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This is a man with clear edges and a very sharp spirit. Qin Feng looked at Jin Jingnan sitting opposite him and said in his heart. Such an official is very pioneering and pays more attention to the results when doing things, and does not care about the means. As long as it is determined, he dares to go all the way. Unlike other civil officials in the Ming Dynasty, Jin Jingnan is completely an alien.

He was born in Changyang, but his fellow villagers and friends died in that turmoil. He became a lonely man. When he was appreciated and rose to prominence, his style of doing things was extremely fierce, which made him have no friends in the officialdom.

Such a person, in the officialdom, either keeps him away or hates him to the core.

No wonder Wang Hou told Qin Feng not to let such a person die in the future when he parted.

This is a person who puts all his thoughts on the country. How could such a person lose his end? The Ming Dynasty has no shortage of officials who have a view of the overall situation and are good at balancing, but people like Jin Jingnan are rare animals.

"You offended a lot of people this time?" Qin Feng asked.

Jin Jingnan didn't expect such an opening remark. He was stunned for a moment, then straightened his waist, and a stubborn look naturally appeared on his face: "I wonder if His Majesty is talking about salt affairs or setting up a local supervisory and censor's yamen?"

"You do a good job in salt affairs, and those people are still alive." Qin Feng waved his hand, "Although more people were killed, many years of severe illness, and if you don't take strong medicine, you can't cure serious illness. In particular, the General Salt Administration was established, and each county established salt affairs department, and the country's unified prices were unified. According to actual conditions, the way for private salt dealers was basically cut off, not only allowing the people to eat cheap salt, but also increasing taxes for the court by millions of taels per year."

Jin Jingnan showed this smile on his face: "That Majesty is saying that the supervision office is set up on the local area."

Qin Feng nodded: "I have never interfered with the government affairs of various departments, but this time you seem to have made a big mistake. The memorandum of impeachment of you is several feet high. The chief minister did not say a word about this and transferred all these memorandums to me."

Jin Jingnan laughed: "The chief assistant has always been mixed with the slightest."

"Do you think the prime minister is unqualified?" Qin Feng stared at him.

"No, I don't think so." Jin Jingnan: "All it must be said that the Chief Minister is still qualified. I set up a supervisory and censorship yamen all over the country. Although he did not say support, he did not object. In fact, he passed these comments to His Majesty without saying anything, which indirectly expressed his support for me."

"So do you think?" Qin Feng couldn't help laughing when he heard Jin Jingnan say this.

"In fact, the Prime Minister himself has seen many problems, but his personality determines his way of doing things. The Prime Minister is always thinking about using various means to balance the interests of all parties, hoping to achieve a delicate balance. But I believe that not everything can be done like this. For some things, thunder means must be used to work. Just like the Salt Affairs Office, the Prime Minister also thought of many ways, but the benefits here are too great, such as asking those people to spit out what they eat. So I think that some things are more effective, because the Ming Dynasty can't afford to wait."

Qin Feng thought for a while and then asked: "Then you set up supervision offices in various places and think there are many things in the local area and must be severely punished, right?"

Jin Jingnan said without hesitation: "Yes. Your Majesty has always been concerned about major policies and policies, but only inquire about specific matters. For ministers who do things, this is trust and a loosening of their ministers, but sometimes it also blinds His Majesty's eyes and ears."

A cold light flashed slightly in Qin Feng's eyes, "I don't feel that way."

"Your Majesty, when the Ministry of Personnel reformed the official system, it swept through the entire Ming Dynasty's officialdom like a thunderstorm, and abolished a large number of mediocre officials and redundant officials. Instead, some officials with means and capable were replaced. This made the Ming Dynasty's officialdom aging and the officials were extremely efficient. With the efforts of these officials to govern, all parts of the Ming Dynasty were prosperous, but today, various new hidden areas have begun to emerge. This is all due to the beginning of the reform of the Ministry of Personnel, which valued the personal moral qualities of these officials too much and ignored their supervision."

"You mean officials are corrupt?" Qin Feng frowned slightly.

"Your Majesty, it can be said that 90% of the officials in the Ming Dynasty are very capable officials, but being capable does not mean that they are honest officials and have noble morals. On the contrary, if these capable people do bad things, they will be more concealed." Jin Jingnan said: "Now, the signs have begun to show. Now, the minister has already grasped the bad deeds of dozens of officials. The reason why they did not take action is that the front line is fighting and they do not want to cause chaos in the rear to worry about His Majesty. Secondly, there is a huge lack of domestic officials. Although these people have committed trouble, they can't find anyone to replace them in the governance of the local area."

When Qin Feng heard that Jin Jingnan had evidence of dozens of officials committing crimes, he immediately looked a little unpleasant. It was only six years after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, and only four years after Wang Hou completed the reform of the administration. Qin Feng claimed that he was the most efficient and honest official team, and there were already worms. How could Wang Houqing beneath the nine springs bear it?

"Who are they? What level do you reach?"

"Your Majesty may not believe it. Most of these people come from the Beijing University, and some are officials promoted from officials. They have one common feature, that is, their family background is not very good." Jin Jingnan said slowly. "Most of them are county-level chief officials, or middle and low-level officials with real power in the departments directly under the jurisdiction of each department."

"What's the reason?" Qin Feng asked in a deep voice.

"Nothing else, I feel uneasy." Jin Jingnan said: "Your Majesty, the officials of the Ming Dynasty have high salaries, but they are also the most miserable officials in the world, and they have no other income. These salaries are enough for an official to support his family and have a slight surplus, but compared with the merchants outside, they are just from heaven and the other from earth. Those officials with wealthy families do not care much about these salaries. They hold the same ideal as His Majesty to unify the world and leave a name in history, but they can better protect their integrity. However, if the family is originally poor, some of them are unwilling to see the outside world after witnessing the outside world."

After glanced at Qin Feng's face, Jin Jingnan continued: "I just found another case yesterday, but I haven't alarmed me yet. This person is a legal officer of the Ministry of Revenue, and the person in charge is to buy military uniforms. After only one year of office, he has accepted bribes of thousands of taels of silver."

"The merchant bribes?"

"No, it's a bribe!" Jin Jingnan shook his head and said, "The Ming Dynasty has heavy merchants. There are countless merchants. Under the same quality, if you buy whoever you buy or not, this person decides, there is room for operation here. If merchants want to obtain these orders and then go smoothly in delivery and checkout, they must respect this person. Each time, they don't seem to be large, but the impact is extremely bad."

"This kind of thing exists in different departments and halls. The elders above only care about major issues. As long as there is no problem with the quality of these procurements, the price will be within a reasonable range, and there are many problems in the local area. Many officials with real power participate in workshops and chambers of commerce in the form of secret stocks, and then use their power to open the door for related merchants to suppress other competitors. These people are not very officials, but they all have a typical feature, which is that they have real power."

Listening to Jin Jingnan's honest statement, Qin Feng was convinced and couldn't help but sneer, "It was only six years after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, and the big tiger had not appeared yet, but such a small fly jumped out first, which was beyond my expectations. In the past two years, we lacked a large number of officials. We graduated from the Beijing University in advance and asked them to do practical work. It seems that we have less detailed information. It is impossible to say that we have to scan it."

"Your Majesty, although these people have not high positions, they are a group of people who have direct contact with the grassroots level, so the impact and harm caused is particularly great, especially now that our territory in the Ming Dynasty has expanded greatly, these people may take a step forward in this adjustment. These people have already slid and tasted the sweetness. It is definitely impossible to expect them to stop. I have already listed the list of those who have been verified. After reporting to Your Majesty, I will send the list to the Ministry of Personnel first, hold them down first and make other plans."

"So you think setting up a supervision office above the local area is a must!"

"Yes, we cannot expect how noble the morality of our individual is. We must establish a complete supervision system to kill bad signs in the cradle. All officials are afraid. The officials of the Supervision Office do not interfere in local practice. They only have one task, which is to supervise all officials. Therefore, I also ask Your Majesty to demarcate the domestic department of the Supervision Office from the Supervision Office and integrate it with the Supervision and Censorate Office, so that they can play a better role."

Qin Feng was very depressed. The officials mentioned by Jin Jingnan were basically graduated from the first phase of the Beijing University. Qin Feng had high hopes for these people and regarded them as relay candidates for the revival of the Ming Empire, but unexpectedly, it was precisely many of these people who had problems.

"Since you have done this, then just discuss the matters that the domestic department has drawn up. Isn't Guo Jiuling also your subordinate?" Qin Feng waved his hand angrily: "If you want to find out, just do what you should do! But there is one thing that cannot have any impact on the soldiers in front, nor can you let local affairs be disturbed by it. You can go and take care of the case yourself."
Chapter completed!