Lin Zhe didn't take a closer look at the content on the impeachment secret, especially the content that reported the details of Guo Longyun, because he didn't need to read these to know Guo Longyun's situation.

The empire is so big, maybe Lin Zhe has a limited understanding of the situation of those middle and lower-level officials, but for those high-ranking officials above the governor and cabinet members, Lin Zhe's office has a thick stack of information about them, and these materials have many things that are not known to outsiders in addition to some superficial information, such as resumes and family situations.

For example, one day I met someone in a certain place, and I secretly raised an illegitimate child in an outer room in a small courtyard in the city, and then I received someone for something one day, and then I did something for him.

These situations are all collected by the palace intelligence department, and most of them are mainly based on various secret private affairs, and a random copy is taken out, according to some current laws and regulations of the empire, which is enough to make these high-ranking officials who seem to look like dogs fall or even lose their lives.

But the actual situation is that Lin Zhe rarely uses these materials to do it directly, those things of corruption and bribery, as long as those courtiers don't go too far, generally Lin Zhe will not care, if he crosses the line, then Lin Zhe will secretly beat it, if this courtier reins in, Lin Zhe will also let go, if he is obsessed, he will find a reason to dismiss the official, and then thoroughly investigate to the prison.

However, this situation is relatively rare, because at the beginning of the empire, these high-ranking officials basically belonged to the founding heroes, and they were still relatively ambitious.

At their level, these high-ranking officials are basically not pursuing money or anything like that, but something more illusory, such as power, fame, and posthumous fame.

As for money, their salaries are very high. It is enough to maintain their luxurious life, and if there is no special attachment to money, then there are very few people of this level who ******** make money.

Moreover, the anti-corruption force of the empire is still relatively strong, and there are two ordinary anti-corruption agencies, which belong to the patrol police department. At the same time, the Inspectorate also shoulders the authority of supervising officials.

These are usually aimed at those middle and lower-level officials, and the supervision of high-ranking officials is in charge of the Imperial Intelligence Service, which is much more terrible than the Patrol Police Department and the Inspectorate.

Someone within the empire jokingly called this department the East Factory of the Empire!

Agents of these intelligence services are watching, and the whereabouts of these high-ranking officials are generally difficult to conceal.

In addition, there is also the fact that the Empire has been guilty of 'State Employees and Imperial Employees of a large amount of unexplained wealth' in these years, and you have no explanation for the legal source of the salary of an official or a royal employee, once you have acquired a huge amount of property that does not correspond to your normal legal income. Then you don't need to verify your specific corruption behavior, you can be directly convicted.

Like some big corrupt official who built a mansion and manor in Beijing, hired hundreds of servants, and put a beauty bowl, this kind of general does not live long, and it is estimated that he was secretly arrested by the people of the palace intelligence department before he showed it, and then he ate the gun.

Moreover, as a person from later generations, Lin Zhe naturally has a natural aversion to officials and their families doing business. Therefore, when the empire was first founded, it was clearly stipulated that officials and the immediate family members of officials were clearly defined. That is, wives and children are not allowed to engage in business activities.

At the same time, although there is no explicit prohibition, those who have parents, brothers, uncles and other relatives who engage in business activities are generally closely monitored by anti-corruption agencies.

Therefore, in today's empire, middle and lower-level officials may be more corrupt, but high-ranking officials are still relatively clean.

Now, the following people reported that Guo Longyun received millions of bribes at one time. This is obviously an exaggeration, and in the monitoring of Guo Longyun by the palace intelligence department, it was found that although Guo Longyun received some benefits from the people below, the data was not small, and it was estimated that there could be hundreds of thousands. The Imperial Intelligence Service even knew where the money was spent.

Most of them are used to maintain the expenses of the Guo family, this Guo Longyun family plus servants, more than 100 people, and then they have to help other members of the Guo family, this daily expenses are not a small amount.

In addition, some of them were used to secretly use the name of some distant relatives to go to the northeast to buy a lot of land and open a large grange for growing soybeans.

But he didn't dare to collect millions at one time and give Guo Longyun a hundred dares.

One million yuan in this era is not one million yuan in later generations, and now one hundred thousand yuan can buy half a battleship, and many small countries do not have a million in fiscal revenue a year.

Whether Guo Longyun received one million or not is actually not important, and now Lin Zhe is not concerned about these, he is concerned about the potential storm behind this matter.

Since someone has just impeached Guo Longyun so boldly, it basically means that he has torn his face with Guo Longyun, and I am afraid that a large-scale political storm will be set off next, and this turmoil will definitely be bigger than before, and it is very likely to cause turmoil in the imperial political arena, and then cause other riots in the empire.

After all, the group of officials is the foundation of Lin Zhe's rule of the country, and if the officials are chaotic, they will naturally not be able to govern government affairs well.

And this kind of thing is not allowed to happen by Lin Zhe.

After pondering in the office for a long time, Lin Zhe called the director of the palace intelligence department, this director is an old man, about sixty years old, his appearance is not good, and he rarely talks to Lin Zhe before and after.

This person is a little special, he is not a traditional official, he was actually an internal housekeeper in the Lin Mansion in his early years, and he was the kind that bought his body, that is, he was a slave in the Lin Mansion.

After the establishment of the Empire, the Empire abolished the slave system, did not allow any form of human trafficking, everyone had freedom, and no one was allowed to infringe on the personal freedom of the people except for law enforcement agencies.

Although everyone will find a workaround, such as not buying and selling human beings directly, then recruiting slaves as hired laborers.

In short, no matter what the era, there will always be no shortage of people to serve them.

And it turned out that those slaves in the Lin Mansion were willing to leave to fend for themselves, and they were given severance pay, and those who were willing to continue to stay were given the status of royal employees, of course, they were still doing the same things as before.

The same are the employees of the royal family, and these people naturally cannot be compared with those royal employees in the royal estate.

And because of his loyalty to the Lin Mansion for decades, although he didn't know much about this intelligence department at first, since Lin Zhe transferred him to work for a few years, he can be regarded as having figured out the doorways inside, so in the first two years, Lin Zhe brought him up and took up the post of director of the palace intelligence department.

This person's ability is very average and his talent is limited, but he has a very important point, that is, loyalty to the royal family and Lin Zhe personally.

When the director of the intelligence department came out with this impeachment letter in his hand, his face was very gloomy, and as soon as he returned to the office building of the intelligence department, he called several subordinates over and scolded them, and then asked them to find out the matter in the shortest possible time.

What they want to find out is not whether Guo Longyun took bribes or whether he took 1 million, but another thing, that is, who is the driving force behind this impeachment incident?

Is it Xue Huan or Jiang Daoquan, or other high-ranking officials!

This is what Lin Zhe cares about the most, how those courtiers fight Lin Zhe doesn't care too much, what he cares about is whether these struggles are carried out under his control.

Obviously, this impeachment incident is out of Lin Zhe's control!

And this is unacceptable to Lin Zhe. (To be continued.) )