However, it was said that the general inspection in Jinan made Wen Zhenmeng shocked when he saw the Jining prefect who was kidnapped, and hurriedly loosened the tie, gave up his seat, and invited tea. Wen Zhenmeng is not a raw melon egg, not as fierce as Xue Meng who came out of the barracks. Wen Zhenmeng first compensated no, and then asked the Jining prefect to explain the specific situation in detail. As the saying goes, you don't stretch out your hand and don't hit a smiling person, and the prefect of Jining said the matter again after suppressing the fire. Of course, the prefect of Jining can't say that he wants to get oil and water, but only said that he went to Yuncheng to inspect, and found that the magistrate, county magistrate, and county lieutenant were not in the yamen, thinking that they were not on duty in the yamen during working hours, and they were suspected of dereliction of duty, so they were angry, but the county lieutenant who had just come back slapped them without saying a word, and then tied them up and sent them here. Of course, Wen Zhenmeng would not believe his words, so he said to the prefect of Jining, you may not know the style of their officials, it was the emperor who asked them to go deep into the countryside to investigate the work, that is the will of the saint, this is not to blame, but it is absolutely not allowed to beat the boss, wait for me to investigate and call you back.

The prefect of Jining was polite when he saw Wen Zhen and Meng Ting, thinking that he would deal with the county lieutenant of Yuncheng immediately, but later he heard that they were all acting on the emperor's orders, so he was shocked again. But he felt that he was beaten and couldn't get justice, but he was a little lost in his heart, and secretly ruthless Wen Zhenmeng pulled the tiger skin and pulled the banner, and said goodbye to Wen Zhenmeng and went to the Yamen of the political envoy in Shandong, he was ready to sue the political envoy and let the political envoy give him anger, after all, it was his old boss.

Besides, the political envoy of Shandong, this guy is also a big corrupt official, and he has scavenged countless people's fat and people's ointment, and the Jining prefect has given him the most gifts, this guy is also very cunning, although he is greedy for countless ink, but he usually does not show any dew at all. For a period of time, after Zhu Youxiao changed the county-level officials in Shandong in batches, he found that the gifts and silver received had decreased significantly, and the things sent by various state capitals were also very few.

Maybe it's a matter of people's habits, Wen Zhenmeng has been smooth sailing since he joined the office, and became a squad leader in the older Jinshi, and then he was awarded the general inspector of Shandong officials by the emperor, nominally only to manage the work of new-style officials, in fact, Zhu Youxiao gave him a very heavy task, including the inspection of officials in Shandong Province. For example, the inspection of the second-grade official is also within his purview, but he still visited the political envoy in a very low-key manner, and he did not go arrogantly to fight the autumn wind. Unexpectedly, this political envoy even vaguely instructed him to give him some benefits, which made Wen Zhenmeng feel a little funny, is this guy a little corrupt. In fact, Wen Zhenmeng is indeed in the officialdom for too short a time, many inspectors are to send some gifts to the political envoys, and then the envoys will say some good things to the emperor after the envoys leave, of course, the state capitals need to send silver to the envoys, and the envoys give only a part of it, which is called sharing the spoils. Because the quality of the Ming Dynasty's inspectors and governors was uncertain, from the seventh grade to the second grade, and the low-grade officials gave gifts to the high-grade ones, which meant that they could be taken care of if they were sent down in the future.

The political envoy of Shandong saw that the prefect of Jining was beaten and his face was swollen, and Wen Zhenmeng did not deal with Xue Meng immediately, so he was a little angry, and he made a mistake with this fire. Originally, he should have sent someone to invite Wen Zhenmeng and asked Wen Zhenmeng to come over to discuss the proper handling of this matter. In a fit of rage, he led his master and the prefect of Jining to sit in a sedan chair and went directly to Wen Zhenmeng to reason.

Besides, in Yuncheng County, when it was time for lunch, Chen Shutai, the county magistrate, and Xu Guangpu, the county magistrate, both returned to Yamen, because they didn't go too far today, and the relationship between the four brothers was very good, plus they didn't bring their families to live at present, so the four brothers usually ate together. Chen Shutai and Xu Guangpu saw that their faces were not good-looking, so they hurriedly asked what was going on, and Wang Bo told the Jining prefect about asking for bribes and then being beaten by Xue Meng. Chen Shutai is a shrewd person, and he is also old, so he knows that he has caused trouble for Wen Zhenmeng, so he asked Wang Bo if there is anyone else besides tying up the Jining prefect and sending him away? Wang Bo said that Xue Meng, the other people, was also detained. It seems that Xue Meng is also coarse and fine, and he is not too reckless. After the four of them hurriedly finished eating, they immediately escorted the master of the Jining prefect over, and asked him why the Jining prefect suddenly came to Yuncheng to ask for a bribe at this time, but the master had a very hard mouth, no matter what the four of them asked about life or death, they just didn't open their mouths. Xue Meng was angry but let him get on the stick, but he couldn't help this master who had suffered such a crime, and he told the reason why the prefect of Jining came here because of the pain.

It turned out that there was a Xujiazhuang in Yuncheng County, and Xu Ren, a big family in Xujiazhuang, was reprimanded by Chen Shutai because he did not cooperate with the rent reduction, scolding him for calling himself Xu Ren in vain, how could he be unkind at all, and mobilized his tenants to leave him and go to Liaodong to farm by himself. I don't know how Xu Ren got through the relationship with the prefect of Jining, anyway, this guy was fooled into going to Yuncheng to find Chen Shutai to ask for a bribe. Chen Shutai immediately recorded these confessions, then signed and drew them, sorted out the documents, and asked people to ride fast horses to escort the master of the Jining prefect to Jinan Mansion, and then asked Xue Meng to send someone to Xujiazhuang to secretly investigate Xu Ren's bribery of the Jining prefect.

Because Chen Shutai and the others delayed for half a day to interrogate this master, the messenger of Yuncheng was half a day later than the prefect of Jining to Jinan Mansion. At this time, the political envoy of Shandong and the prefect of Jining had already arrived at Wen Zhenmeng's place to ask for the guilt, and he also invited Zhao Yan, the governor of Shandong, to come and judge. This Zhao Yan's official position turned out to be the squire of the military department, which was the official rank of the second grade, and because he was the governor, his status was higher than that of the political envoy.

Shandong's political envoy added fuel to the vinegar, and told Xue Meng about beating the Jining prefect, and how Wen Zhenmeng protected him. And Wen Zhenmeng hasn't had time to investigate, so he seems very passive. Zhao Yan, as the governor, naturally wanted a bowl of water, so he planned to let Wen Zhenmeng apologize first, and then punish the officials of Yuncheng for the crime of beating his boss. Unexpectedly, before Governor Zhao Yan could speak, someone outside the yamen reported urgently, saying that Yuncheng had sent someone to report the case, Wen Zhen and Meng were overjoyed, and immediately let people in, he expected that Chen Shutai and they would not do anything unreasonable.

As soon as Yuncheng sent someone to take out the confession of the master of Jining Mansion, the political envoy and the prefect of Jining were immediately stupid. Zhao Yan was furious, immediately dismissed the prefect of Jining, and sent him to prison pending trial, and could only admonish the political envoy at the same level with a few words, so he also made the political envoy blush, and repeatedly apologized to Zhao Yan and Wen Zhenmeng, and the prefect of Jining was eager to cut it with a thousand knives to get out of this evil breath.

From this time on, the atmosphere of Shandong officialdom immediately changed dramatically, because the new county-level officials were not giving gifts to their superiors, and the officials of the state government would not go down to collect taxes directly, and they had no money to give gifts to their superiors. In this way, Zhu Youxiao's goal of rectifying corruption in officialdom and offering and accepting bribes has basically been achieved.

Zhu Youxiao started to rectify the corruption of officials from the grassroots level this time, and made a good start because of the implementation of a new style of officials, and in the following years, several batches of such personnel were recruited, and the officialdom atmosphere of the Ming Dynasty was completely changed, and corruption cases were almost eliminated in the officialdom.