"call--"
With a long sigh of relief, King Yu felt excited all over and immediately felt a little bored.
After groping the high mountains and ridges, he thought about it for a while and said rather coldly: "You should have a good rest, don't get sick."
"Hmm~" A sweet and delicate voice sounded, tired yet joyful, hoarse yet childish.
A pair of jade hands wrapped around the neck, pink and close to the body: "Brother-in-law, if we are like this, how can I explain to my sister?"
I saw a round and white face, a small mouth pouted, a straight nose wrinkled slightly, and beautiful eyes that were both angry and happy, full of fear.
how could I know?
Zhu Yixi touched her little face, took a breath and said, "Damselfly, you are going too far."
"I can't bear to leave my brother-in-law!"
The damselfly's eyes flashed with the black hair from that night, and she said pitifully: "Brother-in-law, who made you look so handsome and handsome?"
"Keep going, don't stop!"
"Stop for what? Come again?"
The damselfly was stunned.
"No, it's the truth like that Junyi."
Zhu Yixi said softly, feeling quite relieved, and began to say seriously:
"Of course, you are not young anymore. Nowadays, the war is in chaos. If you marry out of town, your family will be worried. If you marry someone you don't like, you are afraid of being bullied and ruining half your life..."
"Yes, brother-in-law is the best!"
Xiao Nizi's eyes were sparkling, and she was constantly grinding behind her back.
"Have a good rest!"
Zhu Yixi couldn't help but stand up, couldn't help but look at Bai Nen, and said with difficulty: "Remember, don't let your sister find out."
"oh--"
With a drawl, the damselfly dressed as if nothing had happened and muttered: "Brother-in-law, you have to explain to your sister as soon as possible, I'm afraid of being scolded!"
"I'm afraid too!"
Zhu Yixi said angrily: "You seduced me, you have the nerve to say this,"
After being speechless for a while, His Highness Prince Yu left this relatively remote underground secret room neatly, taking three steps and two steps to leave.
"Creak——"
The bed board was opened, Zhu Yixi moved a little, rubbed his eyes, and said tiredly:
"Is Section Chief Sun here?"
"Your Highness, Section Chief Sun has been waiting for a long time."
Thirteen replied crisply.
"Let him in!"
Immediately, Sun Changzhou, Chief of the Search Section, who was dusty and full of excitement, couldn't wait to enter:
"I have met His Highness in my humble position."
Holding a stack of documents, Sun Changzhou's courtesy was not compromised at all.
"Get up!"
King Yu yawned, looked at the person, and said, "Is the thing there?"
"Yes!" Sun Changzhou handed it over quickly.
Seeing King Yu flipping through the files and suppressing his excitement, he explained softly:
"Your Majesty, excluding those chieftains, Huguang has fifteen prefectures, two Zhili prefectures, and ninety-seven counties."
"Since last year when you expelled the intruders and thieves from the West, you have ignored the past grievances and reinstated their officials. It can be said that you are magnanimous and rare in ancient times."
"But these people not only colluded with each other in private, but also flirted with Qin, Mu and Chu, and the Nanjing court. They often even colluded secretly with He Tengjiao of Jiujiang and exchanged letters."
"He, he even tried to overthrow the shogunate in his letters..."
Speaking of this, Sun Changzhou was filled with indignation and said: "They actually plotted something unspeakable——"
"It's nothing more than using my head to make meritorious service and contribute it to the imperial court!"
King Yu sneered, flipping through the large stack of files at random, his thoughts changing.
In fact, when he turned to the first page, there were actually 60 people in the ninety-eight counties who had evil intentions and colluded with the court.
This has to exclude the twenty or so counties he appointed.
In other words, there are only a dozen or so people who are truly loyal to him or are neutral.
Not to mention the state level, that's 90%.
"My salary is just for feeding the dogs!"
Zhu Yixi was filled with emotions.
After hearing this, Sun Changzhou hesitated for a moment and said cautiously: "Your Highness, don't look at the salary of the officials in the country but not much, but privately they have a lot of money. The filial piety of the officials in the capital is not new."
"What, besides Huohua?"
Zhu Yixi said curiously.
He was at the bottom before and later joined the army. He really didn't know much about local officials.
Seeing this, Sun Changzhou, the spy chief, began to reveal how greedy the local officials were.
In addition to the filial piety of subordinates, officials and businessmen, at the county magistrate level, there is also a prescribed income - apportionment.
That is, according to the wealth of each county, a showdown of 30 taels to 100 taels of silver was given to each li (100 households were one li).
The original intention of this was that the local people hoped to exchange money for the magistrate to not bother him, but it turned out to be a common practice.
No matter how much I mess around, you have to give me money first.
For this item alone, the general informing county will receive at least one thousand taels of silver a year.
In addition, there are endless cases of corruption such as state affairs (disaster relief, embankment construction, etc.), miscellaneous taxes (water money, food money, treasury money), hegemonic corruption (litigation takes both sides), etc.
Therefore, in ancient times, people paid attention to not fussing, and this is the reason.
Once something happens, officials will take action, and good things turn into bad things.
"Apportionment, miscellaneous taxes..."
Zhu Yixi understood that the dozens of silver coins he added every month was just an itch for these Bailihou.
Asking them to give up corruption is no less than throwing watermelon for sesame seeds.
Naturally, they were not very grateful, but indignant.
"Take them all!"
King Yu directly threw down the file and said softly.
"What's the crime?"
Sun Changzhou frowned and said, "Your Highness, without a proper excuse, I'm afraid it will cause trouble."
"Corruption is of course useless."
Zhu Yixi chuckled and said: "The crows in the world are as black as black. If you point at them and say they are black, they will jump over the wall."
"In this way, those south of Dongting Lake will be accused of colluding with the Western thieves and intending to rebel. Their homes will be ransacked, they will be demoted, and they will be imprisoned to work on the farms."
"Those who live north of Dongting Lake are said to be colluding with bandits, half-hearted and with bad intentions, subverting the imperial court. They are also said to have their homes confiscated, demoted, and farm reformed."
King Yu made up an excuse casually.
As the saying goes, if you want to impose a crime, there is no excuse.
A person in a superior position can give out several excuses at will.
Sun Changzhou lowered his head with a serious look on his face.
This is power. The power of King Yu determines the life and death of millions of people in Huguang. Even the county magistrate can only crush an ant to death.
"However, compared with their rebellion, the king only sent them to the farm for reform, which is indeed magnanimous."
Zhu Yixi chuckled lightly: "As for the state and government levels, the influence is too great, so just follow Governor Sun's method and pick an assistant official to raid the house! Knock on the mountain to shake the tiger!"
In order to control corruption, Sun Chuanting, the governor of Shaanxi, directly killed all the county magistrates, such as county magistrates, etc., which effectively shocked the whole of Shaanxi and made tax collection extremely smooth.
"As you command!"
Sun Changzhou felt his heart beating continuously. This was excitement. Jin Yiwei was really about to revive.
"However, the Department of Compliance will follow the review!"
King Yu finally added.
This is to put a leash on the dog of the Search Section to prevent it from jumping away.
