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One hundred and twenty-six officials involved in the case, large and small, were almost all over the state and county governments.

From Wu Meng in the prefecture, he worked in the bow and horse, he worked in the record office and the servants, and then to the households, warehouses, Jin Cao, and even the chief clerk of the prefect of Jiuquan County were suspected of being involved in the case and were taken away for investigation.

Whether they are from gentry, poor officials, or minor officials from the lowest class of civil servants, they are all suspected or have been confirmed to have committed crimes.

The investigation has not yet ended and is still continuing. The accounting officials brought by Chen Zhen took out all the financial statements accumulated over the years from the prefecture and county government to recalculate them.

According to data from the Ministry of Finance of the Central Committee and the Audit Department, we can see if there is any problem.

If there is a problem, then another quick investigation will be made. If there is no problem at all, it will be let go.

In other words, the four counties in Hexi were established in a short time, and there were not so many accumulated financial files, so it was easier to review, so Chen Zhen quickly sorted out what needed to be sorted out.

For places like Qingzhou, Yanzhou, Jizhou, it is really a headache to investigate old files.

This major corruption case has been investigated since it first occurred, and it is estimated that it will take more than a year to go.

In more than a year, so many officials, officers and their families and relatives were found involved in the case. No wonder Mao Jie was so angry that his face turned blue when he shouted for his luck.

He knew that it was inevitable that officials would embezzle, but he did not expect that this matter would involve so many officials.

He also specially carried out grain on road construction sites and started with soft persimmons. He thought it was perfect and nothing would happen. But when the incident happened, he realized that he had hit the iron plate.

The same is true for Cao Ren's side.

Although he launched an active investigation as soon as possible and actively cooperated with the central investigation team, he had a preliminary impression.

However, it was found that more than 30 low-level officers and quartermasters were involved in the case, and the number of people involved also made Cao Ren's face turn ashen.

There were more than 30 military officers and military officers involved in this corruption case!

You can’t even be fed with such high treatment, you still have to embezzle! You will also ruin the reputation of my Northwest Corps!

A bunch of bastards! Bastards!

Cao Ren really had the intention to kill them.

If it were during the war, Cao Ren would directly order them to behead them in front of the entire army and use their blood to clean up the shame of the Northwest Corps.

By the end of November, the situation was basically clear in the case of road construction grain corruption, and the specific details had been sorted out.

So Chen Zhen convened the prefects of four counties, Mao Jie, Zhao Xian and Cao Ren, to hold a meeting.

"This is the case. This case can be considered to be a clear investigation. The situation is very bad. There are 126 officials in the big and small cases, and 37 people in the military involved. These people extend to participate in the entry, including 916 relatives, friends, etc.

They joined forces to collude and deducted the grain that was supposed to be delivered to the road construction site, and then used their respective relationships to hand over the materials to merchants and transported them to Yongzhou for sale in exchange for money. They treated the road construction workers with strict treatment and only gave rice with salt water to reduce the food for the road construction workers."

Chen Zhen roughly summarized the results of the case and explained some investigation results.

For example, some officials' reasons for corruption are that they are not strict in governing their children at home. The children at home wantonly squander their wealth to buy luxury goods from the Western Regions, spend all their money, and even if the things they have to do at home are useless, they will become corruption.

Some officials wanted some luxury goods but did not have enough money to buy them. It was obviously not enough to rely on their salary, so they took the initiative to build roads and food.

Some officials watched everyone take it, and they felt unbalanced. They thought that it was okay for road construction workers to suffer a little bit of suffering and hunger, and they could not suffer any losses, so they followed suit.

There are also some people who don’t want to take it themselves, but when they see their colleagues around them taking it, they are worried that if they don’t take it, they will not be able to survive in the future, which will be unfavorable to unity and friendship, so they take it along.

Of course, the reason for the worst guy was also raised, and Chen Zhen criticized it mainly for how such a morally corrupt bastard got into the service team. The county governments involved, including the county government, were subject to severe accountability.

This is not a joke, but from these people, Chen Zhen can summarize several common reasons for corruption among officials.

Then, for these conventional reasons, what should they do, etc.

Finally, Chen Zhen said that he would send these situations back to Luoyang, so that the three departments of Luoyang knew the review results and asked for the punishment plan.

Of course, the review did not end here, but just began.

The investigation conducted by Liangzhou itself is very good and worthy of praise, but other issues need to be reviewed.

A corruption case has damaged the Liangzhou officialdom. If other problems are found, what will happen?

Mao Jie didn't know, Zhao Xian didn't know, and Cao Ren didn't know either.

They have dealt with many things urgently, but the seriousness of the situation is still beyond their imagination.

It can only be said that they took the initiative to propose this matter and cooperated highly to gain a certain initiative. They were not regarded as the target of crackdown by the central investigation team, otherwise the problem would be even more serious.

"No matter what happens next, I will firmly support Chen Jun. Chen Jun, just do whatever you want to do. If you find someone who is corrupt and abuses the power and damages His Majesty's reputation, Mao will never tolerate it!"

Mao Jie immediately made a statement.

Then Zhao Xian and Cao Ren also made a statement.

What else will happen after you know?

But at this time, if we want to protect everyone's political future, we must have some hedging methods to balance the negative impression of the Liangzhou officialdom.

The best candidate is Zhuge Liang.

So Mao Jie immediately summoned Zhuge Liang and introduced Zhuge Liang to Chen Zhen, so that Chen Zhen could know Zhuge Liang's existence and that Zhuge Liang was the first to detect and investigate the corruption case of road construction grain.

He wanted Chen Zhen to know that there were corrupt officials in Liangzhou, but there were also talents like Zhuge Liang.

Chen Zhen met Zhuge Liang.

Chen Zhen was also one of the students in the academic hall outside Xiangyang City.

Although Chen Zhen had never had any in-depth interactions with Zhuge Liang, he had some conversations with Zhuge Liang. As a few scholars who did not commit mental violence against Zhuge Liang, he still knew Zhuge Liang quite well.

I heard that Zhuge Liang went to Liangzhou to be an official, but he hadn't remembered it for a while. Now he suddenly remembered it, and when he saw Zhuge Liang, he was quite sighing.

"Kong Ming, don't be fine."

"Xiaoxian, so are you, so are you, don't be fine."

Mao Jie was quite surprised that the two of them showed an old friend as soon as they met.

Later, Mao Jie learned that although Zhuge Liang was from Xuzhou, he had lived in Jingzhou for a long time and his wife was also a great clan in Jingzhou.

Doesn’t this mean that if Zhuge Liang takes off, he will have the resources of Xuzhou and Jingzhou at the same time?

People in Xuzhou will support him because of his background, people in Jingzhou will support him because of his wife's background, and Zhuge Liang will receive the support of scholars in these two states.

At present, the traditional forces of Qing, Yan and Ji prefectures have been hit, while scholars from disadvantaged areas have been supported and promoted.

Such a trend will not change significantly in the foreseeable future.

Mao Jie had already seen this.
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