After listening to the report of his subordinates, Zhang Xiu took a deep breath and ordered to the subordinates beside him:
"Call that shopkeeper Wang over..."
After a while, Shopkeeper Wang was brought to the door of the basement. Seeing that Zhang Xiu had discovered the basement, Shopkeeper Wang's face suddenly became uncertain. After hesitating for a moment, he took the initiative to say to Zhang Xiu before Zhang Xiu could speak. :,
"Master Zhang, can you lend me a moment to speak?"
Zhang Xiu also thought for a moment when he heard this, and then waved to the guards beside him. Seeing Zhang Xiu's actions, the guards also wisely went elsewhere.
Seeing this, Shopkeeper Wang's expression improved slightly, and at this time Zhang Xiu also said in a deep voice:
"what do you want to say?"
Shopkeeper Wang also had a low voice when he heard this, and said straight to the point:
"Sir, as a member of the government, you should know that our Dingshenghe is not a loose merchant without a foothold. If you show your noble hand today, our Dingshenghe will be rewarded generously!"
After speaking, shopkeeper Wang took out a banknote directly from his sleeve and stuffed it into Zhang Xiu's hand very discreetly. Feeling the banknote in his hand, Zhang Xiu became a little struggling in his heart.
He had just taken a cursory look at the goods in the basement and found that they were worth more than a thousand taels of silver on the market. This was no longer a small amount. According to the laws currently implemented by the Fengwu Army, it was enough to make Shopkeeper Wang and his back My boss has been in prison and undergoing labor reform for more than ten years.
So as long as shopkeeper Wang is wiser now, the banknote in his hand at this time should not be less than fifty taels of silver!
And this is equivalent to more than a year's salary for a member of the Communist Party of China...
And this shopkeeper Wang is right, Ding Sheng He is not a small business. He has been rooted in Youyan for decades and has more than a dozen branches in Youyan. It is rumored that Ding Sheng He has a very strong background!
I offended them this time too. Will my future be affected in the future?
Thinking of this, Zhang Xiu couldn't help but feel more entangled in his heart. Seeing him like this, Shopkeeper Wang felt a little proud. In the past ten years, his basement has been discovered by people in the government, but after his intimidation, In the face of temptations, everyone chooses to compromise, and I believe Zhang Xiu will be like everyone else today!
Just when Shopkeeper Wang was feeling somewhat complacent, Zhang Xiu suddenly sighed, then returned the banknote in his hand to Shopkeeper Wang, and then greeted his subordinates and said:
"Take them all down!"
When he heard Zhang Xiu's words, Shopkeeper Wang was stunned at first, as if he couldn't believe his ears. It wasn't until the guard on the side put handcuffs on him that he realized that Zhang Xiu was really playing with him, and he immediately continued anxiously:
"Master Zhang, if you have any requirements, you can tell me! I will try my best to satisfy you!"
Zhang Xiu shook his head and said righteously:
"I have nothing to say to you. As an official of the imperial court, my duty is to bring you and others to justice!"
Seeing that the inducement was of no use, Shopkeeper Wang also had a hard time and threatened Zhang Xiu with a ferocious face:
"Zhang Xiu, you piece of shit, our boss won't let you go!"
After listening to Shopkeeper Wang's insults, Zhang Xiu waved his hand, and upon receiving the signal, the servant immediately stuffed a dirty rag into Shopkeeper Wang's mouth... ····
After putting seals on Dingsheng and Buzhuang and arranging guards, Zhang Xiu was ready to meet with the tax office.
Faced with Shopkeeper Wang's bribe, the reason why he chose not to accept it was not because of his ideological consciousness or how high his moral bottom line was. In fact, just over a year ago, when the Fengwu Army had not yet taken control of Jiyu, Zhang Xiu faced It can be said that he will not refuse bribes, and he dares to take as much as you give him. However, it is a pity that not many people gave him money at that time!
Zhang Xiu is a thirty-one-year-old man from Hebei and Yijing. His father, Zhang Chenggong, was a civil servant in the early years of Anhe. He once served as a Yuanwailang in the Chief Secretary of Hebei and Henan. Although Zhang Xiu studied hard since he was a child, he has never been able to He went a step further in the imperial examination, and now he is over thirty and still a child!
Although Zhang Xiu was very disappointed, as his father Zhang Chenggong, he could not ignore him. When he became Chief Secretary, he gritted his teeth and stamped his feet, taking out more than 300 taels of silver that he had saved in his life, and the money he had saved all his life. In order to clear up the relationship with Zhang Xiu, he finally forced Zhang Xiu to fill a vacancy in the Chief Secretary.
Zhang Xiu, who successfully entered the government under his father's operation, also felt very sad about the money his father gave out, so his biggest wish after entering the government was to get back the more than three hundred taels of silver.
Unfortunately, although he filled a vacancy and became the Chief Secretary, he was just a little miscellaneous fish. He was driven by others all day long and had no power. The expenses are very high, so his poor salary is not enough at all, and he often needs support from his family...
Just when Zhang Xiu felt that his life was an incomparable failure, something unexpected happened. The Fengwu Army invaded Jiyu and took over the power of Jiyu!
To be honest, Zhang Xiu was not very interested in this matter at first. After all, he was just a small fish. Whether it was the original Marshal Zhao or the current Marshal Ye of the Fengwu Army, they were too far away for him. In his opinion, no matter who is in power, he is just a salted fish waiting to die!
Just when Zhang Xiu was about to lie down with such thoughts, something happened that he didn't expect at all. Fengwu Army had just taken charge in Hebei and Henan, and announced a piece of news that made all officials, big and small, jump for joy - all The salaries of all officials have been tripled!
The Great Zhou Dynasty has lasted for three hundred years. During these three hundred years, there have been more than twenty emperors and countless things have happened. However, the salaries of officials have not changed from the beginning to the end. They are still established when the Great Zhou Dynasty was founded. Those, to be honest, the salary set was indeed quite a lot in the context of the times at that time, and it was enough for an official to live a decent and prosperous life!
However, times have changed, especially in recent decades, the commercial exchanges between the Jiangnan region and overseas have become more and more frequent. Silk tea and porcelain have obtained a large amount of silver from overseas for the Zhou Dynasty. After the circulation of this silver in the Zhou Dynasty, it also pushed up the price of silver. Prices caused inflation.
Under such a background, the salaries of officials are no longer enough to support them to live a decent and prosperous life, and they can only barely feed their families... ············
Regarding such a situation, the senior and important ministers of the imperial court are not ignorant of it, but they don't care. Eighty-nine out of ten of these people must be from noble families, and the remaining ones who are from poor families must have one. Niubi’s father-in-law, so these people don’t care about their salary at all. Their ancestral land and property can allow them to live a luxurious life!
Seeing that there was no hope for the imperial court to improve their salary and remuneration, in order to continue to live the decent and prosperous life before, the middle and lower-level officials each looked for their own way to make money. This is how the official administration of the Great Zhou Dynasty emerged. Films and films of corruption!
There are many sober people in the imperial court, and they have tried to make changes. However, when the people knew that the imperial court was going to increase the salaries of those fat and fat officials, they immediately became angry. Excited, and for the sake of a good reputation for being clean and honest, all the powerful and important ministers opposed it regardless of their salary. Therefore, the officialdom of the Great Zhou Dynasty became increasingly difficult to return to!
Against such a background, when the officials in Jiyu learned that Ye Mingsheng had tripled their salaries, they naturally supported Ye Mingsheng very much. They wished that Ye Mingsheng had not captured Jiyu earlier. However, just then They were all very happy and happily received three times their salary. After Ye Mingsheng understood the situation for a period of time and clarified the context of Hebei and Henan officialdom, he brazenly launched an anti-corruption operation that affected the entire Hebei and Henan officialdom... ······················
Although it was anti-corruption, Ye Mingsheng did not do it across the board and arrested all those who had taken bribes. After all, in today's world, if Ye Mingsheng did this, it would inevitably bring the government into complete paralysis and plunge the whole country of Hebei and Yu into a state of chaos. In the midst of endless turmoil.
Although not all of them were arrested, Ye Mingsheng arrested dozens of notoriously corrupt officials and their accomplices and sentenced them to death. As for the officials whose crimes were not very serious and who took the initiative to explain the situation, Ye Mingsheng punished them. After admonishing and warning, they were not too embarrassed.
After this battle, the officialdom of Hebei and Henan became aware of Ye Mingsheng's methods, and a political ecology of clean government was gradually established!
As the saying goes, a blessing in disguise is a blessing in disguise. In the past, Zhang Xiu, the Chief Secretary, could not benefit because he had no power. However, precisely because of this, Zhang Xiu, who was not guilty of corruption or bribery, was valued under the Fengwu Army. In addition, many people in the Chief Secretary's office were arrested at that time, and there were many official vacancies. Therefore, under Zhang Xiu's rule by chance, he became a member of the newly established tax department several times!
And this so-called tax department is a newly established department in the Chief Secretary after Feng Wujun took control of Hebei Province. In the past anti-corruption operations, the tax department under the Chief Secretary of Hebei Province can be said to be the hardest hit area by corruption. , everyone is scrambling to get money and water, they bully and fear the strong, they dare not touch those with backing and background, but they attack the ordinary people hard, forcing many ordinary people to sell their children and daughters, and their families are ruined.
Therefore, Ye Mingsheng also listened to the people's voice, dealt with all the original tax departments seriously, and established a new tax office to implement his will to encourage business development, lighten agricultural taxes, and emphasize commercial taxes!
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Three days later, Governor's Mansion, study room
Huo San bowed and introduced to Ye Mingsheng, who was sitting on the chair in front of him:
"Sir, regarding Xiao Ruolan's accomplices, we have caught them all. These people are all killers trained by the Supervision Department. According to their confessions, they infiltrated into Yi Jing in three batches. The task given to them by the Supervision Department is to lurk and wait for Xiao Ruolan to activate them!"
"Five of these eleven people were all killed when they ambush Mrs. An. Of the remaining six, three were killed and three were captured during yesterday's roundup!"
Ye Mingsheng frowned slightly when he heard this and then asked:
"After the city gate was lifted yesterday, didn't any of them take the opportunity to escape?"
Seeing Ye Mingsheng ask about this, Huo San immediately continued:
"Let me tell you, your lord, Xiao Ruolan is very cunning. She instructed the killers of the Supervision Department to play a trick under the light. She wanted to mislead us into thinking that these killers had escaped, but in fact they will continue to stay. In Yijing, continue the assassination operation!"
"Who is the target of their assassination?" Ye Mingsheng pondered for a while and asked:
Hearing this question, Huo San raised his head and said to Ye Mingsheng with some embarrassment:
"According to the confessions of the three assassins of the Supervision Department, the target of their assassination is you, sir. According to the confessions of the three killers of the Supervision Department, Xiao Ruolan may have some tasks that they are not aware of. Xiao Ruolan once told them that in the Governor's Mansion , she had the opportunity to kill you, sir, but because she was worried that she would not be able to walk out of the Governor's Mansion alive, she did not take action... ····”
"As for the reason why Xiao Ruolan took action this time, she found that she had been poisoned and was bound to die, and our people were secretly watching her, so they saw their conspiracy exposed, so they took action in a hurry!"
After receiving this answer, Ye Mingsheng couldn't help but narrowed his eyes. Huo San waited for a while and saw that Ye Mingsheng didn't give any instructions. He hesitated and couldn't help but test out Ye Mingsheng:
"Sir, regarding Xiao Ruolan's true identity and the other tasks she has on her shoulders, it will take some time for our Coordination Office to dig out!"
Ye Mingsheng nodded and said:
"Please keep it confidential, I don't want others to know about this!"
Hearing what Ye Mingsheng said, Huo San's expression tightened and he continued:
"I understand! I promise there won't be any rumors outside!"
After receiving this answer, Ye Mingsheng nodded and pondered for a while before slowly speaking:
"Your Coordination Office has a big responsibility for Xiao Ruolan's incident this time. However, since the incident was not dangerous and Mrs. An returned alive, your follow-up investigation was also very fast, so I will punish Huo San, you and Wang Xuecheng." Years of salary, but this will not happen again, I don’t want to see something like this happen again, Huo San, do you understand what I mean?”
Hearing what Ye Mingsheng said, Huo San's originally worried heart suddenly relaxed. He immediately knelt on the ground and bowed his head to Ye Mingsheng and said:
"Thank you for your magnanimity, sir. Huo San is very grateful. If this happens again, sir, you don't need to tell me. Huo San will not be able to see you again. He will kill himself to thank you for your kindness..." ··”
(Zhang Xiu is a little character I set up at everyone's request to reflect the changes in society caused by Ye Mingsheng's reforms. What do you think of my writing? If you think it's okay, I will continue writing in this way. Did you go down? If you feel that the writing is not good, you can leave your thoughts and suggestions and I will consider it carefully!)
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