Su Yonglin was a martial artist and had fought bloody battles during the war, so he waved his hand with great force.
A thick stack of paper hit Kong Zheng's head firmly and hard, causing him to stagger. His official hat fell to the ground with a sound, and he almost fell down. The stack of paper was also scattered on the floor, everywhere.
After finally stabilizing his body, the fear in Kong Zheng's heart exploded, so he quickly knelt down.
The surrounding officials were also frightened by the emperor's sudden outburst, especially the Shandong officials. Their faces turned pale and terrified, and several of them knelt down with Kong Zheng.
Su Yonglin stood up, his eyes wide with anger, and his anger exploded like an incendiary bomb, which was extremely terrifying.
"Pick up all these and take a look at them. Use your eyes to see clearly. One by one, one by one, who did what? The talent of the world, the talent of the king! Each one of them is It’s amazing how talented and beautiful you are! The money you can earn is far beyond my imagination!”
In Su Yonglin's anger, Kong Zheng quickly picked up the paper on the ground and read it.
What I saw were all charges of corruption committed by local officials in Shandong. They were all accused of embezzling money and building materials on a certain date. Some even colluded with each other to commit crimes, implicating a very large number of people.
What frightened Kong Zheng even more was the final instructions on how to deal with the crime.
That is an instruction that has been processed, which means that the disposal has been implemented.
Their homes were ransacked, they were fined, they were beheaded, and they were imprisoned.
This is just for me.
There are also those for family members and even clans, mainly depending on how much family or clan members are involved in it.
If there are fewer people involved, there will be fewer people to blame; if there are more people involved, there will be more people to blame, and the scope of involvement will be wider.
The problem is that corrupt and criminal officials must trust their own people more, and they must be more inclined to use their own people as white gloves to help clean stolen money, store stolen goods, and so on.
As a result, most of these implicated family members and tribesmen were sent to remote areas on the border to do hard labor, and 60% of their monthly income had to be paid back to the national debt caused by official corruption, until it was repaid, or until the family was exterminated and the inheritance was cut off.
This is true for officials, this is true for their families, and it is also true for the landowners, gentry, and wealthy businessmen who help them deal with stolen money and property.
Some officials don't want their families to know when they do bad things, so they use friendly landlords and wealthy businessmen to help them operate. When an official commits a crime, he will often bring with him three or five landlords, gentry, and wealthy businessmen. Behind each of them is a family or even a family, which is implicated. There are dozens or hundreds of people.
In just a moment, Kong Zheng's back was soaked with cold sweat.
He began to realize a very terrible fact - these people have been dealt with, that is to say...
Has their nest collapsed?
Cao Kai, Zhou Jiang and others who picked up other papers scattered on the ground and watched were dumbfounded by the emperor's terrifying way of handling it.
Are you really going to get rid of them all and leave nothing behind?
This... this is too harsh, right?
"You should also take a look. Don't be idle. Pick it up and take a look at it. See what kind of people do what kind of things."
Su Yonglin ordered other officials from other ministries to also pick up these papers and look at them, so everyone bent down to pick up the papers on the ground and picked them up to look at.
Yelu Chenghui picked up one and was surprised when he saw it.
He discovered that what was recorded here was the crime record of Zhang Xuedao, the governor of Jinan.
It is told above that Zhang Xuedao seduced Qiu Dao, director of the Yellow River Project Department of the Renaissance Society in Jinan Prefecture, through a charming and perverted actor. This actor was also very proficient in the art of seducing the soul and seducing the soul, and completely controlled Qiu Dao.
After Qiu Dao was under control, he helped Zhang Xuedao hide the fact that he was corrupt and perverted the law, and constantly provided him with conveniences to easily misappropriate public funds, causing Jinan Prefecture to suffer huge losses in national funds.
Su Yonglin's punishment for Zhang Xuedao was to behead him. His family members and friends who were directly involved in the matter were also beheaded. The remaining ones were sent to remote areas to do hard labor to repay the national funds. He also banned four generations of descendants from participating in the imperial examination, which directly cut off his possibility of turning over.
Such a treatment method cannot be said to be tolerant, it can even be said to be cruel.
While Yelu Chenghui sighed, there was also a hint of fear and worry.
What made him even more surprised and uneasy was that he remembered that Zhang Xuedao, the prefect of Jinan, was personally recommended to Su Yonglin by Kong Zheng, saying that Shandong officials put Zhang Xuedao first and that he would be a good leader because of his strong ability and noble moral character. A good candidate for the local government to appease the people.
Then Su Yonglin believed him and appointed him as the governor of Jinan. In the end, this good candidate actually did such a thing.
He also connected with people from revival meetings.
Those were the emperor's absolute confidants who were carefully selected to be responsible for the Yellow River project in order to avoid corruption and local collusion. This can be said to be the last thing the emperor wanted to see.
They still did things that the emperor did not want to see, and even corrupted the officials who valued the emperor. It can be said that their behavior was very bad.
No wonder the emperor was so angry and so cruel.
Yelu Chenghui swallowed, looked at the scattered papers on the ground that had not yet been picked up, and suddenly realized that the emperor's treatment of Shandong this time might be very cruel, even beyond everyone's imagination.
Yelu Chenghui's idea is not wrong.
Su Yonglin looked at the motionless Kong Zheng and the pale-faced Shandong officials, and decided to give them the final blow.
He picked up a piece of paper that he had not thrown away, walked to the bottom of the steps, and handed it to Kong Zheng, who was shaking all over.
"check it out."
Kong Zheng raised his head, stretched out his trembling hand, took the piece of paper Su Yonglin handed him, and took a look.
Suddenly he became as motionless as if he were petrified.
What is written on this piece of paper is Su Yonglin's treatment of the Kong family.
The charge was conspiracy to rebel, and the result was that important personnel were executed, while the rest were punished differently according to their different culpability and status.
In fact, Su Yonglin really didn't expect to be able to deal with the Kong family so smoothly at first, and thought there would be some twists and turns.
But it happened that Kong himself gave him this opportunity.
The cause of the matter is simple, because Cui Zhi, a colleague of Yidu Prefecture, was corrupt and perverted the law, and Kong Fan, a branch of the Kong Prefecture, assisted Cui Zhi in transferring precious building materials.
He used his own warehouse to hide building materials and embezzled money for Cui Zhi, and used their business channels to help Cui Zhi clean up the stolen money, and then transferred it back to Cui Zhi.
Obviously, Kong Fan was an important accomplice who participated in the whole process, and it was impossible for them not to know that this was important national property on the Yellow River construction site, but he still did it.
Absolutely serious accessory, of course the crime is unforgivable.
Su Yonglin seized the opportunity and ordered the imprisonment of the Kong family members and a strict investigation of the Kong family in Qufu.
At the same time as the investigation, their property must be counted to prepare for subsequent prosecution.
Su Yonglin's original intention was to find out if there were other branches of the Kong family helping other corrupt officials handle stolen goods. If found, he could justifiably be given a heavier punishment. Otherwise, he would have to find ways to design charges that would be detrimental to his establishment of the rule of law.
Unexpectedly, after a series of investigations, judicial officers found out that the Kong Zhi family, a branch of the Kong Mansion, was illegally operating private salt.
They found salt-making tools in the private manor of Kong Zhi's home, warehouses full of private salt, and even private soldiers resisting the investigation of judicial officials.
These private soldiers actually took the initiative to attack the judicial personnel who went to investigate. The accompanying soldiers immediately fought and killed them all. In the end, not only salt-making tools and private salt were discovered, but also weapons, armor, and crossbows hidden among them.
This problem is too serious.
