Although the Censorate, who was in the Holy Dynasty, had no right to impeach, and was no longer the same as in the past, not only did the news, but also asked about cats, dogs, and other trivial matters, but in fact, can they ask? Not only can they not ask, but in the end they became tools of party struggles.

However, after full-time anti-corruption, the matter was more professional. Moreover, the current Censorate was independent of the cabinet and the six ministries. The one who was directly ordered by the emperor was a sharp knife in the hands of the emperor. The efficiency of working together was not ordinary. In just five days, not only did the supervisors colluded with contracting workers to corrupt and detain Ludding's money and food, but also the relevant Railway Department and some other officials placed close friends during the railway construction and committed favoritism and fraud, all of them were placed on the desks of Zhang Kuang and Bao Shilong.

As the saying goes, you don’t know if you don’t look at it, and you’re shocked. In recent years, although the Gan Sheng Dynasty has been closely watching officials and the corruption and bribery has been reduced a lot, what is the biggest feature of the Gan Sheng Dynasty - a lot of money!

And the money is not too much.

The land tax is more than 24 million taels a year.

The salt tax is more than 30 million taels a year, and the commodity tax collected by the banknote is more than 30 million taels.

The annual income this year was close to 85 million taels, and the processing factory unified taxes, mining departments, tariffs and other miscellaneous taxes. The annual income of the Ming Dynasty, which was in the eighth year of the reign of the sage, has exceeded 90 million taels! I looked like I headed straight for billions.

However, the Ming Dynasty also had a lot of expenses.

Not to mention the military expenses and the salaries of officials, even the officials and constables in the yamen were also given to the court. In the past, the officials and constables in the Ming Dynasty were "obligated". Why did they become "volunteers"? It was not just to get benefits from it. Now the court gives them salary, but once they ask for bribes and embezzlement, they will definitely be severely punished.

Moreover, the widening and hardening of the official roads, railway construction, river embankment reinforcement, city wall renovation... The expenditure of these major projects is no less than 20 million taels per year. Of course, there are immigration, which is also a big deal. There are many projects and more money. The officials of the Ming Dynasty cannot make money from here, but looking at the projects flowing like the Milky Way, they naturally started to think about it. They are all trying to take care of their respective relatives and township parties. Not only are the officials of the Ministry of Works, but most of the civil and military officials are also the same. Even Zhang Kuang's relatives have done some similar things under his name. However, some people are relatively restrained and only occasionally say hello. Some people are already directly trading power and money.

This is just a preliminary investigation. If you continue to do it carefully, you won’t know how many officials involved. It’s simply shocking.

"No wonder Your Majesty often says that there are no crooked trees in Nanjing, but the street lamps are enough. If this continues, even if Your Majesty finally won the Ming Dynasty, within a hundred years, the Ming Dynasty will be in danger of destruction again..." After experiencing the massacre of Zhang Xianzhong during the rebellion and witnessing the tragic situation of no one thousands of miles after the Jiannu invasion, Zhang Kuang was so angry that his hands and feet were trembling, and his face was ashen and complained loudly.

Even after His Majesty pacified Zhang Xianzhong, Zhang Kuang made the choice to follow, but deep down, he did not fully understand His Majesty's actions. Some places have quite different differences, and sometimes he even thinks that His Majesty is simply a "tyrant" in history books.

Just like the successors in various yamen, letting everyone "appreciate", it's just that everyone can write their experiences.

That's all the tyrant!

Some people even actually compile history books privately and record this matter in history books, for fear that the historians of the court would use the Spring and Autumn style to drown the matter.

But today, after reading the investigation report that the Censorate itself took out, he suddenly realized that His Majesty’s worries were right. The Ming Dynasty seemed to have revived, but in fact, while reviving, it was also slowly ulcerating. This kind of ulcer is slow, but it is common.

"It's time to kill! Even though people embezzled project funds even on the Yangtze River embankment, such a project that concerns the lives of tens of millions of people is actually... so brave, how can we calm the anger of the public if we don't kill it!"

Bao Shilong said excitedly.

"There are too many people involved and you cannot act rashly. And there are some things that were originally not strictly prohibited by law, but now they are suspected of being overcorrected..."

Although he was very angry, Zhang Kuang still comforted him with a calm voice as calm as possible.

Taking his years of experience as an official, compared with the last emperor, the ulceration of the Holy Dynasty can only be regarded as a scabies itch. Even the scabies itch is not even a scabies itch. After all, this is just an ordinary power-for-money transaction. At least you can see things when you take out the money. If you put it in the past, the court's squandered money and take it out, and officials at all levels will exploit it. In the end, they will probably be empty.

"Then you can't just forget it. Kill the chicken to scare the monkey... This chicken always kills some!"

Qi returned to Qi, but Bao Shilong, who had been in the officialdom for many years, also knew that there were too many people involved in this matter. Sometimes... Fa Zhen could not blame everyone. He nodded and said gritted his teeth.

"Your Majesty has given them such a high salary, and even after we retire, we are allowed to return home! Now, there are still people who are not satisfied and are trying so hard to make money... Such people must not be kept... Otherwise, the administration of the Ming Dynasty will definitely be destroyed in their hands."

In the past, officials of the Ming Dynasty had no salary after retiring. As the saying goes, "retirement, return the salary to the king" means that they return the power to the king. If the position is returned, the salary must be returned, but the king will not let him drink the northwest wind. If the family is poor and cannot save himself, "there is a month to give two stones of rice to the end of his life." Of course, except for the special orders of a few officials.

But Emperor Gan Sheng was very generous and issued a direct order to issue "gratitude for officials who retired". This kind of gift is the royal special order to give grace to officials who retired. Gratitude is equivalent to the salary when he was in office, but there are fewer benefits such as ice gifts and charcoal gifts.

Instead, this order was written into the "Da Ming Ancestor System". In other words, as long as you are an official of the Ming Dynasty and a official of the Ming Dynasty, you will receive the favors you give to the emperor until you die.

This is good enough treatment!

Your kindness is like the sea!

But how did they repay it?

That's how it's rewarded!

This is really a lack of hearts and snakes swallow elephants. No matter how much money you spend, you can't feed those people's greed. With greed, what do they dare not do?

"That's a matter of importance. It is necessary to report truthfully, but you need to persuade Your Majesty that the current Ming Dynasty cannot withstand the exile like the "Imperial Decree" back then..."

After gently knocking down the table, Zhang Kuang said with some exclamation.

The so-called "Imperial Decree Case" is the "Imperial Decree Case" and the "Imperial Decree Case". There are as many as a thousand scholars and officials who were exiled in the two cases. I don't know how many prominent scholars and forests were exiled to foreign lands and disappeared from the Central Plains Scholars. Even Zhang Kuang had friends and classmates who were exiled overseas in the same year, and some even died of illness in foreign lands.

This is not the biggest blow, what is the more deadly blow?

Among them, there are many scholarly families that have been passed down for many years. The exile of the scholars of the sect and the exile of their families even directly led to the decline of literary style in some places. After all, the literary style in many places is often supported by the personal familiarity of several people. The scholars who are interested in studying nearby can go over to ask for articles even if they cannot get familiar with them. But now? Because they are exiled, they have disappeared.

Even in Jiangnan... the writing style is no better than before!

According to some people, "There is no better thing to slaughter Jiangnan by all the steel knives!" Although he scoffed at this statement, the impact of the "Imperial Decree" on Shilin and the literary style in various places cannot be ignored by Zhang Kuang, so he has such concerns.

Moreover, he was even more worried that this matter would become the "Hu Weiyong case" of the Holy Dynasty. Indeed, this case seems inconspicuous, but it involves too many people. If they are killed, there will definitely be a big mess at that time.

Bao Shilong couldn't help but sigh.

"But, Your Majesty...he can't hold sand in his eyes!"

In some aspects, Your Majesty is so strict that it is not as strong as the world. This is well-known. For example, the civil servants' fingers at military affairs, and the corruption of officials is unwilling tolerated in His Majesty's eyes.
Chapter completed!