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After Liu Rushi saluted at the Guozijian's sacrificial wine, he wiped the sweat from his forehead and said that he was riding a horse. The horse bumped into someone else's fruit stand on the road, and it took some time to negotiate for compensation.

It is equivalent to driving in a traffic accident and delaying some time on the road.

Li Beichen stared at Liu Rushi for a long time without speaking.

He was so scared that there was more sweat on his head.

"Tomorrow, the Hanlin Academy will launch a selection of eight books, two in each category. If the book sells the most, you can get half of the income. Those that do not meet the style and content requirements will be rewritten by the director of the Imperial Academy. The Imperial Academy will be in charge. This is an expedited printing. Be sure to complete the printing before tomorrow's hour."

"My minister obeys the order." Liu Rushi breathed a sigh of relief.

"My lords, from now on, you must be extremely careful when riding horses, and practice your riding skills more in your spare time. In the busy city, it is advisable to ride at a low speed. If you are not skilled enough, get off your horse. Don't disturb the people. Otherwise, this time you will just knock over the fruit stand. Next time it's time to trample and hurt people."

When he said this, Li Beichen was a little angry, thinking that Chen Ning, who was riding a horse with Murong Chi after drinking, had broken his wrist a few days ago, so his eyes turned coldly to Chen Ning and Murong Chi's faces.

"Don't ride a horse after drinking, hurting others and yourself."

The story of Murong Chi and Chen Ning has already spread throughout the court.Those present knew that the emperor was alluding to Murong Chi.

Murong Chi was the number one scholar in the previous session, and he was born in a family in the capital. Although he has declined, after all, a lean camel is bigger than a horse.

Moreover, he once worked in the Imperial Academy, with strong professional ability, modest and low-key personality, good popularity and high prestige, and was promoted to the Minister of the Ministry of Households, which is well-deserved and promoted based on strength.

Therefore, everyone's schadenfreude is reflected in their hearts and gossip after the meeting.

But Chen Ning failed the college entrance examination and the civil service examination, so he got a job in the Imperial Academy through the back door completely based on his connections, and spent all day offering advice and suggestions to the emperor, which was reused by the emperor, and even won the great honor of having lunch with the emperor, It's very dissatisfying and jealous.

But after all, there is no shortage of brains in the Hanlin Academy, and the imperial examinations are simply a piece of cake for the prodigal talents, so I burst out laughing.

Amidst the passive laughter, the tense smiles on everyone's faces couldn't be held back anymore, and they laughed softly.

Li Beichen looked up, heh, it turned out to be Xie Jing, a descendant of the Xie family, a scholarly family in the south of the Yangtze River, who is worthy of a romantic and handsome man.

"Xie Jing, since you were a talented scholar who made a sensation in the capital and wrote "Ode to the West". It can be said that you can write a story about a gifted scholar and a beautiful lady without a single word. Naturally, I ordered you to be classified into four categories. Write one chapter for each script, hand it in within three days."

Xie Jing happily saluted, and accepted the job without saying a word.

He was originally a rich scholar in southern Jiangsu. Since he was a child, he was influenced by the wealthy and scholarly children in the south of the Yangtze River.

Since he was a child, he was extremely intelligent and quick-witted. He listened to music, recited poems, made prose and wrote scripts in Goulan. He not only loved it but also was good at it.

It's just that, according to the arrangement of the family, he embarked on an official career, and wasted all his love and love in the boring and boring day after day of repairing and supplementing books.

Now the emperor asked him to write the storybook, it was like a long drought met with rain, and finally he could use the imperial salary to do something he was really good at.

Naturally, he was so happy that he could only slap his thigh.

Everyone gave Xie Jing a little gloating look, waiting to see his good show.

Then Zhou Shipeng, the left governor of the Procuratorate, and three other members of the Imperial Academy also arrived.

When Zhou Shipeng, the left governor of the Procuratorate, came, he was holding a thick stack of files in his hand.That is the list of officials in the capital who surrendered, the amount of corruption and the situation of reporting others that Li Beichen ordered to hand over.

Today, the second day of April, is the last day for Beijing-China corrupt officials to surrender and hand over their stolen money.

According to the principle of amnesty announced by Li Beichen at the court at that time, all officials who handed over the money corrupted in ink in full will not be held accountable before the inspector's office closes today.

Officials who are reported and exposed after today will be punished according to the "Law of the Ming Dynasty" on top of the original crime of corruption.

The Hanlin Academy has a very high status, but they have no luxuries, and they are all noble people who are accompanied by classics all day long.Therefore, seeing the thick stack of corruption files, one would either show an expression of indignation, or be very aloof and lofty.

But their hearts are somewhat complicated.

There are some high-minded people who imitate the sages, but there are also ordinary people who are well-educated.

For the latter, if they have the opportunity to be greedy, they actually want to be greedy and will be greedy.And they subconsciously feel that they are smarter, better understand the loopholes in the system, know how to be greedy with restraint, and cover up with skill.

Li Beichen dismissed everyone from the Hanlin Academy first, and assigned tasks to the remaining three alone.

A joint task was assigned to the Procuratorate and the Ministry of Household Affairs to write a series of stories on the theme of the recent anti-corruption.

On the one hand, it is necessary to increase the publicity of the emperor's achievements in rectifying officials and punishing corruption;

On the other hand, based on the two recent major corruption cases, Zhang Cheng, Minister of the Household Department, and Mazda, a former member of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, Wailang Mazda, warns that corruption will be arrested in the future, and if caught, it will inevitably be attacked with an iron fist by the imperial court.

In addition, an anti-corruption textbook "Awakening Corruption" for all officials of the Ming Dynasty will be compiled and distributed to officials at all levels for study.

After assigning the tasks, Li Beichen left behind Shi Zhou Shipeng, the left governor of the Inspectorate, and Shi Chang Yi'an, the right governor of the Inspectorate.

"Zhou Qing, Chang Qing has dealt with so many officials who surrendered in the past three days. What do you two think is the root cause of corruption?
Taizu hated corruption very much, and the punishment was very severe. If the corruption reached [-] points, he would be sentenced to death. For major corruption, he even adopted torture such as skinning and filling grass outside the law. Why is corruption still repeatedly banned?

As a result, when the government is ruled in the morning, there will be crimes in the evening, and in the evening, it will be the same in the morning. "

"emperor."

Zhou Shipeng and Chang Yi'an exchanged glances, but they didn't dare to say anything.

"I forgive you for your innocence. The two of you tell the truth separately. Zhou Qing, you speak first."

"Corruption has been an insoluble problem since ancient times. It's like wildfire. If one group is killed, the new group will continue to be corrupt. Under high pressure and torture, why are these corrupt people not afraid of death? These three days Here, Weichen also asked them such words.

The reasons they gave are roughly as follows: the first is that the salary is too low, and it is often not paid on time; the second is that if a department does not cooperate with others, it will be collectively isolated and suppressed, and there is no hope of promotion; the third is that The overall environment is that if you don’t pay money, you don’t do things. If you want to get things done, you have to manage it in many ways. "

"According to the annual income of ordinary people, the salaries of officials are not low, at least not low for officials in Beijing. Low-level officials are another matter.

Most of the officials in Beijing and China are from the fourth grade or above.The annual salary of a first-rank official is nine hundred stones.And the common people only consume fifty or sixty shi of grain for a family of five a year.It is equivalent to feeding 240 people.Even from the fourth grade, there are [-] stones, which is equivalent to feeding fifty people.

Salary is not a problem, and it can be increased moderately.As for whether the distribution of rice grains is on time, it can be changed to the distribution of silver taels.can also be resolved.The most difficult thing to solve is the problem of not doing things in officialdom without giving money.Chang Qing, what do you think? "

Write bald.ah.I lost 25 words this month.

Keep working hard next month~