At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

"Salt water bibimbap? Good, good, very good!!!"

Su Yuan looked at the emperor who was gnashing his teeth, trembling uncontrollably.

The emperor was angry, not in a normal way.

Usually when the emperor is so strongly angry, death is unavoidable.

If you get angry like a broken teacup, there will probably not be many dead people, and things like family members will definitely happen.

Of course Guo Peng was very angry.

He immediately ordered the matter to be further investigated, and every official who had been found to be corrupt must spit out everything he knew.

Who leads, who assists in corruption, who assists in selling stolen goods, how to sell stolen goods, and so on.

Then all the offending officials were beheaded, none of them were left behind, their homes were confiscated, they were deposed as common people, all their family members were exiled to Pingzhou, and their descendants were imprisoned for three generations and were not allowed to be officials.

Officials, family members, friends and others who participated in the corruption were all ransacked their homes, the perpetrators were beheaded, and the rest were all exiled to Pingzhou, and they were not allowed to return to their original places.

The above-mentioned people, under the special supervision of the officials in the exile, are only allowed to eat salt water mixed with rice, and only a spoonful of salt water is not even mixed with rice.

Eat till you die.

If someone dares to be merciful and does not supervise carefully, once they are discovered, the supervisory officials will be the same, and they will eat salted rice and rice for the rest of their lives until they die.

Mao Jie, the governor of Liangzhou, was not the main person responsible, but he was guilty of an unknown crime. In order to detect it in time and deal with it quickly, he was fined for three months.

As the main responsible person, Fa Cao failed to detect the illegal behavior of officials in a timely manner. Officials of local auditing, transportation, and verification departments did not fulfill their duties in the process of material allocation, transportation, and arrival at the destination, and they must all be held accountable.

From top to bottom, don't even try to run away!

Grassroots bureaucrats, I can replace as much as I don’t have.

A village head and township head, does he still want to argue with you about the scriptures? !

Do some auxiliary officials still need to pass on family classics? !

You must not feel that you are indifferent, that you are unique and irreplaceable.

No one of you is unique to me.

Someone Guo's anger broke through the sky, and poured his angry will on the land of Xiliang.

Corrupt officials fell ill.

At the end of December in the cold and windy year of Yande, more than 100 Liangzhou officials were killed.

Their family members, clansmen, friends and other people involved in this matter, and those who have suffered from this part of the stolen goods have all been killed, and no one has been forgiven.

Even if they only embezzled a small amount of food, a small amount of money, and only embezzled once or twice, they were cut off.

In all kinds of cases, more than 300 people were killed, and more than 600 people were implicated and exiled.

Those who work from the state capital to the county government to the lower levels, even the officials of the Liangzhou branch of the Central Ministry of Finance, as long as they are involved, no one survives.

The county government survived because it was not qualified to participate in this matter.

This is administrative, and on the military side, more than 30 low-level officers and quartermasters involved in this incident were dragged out and beheaded.

Their family members have been abolished the treatment of military family members, lost the reward land, lost the tax-free share, lost the gifts for festivals and festivals, and lost the prosperity of their children and grandchildren.

They were relegated to common people and exiled to Pingzhou. They will be treated the same in the future. They are only allowed to eat salted rice and rice for their entire lives, and they are not allowed to eat other things until they die.

The military involved more than [-] people, including military family members.

Counting the administrative bureaucracy, a total of 1000 or [-] officials and their families, clansmen, and friends were punished in this corruption case.

Eleven merchants in Liangzhou who were found to assist in the sale of stolen goods were confiscated, all the men were beheaded, and all the women were sold into slavery.

Even so, Guo Peng was still resentful.

According to the investigation report of the Liangzhou investigation team, due to the corruption of more than 100 officials, there are about [-] strong men on the road construction sites in the four counties of Hexi who did not receive the three meals a day stipulated by the imperial court when they were working. , let alone eat meat.

It is the corruption of more than 100 people that has implicated more than 5 people, damaged the interests of more than 5 people, and made his image of the emperor not so tall and not so great in the hearts of more than 5 people. stalwart.

Guo Peng was very annoyed.

Even if he knew in advance that such a thing would happen, he was still annoyed.

After all calculations, in order to reduce the handling procedures, let fewer people have access to this batch of materials, and increase the probability that the materials will be directly implemented, but in the end, such a situation still occurred.

Not to mention the tightening of local power, but also the unprecedented deepening of central power.

In order to better supervise the localities and reduce the occurrence of corruption, we have made every effort to apply big data to the anti-corruption level, punishing corrupt elements on a large scale, and trying to make them invisible.

But the reality is, they still exist.

No matter how you do it, it still exists.

Be it the so-called rule of law or the so-called rule of man, corruption always exists.

Whether it is a high salary or a low salary, the one who should make money is still making money.

Official salaries are as high as in Song Dynasty, and corruption is still emerging.

Punishment of corrupt officials is as strict as Zhu Yuanzhang, and corrupt officials continue to follow suit.

It doesn't matter if you give too much or too little, but it's not enough, you just want to get it, as if you're sorry for the power in your hands if you don't get it.

No matter whether you are born noble or poor, whether you are a famous scholar or a farmer in the mountains, you will lose your soul when you see money.

Scholars, humble and powerful, Li Shu.

Regardless of one's origin, no matter what one's experience, there are corrupt people. Class background does not determine whether a person is corrupt or not.

So Mr. Guo understood that no matter what, corruption will not disappear.

Because the way of the world is that the damage is not enough to give more than enough. When this mechanism runs to the extreme, it can't continue to work, and then it will be overthrown and restarted.

It can be broken for decades, or it can be hundreds of years, and things that are overthrown and restarted are happening all the time.

The reason it hasn't happened yet is because the time hasn't come yet.

What people hate is not corruption, but the corrupt people are not themselves.

When they are in power, how many people will follow what they have said to change everything, instead of enjoying the taste that they have never enjoyed.

So looking at Liangzhou's investigation report, Guo Peng would also fall into deep thought and feel depressed.

He felt that he had done so much, and it seemed that he couldn't change anything. What should appear would still appear. If a group of people were overthrown, another group of people would catch up and continue to dance.

Constantly killing, constantly changing, constantly changing, so, is it interesting?

Asking himself, Guo Peng came up with an accurate answer.

interesting.

Very fucking interesting.

chapter 1071 one thousand eighty-one corruption case in Jizhou

This feeling of desperately killing knowing that you can't finish it is really interesting.

This feeling of knowing that nothing can be changed but still trying to change everything is very passionate.

Although Mr. Guo has done many sinister things, Mr. Guo was once a passionate and brave man, and he also rushed to the front line to fight bloody battles, risking his life.

He has never changed. What he was at the beginning is still the same now. He has never changed himself.

No matter what, he will not change himself.

This is the goal he never changed when he swore to be the emperor.

Therefore, after the storage corruption case broke out in Jizhou, Guo Peng immediately instructed the Jizhou investigation team to conduct a comprehensive investigation of the corruption case.

Then Guo Peng strictly ordered Kuai Liang, the right servant of the Ministry of War, to lead some officials to Jizhou to assist the Jizhou investigation team in handling the case and conduct a comprehensive investigation of the Jizhou issue.

The investigation team sent fewer people to Jizhou. If they want to find out the big storage case, they need support. As a native of Jingzhou, it seems more appropriate for Kuai Liang to go to Jizhou to handle errands.

So at the request of someone from Guo, Kuai Liang, the right servant of the Ministry of War, personally led some officials of the Ministry of War to Jizhou to assist in handling the case.

Before departure, Kuai Liang also went to the palace to receive [guidance] from Guo Peng.

For example, you have to be ruthless, don't take other things into account, and blame me when something goes wrong. Anyway, Kuai Liang knows that someone Guo will definitely kill people in Jizhou.

He doesn't worry about these things.

In this general environment that suppressed meritorious ministers from promoting those who are less advanced, officials from disadvantaged areas were supported and cared for, and the emperor's tacit approval was given to cracking down on officials from the three prefectures of Qing, Yan, and Hebei.

As a native of Jingzhou, if he wanted to get in touch with the bigwigs from the three prefectures of Qing, Yan and Hebei, they would not even look down on them.

The embarrassing status of Jingzhou bureaucrats made Jingzhou bureaucrats only choose to hug the emperor's thigh, otherwise it would be difficult to get along in the court.

So after Kuai Liang took over the appointment, he went directly to Jizhou without saying anything. After arriving in Jizhou, he joined forces with the leader of the investigation team to investigate the case.

The jurisdiction of the national warehouse belongs to the Ministry of War, and the central government is responsible for sending people to manage it. According to the procedures, the local government cannot intervene.

Now that there is a problem, the Central Military Department is duty-bound to participate in the solution and find out what the problem is, so Kuai Liang is very concerned.

After participating in the investigation of the case, Kuai Liang realized that the problems in the storage were caused by the collusion between local officials dispatched by the Central Military Department and local officials.

Judging from the problems that have been found out so far, some of the officials of the Ministry of War have contacted local officials to make troubles, and some of them have been moved by local officials and bribed the officials of the Ministry of War.

They basically spotted the meat in reserve.

I fell in love with those dried beef and marinated pork, and felt that this was very popular, and I could get a lot of money if I sold it, so I thought about it.

Meat itself is very popular, and dried and marinated meat can be stored for a long time. It is a very good reserve food for many people, such as caravans, fleets and some powerful manors.

Then the Karasuma people in Youzhou and Bingzhou also like these things very much, and they are willing to pay a good price for them.

The market is ready, the goods are available, then the next step is guts.

As long as you have the courage, this is a huge profit. You don't need to pay any cost, and the profit is surprisingly high.

Because of Guo Peng, almost all the officials of the Wei Empire are studying mathematics, and everyone can do some simple arithmetic. This kind of thing can be very profitable after a little calculation.

They guard the warehouse in the local area, and they are responsible for recording how much goes in and out of the warehouse. With a little manipulation and cooperation between the two sides, a considerable part of the property belonging to the state will become ownerless.

Since the meat is ownerless, don't they have the final say on how to deal with it?

Few people dared to do this at first.

The first batch of people to do this were relevant officials of Zhao County.

They made a more comprehensive deployment arrangement before doing business, and contacted the people of Karasuma, and after getting the exact purchase intention, they started to act and got this batch of meat.

Then they sold the meat to the Karasuma tribe in exchange for a large amount of property. After returning, they sold the stolen goods into money and silk cloth. It was really counting the money until the hands trembled.

Of course, such things should not be made public, unless you feel that your life is too long.

This group of people obviously don't think that their lives are very long, and they have to spend and enjoy their lives if they have money, so they are very tight-lipped and never leak it to the outside world, and this state has been maintained for a long time.

It wasn't until an official got drunk and didn't keep his mouth shut that such things gradually spread among several storage officials in Zhao County, and then people began to follow suit.

However, this situation did not spread from Zhao County. The other counties also had similar leaders and successors.

Corruption is like a terrible virus. It is naturally produced and should not be a big threat, but the threat is that it will be contagious.

One spreads ten, ten spreads hundreds, only a few determined people have immunity, while most people do not have such immunity.

They can only be infected, degenerate, and go to the road of no return to corruption, enter this cycle of no return, and go to death.

Zhao County, Anping County, Julu County, Qinghe County, Bohai County and many other counties had such problems, so when Kuai Liang led the team to arrive, there were actually many officials who had been inspected.

Basically, it was found out that a little punishment could pull out the carrot and bring out the mud, and it was done in one pot, so as to find out many characters who were hidden in the dark and did not show their mountains and water.

This group of guys hid quite well, if it wasn't for the fact that their companions couldn't bear all kinds of ecstasy punishments, they might have kept hiding like this without being discovered.

The biggest corruption case that Kuai Liang investigated after his arrival was an old case accumulated over the years, a case involving more than 1 catties of dried beef and marinated pork.

The crime took place in Qinghe County, so the entire law enforcement system and military storage system in this county were taken over in one go.

In the end, it was found out that this wave of people was not wronged.

For five or six years, they quietly took out some of the meat in the warehouse and turned it into unowned items every year, and then asked them to happily buy these unowned items into the Karasuma tribe, so that They make a lot of money from it.

The case of feelings began when the Kingdom of Wei was established. At that time, someone Guo was working hard to proclaim himself emperor, so he didn't pay attention to this matter.

So after finding out this problem, the officials of the investigation team were very annoyed, thinking that such a thing had happened, and it had not been discovered for so many years, which showed the corruption of local officials.

He broke into the local judicial system and storage system fiercely with one knife, and changed the blood of the people inside.