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Chapter 537 County Honor We Are Wrong
In Lantian Prison, in a dim environment, a group of people were wearing fairly neat prison uniforms, leaning on their single beds one by one, with gloomy faces and dead hearts.

At this moment, the door suddenly opened, and the warden led a group of people in.

When the people locked in the prison saw the visitor, their expressions instantly became indescribable.

"Xian, Xianzun." After a long time, someone finally couldn't help it and called out.

At this time, the rest of the people also widened their eyes.

At this moment, Li Chaosheng looked at these familiar people locked in the prison expressionlessly, without saying a word, and such a strange atmosphere permeated the entire prison.

After a long time, Li Chaosheng came to the gate of a prison and looked inside. The people inside quickly covered their faces with quilts. At this moment, Li Chaosheng looked at the man covering his face expressionlessly and said, "Li Deyu, show your face." .”

"Xianzun, I have no face to see you."

Li Deyu covered his face and said, Li Chaosheng looked at Li Deyu and said, "Li Deyu, how did you fall to this point? I think that when I first came to Tanggou Town, you were the first batch of brothers I knew. Let's go to the county together. I exchanged money to arm myself, and you used to be the first member of our Lantian security team. I trusted you and thought you could stand alone, so I let you go to work in the Shandong Shipping Department. I thought you would be depraved At this point, you show your face and see me again."

"Xianzun, I'm sorry for you, I'm greedy for money and lust, I'm seduced by those women from Japan, I'm guilty, I'm guilty, I'm ashamed to see the county lord, I kowtow to the county lord, kowtow."

Li Deyu knelt on the ground and kowtowed for a while, his head hit the ground with a bang, blood flowed out, and it didn't stop, as if he wanted to knock himself to death like this.

Seeing Li Deyu kowtowing, Li Chaosheng sighed, turned to look at the prison beside him and said, "Wang Zhengwu, don't hide."

"County Honor."

Li Chaosheng looked at a man dressed as a scholar with anger on his face, and the man knelt on the ground immediately after hearing the words: "The student is guilty, the student is guilty."

Li Chaosheng looked at him and said: "Wang Zhengwu, I remember that your family was very difficult back then. Your mother worked as a sewing poor woman for the landlord Wang's family in the county in order to provide for your brothers to study. I still remember her calloused hands." You Xin, I remember that in order to let you study, your elder brother could also study, but he resolutely went home to farm in order to support you."

"That year you graduated as an honorary student with No.3 grades in the whole college. Your mother and elder brother wept with joy. When they learned that you were about to be appointed as an official, they cried with joy. You also swore to be a good official."

"But what have you been doing in office? Colluding with wealthy businessmen in the south of the Yangtze River, evading taxes, corrupting the law, committing all kinds of crimes, the amount of silver confiscated in your home is as high as 5 taels, 5 taels, how much money is this, Wang Zhengwu, Wang Zhengwu , You have embezzled so much money, but you only give your old mother one silver dollar for living expenses every month. Your brother's son is sick and has no money, so he asked you to borrow money, and you gave two silver dollars. I said Wang Zhengwu , you are not only corrupt, you don’t even have any conscience, I don’t understand, for some money, you don’t even care about your mother who raised you up so hard?”

"And I saw the ledgers found from your house. You have recorded all the money that those profiteers gave you in these years, and almost all of them were found in your house in the end. You didn't spend much. Since you don't Hua, what are you greedy for this money? Tell me."

Li Chaosheng looked at Wang Zhengwu who was kneeling on the ground and asked, Wang Zhengwu burst into tears when he heard the words: "The county lord, one, I didn't dare to spend a penny, the county lord, poor, I'm afraid of being poor, really poor I was afraid. At that time, when the group of southern businessmen came to me, I disagreed. I knew it was not good to do so, but later they invited me to a meal. The meal was agreed to be I would invite them, but they I settled the bill in advance, and it was a meal of one silver dollar, but they dropped fifty silver dollars directly, they left first, and when I checked out, the store gave me the remaining 49 silver dollars .”

"I refused to ask for it at first, but the shopkeeper insisted that it would not be able to balance the account. I came and went, and I took the money for help. Later, I asked these Jiangnan businessmen to refund the money. They made excuses and pushed back and forth. In a daze, I accepted the money."

"It turned out that my younger brother was going to get married, and the other party had to ask for fifty silver dollars as a bride price, otherwise he would not get married, and the whole family was in a hurry. I was forced to do nothing, so I gave the money to my wife It turned out that the group of Jiangnan businessmen knew about it, and they directly arranged for my brother-in-law's wedding banquet, and they organized it very well."

"After I went back, my wife and my husband's family had a 180-degree change in their attitude towards me. I was also very happy. I gradually became friends with those Jiangnan businessmen. After that, I was on this road. Going farther and farther on the road, until I made such a mistake, Xian Zun, I deserve to die, I deserve to die!"

Wang Zhengwu knelt on the ground and cried miserably. Li Chaosheng heard Wang Zhengwu's cry and sighed: "If I knew today, why bother?"

Li Chaosheng is in one prison, one prison at a time. These people are either his old subordinates, or students who used to be the principal of Lantian Academy. Almost everyone Li Chaosheng can call out his name, and everyone who sees Li Chaosheng After Chaosheng, they all bow their heads and repent of their crimes.

Li Chaosheng looked at them one by one, heartbroken. These were all the heroes in the development of Lantian. Unfortunately, they lost their way on the road to success and became what they are today.

Li Chaosheng walked to his place from the beginning, and then walked out of the prison in a lonely way. When he was about to reach the door of the prison, he suddenly heard crying from inside the prison: "The county lord, we were wrong, the county lord, we were wrong..."

creaking...

The gate of the prison was slowly closed, tears flowed from Li Chaosheng's eyes, and Gu Zi comforted him: "Master Xian, don't be sad, these bastards are not worth it."

Li Chaosheng blinked, flicked away the tears from his eyes, then looked at Guzi beside him and said, "Is the salary of officials very low now?"

After hearing this, Gu Zi said, "It's not too low. It's several times higher than that of ordinary workers. It's enough for them to live a decent life in Lantian."

"But why are these people greedy?"

Gu Zi said: "People's greed is an endless county lord. Today they may be happy to earn one silver dollar a day, but tomorrow they want to earn two silver dollars. After earning two silver dollars, they want to earn three silver dollars." Money, the money guys all want to earn more and more, and there is no time to be satisfied in this regard.”

After hearing this, Li Chaosheng looked at Gu Zi and said, "You see it very clearly."

Gu Zi said: "Because I am also an official under the county lord."

Li Chaosheng turned his head to look at Guzi and said, "So, you also have thoughts of corruption?"

Gu Zi smiled and said: "I don't have one, but I can understand, county lord, the officials working under your command are generally divided into two categories. One is young talents. Expectations, and even their own political ambitions, these people will never be corrupt, because money is not what they pursue, what they pursue is the greatest manifestation of their political value.”

"We have the most people like this in Lantian. Everyone is full of expectations for the future, because Lantian is on the rise, the territory is expanding, and the political structure is gradually improving. These people still have a lot of room for improvement. If you spend some money, you will ruin your political ambitions."

"So these people will keep themselves clean and will not be corrupt, because they have greater pursuits, but some people are different. They are not capable enough, their consciousness is not high enough, and their vision is not long-term enough, so they can only see immediate benefits. , and among the immediate benefits, the money comes the fastest, so they will embezzle, and there are not many such Lantians, and now they are basically all locked up in this big prison."

Gu Zi looked at Li Chaosheng and said, "Xianzun, why don't you speak?"

Li Chaosheng laughed after hearing this, "Gu Zi, don't talk about it, your words are becoming more and more reasonable now."

After hearing this, Gu Zi laughed and said, "I've been with the county magistrate for such a long time, and I should have made progress. I don't know what the magistrate thinks of what I said?"

After hearing this, Li Chaosheng said: "Yes, the problem you mentioned is indeed true. It is unrealistic for a regime to guarantee absolute integrity, but relative integrity can still be achieved, and relative integrity can still be achieved. Integrity depends first on the system and second on supervision, so this incident may not necessarily be bad for us in Lantian. After all, the problem already exists. Now what we need to consider is not how to avoid the problem, but how to solve it quickly. "

"Now that there is a problem when Lantian is preparing to expand, if the problem is solved, then Lantian can enter the stage of steady development again, and Lantian can develop steadily for a few more years, and these few years are enough for Lantian to be established in the world."

"And if this problem is revealed after Lantian unifies the world, it may evolve into a huge political case, just like the Hu Weiyong case and the Lanyu case in the early Ming Dynasty. Apart from Lao Zhu's own personality problems, these cases have no It’s too shameful to exclude these arrogant soldiers.”

Li Chaosheng thought about it and sighed: "To found a country, you must first kill heroes. I don't want Lantian to fall into such a curse, so anti-corruption, rules and regulations, supervision, everything that I can arrange now, I must arrange, otherwise in the future If someone really does something that is sorry for the people and Lantian, I can tell them the laws and regulations. I told them not to be stupid before, but if they don’t listen now, then don’t blame me for being cruel. Unpredictable."

After Li Chaosheng said this, he said: "Inform the Ministry of Justice that this trial will be severe and strict, and those who embezzle more than 2000 taels or equivalent property will be sentenced to death."

"Ah, the county lord is like this, I'm afraid few people in this prison will survive."

Gu Zi couldn't bear it, and Li Chaosheng said: "In troubled times, heavy codes should be used. In addition, notify the Propaganda Department that these people should be the key targets of propaganda, and let all Lantian people know their crimes. In addition, notify the Ministry of Education to set up a clean government education in the college." In addition, inform the college that all the senior students of the college will watch the beheading of these corrupt officials outside Lantian City at noon tomorrow to serve as a warning.”

"Xianzun, let the students see, will this affect their physical and mental health? Especially some female students."

Hearing this, Li Chaosheng said: "This is a troubled world. If you want to live in this troubled world, you can't protect them too well, otherwise they will all become flowers in the greenhouse. You dare not look at them even if you behead them. Now the children outside Lantian are afraid. They have already started to watch people cannibalize."

After hearing this, Gu Zi said, "Yes, I will inform you immediately."

The next day, the sun was shining brightly, and the entire city of Lantian was in a state of boiling, because Lantian hadn't carried out public beheadings for several years, and this time it was going to execute 21 corrupt criminals, and they were all officials of Lantian.

The common people looked at the introductions about these corrupt criminals in the bulletin board. The two leaders were Li Deyu and Wang Zhengwu. These two are typical of the typical, especially Li Deyu, who is a member of the county lord, but even if In this way, it is difficult to escape the sanctions of Lantian law.

The common people looked at the bulletin board and talked about it, scolding corrupt officials in their mouths.

At nine o'clock in the morning, the gate of the prison opened, and prison cars drove out of the city.

When we arrived at the execution ground, there was already a huge crowd of people. Countless people watched here. This is the first major anti-corruption case since the establishment of Lantian.

Soon the prisoners were brought, and all the people knelt on the execution ground with chains, and there were countless people below. At this time, the faces of all the prisoners were numb, and their hearts had been completely broken in the struggle again and again. , They have no face to face the folks and elders in the audience.

While the people in the audience watched silently, suddenly someone shouted: "My son!"

Immediately afterwards, I saw an old lady walking out of the crowd with the support of a rough-eyed man. At this moment, one of the originally numb prisoners who was kneeling on the stage suddenly got excited and raised his head to see that The trembling old man was strenuously walking towards him.

"mother!"

Immediately afterwards, tears poured down like rain, and I couldn't bear it anymore, crying loudly, the old lady was sobbing at this time, she couldn't even walk, and finally it was the rough man who hugged the old lady under the execution platform .

"mother."

"My son! How can you make such a big mistake, my son!"

The old lady wanted to go to the execution platform to pull her son, but the executioner wanted to stop her, but was stopped by the execution officer, who immediately let the old lady go to the execution ground. The old lady touched her son's face with both hands, and the tears on her face were like rain Suddenly, he slapped his mouth upwards, and then hugged his son's head and cried loudly. Everyone in the audience cried, and everyone was moved.

(End of this chapter)