When he came out of Jinyiwei Prison, Zhou Jing felt like a world away.

Outside the prison, the carriages of the officials' families were parked, and the people who came to wait to pick them up crowded outside. Zhou Jing's housekeeper saw the old man come out from a distance, and hurriedly squeezed forward.

"Sir, the car is outside." When the housekeeper saw Zhou Jing now, he was secretly frightened. In just seven days, Zhou Jing was much haggard, and there were only a few gray hairs, but now half of his head is white.

"Go home." Zhou Jing just said two simple words, and walked towards the carriage with the butler.

Sitting in the carriage, Zhou Jingcai felt that he had finally left the Jinyi Guard's edict prison. He let out a long breath, and there was color in his eyes.

Jinyiwei was imprisoned for seven days, and he was not tortured. But these seven days were also very difficult, and during the seven days, the people of Jinyiwei interrogated him every hour, during which he did not sleep well or eat well.

All kinds of interrogations came prepared.

Whenever he was tired and wanted to sleep, the people of Jinyiwei came to interrogate him again. Under such exhausting and frequent interrogation, Zhou Jing soon collapsed. In the end, I was very cooperative, and I knew everything, and I couldn't say anything.

Even at the request of Jin Yiwei, he truthfully reported his property and explained the source one by one. He was amazed that Jin Yiwei had a clear and detailed grasp of his property, not only how many fields and properties he had, but even his wife's dowry.

Several deposits in the bank, and even the money that was put in the bank to eat high interest rates are also clear.

When Jin Yiwei asked him to explain the legal sources of all these properties, Zhou Jing quickly had a headache. Because he confessed to and fro, there was always a large amount of money that could not be confessed to a legal source, and this money was nearly 100,000 yuan.

In fact, he knows in his heart the source of this money, he has been an official for decades, and this is all gray income outside of Yulu. It is the filial piety of subordinates, the filial piety of local officials, and all kinds of human contacts.

Jin Yiwei finally told him. Illegal income from the previous dynasty can be ignored, but the income from the current dynasty must have a legal source. The people of the brocade guards are shrewd and can't deceive them.

In the end, Zhou Jing still had 20,000 silver dollars in his name, which belonged to the illegal income of the New Dynasty.

Although the money was not a bribe he received, it added up to a very large amount. Fifty yuan is enough for the sentencing standard for accepting bribes, and 20,000 yuan is enough to send his family to Liaobei or Dali to mine.

He had to carefully recall how the 20,000 yuan was added up.

The source of the huge wealth is unknown, which is the strongest killer weapon of Jinyiwei against officials now.

They don't even need to collect evidence of bribery from officials, just check their assets and check their legitimate income, as long as there are large sums of money of unknown origin. Then they can review and ask questions at any time. Have officials take the initiative to declare assets and provide the legal source of all assets.

Once there is a large amount of money that does not match, then there is no way to prove your innocence.

In the past few days, Zhou Jing has been recalling the sources of those illegal incomes, and honestly confessing them one by one, until he can finally check them all.

20,000 yuan, basically from all kinds of filial piety. It is said that there are some old unspoken rules, such as when he was transferred from the Ministry of Industry to the Department of Transportation, when he took office. The main officials of the Department of Communications all held a banquet together and gave a gift. Each person doesn't give much, dozens of hundreds of pieces, but it adds up to a lot.

In addition, officials from the provinces have to come to the department every time to do business. It is indispensable to send him some local products and money, which cannot be regarded as a bribe, but it is an old rule.

The sum of the east and the west is less than a year for the new dynasty. The sum of the money he received was twenty thousand. Especially last month, his eldest granddaughter-in-law gave birth to a son, giving birth to the fourth generation of the Zhou family, and the four generations of the Zhou family are in the same house. Of course, there is a big feast. Most of the officials in Beijing came to give gifts, and they received no less than 10,000 yuan in gifts for the three dynasties wine alone. This is still Zhou Jing's more restrained and unwilling to collect more, otherwise, he is afraid of collecting more.

But now, whether it is filial piety or personal contacts, in short, there are more than 20,000 yuan.

In less than a year, more than 20,000 yuan is enough to get on the red line.

"Where's Zhou Zhong?"

Zhou Jing saw that only the housekeeper came to pick him up, and he was a little dissatisfied and asked about his eldest son.

"Master, uncle was also brought into Jinyiwei, and he hasn't come out yet." The butler replied.

Zhou Jing let out a long sigh and was silent.

It was not easy for Zhou Jing to come out. Because he clarified the source of the 20,000 yuan, he finally barely passed the test. But when he came out, he didn't pass the test safely.

Zhou Jing was punished, and the punishment was very heavy.

He was demoted three levels in a row, from the third rank to the fifth rank official, demoted and retained, and still served as the director of the Department of Transportation, and the secretary of transportation, 20,000 yuan of illegal income was confiscated, and he was also fined for one year.

But compared to the others, he is not bad.

"Master, several members of the Ministry have been convicted, and they have been convicted of confiscating their homes and confiscating the army."

Zhou Jing listened to the housekeeper's little bit of report, and this time more than 5,000 officials were brought into the Jinyi Guard for review and interrogation, most of them were demoted or fined because they had a huge amount of property from unknown sources, and some were dismissed.

The most severe punishment was given to more than 100 officials, who were found guilty of the crime of offering and accepting bribes and the amount of bribes was relatively large, and they were severely punished by dismissal from office, confiscation of family property, and distribution of land reclamation in the frontiers.

This storm made Zhou Jing and other officials feel terrified, and they really began to take the laws and regulations of the imperial court seriously.

In the future, when everyone receives gifts and money, they will also think about it more. The money is not so easy to collect, if you collect it here, you may be invited to Jinyiwei for tea.

"Master, Uncle will be fine, right?"

"Don't worry, I'll be back today." Zhou Jing's son is just a petty official, and nothing can happen. This time the storm came suddenly and violently, but Zhou Jing thought about it carefully at this time and understood that it would go quickly.

The emperor sent more than 5,000 officials into Jinyiwei at once, not to prepare to kill like Zhu Hongwu, but just to make the officials clearly understand the emperor's intentions.

More than 100 officials were exiled from their homes, which was enough to warn.

But next time, if someone violates the order, it will definitely not be so lenient.

"Uncle Zhou, where's the newspaper?"

Zhou Jing saw that there was no newspaper in the car and asked the housekeeper questions. He likes to read the newspaper the most, especially at breakfast and when he is doing the car, and there is always a newspaper in the car. But today, there was not a single newspaper in the car.

The housekeeper was squeaked, Zhou Jing's face sank, and the housekeeper hesitated to take out a stack of newspapers.

Zhou Jing only flipped through it once, and he understood why the housekeeper hid the newspaper. Almost every newspaper took out a special page to report the storm, and Zhou Jing, as a real official of Zheng Sanpin, was also reported in detail by various newspapers.

There was even a newspaper that followed up and reported on the whole of his case, and published in the newspaper the fact that he had a huge amount of property of 100,000 yuan whose source was unknown.

Zhou Jingqi's face was pale, and his hands were trembling.

Looking at these newspapers, Zhou Jing understood that his career was over. This time, the emperor was only demoted and retained, but he must have reached the top of his career. Maybe after a year, an official will come to replace him. The current retention is just a temporary need to stabilize the situation.

The dream of his official career has come to an end.

Thinking about it, I am a little unwilling, I have always confessed that I am clean and self-conscious, and I never accept bribes, at most it is the practice of some officialdom to collect some filial piety, but unexpectedly, I actually blocked the originally excellent career path.

At this moment, Zhou Jing was really excited and had the idea of returning.

Shortly after returning home. The eldest son, Zhou Zhong, was also released. He was also demoted, fined, and confiscated a large amount of illegal income from unknown sources.

The father and son sighed at each other and drank bitter wine together.

The next day. Zhou Jing returned to the yamen, which was almost paralyzed for a week, and all kinds of affairs piled up.

Zhou Jing did not start the council immediately, but took paper and pen. Let's write a resignation first.

I handed it over and got a quick reply.

It's a reply from the cabinet, and it's okay to resign. However, the resignation must be submitted three months in advance. After submitting the resignation, you have to do it seriously until the imperial court sends someone to complete the handover.

Seeing that the cabinet did not have the slightest repudiation, Zhou Jing was heartbroken. I wanted to hang the seal and leave, but thinking about the cabinet's reply, I still sat down again and began to deal with the accumulated affairs, and the on my body has not been wiped clean.

The cabinet later presented Zhou Jing's resignation to the emperor.

Liu Jun only glanced at it, and said, "It doesn't matter if you don't want to do it, some people want to do it." ”

This time, Liu Jun is already very restrained, if he didn't just want to deter the officialdom and ruthlessly shake all kinds of bad old trends in the officialdom today, just with a crime of unknown sources of huge wealth, countless officials would be exiled.

It is not right to punish without teaching, and the imperial court cannot replace so many officials at once.

This time, taking more than 100 people is already the limit, and taking more people will affect the normal office of each office.

Liu Jun has asked the Metropolitan Procuratorate to issue new regulations, which include the officialdom ushering in and sending all kinds of gifts. It is officially stipulated that officials may not exceed 10 silver dollars at a time in their personal dealings, it is forbidden to take the opportunity to hold a banquet and receive gifts, and the gifts received at a banquet must not exceed 100 yuan.

In addition, there are eight new regulations, such as prohibiting eating and drinking at public expense, and the newly introduced regulations on the work style of officials.

It also requires officials to declare their assets on a regular basis, prohibits officials and their immediate family members from doing business, and formalizes the crime of unclear sources of large amounts of wealth, which specifically targets officials.

Nowadays, it is strictly forbidden for officials to write epitaphs at high prices for merchants and inscriptions for shops.

"In the future, it is necessary to set up several classes in the hall of Beijing Normal University, and regularly send Beijing and local officials for further training to strengthen their ideological education." Liu Jun said to Shoufu and other important ministers.

It is not enough to rely on the selection of candidates for the imperial examination and the training of fresh blood. Nowadays, the number of officialdom officials is huge, and it is not enough to rely on blood exchange. Those original officials still have to be needed, and they can't get around. Therefore, on the one hand, it is necessary to strengthen discipline, and on the other hand, it is necessary to strengthen education through intensive study and training.

Liu Jun felt that the party school model of later generations was also very useful, and it was completely okay to use it.

The water is so clear that there are no fish, and many bad rules in the officialdom cannot be completely banned, after all, if you have the power in your hands, you will have the opportunity to seek rent, and it is impossible to completely ban it. But Liu Jun can't let it go, he must not relax for a moment to strengthen supervision, even if it can't be banned, at least the scale must be controlled within a controllable range. (To be continued.) )

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