"The officials in the world are impermanent, and they only live by accepting bribes, and they often get rich."

In the spring of the first year of Xingqing, the East Liquor Warehouse, located on the west side of Jinling Jiangwu Hall, hung up the sign of "Anti-Corruption Division of Jiangnan East Road of the Great Song Dynasty".

Jinling Shimin only knows about the anti-corruption and anti-corruption sub-division, but no one knows who the anti-corruption sub-division is, how many people there are, what they have done, and who they have arrested.

Except for one thing, who is in charge of the Anti-Corruption Division.

Because the newspaper clearly stated that the people of Jiangnan East Road are also clear that the head of the anti-corruption department of the Great Song Dynasty is the brother-in-law of the emperor of the current dynasty, and he is in charge of anti-corruption matters on Jiangnan East Road.

Uncle Guo presided over the Anti-Corruption Division, which also shows the determination of the Great Song Emperor to fight corruption and corruption.

Although he has never been an official, he has lived on the streets of Lin'an City for a long time, and he has heard and witnessed it, Zhou Ping knows the emperor's original intention of fighting corruption, and he also knows that the emperor is targeting corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and he knows that these people are not easy to deal with.

The foundation of the Great Song Dynasty was the foundation of the country, and the king and the scholars ruled the world together. Even if the officials are found to be greedy for ink, the emperor will not punish them, let alone make these people exemplary.

If you are greedy for more than ink, you will lose your head!

Not to mention, a family raider is exiled, his wife and children eat and drink, and do manual work all day long, which is more uncomfortable than death.

How does this work?

With the help of the identity of the "national uncle", as well as the vigorous assistance of Wang Gang, the newly appointed Jiangnan East Road envoy, and Hu Mengyu, the head of the Jiankang Mansion Consulate General, and with the help of the government's registration and taxation inspections, the anti-corruption department in Jiangnan East Road is not a show, but a real investigation, and everyone wants to make meritorious contributions.

The imperial court has issued an edict to relax the policy of private commercial taxation and exempt the people from harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, but some officials in Jiankang Mansion still set up clever names and do everything they can, taxing "rice" as "wine rice" and "clothes" as "cloth", and even travelers who have nothing to do with their belongings have to raise taxes.

The one who abuses the people will be greedy. Although it is not within the scope of the Anti-Corruption Division's responsibilities, it is inseparable from the corruption of officials, so that the Anti-Corruption Division has to find one place and file a case for investigation.

The land annexation of Jiangnan East Road has a long history, and a large number of peasant households have been forced to lose their land due to the strong annexation of the eunuchs, and have become tenant farmers who can be slaughtered by others, or have to leave their homes and be displaced.

Because the eunuchs and eunuchs occupied so much land that they could not afford to cultivate it completely, part of the land was barren, and many people who had lost their fields had no land to cultivate.

It is also due to the corruption of officials that the water conservancy facilities on Jiangnan East Road tend to be abandoned, which greatly harms agricultural development. Even Jiankang Mansion, which has smooth weather and rain, has frequent droughts and floods, and the people are miserable.

The people are poor, the people's livelihood is withering, and those with vested interests spend all their days drinking and lavish and lascivious. If we don't fight corruption anymore, I'm afraid that the country will really die.

The Qinhuai River divides the Jiankang Mansion into two, the south of the Qinhuai River is Jiangning County, with scenery such as the Phoenix Terrace, while the north of the Qinhuai River is mostly the official office and the school, including the palace, which is now the lecture hall.

Phoenix on the Phoenix Terrace, Phoenix goes to Taikong River artesian.

The three mountains are half in the blue sky, and the two waters are divided into Egret Island.

Because the Fengtai Mountain where the Phoenix Terrace is located is high-pitched, you can see the west of the city "the river is around in front of the river, and the Luzhou is divided in the middle", and there are many tourists who come, so the business here is prosperous, lively and prosperous.

It was lunch time, and the Jinling Restaurant, located in the prosperous area of Fengtai Mountain, was bustling with people coming and going. On the second floor, two soap officials in official uniforms sat on a wine table, eating and drinking, listening to small songs, very comfortable.

"Lao Gao, have you heard about the Anti-Corruption Division?"

The fat soap clerk is in his twenties, with a face full of horizontal flesh and a fair complexion, and he seems to have not been in the industry for a long time.

"I heard that, isn't it the yamen with a new sign on the west side of the palace? What's wrong? ”

Lao Gao, a thin-faced soapman, picked up a piece of tender fish meat and put it in his mouth to chew. With a glass of sweet fruit wine, the face is full of enjoyment.

Obviously, he didn't take this so-called anti-corruption department to heart.

Anti-corruption, when did the Great Song Dynasty really fight corruption? If it is really anti-corruption, I am afraid that the officials of the Great Song Dynasty in the world will be arrested.

"Lao Gao, listening to the name of the Anti-Corruption Division, what is investigated is the corruption and bribery of officials. The newspaper said that the previous ones would not be investigated, and only the current ones would be arrested. Still be careful! ”

The fat soapman was still flustered. He always felt that the court was really here this time.

"I'm afraid of a fart!"

Lao Gao put down the cup, his eyes widened, and he smiled coldly.

"It is to be investigated, and the anti-corruption department is also investigating those big turbans with a lot of money. Our small fish and shrimp in the ditch can't get on the table at all! ”

Those officials were all tycoons and big landlords. If you don't check them, check your own insignificant little officials, isn't this nonsense?

"But my heart is still abrupt."

The fat man was obviously timid, and he had a relationship with the news in the newspaper, the three orders of Jiankang Mansion and Jiangning County.

"Du Bantou hasn't been here for the past few days, do you think something has happened?"

Although the officials seldom took care of the corruption of the officials, they occasionally took measures to eliminate or reduce the ills of the officials. Now, the Anti-Corruption Department is menacing, and the government is definitely going to sharpen its knives against the "best of the best" among the officials.

"Lao Du likes to go to the tiles on the Qinhuai River to play. Don't be suspicious! ”

Lao Gao persuaded the fat man, and he was also a little scared in his heart.

The anti-corruption matter, the newspaper is uproaring, and it is the vane of the imperial court's policy. If the government comes to the real thing, I am afraid that I will be exiled to the army based on the ugly things I have done.

The fat man nodded. The yamen of Jiankang Mansion abolished the official prostitution, and there were many fewer flower boats on the Qinhuai River, but there were still some women who had no source of livelihood and made a living from it, and the government was helpless. The government abolished the lowly status of official prostitutes, but did not abolish the entire Qinglou industry.

"Lao Gao, those people in the Jingjie Institute are busy jumping up and down all day long, clearing the acres of fields and distinguishing the color of the soil. You say, will they be the same as before, begging and tossing, useless fart? ”

The fat man diverted the topic and pulled on to the meridian law.

"The anti-corruption department and those people in the Economic Circles Institute don't know if they can continue to do it. How many times have you done it before, isn't it all thunder and rain? The emperor is tossing blindly, and in a few days, it will be time to stop! ”

Lao Gao is an understanding person and does not have any hope for the implementation of the Jingjie Law.

In the twelfth year of Shaoxing, Li Chunnian, the deputy envoy of the two Zhejiang provinces, said that the meridian boundary was not righteous and harmful, and suggested the implementation of the meridian law, but it failed in a few years, and Li Chunnian was dismissed. Shaoxi cleared it again in the second year, but it was also unsuccessful, and the tax leakage became more and more serious. Jiading has successively implemented the meridian boundary. In the end, due to the opposition of the officials and gentry, it could not be implemented.

"The emperor founded the Lecture Hall and the Anti-Corruption Department in Jinling, and trained the troops and abolished these taxes, which is menacing, I am afraid that this time it will be true!"

When it comes to the new deal on Jiangnan East Road, the fat man's face sinks like water, and he doesn't have the heart to eat or drink.

Jiangnan East Road is located in a mansion (Jiankang Mansion), 5 states, 2 armies, and 68 counties, which is one of the most prosperous roads of the 17th Road of the Great Song Dynasty. Whether it is the number of households, grain output, or the scholars in the imperial examination and the first, they are all among the leaders of the Great Song Dynasty, and Huainan East Road and Liangzhejiang Road are comparable.

The emperor's choice of Jiangnan East Road as a pilot for the new deal must have been intentional.

"Kill the bold, starve the faint-hearted. Wine should be drunk, and meat should be eaten. Thousands of miles to be an official, just to be promoted and make a fortune. The officials of Jiankang Mansion, the officials of the entire Jiangnan East Road, from top to bottom, have a few who are not greedy. You can eat and drink with peace of mind, and put your heart back in your stomach! ”

Lao Gao smiled coldly and cheered himself up.

He glanced around, approached the fat man, lowered his voice and said:

"Jiankang Mansion sentenced Gu Song, he was greedy and ruthless, and he made at least hundreds of thousands of yuan. But after so many years, a lot of people have sued him, have they been arrested? Gu Song was a protégé of Hu Yu, the minister of political affairs of the dynasty, and also had a relationship with Zai Fu Xue Ji. Think about it, if the imperial court wanted to move Gu Song, it wouldn't have moved sooner. ”

After Lao Gao finished speaking, he sat down and continued lazily.

"You just said that there are thousands of officials like us in Jiankang Mansion alone. If we don't rely on extortion, what do we eat and drink? How to feed a family? ”

"Yes, yes, yes! Lao Gao, you can still see through! ”

The fat man smiled and nodded.

"Let's go, I'll go back to the yamen later."

Lao Gao drank the wine in the cup, wiped his mouth, and stood up.

The two of them came down from upstairs, and the willow wood in the old hand picked his teeth and came to the counter lazily.

"Gao Kongme, are you done with your meal?"

Seeing Lao Gao and the fat man coming, the shopkeeper was full of smiles, respectful, like a pug.

"Shopkeeper Xu, write down the account first, and then settle it later!"

Lao Gao said casually, and walked away.

The fat man was a little nervous and couldn't help but look around.

"Okay, good, Gao Kongme, you go slowly!"

Shopkeeper Xu nodded again and again, and watched the two officials leave.

Seeing the official walking away, the smile on the shopkeeper Xu's face disappeared, and he replaced it with a hideous look, scolded fiercely in a low voice, and spit on the ground.

"Dog's day, you can't kill you dog mongrel!"

"Shopkeeper, just let them go?"

Guy Cao Er came up and said unwillingly.

"What if you don't go? These guys have hands and eyes all over the sky, they are in charge of prisons and lawsuits, they are more ruthless than scoundrels, and they can't be provoked! ”

Shopkeeper Xu had a seizure angrily.

The Jiangning County Ya had only five officials appointed by the imperial court. The county order is in charge of civil affairs, persuading farmers, mulberry, and settling prison lawsuits; The county officer, above the book and the lieutenant, is still selected in the background and the order; The main book, the cashier's official property, the cancellation of the book; The county lieutenant, one lieutenant of each county, under the main book, is given and the same; Town officials, the towns are placed under the jurisdiction of the populated places, and there are supervisors to manage the fire ban or the alcohol tax.

In the Song Dynasty, most of the officials were born in the imperial examination. The second is the children of the officials of Enyin. These two types of people only study scriptures and poems, and are not familiar with the laws and regulations and are not familiar with administrative affairs. However, laws and regulations are the basic observance of handling general affairs, and this is precisely the strength of officials, so officials have to rely on officials, forming a unique situation in which officials are weak and officials are strong.

"Sooner or later, I've taken these dogs!"

The guy muttered, shook his head and walked away.

"Shopkeeper Xu, Gao Xi's accounts, take it out and take a look."

Two ordinary young men walked over and stood in front of the counter.

"You are ......"

Shopkeeper Xu saw that the two of them were dressed in general, but they were majestic and full of official authority, and they didn't seem to be ordinary people, so they finally didn't dare to say the words of the guest.

"The anti-corruption department is in vain, Li Guoliang."

The two young men took out their official credentials and showed them to the shopkeeper Xu.

"Shopkeeper Xu, Gao Xi Gao Kongmu, his accounts, show us it! Fast! ”

The two members of the Anti-Corruption Division were unceremonious, even impatient.

"Anti-Corruption Division......

Shopkeeper Xu was taken aback, and then quickly took out the account book.

"Two officials, please check carefully!"

Anti-corruption Division, the nemesis of the wicked, they are coming, the good days of these bullies should be coming to an end, right?