After thinking about it, Zhang Cang, Uncle Tian, and Wu Gong had already come to the palace: "Imperial Doctor Chen Cang, Shaofu Chen Shu, Court Commander and Minister, I would like to pay homage to Your Majesty." ”

Seeing that everyone was coming, Liu Hong had no choice but to put down his thoughts first, waved his hand lightly, and motioned for Wang Zhong to bring a few feasts and invite the three of them to sit down.

After the three of them sat down, Liu Hong's gaze stayed on Uncle Tian for a moment, and then he turned to Zhang Cang and said, "Today's Chang Dynasty, what I said, Doctor Yu Shi should deal with it as soon as possible." ”

The internal review and clean-up of the Imperial Doctor is not Liu Hongdi's main purpose at all - how many corrupt officials and corrupt officials there are within the Imperial Doctor, Liu Hong is not interested at all.

In the final analysis, in an era when electronic information networks were not widespread, the only way to punish corrupt officials and put an end to bribery was to say that Zhu Chongba peeled off the skin and used high-pressure policies to deter bureaucrats from committing crimes again.

But history has proved that Zhu Chongba's path is also impassable - as soon as Lao Zhu died, the bureaucratic class bottomed out, with years of resentment and grievances, and took revenge for bribery and corruption; Compared with the previous dynasty, it is all better.

The Han and Tang dynasties once despised operations such as 'imposting martial arts' and 'taking the head of the people as the captive' almost became routine operations in the late Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, Liu Hong did not expect to completely eradicate corruption and bribery by relying on his own decree - in the Han law, bribery itself is not illegal; What violates the law is embezzlement.

To be specific, the central authorities have issued a person to 'build a canal,' and the official has received money from someone and handed over the 'project' to that person; as long as the canal is finally completed in good quality and quantity, the central authorities will not care how much money the official has collected from this matter.

In other words, as long as this function is done well, then this kind of receiving money from others belongs to the category of 'bribery', and at most it will be despised by public opinion, and it will not violate the law.

So what kind of 'collecting money' will break the law?

In the same example, when the central government requires a certain place to build a canal, and the official swallows the 'special fund for repairing the canal' allocated by the central government in order to make a profit, resulting in problems with the quality of the canal that is finally built, which will be punished by law.

Swallowing the state's money for personal gain, and thus influencing the tasks assigned by the central government, belongs to the category of 'embezzlement'; this kind of behavior is what the 'wind collecting group' sent by the Imperial Doctor to all parts of the country should pay attention to and report to the court.

Under normal circumstances, after the imperial historian discovers this situation, he will not directly report it to the court or the emperor, but check the details of this official and find out the person who recommended this person - in the Han Dynasty, the minimum standard for having the qualification of recommendation is 'rank 2,000 stones'!

As a result, almost all the recommenders are local county guards!

After finding the recommender of this 'corrupt' official, the imperial historian will repair a letter in his personal name and send it to this feudal official, vaguely expressing the summary of the matter: The official recommended by the public seems to be not cultivating personal morality...

In the vast majority of cases, the recommender, as a local county guard, will give an explanation for the matter for the sake of the black gauze hat.

- If they are soft-hearted, they will let the corrupt officials resign and go home to farm.

If you are hard-hearted, you will directly make corrupt officials 'commit suicide in shame'!

Regarding 'bribery' and 'corruption', Liu Hong generally recognizes the values at this time - especially after the ass is really placed on the throne, Liu Hong is more and more eager to have a 'traitor' like He Shen.

On the premise of ensuring that the interests of the state are not harmed, it is enough for the feudal bureaucracy to complete the tasks assigned by the state on time and in quantity, and Liu Hong does not expect more.

The real purpose of Liu Hong's internal review of the Imperial Doctor is to block the mouth of the court and pave the way for the comprehensive review in the future!

It is true that Liu Hong did not want to turn the Han officialdom into a pool of clear water by setting off an anti-corruption campaign, which is unrealistic and unpractical.

What Liu Hong wants to do is to reform the financial record system of the Han family!

——During the period when Shaofu sold grain in Dongshi, Liu Hong briefly glanced at Shaofu's account books out of the 'officialdom skills' he learned from film and television dramas in his previous life, and also for the purpose of 'reviewing' his own measures.

The situation at that time can be described as miserable!

- Liu Hong can't forget until he dies, the account book that is worse than the running account is actually from the Han family, and the Shaofu with the deepest relationship with finance!

——On a certain day in a certain year, month, and day, how much grain is sold, how much money is gained...

The whole account book is all this kind of running account!

When Liu Hong asked: How much food does Shaofu have today, how much money does it have, and how much is the rest of the materials, the officials of Shaofu were stunned by Liu Hong, and said an unbelievable sentence: Your Majesty wait a while, and the minister will count...

Number!

Present!

For the inventory, the officials of the Shaofu do not even have an approximate estimate!

In this case, someone emptied half of the Shaofu, and Liu Hong couldn't even notice it!

Not to mention the treasury under the control of the Prime Minister's Office, as well as the other financial departments under the government, which are simply sieves!

Liu Hong was full of surprise and turned over the "account book" that was recorded by the former Shaofu supervisor and stolen from the Shaofu by the old eunuch Wang Zhong, and after careful inspection, he found that even the account book was recorded in a running account!

How much gold, how much copper money, or weapons and finances were all displayed one by one, and there was no summary at all.

From such accounts, if you want to know the summary of expenditures, income, etc., you have to calculate them according to the records in the account book.

In this era when there are no calculators and no abacus, the workload of this kind of operation is similar to that of calculating the radiation equation of a mushroom.

At this time, Liu Hong understood why the money and taxes collected by the local government should be sealed with a "piggy bank", and the local lord and adjutant should use seals and double insurance to ensure the safety of the money and taxes - because not only the central government does not know how much money is collected, but it is very likely that the local officials in charge of tax collection are also not clear!

Whether it is to improve work efficiency or avoid financial loopholes, Liu Hong must change this situation; And now that Shaofu has a new chief official, it is undoubtedly a rare opportunity.

Thinking of this, Liu Hong's eyes involuntarily locked on Zhang Cang.

- Not to mention officialdom, now that the Han family is in the world, if anyone can do the "digitization of government affairs" that Liu Hong wants, Zhang Cang is undoubtedly the best!

Whether it is the experience of working as a librarian in the pre-Qin period, or the identity of "Xunzi's disciple", it can't hide Zhang Cang's slash identity - he is a mathematician!

In the people, an ordinary hand-copied version of nine-chapter arithmetic is worth a hundred gold at most, and when Liu Hong gets out paper and printing technology in the future, and sells it for academic wholesale, its price will fall sharply.

But if it is Zhang Cang's annotated version of the nine-chapter arithmetic, it is at least worth a thousand gold!

Can't buy it yet!