Moreover, by the cross-sea cable, Feng Yunshan also remembered that it would not be long before Britain and France would compete for control of the Suez Canal. It's just that the Suez Canal is now preparing to be built, and Feng Yunshan remembers that it seems that it took 10 years of construction before it was officially opened. Later, because of the construction of the Suez Canal, the Egyptian local government was heavily indebted and had to sell its shares, which were eventually bought by Britain and controlled the Suez Canal together with France. In the end, Britain relied on the military strength of the world's largest power to occupy Egypt by armed occupation, completely control the Suez Canal, and also established the largest overseas military base in the canal area, stationed nearly 100,000 troops. Of course, that's twenty or thirty years from now. However, Feng Yunshan reminded himself that he must plan early and get a share of the Suez Canal construction!

It is too close to Europe, and it will certainly not be able to fight Britain, France and other countries in terms of force, but he can take advantage of the contradictions between France and Britain to fund the local government of Egypt and profit from it in the form of capital. Today, the strength of the Chinese Empire lies in wealth. In the case of a YY post on an Internet forum in later generations, China's GDP in this era, according to the conversion results of the "Millennium History of the World Economy", China is higher than the GDP of the world's largest power, the United Kingdom, and can be said to be the richest country in the world. However, if according to the fiscal revenue of that year, the annual fiscal revenue of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in the later years of Jiaqing was around 40 million taels of silver, while the British at this time had 50 million pounds, equivalent to more than 150 million taels of silver, and Britain was 4 times that of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Feng Yunshan thought that by vigorously developing trade and following the example of the West in carrying out the industrial revolution, he would definitely be able to rapidly develop the economic power of the Chinese Empire. With a huge population base and dividends, as well as the vast and rich natural resources of the empire, it is impossible not to rise.

However, at the moment, these are still relatively far away, and the most urgent thing is actually the rectification of the officials of the empire.

After finishing the opening of the Shengdong section of the railway and the telegraph, Feng Yunshan returned to the palace, where Fan Ruzeng, director of the secret service department, Huang Yukun, minister of justice, and He Jianji, deputy minister of police, were already waiting in the political hall.

Fan Ruzeng, Huang Yukun and He Jianji were all called by Feng Yunshan early to target the corruption of some officials in the empire.

In fact, as early as half a year ago, the Secret Service Department constantly reported to Feng Yunshan about the corruption of imperial officials, but some time ago, because the Chinese Empire was newly established, coupled with the shortage of officials, not to mention that there were also a small number of generals involved in the army, the strength of the captive army at that time was tight, if they were taken down immediately, Feng Yunshan was worried that it would cause shocks in some places and in the army. Therefore, in order to stabilize the situation, Feng Yunshan simply asked the Ministry of Justice and the Police Department to closely monitor those officials in question and not take action for the time being. In fact, this does not mean to give them a chance.

Now, the overall situation of the entire empire has been decided, the troops are sufficient, and the entire political situation is stable, Feng Yunshan can finally free up his hands to rectify and deal with this group of corrupt officials.

After the three of them saluted Feng Yunshan, Huang Yukun, the minister of justice with the oldest qualifications, first saluted: "Your Majesty, after careful investigation by the Ministry of Justice, coupled with the secret report clues of the Special Service Department, we have mastered a number of criminal evidence and stolen goods of corrupt officials, this is the list. As he spoke, he took out a book from his bosom and presented it to Feng Yunshan.

Fu Shanxiang on the side hurriedly took it over and handed it to Feng Yunshan.

After taking a look, Feng Yunshan's face turned blue.

He didn't expect that the new dynasty of the Chinese Empire founded by himself, even from the era of the Taiping Holy Kingdom to today, in just over three years, these officials were almost selected by themselves, and they would become like this!

Feng Yunshan first looked at the generals in the army that he valued the most. But he didn't expect that even in his most trusted captive army, there were two division commanders who were corrupt and perverted the law! Wang Dacai! Chen Shuitai!

"What's going on with this Wang Dacai and Chen Shuitai?" Feng Yunshan held back the anger in his heart and asked in a cold voice.

Fan Ruzeng, He Jianji and Huang Yukun looked at each other, and finally Huang Yukun replied: "Your Majesty, this Wang Dacai and Chen Shuitai were originally poor people, because they became the leaders of the Guiyang Heaven and Earth Society in southern Hunan, they returned to the Holy Kingdom, and were appointed by His Majesty as the commander of the original Second Brigade and the Fourth Brigade of the Capture Army. However, after the pacification of the south, the empire implemented the reform of the captive army, and these two people were still illiterate because they had not studied and were unwilling to go to night schools for training, so although they were promoted to division commanders, they failed to enter the field army and became the division commanders of the reserve army stationed in the local area. As a result, both of them were dissatisfied with the Empire, believing that they had been greatly credited and were not valued, so they began to give up their future and concentrate on enjoying it. ”

Since last year, the two have not only taken concubines on a large scale, indulging in alcohol every day, but also lavishly rewarded the wives and concubines. By falsely reporting military salaries, these two people falsely claimed that they were seeking the reform of the military system of the captured army, that the salaries of the reserve soldiers in reserve had been halved, and that half of the salaries had been withheld and not paid, and that they had colluded with the deputy division commander in charge of logistics and the two regiment commanders in the army to swallow up the salaries. Not only that, Your Majesty, but we have also found out that these two men actually sold the muskets equipped with the generals and sold them to some undistributed merchants to set up private armies. Although these muskets were only a few shotguns and a small number of flintlock muskets, all of which have been recovered, they still caused extremely bad effects. ”

"Smack!" The more Feng Yunshan listened, the more angry he became, and he got up and scolded: "Bastard thing! These two bastards are bastards! I treated them like my own brothers, and I was so corrupt in military discipline, corrupt in my greed, and reckless in my actions! Damn it! Did these two bastards catch it? ”

He Jianji, deputy minister of the Ministry of Police, hurriedly stepped forward and replied: "Your Majesty, the Ministry of Police has cooperated with the Ministry of Justice to disarm these two fangs, arrest them all, and detain them in the Shuiximen Prison in Shengjing. ”

"Good! Well caught! Feng Yunshan laughed angrily and said to Huang Yukun: "The corruption crimes of Wang and Chen can be verified? Is it true? ”

"Back to Your Majesty, there is no doubt that there is human and material evidence!"

Feng Yunshan said: "Then according to your Ministry of Justice, how to deal with it?" ”

Huang Yukun hesitated a little, thought for a while, and said: "Your Majesty, these two people are extremely evil and must be severely punished!" Not much, considering that they are also old men of the empire, and they also have some credit for following His Majesty to charge into battle, Weichen thinks that they should be dismissed from the military, confiscated their family property, locked up in prison, and raised them for a lifetime. ”

Feng Yunshan frowned, and snorted coldly: "How could Huang Aiqing let go of these two people so easily? His sin is unforgivable! What should be done under the laws of the Empire? ”

Huang Yukun lowered his head and said resignedly: "Weichen knows that he is wrong!" According to the law, it should be beheaded for public display! ”

"Humph! In this case, the two men were beheaded, their heads were made of lime, and they were hung on the Shuixi Gate and the gate of the Ministry of Justice respectively, and displayed to the public for three days, in order to warn the rest of the officials of the empire that the corrupt should be! "Feng Yunshan made up his mind!

Huang Yukun knew that the emperor chose him as the Minister of Justice because he valued his iron-faced selflessness, but today, because the two were old brothers, he wanted to deal with the two lightly, which made the emperor unhappy.

Fortunately, there are only these two generals above the division commander in the army. The rest of the generals were not found to be corrupt, and Feng Yunshan was quite pleased. However, at the regimental and battalion level, there were still more than 10 people who were discovered by the Special Service Department to have privately withheld military salaries and embezzled arms and rations, and Feng Yunshan hated these officers who committed adultery and criminal crimes. What he attaches the most importance to is the building of officers in the captive army, and the treatment of officers has been greatly improved.

Therefore, he directly ordered that the Ministry of Justice take the lead in holding a public trial of all these people, and all of them were sentenced to death, regardless of whose relatives or subordinates they were.

After dealing with the corrupt elements in the army, Feng Yunshan picked up the second list and looked at the results of the supervision of local officials and officials of various cabinet departments.