Just as the Chu Imperial Army launched large-scale military operations in the Guangdong, Guangdong, Fujian and Zhejiang regions, a very targeted rectification storm of officialdom was quietly set off in Jinling City.
However, some people in the storm did not know that the sky above their heads was already covered with dark clouds.
Chen Shoulin is one of them.
Now he is still happy about his promotion and is hosting a banquet for guests.
Of course, when entertaining guests, it is normal to receive some gifts. These gifts can be worth tens of thousands of taels, which can be taken back to Chubei's hometown to purchase shops and other properties to enrich them. The foundation of the Chen family.
Looking at the gift list, Chen Shoulin smiled!
As expected, he had decisively surrendered to the thieves, oh, no, he had followed the dragon. Since he had followed the dragon in Yuezhou, it only took him more than a year to go from a mere eighth-grade Jiaoyu to a third-grade director. .
And now he is about to be transferred to the Ministry of Water Resources as the Right Assistant Minister. From the second rank, someone from the Ministry of Personnel Affairs has already come to conduct a symbolic investigation and inquiry. It is estimated that the appointment letter will be issued in a few days.
Chen Shoulin was very satisfied with this transfer. Although the Ministry of Water Resources was considered by many to be a weak department, far less powerful than the Ministry of Personnel, the Ministry of Industry, and the Department of Taxation, he was directly transferred from the position of director to the right. The servant's.
This is a direct transfer from a Beijing official, and it can even be said to be a direct promotion by two levels.
As long as you stay in the position of right minister of the Ministry of Water Resources for a few years, you will have a good chance of being promoted to left minister.
This official career is very smooth.
Besides, others only think that the Ministry of Water Resources has little power and little status in the Senate, but there is not a lot of oil and water in the Ministry of Water Resources.
The Dachu Empire still attached great importance to infrastructure such as water conservancy. Many of the relief-for-work projects were actually local water conservancy facility construction projects, whether they were flood control or irrigation.
And since there are so many projects, the money and food that are passed through are naturally indispensable.
If you go back and do it well yourself, in the past few years, if you become the right servant, you may be able to accumulate an inheritance worth hundreds of thousands of taels for the old Chen family.
But thinking about the family business, Chen Shoulin responded to the letter sent by his eldest brother some time ago saying that the agricultural tax was too heavy. The several hundred acres of land they had at home, plus the thousands of acres of land purchased last year, the agricultural tax was It's not a small number.
Half of the rent collected will be paid in taxes.
There are also several new businesses that my family bought last year, and they also pay heavy taxes.
His eldest brother said that the Chen family worked hard last year, and the total income from various industries was only tens of thousands taels, but the tax payment would be several thousand taels more. In the end, after deducting various expenses, the Chen family's profit was only a few thousand taels. Just a few thousand taels.
After a year of hard work, in the end, I made a wedding dress for those tax officials...
Chen Shoulin felt heartbroken when he thought of the thousands of dollars in taxes he paid every year.
He worked hard to make money last year and only made tens of thousands of taels. However, those tax people didn't even have to talk about it. They could collect thousands of taels of silver just by sending a tax notice.
This is simply unreasonable!
In addition, at the beginning of the year, his pro-army officers were severely bitten by those tax mad dogs because they had missed paying some taxes, and they insisted on imposing a fine of more than 20,000 taels of silver...
Even if he wrote a handwritten letter to the Hantianfu Taxation Department to explain it to him, it would be useless, which made Chen Shoulin very angry.
How can we maintain long-term peace and stability by imposing heavy taxes and depriving the people of profits?
And when he thought that many people in the court came from poor backgrounds and were not even good at writing articles, Chen Shoulin felt deeply that there was a long way to go.
If this doesn't pull down Chen Xingkai's idiots, it's impossible to restore a bright future to the imperial court.
But the matter of getting people fired is still a bit far away. He himself is now just a second-grade right-hand minister in a disadvantaged department, and he has not officially taken up the post yet...
So this matter is not urgent for the time being, but the harsh tax administration cannot continue like this. Otherwise, many good families in the world will suffer.
Immediately, he thought about writing a letter to impeach the tax system.
Although he also knew that this kind of discount would be lost if he gave it to him, but if he didn't do some things, he would never succeed.
As long as he insists on impeachment and enlists other comrades to impeach him, His Majesty will be able to change his mind sooner or later.
Just when he was thinking about how to write a package about the impeachment tax system, suddenly there was a rush of footsteps outside...
Chen Shoulin frowned slightly. Who could be so ignorant of the rules? It seems that these servants recruited from outside are still not good enough. They don't understand the rules, so they still have to write a handwritten letter and ask the family to send a group of children to come over.
The hurried footsteps outside quickly approached, and soon they arrived at the door of the study. A middle-aged man came in and said with a panic: "Master, it's not good..."
Chen Shoulin immediately shouted coldly: "How can you behave in a hurry? What did I say in the past? Be steady. This is the Chen Mansion, not some thatched house with muddy legs!"
The middle-aged man seemed not to have heard the reprimand, but continued to talk to himself: "Master... there is a group of patrol police outside, and there are a few censors..."
Censor and patrol?
Chen Shoulin wouldn't be surprised if the two appeared separately.
But if they were sent out together, and they came to his own house, Chen Shoulin would have a very bad feeling.
He knew that, although both the Inspectorate and the patrol police in the imperial court belonged to the judicial system, they were actually two completely different departments.
The patrol police are law enforcement agencies. When investigating ordinary cases, the patrol police usually investigate on their own. Even if they want to arrest someone, they need to ask the Supervisory Office to issue an arrest warrant, but the patrol police can just arrest the person directly with the arrest warrant. There is no need for those. The censors personally led the team to arrest the people.
But there is one situation that is quite special, and that is corruption cases against officials.
When it comes to corruption cases against officials, the censor often comes to arrest them personally with a group of policemen. In fact, there was no such rule at the beginning. The main reason is that many censors regard arresting corrupt officials as their political capital, and the superiors also Recognizing this political capital, censors who do well in anti-corruption work tend to rise very quickly.
In order to prevent themselves from working hard to investigate, and then being picked up by other censors and taking away the credit, some censors personally led people to arrest people, in order to ensure that the files of the case were recorded from beginning to end. Put your own stamp on it, even if your immediate boss comes, you can't take away your credit.
This has led to the fact that the censors of the Chu Empire now personally bring patrol police to arrest people when handling official cases.
And now...
However, the censor and patrol police came to his house!
And the most important thing is that among the hundreds of people in the huge Chen family, Chen Shoulin is the only one who is an official.
Among the more than a hundred others, about ten were his recently adopted personal maids, and two were children who followed him.
The remaining more than a hundred people were hired servants.
What is this censor here for?
Is it coming for you?
Chen Shoulin, who was running through these thoughts in his mind, had no idea that his breathing had begun to quicken.
But after all, he was also a serious Pseudo-Ming Juren, and he had been an official for many years, so he had mastered the art of calming down.
After taking a deep breath, he immediately stood up and walked out: "Go and have a look!"
He, Chen Shoulin, was the former director of the Textile Department of the Ministry of Industry, and was now the right minister of the Ministry of Water Resources, a second-ranking high-ranking official in the country.
He wanted to see who was so bold and dared to do mischief in his house!
He had just stood up and before he reached the door, he heard a rush of footsteps outside, and soon more than a dozen patrol policemen in black uniforms trotted in.
"I Have a Picture Book of Ghosts and Gods"
And there were loud shouts outside: Be honest! Get down!
Anyone who dares to resist will be killed on the spot!
The police attackers beheaded and ransacked their homes!
When Chen Shoulin saw these patrol officers and heard these words, his face turned extremely ugly!
Especially when he saw that his eldest son, who was only 18 years old, was forcibly tied up by a patrolman. When the eldest son struggled a little, the patrolman directly hit him with a scabbard. He was even more angry: "What are you doing? Let him go." !”
"Do you know who I am? Do your superiors know that you broke into the palace of the current minister?"
"If you don't let him go, I will impeach you. This patrol department will become lawless."
Although what Chen Shoulin said was extremely angry, his legs could not help but begin to tremble...
This scene!
It gave him an extremely bad feeling!
The patrol policemen across the street are not fools. Even if they are fools, their superiors will not be fools either, and those censors are not fools either.
As long as he is not extremely stupid, he will never break into the residence of a second-rank right servant of the dynasty without permission, arrest people wantonly, or even take action directly.
These patrol officers have even drawn their knives!
When Chen Shoulin shouted angrily, another person walked out from behind a group of patrol policemen!
This man is not wearing the black uniform of a patrolman, but is wearing a blue Confucian uniform with a gold coat of arms pinned to it. The gold coat of arms is exactly the gold used by officials of the fourth rank and above in the Great Chu Empire. Heraldry.
If you look carefully at the picture above, you can see that it is still a peacock, which means that the person coming is a third-grade official.
Although the Chu Empire did not strictly regulate the daily attire of officials at the beginning, as long as it was not too outrageous, almost no one would say anything about you.
Only when going to court and on some formal occasions, you need to wear the most orthodox court clothes.
The court uniforms of the Chu Empire strictly followed the tradition of the Han Dynasty, that is, senior officials wore scarlet, mid-level officials wore cyan, and low-level officials wore green. They were basically similar in color to the court uniforms of the Ming court.
Solemn and strict!
As for regular clothes, officials in the Chu Empire now mainly wear Confucian clothes, and they are all blue...
The reason why they all wear Confucian robes is purely because they are favored by those above and those below.
When Luo Zhi was studying in his daily life, he preferred to wear Confucian clothes. Later, when he became emperor, even the dragon robe was just based on the Confucian clothes with dragon patterns added.
The officials below naturally followed suit.
As for the color, Chen Xingkai and the others initially imitated the color of the military officers' uniforms and wore dark blue. However, in order to distinguish them from the military officers' regular uniforms, they changed to cyan.
The elders above dress like this, and the officials below also follow suit!
So it didn’t take long for the blue Confucian uniform to become the standard attire for the civil servants of the Chu Empire...
Class distinction is mainly based on heraldry.
However, the patrol police are an exception. They do not wear this kind of official uniform, but wear prefectural uniforms that evolved from military uniforms. For example, the patrol police uniform is actually a black version of the military uniform.
Now, an official in his thirties, wearing a cyan official uniform and a third-grade chest coat of arms, walked up to a group of patrol policemen, then glanced at Chen Shoulin, and then raised his hand and took out an arrest warrant: "Chen Shoulin, You're under arrest!"
After that, without waiting for Chen Shoulin to say anything, he waved his hand and the patrolman behind him rushed up and captured Chen Shoulin directly...
During the whole process, Chen Shoulin was dumbfounded, without a word of retort or even the slightest resistance...
It wasn't until he was dragged away that he suddenly realized: "No... I am the right minister of the Ministry of Water Resources, a senior official in the ministry. You have no right to take me away. I want to see the adults. I want to see you." Your Majesty... you can't do this... you..."
However, the Censor next to him chuckled: "No, you are not yet!"
Then he turned to a senior patrol officer and said, "Brother Li, I'll leave it to you as soon as I come down. No one from the Chen family will be left behind. I'll take them all back for questioning, as well as other people who are familiar with Chen Shoulin. I'll do the same next time." Once summoned for questioning, I will have to trouble you to go there!"
A middle-aged patrolman with a gold badge next to him said with a smile on his face: "It's all trivial matters. Brother Wang, just wait. I will definitely handle it for you this time, Lao Li, and no one can escape!" "
