Just as the Army of the Chu Empire launched large-scale military operations in Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian and Zhejiang, a very targeted rectification storm of officialdom was quietly set off in Jinling City.

However, some people in the storm don't know that the sky above their heads is already covered with dark clouds.

Chen Shoulin is one of them.

Now he is still happy about his promotion and is hosting a banquet for guests.

Of course, when entertaining guests, it is normal to receive some gifts. These gifts can be worth tens of thousands of taels, which can be taken back to Chubei's hometown to purchase shops and other properties to enrich them.

The foundation of the Chen family.

Looking at the gift list, Chen Shoulin smiled!

As expected, I had decisively surrendered to the thieves, oh, no, I had followed the dragon. Since I had followed the dragon in Yuezhou, it only took me just over a year to go from a mere eighth-grade Jiaoyu to a third-grade director.

.

And now he is about to be transferred to the Ministry of Water Resources as the right minister. From the second rank, people from the Ministry of Civil Affairs have already come to conduct a symbolic investigation and inquiry. It is estimated that the appointment letter will be issued in a few days.
p>

Chen Shoulin was very satisfied with this transfer. Although the Ministry of Water Resources was considered by many to be a weak department, far less powerful than the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Ministry of Industry, and the Department of Taxation, he was directly transferred from the position of director to the right.

The servant's.

This is a direct transfer from a Beijing official, and it can even be said to be a direct promotion by two levels.

As long as you stay in the position of right minister of the Ministry of Water Resources for a few years, and then take advantage of the situation to become the left minister, there is a great chance. If not, you can also be transferred to a local governor.

This official career is very smooth.

Besides, others only think that the Ministry of Water Resources has little power and little status in the Senate, but there is not a lot of oil and water in the Ministry of Water Resources.

The Chu Empire still attached great importance to infrastructure such as water conservancy. Many of the relief-for-work projects were actually local water conservancy facility construction projects, whether they were flood control or irrigation.

And since there are so many projects, the money and food that are passed through are naturally indispensable.

If you go back and do it well yourself, in the past few years, if you become the right servant, you may be able to accumulate an inheritance worth hundreds of thousands of taels for the old Chen family.

But thinking about the family business, Chen Shoulin responded to the letter sent by his eldest brother some time ago saying that the agricultural tax was too heavy. The original several hundred acres of land in their family, plus the thousands of acres of land purchased last year, this

Agricultural tax is not a small figure.

Half of the rent collected and the tax paid will be levied.

There are also several new businesses that my family bought last year, and they also pay heavy taxes.

His eldest brother said that the Chen family worked hard last year, and the combined income from various industries was only tens of thousands taels, but the taxes they paid would be several thousand taels more. In the end, after deducting various expenses, the Chen family's profits were only a few thousand taels.

Just a few thousand taels.

After a year of hard work, in the end, I made a wedding dress for those tax officials...

Chen Shoulin felt heartbroken when he thought of the thousands of dollars in taxes he paid every year.

He worked hard to make money last year and only made tens of thousands of taels. As a result, those tax people didn't even have to talk, and they could get thousands of taels of money just by sending a tax notice.

This is simply unreasonable!

In addition, at the beginning of the year, his pro-army officers were severely bitten by those tax mad dogs because they missed paying some taxes, and they insisted on fines of more than 20,000 taels of silver...

Even if he wrote a letter in his own handwriting and went to the Hantianfu Taxation Department to explain it to him, it would be useless. It would make Chen Shoulin so angry.

How can we maintain long-term peace and stability by imposing heavy taxes and depriving the people of profits?

And when he thought that many people in the court were from poor backgrounds and could not even write articles, Chen Shoulin felt deeply that there was a long way to go.

If we don't pull down Chen Xingkai's idiots, it's impossible to bring peace and prosperity to the imperial court.

However, the matter of removing people from their posts is still a little bit worse. He himself is only a second-grade right minister in a disadvantaged department, and he has not officially taken up the post yet...

So this matter is not urgent for the time being, but the harsh tax administration cannot continue like this, otherwise, many good families in the world will suffer.

Immediately, he thought about writing a letter to impeach the tax system.

Although he also knows that this kind of discount will be lost if he gives it to him, but if he doesn't do some things, he will never succeed.

As long as he insists on impeachment and enlists other comrades in the impeachment, His Majesty will be able to change his mind sooner or later.

Just when he was thinking about how to write the details of the impeachment tax system, suddenly there was a rush of footsteps outside...

Chen Shoulin frowned slightly. Who could be so ignorant of the rules? It seems that these servants recruited from outside are still not good enough. They don't understand the rules, so they still have to write a handwritten letter and ask the family to send a group of children to come over.

The hurried footsteps outside quickly approached, and soon they arrived at the door of the study. A middle-aged man came in and said with a panic: "Master, it's not good..."

Chen Shoulin immediately shouted coldly: "How can you behave in a hurry? What did I say in the past? Be steady. This is the Chen Mansion, not some thatched hut with mud legs!"

The middle-aged man seemed not to have heard the reprimand, but continued to talk to himself: "Master... there is a group of patrol policemen coming outside, and a few censors..."

Censor and patrolman?

Chen Shoulin wouldn't be surprised if the two appeared separately.

But if they are dispatched together, and they come to his own house, then Chen Shoulin has a very bad feeling.

He knew that, although both the Inspectorate and the patrol police in the imperial court belonged to the judicial system, they were actually two completely different departments.

The patrol police are law enforcement agencies. When investigating ordinary cases, the patrol police usually investigate on their own. Even if they want to arrest someone, they need to ask the Supervisory Office to issue an arrest warrant, but the patrol police can just arrest the person directly with the arrest warrant. There is no need for those police officers.

Shi Men personally led the team to arrest the people.

But there is one situation that is quite special, and that is corruption cases against officials.

In corruption cases against officials, the censor would often come to arrest them personally with a group of policemen. In fact, there was no such rule at the beginning. The main reason was that many censors regarded arresting corrupt officials as their political capital, and the superiors also believed that

With this political capital, censors who do well in anti-corruption work tend to rise very quickly.

In order to prevent themselves from working hard to investigate the case, and then being picked off by other censors and taking away the credit, some censors personally led people to arrest people, in order to have the case files marked from beginning to end.

Even if your immediate boss comes, you can't take away your credit for your own imprint.

This has led to the fact that now the censors of the Chu Empire will personally bring patrol police to arrest people when handling official cases.

And now...

However, the censor and patrol police came to his house!

And the most important thing is that out of the hundreds of people in the huge Chen family, Chen Shoulin is the only one who is an official.

Among the more than 100 other people, there are about ten who are his recent personal maids, and two of them are children who follow him.

The remaining more than 100 people are hired servants.

What is this censor here for?

Are you here for yourself?

Chen Shoulin, who was running through these thoughts in his mind, had no idea that his breathing had begun to quicken.

But after all, he was also a serious Pseudo-Ming Juren, and he had been an official for many years, so he had mastered the art of calming down.

After taking a deep breath, he immediately stood up and walked out: "Go and have a look!"

He, Chen Shoulin, was the former director of the Textile Department of the Ministry of Industry, and is now the right minister of the Ministry of Water Resources, a second-ranking high-ranking official in the country.

He wants to see who is so bold as to do anything in his house!

He had just stood up and before he reached the door, he heard a rush of footsteps outside, and soon more than a dozen patrol policemen in black uniforms trotted in.

And there were loud shouts outside: Be honest! Get down!

Anyone who dares to resist will be killed on the spot!

Those who attacked the police were beheaded and their homes ransacked!

When Chen Shoulin saw these patrol officers and heard these words, his face became extremely ugly!

Especially when he saw that his eldest son, who was only 18 years old, was forcibly tied up by a patrolman. When the eldest son struggled a little, the patrolman directly hit him with a scabbard. He was even more angry: "What are you doing? Let him go.

!"

"Do you know who I am? Do your superiors know that you broke into the palace of the current minister?"

"If you don't let him go, I will impeach you. This patrol department has become lawless."

Although what Chen Shoulin said was extremely angry, his legs could not help but begin to tremble...

This scene!

It gave him an extremely bad feeling!

The patrol policemen opposite are not fools. Even if they are fools, their superiors will not be fools either, and those censors are not fools either.

As long as you are not extremely stupid, you will never break into the residence of a second-rank right servant of the current dynasty without permission, arrest people wantonly, or even take action directly.

These patrol officers have even drawn their knives!

When Chen Shoulin shouted angrily, another person walked out from behind a group of patrol policemen!

This person is not wearing the black uniform of a patrolman, but is wearing a blue Confucian uniform with a gold coat of arms pinned to it. The gold coat of arms is exactly the gold used by officials of the fourth rank and above in the Great Chu Empire.

Heraldry.

If you look carefully at the pattern above, you will see that it is still a peacock, which means that the person coming is a third-rank official.
To be continued...