When he came out of the Jinyiwei Zhao Prison, Zhou Jingda felt like he was a different world.●⌒,.

Outside the imperial prison, there were carriages of various officials' houses, and people who came to wait for picking up the people were crowded outside. Zhou Jing's housekeeper saw the master coming out from a distance and hurried forward.

"Master, the car is outside." The butler was secretly shocked when he saw Zhou Jing now. In just seven days, Zhou Jing was much haggard. He turned out to be only a few gray hair, but now he has half a head white.

"Go home." Zhou Jing just had two simple words and followed the butler to the carriage.

After getting on the carriage, Zhou Jing felt that he had finally left the Jinyiwei Zhaozhu who was terrified of talking. He breathed a long tone and had a color in his eyes.

The Jinyiwei was sentenced to seven days in the imperial prison, but he was not tortured. However, the seven days passed very hard. During the seven days, the Jinyiwei people interrogated him once every other hour. During this period, he could not sleep well or eat well.

All kinds of interrogations came prepared.

Whenever he was tired and wanted to sleep for a while, the Jinyiwei people came to ask someone for questioning. After such exhausted and frequent interrogations, Zhou Jing quickly collapsed. In the end, he cooperated very well and said everything.

At the request of the Jinyiwei, he even reported his property truthfully and explained it one by one with the source. He was surprised that the Jinyiwei had a clear and detailed grasp of his property, not only did he know how many land and real estate he had, but even his wife's dowry.

I know the few deposits in the bank, and even the money I put in the bank for high interest rates.

When the Jinyiwei asked him to explain the legal sources of all these properties one by one, Zhou Jing soon had a headache. Because after he explained it, there was still a large amount of money that could not be explained in the legal sources, which was nearly 100,000 yuan.

In fact, he knew the source of the money in his heart. He served as an official for decades, and this was all gray income beyond his salary. It was the filial piety of his subordinates, the filial piety of local officials, and various human relations.

The Jinyiwei finally told him that the illegal income from the previous dynasty could be ignored, but the income from the current dynasty must have a legal source. The Jinyiwei people were very smart and could not deceive them.

In the end, Zhou Jing still had 20,000 silver dollars in his name, which was illegal income in the Xin Dynasty.

Although the money was not the bribe he accepted, the amount was already very huge. Fifty yuan was enough to accept bribe sentencing standards, and 20,000 yuan was enough to send his family to mining in Liaobei or Dali.

He had to recall carefully how the 20,000 yuan was added up one by one.

The source of huge amounts of property is unknown. This is the strongest killer weapon for Jinyiwei to deal with officials now.

They don’t even need to collect evidence of bribery and bribery from officials. They just check their property and then compare their legal income. As long as there is a large amount of money in it unknown source, they can review and question at any time, and let the officials take the initiative to declare their property. They also provide all legal sources of property.

Once you have a lot of money that doesn't match, you will not be able to prove your innocence.

In the past few days, Zhou Jing has been recalling the sources of illegal income and honestly explaining them all until they can finally check them.

The 20,000 yuan is basically due to various filial piety. It is all old and unspoken rules. For example, when he was transferred from the Ministry of Works to the Transportation Department, the main officials of the Transportation Department held a banquet and gave a gift. Everyone gave not much, dozens or hundreds of dollars, but a lot of them added up.

In addition, every time officials from various provinces come to the department to do business, they always have to give him some local products and some money, which cannot be considered bribery, but it is just an old rule.

The sum of the east and west is the sum of money. In less than a year in the New Dynasty, the sum of money he received was 20,000. Especially last month, his grandson-daughter-in-law gave birth to a son and gave birth to the fourth generation for the Zhou family. Four generations of the Zhou family lived together, and of course, a big banquet was held. Most officials in the capital came to give gifts. The three-day wine alone received no less than 10,000 yuan in gifts. This was Zhou Jing who was more restrained and refused to accept more, otherwise he was afraid that he would receive more.

But now, whether it is filial piety or human relationships, the total amount is more than 20,000 yuan.

In less than 20,000 yuan a year, it is enough to get on the red line.

"Where is Zhou Zhong?"

When Zhou Jing saw that only the housekeeper came to pick him up, he felt a little dissatisfied and asked about his eldest son.

"Master, the uncle was also taken into the Jinyiwei, and he has not come out yet." The butler replied.

Zhou Jing sighed and remained silent.

It was not easy for Zhou Jing to come out. Because he explained the source of the 20,000 yuan, he finally barely passed the test. But when he came out, he was not safe to pass the test.

Zhou Jing was punished, and the punishment was severe.

He was demoted from a third rank to a fifth rank official. He was demoted from a third rank to a fifth rank official and was relegated to the position of the Minister of Transportation. His illegal income was confiscated and he was punished with a one-year salary fine.

But compared to others, he is pretty good.

"Master, several officials from the Ministry of Personnel have been convicted of being convicted and have been convicted of their homes and extorted their troops outside the pass."

Zhou Jing listened to the butler's report little by little that more than 5,000 officials were brought to the Jinyiwei for review and interrogation. Most of them, like Zhou Jing, were demoted or fined for their huge amount of property, and some were removed from office.

The most severe punishments were more than 100 officials. They were severely punished for being found guilty of bribery and accepting bribes and the amount was large. They were dismissed from office, confiscated their property, and imposed severe punishments on the border land reclamation.

This storm made officials such as Zhou Jing frightened and truly began to take the laws and regulations of the court seriously.

In the future, when you receive gifts and money, you will also consider it more. The money is not so easy to collect. If you collect it here, you may be invited to the Jinyiwei for tea.

"Master, you won't be in trouble, right?"

"Don't worry, I'll be back today." Zhou Jing's son was just a small official and nothing could happen. The storm came suddenly and violently, but Zhou Jing thought about it carefully and understood that he would go quickly.

The emperor sent more than 5,000 officials to the Jinyiwei at once, not like Zhu Hongwu, but was preparing to start a massacre. This was just to make the officials clear about the emperor's intentions.

More than a hundred officials were confiscated and exiled, which was enough to be alert.

But next time, if someone violates the order and commits a crime, he will definitely not be so careless.

"Bo Zhou, where is the newspaper?"

When Zhou Jing saw that there was no newspaper in the car, he asked the housekeeper. He usually liked to read newspapers the most, especially when reading newspapers during breakfast and when making cars. He always prepared newspapers in the car, but today there was no newspaper in the car.

The butler was confused and Zhou Jing's face sank. Then the butler hesitated to take out a stack of newspapers.

Zhou Jing only looked through it and understood why the butler hid the newspaper. Almost every newspaper took out a special edition to report the storm. Zhou Jing, as a real-time official of the third rank, was also reported in detail by various newspapers.

There was even a newspaper that followed the whole story of his case and published the unknown source of his huge amount of property in the newspaper.

Zhou Jing's face was pale and his hands were trembling.

Looking at the newspapers, Zhou Jing realized that his career was over. This time the emperor was only demoted and retained, but his career was definitely at its peak. Perhaps after the New Year, officials will take over him, and the current retained situation is just a temporary need to stabilize the situation.

My dream of becoming a first-rank official career has come to an end.

I thought about it and felt a little unwilling to do so. I recognized myself as being self-disciplined and never accepted bribes. At most, it was a customary act of officialdom to accept some filial piety and kindness, but unexpectedly, it blocked the road to the original excellent career.

At this moment, Zhou Jing was really excited and wanted to go home.

Shortly after returning home, his eldest son Zhou Zhong was also released. He was demoted and kept, and his salary was fined. A large amount of illegal income from unknown sources was confiscated.

The father and son sighed at each other, drinking bitter wine together to relieve suffocation.

The next day, Zhou Jing returned to the yamen. The yamen was almost paralyzed for a week, and various affairs piled up like mountains.

Zhou Jing did not start the director immediately, but took paper and pen, and wrote a resignation report to memorial.

The note was handed over and I received a reply soon.

It is the reply from the cabinet. You can resign, but you must submit your resignation three months in advance. After submitting your resignation, you must handle the work carefully until the court sends someone to complete the handover.

Seeing that the cabinet did not hold any replies, Zhou Jing felt very sad. He wanted to hang the seal and leave, but thought about the cabinet's reply. He sat down again and started to deal with the accumulated matters. He had not wiped the shit on his body clean yet, and once he left, he would definitely not be able to get it.

The cabinet later submitted Zhou Jing's resignation to the emperor.

Liu Jun only glanced at it and said, "It doesn't matter if you don't want to do it anymore, some people are the ones you want to do it."

Liu Jun was already very restrained in this storm. If he hadn't just wanted to shock the officialdom and ruthlessly ruthless the current bad old customs in the officialdom, he could have made countless officials confiscated their homes and exiled them by just a huge amount of property.

It is wrong to punish without being taught, and the court cannot replace so many officials at once.

This time, winning more than 100 people is already the limit. Taking more people will affect the normal office work of each government office.

Liu Jun has asked the Censorate to issue new regulations, including the welcome and sending gifts in the officialdom. The formal regulations stipulate that officials should not exceed ten silver dollars at a time when they have favors. It is prohibited to take the opportunity to hold a banquet and receive gifts. The gifts received at a banquet shall not exceed one hundred yuan.

In addition, there are eight new regulations on the work style of officials that prohibit public funds from eating and drinking.

It is also stipulated that officials must declare property regularly, prohibit officials and immediate relatives from doing business, and formally established the crime of huge amounts of property unknown source, which is specifically targeted at officials.

Now even officials write epitaphs to merchants at high prices and write plaques to shops, etc., which are strictly prohibited.

"In the future, several classes will be opened in the Beijing Normal University, and the Beijing Central and local officials will be regularly selected to train and strengthen their ideological education." Liu Jun said to the chief minister and other important officials.

It is not enough to train fresh blood by relying on the imperial examinations alone. Nowadays, the number of officials in the officialdom is huge, and it is not enough to rely on blood exchange. Those original officials still need to be needed and cannot get around. Therefore, on the one hand, they have to strengthen discipline, and on the other hand, they have to strengthen education through concentrated learning and training.

Liu Jun thought that the party school model in later generations was also very useful, so it is perfect to use it.

There is no fish in the water until it is clear, and many bad rules in the officialdom cannot be completely banned. After all, if you have the right in your hands, you have the opportunity to seek rent. It is impossible to completely ban it. But Liu Jun cannot let it go. He must strengthen supervision without relaxing it. Even if it cannot be banned, at least he must control the scale within a controllable range. (To be continued.)
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