I was the emperor in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 187

Guo Wenyu's promotion was rapid, and when he was less than fifty years old, he was promoted to the third-rank household servant.

According to the normal trajectory, after the current Household Minister Xia Yuanji resigns, if he can make some achievements in his tenure.

It is not impossible to be an extremely human minister and sit on the top spot of one of the six ministries.

However, such a talent as him is not considered outstanding, and the reason why he has achieved his current status is that he has mediocre achievements.

It relied on the backing behind him, the secret operations of those Qingliu Confucianists in the court.

It is not difficult to imagine that there must be someone behind his back for such a major event as Tanmo's food storage in Taicang.

But who these people are, even Xia Yuanji, who has been an official for many years and is getting stronger, can't guess for a while.

And Li Tian also had resentment on his face. In his opinion, the whole world should be his own.

Corrupting ink and storing food in Taicang is tantamount to stealing money from one's own pocket, how can this be tolerated.

Guo Wenyu, who was prostrate on the ground and trembling all over, said eagerly:
"The lower officials have been promoted successively in recent years, all thanks to the election of Master Lv, the Zuodu Censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and others, saying that the officials are poor.

But managing the relationship between top and bottom is quite expensive, so they recommended me to the position of Zuo Shilang of the household department, in order to benefit from it.”

When Xia Yuanji heard this, his face flushed red with anger, and the resentment in his heart couldn't be calmed down.

"Damn, the hateful Censor of Zuodu, the hateful Lu Zhen, actually set their minds on the head of the old man's household department, and the old man will never end with him."

Everyone knows that the Ministry of Households is in charge of the world's money and food, and whether it is a servant or a treasury official, they are fat and oily jobs.

Those gossip officials who can't make money, except to hit the head of the household department, is one of the only ways they can make money.

However, Guo Wenyu, as the third-rank servant of the household department, can be regarded as Xia Yuanji's right-hand man, so close.

Such an important position turned out to be just a tool for other people to arrange around him to recruit talents, how could this make Xia Yuanji not angry.

The anger rose, almost to the point of smoking from the top of the head.

He bowed his hands to Li Tianyi and said angrily, "Your Majesty, I beg you to summon Lu Zhen immediately, but I would like to ask him face to face.

Who on earth gave him the guts to put his mind on the head of the household department. "

And Li Tian also looked shocked.

Zuodu Yushi of the Metropolitan Procuratorate is a high-ranking member of the imperial court. Although the Metropolitan Procuratorate travels outside the six ministries, he has the important responsibility of correcting and impeaching hundreds of divisions, arguing wrongdoing, admirals, and being the eyes and ears of the emperor.

In later generations, that would be an important position similar to that of the Minister of Justice.

However, it is so important, such a prominent official, that he would instruct a servant of the household department to embezzle ink and store grain in Taicang.

This time, it was only found that nearly [-] dans of food had been swapped for corruption. Guo Wenyu had been in office for three years, and it is not known how much corruption was involved during this time.

Even if it is 30 dan a year, it will be [-] dan in three years, which is millions of taels of silver.

"Damn it, I have worked hard for more than a month, but I have only accumulated a few million.

And the Zuo Shilang of the household department in the district actually corrupted millions of dollars. He is an official there, he is simply a humanoid moth! "

With a gloomy face, he glanced at Guo Wenyu coldly, and shouted to the people around him,

"Come on, go and bring Lu Zhen here! Immediately, immediately!"

Huang Yan immediately stepped forward, "Old slave, let someone else do it!"

Seeing Li Tian getting angry, everyone's original exclamation one after another subsided instantly.

Hundreds of people in a small courtyard were silent, except for the gradually weakening sound of the rushing rain, there was no other noise.

At this time, seeing things getting weirder, Wu Zhong, the Minister of the Ministry of Industry, quietly came to Li Tian's side.

He whispered, "Your Majesty, after all, Yushi Zuodu is a second-rank official in the current dynasty. Even if he is suspected of embezzling ink and storing food in Taicang, it would be a loss of royal dignity to inquire on such an occasion!"

If Li Tian was still the original Zhu Gaochi, he might pay more or less attention to the following face issues.

But Li Tian, ​​as a time traveler, even though he has been the emperor for a month, has never really taken the vain things like the royal face seriously.

"What? Does Wu Shangshu feel that there is something wrong with my handling like this? You are so protective of Lu Zhen, do you mean that you have a part in greed for ink and food!"

Li Tian didn't really think that there was something wrong with Wuzhong, he was just angry, and he was just upset to see that there were still people interceding for Lu Zhen at this time.

But his words frightened Wu Zhong quite a bit.

He quickly knelt down on the ground and shouted repeatedly, "Your Majesty is aware, even if you give me ten guts, I won't dare!"

"Hmph, sorry you don't have the guts."

The salaries of officials in the Ming Dynasty were the lowest in all dynasties. Corruption has never stopped since the founding of the country by Zhu Yuanzhang until Emperor Chongzhen hanged Meishan.

Although Zhu Papi severely rectified it when he was in power, which made this group of civil servants and generals disappear for decades, but during the Hongwu period, this kind of atmosphere showed signs of rising again.

Li Tian knew that once this kind of ethos was developed, he would be ruthless if he checked it from top to bottom.

Following the example of my cheap grandfather, it is estimated that it will not be completely solved in three or two years.

It is estimated that it is impossible to completely eradicate this kind of atmosphere, unless the reform is successful and a more perfect supervision system is established, there will be a slight possibility.

Although he had been prepared in his heart, it was unexpected for him to encounter such a major corruption case so soon.

But since he met him, he didn't intend to let it go lightly, and just took this opportunity to beat up these so-called old courtiers.

The reason why he hinted at Wu Zhong's gun and stick just now was actually for this purpose.

Li Tian can't believe that these people have clean buttocks if they can get into the position of director of a department, but it's just not yet time for a thorough investigation.

Seeing that everyone was silent and afraid, he turned his eyes playfully again, and he had already shrunk into a ball, like a frightened quail like Guo Wenyu.

He thought to himself, ever since he came here through time travel, the Censor Yanguan has been bad luck.

Whether it's Lu Zhen, who is the chief official, or those great Confucians of the Qing Dynasty, the sun has already faded by now, and they are no longer the same as before.

He couldn't believe that Lu Zhen and the others still had the guts to play so big at this moment.

With doubts, he asked Guo Wenyu in a cold voice,

"Guo Wenyu, I don't believe that Zuodu Yushi is the only one involved in such a major corruption case. Who else is there? You can tell me the truth."

Guo Wenyu thought it was a fluke before, but when he saw Li Tian actually asked such a question, his heart darkened immediately, but he gritted his teeth secretly and insisted:

"There is really no one else, and the guilty minister only corrupted ink once under the intimidation of Mr. Lu!"

"Is there really no one else? If you really recruit, I can give you a happy one.

Let your family members go, if someone else is found out afterwards, you will not be the only one who will die, you understand. "

It's really not honorable to threaten a courtier face to face, but Li Tian always feels that there is something tricky behind this matter, so he can't control that much.

(End of this chapter)