Because after cutting leeks, the new official honestly began to embezzle again within a few days after taking office, and he could not withstand the temptation at all, and even had a rebellious and lucky mentality, and tried all kinds of ways to embezzle.

Natural selection, the surviving corrupt officials have more superb means.

Even the resolute Zhu Yuanzhang can't stop this trend of corruption, and future generations will naturally not be able to.

Human nature in this era is not so bad, and the corruption of officials will not harm the people's livelihood and threaten the fundamental interests of the country, so Qingji can sometimes turn a deaf ear.

For example, Bao Xi, a corrupt official, has learned from Qingji that this person has previously served as the magistrate of Haixi County, the commander of Xiapi County, the Wailang of the Household Department, the Right Attendant of the Household Department, and the Cheng of Huiji County.

As long as you don't embezzle disaster relief food, don't squeeze Li Shu, and occasionally embezzle a little public money, Qingji can still turn a deaf ear.

Dawu is so prosperous and prosperous, and it is not bad for these three melons and two dates.

Qingji is not unaware of the importance of the rule of the officials.

The state of government administration has a direct bearing on the rise and fall of political power and its survival.

Therefore, on the issue of the administration of officials, Dawu set up a system for the education, selection, appointment and dismissal, evaluation, supervision, and rewards and punishments of officials.

For example, local parents, county officials, county officials, county magistrates, and so on, must be rotated every five years to the imperial capital Jinling for assessment, and the assessment is mainly on their political performance, talent, conduct, and so on.

The strong go up, the weak go down.

If corruption is discovered, the official may be removed from office and never be replaced.

People who have both ability and political integrity can be promoted.

As for those who are decent, they will be transferred to another place to be parents or officials in the court.

There's a lot going on here.

A corrupt official like Bao Xi has a very "ingenious" method of corruption, and he has not harmed the interests of the country and Li Shu, so he will not be reported by the people, and his corruption has not been exposed......

As everyone knows, those officials who dare to embezzle disaster relief food and embezzle state property have been severely punished.

Officials bribe each other and give and receive from each other, which is something that is allowed by Qingji.

Forming a party for personal gain, and fighting against differences between the party and the party are intolerable.

He sensed that Bao Xi seemed to have touched this bottom line, so he wanted to get rid of Bao Xi.

"Ji'er, you send someone to watch Yan Hong in prison, so that you can protect him. No one is allowed to visit him without my decree. ”

"No."

Wu Ji agreed.

Is Qingji trying to protect Yan Hong?

……

In the early morning of the next day, Wu Ji hurriedly entered the Linzi Palace, came to Qingji's front and said: "Imperial grandfather, as you expected, someone really wanted to visit Yan Hong last night, and brought poisoned wine, because he wanted to poison Yan Hong to death, and then made the illusion that he committed suicide in fear of sin. ”

When Qing Ji heard this, he smiled and said, "Bao Xi's fox tail has been exposed. ”

"Ji'er, let's go, let's go to Bao Xi's house as a guest."

"No."

After a while, Qingji set up Bao Xi's house.

As a county guard, Bao Xi's mansion is too shabby, and it looks like an ordinary mansion.

Seeing Qingji's arrival, Bao Xi was busy entertaining Qingji and Wu Ji, just a simple eight dishes and two soups, and his wife, concubines, and children were sitting far away.

Bao Xi was very flattered and said: "Your Majesty's visit to the Humble House has made the Humble House shine. ”

"However, there is not much surplus food in the minister's house, and he has already ordered his subordinates to buy it."

"For those who have coarse tea and rice, please forgive your Majesty and bear with me......"

"It doesn't matter."

Qingji said with a pleasant face: "Bao Xi, I have long heard that you are a good official with clean sleeves, but I didn't expect your family to be so poor. ”

"It's really a model for my Great Wu officials."

"Your Majesty has praised it."

Bao Xi's heart couldn't help but drip.

He behaved like this "destitute", why didn't Qingji give him an official rank and a knighthood, and reward him with some gold and silver property?

So stingy?

Qingji didn't care what Bao Xi was thinking, and after a full meal with Wu Ji, he said goodbye and left Bao Mansion.

However, Qingji did not return to Linzi Palace directly, but took Wu Ji with him, changed into simple clothes, and prepared to pay a private visit in Linzi City.

Qingji has always attached great importance to the cultivation of children and grandchildren.

Like Wu Ji, Qingji took him out a lot of times, and paid a private visit.

If an emperor is longer than the hands of a woman in the deep palace and does not listen to the affairs outside the palace, it is not a good thing after all.

Because, no one dared to guarantee that the courtiers would not deceive the emperor.

Throughout the ages, are there still few courtiers who are good at deceiving their superiors and subordinates?

The real Ming Jun is generally able to understand the people's feelings and know the people's suffering.

If it is a monarch like Emperor Jin Hui who "why not eat minced meat", he deserves to become the king of the dead country.

At this time, Qingji and Wu Ji's ancestors and grandsons were wandering on the street all the way.

Wu Ji's face was still a little hesitant and said: "Grandfather Huang, from the perspective of his grandson, Bao Xi doesn't look like a corrupt official. Is it because he hides too deeply, or is his grandson's reading too shallow to see? ”

Hearing this, Qing Ji Wan'er smiled and said, "Ji'er, have you ever heard of a sentence?" ”

"Hearing is false, seeing is believing. But, sometimes your eyes can deceive yourself. ”

"Most of the officials in Linzi City have received Bao Xi's favor and are complicit with him, so these people naturally say good things about Bao Xi to me."

"Li Shu in the city doesn't seem to have been bullied by Bao Xi, so no one reported it."

"There are even some people who sing praises to Bao Xi, and I guess they were invited by Bao Xi."

"Ah, this ......"

Wu Ji was a little confused.

Qingji took Wu Ji to the bazaar, and the market was full of people and lively.

At the grain store, there was also a long queue to buy grain, that is, corn.

This grain store is a public grain store, and the price is similar to that of a private grain store.

In Dawu, in order to prevent the problem of "the valley hurts the people, and the valley hurts the end", the "Pingguang method" has always been used.

The Pingguang method was first proposed by Ji Ran and Fan Li.

In a bumper year, the state purchases and stores grain, and when there is a shortage of grain in a poor harvest year, the state then sells grain at a parity price, so that it can play a role in stabilizing grain and other prices.

In the past two years, there have been many natural disasters in Bohai County, so the grain harvest has failed, so in order to stabilize the grain price, the government has to take out the grain and sell it to ensure price stability.

"Let's go, go up and have a look."

Qingji and Wu Ji immediately lined up outside the grain store.

"What?"

"Four hundred dollars for a bucket of rice? Didn't you just buy 350 yuan a bucket two days ago? ”

"The day before yesterday was the day before yesterday, and today is today. If you don't buy it now, maybe the price will increase again in a few days. ”