Chen Yunfu no longer knew how to express his feelings at this moment.

shock.

Not one of the six central departments of the Ming Dynasty was clean.

And it's all corruption led by the top leaders.

Although the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of Works are just left-hand ministers, the situation in the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of Works is that they are said to be assistant ministers, but the powers they exercise are those of the top leaders.

When did Zeng Tai become the head of the household department? And Namai Zhide himself was the minister of the Ministry of Industry. He was demoted to the position of Minister of the Ministry of Industry just six months ago because he made some minor mistakes. However, the position of the Minister of the Ministry of Industry has always been vacant.

I know it was reserved for Mai Zhide.

None of the top leaders of the six departments is clean!

As mentioned before, after the Hu Weiyong case, the Ming Dynasty abolished the official position of the Prime Minister of Zhongshu Province, and did not establish a cabinet. Therefore, the Ming Dynasty lacked a central-level administrative agency, and all matters were reported to the emperor.

In this political environment, the six ministers were already the pinnacle of power in the Ming Dynasty, and they were all ruined.

Huge political scandal!

In addition to being shocked, Chen Yunfu was even heartbroken.

According to Yang Ruxian's confession, this can no longer be called corruption. This group of people actually joined forces to steal the country!

What kind of behavior is it to steal the national treasury into one's own pocket? What kind of bad nature is it!

In his previous life, Chen Yunfu never understood one thing, that is, many high-ranking officials had obviously had enough food and clothing all their lives, and the state had fully paid for their food, clothing, housing, and transportation, so why did they still want to be greedy?

Are you greedy for money but don’t dare to spend it, just for the pleasure of looking at it?

Like Director Hou, he used money to make a wall and money to make a bed.

But now, Chen Yunfu doesn't understand even more.

Six ministers, one year's salary is not enough to support a family's relatives in this era. They enjoy the highest level of political treatment. The court assigns them officials, coachmen, guards, cooks, and servants, all of which are used by the court.

Raised by degrees.

It’s not like what’s shown in the TV series, where officials have to spend their own money.

Even the county magistrates, their grooms and officials were paid by the court.

It is recorded in "Da Ming Huidian" and "Food and Goods Quality" that the county magistrate is equipped with four firewood servants and one groom. The wages of these five people are paid by the state. The clothing and pen and ink expenses in winter and summer are paid by

State subsidies.

"Yihui, salt and fermentation are given every year." Yihui refers to clothes and grain stipends, and salt and fermentation refers to salt and vinegar. These things are distributed by the court.

Therefore, there is no saying that the county magistrate gave money to his subordinates from his own salary, causing him to become so poor that he committed corruption and accepted bribes. As I said before, corruption is completely a personal behavior and has nothing to do with being forced by life.

There is no direct relationship.

As for the county magistrate in the TV series paying salaries to his subordinate officials, it only exists through donation of classes.

As for what donation means, I won’t explain it here. Those who are interested can learn more.

I just want to talk about where the donation came from in the Hongwu Dynasty.

Chen Yunfu just didn't understand. Six ministers had stolen tens of millions of shi of grain and sold it privately. What about the money?

What is the point of saving millions or even tens of millions of taels of silver?

What is the difference between this and Director Hou sleeping on a banknote bed and eating noodles with soybean paste?

But by doing this, they are pushing Ming Dynasty into the grave!

Today's Ming Dynasty is resuming production internally, and building people's livelihood does not require money. Externally, Fu Youde, Mu Ying, Lan Yu, and Xu Da are still expropriating lost land in the northern expedition to the south. Military expenditures have been high year after year, which also requires money.

If these moths continue, when military expenditures are gone and soldiers cannot be paid, the Northern Yuan Dynasty will go south again, and the Ming Dynasty will be destroyed!

Is this alarmist? No, this is a fact, a bloody fact.

But even if Chongzhen could spend 10 million taels to make up for the military expenditures owed by the Nine Borders for more than ten years, the Manchu Jurchens would not even dare to covet the Ming Dynasty, and Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong would not even think of breaking into Beijing.

The Jiashen national crisis will not occur.

Therefore, corruption will lead to the destruction of the country. Why do so many people not believe this statement and shamelessly say that corruption is the lubricant of the economy?

Why do we have to unswervingly fight against corruption? Even if we know that corruption cannot be completely banned, we still have to devote a lot of energy to it. Even if we are criticized as so-called 'idealism', it is because Jufan has some insight.

Everyone knows that if we don’t fight corruption, our country will perish!

Looking at the people Yang Ruxian confessed, it is no exaggeration to say that at this moment, the Ming Dynasty, which was only sixteen years old, is already on the edge of the precipice of subjugation!

Is it an exaggeration?

No exaggeration!

The Ming Dynasty was only one step away from being destroyed.

That is, once Xu Da, Lan Yu, Fu Youde and others suffer a disastrous defeat in a foreign war, and the court cannot come up with pension money, this will overthrow the first domino and trigger a chain reaction.

It will spread quickly.

Therefore, in addition to shock and heartache, Chen Yunfu also felt fear.

The end of fear brought Chen Yunfu endless anger.

"You bastards, you are destroying this country!" Chen Yunfu grabbed Yang Ruxian by the collar and roared angrily. His little face was completely filled with anger: "You dare to steal the money from the national treasury?

What do you want to do, what do you want to do!"

Yang Ruxian was scolded, but he showed no shame at all. Instead, he looked at Chen Yunfu with a sneer.

"What do we want to do? You should ask our Majesty what he wants to do. He is mean, unkind, suspicious, and kills innocent people indiscriminately. We have already been heartbroken by him.

In the Huaixi case, tens of thousands of colleagues suffered unreasonable disasters. Some of them even just gave Hu Weiyong a birthday gift, but they were labeled as his accomplices and had their heads executed and their homes confiscated.

Is such a king worthy of support? As officials, we have to think about ourselves. What if we offend the emperor one day and be beheaded and have our homes confiscated? It is appropriate to leave some money in advance for future generations.

I'm not afraid to tell you openly, even if the clan is executed, I'm not afraid. Over the years, I have raised dozens of concubines in secret, leaving a lot of flesh and blood.

Ever since Weng Junbo was arrested, I divided the money between them and asked them to escape for their own lives. Now even I don't know where they escaped to and what kind of life they lived.

So, come and kill, there’s no harm in killing all the trees in your house!”

Yang Ruxian's shamelessness undoubtedly added fuel to the fire, and Chen Yunfu's eyes showed murderous intent for the first time.

He only thought Yang Ruxian was shameful and hateful, but now, he found that Yang Ruxian had completely lost the most basic bottom line of being a human being.

The dignified Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Justice, a central official, actually used his corruption as a talking point worth showing off, and he thought he was right to dump the blame on the country and Zhu Yuanzhang.

"Master Hu, cut off all his fingers section by section."

Chen Yunfu gritted his teeth and squeezed out this command: "Don't you like to be greedy? This is your retribution."

"Chen Yunfu!" Yang Ruxian became frightened and went crazy: "Who do you think you are? Do you think you are righteous? I tell you, what you are doing at this moment will also become the bane of your guillotine in the future.

I'm waiting for you on the Huangquan Road, just watch, no one who works for Zhu Yuanzhang will end well, this is known to both the government and the public!"

Chen Yunfu looked at him coldly and said nothing.

"Check it, kill it, I'll see where you can find it, wherever you dare to find it!"

As he said that, Yang Ruxian named several people in succession, and finally laughed wildly: "Go and investigate, go and kill, who do you think you are? You and I are just slaves of the Zhu family, hahahaha."

"

In the cell, Lao Hu, who had planned to execute him, was stunned after hearing these names.

It was Chen Yunfu who broke this terror.

"Cut out his tongue."

After the explanation, Chen Yunfu leaned into Yang Ruxian's ear and said: "Holding the Heavenly Sword in your hand, kill all the decayed people before you can let go. You, never want to destroy this country."
Chapter completed!