Shouldering the responsibility of leading the rise of the Chinese in South America, Li Mingyuan has not had time to rest for a long time, and today he will temporarily dispose of the work at hand, Li Mingyuan plans to take advantage of the good weather to take the Andean eagle Heize that was domesticated in Bolivia to the plains outside Chang'an (Córdoba) for an indulgent tour.

Everything in the world can not withstand the rain and wind of time, the Andean eagle who was just in its infancy ten years ago has now entered the ranks of its twilight years, I don't know if a year or two later, the majestic eagle can still soar above the blue sky again, Li Mingyuan traveled with the eagle, in addition to relaxing the tired body and mind, he did not accompany Kurosawa, who followed his ten-year-old buddy on the last journey.

At present, the area controlled by the Han State is thousands of miles from north to south, with a land area of more than 3.4 million square kilometers, and the scenery in the vast land is different, the majestic Andes Mountains and the beautiful Paraná River Basin all have unique charms.

Li Mingyuan's wish will not have a chance to be realized in the short term, and the short rest time does not allow him to stay away from the central government and visit other places.

A group of hundreds of Wehrmacht soldiers left the Chang'an Palace, stayed outside for a whole day, and at night, each returning soldier had the harvested prey on horseback, some were fat hares, pheasants, foxes, and some were wild deer, camels and other large animals weighing up to 100 catties.

Ordering the soldiers to disband with their prey, Li Mingyuan got off his horse and walked towards the palace.

The heavy gate was pushed open by the guards on both sides, and as soon as he walked inside the gate, Li Mingyuan heard the sound of horses' hooves.

"Your Highness, Sun Bin, Zheng Huaide, and He Yanliang's investigation and secret visit to Yunzhou have yielded results, and Lord Zhang and Lord Zhao are worried that His Highness is in a hurry, so they pull his subordinates to report to His Highness at night."

Liu Pu, Minister of Commerce, Zhang Guanghai, Vice Minister of Households, and Zhao Yan, Vice Minister of Finance, got down from the carriage and saluted Li Mingyuan.

"I just wandered around the outskirts of the city, and I happened to come back and run into you, come in, don't stay outside the door."

Li Mingyuan smiled and beckoned a few people into the palace, then sat on a chair casually and asked, "Tell me, how is the situation in Yunzhou?" ”

According to the intelligence statistics submitted by Lord Sun, there are 4 county magistrate-level officials in 16 counties in Yunzhou who are suspected of colluding with illegal businessmen and selling the state's wasteland reclamation rights at low prices, and there are 12 officials at or above the department level who are secretly involved in business activities by government officials, and there are more than 50 section-level officials who violate the laws and regulations on the appointment of officials, and are suspected of trading power and property, and privately arranging relevant relatives to serve in grass-roots township and town-level administrative districts. …………”

Zhang Guanghai, as the deputy minister in charge of the household department, was the first to report: "The above data is only the initial investigation results of Sun Bin, Zheng Huaide, and He Yanliang. ”

"Humph! The total number of officials in Yunzhou is only more than 1,000, and nearly 10% of the officials involved in the investigation and evidence collection in just half a month are involved. ”

"Your Royal Highness is angry, Yunzhou was developed late, most of the officials and businessmen there moved from the Nanyang region, most of the officials have not passed the unified assessment of the government, and they are recommended to serve on their own, and the relationship between officials is tangled and complicated, and there are inevitably more corruption and lawlessness than in other regions."

In Yunzhou and other prefectures, government officials at the prefecture, county, township, and town levels, eight or nine out of ten are businessmen and scholars who have defected from overseas, and the number of graduates of local colleges and universities who are really selected and appointed by the government accounts for only 10 percent of the total number of government officials.

There are not a few officials in the government who are businessmen, and many officials bring the bad habits of doing business into the officialdom, and in the long run, the consequences of the collusion between officials and businessmen to control the officialdom are unimaginable, and it is indeed necessary to make a ruthless and thorough rectification of the officialdom. ”

Liu Pu was born in the remnants of the Taiping Army, and he has always been unaccustomed to the habits of some officials who abandoned business and engaged in politics, and now bluntly said angrily, "At the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, His Royal Highness treated overseas Chinese businessmen well, allowed them to move to South America, and bought land and housing at a low price. ”

"I'm afraid that Lord Liu has never heard a sentence, if you don't kill the poor, you won't get rich, and overseas Chinese businessmen made a fortune, and they didn't get up by deducting the wages of Chinese workers in their hometowns at the beginning."

Zhao Yan echoed.

"Vice Minister Zhang, you and Zheng Huaide are in charge of the errands of the household department, and your household department is responsible for the review process of newly naturalized immigrants in the local states, so you should know the relevant situation in the local states."

After listening to Liu Pu and Zhao Yan's statements, Li Mingyuan continued to ask.

"Your Royal Highness, the collusion of Chinese businessmen with the government has occurred from time to time since the founding of the People's Republic of China, and if we want to completely reverse the trend of changing the situation of the government and curb the corruption of officials and illegal businessmen, we need to carefully consider it, and then delay the resolution after everything is ready."

"Slowly, killing a few or a group of criminal officials and businessmen will not solve the current problems in the country."

Li Mingyuan did not agree with Zhang Guangyuan's mediocre and peaceful way of dealing with it, and said with a resolute look in his eyes: "No matter how good the system is, there are no effective executors and supervisors, and there are still many loopholes, four years ago, a large number of overseas Chinese businessmen poured into the textile industry, exploiting and oppressing ordinary female workers, illegally using, and punishing child labor.

Four days ago, on the night before his mission to Brazil, Mr. Jadeie himself rushed to the palace to discuss with me for half a night. ”

Li Mingyuan glanced at the three of them and continued, "Because of the news of the envoy to Brazil for negotiations, many people think that the armistice negotiations will be completed, and the laughter of the jade who has made great achievements will be further and the official power will be heavier, so they can't wait to go to his house to send gifts to pull relations, in other words, what did you think at that time?" ”

Seeing that the three of them sat on the chair and did not make a sound, Li Mingyuan himself gave the answer: "Liangtian and beautiful jade, gold and silver, every gift given is worth a lot, they give such a valuable gift, what kind of reward they are trying to get, even if they don't think deeply, they can guess the approximately, no wonder they ask for money and advice." Ladies and gentlemen, in the land under the jurisdiction of the central government, there are so many people who have stepped through the threshold to give gifts and bribes, and those states and counties that are far away from the central control and far away from the emperor of the sky, what kind of scene is in front of the government, will you be surprised and afraid? ”

Although Li Mingyuan's latter remarks deliberately exaggerated the elements of corruption in local governments, according to the operational system of the Han State, it can be roughly estimated that in the 10 years of development and construction, the army, the government, and state-owned industrial and commercial enterprises have roughly accounted for 50 percent of the economic achievements since the founding of the People's Republic of China, private businessmen have accounted for about 10 percent of the economic benefits, and ordinary peasants and workers have received the last 40 percent.

Half of the fruits of the country's economic development are occupied by the government and the army, and the army and the government are actually composed of officials, and the extensive economic development has brought the most important primitive accumulation in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, but the funds stolen from government funds by corrupt officials, illegal businessmen of state-owned enterprises, and businessmen who collude with officials have greatly weakened the benefits of economic development, and these people have degenerated into moths attached to the Han State, relying exclusively on embezzling national interests to fatten themselves.

After ten years of development, the Han Kingdom has entered a new stage of development, and at this time, it is unfair and inconsistent with Li Mingyuan's long-term plan for national development to let the people at the bottom bear the cost of the second reform and development.

In Li Mingyuan's planning,

To carry out the second reform of the Han Kingdom, it is necessary to make the economic cake bigger, and at the same time, it is also necessary to re-divide the cake share according to the economic contribution.

The people at the bottom who have already borne the cost of the development of the country should be compensated in the second reform, and part of the economic benefits that need to be paid in the second reform will be paid by the officials and businessmen who illegally embezzled state assets in the past, and they will absolutely not tolerate their continued squeezing of the blood and sweat of ordinary people in the second stage of national development.

Li Mingyuan is confident that he has a vision beyond his contemporaries, and he believes that only he can lead the South American Chinese to a strong rise road, so on the fundamental issue of national development, Li Mingyuan has always adhered to his own ideas, and will not give up easily because of the worries and scruples of his officials.

Only a few people knew about the conversation in the palace, and in the early hours of midnight, when Liu Pu, Zhao Yan, and Zhang Guanghai walked out of the palace, a planned and year-long internal purge and rectification activity kicked off in the dark night.