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Chapter 536 Lu Xiangsheng's Achievements
The 12th year of Chongzhen passed in a hurry, and soon the 13th year of Chongzhen began.

The 13th year of Chongzhen was destined to be an extraordinary year. Many things happened in Lantian during this year.

Lantian County Government, County Honor Office.

With a gloomy face, Lu Xiangsheng took out a stack of documents and said, "Master, there are a lot of moths in Lantian. This is the list of officials who violated laws and regulations I found this winter."

Li Chaosheng looked at the not-so-thin stack of documents in front of him, and his face was very ugly. At this time, Lu Xiangsheng took out one and read: "Wang Zhengwu, graduated from the second class of Lantian College, has been an official for five years, and has served as Dingyuan The mayor of the town, the deputy mayor of Dali County, and the mayor of Dali County. When he was an official, he was seduced by Jiangnan businessman Wang with his beauty. Once at a reception, he got drunk and was arranged to go to the back house and slept with his concubine. , and have been manipulated by others since then."

"I have used the convenience of the power of the head of the village to seek benefits for him many times. In the procurement of raw materials and commodities in Dali County, I deliberately lowered the prices of farmers, colluded with officials and businessmen, and sought huge profits. I also used the convenience of my position to interfere with tax work and help Jiangnan businessmen evaded taxes as high as more than [-] taels, and the circumstances were extremely bad."

"When his house was searched, it was discovered that his family had purchased lean horses from the south of the Yangtze River, raised slaves and maidservants, and lived an extremely extravagant life. After interrogation, he said that they were all gifts from wealthy businessmen in the south of the Yangtze River. In addition, more than [-] taels of silver were confiscated in his cellar."

"Currently, he is being held in the Lantian County Prison. After waiting for the report, the county magistrate will personally convict him."

"Li Deyu, a native of Tanggou Town, Lantian, graduated from the first class of Lantian College and served as an official for eight years. He once served as an official of Lantian's Shipping Department in Shandong, presided over the construction of ocean-going ships, and managed coastal trade, trade with Japan and other related matters. When I was an official, I was very close to the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan, and then gradually became corrupt. I made a compromise with Japan on the issue of the mining of Iwami Yinshan, and I was given five concubines by the Tokugawa shogunate, which led me to Lantian There has been a huge loss in Japan's interests, amounting to more than [-] yuan."

"When his house was sealed up, it was found that there were all Japanese servants in the house, regardless of men and women, especially Japanese women. There were more than [-] people, and everyone wore Chinese clothes and copied the Ming accent. If you don't distinguish carefully It is difficult to detect its true identity."

Hearing this, Li Chaosheng's face has turned into charcoal. He didn't expect such moths to exist in his old Li's house.

As for the Shandong Shipping Department, it was established by Li Chaosheng in recent years. Its main task is to build large ships and do business with Japan. You must know that Japan is a big silver country. The silver factory has not formally mined it on a large scale, and the domestic silver in Daming is too expensive, so Li Chaosheng has purchased silver from Japan by waterway these years.

For this trade route, Lan Tian also paid a lot. You must know that before Lan Tian intervened, this trade route was always controlled by Zheng Zhilong and other pirates. For this trade route, Li Chaosheng had many negotiations with Zheng Zhilong, even There have also been some small-scale frictions on the sea.

However, although Zheng Zhilong is domineering, Lantian is a dragon crossing the river. The soldiers sent to the sea are all very brave, and there are firearms that Zheng Zhilong can't resist, but Zheng Zhilong is also very powerful. In terms of fighting on the water, his strength The experience is much higher than that of the Lantian sailors, so the two sides fought each other, and neither of them got much advantage.

In the end, the two parties reached a series of win-win cooperation terms. Zheng Zhilong allowed Lantian to trade with Japan, but only for silver transactions, and Zheng Zhilong would take [-]% of the net profit for each transaction, otherwise no one would even think about crossing the ocean and wearing To the Sea of ​​Japan.

Li Chaosheng is very annoyed by this, but now is not the time to turn against Zheng Zhilong. After all, in terms of sea power alone, Lantian really can't beat Zheng Zhilong, so he can't worry about dealing with Zheng Zhilong.

In addition, Li Chaosheng also needs Zheng Zhilong to help him deliver goods and supplies to the Nanyang region. Now Li Chaosheng's Lantian also has an enclave in the Nanyang Islands, which is the Moon Island occupied by Li Chaoshui in Nanyang.

Li Chaoshui did well in Nanyang. Because Li Chaosheng worked hard on Li Chaoshui's big ship, he successfully gained a foothold in Nanyang after he took the sailors out to sea.

During this period, he fought two matches with the Portuguese and the Dutch, each winning or losing. Generally speaking, the two sides could not help each other. At the same time, they also divided a territory for Li Chaoshui on the ocean.

Since Li Chaoshui could not get timely support from Lantian, he had no choice but to accept it. Now he could only gain a firm foothold in the Nanyang Islands and help Lantian to gain the interests of Nanyang, including the most urgently needed rubber in Lantian, as well as trade products such as spices.

Li Chaosheng is also powerless about this situation, and the only way to solve this problem is to solve Zheng Zhilong first. There is no way that Zheng Zhilong's fleet will directly envelop the coastal area of ​​Fujian and Guangzhou under his fleet. Li Chaosheng is now It's beyond the reach of the whip, and I have no choice but to make false claims with Zheng Zhilong.

However, Li Chaosheng is not a person who sits still. In order to let Zheng Zhilong know who he will cooperate with, Li Chaosheng personally invited Zheng Zhilong's younger brother Zheng Zhibao to visit Lantian, and personally showed him the powerful firearms of Lantian.

Zheng Zhibao stayed in the Daogouyu camp for two days. After he came out, he sent a request for cooperation to Lantian, and proposed to buy some firearms with Lantian for his own use. Li Chaosheng was very generous to these pirates. After hearing the request After that, they readily agreed, and took the opportunity to propose that they want to borrow their ship to transport some supplies to the Li Chaoshui Department in Nanyang.

Zheng Zhibao fully agreed, and in this way, the two sides reached a preliminary plan of cooperation and win-win. However, after this incident, Li Chaosheng ordered the staff to list Zheng Zhilong's department as a part to be eliminated.

This big pirate is indeed difficult to deal with, but now Li Chaosheng has no way to take him down. You must know that Zheng Zhilong's Eighteen Branches is not a small organization. Even if Li Chaosheng has to deal with it, he must be cautious, otherwise his Li Chaoshui department in the South China Sea will be in danger.

This incident made Li Chaosheng very angry, but it is not something that can be solved by getting angry, and because the domestic situation is relatively complicated, Li Chaosheng does not have much energy to arrange Nanyang well. After cleaning up the domestic affairs by myself, I can free up my hands to solve the Nanyang affairs.

Lu Xiangsheng found out a total of more than a dozen moths mixed in Lantian for Li Chaosheng, including the family members who first started with Li Chaosheng, and some graduates of Lantian Academy who later joined Lantian.

Hearing these people's corruption stories, Li Chaosheng's eyes turned red. He knew that corruption was inevitable, and it was unavoidable for any government, but Li Chaosheng didn't expect that the corruption in Lantian would be so fast.

Although only a dozen or so moths were found during the thorough investigation of thousands of officials in Lantian this time, Li Chaosheng knew that after one cockroach was found, there must be countless cockroaches behind it. On the second day, he took Lu Xiangsheng to announce the criminal evidence and deeds of these people at the county meeting.

At that time, all the officials who heard the farewell looked ugly, and some were even more heartbroken. Li Chaosheng didn't know how many of these people were really heartbroken, how many of them were just pretending, and he didn't know how many of them had been corrupted in private .

But no matter what, Li Chaosheng will not condone this matter. Corruption must be opposed at any time, and he will never tolerate it.

At the meeting, Li Chaosheng proposed that Lantian set up an audit department to start auditing the economic problems of officials in the county. Those who dare to commit crimes will not be tolerated. In addition, the Ministry of Justice, the Political Department, the Investigation Department, and the secretariat representing Li Chaosheng Form the audit meeting, mainly manage the audit department, and be responsible for the audit department.

For things that the audit department can't handle, the audit meeting will come forward to audit. No matter who has problems, they will all be investigated to the end and will not be tolerated.

In addition, the audit results of the audit meeting should be posted in the county, and the people are encouraged to report illegal activities. Cases reported by real names, no matter how big or small, will be handed over to the audit meeting for processing.

For this audit conference, Li Chaosheng personally served as the chairman, and Lu Xiangsheng, Guo Bao, and Zuo Sansi were the vice-chairmen.

Li Chaosheng was furious at this meeting, and this matter was quickly spread, and the entire Lantian officialdom was under tremendous pressure for a while, and some people even said that this time was an unprecedented storm in Lantian officialdom.

And Li Chaosheng also set the tone for this matter. The first step is the self-examination of the officials, allowing the officials to check whether they have violated the rules, whether their relatives have received gifts indiscriminately, and promised to do things. If the relevant problems are found out by themselves, they can take the initiative to report to the audit department, and for these reported cases, they will be dealt with lightly, giving officials a chance to be a new person.

Of course, you can also resist stubbornly. If this matter is audited by the audit department, there is nothing to say, and you can do whatever you want. The current Lantian officialdom does not allow any bugs.

The anti-corruption campaign in the officialdom and the whole people lasted vigorously for more than a month. In the end, Li Chaosheng took the initiative to stop the anti-corruption investigation. up.

Second, Li Chaosheng is also afraid that someone with a heart will mislead this anti-corruption campaign, which will cause a major earthquake in Lantian's officialdom, and even reproduce the cruel officials who appeared in the Wu Zhou period.

The nationwide anti-corruption campaign can indeed achieve very good results at the very beginning, but after a long time, cruel officials will appear in the operation, and one thing will be pushed from one extreme to another.

Just like the copper pot erected by Wu Zetian on the streets of Chang'an back then, everyone has the right to throw small notes into the pot to report others, even prisoners.

Then the initial effect was very good, not only cleaned up the diehards who were loyal to Li Tang, but even eliminated some corrupt elements, but soon they were used by these cruel officials, such as Lai Junchen and Zhou Xing. situation, which is very bad.

Li Chaosheng's purpose is to clean up the corrupt elements in Lantian official circles, not to clean up dissidents like Wu Zetian. Therefore, if this matter is still within a reasonable range and there is no random climbing and biting, the brakes can be effectively achieved. The purpose of this time.

As for some people saying that the corrupt elements may not be thoroughly cleared up, Li Chaosheng's thoughts on this are very realistic. The corrupt elements cannot be cleaned up. There is a saying that when the water is clean, there will be no fish.

It's not that Li Chaosheng doesn't understand the truth in this aspect, but anti-corruption work must be carried out. The purpose is to demonstrate Li Chaosheng's attitude towards corruption and his determination to punish corruption. As long as the purpose of educating officials is achieved.

Li Chaosheng just wanted to tell them that Lantian officialdom is not a place outside the law, and you should be more restrained when doing things. In the future, this kind of audit work will be carried out from time to time. I hope everyone will do their job well.

Li Chaosheng once again emphasized at the meeting: "Officials in Lantian don't get promoted and get rich. If you want to get promoted and get rich, please go to Daming to become an official. To be an official in Lantian, you must do things for the people seriously."

This is what Li Chaosheng said at the end of this rectification movement. The rectification movement is over, and the effect of this rectification movement is also very good. A total of more than 50 moths have been found in the official system of Lantian.

Among them, the instructions given to the petty corrupt Li Chaosheng are to be imprisoned in Lantian Prison, deprived of all honors, and deprived of political rights for life, and his direct children of the first generation are not allowed to hold any official positions in Lantian.

As for the big and huge corruption, Li Chaosheng directly ordered to be beheaded outside the county seat to show the public, and he would never tolerate it.

"Xianzun, I thought you would not end this anti-corruption operation easily."

Outside Lantian County, the spring is warm and flowers are blooming. Li Chaosheng and Lu Xiangsheng are sitting under a big tree drinking tea. After hearing this, Li Chaosheng said: "The anti-corruption has reached this level. If it continues, it is time to avenge myself."

After hearing this, Lu Xiangsheng said: "It's true. Among the reports we received two days ago, several of them were mixed with personal grievances, which obviously did not conform to the truth. If we continue, we will probably bite each other. Stop now." It's good to come down."

Li Chaosheng didn't say anything, but sighed and said, "I really didn't expect that there are more than 50 moths in my team of officials in Lantian."

After hearing this, Lu Xiangsheng said: "That's right, there are only fifty of the thousands of officials in Lantian, and there is only one in a hundred. This is already quite clean, and some of them are ignorant family members who received gifts. Only when you have a handle, you have to do things."

After hearing this, Li Chaosheng sighed and said: "That can't be tolerated, but what you said is also very right. This matter should be taken as a warning. By the way, I will go to the prison to see those prisoners in the afternoon. If you want follow?"

After hearing this, Lu Xiangsheng said: "I'll forget it. I'm going to go back and form an inspection team. On the basis of today's anti-corruption, I will give the officials another dose of medicine and let them know that we have laws in Lantian."

After hearing this, Li Chaosheng said, "That's fine."

Li Chaosheng picked up the teacup and offered a toast to Lu Xiangsheng, then got up and said, "Guzi, clean up and go to the prison with me."

"Yes."

(End of this chapter)