The twelfth year of Chongzhen passed in a hurry, and soon the thirteenth year of Chongzhen began.

The thirteenth year of Chongzhen is destined to be an extraordinary year, and a lot of things have happened in Lantian this year.

Lantian County Ya, County Office.

Lu Xiangsheng's face was gloomy, and he took out a stack of documents and said: "County Zun, there are a lot of moths in Lantian, this is the list of officials who have violated laws and disciplines that I found this winter." ”

Li Chaosheng looked at the pile of documents in front of him, his face was very ugly, and then Lu Xiangsheng took out one and read it: "Wang Zhengwu, graduated from the second session of Lantian College, has been an official for five years, and has served as the mayor of Dingyuan Town, the deputy mayor of Dali County, and the mayor of Dali County. ”

"On many occasions, he has used the convenience of his own power to seek benefits for him, deliberately lowered the prices of peasant households in the procurement of raw materials and commodities in Dali County, colluded with officials and businessmen to seek huge profits, and took advantage of his position to interfere with tax work and help merchants in Jiangnan evade taxes as much as more than 100,000 taels, and the circumstances are extremely bad."

"When he searched his house, he found that his family actually bought Jiangnan thin horses, raised slaves and maids, and lived an extremely luxurious life, and after interrogation, he said that they were all gifts from wealthy merchants in Jiangnan, and more than 50,000 taels of silver were confiscated in his cellar."

"At present, the person is being pressed in the Lantian County Prison, waiting for the report to be convicted by the county in person."

"Li Deyu, a native of Tanggou Town, Lantian University, graduated from the first session of Lantian College, was an official for eight years, served as an official of Lantian in Shandong City, presided over the construction of ocean-going ships, and managed coastal trade, trade with Japan and other related matters, during the official period, he was very close to the Japanese Tokugawa Shogunate, and then gradually corrupted, and made a compromise with Japan on the mining issue of Iwami Silver Mountain, and got the Tokugawa Shogunate to give five beautiful concubines, resulting in a huge loss of my Lantian in Japan's interests, the amount was as high as more than 500,000 yuan."

"When his house was sealed, it was found that his family was full of servants of the Japanese state, both men and women, especially the women of the Japanese state, the number was as high as more than 30 people, and everyone was wearing our Han clothes, copying the Ming accent, it is difficult to detect his true identity if he is not carefully distinguished."

Hearing this, Li Chaosheng's face was already black into black charcoal, but he didn't expect that his old Li family still had such moths.

As for the Shandong City Ship Division was established by Li Chaosheng in recent years, the main task is to make big ships, and trade with Japan, you must know that Japan is a big silver country, although the territory is not large, but the amount of silver is not even less than the Ming Dynasty, and the Lantian Gansu Silver Factory has not been officially mined on a large scale, and the silver in the Ming Dynasty is too expensive, so Li Chaosheng has purchased silver from Japan by waterway in recent years.

For this trade route, Lantian also paid a lot, you must know that before Lantian intervened, this trade route has always been controlled by Zheng Zhilong and his pirates, for this trade route, Li Chaosheng has negotiated with Zheng Zhilong, and even conducted some small-scale friction on the sea.

However, although Zheng Zhilong is domineering, Lantian is a dragon crossing the river, and the soldiers sent to the sea are very brave, and there are firearms that Zheng Zhilong is difficult to resist, but Zheng Zhilong is also very powerful, and his experience in fighting on the water is much higher than that of Lantian sailors, so the two sides fought a battle, and neither of them got much advantage.

In the end, the two sides reached a series of win-win cooperation terms, Zheng Zhilong allowed Lantian to trade with Japan, but only for silver transactions, and Zheng Zhilong had to take 10% of the net profit for each transaction, otherwise no one would want to cross the ocean and go to the Sea of Japan.

For this reason, Li Chaosheng was very annoyed, but now was not the time to turn his face with Zheng Zhilong, after all, in terms of this sea power alone, Lantian really couldn't beat Zheng Zhilong, so he couldn't be in a hurry to deal with Zheng Zhilong.

In addition, Li Chaosheng also needs Zheng Zhilong to help him deliver goods and supplies to the Nanyang region, and now Li Chaosheng's Lantian also has an enclave in the Nanyang Islands, that is, the Moon Island occupied by Li Chaoshui in the Nanyang.

Li Chaoshui mixed well in the South Seas, because Li Chaosheng worked Li Chaoshui's big ship to go to sea, so he successfully gained a firm foothold in the South Seas after he took the sailors to the sea.

During this period, he fought two battles against the Portuguese and the Dutch, each of whom won and lost, and in general both sides could not help each other, and at the same time they also divided a territory for Li Chaoshui on the ocean.

Li Chaoshui had no choice but to accept it because he could not get timely support from Lantian himself, and now he could only gain a firm foothold in the Nanyang Islands and help Lantian reap the benefits of Nanyang, including the most urgently needed rubber and spices and other trade products in Lantian.

Li Chaosheng is also powerless about this situation, and if he wants to solve this problem, the only way is to solve Zheng Zhilong first, there is no way Zheng Zhilong's fleet directly envelops the coastal area of Guangzhou, Fujian Province under his fleet.

However, Li Chaosheng is not a person who sits still, in order to let Zheng Zhilong know who he knows to cooperate with, Li Chaosheng personally invited Zheng Zhilong's younger brother Zheng Zhibao to visit Lantian and personally showed him Lantian's powerful firearms.

Zheng Zhibao stayed in the Daogouyu camp for two days, and after coming out, he sent a request for cooperation to Lantian, and offered to buy some firearms with Lantian for his own use, Li Chaosheng was still very generous to this group of pirates, and after hearing the request, he readily agreed, and took the opportunity to propose to borrow their ship to transport some supplies to Li Chaoshui, who was far away in the South Seas.

Zheng Zhibao agreed, and in this way, the two sides reached a preliminary win-win cooperation plan, but after this incident, Li Chaosheng instructed the General Staff to list Zheng Zhilong's department as part of the elimination.

This big pirate is really difficult to deal with, but now Li Chaosheng has no way to take him down, you must know that Zheng Zhilong's eighteen branches are not a small organization, and the total number of people may add up to more than 100,000 people, such a big pirate, even if Li Chaosheng has to deal with it, he must be cautious, otherwise he will be in danger in the Li Chaoshui Department in the South China Sea.

This incident made Li Chaosheng very angry, but it is not something that can be solved by being on fire, and because the domestic situation is more complicated, Li Chaosheng does not have much energy to arrange Nanyang well, as long as Li Chaoshui has a foothold in Nanyang, and when he cleans up domestic affairs in the future, he can free up his hands to solve the affairs of Nanyang.

Lu Xiangsheng found a total of more than a dozen moths mixed in Lantian for Li Chaosheng, including his own people who originally started with Li Chaosheng, as well as some graduates of Lantian Academy who later joined Lantian.

Listening to the corrupt deeds of these people, Li Chaosheng's eyes were red, he knew that corruption was inevitable and unavoidable by any regime, but Li Chaosheng didn't expect that Lantian's corruption had been so fast.

Although this time, under the condition of a thorough investigation by thousands of officials in Lantian, only a dozen moths were found, but Li Chaosheng knew that when a cockroach was found, there must be countless cockroaches behind it, Li Chaosheng was really heartbroken, and on the second day, he took Lu Xiangsheng to announce the criminal evidence and deeds of these people at the county meeting.

At that time, all the officials who listened to the meeting were ugly, and some were even more distressed, Li Chaosheng did not know how many of these people were sincerely distressed, how many of them were pretending, and he did not know how many of them had been corrupted in private.

However, no matter what, Li Chaosheng will not tolerate this matter, and corruption will be opposed at all times, and will never be tolerated.

Li Chaosheng proposed at the meeting that Lantian should set up an audit department to begin auditing the economic problems of officials in the county, and that there would be no tolerance for those who dared to defy the wind, and that the Ministry of Justice, the Political Department, the Investigation Department, and the Secretariat on behalf of Li Chaosheng would form an audit conference to mainly manage the Audit Department and be responsible for the Audit Department.

If the audit department does not handle the matter, the audit conference will come forward to conduct an audit, and no matter who has a problem, it will be investigated to the end and will not be tolerated.

In addition, notices should be posted on the audit results of the audit conference, and the whole county should be posted, and the people should be encouraged to report illegal and real-name reports, regardless of the size of the case, and hand them over to the audit committee for handling.

In this audit conference, the chairman is Li Chaosheng himself, and the vice presidents are Lu Xiangsheng, Guo Bao, and Zuo Sansi.

Li Chaosheng was furious at this conference, and this matter was quickly spread, and for a time the entire Lantian officialdom fell into huge pressure, and some people even said that this time was an unprecedented storm in the history of Lantian officialdom.

The first step is for officials to self-examine, allowing officials to check whether they have violated the rules, whether their relatives are ignorant and indiscriminately accepting gifts, and whether there are any related problems.

Of course, you can also resist stubbornly, if this matter is audited by the audit department, it is not said, what to do, and no bedbugs are allowed in the current Lantian officialdom.

This time, the anti-corruption of the officialdom and the whole people continued vigorously for more than a month, and finally Li Chaosheng took the initiative to stop the anti-corruption review, and the officials of the first Lantian officialdom have basically already been investigated, and if the investigation continues, I am afraid it will have a counterproductive effect.

Second, Li Chaosheng was also afraid that someone with a heart would deviate this anti-corruption campaign, which would bring a big earthquake to the officialdom of Lantian and even reproduce the cool officials who appeared during the Wu and Zhou periods.

In the beginning, the national anti-corruption campaign can indeed achieve very good results, but after a long time, it will operate and produce cool officials, and will push one thing from one extreme to another.

It's like a copper jar erected by Wu Zetian on the streets of Chang'an, and everyone has the right to throw a small note into the jar to report others, even prisoners.

Then the initial effect was very good, not only to clean up the diehards loyal to Li Tang, but even to eliminate some corrupt elements, but they were soon used by Lai Junchen, Zhou Xing, these cool officials, and the result was that in the later period of the Wu Zhou regime, the cool officials were rampant, which was very bad.

Li Chaosheng's purpose is to clean up the corrupt elements in Lantian officialdom, not to clean up dissidents like Wu Zetian, so when this matter is still within a reasonable range and there is no indiscriminate climbing, timely braking can effectively achieve this goal.

As for some people saying that corrupt elements may not be thoroughly clear, Li Chaosheng's idea is very realistic: corrupt elements cannot be eliminated, and there is a way that when the water is clear, there will be no fish.

It is not that Li Chaosheng does not understand the truth in this regard, but the anti-corruption work must be carried out, and the purpose is to demonstrate Li Chaosheng's attitude toward corruption and his determination to punish corruption, as long as the goal of educating 100 officials is achieved.

Li Chaosheng just wants to tell them that Lantian officialdom is not a place outside the law, and you should be more restrained when you do things, and this kind of audit work will be carried out from time to time in the future, and I hope you will do your part well.

Li Chaosheng once again emphasized at the meeting: "The officials of Lantian are not promoted to make a fortune, if you want to be promoted and make a fortune, please go to the Ming Dynasty to be an official, and if you are an official in Lantian, you must seriously do things for the people." ”

This is what Li Chaosheng said at the end of this rectification movement, the rectification movement is over, and the effect of this rectification movement is also very good, a total of more than 50 moths have been found in the Lantian official system.

Among them, the instructions given to Li Chaosheng, who was petty and greedy, were to be imprisoned in Lantian Prison, deprived of all honors, and deprived of political rights for life, and his direct children were not allowed to hold any official positions in Lantian Prison.

As for the big greed and huge greed, Li Chaosheng directly instructed him to be beheaded outside the county and displayed to the public, and he would not tolerate it.

"County Zun, I thought you wouldn't end this anti-corruption campaign easily."

Outside the Ya of Lantian County, the spring flowers are blooming, Li Chaosheng and Lu Xiangsheng sat under the big tree and drank tea, and after hearing this, Li Chaosheng said: "The anti-corruption has reached this level, and if it continues, it is time to take revenge." ”

Lu Xiangsheng heard this and said: "That's what I said, among the reports we received two days ago, several of them were mixed with personal grievances, which obviously did not conform to the truth, if we continued, I am afraid that we would have to bite each other, so it's better to stop now." ”

Li Chaosheng didn't say anything, but sighed and said, "I really didn't expect that there would be more than fifty moths in my Lantian official team. ”

Lu Xiangsheng heard this and said: "That's right, there are only fifty of the thousands of officials in Lantian, and there is only one out of almost a hundred, which is already quite honest, and some of them are ignorant and receive gifts from their families, and they have to do things because they have been given the handle." ”

Li Chaosheng sighed when he heard this and said: "That can't be tolerated, but what you said is also very right, this matter should be taken as a warning, by the way, I am going to the prison to see those prisoners in the afternoon, do you want to follow?" ”

Lu Xiangsheng heard this and said: "I'll forget it, I'm going to go back and set up an inspection team, and on the basis of today's anti-corruption, I will give the officials a dose of medicine, so that they know that there is a law in our Lantian." ”

Li Chaosheng heard this and said, "It's okay." ”

Li Chaosheng picked up the teacup and toasted Lu Xiangsheng, then got up and said, "Guzi, clean up and go to prison with me." ”

"Yes."