Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 429: Adding Sand

"Method? Aunt Annie, which method do you want? The more troublesome one is for you to supervise it personally and chop off those who are caught committing corruption. If you kill too many people, they will naturally get scared. When the cost of committing a crime is greater than the benefits, they will naturally know what to choose." Perfecto had a calm expression on his face, but his words were cold and emotionless.

Princess Anne gritted her teeth at this suggestion, but still shook her head and said: "The scope of my management is limited. Even if I can ensure that the upper-level officials do not embezzle, what about those grassroots staff?

The empire has a vast group of staff, and they are numerous and responsible for getting things done. It is impossible for me to monitor every one of them!

Little Perfect, do you have a way to ensure that they won't embezzle? You must have a way, right? "

Princess Anne became excited as she spoke, and looked at Perfect with anticipation. In her opinion, the girl in front of her had never disappointed her.

Facing Princess Anne's plea, Perfect sighed helplessly, put down his pen and said, "Aunt Anne, you really know how to give people difficult questions!"

"You are the smartest person in the empire! Little Perfect, you must have a way, right?" Princess Anne knew that she was forcing someone to do something, but this was a problem that had to be solved at the moment, so she had no choice but to make things difficult for Perfect.

After all, it is better to make things difficult for her alone than to make things difficult for everyone in the empire.

"My method goes against your consistent principles, Aunt Anne, and it is very unethical. Are you sure you want to listen to it, Aunt Anne?" Perfectcot looked at Princess Anne. She didn't feel embarrassed. After all, in the history of the original world, countless people had already proved how to effectively prevent corruption at the grassroots level in such a situation.

Princess Anne felt relieved when she heard Perfectcot say there was a way. However, she didn't care that much about Perfectcot's comment that the way was unethical.

After all, she knew the current situation clearly, and she was thankful that there was a way to solve the problem. Whether or not she was immoral was not the primary concern at the moment.

If being immoral can stop the current serious corruption problem, then she doesn't mind giving up her own morals.

"Just tell me, little Perfect. If you think your method is immoral and don't want to do it, then leave it to me. I am willing to give up everything for the empire." Princess Anne said righteously.

"That's not the case, it's just relatively difficult to accept." Perfect shook his head and explained to Princess Anne, "Corruption occurs because it is profitable. The grain used by the Empire for disaster relief is specially allocated from the Empire's material reserve warehouses. Generally speaking, it is the better grain sold on the market. After all, the Empire has certain standards for purchasing and storing grain in warehouses.

Even if there are problems such as mildew, rot, etc., someone will clean and replace them in time every year, so even if there are some problems, they will not be too serious.

Once the grain reaches the hands of disaster relief officials or grassroots staff responsible for distributing grain, they can resell it. After all, it is good grain and there will be no trouble selling it.

After that, whether it is selling inferior goods as good ones or burning warehouses directly, the empty accounts can be filled. So to solve this problem, the simplest way is to make everything unprofitable. Without profits, these people will naturally not embezzle.

Like I said, when the cost of crime is greater than the benefit, people will naturally stop committing crime.”

"I understand. What should we do then?" Princess Anne looked at Perfectotte with burning eyes, waiting for her answer.

"It's very simple. That is to replace the standard high-quality food in the imperial warehouse with the low-quality food that is moldy, rotten, or mixed with stones and gravel." Perfect said an idea that Princess Anne thought was immoral and smoking: "These low-quality food are originally food that no one wants in the market. Usually, only the poorest people will buy this kind of food or food made from this kind of food, because they have no money to buy better food.

Therefore, this kind of grain on the market cannot be sold. In many cases, grain traders sell it directly to ranches as feed, or simply throw it away or burn it.

As long as Aunt Annie replaces the relief food with this kind, those officials will not be able to sell it even if they try to resell it, and the problem will naturally be solved.

However, eating too much moldy grain will be harmful to the body, so it is better to mix it with sand. Mixing one-third of sand in a bag of wheat will not only allow more people to eat, but also make the grain worthless. "

"No wonder you said this method is unethical. It is indeed unethical." Princess Anne took a deep breath. She didn't expect Perfectcot to give her such an idea. It had a great impact on her.

But after careful consideration, Princess Anne had to admit that this method could indeed ensure that the poor at the bottom of the society could at least get relief food instead of having it resold by officials and staff.

After figuring this out, Princess Anne took a deep breath and said to Perfectcott, "I understand. I will have someone take care of this matter."

"Aunt Anne, are you really going to do this? In fact, you should let the Duke of Gloucester send someone to handle it. As a representative of the royal family, you have a very good reputation among the people. This is a valuable asset and should not be wasted." Perfectcot suddenly dissuaded Princess Anne and proposed another more unethical way to maximize the benefits of this matter: "Aunt Anne, you can let the Duke of Gloucester push a dishonest noble to do this. The other party will definitely embezzle part of it in the process of doing this to line his own pockets.

And after he has accomplished his goal, you can then publicize his crimes of corruption, kill him and win the hearts of the people.

The public's heart is very important to the Empire now. Aunt Annie, you have a very positive image in the hearts of the people. This will be very useful for us to stabilize the public's heart and call on the people to obey the decisions of the Empire in the future, so you'd better not waste your personal prestige. "

"Isn't this... too much..." Princess Anne was completely speechless by Perfectcot's suggestion. She didn't expect Perfectcot to be able to do this.

However, Perfect just waved his hand indifferently and continued to review the documents with a pen: "It's nothing. Anyway, those nobles are really a burden to the empire. It's better to let them play their role and make some contributions to the empire."

(End of this chapter)