Chapter 1005: So what if the public is corrupt and the country is corrupt?
The cabin of an ancient ship is actually just a few rooms. When you enter the cabin, you will see that even though it is inside the cabin, it is elegantly decorated. The floors are all made of red pine paneling and there is no dust. The bulkheads and screens are all carved with insects, fish, flowers and birds. The layout is
Very elegant.
There is an inner room separated by a bead curtain on the opposite side. At a glance, you can see a wooden frame with an embroidered dragon bag on it, holding a sword and a small green flag. This is the so-called "Shang Fang Sword"
" and "Wang Ming Flag".
The window of the cabin was small and dark. After interviewing them one by one, Su Ziji seemed not to be able to see the slightly disappointed look in the exiting county magistrate's eyes. He coughed lightly, calmly picked up the tea bowl, used the lid of the bowl to poke the floating tea and took a sip.
These county magistrates have too beautiful ideas. They just discuss the overall situation and try to make them take action, but they still deceive themselves because they are young.
After all, the greatest deterrence and benefit will be achieved only if you do not end up in trouble. However, these county magistrates may really be punished, dismissed from their posts, or even executed.
If you don't offer reciprocal benefits, why should you help them?
At this time, he faintly heard voices, discussions, and even a little argument next door. Su Ziji ignored it. After a while, someone rushed towards him. They were also from the Prince's Mansion. As soon as they came in, there was no obstruction.
When he came to Su Ziji, he knelt down on one knee and reported: "Your Highness, this is information from Yu Lu and Fang Xi. Please review it."
Su Ziji took it and looked at it, his expression unchanged: "I understand."
After the visitor left, he read through it carefully: "This Shang scholar is quite interesting. He plays the role of a loyal bandit and a righteous thief very well."
Just as he was thinking about it, another person hurriedly entered and handed over new information. This information was about Zhang Dai.
Different from the information reported to Fang Xiyulu before, the information about Zhang Dai is obviously more important.
Su Ziji only read it once, then his face changed slightly and he smiled.
"The imperial envoy mobilized seven thousand troops to blockade the seven warehouses. Is Zhang Dai really crazy?"
This is 7,000 people, not 700 people, let alone 70 people!
The military has been the most careful and sensitive area in the past. In the past, generals only had the power to general troops and did not have the power to mobilize troops. Those who mobilized more than 50 troops out of the country were required to hold tiger talismans.
Now, if we are a little more generous, we are limited to 100 people.
Moving troops privately is a capital offense.
Imperial envoys represent the emperor. Although they have certain rights to mobilize troops, they are basically limited to a hundred people and can serve as guards or temporary envoys.
This is the mobilization of 7,000 people. If it is not an important matter, it will be a death penalty. Even if there is a reasonable reason, the imperial envoy has been mobilized now, and he will have to go back without food!
What did Zhang Dai think?
Even though they already knew and saw the intelligence, Su Ziji was speechless by the intelligence. However, the two of them had only received the intelligence back. Whether the intelligence was true or not, and what the specific situation was, needed to be further determined.
"Papa"
At this time, there was a knock on the window. Su Ziji opened the window, and the fox came in. It was the big fox who came back to report the news.
The big fox pointed at the dictionary with his paw, looking a little anxious.
When Su Ziji passed by, the big fox had already opened the dictionary and pointed at the words on each page to form the information it wanted to report.
Su Ziji had already received the information about Zhang Dai. Even though the big fox flipped through the dictionary a bit quickly and the content expressed was very brief, he still quickly understood its meaning.
"You actually act like this?" Su Ziji murmured.
Is Zhang Dai really crazy?
He touched the big fox's head, then put it on his forehead and meditated for a long time, and then ordered: "Send the fox to follow Zhang Dai, and check his luggage when no one is around. I suspect that he got some kind of promise when he met the emperor. Otherwise, what would he do?"
Will this happen?"
"嘘嘤" the fox barked, and just as he walked out, he heard the sound of the door opening of the cabin next door and the sound of voices. Soon, Wen Xunpeng came over.
"How about these four county magistrates?"
"It's not that good. Except for Yu Ming, who is still a sensible person, His Highness Ying Nuowei is destined to live. The remaining three are all trying to talk nonsense and let His Highness charge into the battle. Their intentions are to be killed." Wen Xunpeng's mouth was filled with laughter.
He said with a hint of evil smile.
"One of the four is very good." Su Ziji was not in a hurry.
"Your Highness, has Zhang Dai's matter been verified?" Su Ziji was not in a hurry, but Wen Xunpeng's face was a bit ugly. After a while, he asked in a low voice.
Su Ziji nodded and said in a deep voice: "What happened about Zhang Dai is true."
it is true?
"He actually mobilized seven thousand troops... Lord, this is not good!" Even Wen Xunpeng found it difficult. He lowered his head and reminded softly: "Even if you have broken off the relationship with Zhang Dai, this does not matter.
It’s of no great use.”
"Um?"
"You are the principal imperial envoy, and Zhang Dai is the deputy imperial envoy. In Jielu Mansion, some officials may know that the disagreement between you and Zhang Dai is due to Zhang Dai's own initiative."
"But once you get to other counties, states, or provinces, no one knows about it. They only know that Zhang Dai is your deputy and everything will follow your instructions."
"Especially when the Emperor has this intention, you have no way to argue."
A few words explained that breaking off the relationship with Zhang Dai was of some use, but it was enough to cause trouble if the emperor mistook a deer for a horse.
The investigation team are all members of the emperor, so is there any point in debating?
This dynasty stipulates that anyone who embezzles more than 60 taels will die.
You are an upright official, not greedy for a penny, but you can even count the New Year gifts from relatives. One relative gives you a basket of apples and a chicken, and if you visit more than a dozen relatives, you can collect 5 taels. Even if you visit the New Year or the Mid-Autumn Festival twice, that is
10 taels.
Then if you have been an official for 10 years and you have embezzled 100 taels, you can be beheaded.
Of course Su Ziji understood this. His eyes flashed, he breathed silently, his brows twitched imperceptibly, and he sneered: "Don't worry, I'm not that naive yet."
As he spoke, he stood up, thoughtfully, and said in a blink of an eye: "Do you know the true purpose of Granary Eucalyptus?"
"I don't know, I don't know." Wen Xunpeng was so shrewd that he had already noticed that the master was about to give the truth, and he bowed and said.
"The first level of granary eucalyptus is very simple. How much money you lose is to check which official is corrupt."
"Then I really investigated it, and I immediately discovered that it was so complicated that not just one or two, but hundreds of officials, and even different yamen were involved."
"My lord, what you said is true!" Wen Xunpeng's eyes flashed faintly, which is why the obstruction was so great. But when Su Ziji sneered, stood up, and said meaningfully: "But if we stay at this level, it will be
The view of mediocrity.”
"Can chopping off a few heads clarify the administration of officials?"
When Wen Xunpeng heard this, he suddenly had a premonition that something big was going on. He quickly suppressed the shock he showed for a moment and bent down to listen to Su Ziji talk: "If you investigate further, you will find that,
There's a gap here."
"It's private corruption and public corruption."
"Private corruption is very simple, it means personal corruption of officials. In fact, no matter how involved or how many people die, you can kill this kind of thing."
"The consequences are just that whoever has no disciples, old officials, relatives and friends, and fraternal ties of friendship, offends a group of people, and is criticized by people, saying that Zhang Dai or I have no favors and dare not get close to each other." Su Ziji said mediocrely.
As he spoke, there was a disdainful sneer at the corner of his mouth.
"Actually, the affordability of this is the limit that little people can imagine, but they don't know that the gap is even deeper - what if it is public corruption?"
When Wen Xunpeng heard this, he felt dizzy for a while, his heart was pounding, and he seemed to have fathomed an abyss.
"Mr. Wen, let me give you an analogy. Suppose you investigate and find that Yu Ming embezzled 10,000 dan, and you are about to arrest him and kill him. However, upon investigation, you find that he did not embezzle 10,000 dan and spent all of it on official business. This is
How do you deal with it?"
"If we go further and continue to investigate, we find that although the imperial court, provinces, and counties stipulate that they must pay salaries to the police, provide scholarships to scholars, and provide pensions to those who have died for the country, they have not actually allocated money or food. Now these 10,000 shi
, just to fill this financial gap, how do you deal with it?"
"Kill Yu Ming, cut off this source of wealth, and then let the police, officials, scholars, and family members of those who died for the country all starve to death?"
"If you go one step further and discover that the imperial court has embezzled money from the local government, it will not give it to you. However, the local government needs to operate and maintain, so it has to share the revenue from the granary. What will you do?"
"Just kill them, destroy all the livelihood options of the place and the army, and wait for millions of soldiers and civilians to surge in, and the people who hate you will be like a sea and a mountain?"
These few sentences were so provocative that Wen Xunpeng was speechless, and he suddenly understood the gist of them.
Yes, private corruption can be killed, but if it is public corruption or state corruption, how to deal with it?
The emperor's intention is to make his grandson the only man who can be pointed out by thousands of people and fight against the government (organization)!
As soon as he understood this, Wen Xunpeng felt a chill rising up, and his teeth began to chatter slightly.