Taking advantage of the right time, Li Xin planned to go to Guanshan Racecourse and other important places to inspect. In addition to these places, there are two places of training, the Immortal Army and the Flying Dragon Rider. Because the size of both teams has increased a lot now, it is a bit inappropriate to stay in the previous camp to train. For this one, Li Xin re-planned two new camps, so that the two pro-armies could be better trained.

The first few times I participated in the battle, I can basically see what shortcomings there are in the tactical methods of the previous training. Now is the time to make corrections, and when the time comes for the future war, it will become even stronger and more perfect.

Originally, Li Xin might be busy with such an inspection until the end of the year, but the appearance of an incident disrupted his plan.

"If you don't kill such filthy officials, it's not enough for the people to be angry, and it's not enough to correct the law and order if you don't kill them!" An inspector sent to the local area by the Metropolitan Procuratorate reported an official document, saying that there were people underneath who were corrupt. This incident made Li Xin furious and ordered a strict investigation.

The mood to continue to stay was naturally gone, Li Xin returned to the Chang'an Palace overnight and found Zhou Fang. After all, this time the incident was discovered by someone from his department. came with Wang Meng.

"Originally, I thought that in our Datang, the officials were not as honest as water, but at least they could do it without big treachery and corruption. At least, at this time and age, there should be none. I really can't imagine that there are rats in the granary, and from this point of view, the situation is worrying! Li Xin looked at these two ministers of the humerus and said sadly.

Originally, Datang is now in a time of development and strength, and the country has not been established for a long time, and often this time should be the time when a country is the most honest and diligent. This is because at such a time, the people in the whole country, whether it is officials or ordinary people, are actually full of vitality.

Datang now only occupies one-third of the world's land, or even less than one-third of the land, and everyone can see the trend of strength. At this time, it is not yet the time for Ma to put Nanshan and enjoy himself, but someone has already begun to dig a grave for Datang.

For such a person, how could Li Xin let it go? Not to mention, what he has always hated most is those corrupt officials. For such a person, it is absolutely impossible to let go of it easily, and it must be severely punished.

"Your Highness, although this matter was reported by the Imperial History Inspectorate, it still needs to be investigated in detail. Otherwise, we won't be able to know the details! Moreover, we now have the law, and we naturally have to follow the law when we do things. Once this matter is verified, it is best to be able to hear it openly and report it to the world, so as to deter those who are not strong-willed! Wang Meng can understand that Li Xin is angry, but he is not surprised that such a thing happened.

After all, the forest is big and there are all kinds of birds! What he values most is that he still has to follow the procedure.

After all, the laws and procedures are set by the imperial court, and if you take the lead in violating them, then no one will really take them seriously in the end.

No matter how angry and dissatisfied Li Xin is, he can't go past the judicial department to directly convict that person. Otherwise, there would be no need to set up a criminal department and other departments.

"The minister also agrees to send someone to find out, otherwise, it would be a bit too biased to put that person in prison just by inspecting the imperial history!" Although it is said that the inspector of the imperial history is his own subordinate, Zhou Fang will not listen to and believe it because of this, and he still knows it clearly.

Li Xinzhong was still angry, but after listening to the advice of the two ministers at this time, he also felt as if he was making a big fuss. After all, even if there is a problem, you just need to follow the procedure, and you don't have to be angry here.

That won't solve the problem.

"You're right, it's the king who is too impatient! According to Jing Liu's proposal, several officials from the Criminal Department and the Ministry of Officials were immediately dispatched to Linfen County to find out the matter as soon as possible! After thinking for a while, Li Xin said.

"Yes, the ministers obey!" Wang Meng and Zhou Fang hurriedly took the order and left.

It's actually quite simple, so it's not hard to find out! It's just that because the person concerned is a small official in charge of the granary in Linfen County, Pingyang County, and the first complainant is the imperial history of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, so he has to send someone else to investigate.

Because Li Xin attached great importance to this matter, Wang Meng and Liang Ping Lao transferred competent people from the two departments and soon rushed to Linfen County. After finding out about the matter, I quickly reported it.

To put it simply, it was the little official who filled his own pockets and took advantage of the opportunity of taking care of the grain depot to resell the grain in the official warehouse for personal gain.

The official warehouse is not the same as the military warehouse, and the official warehouse is used by the local government to store grain for emergency needs. For example, if there is a natural disaster in the territory, or when the price of grain is too high and the people cannot afford to eat, then the official warehouse will be opened for disaster relief or to stabilize the price of grain.

As for the military warehouse, it is specially used for the army, and it is directly connected with the army at any time. Moreover, because the Tang Dynasty has been fighting everywhere over the years, the military warehouse has been busy between grain intake and grain delivery almost every year.

However, Guancang is the opposite, because there have been few natural and man-made disasters in the territory in recent years, and it has been a bumper harvest year for several consecutive years. As a result, the grain in the storehouse accumulated. Even if some of it was transferred to the military warehouse, there was still a lot of food in the official warehouse.

This is a good thing, but at least it means that there will be no danger of food shortages in the short term. But at the same time, there is one thing that must be done every year in the official warehouse, that is, to bring forth the new.

The so-called pushing through the old and bringing forth the new actually refers to taking out the old grain from the grain depot and selling it on the market. Then, during the harvest season, new grain was brought in from the people. In this way, the grain in the official warehouse can basically maintain most of the new grain that is harvested within one or two years.

After all, if you leave food for too long, it will spoil.

Normal reason is like this, but this little official in Linfen County saw this opportunity, and he happened to be the opposite.

Everyone understands that old grain and new grain are not the same price, and the price of selling old grain is lower, while the price of buying new grain is higher. Of course, the grain in the official warehouse is collected in the form of taxes, and theoretically there is no need to spend money to buy it.

In this way, just selling old grain is a good profit.

But this little official in Linfen County, who was in charge of the official warehouse, colluded with profiteers to exchange the new grain recovered from the people and let those profiteers take it out and sell it. Then, from the hands of the profiteers, they exchanged the old grain and inferior grain into the warehouse, making the official warehouse look as if it was always full.

In this way, the government has suffered a lot of losses, after all, it is a loss between this entry and exit. But the little official was greatly benefited, because the profiteers gave him a part of the profits made in the process of buying and selling in order to make him cooperate.

In this way, the profiteers made a lot of money, and the petty officials also ate with a mouthful of oil, and only the taxes recovered by the government from the people were lost in vain.

Originally, it was impossible for a small official in charge of the official warehouse to completely hide such a thing from those people in the county government. But the problem is that this little official is from a well-known family in the local area, and many of the people in the county government are related to him.

At the same time, those profiteers and petty officials usually have a lot of people. Anyway, the official warehouse is full of food, and there have been no natural disasters for many years, so everyone is happy to be a good person and turn a blind eye.

The most important thing is that the Linfen County Decree is quite mediocre, and it is usually relatively confused about big and small things. Every time I have to chant the wind and make the moon, and even take Wushi San, I am often confused and unable to govern.

It is said that the upper beam is not correct and the lower beam is crooked, and with such a chief official, it is strange that those officials and officials below can do things seriously.

Two months ago, the inspector in charge of inspecting Pingyang County, Yu Shi Fang Kaimo, inspected Linfen County, he was a young man, who had just been sent to the place for less than two years, and it was the time of enthusiasm.

Therefore, I usually like to wander around below a lot of times and inquire about things in various places in private.

There is no impermeable wall in the world, and this little official has done a lot of things, so naturally someone knows about it. Therefore, after Fang Kaimo heard it, he immediately quietly checked it, and after roughly confirming the facts, he hurriedly reported it to Li Xin.

And after the officials and the criminal department sent people to Linfen County for strict investigation, this matter quickly came to light. When the evidence is conclusive, there is no way for the little official to deny it. Because Li Xin attached great importance to this case, the little official was escorted to Chang'an for interrogation.

The case itself is very simple, so there is nothing to say about the trial process. Because this is the first major corruption case after the founding of the Tang Dynasty, according to Li Xin's meaning, it must be punished extremely severely to serve as a warning to future generations.

As a result, the little official was sentenced to beheading, and the profiteers were also arrested and killed together. At the same time, even their family property was confiscated from the officials, and even their families were implicated, and they were not allowed to be officials for ten years.

Such a heavy punishment can be said to be the first time since the establishment of the Huashan Army. Even with the Linfen County Order, he was dismissed on the spot and never used it, and almost the entire Linfen County Government was beaten down and retrained. Even the Taishou of Pingyang County was called to Chang'an by Li Xin, and then severely reprimanded.

After the case was over, Li Xin ordered the matter to be made into an official document and sent to all levels of government. At the same time, the people in the advertising territory are well aware of this. As a result, this corruption case has set off a storm in Datang.

From the central center to the local government, all the officials were careful, for fear that there would be such people under their hands.