Seeing that the ministers looked at the internal guards standing on both sides with puzzled expressions, Tianqi smiled slightly and said to Zhao Nanxing, the secretary of the ministry: "Lord Zhao, if you take a closer look, they look like people who raided the house?" ”

Zhao Nanxing tilted his head to look left and right for a while, and then said: "Back to the emperor, the minister can't see it." ”

Tianqi said: "It's right if you can't see it, they are the internal guards composed of eunuchs in the palace, and they are specially responsible for conducting financial reviews of officials. ”

Zhao Nanxing asked with some doubts, "May I ask the emperor." What is this economic review? ”

"The so-called economic review is to let them clean up, make a register, and evaluate the officials' family assets, and finally get an approximate value," Tian Qi said. ”

Zhao Nanxing suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, and he said with a little dissatisfaction: "Your Majesty, after talking about it for a long time, this is still a raid?" ”

Tianqi said: "There is no way for Lord Zhao to understand me in this way, but economic censorship and family raiding are indeed not the same thing. ”

At this time, Ye Xianggao spoke, he said: "In the past month, the minister heard that the emperor often discusses with Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou and others, and the minister guesses that all the emperor's ideas should be known and agreed. ”

Tianqi said: "It's completely okay, they can't say it clearly, I will add it, I am not right, everyone can revise and improve it for me, but it is imperative to review the economic situation of officials." ”

Everyone couldn't help but gasp when they heard this, Ye Xianggao turned his head to look at Yang Lian, his eyes revealed a strange look, and he asked, "May I ask Yang Yushi, what is the difference between this economic review and family raiding?" ”

Yang Lian sighed secretly, he and Ye Xianggao, Zhao Nanxing, Han Yi and others were the same people from Donglin Academy, because the Apocalypse required him to keep his wife and children secret, so he didn't inform the rest of the Donglin Party, and he felt a little guilty in his heart. Seeing Ye Xianggao ask, he thought for a while and replied: "For an official, this raiding is passive, that is, as long as the emperor orders you, you have to be raided if you want or not; The means test is proactive, and only if you apply will there be an internal guard to clean up your property. ”

There will be people who want others to come to the house to clean up the family property, and they have to take the initiative to apply, everyone is stunned when they hear it, thinking that unless this person's brain is broken, it will be almost the same. At this time, Yang Lian continued: "The emperor said that once everyone agrees to this idea, it will be announced on a later date, and from the date of publicity, all officials must be subject to economic review before appointment and promotion, that is, when you receive the official document of appointment, retention or promotion from the ministry, you either choose to apply for economic review, or choose to roll up and go back to your hometown." ”

Everyone panicked when they heard it, if they didn't apply for their own homes, they would have to go back to their hometowns, if they chose to apply for a home raid, how many of them are clean in the world? After all, it took hundreds of years to produce a Hai Rui, and honest role models can generally only be admired, and it would be stupid to really learn from them.

At this time, Yang Lian said again: "The emperor knows what everyone is worried about, and the emperor said that no matter how many properties you have, the officials of the first economic review will only register and make a register and do nothing else, even if you have millions of family properties, it will be fine." ”

As soon as everyone heard the words "lead the snake out of the hole" appeared in their heads, everyone knew that the emperor was now almost poor and crazy, and they didn't believe that the emperor would easily let go of the officials who had money and the money was unknown, and saw everyone's thoughts and said: "This is a good thing to have money, I hope from the bottom of my heart that all the people here have millions, tens of millions or even billions of family assets, and I also hope from the bottom of my heart that all the people of Daming will be rich and happy." Now everyone's family is so poor that it is really not good for a few people's families to be rich and oily, but it cannot be said that rich officials are corrupt officials, maybe it is handed down by other ancestors, maybe it is the money that others make by doing a good business, or maybe it is someone else's luck to dig out the whole altar of gold ingots. However, no matter how much money you had before, you have to convince the people that your money is not used to make money from them, how to prove it? It is to accept the financial review when you take office, let everyone see how much money you have, and when you leave office, let people count it, and it will be clear whether you are greedy or not. ”

Seeing that everyone didn't speak, Yang Lian continued: "The second difference between this economic review and the raid is that the raid is carried out by the Jinyi guards, and the economic review is carried out by these internal guards on both sides of the hall. ”

Seeing that everyone turned their heads to look at the internal guards standing on both sides of the main hall, Tianqi said: "Look at them, they look like Sven, they not only look like Sven and do things very well, your bottles and cans, flowers and plants will never be broken or damaged for you, and the tables, chairs and benches that have been moved away are guaranteed to be moved back to their original places and wiped cleanly, because they are eunuchs in the palace and will not disturb your family's relatives, and I also require them to speak kindly and politely, and they will salute you first when they enter your house, just like they started to enter the palace, Of course, if you want to save time, it's best to make a list by yourself, and they can reconcile them according to the number of points in the list. ”

Zhu Changrun, the assistant minister of the Government Council, said at this time: "The emperor's move is interesting, if the minister wants to clean the furniture at home and doesn't want to spend money to hire someone, can he apply for a financial test and let them clean the minister for free by the way?" ”

Hearing King Hui say this, everyone smiled, and Tianqi also smiled: "This is not good, the economic review is only carried out when taking office and leaving office, and it is not impossible to apply at ordinary times, as long as they are free but have to charge, but Uncle Liuwang needs me to come forward and say that you will be given a 20% discount when the fee is charged, I believe that Yang Gongchun will give me this face." ”

Hearing Apocalypse say this, everyone laughed. At this time, Yang Lian said: "At first, the ministers didn't understand, but after the emperor's detailed explanation, the ministers figured it out, think about it, if you were found guilty by the imperial court and sent Jinyi guards to forcibly raid your home, what would those rude sergeants do?" Those who robbed their homes and robbed them had to be smashed, and their families were also frightened and frightened......" Speaking of this, his voice gradually became lower, probably thinking of something sad, and several other officials also showed sadness because they had been victimized or empathized.

At this time, Zhao Nanxing, the secretary of the ministry, asked: "If an official does take silver that should not be taken in office and is also found out, Yang Yushi, what should you do?" ”

Yang Lian said: "This issue was also debated a while ago, and the minister meant that once it was discovered, it would be severely punished and never forgiven, but the emperor did not agree. ”

Zhao Nanxing was surprised: "Your Majesty, why is this?" If a corrupt official with conclusive evidence does not kill him, how can it be reasonable? ”

"This corruption is not the act of one person or a few people, but the fault that everyone will unconsciously commit in that environment," Apocalypse said. Some of you may think that I am too extreme, but what I want to say is that in the two hundred years of the Ming Dynasty, there has been an official like Hai Rui, and if you want to make thousands of officials in the Ming Dynasty become the same as Hai Rui, I can't do it and no one can do it, and it is safe to say that even if it is a few hundred years later, no one can do it. Isn't it a fool to bother to do it when you know you can't do it? This old saying goes, if the mountain does not turn around, the water does not change the road, and it is difficult to change people, so we will find ways to restrict and help people, that is, if an official himself cannot always guard against himself or his family accidentally taking money that should not be taken, we will find a way to help him. It's like a person who will inevitably get his hands dirty when he does things, it doesn't matter, you can wash your hands when they are dirty, and you can cut them off if you don't see anyone with dirty hands. ”

Speaking of this, Tianqi picked up the tea bowl and took a sip of tea, and by the way, he pointed to Yang Lian and motioned for him to continue, Yang Lian nodded and continued: "Officials can choose to accept the economic review before taking office, be an official or not accept the economic review and go home, when they leave office, they have no right to choose, they must accept the economic review, and if they do not accept the economic review of the internal guard, they will accept the raid of Jinyiwei." When, after passing two means tests, it is discovered that he has an unexplained source of his family's property, he himself can hand over the excess belongings to the state, i.e. wash his hands. In this way he is still a qualified officer. ”

At this time, Ye Xianggao asked: "What if someone insists on concealing and transferring the family property?" ”

Apocalypse said: "This has nothing to do with corruption and bribery, this belongs to deception!" It is not good to deceive people, and it is unforgivable to deceive me, and I will ask someone to dig a pit and bury him so that he can think about it in it, and figure it out to be an honest person in the next life. ”