Chapter 221: The Great Earthquake in Officialdom

[Chapter 208 has been revised, and the previous revision of Chapter 204 as Chapter 104 has also been revised.] Corrections are welcome. Today's three more thanks.,I've updated a chapter before.,This is the second update.,It's still the third update in a while.。。。 〕

Before Liu Xia's words fell, Li Jingguo was completely paralyzed like Wang Wenda. Then he was dragged down by the two investigations that came forward, but these two investigations were more clever and directly bypassed the people, they prevented them from being accidentally injured by the angry crowd and went through other roads, but they also saved Li Jingguo from being smashed rotten eggs.

The officials below were even more frightened when they saw this, and another official was arrested, which made them very frightened. Before they could come to their senses, Liu Xia continued to read: "The deputy director of the Department of Industry and Commerce of Ruzhou Prefecture colluded with businessmen to embezzle 20,000 silver dollars, occupy Xuzhou Changhe Casino, Ruzhou Fengyu Casino elements, and earn 10,000 silver dollars. There are eight mansions, and a large number of merchants who do not obey him are oppressed, causing some businessmen to die. There was no way to appeal, and some appellate businessmen were even detained by the Ruzhou court and committed adultery with their family members, which is an unforgivable crime. It is a great sin, and someone will take it down for this king, and take him down! ”

"The trial of the Xuzhou court made Ma Cheng, and the trial of the Ruzhou court made Zhai Rangran, the two took advantage of their public positions to cover up the crimes of corrupt officials and lawbreakers, which is really hateful, and the two received bribes of 10,000 silver dollars and 20,000 silver dollars from others. constitutes a serious crime of corruption and bribery, pull it down immediately! After that, the two trial envoys present were also dragged down like dead dogs, and the two did not argue fiercely, because it was meaningless, since Liu Xia dared to say it, then he had a lot of evidence.

The officials below watched as one person after another were dragged down, and they were not afraid that it was impossible, they could imagine the fate of these people, and they would definitely be beheaded if they embezzled so many silver dollars. Although there are more than 100 of them, it seems that Liu Xia does not seem to have the intention of not being responsible, Liu Xia wants to catch them all, and none of them can escape.

The faces of those corrupt officials turned pale, and before Liu Xia could pronounce their names, these people were already paralyzed on the ground. Most of the officials regretted it, they knew what they were doing in this troubled water, and it was better to live happily in their own small county.

They don't want to die, have they lived enough, the concubine who is new to the new has not gone to bed yet, and has not yet taken the body of the Furong of Yihong Courtyard, the old lady in the family is already eighty, and the daughter's dowry has just been accepted and will be out of the cabinet......

After a while, five or six department-level officials were arrested, and the rest were at the county and state levels, and Liu Xia was not in the mood to read it, so he let people arrest them all.

"The prince spares his life, the prince spares his life, and his subordinates will never dare to ...... anymore"

Those officials were firmly grasped by the investigation, and they were as reluctant to move as if they were dead, but they still couldn't twist the intensity of the investigation and were dragged away.

Liu Xia didn't look at them at all, turned around and walked into King Zheng's mansion, no matter how those officials cried, no one paid attention to them, and their families were also arrested by the investigation department and personal guards sent by Liu Xia.

"It looks like the prison is going to be full again this time, and it needs to be cleaned up!"

When all the officials were pulled down, the people who watched the excitement scattered, but they soon publicized the scene that happened in front of King Zheng's mansion, some praised Liu Xia's anti-corruption, and some were angry that there were so many corrupt officials. Some people say that Liu Xia is not afraid of power, and some people are worried that Liu Xia has become a public enemy of officials.

This matter is like a big earthquake in the officialdom, completely shook the entire officialdom, those officials who have received bribes are all frightened, I am afraid that Liu Xia will find them, those who have not accepted bribes are upright, I heard that Liu Xia rectified a lot of corrupt criminals, these people are even more dancing, and Liu Xia is asking for strict governance.

After more than a hundred people were arrested, the next step was the appointment of officials. This time, 100 officials were arrested, which means that 100 officials had to be filled. If it was placed in the past, Liu Xia would definitely be very troubled in the face of so many vacancies, but now it is different, Liu Xia already has a lot of reserve talents.

The trial envoy of the Supreme Court is Chen Liu, and the deputy chief judge is Bao Tiangong, but because Chen Liu has too many things, Bao Tiangong tried these corrupt criminals. So much so that he didn't need to ask how much he went straight to trial, but the results of the trial came out in three days. A hundred people have a common verdict, and that is to raid the house!

This time, if all the money is copied, it will be equivalent to almost 800,000 silver dollars to enter the treasury, when Liu Xia heard the news, he was happy on the spot, and muttered: "It seems that the money from the house is fast, and it seems that we will increase our efforts to investigate corrupt officials in the future, so that we can copy the house and have a lot of silver dollars." ”

Fifty-three of them were sentenced to death, 25 to life, and the rest were almost all sentenced to decades or more than a dozen years in prison. At the same time, the merchants who bribed them were also imprisoned and their property confiscated for the crime of bribing others. Liu Xia's idea is: Since you want to bribe others so much, then you should bribe all the money to **, it just so happens that the people in the world are short of money to spend. A total of 1.5 million silver dollars were confiscated this time. Coupled with the total of 2.3 million silver dollars of those corrupt officials, these Liu Xia can be described as very rich.

With so much money, Liu Xia will not have to worry about running out of money in the face of continuous losses in the steel plant, and he can also increase his investment in scientific research and recruit more troops at the same time. Of course, there are also many businessmen who have fled to other places, but other places are always much worse than Liu Xia.

Liu Xia is a merchant-peasant here, but in other places, it is heavy on agriculture and suppresses business, and it is even more exploited there.

This incident not only caused a major earthquake in the officialdom, but also caused a major earthquake in the shopping mall. When many businessmen mention gift-giving, their faces can be scared out of sweat. Although bribing others is not a capital offense, it will come out in a few years. But confiscation is a word that scares them, which means that they will have nothing left, and all their life savings will be given to someone else.

"There must be no bribery, absolutely not."

"Why don't you go to Henan, go to the south?" One merchant said to another.

The merchant idiot glanced at the first merchant and said: "You don't know the situation in the south, in order to give gifts to Wu Sangui, the merchants in the south have suffered, and many people have been extorted and ruined, and soon the merchants on the coastal line fled by boat." ”

"Is that really the case?"

The man said, "What am I lying to you about?" If not, why didn't I go to the south early? ”

Another asked, "Then why don't you go to the north, there should be no such thing in the north." ”

The man sneered and said: "You don't know the current situation in the north, those Eight Banners are doing nonsense everywhere, the good fields are all kept in captivity by them, and the good houses are also occupied by them, if the beautiful women get there, they may also be robbed." Although Dolgon has introduced some good policies, how can the Manchurians below care? Dolgon also turned a blind eye, and when he went there, he became the minions of those Eight Banners. ”

"Hearing you say that, I can only stay here."

"Isn't it a good thing that the prince won't let us bribe? I really don't understand what you're afraid of, as long as you don't bribe, it's okay, and now the prince has introduced preferential policies, I'll go and see it first, and say goodbye! ”

Although Liu Xia knows that this massacre of officials cannot ban the corruption of officials, but deterrence is still possible, at least during his lifetime, there will not be too many corruption cases, of course, with the improvement of the level of production, and improve the income of officials, otherwise the income issued is not enough to eat, it is impossible for officials not to be corrupt, just like Zhu Yuanzhang killed so many corrupt officials, but there are still a lot of corrupt officials, the main reason is that he is too picky, and the money given to officials is only enough for himself to eat, not enough to support maids and servants. And there is also a popular gift giving in officialdom, which requires money! If you don't have money, you can only embezzle.

Raising the level of treatment of officials is a way to reduce corruption; after all, officials have enough money to spend on themselves, and except for some people who are particularly greedy, ordinary people will no longer risk killing their heads to embezzle, and the strategy of many developed countries in the 21 st century to reduce corruption is to use salaries to support honesty and use high salaries to prevent the occurrence of corruption.