"President, you're going to sell shares? Could it be that the political axe is short of money? If you're short on money, we've launched a fundraiser from the business community to help you get through the cracks. As soon as Yu Qiaqing heard that Chai Dongliang was going to sell his shares, he immediately became anxious.

Wu Jintang also interjected: "What Brother Ade said is reasonable! The president must be short of money, this war is about gold and silver, Qingdao has been fighting for so long, and now Lushun is still fighting, how can he not be short of money? You are in a hurry, whether to raise donations or buy treasury bonds, you set a charter, Brother Ade and I will give you Zhang Luo, I dare not say more, 100 million dollars, I can still make it up for you. ”

"Yes, Brother Yinfu said it well! Why should the president sell his shares! Yu Qiaqing was sweating anxiously.

Chai Dongliang knew in his heart that the two of them had always treated themselves as the God of Wealth, and they had long been accustomed to secretly controlling the business by themselves, and they easily made a fortune in front. Relying on themselves has become a habit, making them lack confidence in controlling the company alone, and now they have to withdraw themselves, how can they not be afraid?

Chai Dongliang said with a smile: "Money, it's true that it's a little lacking, but the gap is not big!" The cost of fighting Qingdao is not too large, and fighting Lushun is only regarded as training troops, consuming those ammunition that is about to expire. Come, look at this. ”

The two of them took Chai Dongliang's "Draft of Property Declaration and Supervision of State Civil Servants", and after reading it, their faces were all blue, especially Wu Jintang's forehead was drenched in cold sweat.

Yu Qiaqing's lips trembled for a moment and then said: "The president's bill is good, but I am afraid that the officials will go against the good will of the president if it is implemented." ”

Chai Dongliang smiled and said: "Brother Ade has also become unhappy, in fact, what you are worried about is that once it is implemented, my property will be announced, and the people will greatly reduce my perception and regard me as the number one corrupt official in the Republic of China, right?" ”

Yu Qiaqing smiled bitterly: "The president knows everything, and he can't hide anything from you!" Traffickers, pawns, fools, fools, fools, fool If there is no Wuhu Industrial Park established by your own hands, there is no Guanghua Group, how can the Jianghuai Army win a hundred battles, and without the support of the industrial community, how can it be possible to consolidate the country and defend against strong enemies outside the country? But the common people will only see that your family is rich and rich, where do they understand your thoughts? ”

Wu Jintang also chimed in: "President, this bill is good, but it is out of date, is it too hasty to start implementing it now?" It's better to wait for three or five years later, when the domestic affairs are all taken care of, and then slowly figure it out, before you can make contributions, if you do it now, I'm afraid that it will mess up people's hearts. ”

Chai Dongliang said with a smile: "The two of you are not afraid of messing up people's hearts, but they're afraid of messing up the hearts of officials, right?" I understand your concerns very well, but if we don't do the matter of disclosing the assets of civil servants now, we will never be able to do it in the future??? Now that the Republic of China is at the beginning of its existence, the country's vigor is flourishing, and taking advantage of the defeat of Yue himself, the people in the country are rejoicing, and the young people are shocked by the military might of our Jianghuai Army, which is a good opportunity to carry out reforms! If I don't do it now, in three or five years, the officials everywhere will have become the climate, and even the army will be full of factions, even if I want to do it, I'm afraid it will be constrained and powerless, and if the people are bitter about the officials, what should I do? Do you let this country rot day by day and sit idly by, or do you go on a killing spree and personally slaughter the Pao Ze brothers who started a career with me and shed their blood and lives for this country? The embankment of thousands of miles was destroyed in the anthill, if you don't take advantage of the current situation, you can only tear it down and start over again in the future! ”

The two of them nodded again and again, which dynasty in Chinese history was very honest when it was founded, but it didn't take long for it to [***]. When the Tang Dynasty was founded, almost all the officials in the world during the Zhenguan period were as honest as water, but in the last years of Zhenguan, it was not good, and when it came to the Gaozong period, there were already corrupt officials everywhere, and after Wu Zetian ascended the throne, killing corrupt officials was like mowing grass, and it still didn't work. Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang killed corrupt officials and peeled the skin of daylilies, which can be regarded as creating an era of integrity, but the good times did not last long.

If killing corrupt officials works, then there will be no [***] era in Chinese history, which dynasty and which generation are not all killing corrupt officials? Looking at China's 5,000-year history, how many Qing officials like Bao Zheng and Hai Rui have emerged?

Corrupt officials are like leeks, and they will grow again!

The truth is not funny, to put it bluntly, it is opaque politics, which greatly reduces the possibility of corrupt officials being found out, and ten out of a hundred corrupt officials may be arrested, of which ** all kept the black yarn hat by bribing bigger corrupt officials, and only one or two unlucky people were cut off.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the establishment of administrative bureaus and the power of newspapers and media to criticize officials under the political axe have been greatly curtailed. But there is also a big problem, because the assets of officials are not publicized, so it is almost impossible to determine whether their money comes from corruption.

Members of the Council and reporters of newspapers can only be blind and feel the elephant, and whoever has more money will say that they are corrupt officials.

This logic made Chai Dongliang cry and laugh, the conscience of heaven and earth, he is the richest person in China, but not only did he not embezzle a penny, but he also took out a lot of banknotes and silver dollars to subsidize the finances of the Anqing Military Advisory Office!

After the disclosure of the assets of civil servants and officials, the form will be very different, because the income of officials is limited, and if the assets increase too quickly, the Independent Commission Against Corruption can directly invite them to tea without other evidence. If you don't make the source of the property clear, just wait for the impeachment of the parliament and the summons of the court!

No matter how well the officials cover it up, they can't find evidence of their corruption, but the "unknown source of huge amounts of wealth" of civil servants is a crime in itself, and they can be sentenced on this charge!

At the same time, the implementation of the asset declaration system for civil servants is also a disguised amnesty for the world. Most of the officials in the early years of the Republic of China came from the former Qing Dynasty, and their buttocks were not very clean. If the declaration of civil servants' assets is implemented, it is equivalent to legally laundering the proceeds of corruption and bribery in the former Qing Dynasty and Beiyang periods, and it will also dispel the worries of these guys.

It is equivalent to saying that since the implementation of this system, even if it is overturned and restarted, the things of the former Qing Dynasty and the Beiyang period can not be investigated, after all, the atmosphere at that time was like this, if there is no corruption, not to mention that you want to promote the official, it is impossible to stand still, and the officialdom of that period is reverse elimination, and whoever is honest will die first! What's more, according to the system of the Ming and Qing dynasties, the officials' salaries are extremely meager, and not all of this money is used by the officials themselves.

If there is no corruption at all, then I am afraid that all the officials will starve to death.

The implementation of this low-salary system, to put it bluntly, is a royal conspiracy, so that all officials become corrupt officials, and all officials have pigtails pinched in the hands of the emperor, if you want to clean up anyone, there is no need to investigate at all, as long as you are charged with corruption, ensure that you are caught accurately, except for Hai Rui, who can become officialdom news by buying a pound of meat, it is not unjust to kill anyone!

In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the common bad rules such as Bingjing, Tan Jing, and fellow villagers to sign a settlement, including the national heroes Lin Zexu and Zuo Zongtang, all the big officials and Beijing officials have received these bad rules and silver, and the officialdom does not think that this is corruption, and the emperor also turns a blind eye, but when it is investigated, it can still be charged with corruption!

Once the officials are charged with corruption, the common people will feel that these guys really deserve to die, and they will never be sympathetic, and the royal family will be as safe as Mount Tai!

The [***] of the Ming and Qing dynasties, to put it bluntly, is a system similar to "fishing", the surname [***], the royal means of controlling the courtiers!

The heart is also poisonous, and its heart can be punished!

After Chai Dongliang came to power, he vigorously promoted the reform of the system, and the officials in charge of the overall work and the civil servants in charge of specific affairs were clearly distinguished, similar to the work of the former Qing masters, secretaries, government officials and other miscellaneous personnel by the civil servants, their office expenses and salaries were taken care of by the political axe, and the salaries of the officials were only used to support themselves and their families, which was enough for them to live a relatively decent life without corruption. The promotion of the civil service system has completely eradicated the environment that induces crime, and at the same time has given civil servants a high pension, once civil servants commit illegal acts, the pension will be blown up, so that they must carefully consider the cost of crime.

Without the cooperation of ordinary civil servants, it would be much more difficult for officials to embezzle.

Although the former Qing Dynasty and Beiyang officials who were retained were almost unofficial and not greedy, it was impossible for Chai Dongliang to dismiss all the officials in the world, so he could only tolerate them to a limited extent. But we can only tolerate what happened in the past, not the future. After three orders, you have to risk killing your head and going to jail for corruption, which can only be said to be looking for death!

The previous corruption [***] can be blown away by a strong wind, as if it has never happened, and if there is corruption in the future, it will be absolutely unwelcome!

"President, if you want to implement this bill, you can do it! But have you thought about it, how should you handle it? You can't expect all the officials in the world to become Hai Jui, right? Wu Jintang asked.

Chai Dongliang said firmly: "It's because of this that I have to take the lead, and I have to do this thing!" ”

??? Dividing line ???

The north wind shouted, blowing on the face like a knife, the patrol officer wore a thick cotton hat, directing traffic in the trembling wind, the voices of the hawkers seemed to be frozen, and the sound of selling was as sharp as a knife scraping glass.

The century-old "Wangji Teahouse" in Beijing is also hung with a thick blue cloth cotton curtain, and whenever a guest enters, the heat from the crack in the door and the cold wind outside converge and turn into a puff of white smoke.

"Eighth Master Liao, you are getting old, your parrot is getting more and more energetic, I will help you hang up the cage??? What do you drink? Or is it a high foam? What to eat early? Sesame baked cakes or coke rings, small ones for you to buy??? Gotcha, a bowl of high foam! ”

"Check the main author, your boss is here, you are a rare guest! What kind of tea do you always drink??? What? Do you want coffee? We don't have that foreign thing, why don't we get you a bowl of Tieguanyin? Anyway, the color looks similar to coffee, it's like soy sauce soup! ”

The man greeted every tea guest warmly, helped people hang the bird cage, and warmed the gourd with the heat of the tea. Among the people who drink tea, many of them are broken flag people, these Eight Banner Masters do not fall down, and they still run to the teahouse every morning to make a morning, but they used to drink good tea, and now they drink high foam at most.

Groups of old and young people, nostalgic for the good times of the year, and by the way, scolded the rebellious minister and thief Yuan Shikai, which became a traditional reserved program in the teahouse in the early years of the Republic of China.

"Hey, gentlemen, have you heard? This Republic of China political axe is going to open the imperial examination, as long as you pass the examination, you will be released immediately, at least it is also a feudal platform, which is much easier than being an official in the Qing Dynasty! Liao Baye is a flag man, and while dipping his fingers in the tea, sticking the sesame seeds that fell on the table and putting them into his mouth, he said mysteriously.

"Eighth master, you are all old yellow calendars, I knew about it half a month ago, but people who have studied in foreign schools and drank foreign ink, and those who read sages like me are no longer welcome!" An old sour man in a patched robe sighed.

"Hey, when my father wanted to send me to study in Yueben, I was reluctant to let our old Yanjing's Aiwowo, sesame baked cakes, and Jiaoquan go, and I refused to go to anything, and now my bowels are green, if I also went to Yueben to study at a pheasant university, this time I might get a deputy chief in the new imperial court, and that can be a big official like the squire and governor of the Qing Dynasty, and a serious second-grade member of eight hundred!" A young man with a dark face slapped the table and said bitterly.

"Jin Sanshao, I'm afraid you're not reluctant to give up Aiwowo, but you can't bear the hot quilt of the red girl in the Eight Hutongs, right?" Liao Baye quipped.

"Eighth Master, you love to joke!" Jin Sanshao, whose face was dark, said with a smile.

"Everyone, do you say, this President Chai is really willing to take out so many big officials at once, whoever is admitted is counted! If this is left when Prince Qing was in power, how much silver would have to be sold! ”

"It's not what's wrong, the real shortage of a third-grade is at least more than 100,000, this time the deputy minister of the central government is considered a second-grade product, and the local finance minister, the chief of civil affairs, and the director of the industrial bureau are all big officials with the fourth grade, right? More than 60 are missing! Then you can't get eight million taels? ”

The curtain was lifted, a cold wind blew in, and an old man with a goatee walked in with a thrush.

The shopkeeper hurriedly greeted: "Oh, Second Master Sa, your old man is here, please come inside!" ”

The old man arrogantly handed the bird cage to Xiao Er: "Serve carefully, this bird is more expensive than you!" ”

Xiao Er nodded and said, "That's right, Second Master Sa's bird is golden, and the little one understands??? Hey, why is this bird in bad spirits and its head drooping? ”

The old man hurriedly looked down: "Xu has eaten too much, so he has to eat less." ”

The guests who were drinking tea greeted the old man one after another, only Jin Sanshao, who was blue-faced, covered his mouth and snickered, and whispered to himself: "Second Master Sa's bird, his head has been drooping for decades, and it's strange that he can raise his head for seventy or eighty things!" ”

Sa Erye sat down with a golden knife, and the shopkeeper didn't wait for orders, so he ran out and bought soybean juice, horseshoe baked cakes, and coke rings that exuded a strong swill flavor: "Second Master, you taste it, it's still hot!" ”

After tasting it, Second Master Sa nodded with satisfaction: "I just like the sour taste of bean juice, and I can't do without this mouthful in my life." ”

Everyone echoed: "The second master's blessing is great, you, living a hundred years old is the minimum." ”

Sa Erye sandwiched the coke ring in the horseshoe cake, the bite creaked, he ate two bites and drank a few mouthfuls of steaming bean juice, and then smiled: "What you just said, I really heard it at the door, you guys!" It's just nonsense. ”

"Oh, the second master is well-informed, you can tell me."

"Yes, the second master said, what is the matter with the opening of the imperial examination in the new imperial court?"

Second Master Sa was very satisfied with the feeling of the stars holding the moon, he pouted his goatee and said: "This matter, it is the same as when the Qing Dynasty was founded, Kangxi Ye opened erudition and Confucianism, you think!" What is the first thing to do in this new court, the new emperor? Collect the hearts of people who read all over the world! Don't look at the fact that there are only 60 real shortcomings, in fact, as long as you go to the exam, you will definitely be given a fame and a share! When Kangxi opened the erudite and Confucian department, the Tongcheng Confucian Fang Linggao refused to take the exam, and the magistrate tied him in a sedan chair and sent him to Beijing. ”

Everyone suddenly realized: "What the second master said is that no matter who is the emperor in these dynasties, he can't play without the scholar!" Don't look at President Chai Da as a good hand at fighting, whether it is Beiyang or Xiao Yueben, it will be given in vain when you meet him, but this can fight the world immediately, and you can't rule the world immediately! If the scholar makes trouble with him, he will not be able to sit still in this world! ”

Second Master Sa twisted his goatee and said, "This time, you understand, right?" The eldest son of my family, after returning from studying abroad, has been working in a foreign bank, and I told him, what is the advantage of being a comprador? It is still the right way to be an official! ”

Everyone nodded frequently, and they all said that what Second Master Sa said made sense, where can being a comprador be as decent as an official? Besides, isn't being an official the best deal? Looking at the world, which of the richest people, Li Hongzhang, Sheng Xuanhuai, and Hu Xueyan, is not an official? Even if they are businessmen, they are all officials and businessmen with red roofs!

Jin Sanshao interjected: "Second master, you said that you have to keep the festival for the Qing Dynasty for generations and not eat the food of the Republic of China. ”

Second Master Sa's face turned red, and he was speechless for a long time.

In a group of people in long robes and horse coats, the chief writer of Cha, who was wearing a civilized stick in a suit and leather shoes, was particularly abrupt, he pricked up his ears to listen to these people chatting, and shouted after a while: "Man, Second Master Sa's tea money is recorded in my account." ”

Second Master Sa turned his head and saw that someone was paying the bill for him, and said with a smile: "Then how can you make it?" ”

The chief writer of Cha said boldly: "The second master is highly respected, and there are many friends on the official face, I can pay the bills for the second master, which is a blessing from cultivation." ”

After speaking, he walked to Second Master Sa with a tea bowl and said in a low voice: "Second Master just said that anyone who takes the exam will be given a meritorious name and eat a piece of imperial grain, is this matter reliable?" ”

"Is it reliable? Give me that 'what' word! Second Master Sa's face sank: "My second boy is on an errand in the Ministry of Education, and he told me in person, can this still be fake?" ”

The face of the chief writer turned red with excitement: "Thank you second master, I'll try it too, the chief writer of this tabloid, I have long been enough??? I also studied in college anyway, and I also have a bachelor's degree, if I can really get into it this time, thank you for looking back. ”

Second Master Sa smiled: "If you are admitted, you will be a member of the second and third grades, and in the future, the little old man will have to rely on the support of Cha Ye." ”

The main pen of Cha seems to be already in high school, and he slapped his chest with a big hand: "It's good to say, it's all wrapped up in my brother!" ”

(To be continued)