Ten years of Xuanping, outside Jinling City!

Chen Lifu, who looked a little tired, got off the boat, and as soon as he got off the boat, he saw a young official wearing an official uniform and a rhinoceros badge pinned to his chest representing his status as a seven-rank official quickly greeted him.

As soon as he arrived in front of him, he bowed down and said, "Humble welcome back to Beijing!" ”

Chen Lifu looked at the subordinates of this inspection office and nodded slightly: "Let's go!" ”

Although the young man saw Chen Lifu's tired expression, he wanted to say something, and he looked like he wanted to say something.

What kind of person is Chen Lifu, who has been in the Tang Dynasty officialdom for several years, with a signature pen, I don't know how many people have been killed, and he is called Chen Rentu by outsiders, this pair of eyes is naturally very old-fashioned, and he immediately frowned slightly: "If you have anything to say, just say it, what does it look like to hide it!" ”

This young man was able to appear at the Xincheng Wharf today to greet him, naturally he was not an ordinary person, but a descendant of his Chen Butcher, and many people didn't know that there was still a teacher-student relationship between the two.

In his early years, before Chen Lifu was admitted to the former Ming Jinshi, he was bored and opened a private school, teaching children from nearby townships, and this young man was his student in his early years.

It's just that he was only a teenager at the time, but now he is also an adult, and he won the examination in one fell swoop in last year's examination, achieved a good score in the second grade, and was finally assigned to work in the tax department.

After Chen Lifu inspected him for a few months, he felt that this student was quite clever, so he also took the opportunity to ask him to serve in the inspection department.

Of course, not many people know about the teacher-student relationship between them, because Chen Lifu taught him for a few months in the early years, at most it was just a name, and if the things in the early years were not specifically said, no one would investigate them.

For his early students, Chen Lifu is naturally not polite!

The young official hesitated for a moment before he spoke: "My lord, I heard that someone has reported you to the Inspectorate again!" ”

Hearing this, Chen Lifu didn't care: "It's just a group of clowns who jump off the beam, don't care too much!" ”

In the past few years, there have been many people who have reported him, not to mention reporting to the Inspectorate, even if it is directly to His Majesty to impeach himself, it is countless.

Why?

Who made Chen Lifu the director of the Inspection Division of the Grain Collection Department of the Ministry of Taxation, and almost the most powerful Zhengwupin official in the whole world!

Not to mention that the nature of the inspection department's work of supervising taxes will arouse the hostility of countless people, especially those landlords and businessmen, even within the Tang Dynasty officialdom and even within the tax department, there are not a few people who hate him.

Because almost every time the inspection department goes to a place to inspect taxes, it means that there is a tax problem in the local area, and the problem of tax evasion is quite serious, and the empire attaches more importance to it than military problems!

When a tax problem occurs in a locality, the first thing the tax inspectors dispatched by the inspection department is to rectify the local tax authorities, and in the process of rectification, it is inevitable that some of the moths and corrupt tax officials will be dug out, and then sent to the inspectorate to prosecute them, and finally those who should be exiled will be exiled and those who should be killed will be killed.

After the local tax authorities are rectified, the tax inspectors will start the next step of their work, investigating the local tax evasion and tax evasion problems, and then they will begin to catch typical examples, basically arresting a group and killing a group.

It is understandable to arrest people, as for killing, the tax department has a tax inspection team, and when they come to arrest people and raid their homes, some of those big landlords, big businessmen or something will resist stubbornly.

In the past two years, the tax inspection team under the Ministry of Taxation has become more and more professional, and Chen Lifu, based on the reform experience in Jiangbei and northern Anhui, is to promote the reform of the tax inspection team nationwide, clean up the former hooligans and other brains, and then recruit retired servicemen to serve.

At the same time, the tax inspection team has also been split internally, and the whole is divided into three agencies, one part is purely civilian, responsible for administrative and logistical matters, and the other part is investigators, which is similar to ordinary patrol officers, and the other part is law enforcement officers.

Yes, the tax inspection team has the power to enforce the law, and they can investigate and arrest tax evasion and evasion in accordance with the tax law.

In the process of law enforcement, it is natural that there will be a firefight with tax evasion and tax evasion, and even armed tax resistance.

It's just that the law enforcement officers of the tax inspection team have much higher military literacy and weapons and equipment than those patrol police, and basically all veterans are equipped with army-standard flintlock pistols, pistols, and shotguns, not to mention plate armor and swords.

Therefore, when the tax inspection team enforces the law, the movement is a little big!

The nature of the work of the inspection department is also determined, they will be disgusted by many outsiders, and it is common for them to report and impeach.

There is even a rumor within the inspection department that a tax inspector who is not reported and impeached is not a good tax inspector, because it means that he has not offended anyone.

And doing tax work, not offending basically means that you have not made achievements!

The tax department doesn't need good people, it needs people who can collect taxes!

Therefore, I heard that someone reported himself, Chen Lifu was too lazy to pay attention, in the past few years, there have been many people who have reported him, and the impeachment is forgotten, after all, it is just to pass the impeachment excerpt to the Son of Heaven, usually speaking, if the Son of Heaven has not made a decision to deal with it, then these impeachment excerpts will basically remain in the middle, in other words, the Son of Heaven should not have seen it.

As a result, this situation is generally not open to the public, and at the same time, it has not entered the judicial process.

But the report is not the same, if the report is accepted, it is basically entering the judicial process, and the inspectorate will investigate.

Of course, in the past few years, the Inspectorate has already planted a heel on Chen Lifu, and he was stupidly used as a knife, so in recent years, the Inspectorate has been much more cautious about Chen Lifu's report.

There is not enough evidence, there is no great certainty, they basically will not file a case for investigation, of course, this does not mean that they do not want to investigate Chen Lifu, every time people receive a report, even if they do not file a case, they will secretly investigate, but it is just not public.

It's just that the investigation came and went, and I didn't find any obvious problems with Chen Lifu!

Of course, Chen Lifu is not a perfect person, naturally he has defects, for example, Chen Lifu, who was born as a traditional scholar, especially likes to travel in the mountains and rivers, well, the kind that takes the Qinglou woman to go together.

There are also several women in the house outside, and there are several illegitimate children.

But this kind of thing, at most, you can talk about his life style, it's really a big trouble, at most, it will make him fine him or something, but people are not short of money!

Yes, Chen Lifu is really not short of money!

People are from a scholarly family, and the family has a lot of property, not to mention that in recent years, the Chen family has also invested in new industries, and has opened a textile mill and a flour mill, I heard that this year they also entered the machinery manufacturing industry, and engaged in the research and development and production of professional textile machinery.

Ma Dan, this Chen's machinery company has reached more than 200,000 taels of silver just in the early stage!

In this world, there are many officials in the family business, but none of them have succeeded in doing so with Chen Lifu.

Some people may also ask, this official is in business, then there must be a problem, the Inspectorate will often investigate those officials who are still in business in the family, and often may find problems, and then arrest them.

But Chen Lifu is good, there is no fart problem, people do not evade taxes in business, and they do not use their influence to do business!

Chen Lifu's family is so rich that they don't need some out-of-the-ordinary means at all, and they can earn a lot of wealth by doing business!

And Chen Lifu, who has made more money, still uses corruption and uses power to make money for himself?

Not at all!

People have a lot of money and nowhere to spend it, and the Inspectorate basically can't find economic problems in him, even if there is a real problem, it is Chen Lifu bribing others, not others bribing him!

And the economic problem was originally the easiest direction to investigate, and this direction was blocked, and the Inspectorate could only find other directions, but for the time being, they have not found it.

No key evidence was found, and even if they often received reports against Chen Lifu, they would basically not file a case.

But that doesn't mean they don't want to send Chen Lifu to prison!

But although he wasn't too worried, when he returned to Jinling City, he heard that someone had reported him, and Chen Lifu naturally wouldn't be happy to go there, so he immediately ordered his entourage to investigate and see that those bastards reported themselves again.

Is it because he stepped up the tax inspection of the raw silk industry two days ago, which led to the raw silk merchants in the north and south of Zhejiang, or because a number of tea businesses that evaded taxes were raided some time ago, those tea merchants wanted to make trouble? Or is it the black hand of your own political opponent?

Chen Lifu is not a hairy young man, he knows very well that basically behind every report, it is inseparable from those whose interests have been damaged because of themselves, including landlords, businessmen and officials.

But no matter who it is, basically every time Chen Lifu will be slammed back!

People are good at being bullied, and horses are good at being ridden!

Is he Chen Lifu kind?

Kind fart, your nickname for Chen Rentu is for nothing!

And Chen Lifu is a person with lofty ideals, although he is only the director of the inspection department of the fifth grade for the time being, but he is always eager to make better results, and then continue to be promoted, and finally enter the imperial study and become the right and left hand of the Son of Heaven.

At that time, it will be the time for him to display his ambitions and create a prosperous era of Xuanping!

And until then, he must not fall easily!

In order to proclaim peace and prosperity, for the sake of the world, he must stand proudly above the officialdom, climb up step by step, and any stumbling blocks that hinder him will be kicked away mercilessly!

This time, someone came to report himself, this is to obstruct his career, to hinder his ambitions, he must investigate who is behind the ghost, and then the actual thunder means, must strictly investigate their tax problems!

Strictly investigate, find out the problem, raid the house and arrest people, and never tolerate it!

Because these handful of saboteurs want to destroy the prosperity of Xuanping and poison the people in the world, how can he Chen Lifu endure these people, if he endures it, then he is not Chen Rentu!