Turbulent Times Chapter 916: Da Sui officialdom

"What, one hundred thousand stones, isn't this only one-fifth of the output at its peak." Wang Junlin frowned tightly.

Qian Zhengkuo said: "That's right, so the income of the salt industry has also dropped sharply. The first reason is that the salt farm has been government-run, and the salt workers have lost enthusiasm for a long time. The pirates often went ashore to rob the saltworks, which affected the operation of the saltworks. Thirdly, on the long coastline of Fanyang County, there are still many rich and expensive salt dealers engaged in cooking and selling private salt!"

After Qian Zhengkuo finished speaking, Wang Junlin stared at him suddenly, but he just didn't speak.

Qian Zhengkuo felt a little uneasy under Wang Junlin's knife-like gaze, and couldn't help but said, "I don't know if your lord has anything else to tell me?"

Wang Junlin took out a letter from his cuff, and said with a smile: "Qian Zhengkuo, as soon as I entered the county government office this morning, I found a letter on this table. You, Qian Zhengkuo, accepted bribes, condoned and colluded with private salt dealers, and even colluded with pirates to fill your own pockets, can this happen?"

Qian Zhengkuo had a guilty conscience, but when he heard Wang Junlin's words, his face turned pale with fright, and he lost his composure just now, and bowed to the ground, sweating profusely.

He knows the attitude of the prefect in front of him towards corrupt officials. The death of four officials in Changxiang County is a lesson learned from the past. The prefect even killed Lu Jiandong, a direct descendant of the Lu family, let alone him who is so ordinary. An official of noble birth.

Qian Zhengkuo raised his head and looked at the fatal real-name report letter in Wang Junlin's hand. Only officials in the county mansion could put the letter in the house of the prefect.

It's just that almost every county government official knows about the matter of the salt shop, but those who know are more or less involved. They are all grasshoppers on a rope, so they should not report him.

"Could it be that a certain little official just happened to know about this and was so jealous that he reported it to the prefect. As long as you give me a little time, I will definitely be able to find out!" Qian Zhengkuo secretly felt ruthless.

But at this time, Wang Junlin's voice sounded again: "Qian Zhengkuo, according to what this letter said, what you have done is not an exaggeration for me to cut off your head ten times, how do you explain it? "

"Official...official..."

Just as Qian Zhengkuo was sweating profusely, his mind was running fast, thinking about his words, and thinking about passing the test before him first, Wang Junlin did something that surprised and shocked him!

Under the witness of Qian Zhengkuo, Wang Junlin rubbed the letter with both hands, and the letter turned into very fine debris, which fell to the ground, and no one could know what was in the letter. write content.

Qian Zhengkuo was taken aback for a moment, and said, "My lord, this..."

Wang Junlin smiled slightly, and said: "This official is new here, how can I arbitrarily judge the crime of being an official just because of a letter, besides, this person is sneaky, and he dare not be upright when he reports on you. I am afraid that he has ulterior motives and tried to provoke you The relationship between my superiors and subordinates disrupts the normal operation of my county government."

Obviously Wang Junlin rubbed a letter with nothing written on it into confetti to scare and deceive Qian Zhengkuo, and it was easy to kill a small character like Qian Zhengkuo, but it was useless if the saltworks problem could not be solved. To solve the problem of the salt field, it is necessary to solve the Nalu family...

In the Sui Dynasty, although there was a Yushitai, and three provinces and six ministries were initially set up, the supervision system for officials, especially local officials, hardly existed. The organization can be regarded as some monitoring power, but with so many counties and so many officials in the Sui Dynasty, who can monitor it? In this way, no matter whether the officials are from aristocratic families, ordinary nobles, or confidantes sent by the emperor, there is no one. How many constraints can only rely on self-consciousness and self-discipline.

Perhaps when these officials first became officials, they also thought about being good officials, doing their job well, being honest and honest, and in the first one or two years, they still adhered to their bottom line and refused all bribes of money, silk and jewelry. But people always have weaknesses, some are lustful, some are fond of wine, some are fond of jade, and some are even masculine. And as long as a person has hobbies and shortcomings, it is considered a loophole. This line of defense is quickly captured by beauties, wine and meat, gold and silver, beautiful jade, and treasures sent by local clans, nobles, colleagues, gentry, and merchants. Deeper and deeper.

Slowly, some good officials at first also forgot their original aspirations and lost their bottom line of being an official and a human being. Turn a blind eye to some illegal things within the scope of their jurisdiction, and even collude with them in exchange for money and beauty. They only pay attention to material comfort all day long, and their spirits are completely lost.

Of course Wang Junlin knows that the water in the salt tax and salt field is very deep, and it is estimated that many officials are involved. If it is revealed, it may cause the entire officialdom in Fanyang County to collapse. He suspects that the confidants sent by Yang Guang Ying Yanglang's general Xue Lidu may have been dragged into the water.

In fact, if Wang Junlin looked at the neighboring counties, and even looked at the entire officialdom of the Great Sui Dynasty, it would not be difficult to find that although the Great Sui Dynasty had been established for less than thirty years, from top to bottom, all officials had already Corruption is rampant, this kind of behavior has long been commonplace, and those who are not corrupt may be outliers.

As for the officials who only want to make money and enjoy themselves, the Xiaoshi under them will only have worse consciousness than them, so they will naturally follow suit, and the unlucky people in the end will be the common people all over the world, saying that all officials It is wrong to say that they are drinking the blood of the common people and eating the flesh of the common people.

Since the founding of the country in the Great Sui Dynasty, there has not been a single official in the whole world who can strictly discipline himself, not take a single bribe, or embezzle a single penny!

Maybe there is only one exception, that is Wang Junlin...

Thinking about it carefully, Wang Junlin has never been involved in corruption and bribery, and on the other hand, he did not know how much money he spent on it for official business.

As for the others? The education of the Sui officials who came from aristocratic backgrounds and the example of their elders have already determined what kind of officials they will be. As for the aristocrats themselves, let alone, they were originally the blood-sucking insects of the Sui Dynasty or the common people of the Sui Dynasty, and they were the kind of blood-sucking insects that would never fall off and **** blood all the time.

But if these people smoke money that was originally handed over to the treasury, and the amount is not small, then one person will be unhappy, and will not hesitate to kill for it.

This person is naturally His Majesty the Emperor, but the problem is that Yang Guang just thinks that these damned people dare to embezzle my money, so they deserve to die, and he doesn't think about anything else.