At the beginning of April, in Chizhou Mansion, Chen Lifu dragged his exhausted body back to his residence, but in his mind, the screams and scolding of the more than a dozen gentry were still replayed.

In the public complaint submitted by the inspector of the Chizhou Prefecture Inspectorate, it was claimed that these more than 10 people not only evaded taxes themselves, but also united and instigated a large number of gentry, landlords, and businessmen to evade taxes.

For such a heinous crime, if not severely punished, it is not enough to deter those who come after it, and the crime must be punished with a higher degree.

The Chizhou Grand Court finally made a verdict: 15 masterminds were sentenced to beheading, and more than 30 accomplices were sentenced to life imprisonment, exiled for 3,000 miles, and all family assets were confiscated.

In the daytime, among the dozens of tax evasion and tax evasion elements arrested a few days ago, 15 of the most serious cases were sentenced to death by the Chizhou Prefecture Court!

Chen Lifu, on the other hand, watched the entire execution process with other officials of the Ministry of Taxation, and Chen Lifu's face was expressionless during the whole process, and he couldn't see the joy or sorrow.

But in his heart, at that moment, it was broken.

Because everyone knows that although the executioner was not him, it was he who personally signed the arrest papers, and in a way, he sent these people under the butcher's knife.

However, because of this verdict, the killing of more than a dozen main culprits on the spot also caused a great shock, and almost on the same day, many people began to take the initiative to go to the Yamen of the Ministry of Taxation to take the initiative to declare taxes, and the excuses used were nothing more than excuses such as forgetting for a while or not noticing.

And the officials of the Ministry of Taxation are too lazy to take care of their various excuses, as long as they obediently pay the taxes, they will have to pay attention to other things.

In order to further stimulate them, the Chizhou Prefecture Taxation Bureau once again issued a notice, saying that anyone who pays the tax arrears before April 30 will not be held accountable in the past.

If you deliberately default, conceal the report, and the fine will be doubled, if you resist taxes and fail to pay them, it will be a serious crime of tax resistance.

Therefore, in the next few days, the tax collection work of Chizhou Government showed explosive growth, and many acres of land that had been concealed were cleared out one by one.

In just a few days, the Chizhou Taxation Bureau found that the number of acres of land in Chizhou was even more than they originally estimated, because the agricultural tax collected also exceeded the advance.

In mid-April, Chen Lifu received an official letter from the inspection department of the grain collection department, which was still sent by his immediate boss, and the official document greatly praised Chen Lifu's thunderous measures in the Chizhou government, believing that this move effectively curbed tax evasion and tax evasion, and made a contribution to the overall financial health.

and said that he had already reported his merits, and if nothing else, his rank would rise by a grade, and at the same time let him return to Beijing first, and then prepare to go to Texas to inspect the tax, saying that there were also some problems in the tax work in Texas.

Seeing this official document, Chen Lifu sighed, and then ordered his entourage to start packing their luggage and preparing to go to Texas.

Chizhou is a sad place, he doesn't want to stay any longer!

It's not just that Chen Lifu himself is unwilling to stay in Chizhou, in fact, the gentry and landlords in Chizhou are also eager for Chen Lifu to get out of here as soon as possible!

This Chen Lifu has only been here for a few months, but it has already been the destruction of dozens of gentry in Chizhou Mansion, and Chen Lifu's reputation is already infamous in the Chizhou gentry class.

Many people scolded Chen Lifu in private and even in public for being a chaotic minister, a thief, and a traitor, not to mention the notoriety of murder.

Chen Lifu naturally knows this!

But he didn't refute it, thinking that he couldn't refute it at all, and now he can only grit his teeth and continue to catch up, and when one day he has enough power, he is bound to set things right.

At that time, the world will surely give itself a just reputation!

Before that, he could only endure the humiliation and do what he could, such as rectifying the tax inspection team.

In fact, after Chen Lifu's rectification, the Chizhou tax inspection team has lost the kind of black miasma in the past, although the style of action is still violent and ferocious, but at least it is much more legal and reasonable, and it will not be said that it will casually label people as tax evasion.

The original hooligans and ruffians were also cleaned up by Chen Lifu, and he followed the example of the patrol police yamen to recruit members of the tax inspection team from good families.

Chen Lifu's move to rectify the tax inspection team in Chizhou Mansion is also highly valued by the top level of the Ministry of Taxation, who believes that this move will help improve the reputation of the tax inspection team, of course, more importantly, it can eliminate corruption within the tax inspection team, and at the same time, the law enforcement efficiency is higher, and the more money is collected.

This time, he was asked to go to Texas, in fact, he also had the intention of letting him go to Texas to rectify the chaos of the tax inspection team, and if he did a good job, it would not be long before the more important burden fell on him.

Now that the Tang Dynasty is in ruins, for beautiful officials who can do things and do things, the speed of promotion is naturally extremely fast.

And Chen Lifu himself didn't know that he himself had been included in the list of key training by high-level officials of the Ministry of Taxation.

After leaving Chizhou with mixed feelings, Chen Lifu first returned to Beijing, on the one hand, to report on his work, and on the other hand, he was away from home for several months, and he was also preparing to go back to have a look.

After Chen Lifu quickly returned to Beijing all the way, he had just arrived, and before he had time to report on his work, he was already promoted, and his superiors reported his success in success, and his grade was promoted from the seventh grade to the sixth grade, and he still served as a tax inspector.

The inspectors in the inspection department of the grain collection department have different grades, from the seventh grade to the top to the fifth grade, but the corresponding duties and powers of the different grades of inspection are also too same, the inspection of the six grades, from the sixth grade, and the seven grades of the inspection, is basically to inspect the area of the state capital at this level, and from the inspection of the fifth grade, it is often to inspect the tax work of a province, and will hang the title of deputy director of the inspection department.

After being promoted, looking at the badge from the sixth grade that was replaced, Chen Lifu's depressed mood also calmed down a lot.

After the debriefing was completed, and after receiving the task of inspecting Texas, Chen Lifu calculated the time, and he could catch up with it if he left Texas in three days, so he was going to stay in Jinling for three days first.

The past inspection of Chizhou can be said to make him haggard, busy all day is nothing, the most important thing is tired.

After coming out of the yamen of the grain collection department, Chen Lifu passed by several streets, and saw that there were obviously a lot more people dressed up as soldiers on the street.

Because of the relocation of the capital at the beginning of the year, the five-year examination of Xuanping was postponed from February to late April, so as to give the scholars in various places sufficient time to prepare, otherwise, many scholars in remote areas would not be able to rush in time to participate in the imperial examination.

"Postponing the time, this is a good policy, so that the scholars will not be unable to catch up, but this imperial examination is held once a year, but it is too frequent!" Chen Lifu sat in the carriage, looked at the scholars outside, and thought in his heart: "This back and forth is a few months, if you don't get in the middle for a few years, if you run once a year, I'm afraid it will cost a lot!" ”

However, Chen Lifu naturally didn't know at this time that although the Tang Dynasty held an imperial examination every year, the number of people recruited by the Tang Dynasty every time the imperial examination was very large, and the proportion was also quite large.

In the four years of Xuanping's examination, there were about 2,000 scholars who took the examination, and more than 500 people were admitted to the Jinshi Department and the Doctoral Department.

Basically, as long as you can pass the assessment and then have a little grasp of the new subject, then the certainty of the exam is not small.

And this, you can see from the Tang Dynasty's lower and lower official positions awarded to the new science and technology scholars and doctors, in the early years, even the top three jinshi were recently seven grades, but last year, the top three jinshi were only awarded from the seventh grade.

And this year, I heard that the official positions conferred will still start from the seventh grade.

Not only that, but in fact, the current Tang Dynasty has begun to strictly control the official grades of the new scholars, not to mention Jinshi and doctors.

And if you want to directly enter the official rank, after the selection of officials, you will often only be awarded the eighth grade, as for the Xiucai, it is now the lowest from the ninth grade.

Of course, the above is just their starting level, and there is no limit to the promotion after work, Li Xuan has already ordered the world, and his fame does not affect his subsequent promotion.

Reducing the grade, this is also because the current Tang Dynasty recruits a large number of officials every year, and at the same time the gap for grassroots officials is huge, the Tang Dynasty has been established for many years, and some middle and senior positions, such as the positions above the seventh grade, although there is also a shortage, but the gap is not so big.

However, the gap of grass-roots officials below the seventh grade is quite large, otherwise, the Tang Dynasty will not always encourage talents and people to enter the office, and it is clearly stipulated that scholars who have not yet obtained the merit of Jinshi and Doctor can still participate in the examination after entering the office.

However, the situation of those new scholars is not something that Chen Lifu can worry about, he has been away from home for a few months, he will go home now to rest for a few days, and then prepare to go to Texas to inspect.

Judging from the information I just got in the yamen, the situation in Texas is not optimistic, and the tax situation is one-third less than the rated one-third, needless to say, there must be a large number of tax evasion and evasion.

At the same time, there seem to be a lot of problems within the local tax authorities, and this time, Chen Lifu's mission to Texas is not light.