"You just said that there are many pseudo-imperial businessmen in China who are under the banner of imperial businessmen, but in fact they are not real imperial businessmen, but just spend money to buy royal certification and royal flags?"

"Yes, exactly." Although Shen Shiming only talked to Li Yongji on the phone and did not see the emperor in person, he still stood upright, and then took the phone and replied cautiously, "According to the investigation, many of these pseudo-imperial businessmen have nothing to do with your family, and they can't fight with eight poles, they just spend money to buy a name, and then exempt from paying all kinds of taxes under the banner of the royal family."

If the number of people is small, it is nothing, and we will not notice it, but now the imperial merchants have spread all over the country, and there are so-called imperial merchants everywhere...... Of course, it's nothing just like this, but the key is that these people are good and bad, and Yan zhòng has affected the tax and security of the empire, and many puppet emperor merchants have their own arms, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are local hegemons!

The existence of these people not only damaged the face of the royal family, but also affected the country's tax revenue and local security, and even dared to openly kill the court officials, and showed the bodies of the court officials, obviously they have regarded the court as nothing, and in the long run, how can they get it? We had to ...... as a last resort."

"Alright." Li Yongji interrupted his chatter, "You just said that the main messenger behind this qiē is my mother?" Is there any evidence? ”

"Of course there is evidence, and a lot of it is very sufficient, there are all physical witnesses, especially human witnesses, there are too many people who can prove that this matter is related to the Queen Mother, and there are even many people who have personally met the Queen Mother. In short, the Queen Mother is afraid that she is an old man...... I'm afraid it really has nothing to do with it. Shen Shiming deliberately lowered his voice, "But rest assured, for the time being, I have suppressed all this evidence and have not yet exposed it, so outsiders don't know what the relationship between the Queen Mother and the reselling of the royal flag is." ”

Indeed, Shen Shiming did things very measured this time, and only found out what should be investigated, but did not really investigate to the end.

In fact, the matter of the Queen Mother and the resale of the royal flag, even if you don't torture Wang Tianer's family to extract confessions, it is easy to find out, and even before Shen Shiming launched a joint investigation, he already knew that the main messenger behind the scenes was the Queen Mother.

There is no way, whoever makes the Queen Mother do things too simple and rude, will not pay attention to some strategies, such as pushing an agent or something, so that many people who sell the royal flag directly move the Queen Mother out to increase the legitimacy and reliability of the royal flag sold.

Of course, on the other hand, because the royal flag is very sensitive, ordinary people dare not buy it, without the queen mother's backing, even if they know the benefits of the royal flag, everyone does not dare to mess around, and even dare not counterfeit, after all, according to the imperial law, blasphemy of the royal family, including the royal flag, is a felony, it is a big disrespect, strict zhòng, and it will be shot! Therefore, if the Queen Mother hadn't sent someone out of the horse, no one would have dared to buy any royal flags.

However, a lot of things are like this, it doesn't matter how the truth is, the key is how to deal with it. No matter how inconsiderate the Queen Mother is, but her identity is there, after all, she is the emperor's biological mother and the Queen Mother, so even if Shen Shiming does not dare to climb the Queen Mother at will, she only dares to attack the little shrimp below.

"Hmm." Li Yongji dealt with it casually, and then began to be silent.

To be honest, he has been smooth sailing recently, and he has not encountered any setbacks, and suddenly heard this kind of thing in the rear, and the mastermind behind it is still his mother, which makes him feel very awkward.

Obviously, the set that his mother did is actually no different from selling officials and lords, and in later generations, he is a typical big tiger, and he is a figure that the broad masses of the people hate and cannot get rid of.

Li Yongji didn't look at the time-travel, and became the emperor, but his worldview and outlook on life are actually the foundation laid before, and he grew up slowly in modern society.

In other words, deep down, Li Yongji hated corruption and the sale of power, which is why when he established the Jingwu Army, he set up a military justice department to supervise officers at all levels.

This Royal Directorate of Integrity can not only censor anyone, but can also cooperate with the CIA when necessary to carry out joint inspections, and is a law enforcement agency with considerable power.

After its establishment, Li Yongji constantly stressed to this department, asking them to be bold, as long as a corrupt element is found, as long as the evidence is conclusive, then no matter the official position, no matter what the seniority, they will be severely punished!

In Li Yongji's mind, as long as he has been strictly governed from the top down, will not tolerate any bit of corruption, and make the salaries of officials a little higher, so that they will not worry about life, then there should be no problem.

There are many such wise governments in later generations, and many governments are obviously **, but the government is still efficient and clean, such as Singapore, which is a typical example.

Moreover, when Li Yongji established the empire, because of the insufficient number of administrative staff under his command, although he was somewhat jerky when dealing with state affairs, it was also because of the lack of manpower, so it was relatively easy to manage, so as long as the tone was set from the beginning, I believe that there would not be much problem in the future.

Originally, Li Yongji believed very much in the system he had set up, not only in the Royal Administration of Integrity but also in the Central Intelligence Agency, because in his requirements, the personnel of the Central Intelligence Agency should not only be responsible for military intelligence both externally and internally, but also care about the situation of local officials.

After the establishment of the Royal Bureau of Corruption, it did handle many cases, which were not only very efficient, but also had sufficient evidence, which made Li Yongji quite satisfied and thought that he could sit back and relax.

However, now it seems that if what Shen Shiming said is true, then this Royal Bureau of Integrity may have a dereliction of duty.

As soon as he thought of this, Li Yongji knocked his head with his hand.

Yes, the Royal Bureau of Integrity is not derelict in its duties, the reason why they concealed it from themselves and did not report it is that the main messenger behind this matter is their mother, that is, the Queen Mother, and the Queen Mother is theoretically the master of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the General Administration of the Royal Bureau of Integrity is a subordinate department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and it is understandable that the General Administration of Integrity does not dare to investigate, or does not dare to report.

In addition, the Royal Bureau of Integrity is mainly responsible for investigating officials, and the Queen Mother's practice is strictly a commercial act, at most selling her own royal flag, so it is difficult to characterize this kind of behavior.

In fact, if it is not a merchant under the royal banner who has many privileges such as exemption from paying business tax, this simple act of selling their own flag and selling royal certification is at most a commercial behavior, which is no different from engaging in chain sales agency investment.

Perhaps it is precisely because of this that the General Administration of Integrity did not report it, and the people from the Intelligence Bureau did not report it, and waited until his Prime Minister Shen Shiming told him that he knew about this matter and knew what his cheap mother had done.

Finding that Li Yongji on the phone had been silent for a long time, a layer of fine beads of sweat appeared on Shen Shiming's forehead, after all, he was under a kind of pressure by doing so.

You must know that Shen Shiming is actually calculating the emperor by doing this, don't look at what he said lightly, and even consider the emperor everywhere, but in fact he is deceiving the emperor.

Shen Shiming has been observing words and emotions since he was a child, and relying on this to grow up to the present, in other words, his IQ is not to mention, but his EQ is absolutely qualified, otherwise, there were many people promoted by Li Yongji during the shortage of people, and he would not have finally made him the prime minister.

It is precisely because of such a character that Shen Shiming always likes to think twice before doing things, and likes to plan and act, but because he is still young enough, the necessary decisiveness is still very good.

For ordinary people, calculating the emperor is quite a terrible thing, but for Shen Shiming, this is nothing, it is nothing more than treating the emperor as a stronger proprietor, and when he used to do things for the Shen family, he did not calculate the other party less.

However, the emperor is the emperor after all, and Li Yongji is not an ordinary emperor, but a founding emperor with great power.

However, the more under this kind of pressure, in fact, the more people below dare not say anything to the above, if that is the case, then everyone should not do anything.

Therefore, the more powerful this kind of thing is to deceive the upper and lower levels, the stricter the situation will be, but it is those loose regimes under the separation of powers, because of the supervision of the opposition, there are relatively few things to deceive the upper and lower levels.

In short, the emperor didn't speak, which put a lot of pressure on Shen Shiming, who had a ghost in his heart, if he wasn't an old man, maybe he wouldn't be able to stand it.

"Ahem, Your Majesty." Shen Shiming began to take the initiative to speak, "This matter involves the Queen Mother, so you see, what should Weichen do next?" ”

"Those emperors, no, are pseudo-imperial businessmen under the banner of royalty." Li Yongji suddenly said, "Is it really like you said, many of them are evildoers who do all kinds of evil?" ”

"That's right, Your Majesty." Shen Shiming immediately said, "For example, that Wang Tianer, who is lawless in the local area, doesn't even pay attention to the government, otherwise he wouldn't have done such a thing as openly killing the tax officers we sent, you must know that they are all real court officials."

In addition, they killed people, and even picked up the corpses on bamboo poles in broad daylight to show the public, and the local police went to arrest them, and they dared to openly resist the law, killing many policemen on the spot, and even the police chief was killed.

It can be said that His Majesty, these guys under the banner of royalty, they are a bunch of tumors! Not only did they rely on their royal status to make a fortune and refuse to pay taxes, but they also supported their own troops, and they were already powerful and powerful.

According to the current investigation, the total number of these guys who are under the banner of the royal family, but are not actually royal relatives, has exceeded 50,000, and basically have their own arms, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they support the army and respect themselves.

In addition, judging from the current intelligence, the property of these people is also a huge number, and the preliminary estimate is that the property of those who are related to the puppet emperor will probably exceed 200 million yuan, this is only a preliminary estimate, and the actual number will only be more, not less! ”

"Two hundred million dollars?" Hearing this number, Li Yongji also began to be moved, "That's right? ”

You must know that at this time, the Chinese dollar was essentially a silver standard system, and one Chinese dollar contained 37 grams of silver, which was a veritable precious metal currency.

And the empire was established for a very short time, even if Li Yongji opened the golden finger, but the foundation of the country is there, and the country is still poor and the people are poor on the whole, and many small landlords can't earn 1,000 yuan a year.

It can be said that if you can have 10,000 Chinese yuan and become a 10,000 yuan household, you will be considered an enviable middle class in the Chinese Empire, so 200 million Chinese yuan is definitely not a small number, but a large number that can touch the national economy, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it will shake the national body.

Finding that Li Yongji was shocked by this number, Shen Shiming immediately continued: "Absolutely yes, as Wei Chen said, this is only a preliminary estimate, after all, the time is too short, if it is comprehensively investigated, the number will definitely be more." ”

"How can there be so many?" Li Yongji frowned.

"It's Jin Shang, Your Majesty." Shen Shiming said, "According to the survey, most of the people who buy the imperial flag are Jin merchants, these people have money in their hands, but for various reasons, they can't get privileges, plus Shanxi is still an autonomous region, so in order to be convenient, many of them have bought the imperial flag, disguised as imperial property, which can be more convenient." ”

"I see." Hearing him say this, Li Yongji nodded in understanding.

Indeed, if it is a Jin businessman, it is entirely possible, because in the late Qing Dynasty, the Jin merchants were the real wealthy merchant group, and in comparison, what Hui merchants and Zhejiang merchants and the like cannot be compared with them at all.

It's just that Li Yongji started in Shanghai, Jiangnan, so after he succeeded, he naturally supported local businessmen and tried to turn them into a new generation of bourgeoisie.

Facts have proved that Li Yongji has done quite well, and even if the merchants in the direct jurisdiction cannot obtain the monopoly right of some special commodities, they can buy and sell through guò, or go directly abroad to do business in North Korea, Japan, and even North America, and the profits are still quite rich, which is even better than the ticket number business of the Jin merchants.

In addition, because Li Yongji supported a large number of bankers and set up a UnionPay institution, the strength of Jiangnan bankers is also expanding rapidly, and the overall strength has long surpassed that of Jin merchants.

Some Jin businessmen with average strength can also change jobs, jump out of Shanxi, and directly move their entire family registration to live in the direct jurisdiction, and become a business name in the direct jurisdiction, so as to have the same treatment, but for those big merchants who have a large amount of land and assets, they can't just leave, or even if they leave, the bureaucrats in Shanxi and Shaanxi will not let them leave.

Go and can't go, in the face of foreign competitors and all kinds of grievances, which makes these big Jin businessmen in a dilemma, just at this time, the queen mother actually began to resell the royal flag, which made the Jin merchants see the opportunity, so even if they knew that there was a problem here, but because of the queen mother as the backstage, they still did it without hesitation.

There is no doubt that if he hadn't seen this, Shen Shiming wouldn't have been so concerned, to put it bluntly, Shen Shiming was eyeing the fat of the Jin merchants, and wanted to take this opportunity to copy all the Jin merchants, so as to alleviate the financial gap.

Not to mention anything else, the huge fortune of 200 million yuan alone is enough to make Shen Shiming drool, not to mention, after doing this, his prestige can also be established, and no one will obstruct any policies in the future. R1152