"Your Majesty... Your Majesty!!!"
My master's actions, coupled with Zhao Jun's self-promotion, immediately frightened the disrespectful guy just now.
As soon as his legs went weak, he knelt on the ground, his face as white as a piece of paper.
Naturally, he can do things here because his own master has a disgrace in his life, let alone the actual ruler of Yunzhou City, Prince Yun!
Thinking about the stupid things he did just now, and how he completely exposed his master in front of King Yun, he wished he could go back and give himself a big-eared melon seed!
Isn’t this a bad teammate?
However, no one noticed him at this time, or in other words, Zhao Jun and others did not take him seriously. At best, he was just a pawn in chess, insignificant.
In the entire store, everyone's attention was focused on Zhao Jun, who had an angry look on his face, and Zhu Tuo, who was full of shame.
In addition to the two people involved, Li Yi and Jiang He who were following Zhao Jun also looked at Zhu Tuo with complicated expressions. They clenched the painting that belonged to them in their hands, and they also had a look of fear in their eyes.
It's Zhu Tuo now, will it be their turn later?
For a moment, the feeling of sadness over the death of the rabbit and the fox came to my heart.
"I am ashamed...I am ashamed! I am ashamed of your expectations, Your Majesty, and I am ashamed of the trust of the people of Yunzhou.
However, it is the same at the top and bottom. If the ministers are different, they will not be tolerated by others.
Therefore, we can only go along with the trend.
I know that I am guilty of death, and I just ask the prince to spare my family a life for the sake of my dedicated efforts for Yunzhou County these years. I will not complain at all if the prince wants to deal with me! "
Zhu Tuo said with a sad face, looking at Zhao Jun, his face was full of pleading except for shame.
Zhao Jun was furious. He felt that he had never been so angry before. Not to mention before the development of Yunzhou County, even before it was developed, the salaries of officials like them had always been paid in full, in order to make people happy. They work hard.
The officials of the Song Dynasty also knew that due to the financial difficulties of the imperial court, a large number of low-level officials were either owed or only received part of their salaries. Therefore, in these places, those officials would desperately exploit the people in order to survive.
In order to avoid this situation from happening, Zhao Jun not only paid out his salary in full, but also provided them with various ice cubes and cotton-padded clothes, charcoal fire benefits, and even direct monetary bonuses during the New Year and holidays, especially at the beginning of the year. The big red envelope and the year-end bonus at the end of the year, which one can not get two or three months of salary at a time?
He didn't owe them a penny, but they still dared to play this trick with him here!
If the secret guard hadn't reported it some time ago, he wouldn't have known that the officials under him had begun to engage in collusion between officials and businessmen.
This matter was originally brought about by the construction companies.
Since Yunzhou County has been in a stage of rapid development, not only Yunzhou City, but also the two newly built cities in Yunzhou County have a large number of projects.
But when it comes to engineering, there are always good and bad parts, high-profit and low-profit projects.
So Yunzhou County adopted the method of drawing lots. You would undertake the yamen's projects, and whichever project you drew would be used.
So some businessmen used their brains.
Many of these current businessmen came from Guan Nei in the past. This kind of thing happened all the time in Guan Nei, so they used the methods in Guan Nei.
First, the officials responsible for drawing lots for the projects were invited out to eat and asked to use their hands and feet so that they could get some good projects.
When he got the bonus, he would not be satisfied with this and would turn his thoughts to higher officials.
Obviously, this better official cannot be solved by eating and drinking.
So what to do?
Give gifts!
So all kinds of strange ways of giving gifts came out, including expensive calligraphy and paintings, gold and silver jewelry, and large cash coupons for family members and children somewhere.
Naturally, some people couldn't resist such temptation and gradually fell into it.
And human desire is like a rolling stone on a high mountain. Once it starts, it can never be stopped!
Businessmen who get more benefits will naturally be willing to pay greater costs. In order to get more benefits, they set their sights on higher levels.
Higher-level officials are all about face, so how could they openly accept these things from you?
But this is not a problem for businessmen who want to make money.
Want to be private?
sure!
Just give a shop to your relatives, and then let you write some paintings, calligraphy, etc. and put it in the shop, and then they buy it for a lot of money.
Then this is not a bribe, it is a reward for your skills!
Now the higher-ups are satisfied!
So the businessmen finally reached in.
Slowly, the benefits start to impress people.
Seeing whether you have it or not, everyone is quite balanced.
As a result, I feel unhappy if you have me or not.
So some proactive officials appeared, and the businessmen were naturally happy to see the success, and hurriedly fed such officials a mouthful of milk and captured them.
Other builders saw the benefits and naturally began to flock in. Then the scale became larger and larger. Businessmen in other industries also turned their attention to it, and then extended their hands in the same way.
The profits are getting bigger and bigger, and people are getting bolder and bolder.
When the interests reach a certain level, those at the higher levels are forced to join in, driven by the middle and lower levels.
In the end, we fell together with them and became a community of interests!
As of today, nearly 70% of the officials in the entire Yunzhou County have been coerced into it, and the rest are either in departments where there is nothing that others can ask for, and there is little money.
Either he was stubborn and refused to go along with others for his own beliefs, and was eventually squeezed out by the entire officialdom to an inconspicuous retirement place.
On the day he learned the news, Zhao Jun sat by the pond in the courtyard for a long time without anyone else.
He believes that he can control people's hearts and has the knowledge from later generations. He can hold everything in his own hands and prevent all situations in advance.
But reality gave him a hard blow!
People are unpredictable!
No one can truly control the human heart!
You can control human nature!
At the very least, 99% of people cannot control desire.
Eating is desire, lust is also desire, living is desire, and wanting a higher status, a better life, and more money are all desires.
Throughout the ages, those who have been able to restrain their desires are all famous ministers and ministers, as well as ancient saints.
But how many such people are there?
In the past five thousand years, only a handful of people have emerged.
How dare he think that all the officials under him would be like this.
Ridiculous! My own ideas are too ridiculous!
He thought...
Previously, Li Yi and other top leaders would become independent.
But, he was wrong.
That's why today's scene happened.
He is really in a dilemma now.
According to his character, he wanted to kill these corrupt officials at all costs.
However, the number of people has reached a terrifying level.
If they were all killed, the entire Yunzhou County would be paralyzed.
This question troubled him and made him hesitate...
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(End of chapter)
