Summoning the Peak of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 1119 The Great Purge

Chapter 1117: The Great Purge

Bingbei's anti-corruption operation did not have any warning in advance, and it came and went quickly.

It only took one day for Heibingtai to arrest 31 Shanxi merchant families and four ordinary families headed by the Qiao family in Yanmen and the Chang family in Taiyuan.

After the investigation, another ten families were arrested, and a total of 45 big and small families were arrested.

45 families, this is not a small number, it is already close to one-fifth of the total number of Shanxi merchant families, which can give all Shanxi merchants a jump.

Shanxi merchants are greedy and have no bottom line. While enjoying the huge benefits brought to them by the Jin army, they still want to obtain greater benefits in vain, and even betray the entire nation for this.

Greed blinded the eyes of these Shanxi merchants and made them blindly believe in the strength of Yuanmeng, but they ignored that the Jin army was actually very powerful.

How strong is the Jin army?
As strong as Yuanmeng, he must use the hands of merchants to calculate the Jin army in order to defeat the Jin army with confidence;

The Jin army was so powerful that when they really attacked the Shanxi merchants, they had no power to fight back, so they could only be captured and wait to be killed.

Jin merchants far overestimated their own position, thinking that the Jin army could not do without them, so Qin Wen never dared to do anything to them, but they didn't know that they had already touched Qin Wen's Ni Lin.

The Qin family came from a family of merchants. Few people understood merchants better than Qin Wen. He gave Shanxi merchants huge wealth, but did not give them the force to protect the wealth, just to prevent these greedy merchants from attacking themselves.

The Jin army can protect the wealth of Shanxi merchants, and can also take back their wealth, property and lives.

Just like what Qin Yijue said, these Jin merchants are just pigs raised by the Jin army. After being fattened up, if they are good, they can survive. If they are not good, they will be pulled out and slaughtered for meat.

Heibingtai arrested one-fifth of the Shanxi merchants at one time this time, and it also made those Shanxi merchants who did not commit crimes panic all day long, because these people are not absolutely clean, and the arrest operation is not over yet, no one I don't know if the Jin army will kick open the door of their own house.

Although the arrest was started by Shanxi merchants this time, it is not only aimed at Shanxi merchants, but also against all traitors who have colluded with Yuanmeng. Therefore, the arrest of 45 Shanxi merchant families is only the beginning, and the purge is still in an orderly manner continues.

Soon, the cleansing spread from the business world to other industries. Countless people were arrested, and in the end it involved the political world and even the Qin family themselves.

In the state pastoral mansion, Qin Wen tremblingly looked at the report in his hand, and said angrily: "How dare they, how dare they?"

I saw that the report said: At present, two county magistrates, five county magistrates, six county magistrates, and one county lieutenant have been arrested...

"As many as there are arrested, all of them will be arrested by me, strictly investigated, strictly investigated, strictly investigated." Qin Wen shouted angrily.

In the past few years, because of his health, Qin Wen had loosened his control over the political circles, but he did not expect that because of his negligence, the Jin army's political circles would become so corrupt.

Accepting bribes, shielding Shanxi businessmen, malfeasance and dereliction of duty... and a series of incidents, Qin Wen's scalp is almost numb.

Where did the Yanmen army who used to be a clear-cut official, never close their doors at night, and never pick up things on the road?Just because he changed his name to Jinjun, are all the fine traditions thrown out and fed to the dogs?

Qin Wen only felt that his heart was bleeding, and he felt sad for the Jin army he had formed with his own hands.

Obviously, there are not a few officials of the Jin army who are colluding with Jin merchants. After all, if the officials do not collude with Shang, how could Shang have such courage?However, even if Shanxi merchants bribed all the officials, it would be useless.
The Jin Army implements the policy of separating the military from the government. The military does not interfere with the government and does not corrupt the army. Officials do not have the power to mobilize the army. Therefore, once evidence is found, any official can only be arrested.

The only thing that pleased Qin Wen about this big cleansing was that none of the officials involved was at the county level or above. As for the army, only one county lieutenant was involved.

It can be seen from this that Qin Wen's management of the army is still excellent. No matter how corrupt and dirty the political and business circles are, the army still maintains the purity of soldiers and has not been polluted by dark and dirty politics and business.

"Father, among the people involved in this case, there are many people from my Qin family, as well as some cronies around the mother..."

After speaking, Qin Yijue glanced at Qin Wen's face, and asked cautiously: "Are these people also?"

Qin Yijue didn't finish his sentence, but Qin Wen already understood what she meant, and his complexion suddenly became extremely grim.

Qin Wen had guessed a long time ago that many people in his family had dirty hands and feet, even those around his wife. He thought he could be ruthless, but he really went to this point At that time, he still couldn't help but feel a little bit in a dilemma.

"Grasp."

Qin Wen took a deep breath, and said in a deep voice, "No matter whoever colludes with Yuan Meng, he will be caught."

Qin Yijue sighed slightly when he heard the words, and now his family could not escape.

"Report, my lord, Hao Tong and Sima Fang, two lords, came to ask for an audience wearing thorns."

Qin Wen was shocked when he heard this, and hurried out to meet him, and he saw his confidants Hao Tong and Sima Fang who were bare upper body and wearing thorns.

"Why are you doing this, get up quickly."

While pulling the two of them, Qin Wen said: "I have already heard about the Hao family and the Sima family, and my Qin family is the same. It is normal for a large family to have a few scum. You have nothing to do with it."

Although Hao Tong and Sima Fang are upright officials, they can't control everyone in the family. This time, many people from the Hao family and Sima family were also arrested, and many of them were core brothers in the family. This scene of coming to plead guilty.

Hao Tong and Sima Fang refused to get up, Sima Fang said: "I took good care of myself but failed to take care of my family, I have really betrayed my lord's trust, my lord, please punish me for not being strict with me. "

"In order to restore the cleanliness of our Jin army officials, Hao Tong is willing to go to prison to frighten a bunch of Xiaoxiao."

Hao Tong said with a straight face, Sima Fang couldn't help but twitched his cheeks after hearing this, and thought: Hey, this is different from what you said when you came here, isn't it a little too much play?
Qin Wen knew that these two people were willing to go to jail in person to deter all other officials in order to support his purge, so he immediately said with a moved face: "Wen Ding will live up to your painstaking efforts."

"Come here, Hao Tong and Sima are on the defensive and don't say anything. They will be punished with one month's introspection and one year's imprisonment."

"Thank you, my lord, for completeness."

(End of this chapter)