Mr. Guo did not find any surprise at all about corruption in warehouses during this period.

If I can't find out, Mr. Guo will find it very strange.

That's a big problem. If Guo may be fine, he will send Guo Jin out to investigate and see what the officials in the three prefectures of Hebei have turned the warehouse into.

Now 30% of warehouses have problems, which proves that the situation is still within a controllable range.

Warehouses in various places are not authorized to intervene in local governments. All the food, money, military supplies, etc. in the strategic warehouse are managed by the Central Ministry of War.

The local government just put the things that need to be put into the warehouse according to the orders of the court, and then it has nothing to do with them. Whether it is damaged or consumed naturally, it is all about the Ministry of War.

But if there is too much deviation in the data, it is basically certain that something is wrong.

Once you investigate it to the end, if there is any problem before entering the warehouse, then you will be held accountable. If there is any problem after entering the warehouse, then you will be held accountable by the Ministry of War.

The government established by Mr. Guo has regulations on many levels that the central government directly goes to the local government. There are many powers in the local government controlled by the central government and will never be delegated.

Whether it is the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Personnel, or the Ministry of Justice, they all hold power in many things, suppress local power, and restrict local power. This is the characteristic of the Guo and Wei Empire since its founding.

Guo Peng learned from the lessons of the weak power of the central government and strong local governments on a large scale, expanded the power of the central government on a large scale, restricted the power of local officials on a large scale, strengthened centralization like never before, and allowed the emperor to gain more power.

In order to cooperate with the expansion of power of the central government, the number of bureaucrats in the central government has expanded unprecedentedly. Compared with the period of the two Emperors of Huanling in the Han Dynasty, the number of officials in the central government of the Wei Empire was several times higher than that of the former Han Dynasty.

With this as the background, the Ministry of War, which is responsible for military logistics, naturally has a large number of warehouses in the local area, and is in charge of all the logistics and military storage of the Wei Empire.

This is the largest foundation of the Wei Empire.

Local governments are only responsible for transporting materials to warehouses for handover in a certain proportion. After the handover is completed, the rest is the affairs of the Ministry of War, which has nothing to do with the local area.

But if there is a problem with the storage materials in the warehouse, it is an indiscriminate investigation. Once you check it to the end, it will be very dangerous if the problem is found in the local area.

Unexpectedly, the problem still arises. 30% of the warehouses have problems with material data, which are spread throughout Jizhou Bingzhou and Youzhou. All the warehouses in the three states have been found to have problems.

Xiahou Dun, the governor of Bingzhou, Han Hao, the governor of Jizhou, and Xian Yufu, the governor of Youzhou, were both questioned by officials from the Ministry of War and officials from the Third Division who were sent by Guo Peng to investigate corruption.

"For the specific situation, your Ministry of War should hand me the complete and detailed report as soon as possible. Although I did not think about leading troops to attack the Xianbei immediately, I must also prepare for it. The food and grass should be moved. I must hurry up."

Guo Peng looked at Dong Zhao who was following him: "Before the Northern Expedition, I had to land a group of people. Only in this way can the Northern Expedition be stable. Some people will not do their best without seeing the heads falling."

Dong Zhao was trembling in his heart and immediately obeyed the order.

The preparations for the Northern Expedition were taken together with the large-scale anti-corruption investigation, and they all came to the three prefectures of Hebei.

Before, a large number of officials from the Third Division rushed to investigate the case, and later a large number of officials from the Ministry of War rushed to investigate the warehouse. The local officials who were in trouble were shocked overnight.

However, it was not the three prefectures in Hebei, but Liangzhou that first broke up with the major case. The salted rice biscuit was reported to the three prefectures of Luoyang by Chen Zhen, the leader of the Liangzhou investigation team, and then went to the Tianting.

At that time, Guo Peng broke the teacup in his hand.

"Bibimbap? OK, OK, OK!!!"

Su Yuan looked at the emperor who was gritting his teeth and couldn't stop trembling.

The emperor was angry, not ordinary.

Generally, when the emperor is so angry, death is inevitable.

If you break the teacup and get angry, there will probably be no fewer deaths, and things like implicating your family will definitely happen.

Of course Guo Peng was very angry.

He immediately ordered the matter to be investigated further, and it is necessary for every official who has been found to be corruption to spit out everything he knows.

Who leads, who assists in embezzlement, who assists in selling stolen goods, how to sell stolen goods, etc.

Then all the officials in the crime were beheaded, no one was left, the house was confiscated, and the family was deposed to Pingzhou. The descendants were imprisoned for three generations of people were not allowed to become officials.

All officials, clan members, friends and others involved in the corruption were searched, and those who committed the crime were beheaded, and the rest were exiled to Pingzhou and were not allowed to return to their hometowns.

All the above responders waited for the officials in the exile to supervise them. In the end of their life, they were only allowed to eat salted rice, and only gave a spoonful of salted water to not even mix the rice.

Eat until death.

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

Mao Jie, the governor of Liangzhou, was not the main responsible person, but he had a crime that he had unknown. He was punished for three months in order to detect and deal with it quickly.

As the main responsible person, the statutory officials failed to promptly detect the illegal behavior of officials. Local audit, transportation, and verification departments did not fulfill their responsibilities in the process of allocating materials, transportation and arriving at the destination, and they must be held accountable.

From top to bottom, no one can run away!

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

A village chief, do you still have to argue with you about the meaning of the scriptures?!

Do some assistant officials still need to pass on classics?!

You must not think that you don’t care, that you are unique and irreplaceable.

To me, none of you is unique.

Mr. Guo's anger broke through the sky and poured his angry will on the earth of Xiliang.

Corrupt officials are in trouble.

At the end of December of the fourth year of Yande, where the cold wind was blowing, more than 100 Liangzhou officials landed on the ground.

Their family, tribe, friends and other people involved in this matter, and those who have experienced this part of the stolen goods have also fallen to the ground, and no one is forgiven.

Even if he only embezzled a little bit of food and a little bit of money, he was cut off once or twice.

There were many people, more than 300 people fell to the ground, more than 600 people were implicated and exiled.

From the prefecture to the county government and then to the people who work below, and even officials from the Liangzhou branch of the Ministry of Finance of the Central Government, no one survives as long as they are involved.

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

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

Their family was abolished from the treatment of military families, lost the land of reward, lost the share of tax exemption, lost gifts during festivals, and lost the wealth of their descendants to eat and eat.

They were demoted to ordinary people and were exiled to Pingzhou. Their future treatment was the same. They were only allowed to eat salted rice in their lives, and they were not allowed to eat anything else until they died.

The number of people involved in the military is more than 200, including military families.

Including the administrative bureaucratic system, in this corruption case, there were a total of 1,200 officials and their families, tribe members and friends who were punished.

Eleven Liangzhou merchants who were found to assist in the sale of stolen goods were found to have no property, all men were beheaded, and all women were sold as slaves.

Even so, Guo Peng was still very angry.

According to the investigation report of the Liangzhou investigation team, due to the corruption of more than 100 officials, about 50,000 strong men on the road construction sites in the four counties of Hexi did not receive the three meals a day stipulated by the court when they were working, let alone eating meat.

It is the corruption of more than 100 people that has implicated more than 50,000 people and damaged the interests of more than 50,000 people, and made his image as an emperor not so tall and not so majestic in the hearts of more than 50,000 people.

Guo Peng was very annoyed.

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

It is a big deal to make a lot of calculations. In order to handle less procedures and allow fewer people to access this batch of materials and increase the probability that the materials will be directly implemented, but in the end, this situation still occurs.

Not only will the tightening of local power, but the central power will also be deepened like never before.

In order to better supervise local areas and reduce the occurrence of corruption, we have done our best to apply big data to the anti-corruption level, punish corrupt elements on a large scale, and try to keep them from hiding.

But the reality is that they still exist.

No matter how it is done, it still exists.

Whether it is the rule of law or the rule of man, corruption always exists.

Whether it is a high salary or a low salary, it is better to make money.

Officials are as high as Song Dynasty, and corruption is still emerging one after another.

The strict punishment of corrupt officials is like Zhu Yuanzhang, and corrupt officials continue to follow one after another.

Whether you give more or less, it is not enough. You just want to make a profit, as if you don’t make a profit, you’re sorry for the power in your hands.

Whether it is a noble family, a poor family, a famous scholar, or a mountain villager, he is always lost when he sees money.

Scholars, poor families, powerful people, and common people.

No matter what the background is, no matter what you have experienced, there are corrupt people. Class origins cannot determine whether a person is corrupt or not.

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

Because the way of the world is not enough to be able to provide more than one's own resources, when this mechanism is at its peak, it cannot continue to operate, and then it will be pushed back and started over again.

It takes decades to break down, and hundreds of years to grow. Things that will be pushed back and repeat happen every moment.

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

What people hate is not corruption, but corruption is not themselves.

When holding power, there are several people who will follow what they have said to change everything, instead of exaggeratingly enjoying the taste they have not enjoyed before.

So when Guo Peng looked at the Liangzhou investigation report, he would fall into deep thought and feel depressed.

He felt that he had done so much that he could not change anything. What should appear will appear. He let go of a group of people, and another group of people would come from behind and continue to dance with demons.

Continuous killing, constant change, constant change, is this interesting?

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

interesting.
Chapter completed!