Because the amount of materials, money and goods was huge, and the number of officials handling matters was huge, Su Yonglin always attached great importance to audit work.
Although he had just founded the country and the country was in dire straits and was waiting to be revitalized. In this case, the politics of the general dynasty would be relatively clear, but corruption was ubiquitous.
Greed exists in human nature, it is inevitable, and not everyone can control their desires.
It's just that the new officials of the Renaissance have an extra layer of moral shackles compared to the old bureaucrats.
In the past, Confucian scholars also had their own moral shackles, but now that the moral shackles Confucianism has built for itself have been internally digested, officials from the Fuxing Society must be more honest than Confucian bureaucrats.
But Su Yonglin himself doesn't believe it if it doesn't exist at all. Xu Li is that example.
Therefore, the audit work not only investigates the areas governed by the old bureaucracy, but also cooperates with the local Renaissance organizations and judicial departments to investigate the areas governed by the Renaissance officials. If these institutions have not been established, then immediately Build it up.
Shandong has already determined that there is a problem, and there must be something fishy in the account books of Dongping Branch and Jinan Branch, so now Su Yonglin needs to verify the Kaifeng Headquarters, Xuzhou Branch and Pizhou Branch, and figure out these three branches first.
The best thing is that he can go all out to attack Shandong.
But if something happened, he couldn't pretend he didn't see it.
As long as there are any clues, they must be found out. There should be no black sheep from the beginning. Such problems must be strictly stopped from the beginning, find them out and kill them.
Otherwise, if the Yellow River Project is delayed for a long time, more and more serious cases will inevitably occur, which will even affect the final quality of the Yellow River Project.
Compared with these old bureaucrats, what Su Yonglin cannot accept even more is the corruption in the areas governed by Renaissance officials, which will make him very frustrated.
It was enough for Neihuang County to happen once. He could not allow it to happen in more places. This was why he sent more working groups to inspect local areas.
If the ideal cannot be a weapon to block reality, then add bricks and tiles to the ideal and arm it.
Su Yonglin will become Ideal's most powerful weapon.
Lethal Weapon.
While Su Yonglin was checking accounts in Kaifeng, Xuzhou and Pizhou, he was also paying attention to the investigation of the Shandong issue by the 11th Operation Team of the Skynet Army.
Hu Wei, director of the Tai'an Fuxing Association branch, also continued to investigate the problem of rising prices in Tai'an Prefecture at Su Yonglin's request, and launched an investigation into several other surrounding states that do not have Fuxing Association branches.
The situation in Shandong is quite special. It is the place where Su Yonglin started, and the fire is booming, but it is also the base camp of the old bureaucrats and gentry, with biting cold winds blowing all year round.
During the war years, relying on the devastation of the war and using the greed and ferocity of the Jin soldiers, Su Yonglin took control of some unowned land, controlled the local political power, controlled the resources and population, and thus established an establishment strong enough to resist the Jin Kingdom. Ensure the foundation of its own survival.
But what has to be admitted is that the entire Shandong area is very large, and there are still quite a few areas that Su Yonglin was unable to intervene under the circumstances at the time. He could only entrust them to the control of the old bureaucrats and gentry who originally occupied those areas. According to the old rules run.
These areas are completely different from other areas under the control of the Renaissance. The areas under the control of the Renaissance are undergoing major changes in full swing, while the areas controlled by the landlords and gentry have not moved at all.
In areas controlled by the Renaissance Society, peasant associations were established, and farmers became masters and received literacy education. Most people began to be literate. They owned land, livestock and farm tools, and did not have to bear exorbitant taxes.
Because of the reform of tax policies, farmers can retain most of their labor income. Not only can they maintain food and clothing, but they can also eat well occasionally. Tax collectors cannot raise additional taxes. Farmers' hard work can increase their savings, so their families can have a bright future.
In areas controlled by the landlords and gentry, most farmers are tenants and are subject to cruel exploitation. Landlords take away 60% to 70% of their production income, and even 80%.
It is very difficult to maintain food and clothing. There is not enough food all year round, and they can barely stay in a state of starvation. They are basically illiterate, with few literate. They are ignorant and almost slaves of the master's family.
Two completely different states appear on the same land, which is quite a bit of magical realism.
Therefore, according to the rules, Shandong should be the place where class conflicts are most acute and struggles are fiercest. However, because of Su Yonglin's deliberate control, there was no unrest here.
There used to be no.
But that’s not necessarily the case now… No, there will definitely be unrest.
If it weren't for Su Yonglin's choice, the local township farmers' associations and village farmers' associations would have led the farmers to the areas controlled by powerful landlords to liberate their brothers and sisters.
So facing the situation at this moment, Su Yonglin felt a little guilty and thought that he was being soft.
But not anymore. He will never be soft-hearted again. He will soon go to Shandong and lead the local poor farmers to break the shackles on them.
When Su Yonglin led the team to review the accounts, Hu Wei, director of the Tai'an Prefecture Renaissance Association branch, sent the second report to Su Yonglin.
He mentioned in the report that it was not just Tai'an Prefecture. He found that Jinan Prefecture, Dongping Prefecture, Zizhou, Yanzhou and other places had varying degrees of price increases, and the upward trend was rather strange and inconsistent with price increases in normal years.
As a result, some local sentiments were turbulent.
The prices of many daily necessities, including food prices, have increased. It would be strange if the public did not respond.
After reading the report, Su Yonglin was even more certain that the crime in Shandong was of a bad nature and the amount of money involved was quite large.
Rising prices are not necessarily a bad thing for a country.
And according to traditional concepts, as long as food prices are not too outrageous, local officials have no reason to report to the central government.
Traditionally, the government did not pay much attention to business, because the price of salt was controlled by the government, so as long as the price of food remained stable, everything else would be stable, and ordinary feudal bureaucrats would not pay special attention to this kind of thing.
Anyway, if the people have food and salt to eat, they will not make trouble or rebel, and local officials can feel at ease to do things.
However, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, Su Yonglin established a reporting mechanism for price increases, requiring local governments to report local price conditions to the central government on a quarterly basis, especially the prices of grain, coal and other materials related to people's livelihood.
The Ministry of Finance has a detailed summary record of this, and will give Su Yonglin a report on the rising or falling price trends in various places every quarter, allowing Su Yonglin to have a rough judgment on the national economic situation.
As a supporting measure, Su Yonglin set up a plan for the state to purchase grain for storage in order to prevent food shortages caused by natural and man-made disasters. Su Yonglin also knew that in the current social stage, as long as he controlled the price of grain and salt, he could maintain the basic needs of society. Stablize.
After this system was established and effectively implemented, food prices in various regions during the Ming Dynasty were indeed well controlled.
But this time, even food prices began to rise in some areas of Shandong, and there were no disasters that could affect food production.
There are sufficient food reserves and there are no problems with market supply. There are no reports of disasters or refugees, but food prices are rising.
There is only one explanation.
The number of coins circulating in the market has increased, not just a little, not the normal kind of prosperity.
Su Yonglin thought of a technical term that made him feel very unhappy. He didn't want to think in that direction, but reality told him that this might be the case.
This group of people is very smart. They used a large amount of funds to legally flow into Shandong folk stalls, and they operated secretly, trying to hide it from the public and turn dirty money into clean money.
If it weren't for the accurate information from the 11th Operation Team, Su Yonglin would only think that his own operations had caused the price increase in Shandong, and would not pay too much attention to it. Maybe he would let these insects succeed in concealing the truth.
Fortunately, these insects were so densely spaced that the fox's tail was exposed.
So Su Yonglin asked Hu Wei to continue to pay close attention to the rising prices in various parts of Shandong and report to him on time, and then sent an order to the 11th Action Team to inquire about the investigation status of the 11th Action Team.
Su Yonglin himself still stayed in Kaifeng to verify the accounts of Kaifeng, Xuzhou and Pizhou.
Su Yonglin guessed that his going south and publicly auditing the accounts would inevitably cause tension among the people in Shandong, and they would definitely do something in the near future to cope with his upcoming audit of the accounts of the Dongping Prefecture Branch and Jinan Prefecture Branch.
People make mistakes when they are nervous or anxious, but they don't know whether their mistakes will be detected by the 11th Action Team.
