The end of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 221 Officialdom Earthquake

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Before Liu Xia's voice fell, Li Jingguo was completely paralyzed like Wang Wenda. Then they were dragged down by the two arrests, but these two arrests were smarter and directly bypassed the people. They prevented them from being accidentally injured by the angry crowd and walked from other roads, but also saved Li Jingguo from being smashed by rotten eggs.

The officials below were even more scared when they saw that another official was arrested, which made them very scared. Before they recovered, Liu Xia continued to read, "The deputy director of the Industry and Commerce Department of Ruzhou Prefecture, colluded with merchants to embezzle 20,000 silver dollars, occupied Xuzhou Changhe Casino, Ruzhou Fengyu Casino, and earned 10,000 silver dollars. Eight mansions, a large number of oppressing some merchants who disobeyed him, causing the families of some merchants to die. There is no way to appeal, and some appellant merchants have been detained by the Ruzhou Court. The crime of rape | ** their families is unforgivable. In fact, it's a heinous crime. Let me take it down and take him down!"

"The Xuzhou court tried Ma Cheng, and the Ruzhou court tried Zhai Rangran. The two took advantage of their public office to cover up the crime for corrupt officials and criminals, which was really abominable, and the two collected bribes from others for 10,000 silver dollars and 20,000 silver dollars. If it constitutes a serious crime of embezzlement and bribery, pull it down immediately!" After saying that, the two judges present were also dragged down like dead dogs, and the two did not argue, because it was meaningless. Since Liu Xia dared to say it, she had a lot of evidence.

The officials below watched each person being dragged down and were not afraid that it was impossible. They could imagine the end of these people. If they embezzled so many silver dollars, they must have been beheaded. Although there are more than a hundred of them, it seems that Liu Xia does not have the intention to blame the public. Liu Xia wants to catch them all, but none of them can escape.

Those corrupt officials turned pale. Before Liu Xia said their names, these people were paralyzed. Most of the officials regretted it. If they had known what to do in this muddy water, they would have been better to live happily in their own small county government.

They don't want to die. Do they have enough to live? The new concubine hasn't gone to bed yet. He hasn't taken down the body of Hibiscus in Yihongyuan. The mother in the family is already 80 years old, and her daughter's betrothal gift is about to leave the cabinet...

In a short time, five or six hall-level officials were arrested, and the rest were at the county and state levels. Liu Xia was not in the mood to read it, so she let people catch it all at once.

"The prince spares his life, the prince spares his life, and my subordinates dare not do it again..."

Those officials were firmly grasped by the investigation. They were desperately unwilling to move, but they still couldn't resist the strength of the investigation and were dragged away.

Liu Xia didn't look at them at all. She turned around and walked into King Zheng's mansion. No matter how the officials cried, no one paid attention to them. At the same time, their families were also arrested by the investigation office and guards sent by Liu Xia.

"It seems that the prison is full again this time, and it needs to be cleaned up!"

When all the officials were pulled down, the people who watched the bustle scattered, but they soon publicized the scene that happened in front of Zheng Wang's Mansion. Some people praised Liu Xia's anti-corruption, and some people were angry that there were so many corrupt officials. Some people say that Liu Xia is not afraid of power, while others are worried that Liu Xia will become the public enemy of officials.

This matter was like a big earthquake in the officialdom, which completely shocked the whole officialdom. Those officials who received bribes were scared. I'm afraid that Liu Xia found them, and those who did not accept bribes were righteous. I heard that Liu Xia had punished many corrupt criminals, and these people danced even more and wrote to Liu Xia. Strict governance is required.

After more than a hundred people were arrested, the next step was the appointment of officials. One hundred officials were arrested this time, that is to say, one hundred officials will be filled in. In the past, Liu Xia must have hurt her brain in the face of so many vacancies, but now it is not the case. Liu Xia already has a lot of reserve talents.

The trial envoy of the Supreme Court is Chen Liu, and the deputy chief trial envoy is Bao Tiangong. However, because Chen Liu has too many things to do, Bao Tiangong will try these corrupt criminals. Because Liu Xia has been sent to him with this charge and stolen goods, there is a lot of evidence, and those corrupt officials do not dare to argue. So much so that he didn't need to ask much to go to the trial directly, but the results of the trial came out in three days. One hundred people have a common judgment, which is to raid the house!

If it is copied this time, it will cost almost 800,000 yuan to enter the treasury. When Liu Xia heard the news, she was happy on the spot and muttered, "It seems that the money from the house is fast. It seems that we will pay more efforts to investigate corrupt officials in the future, so that we can raid the house and have a lot of silver dollars."

Fifty-three of them were sentenced to death, 25 were sentenced to life imprisonment, and the rest were almost sentenced to decades or more than ten years in prison. At the same time, the merchants who bribed them were also imprisoned and their property confiscated for committing the crime of bribery. Liu Xia's idea is: Since you want to bribe others so much, you can bribe all the money to the government. It happens that the people in the world lack silver money. A total of 1.5 million silver dollars were confised this time. With the total of 2.3 million silver dollars of those corrupt officials, these Liu Xia can be said to be very rich.

With so much money, Liu Xia does not have to worry about having money in the face of continuous losses in steel mills. He can also increase his investment in scientific research and recruit more troops at the same time. Of course, there are also many businessmen who have fled to other places, but other places are always much worse than Liu Xia.

Liu Xia is full of merchants and farmers here, but in other places, it is important to farmers and suppress merchants, and she is even more exploited when she goes there.

This incident not only caused a major earthquake in the officialdom, but also caused a major earthquake in the shopping mall. Many businessmen can be scared out of sweat when they mention gift-giving. Although dividing others can't commit the death penalty, it will come out in a few years. But property confiscate is a word that scares them, which means that they will have nothing and give their lifelong savings to others.

"You can't bribe, absolutely not."

"Why don't you go to Henan and the south?" One businessman said to another businessman.

The businessman looked at the first businessman and said, "You don't know the situation in the south. In order to give gifts to Wu Sangui, the merchants in the south suffered. Many people were blackmailed and their families were destroyed. Soon the merchants on the coastal front fled by boat."

"Is this really the case?"

The man said, "Why did I lie to you? Otherwise, why didn't I go to the south early?

Another person asked again, "Then why don't you go to the north? There should be no that in the north."

The man sneered and said, "You don't know the current situation in the north. Those children of the Eight Banners are doing things everywhere. The good fields are kept by them, and the good houses are also occupied by them. If the beautiful woman gets there, she may also be robbed. Although Dorgun has introduced some good policies, how can the people below care about it? Dorgom also turned a blind eye and went there, and became the slaves of those Eight Banners.

"Listen to you, I can only stay here."

"Isn't it a good thing that the prince won't let us bribe? I really don't understand what you are afraid of. As long as you can't bribe, it's okay. Now the prince has introduced a preferential policy. I'll go and see first and say goodbye!"

Although Liu Xia knows that this massacre of officials cannot prohibit the corruption of officials, deterrence is still okay. At least during her life, there will not be too many corruption cases. Of course, the salary of officials must be increased with the improvement of production level, otherwise the salary will not be enough to eat. It is impossible for officials not to be corrupt. Just like Zhu Yuanzhang killed so many corrupt officials, but there are still a lot of corrupt officials. The main reason is that he is too stingy. The salary given to officials is only enough for his own food, and it is not enough to raise maid servants. Moreover, gifts are also popular in officialdom. This requires money! If you don't have money, you can only embezzle.

Improving the treatment level of officials is a way to reduce corruption. After all, officials have enough money to spend on themselves. Except for some particularly greedy people, ordinary people will no longer risk killing their heads to corrupt. In the 21st century, the strategy of reducing corruption in many developed countries is to maintain integrity with wages and use high salaries to prevent corruption. The occurrence of.