Jinling City, in a small two-story building in the Chengtianfu Inspectorate.

Chen Lifu, who caused a storm of public opinion in the outside world, was standing in front of the window of a room on the second floor at this time, he never thought that he would one day live in the guest house of the Inspectorate.

The guest house of the Inspectorate has many uses, usually used to receive the staff of the Inspectorate, but in the officialdom, it is known that the guest house of the Inspectorate has a more important function, that is, as the residence of the officials who are questioned.

Most of the officials invited by the Inspectorate to inquire are good things, and if they are good things, the Inspectorate will not call you over.

Most of the people who were called by the Inspectorate were the targets of their suspicions, or dereliction of duty, or bribery, or corruption, in short, it was not a good thing, and many officials were often sent away after living in this guest house!

Where to go? Patrol Detention Facility!

And some people may be innocent, or they may really just assist in the investigation, or simply they have committed a crime, but the inspectorate can't find evidence and can only release them in the end.

But in any case, there will be a reason for these things, at least the inspectorate suspects that you have a problem, so they will go out of their way and invite you to come in the name of 'assisting in the investigation' and 'routine inquiry'.

And after the invitation, they will live in the guest house of the Inspectorate in a way that is almost under house arrest, and then cut off all contact with the outside world, and the imperial historians of the Inspectorate will use various methods to interrogate, and of course, they will also use this time to collect all kinds of evidence in the outside world.

Once the Inspectorate deems that the evidence is sufficient for them to prosecute, then they will not hesitate to apply for an arrest warrant, and then take the patrol officers directly to the detention center, followed by the prosecution, once convicted, it is naturally completely finished.

But Chen Lifu never thought that he would one day become a guest in the guest house of the Inspectorate, he was under house arrest, and he accepted all kinds of seemingly headless brainless every day, but if these questions are connected, it is not difficult for Chen Lifu to guess that they called themselves not because of dereliction of duty, but because they suspected that they had taken bribes!

What are you kidding, his Chen family is a family of official eunuchs, the wealth accumulated over generations is huge, almost the entire Chen family village, whether it is the land of East Chen or West Chen, is the industry of his Chen family, and also has a number of granges, the family has more than 3,000 acres of fertile land, and there are many shops and industries.

And last year, he also jumped on the spring breeze of supporting industry and commerce, allowing his family to invest and establish a flour mill.

These industries, even if they pay taxes every year, can still contribute at least 50,000 taels of silver to his Chen Lifu's income!

Not to mention the rest, just in the silver vault of his family's cellar, there are more than 10,000 taels of gold and more than 300,000 taels of silver!

In the account in the Royal Bank, he maintains a deposit of at least 100,000 taels of silver all the year round, and no matter where he Chen Lifu goes to be an official, he is the top eater and the top person who lives.

Even when he usually enters and exits Jinling City, he always takes the VIP fast track, even if he is with a large group of servants, it is still the same!

Will he Chen Lifu take bribes?

, is Lao Tzu the kind of person who is poor for money?

However, Chen Lifu is not stupid, he has already deduced from the interrogation of his imperial history, and the Inspectorate suspects that he has taken bribes!

Whether he has accepted bribes himself knows better than anyone else, he has never accepted even a penny from others, when he went to the local tax inspection, he did not ask people to invite even a meal, went to the Qinglou to listen to music and drink, it was all his own money!

But why did the Inspectorate suspect that it had taken bribes?

Also, who exactly reported himself?

Could it be that he offended when he was patrolling Jiangbei Province and North Anhui Province for most of the year?

He just finished the patrol affairs of Jiangbei Province and North Anhui Province half a month ago, and when he inspected Jiangbei Province, Chen Lifu's methods were still fierce and ruthless!

During the inspection of Jiangbei Province and North Anhui Province for more than half a year, he swept away almost all the salt merchants in Yangzhou, uprooted the Qian family, which was rumored to have 10,000 acres of fertile land and countless industries, and also confiscated dozens of gentry and businessmen who evaded taxes.

And he also changed half of the local tax officials in Jiang and North Anhui provinces!

Many corrupt and bribed tax officials were kicked out of the tax team by him, and then sent them to the guillotine with his own hands, and he also directly introduced many veterans, to a certain extent, changed the serious negative impression of the local gentry on the tax inspection team, and at the same time the efficiency of tax collection was greatly improved!

Not only that, but the director of the Yangzhou Government Taxation Bureau lost his post because of his notebook.

Even the director of the Gangbuk Provincial Tax Department was implicated, and was finally transferred back to the Central Tax Department by a paper order, of course, not to be promoted, but to be a cold bench, if nothing else, the former director of the Gangbuk Provincial Tax Department, it is impossible to get a chance to turn over in this life.

Unless he Chen Lifu is unlucky, and then a bunch of people have reversed many of his previous decisions, otherwise, he has no hope.

With such a drastic move, he will inevitably attract the resentment of many people!

In particular, the introduction of veterans into the tax inspection team that he implemented some time ago has caused a lot of waves within the tax system!

In the first half of this year, he continued to rectify the local tax inspection team, driving out the tax team from the tax team by many green-skinned hooligans and other scumbags recruited in the early days of its establishment, and then began to recruit veterans.

At that time, he reported to Qian Aoli, saying that there were too many chaotic people mixed in the tax team, which not only seriously aggravated people's negative impression of the tax team, but also continued to reduce the work efficiency of the tax team, and there were widespread bad incidents of members of the tax team colluding with local gentry and businessmen to help conceal and omit the tax due.

In order to change this situation, he suggested that veterans should be brought in from the military, increase the discipline and combat effectiveness of the tax inspection team, and turn the tax inspection team into a tax team that has always been able to collect taxes and fight in the Tang Dynasty, and has a tenacious style!

Qian Aoli was quite interested in Chen Lifu's proposal, not only him, but even Liu Bagou felt that it could be carried out after hearing about it, and it should be vigorously promoted if it was done well, why, because the bigwigs on the cabinet side, not only Qian Aoli, but almost all civilian officials, including Liu Bagou and others, all hope that the cabinet or civilian officials have an army in their hands!

An army that obeys the orders of the Cabinet!

So back then, they always wanted to formalize the tax inspection team, what is formalization?

It is to turn the tax inspection team into a real army, otherwise there would not have been any plan for the tax inspection team back then.

It's a pity that His Majesty has been strictly guarding, coupled with the strong opposition of the military, it was finally over, but their thoughts have not changed.

We should not be allowed to build an army, but we should always recruit veterans, and if we do not allow us to equip powerful field artillery, we should be able to build two shotguns.

After Qian Aoli's suggestion was approved, he began to try to recruit veterans in the tax inspection teams in Jiangbei Province and North Anhui Province, but the military did not have much opinion on this matter.

Because now a large number of soldiers have begun to retire from the army every year, the Tang Dynasty has clearly stipulated the length of service, and a large number of recruits are recruited every year, and a large number of veterans will be retired every year.

Although these retired veterans will become an important part of the military's reserve forces, after the soldiers retire, they always need to make a living, and in the past, the military's arrangement method was to get them into the patrol police.

However, the patrol police have also set up a patrol police school now, and they have begun to train patrol police on a large scale, and the patrol police establishment in many places is also very tight, and later the military began to arrange retired soldiers to enter the enterprises of the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises.

But to be honest, veterans who have been soldiers are not happy to let them go to factories as workers!

Because when I was in the army, although I said that I was doing high-risk things like fighting, the treatment was good, and when I was a soldier, a soldier's salary could support a small family, and when I went to the factory, I could only make ends meet if I worked fourteen hours a day.

In addition, according to the estimate of the military, by the time of next year, the Southwest Campaign will almost be over, and the military will usher in a relatively large-scale retirement tide at that time!

It is conservatively estimated that at least 50,000 or 60,000 soldiers will retire from active duty at that time, because these soldiers have basically reached the end of their service period, and they are in the consideration of maintaining a large number of retired servicemen in peacetime for rapid mobilization and expansion in wartime.

How can so many people arrange?

They talked to Datang Western, and Datang said they could accept about 2,000 people, and if there were any more, the company's finances would not be able to afford it.

They talked to the patrol department, and the patrol department said that it would be almost the same to accept 20,000 people, and it would be difficult to arrange more, after all, their own patrol police school will have a large number of patrol students graduating every year to be arranged.

Moreover, many of the current retired soldiers, to be honest, are illiterate, and the patrol police department has accepted it, and they have to be given special training, which is more troublesome than recruiting young and strong people.

They also talked to the Ministry of Officials, and the Ministry of Officials said that although many local yamen are short of people, all the people who are lacking are officials, what is an official? To put it simply, even if you are a member of the Jiupin Section, you have to be a talent or a graduate of middle school, most of your veterans are illiterate, and it is not easy to arrange!

Although the military has already made some targeted plans for this, such as opening literacy classes, opening schools within the army, and organizing secondary school level exams, etc., but that is all for the future, and now, they are finding homes for those tens of thousands of veterans!

That is, Chen Lifu's plan to recruit veterans with his tax inspection team appeared!

Although the military was not very happy to expand the scale of the tax inspection team and become regularized, in order to solve the urgent need, they still supported Chen Lifu's plan, and arranged for nearly 1,000 veterans to go to Jiangbei and northern Anhui to transfer to the tax inspection team.

This move greatly strengthened the combat effectiveness of the local tax inspection team and laid the foundation for a series of large-scale cleansing by Chen Lifu in Jiangbei and northern Anhui!