appoint officials.
At the same time, Chen Lifu's power is only limited to the tax system!
After arresting more than 20 tax officials, Chen Lifu also cleaned up the local tax inspection team as before. A large number of scum who joined early were cleaned up and dealt with by him. If the circumstances were serious, they would also be liquidated.
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When doing these things, Chen Lifu can find his own sense of accomplishment, rectify the tax administration, and clean up the scum and corrupt officials in the tax system. This kind of work is in line with his idea of helping the world.
After doing these things, Chen Lifu was actually not willing to take care of the rest, because the remaining work was to find out tax evasion and catch examples to scare the monkeys.
So at times like this, in order to avoid feeling uncomfortable, he often lets the local tax system conduct a strict investigation.
What's interesting is that after Chen Lifu first rectified the tax system, local tax system officials often worked particularly hard to keep their official titles, and their results were quite outstanding.
Then, Chen Lifu reached his most entangled and embarrassing moment. There was a list, a list of tax evaders. According to the amount of money and the seriousness of the circumstances, there were more than a hundred names listed from top to bottom.
Chen Lifu even saw a lot of names he was familiar with!
Whenever this happens, Chen Lifu will sigh, draw a line, circle the top ten or fifteen people, and then they will be treated as models and severely punished, and their homes will be confiscated for sure.
, it is inevitable that the main members of the family will be arrested, and it is even more reasonable that the head of the family will be beheaded.
But this time when Chen Lifu saw the list, he planned to mark out the top ten as usual. Although there were hundreds of people on the list, he couldn't kill them all. Chen Lifu couldn't bear it, so he only killed the top ten.
It would be great if the Shijia family could let him explain to his superiors.
But when he looked at the list, he took another look and found that the tenth place had evaded taxes to the tune of more than 50,000 taels. Looking further back, the fifteenth place had more than 30,000 taels of silver.
Twenty people is more than ten thousand!
The pen he was about to draw stopped in mid-air, and then after some hesitation, he diverted to the twentieth place. Finally, he gritted his teeth and melted directly!
It's not that he is willing to add ten more people, but he knows that if he hands in this list, the superiors will never be satisfied that he only punished the first ten companies.
Because when he was in Ningguo Mansion, the person who was ranked tenth even evaded taxes for only five thousand taels of silver, but he still had his house confiscated. Could it be that when he came to Songjiang Mansion, the standard would be several times looser?
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He couldn't explain this to his superiors!
When Chen Lifu makes this decision, it means that twenty gentry families in Songjiang Mansion will be reduced to nothingness, the head of the family will be sentenced to execution, and the main accomplices, that is, the adult brothers and nephews will be executed.
After being sentenced to exile, hard labor, minors and their female relatives will be driven out of their homes and will end up with nothing!
Chen Lifu felt deeply helpless when he thought that these gentry would end up like this, and that this ending was caused by his own hands!
The world calls me, Chen Lifu, a hawk and a treacherous official, but who can understand that I, Chen Lifu, endure humiliation and bear the burden for the sake of the dawn of the world and the common people.
If I, Chen Lifu, were truly ruthless, then there would not be only twenty families on this list that had their homes confiscated and their families exterminated, but a hundred families!
But even though he was full of grievances, Chen Lifu did not intend to explain anything to the world, because he had explained it, but no one listened.
After Chen Lifu made his decision, the local tax inspection team quickly took action. During Chen Lifu's previous rectification, the tax inspection team also knew that the new Chen Lifu was not someone to be trifled with, but a person who was better than them.
For a more ruthless person, if he doesn't do his job well, I'm afraid he will lose his official title.
The Tax Inspection Team is an organization recognized as having a lot of money. If you serve in it, even if you are just an ordinary team member, you will get a lot of money.
Of course, corruption and bribery are generally something that people don’t have the guts to do. Those who dare to do it are basically killed by the censor of the Supervisory Yuan, or simply tax inspectors like Chen Lifu, and the anti-corruption agency within the tax department.
However, when you are on business, no boss will take care of small items such as jade bracelets, gold rings, etc. Even though these are small items, as a member of the tax inspection team, your vision is naturally
It's not bad, just take one and put it in your pocket, it's all good stuff.
How can I give up my job as a tax inspection team so easily to support my family and spend my days and nights living?
Therefore, this group of people worked very hard. In just a few days, they launched successive attacks and arrested all 20 families on the list. The whole process was relatively smooth. Although those families evaded taxes, few of them had the courage to resist violently.
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Because under normal circumstances, except for the head of the family who would be sentenced to be beheaded, most of the other family members could still save their lives, and none of these big families were cunning. After the house was confiscated, although their lives would plummet, most of them
You can still maintain a decent life.
After the arrest and house raid, as usual, Chen Lifu handed over the relevant files to the Inspectorate, which was responsible for initiating public prosecutions.
As for matters like this, in order to serve as a warning to the monkeys, the Procuratorate will launch a public prosecution quickly and strictly, and the Supreme Court will also try the case quickly.
Just three days later, before the outside world could react, the Songjiang Prefecture Court made a verdict. A total of twenty-three principal criminals of tax evasion were sentenced to death and executed on the same day!
The remaining more than one hundred accomplices were sentenced to serve ranging from one to twenty years or life imprisonment. Later, these prisoners were all exiled to Da Yuan Mansion, contributing to the development of Da Yuan Mansion by the Tang Dynasty.
At present, the Tang Dynasty often exiled many criminals who were sentenced to serve in remote border areas such as Da Yuanfu, Hainan Island, Yunnan, Guizhou, etc. This not only achieved the purpose of punishment, but also achieved the purpose of enriching the local population and developing the local area.
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When Chen Lifu raised the butcher's knife again in Songjiang Mansion, Li Xuan in Jinling City was also busy. On this day, he led his officials out of the city and prepared to inspect the Jiangnan Arsenal, a subsidiary of Jiangnan Weapons Company, and the Jinling Shipyard on the outskirts of the city.
Two newly established enterprises.
Since last year, the Ministry of Industry of Datang has been preparing to build various defense industries in various parts of Jiangnan, especially with Dangtu County in Taiping Prefecture as the core. The core is Jiangnan Arms Company. Jiangnan Arms Company includes Jiangnan Arsenal in Jinling, Jinling
Shipyard, Jiangnan Shipyard in Wusong, Shanghai, Shanghai Ordnance Factory and a series of defense enterprises.
Another core project of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is Jiangnan Iron and Steel Company, which is a comprehensive steel enterprise integrating ironmaking, steelmaking, exploration, and iron ore mining.
For these enterprises that are related to national defense security, the Ministry of Industry has invested huge manpower and material resources. The construction funds alone are no less than one million taels, and they even asked Li Xuan for money on the way.
Nowadays, various national defense enterprises in Jiangnan have finally begun to take shape.
In the autumn, a series of factories such as Jiangnan Iron and Steel Plant and Jiangnan Arsenal actually started small-batch trial production, but it will take some time for full-scale mass production.
Strictly speaking, the Jiangnan Arsenal that Li Xuan is inspecting has not reached mass production. It is now only in the trial production stage. However, Li Xuan heard that when the Jiangnan Arsenal was under construction, a mechanized production line was specially designed and built.
Once a particularly high-quality gun production line is successfully mass-produced, its output will exceed that of all existing arsenals.
However, this production line is not the key point. The key point is that the main purpose of Li Xuan going to Jiangnan Arsenal is to inspect the live ammunition test of the flintlock gun.
Li Xuan has always been very interested in flintlock guns. In fact, the teachers and students of the Royal Institute of Technology had already developed a flintlock gun two years ago.
However, there are many problems. The main problem is that the quality of the spring is not up to standard, resulting in a low firing rate. The test results at the time were that the firing success rate was only a mere 50%, and this firing rate was absolutely unacceptable to the army generals.
, so the flintlock gun produced at that time was not even tested and equipped. The Army simply refused to continue testing.
However, despite the setback, the Royal Institute of Technology gave up the continued research and development of flintlock guns. At that time, the Royal Institute of Technology's main research direction on the improvement of flintlock guns was to focus on high-quality spring steel, because
There are no problems with the flintlock gun in other aspects. The only problem is that the firing rate is too low, and the key to the firing rate lies in the spring.
It's just that there is no shortcut in the research and development of this kind of basic material. It can only be tested over and over again.
Hard work paid off. After the people at the Royal Institute of Technology tested hundreds of formulas and processes in various proportions, they finally came up with a spring steel.