Liu Sheng can only say: In such an era - in this era when Han Zuo has been established for less than a hundred years and the quality of officials is still online, there is no simple person who can be an official above the Chang'an court.

Let's just say that Chen Jian, the Cheng in this imperial history, is another talent discovered by Liu Sheng who has been buried by history and even buried by the times.

Why?

Needless to mention Chen Jian's work ability on weekdays, or his past work performance, just looking at Chen Jian's speech, Liu Sheng dared to conclude that this person, at least in terms of political sense and political means, is definitely not a simple person.

Compared with Zhao Yu's objective trajectory of corruption as 'the atmosphere is like this', Chen Jian was extremely keenly aware of Liu Sheng's intention: to take corruption - to take the corruption of most of the scholars in a short period of time as the starting point, and carry out a substantial restructuring of the imperial historian's subordinate government.

Subsequently, Chen Jian did not hesitate to carry the black pot of the Han family's 'corruption and corruption' on himself, and classified it as 'the inaction of the imperial historian in the past years'.

Then, Chen Jian said the words that were not convenient for Liu Sheng to say in person: from the main framework to the organizational structure, reform the imperial historian's subordinate government in an all-round way.

In the end, Chen Jian did not forget to implicitly put forward that 'I can give some suggestions from the perspective of professionals, and it depends on His Majesty's meaning whether I listen to it or not'.

Liu Sheng can only say: Wonderful!

If it weren't for the presence of others, Chen Jian's speech alone would probably be applauded by Liu Sheng.

It's just that there are still people by his side at this time, especially important ministers like Zhao Yu, the court captain, and Liu She, the prime minister, even if Liu Sheng appreciates it, he can only warm his face a little, nod to Chen Jian with a little encouragement, and signal Chen Jian to continue.

"Even if Your Majesty is kind to the minister, the minister will have the audacity to say ······"

"-- Officials who are corrupt and accept bribes can be divided into two parts, one is corruption, and the other is bribery."

"Among them, the former is absolutely not allowed, and it should never be allowed."

"Because of corruption, it means that the funds allocated by the court, that is, the treasury of the prime minister's government and the Shaofu, are transferred to their own pockets by local officials in various names, resulting in what the court really wants to do cannot be completed because the funds are not in place."

"It's like a county wants to build a canal, and the court allocates millions of dollars, but the county order is greedy for 500,000 yuan, and the only remaining 500,000 yuan can't buy enough tools and materials for repairing the canal."

"In this way, whether the local officials put the matter of building the canal on hold, or impose forced labor on the people, force the price of tools and materials, or even cut corners, it means that the millions of dollars allocated by the court will be wasted."

"Of course, officials are greedy for ink, not only for the appropriations of the Mo court, but also for the taxes and taxes intercepted by the local government."

"For example, in one year, in the name of repairing canals, a certain county withheld one million dollars from the agricultural tax that should have been exported to the prime minister's treasury, and then the county ordered 500,000 ······ to embezzle ink."

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"As for corruption, Dr. Yu Shi belongs to the past and has never relaxed his inspection."

"It's just that because of the inspection of officials by the imperial historian's subordinate government, it cannot be handled directly according to the case like Tingwei, but can only be secretly collected through 'collecting the style of the imperial history', which leads to the situation of officials who are greedy for ink, and often does not allow the imperial historian to grasp the empirical evidence."

"Without empirical evidence, the Imperial Doctor's government will not dare to listen to the wind, and he will not even dare to leak the slightest rumor."

"Because once the rumors leak and happen to find a clean and honest official who is not corrupt, it is easy to have a situation where officials will die and protect their lives."

"As long as such a situation happens, the Imperial Doctor will have no confidence to inspect the officials······"

Hearing Chen Jian's words, Liu Sheng's face couldn't help but sink, and he nodded slowly with a serious expression.

The problem mentioned by Chen Jian is not the characteristic of the Han dynasty today, but the situation that is common in China and even in every human regime.

It is not so sensational to get a special grant in the name of a certain project, and then spend all day and drink with this money, resulting in the delay in the delivery of the project, and even the delivery of the tofu slag project to cope with the errand.

And in this era, when there is no network, no efficient communication facilities, and even no real supervisory organs, a similar situation can only be said to be as black as a crow in the world.

The high-ranking officials of the court may not - because people have to cherish their feathers;

Neither will the focus of the training - because people want a political future.

But those officials who have no hope of promotion, and who will most likely not be demoted, and who are basically certain to die in their posts, do not have so much to worry about.

Just find a reason to apply for the money, or even cut it first, withhold a part of the grain tax after the autumn, and then submit the application report, and the money will be considered in hand.

- It's not that hard.

Because even if there is no similar project, the administrative operation costs of the Han family have always been withheld by the local government from the tax in proportion, and most of the time it is withheld by 30%.

It only takes a little effort to increase this ratio to 40%, which is a lot of money.

As for engineering?

Zhengguo Canal is a canal, Zhengjia Canal is also a canal, and Zhengjiagou can also be counted as a canal;

Ten zhang wide is the canal, two zhang wide is the canal, if it is shameless, a knee stream, can also become the 'so-and-so canal' on the newspaper!

As long as the court does not send people down to take a look, and then reports the situation to the Chang'an court at 1510, there will be no problem at all.

After all, the people don't know how much money the court has allocated to the ditch in front of them, but it's better than not at all.

As for the officials, even the history of collecting style, which is known for its 'iron-faced selflessness', is only a matter of three or two sentences, such as 'We are poor in this place, and the officials can't get the full amount of money', and they can be done with a meal of wine and meat.

Now, this question was raised by Chen Jian in front of Tianzisheng, Prime Minister Liu She, and Tingwei Zhao Yu.

Next, it's time to come up with a solution.

Obviously, it is impossible for an old official like Chen Jian not to be unclear about the principle of 'not only asking questions to the leader, but also giving solutions'.

Judging from Chen Jian's resolute look of death, for this problem, this conscientious imperial historian has already had a draft to play······

"The root cause of corruption lies in public funds."

"Whether it is the appropriation of the prime minister's treasury and the domestic treasury of the young government, or the funds withheld by the local government, it was not too difficult to obtain in the past."

"Unless there is a bad year, or there is an internal or external war, most of the applications submitted by the local government for the construction of water conservancy, granaries, and maintenance of roads will be approved by the prime minister."

"Although the prime minister rarely allocates funds, the prime minister often turns a blind eye to the local government's increase in the proportion of grain tax interception by half to one percent, and the prime minister often turns a blind eye to ······."

As he said this, Chen Jian did not forget to glance at Prime Minister Liu She with a slight apology, but the look of determination in his eyes was still the same.

And when Liu Sheng's gaze also drifted to Prime Minister Liu Sheng from time to time, Liu She was originally full of indifference, as if he was just coming to observe the meeting's calm face, but he was instantly hacked a lot.

- No wonder Your Majesty wants me to come!

- You're waiting for me here?!

At this moment, Liu She's mind was full of this sentence.

But in front of Liu Sheng, Liu Shezi did not dare to look at the imperial history and shake the majesty of the head of his hundred officials;

He only pretended to be pretentious for a while, and then bowed his hand to Liu Shengshen with a stern expression.

"What Cheng said in the imperial history is basically true."

"In the past few years, to be precise, since the fifth year of Emperor Taizu Gao, all local counties, especially Guanzhong counties, have adhered to the principle of 'as long as you don't go too far, you won't be too embarrassed'."

"It's just that among them, there are some reasons why it is not convenient to stay on the bamboo slips······"

Hearing the sound of Xuanyin and knowing the meaning of elegance, Liu Sheng turned sideways and coughed lightly twice in the direction of the screen behind him;

Only a moment later, he saw a mink-crowned scribe standing from behind the screen and bowing to Liu Sheng.

"The minister's food is irregular, the stomach is upset, and the king is out of order, please atone for your sins······"

The historian knew the rules so well, of course Liu Sheng wouldn't make jokes, he just smiled and nodded, and waved his hand to Xia Que beside him.

"Lead the way for Sima Gong."

As the historian of the Sima clan followed the footsteps of the eunuch Ling Xia Que to go to the toilet in a remote corner of Weiyang Palace, Liu She's voice was full of embarrassment, and only then did it sound again in the Xuanshu Palace.

"When Emperor Taizu Gao, Xiao Xiangguo was in charge of Guanzhong, responsible for transporting grain, grass and soldiers to Emperor Taizu Gao's army;"

"After a long time, Emperor Taizu Gao has lived in Kanto for a long time, and Xiao Xiangguo is in charge of all the affairs in Guanzhong, even if Emperor Taizu Gao is not suspicious, there are some undeserved rumors in the market."

"For those rebellious remarks, Emperor Taizu Gao didn't care too much;"

"But Xiao Xiangguo was shocked, and finally listened to a person's suggestion, and decided to protect the friendship between himself and Emperor Taizu Gao by defiling himself······

Needless to say, it's too thorough.

Only Xiao Liu She mentioned it so shallowly, and Liu Sheng understood what was going on.

——At the beginning of the founding of the country, and even for a long time after the founding of the country, Liu Bang, the founding king of Liu Han Sheji, was actually rarely in Chang'an.

Not only is it not in Chang'an, it's not even in Guanzhong!

Running around in Kanto all the year round, running around in order to quell the rebellion of princes with different surnames, leaving Prime Minister Xiao He alone to govern Guanzhong, and even 'the unique land of Qin', after a long time, Liu Bang inevitably muttered in his heart.

Will Xiao He be opposed?

This is not something that a qualified emperor, especially a qualified emperor of Liu Han, should consider.

As one of the most outstanding emperors of the Han family, Liu Bang will never think about 'whether Xiao He will be opposed', but will only think: Does Xiao He have the ability to rebel?

If Xiao He reverses, what kind of situation will I face?

After a brief consideration, Liu Bang suppressed the matter;

Just a few days later, rumors began to spread in Guanzhong, saying that Xiao He intended to 'establish himself as the king of Guanzhong'.

For Liu Bang's such a blatant temptation, Xiao He certainly proved his innocence as soon as possible.

It's just that this way of proving one's innocence is to deliberately embezzle, take bribes, and purchase property on a large scale, and even misjudge the case and misappropriate it······

"In this way, the problem that local counties can easily withhold more agricultural taxes is a problem left over from the time of Xiao Xiangguo?"

Liu Sheng asked in a deep voice, which only caused Liu She to nod his head hurriedly.

"Xiao Xiangguo is a role model for every generation of prime ministers in my Han family."

"Especially after Cao Xiangguo's 'Xiao Gui Cao Sui', all the rules set by Xiao Xiangguo have completely become the golden rule that the Han Dynasty must abide by."

Among them, most of the rules respond to Cao Xiangguo's words: Since there is no Xiao Xiangguo who is wise, why not copy Xiao Xiangguo's measures?"

"However, by chance, the evil policy of deliberately conniving at local counties and counties to withhold more agricultural taxes and calling it 'giving counties and counties some room for maneuver' has been used since then······"

Liu She's voice fell, Liu Sheng had already raised it with one hand, his index finger between his mouth and nose, frowning and thinking.

After only three or five breaths, he moved his gaze to Chen Jian again.

"The minister believes that in order to put an end to official corruption, it is necessary to start from the three aspects of the prime minister's treasury, the internal treasury of the young government, and the local government's withholding of agricultural taxes."

"First: all the agricultural taxes collected by the local government need to follow the rules set by Emperor Taizu Gao, that is, 'living within your means'."

"In addition to the daily operation needs of the county government offices, other expenses such as canals and roads are no longer allowed to be withheld by the local government."

"After all the agricultural taxes are paid into the state treasury, the local counties can apply for the allocation of funds from the state treasury of the relevant government."

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"Second: All the funds allocated by the state treasury of the prime minister at the request of the local counties and counties must be reviewed by the imperial historian's subordinate government and sent to collect the wind and supervise the imperial history."

"If you are not in a hurry, you should first send the collection of the wind and the history to verify, and then allocate the payment, and then the collection of the wind and the history of the wind will secretly monitor the progress;"

"If it is an urgent matter, it should also be sent to collect the wind and history after the fact to verify it to ensure that the funds allocated by the treasury are actually used."

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"Third: All funds allocated by the court, whether they are transferred by the treasury of the prime minister or the internal treasury of the Shaofu, should be posted in the local counties and counties to inform the people."

"—the money applied for by the county government shall be posted in the seat of the county; The money distributed to the county government is posted by the county seat. ”

"Lubu should not only publicize the amount of money, but also publish the details and whereabouts of the money after the fact, and make it available for verification at any time."

"For those who are required to cooperate with the investigation, the local counties and counties should fully cooperate, and should not be obstructed."

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"Fourth: Where the Imperial Historian belongs to the Imperial History sent by the Ya, in the process of a single outing, when two people die in the same county at the same time, the court captain should send officials to investigate thoroughly, and let the county guard here be discharged as soon as possible to be investigated."

"After the situation is clarified, the next step will be dealt with according to the situation······"

(End of chapter)