Kai Fu Han

Chapter 353 Collusion between officials and businessmen
After capturing Huacheng Pass and Huacheng on March [-], Liu Xinqi waited in Huacheng for another two days.But the expected Jinguo counterattack did not come.

According to the intelligence from the Military Intelligence Department, Jin troops gathered in Liaoyang Prefecture in Tokyo, but there is no definite news as to why they did not go south.

This is the disadvantage of the Xinghan Alliance that there are no spies at the top of the Jin Kingdom, unless some middle-level and above generals of the Jin Kingdom are captured to serve as tongues.

Liu Xinqi has arranged for the head of the Military Intelligence Department on Jingdong Road to do this. However, the Jin Army in Tokyo seems to know that the Xinghan Alliance has many inhuman high-end forces, and is aware that the soldiers and horses attacking Huacheng this time are Xinghan. When the Allied forces intervened, the mid-level and above officers were very careful and had a large number of guards when they came in and out.

Due to the shortage of manpower in the Liaodong Branch of the Xinghan Allied Military Intelligence Department, the only person in charge is a soldier, and the plan to capture the tongue has not yet been completed.

Liu Xinqi couldn't spend time here all the time. He could only hand over the defense work here to Xiang Jin and the remaining battalion commander of the Fourth Field Regiment, and then he returned to Penglai on the ship that transported the former Jin Kingdom people from the two cities.

On March [-], Liu Xinqi once again summoned Gao Yuan and Liu Xinyuan for a meeting.

"The first fleet continues to go south, trying to make one more trip before the typhoon season arrives."

After hearing this, Gao Yuan asked: "Is the food business still the main business?"

"Yes, transport industrial products south and transport raw materials back north." Liu Xinqi replied.

"Should we continue to operate the Southern Zhao court?" Gao Yuan asked.

"No need, according to the news from Zhao Nan, the reward given to us by the imperial court will come soon." Liu Xinqi replied.

Zhao Nan is now the agent of the Xinghan League in Hangzhou and Yangzhou, which is equivalent to the ambassador of the Xinghan League in Southern Zhao, an ambassador without official title.

After handing over Wanyan Zongjun to Wang Boyan, Wang Boyan has been "working hard" to help the Xinghan League to gain status. Fortunately, Xu Han sincerely helped, and the progress was accelerated.

When Liu Xinqi went to Cangzhou, news came back from the south that the Emperor of Southern Zhao had accepted Wanyan Zongjun. As long as they accepted Wanyan Zongjun, they would have to give an explanation to the Xinghan League.

"This time you will lead the first and second fleets to Korea and Japan with me. I plan to go around again." Liu Xinqi said.

After regaining Denglai, Liu Xinqi was planning Goryeo and arranged people to do the preliminary work. It should be almost done now. Even if it is a little less successful, Liu Xinqi can speed up the progress of the plan this time.

"Okay, I'll go down and make arrangements."

This time, a battalion of the Fourth Field Regiment will go to Goryeo with Liu Xinqi. Liu Xinyuan and his reconnaissance battalion, and Jiao Rui and his special operations company will also go together.

On March [-], the first fleet had set off south, the second and third fleets were still making preparations, and there were twenty two-thousand-stone transport ships, all undergoing final maintenance and rest.

Liu Xinqi worked in the League Department, and Xu Zhong entered the office to report.

"The system is so strict, the supervision is so meticulous, and the top management are all warriors, how can something like this happen?" Liu Xinqi couldn't believe it.This time Xu Zhong reported on the collective corruption incident of three officials in Huang County.

These three officials belong to the same family. One of them is from the Xinghan League who entered the first batch of official recruitment examinations, and the other two are from the second batch.

The one who entered first is currently working in the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, and the other two, one is in the Ministry of Household Affairs and the other is in the Ministry of Finance.Coincidentally, all three of them were assigned to Huang County.

In Huang County, due to the previous battle between the Xinghan League and the Jin-Qi Allied Forces, and the subsequent liquidation of mine owners, a lot of unclaimed land was created.

These lands were eventually resettled from three directions: First, if the landlord died, the heirs of the previous landlord were found. According to the laws of the former Zhao Dynasty and some regulations of the Xinghan League, these lands would be distributed to all heirs.The second is that the landlord is not dead, but those who enter the prison will be taken back to the Xinghan League according to the landlord's wishes, or they will be rented to the Xinghan League, and the Xinghan League will rent them to landless farmers.Third, if the landlord is dead and has no heirs, the Xinghan League will directly confiscate it.

The problem lies in the third.

Huang County has been ruled by three countries in the past three years. Xinghan League is the fourth. The existing land deeds are very confusing. The same land may have the land deeds of Zhao State or Qi State, and it is not yet the same person.

After the Xinghan League regained Denglai, they began to measure the cultivated land, re-confirm the rights of all cultivated land, forest land, etc., and then issue new land deeds.

In order to increase mutual supervision between departments, Liu Xinqi stipulated that the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries would be responsible for measuring cultivated land, the Ministry of Household Affairs would be responsible for confirming rights and issuing land titles, and the Ministry of Finance would be responsible for paying for land redemption.

The Xinghan League has recruited more than 5000 officials from various channels. Coincidentally, the three officials who had problems this time happened to be in Huang County, and they happened to be assigned to the same working group. Among the three ministries of household affairs and finance, none of them happened to have a general card.

Faced with the third type of situation within their own responsibility, where the landowner was dead and had no heirs, the three of them allocated some good land, found local gentry and landowners, and sold the land.

The operation process is simple.First find the buyer, and then the buyer determines the land he wants to buy, and forges the land deeds of Zhao State, Pseudo Chu, and Pseudo Qi, claiming that the land has an owner. The three of them colluded to change the property of the land, from ownerless land to owned land. Issue a new Xinghanmeng land deed to the buyer, and then collect the land sale money, divide it privately and put it in your own pocket.

Of course, the price of the land sold by the three people was very cheap. Buyers, sellers, hello, me, hello, everyone. No one reported anything.

For ordinary people, who have lived in the local area for decades, of course some people can see the fishiness in it. However, the idea of ​​​​"official status" has been around for thousands of years, and the idea of ​​​​people not fighting with officials has been deeply rooted in their bones, and it has not infringed on their own interests. For this Of course, we should turn a blind eye to the collusion between officials and businessmen. It is better to do less than to do more.

The three people worked together and sold more than 1000 acres of land through this model.

Other working groups also had this situation where there was no owner at first, and then someone came to claim the land with the deed. After the working group conducted on-site investigation, if the land was true, the land would be returned to the landlord, and if the land was false, the land would be handed over to the Dali Yuan and sentenced to forced labor.

Every working group has this kind of situation, so the three of them don't seem so special. It's just that the three of them have dealt with more special situations.

The Dali Yuan of the Xinghan League has always been in short supply of manpower. Even after the second official recruitment examination, some more manpower was added to the Dali Yuan. However, after the division of five departments, the manpower assigned to the Supervision Department is already very few. Supervision The ministry also has to supervise more than 5000 officials in eight counties in Denglai, as well as factories, research institutes and other departments affiliated to the league, and it cannot cover everything at all.

What led the trio to do has never been revealed.

(End of this chapter)