In the dim environment of Lantian Prison, a group of people wore fairly neat prison uniforms, leaning on their single beds one by one, their faces were dark, and their hearts were like ashes.

At this moment, the gate suddenly opened, and the warden led the group in.

When the people in prison saw the arrival, their expressions instantly became indescribable.

"County, county." After a long time, someone finally couldn't help it and screamed.

At this time, the eyes of the rest of the people also widened.

Li Chaosheng looked at these people who were once very familiar in the prison with an expressionless face at this time, and did not say a word, and in this way, a strange atmosphere permeated the entire prison.

Half a day, Li Chaosheng came to the door of a prison, looked inside, and the people inside hurriedly covered their faces with quilts, Li Chaosheng looked at the people covering their faces expressionlessly: "Li Deyu, show your face." ”

"County Zun, I don't have the face to see you."

Li Deyu covered his face and said, Li Chaosheng looked at Li Deyu and said: "Li Deyu, how did you fall to this point, I think I just came to Tanggou Town, you are the first batch of brothers I know, let's go to the county together to change the money to arm yourself, you were also the first batch of members of our Lantian security team, I trust you, I think you can stand alone, so I let you go to Shandong City to manage the department, I thought that you had fallen to this point, you show your face, see me again." ”

"County Zun, I'm sorry for you, I'm greedy for money and lustful, I'm seduced by that group of Japanese girls, I'm guilty, I'm guilty, I don't have the face to see the county, I kowtow to the county, kowtow."

Li Deyu knelt on the ground and kowtowed, his head slammed on the ground, and the blood flowed out and did not stop, as if he wanted to knock himself to death like this.

Looking at Li Deyu, who was kowtowing, Li Chaosheng sighed, turned to look at the prison on the side and said, "Wang Zhengwu, don't hide." ”

"County Honor."

Li Chaosheng looked at a person dressed as a scholar, his face was full of anger, and the person knelt directly on the ground when he heard this: "The student is guilty, the student is guilty." ”

Li Chaosheng looked at him and said: "Wang Zhengwu, I remember that your family was very difficult back then, your mother was a poor sewing woman for the county landlord's family in order to provide for your two brothers to study, and the calluses on one hand, I still remember it vividly, I remember that in order to let you study, your brother could have been able to study, but he resolutely went home to farm, in order to provide you out." ”

"At that time, you graduated with honors in the third place in the whole college, and your mother and brother cried with joy, and when they learned that you were about to be placed as an official, they were even more happy to cry, and you also vowed to be a good official."

"But what have you done in office? Colluded with wealthy businessmen in Jiangnan, evaded taxes, perverted the law for bribes, and did all kinds of evil, and the silver taels confiscated in your home were as high as 50,000 taels, 50,000 taels, how much silver is this, Wang Zhengwu, Wang Zhengwu, you have embezzled so much silver, but every month you only give your wife a silver dollar for living expenses, your brother's son is sick, there is no money, I asked you to borrow money, you gave two silver dollars, I said Wang Zhengwu, you are not only corrupt, you don't even have a conscience, I don't understand, you are for some money, Don't even care about the mother who raised you with hard work? ”

"And I saw the account book found out of your house, you have recorded all the money that those profiteers have given you in a lump sum over the years, and in the end almost all of them have been searched out in your house, and you haven't spent much, since you don't spend it, why are you greedy for all this money? You tell me. ”

Li Chaosheng looked at Wang Zhengwu who was kneeling on the ground and asked, Wang Zhengwu burst into tears when he heard the words: "County Zun, one, I didn't dare to spend a penny, County Zun, poor, poor afraid, really poor, at that time, the group of southern businessmen came to me, I didn't agree, I knew it was not good, but then they invited me to a meal, and the meal said that I would invite them, but they settled the account for me in advance, and it was originally a meal of one silver dollar, they actually dropped fifty silver dollars directly, and they left first, When I checked out, the store gave me the remaining forty-nine silver dollars. ”

"I didn't want it at first, but the store didn't say that it couldn't settle the account, and I took the money in order to help, and then I asked these Jiangnan businessmen to return the money, and they made excuses and pushed back and forth, so I accepted the money in a sloppy way."

"As a result, my younger brother in the family was about to get married, and the other party had to ask for a bride price of fifty silver dollars, otherwise he would not get married, and the whole family was in a hurry, and I was forced to have no choice, so I gave this money to my daughter-in-law, but I didn't expect that the group of Jiangnan businessmen knew, and they directly wrapped up my wife's and brother's wedding banquet, and it was very decent."

"After I went back, my wife and my father-in-law's family had a 180-degree change in their attitude towards me, and I felt very happy, and slowly became friends with that group of Jiangnan businessmen, and after that, I went further and further on this road, until I made such a mistake now, county respect, I should die, I should die!"

Wang Zhengwu knelt on the ground and cried very miserably, Li Chaosheng listened to Wang Zhengwu's cry and sighed: "I knew today, why bother in the beginning." ”

Li Chaosheng looked at the prison from prison to prison, these people were either his old subordinates, or the students who used to be the principal of Lantian Academy, almost everyone Li Chaosheng could call by name, and after seeing Li Chaosheng, he bowed his head and confessed his crimes.

Li Chaosheng looked at the past one by one and was heartbroken, these were all heroes in the development of Lantian, but it is a pity that they lost their way on the road to success and became what they are now.

Li Chaosheng walked from the beginning to the place, followed by a lonely and lonely walk outside the prison, and when he was about to reach the door of the prison, he suddenly heard a cry in the prison: "County Zun, we are wrong, County Zun, we are wrong......

Squeak crunch......

The gate of the prison slowly closed, a line of tears flowed from Li Chaosheng's eyes, and Gu Zi comforted him on the side: "County Zun, don't be sad, these bastards are not worth it." ”

Li Chaosheng blinked, bounced tears away from his eyes, and then looked at Gu Zi on the side and said, "Is the official's salary very low now?" ”

Hearing this, Gu Zi said: "It's not low, it's several times that of ordinary workers, enough for them to live a decent life in Lantian." ”

"But why should these people be greedy?"

Gu Zi said: "People's greed is the never-ending county respect, today they may be happy to earn a silver dollar a day, but tomorrow he wants to earn two silver dollars, earn two silver dollars, just want to earn three, the big guys want to earn more and more, there is no time to be satisfied in this regard." ”

Li Chaosheng heard this, looked at Gu Zi and said, "You see it very thoroughly." ”

Gu Zi said: "Because I am also an official under the county honor." ”

Li Chaosheng turned his head to look at Gu Zi and said, "So, you also have the idea of corruption?" ”

Gu Zi smiled: "I don't, but I can understand, County Zun, the officials who are working under your command now are generally divided into two categories, one is young talents, these people are either just entering the officialdom and are full of expectations for the future, and even have their own political ambitions, these people will never be corrupt, because money is not what they are pursuing, they are pursuing the greatest embodiment of their political values." ”

"And there are the most such people in our Lantian area, and everyone is full of expectations for the future, because Lantian is on the rise, the territory is expanding, and the political structure is gradually improving, these people still have a lot of room to rise, and they will not ruin their political ambitions for some money."

"So these people will be clean and self-conscious, and they will not be corrupt, because they have greater pursuits, but some people are different, their own ability is not good, their consciousness is not high enough, and their vision is not long-term enough, so they can only see the immediate interests, and among the immediate interests, this money comes the fastest, so they will be corrupt, and there are not many such Lantian, and now they are basically all locked up in this prison."

Gu Zi looked at Li Chaosheng and said, "County Zun, why don't you speak?" ”

Li Chaosheng smiled when he heard this: "Guzi, don't say it, your kid is talking more and more reasonably." ”

Gu Zi smiled when he heard this: "I've been with the county for so long, and I should have grown, I don't know what the county thinks of me?" ”

Li Chaosheng heard this and said: "That's right, the problem you said is indeed very true, it is unrealistic for a regime to ensure absolute integrity, but relative integrity can still be achieved, and if you want to be relatively honest, the first depends on the system, and the second relies on supervision, so this incident is not necessarily bad for us Lantian, after all, the problem already exists, and now we need to consider not how to escape the problem, but how to solve the problem quickly." ”

"Now there is a problem when Lantian is preparing to expand, so if the problem is solved, then Lantian can enter the stage of steady development again, and Lantian can develop steadily for a few years, and these years are enough for Lantian to settle the world."

"And if this problem is shown after Lantian unifies the world, maybe it will evolve into a huge political eucalyptus, just like Hu Weiyong and Lan Yu Eucalyptus in the early Ming Dynasty, these eucalyptus in addition to Lao Zhu's own character problems, it is not excluded that these arrogant soldiers are really too disagreeable."

Li Chaosheng thought about it and sighed and said: "The founding of the country must first kill the heroes, I don't want Lantian to also enter such a curse, so anti-corruption, rules and regulations, supervision, everything I can arrange now, I must arrange it, otherwise in the future, if someone really does something sorry for the people and sorry for Lantian, I can also take out laws and regulations to tell them, I told them not to make a mistake before, and now I don't listen, then don't blame me for being ruthless, this is not to say unexpected." ”

After Li Chaosheng said this, he said: "Inform the Ministry of Justice that this trial will be severe and severe, and those who embezzle more than 2,000 taels or equivalent property will be sentenced immediately." ”

"Ah, the county is like this, I'm afraid that few people in this prison can live."

Gu Zi was a little unbearable, Li Chaosheng said: "In troubled times, we should use heavy codes, and notify the Propaganda Department that these people should be the key propaganda objects, so that all Lantian people know about their crimes, and notify the Ministry of Education to set up a special clean government education course in the college, and notify the college, all the senior students of the college, tomorrow afternoon, outside Lantian City, watch the beheading of these corrupt officials and corrupt officials, in order to play a warning role." ”

"County honor, let the students see, will this affect their physical and mental health? Especially some female classmates. ”

Li Chaosheng heard this: "This is a troubled time, if you want to live in this troubled world, you can't protect them too well, otherwise they will all become flowers in the greenhouse, and they don't dare to look at it. ”

Hearing this, Gu Zi said, "Yes, I will inform you." ”

The next day, the sun was shining, and the entire city of Lantian was in a boil, because Lantian had not carried out public beheading and murder for several years, and this time he was ready to execute twenty-one embezzlers, and all of them were officials of Lantian.

The people looked at the introduction of these embezzlers on the bulletin board, and the two people led by them were Li Deyu and Wang Zhengwu, both of whom were typical of the typical, especially Li Deyu, who was a member of the county's clan, but even so, it was difficult to escape the punishment of Lantian Law.

The people looked at the bulletin board and discussed, scolding the corrupt officials and corrupt officials.

At nine o'clock in the morning, the prison gates opened, and the prisoner vans headed out of the city.

When I arrived at the execution ground, there were already a sea of people here, and countless people watched here, this is the first anti-corruption eucalyptus since the establishment of Lantian, and the names of these embezzlers will always be remembered and left for thousands of years.

Soon the prisoners were all brought, all of them knelt on the execution ground with chains, and there were countless people below, at this time all the prisoners' faces were numb, their hearts had been completely broken in the struggle again and again, and they had no shame to face the villagers and elders in the audience.

And everyone in the audience watched silently, and suddenly someone shouted: "My son! ”

Then I saw an old lady walking out of the crowd with the support of a very rough-looking man, and at this time, among the originally numb prisoners who were kneeling on the stage, suddenly a person was excited, and raised his head just in time to see the trembling old man, who was struggling to walk towards himself.

"Mother!"

Immediately followed by tears like rain, I couldn't hold back anymore, wow wow crying, the old lady couldn't cry at this time, she couldn't walk, and finally the rough man hugged the old lady and carried the old lady under the torture table.

"Mother."

"My son! How did you make such a big mistake, my son! ”

The old lady wanted to go to the execution table to pull her son, and the executioner wanted to stop her, but she was stopped by the prison officer, and then let the old lady go to the execution ground, the old lady touched her son's face with both hands, tears fell like rain on her face, and suddenly a mouth slapped up, and then hugged her son's head and cried, and everyone in the crying field cried, and everyone was moved.