Seeing Zhu Jun running with sweat all over his head, Zhu Yuanzhang said: "If nothing happens, can't we ask you to enter the palace?"
"There are two new singers in my house. I'm enjoying their dancing. If you have anything to say, please tell me. I have to go back after you finish talking!" Zhu Jun said.
Zhu Yuanzhang almost lost his temper, "You bastard, you are watching a singer dance, how can I call you important?"
"It's not like you have anything good to do with me anyway!"
Zhu Yuanzhang sneered angrily, "Did the two singers you mentioned take away from the sixteenth floor of our building?"
"Yes!" Zhu Jun nodded.
"Are you still very proud?!" Zhu Yuanzhang was furious, and he said twice in the past, "We have all been embarrassed by you!"
Zhu Jun covered his head and squatted on the ground, bared his teeth and said: "There are so many on the 16th floor of Yingtian, what's wrong with me grabbing two?"
Zhu Yuanzhang laughed angrily, "They said you were inexperienced, but now you know how to make things right. Do you want a woman to tell us that you can't?
Do you have to rob two cheap maids?
If this woman enters your house, where will I put my face? "
"I see that Fourth Brother's house has a lot of them. Can't I raise two?" Zhu Jun said aggrievedly.
Zhu Yuanzhang was at a loss for words for a moment, although Sunu'er and the others were the first of the eight great masters of Qinhuai, the old and new, and they were money trees.
But what he was most worried about was that the boy didn't know how to do it, and the queen was planning to send someone over to teach him.
Even at this age, he has never touched a woman and has no children.
After all, it was his father's fault.
Those two women were clean, he had already checked them out, and they were fine serving this bastard.
"Okay, you want to raise them, right? We'll make it happen for you!" Zhu Yuanzhang took a piece of paper from the document, "Catch the people on the list for us, and I'll let you raise them!"
Zhu Jun looked at the list handed over by Zhu Yuanzhang and asked, knowingly: "Dad, what is this?"
"These are Cai Wen's corrupt associates. We have already identified them. We will just arrest them according to the list. Anyone who resists will be killed without mercy."
Zhu Jun said: "Where is the evidence?"
"Don't worry about it, just go and catch it!" Zhu Yuanzhang said.
"Oh, I know, Dad, you are framing me!"
"I framed you, so just go and arrest him. Don't tell others that we asked you to arrest him. We will ask Jiang Huan to cooperate with you!"
"Then if I catch him, can I not kill Cai Guan?" Zhu Jun said.
"You can't stop thinking about this brother who betrayed you?" Zhu Yuanzhang was furious, "How much loss do you have to suffer before you can remember?"
Zhu Jun said: "I promised him that I would save him one last time. Dad, please let me beg you... I am not as sinful as my family..."
Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Zhu Jun with complicated eyes, "We can't promise you!"
Zhu Jun sighed, he had already guessed it.
As the first offender, Cai Wen, how can he deter others if he doesn't kill him?
However, if you cut the grass without eradicating the root, it will grow again with the spring breeze. Although it is cruel, Zhu Jun must learn to think about the problem with the thinking of a great man.
"Dad, can the rest of the Cai family survive?"
"The men will be castrated, and the women will be appointed to the Jiaofangsi and forever relegated to a lowly status!" Zhu Yuanzhang originally wanted to kill the nine members of the Cai family, but seeing that Zhu Jun was like this, he couldn't help but restrain himself a lot.
Zhu Jun sighed, "Dad, I actually agree with your methods of combating corruption, but I think it's better to block it than to remove it. The fundamental reason why corruption is so serious is that they are too poor!
Of course, no matter how much money a person who is greedy for ink has, he will still be greedy for ink.
Torture will certainly frighten some people, but once they are greedy, they will have no way out, and they will become extremely greedy. "
"Did the Shen family tell you this again?"
"No, I went in to interrogate the Cai family and his son. They confessed in front of me. I think what they said makes sense."
"Are you crazy? Do you sympathize with a corrupt official?" Zhu Yuanzhang glared at Zhu Jun.
"It's not sympathy, just reflection."
Zhu Yuanzhang laughed angrily, "Okay, we want to hear what you have reflected on!"
"As for Cai Wen, a third-rank minister of the Ministry of Industry, his salary is actually only enough to support a family. If slaves and the like are added, it is actually very stretched.
Especially in a place with high prices like Yingtian, if there is an emergency, you won't be able to get much money.
The annual salary for the first-grade official is only 900 dan, and for the third-grade official is only 400 dan. The further you go to the end of the month, the ninth-grade salary is only 50 dan.
To be honest, this salary is really too low. "
Salaries are usually given in rice and salary, but for Lao Zhute, most of them are given in rice.
Rice is expensive now, but the price of one stone is no more than two taels.
People always have to eat meat, always have to wear clothes, and always have to get sick, right?
"Look at those common people, they are complaining!" Zhu Yuanzhang said coldly.
"I admit that the people are suffering, but the people's suffering is the responsibility of the imperial court. To put it bluntly, it is all caused by the imperial court.
Even if you give officials the salary they deserve now, they can still live a good life.
Take the scholar as an example. If you win the imperial examination, not only will you not have to pay taxes, but you will also be exempted from taxes. This will attract a large number of people to seek refuge.
The donated land became hidden fields, and even in order to escape the corvee, these people became hidden households.
By the time his son became an official, he was already a landlord with thousands of acres of land to his name. Even without the support of the court, the money was enough for them to live a good life.
But how can it be so easy to be an official in the imperial court?
Not only do you have to rent a house and hire servants, but you also have to make friends with your colleagues, and maybe even curry favor with your superiors, all of which are worth money.
Once they are stretched thin, can they stop being greedy?
Once you are greedy for ink, you will definitely become a group of people.
The root is here. Dad, can you finish killing me?
Can you ban these people from dating?
When these people get benefits, they will naturally support the rule of the great cause, but what they are digging is the foundation of the great cause.
Money is nothing, land will be valuable in the future.
The officials had already earned back the little money the imperial court had saved through donations.
Not only that, they are also greedy for ink.
Everyone wears patches, but their homes contain countless gold and silver.
When it's time to go out and be a local emperor, free and comfortable, who can control them?
So let me say that if we don’t eliminate this problem at its root, it will never be possible to eliminate corruption.
It will even intensify, and by then, I am afraid it will affect the tax revenue of the great cause.
One day, the great cause will face a situation where there is no levy and no tax! "
"Is this the desperate act of the Cai family and his son before they die?" Zhu Yuanzhang gritted his teeth and said, "Such words are treasonous and will destroy the foundation of our great cause!"
"Dad, you are really contradictory. On the one hand, you say that the common people are the basis of rule, but on the other hand, you think that the scholar-bureaucrats are the supporters.
On the one hand, he treated these officials harshly, but on the other hand, he was extremely kind to the people.
In short, I still say that if there is no fundamental change, the Guo Heng case is just the beginning, and there will be more and more cases in the future.
If you change it by then, you won’t have a chance! "
Zhu Jun's original intention was to persuade Lao Zhu.
Things like greed for ink are inherently relative. Even if another time and space is so developed, it still cannot be eliminated.
When he looked at the account books, he knew that Daye's system was doomed to have corruption become a stubborn feature of Daye.
So what if we are cruel to corrupt officials?
"When the time comes, these people will be driven into a hurry. Be careful that they go to Da Zhou and Chen Han!"
