Daming: I am the most powerful emperor grandson, please abdicate the throne

Chapter 418 How to eliminate corrupt officials?

Zhu Xuan's memorial was sent to Yingtian.

After passing through the cabinet, it soon came to Zhu Yuanzhang's hands.

Hu Guang and the others figured out a rule. As long as it was a memorial about Zhu Xuan, it should be sent to Zhu Yuanzhang as soon as possible. When Zhu Yuanzhang was happy, today's work could be easier. However, this disaster memorial was more serious, so they hesitated. After a while, he sent it over.

Although the disaster has been suppressed by Zhu Xuan, the situation is still serious and His Majesty should be informed as soon as possible.

When he saw that Shunde officials colluded with local gentry to embezzle disaster relief food and oppress the people, Zhu Yuanzhang became so angry that he smashed all the tea sets on the table.

After smashing it, Yunqi had to carefully put it away and have someone send another tea set over.

Hu Guang stood in front of Zhu Yuanzhang, facing his furious Majesty. Although the anger was not directed at himself, he still trembled under the emperor's majesty.

Even though the old emperor was old, he was still very majestic and could hold down his ministers. In the past, he killed so many people that the officials were frightened.

When he saw how Zhu Xuan provided disaster relief and killed all the corrupt officials and wealthy gentry, Zhu Yuanzhang's mood improved, and then he laughed and said: "My dear grandson did a good job. Those corrupt officials deserve to die, but they are still not ruthless enough. Not enough people were killed to shock the local area.”

"Isn't this cruel enough?"

Hu Guang was thinking, if the next emperor is a young grandson and is as ruthless as His Majesty, will officials like them still have a good life?
  After finally getting rid of the old Emperor Zhu, he was immediately greeted by the equally ruthless Little Emperor Zhu who was brought up by Zhu Yuanzhang.

Being an official is really difficult!
  "I didn't expect that an official from a small county would dare to be so lawless."

Zhu Yuanzhang snorted coldly and said, "Have we not done well enough?"

Hu Guang responded: "Back to your majesty, it's not that your majesty didn't do a good enough job, but that the Ming Dynasty was too big! In many remote areas, officials there thought that your majesty couldn't control it, and no one would know about anything they did, so they dared to do it Very presumptuous.”

"What do you think we should do?"

Zhu Yuanzhang asked again.

This question put Hu Guang in a difficult position.

After being quiet for a while, Hu Guang said: "You can increase the number of local supervisory officials, but doing so will require a lot of new officials and increase the court's expenditure. In addition, there is no guarantee that the officials assigned to the local areas will be good officials, so... …”

He made this suggestion but could not perfect it.

This suggestion was very common in ancient times.

But if the plan works, there won't be so many corrupt officials in the past dynasties.

In the center of the imperial court, there is great corruption, but in remote places, there is petty corruption.

Under normal circumstances, those petty corruptions have a greater impact on the people.

The first thing they come into contact with is the common people, and they will bully the subordinates and flatter the superiors.

They constantly oppress the people at the lower level, and then dedicate the benefits obtained from the oppression to the corrupt people at the upper level, and the officials protect each other.

Even Jin Yiwei can't do what Hu Guang said.

Zhu Yuanzhang also fell silent. This problem was really difficult to solve. Finally, he put it aside temporarily and said: "You go to the Ministry of Personnel to discuss and arrange the officials in Shunde."

"Yes!"

Hu Guang said.

After walking out of the hall, he breathed out.

The feeling of oppression is finally gone.

Zhu Yuanzhang sat in the palace and thought hard about how to deal with corrupt officials.

Even if it cannot be completely eliminated, the number must be reduced. However, this problem has not been solved since ancient times, or even in modern society hundreds of years later.

Zhu Yuanzhang is even less likely.

No matter how many corrupt officials are killed, it will not be enough to scare the monkeys.

Those who should be greedy will not be afraid, and those who are not greedy will never be greedy.

"Ugh!"

Zhu Yuanzhang felt a headache. The matter of corrupt officials was really difficult to deal with.

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Zhu Xuan returned to Panyu.

First, go to the government office to check the disaster relief work in Panyu and other counties.

Except for Shunde, other counties have done pretty well. As for the disaster relief work outside Guangzhou Prefecture, he cannot intervene and is not responsible for it. I have not heard of any particularly big problems happening so far, so there is no need for him. Intervene forcefully. After the inspection, Zhu Xuan returned to his residence.

As soon as she entered the door, she saw Cen Hua waiting for her. This girl quickly walked towards Zhu Xuan.

"Your Highness, you are finally back."

Cen Hua said as if taking credit: "I have been keeping an eye on Ji Wenjing for you, but he didn't make any move."

"It's hard work, little sister Hua'er."

Zhu Xuan rubbed her little head and said, "I'll go see him."

The most important thing after returning is how Ji Wenjing handles it.

"Greetings to Your Highness."

When Ji Wenjing saw Zhu Xuan coming back, he bowed respectfully.

Zhu Xuan sat down, looked at each other for a moment, and said, "You are right about everything. The officials in Shunde are more greedy than I thought."

Ji Wenjing smiled slightly and said, "Your Highness, can you trust me?"

Zhu Xuan said: "You haven't given me enough conditions to trust you."

Ji Wenjing said: "Your Highness is worrying too much."

"I have many enemies. Sometimes it's better to be cautious."

Zhu Xuan said and added: "You continue to stay here. I will not let you leave until I can completely trust you. Of course, you can also break out on your own."

Ji Wenjing smiled bitterly and said: "I don't have the ability to break out of His Highness's house!"

He kept to himself and stayed here quietly.

I don't find it offensive at all.

Seeing that he had no other reaction, Zhu Xuan looked at the recent investigation of Ji Wenjing and still found no problem.

Leave the courtyard.

"Your Highness!"

Cen Hua came over and said, "Is everything done?"

Zhu Xuan said: "If you don't do it well, I won't come back. Do you miss me and don't want me to leave?"

"I didn't miss you."

After saying this, Cen Hua felt her cheeks heat up and said, "I'm just worried that the people outside will suffer again."

Zhu Xuan said: "As long as I am here, the people will not suffer. Hou Xian, let Yan Guan come to see me."

After chatting with Cen Hua for a while, he continued to work.

Even though I just came back not long ago, I didn’t rest or slack off.

The most important issue at present is the corruption of the Science Cabinet.

On the way back, Jin Yiwei had already started a thorough investigation.

As soon as Yan Guan arrived, he sent over the first batch of investigation results.

The people in the Science Pavilion do have some problems.

Zhu Xuan did not allow academic problems to arise. This was extremely serious and related to the foundation of the development of the Ming Dynasty. He said: "The Jin Yiwei went to catch people and caught them one by one. Don't be lenient."

What he lacks most is talent.

Even if they are all caught, it doesn't matter. At worst, they will train a batch more. Even if the research is suspended, internal corruption will not be tolerated.

Jin Yiwei received the order and immediately took action to arrest the person.

Zhu Xuan will not show mercy, and Jin Yiwei is even more cruel. After catching people, he tortures them and interrogates them, making them spit out other people who may be corrupt, and then arrests people based on the list. People in the Science Pavilion were panicked for a while.

After finishing dealing with the Science Pavilion, Zhu Xuan looked at the current situation of Qianzhuang and Da Ming Baoqian.

The promotion of Ming Dynasty banknotes still has a certain effect. Nowadays, more and more people are using it. It was first popular among businessmen, and then ordinary people followed.

(End of this chapter)