Xue Yuan stared at the man like a carnivorous beast eyeing its soon-to-be prey.
No matter how nice his words were, Gu Yuanbai couldn't be moved. On the contrary, she felt that Xue Yuan's words had something to say, either he was pretending or gloating in his heart.
The first impression is really too important, Xue Yuan left Gu Yuanbai s first impression, second impression, and third impression ...... are not very good, and he is now saying this kind of similar to the words of concern, and the effect is not as good as Tian Fusheng or Zhang Og Squire said up.
Therefore the smile and softness that Xue Yuan wanted to see did not appear on His Holiness' face, instead he nodded perfunctorily and then closed the window without hesitation.
The car window closed, bringing up a wind that blew the hair on Xue Yuan's temples.
Xue Yuan straightened and stiffened for a moment before slowly straightening up, he collected his smile and expressionlessly raised his hand to touch the corner of his lips, thinking, is he that scary when he smiles?
Gu Yuanbai What does he mean.
It was at this time that the chief of guards on the other side of the carriage approached with his horse and advised in a warm voice through the carriage, "Your Majesty, all the adults will do this matter well, don't worry, the dragon's body is the most important thing."
The saint in the car sighed and also returned in a warm voice, "I'm fine, no need to worry."
Zhang Xu smiled and straightened up without further comment. Suddenly feeling a burst of sight that was by no means kind, he followed it and turned back to see Xue Yuan, who was looking at him expressionlessly from across the room.
The saint said to learn more from Xue Yuan, so the head of the guards smiled and was very calm and familiar and steady, maintaining the demeanor of the head of the imperial guards.
Xue Yuan withdrew his eyes and looked at his hands, slowly tightening his grip on the reins.
The actions of the Royal Court and the Office of the Ombudsman continue.
Before the anti-corruption, Gu Yuanbai had set aside more than a month's time, so that those who had the ability to detect that the Holy Spirit had anti-corruption intentions, and who had the ability to make up for the big heads of the money they had embezzled had the time to be able to make up for the payments. These people can not be moved now, Gu Yuanbai only let them eat into the spit out, can turn a blind eye.
And the remaining people who were not capable of accepting the signals Gu Yuanbai had released in advance were even less capable of resisting Gu Yuanbai.
The bright side of the Imperial Palace of Justice will never be merciful, after probing and not accepting the banquet and not accepting the filial piety directly away. Secretly that wave is even more ruthless, half a month after the raid, often can be those who cope with the scene of the corrupt officials to completely pulled down the horse.
The bigger the investigation, the bigger the investigation. The various states and counties are not upright people are beginning to feel uneasy, some officials are still trying to find ways to make up the shortfall, while some officials intend to directly escape with the money.
Qingzhou, Shandong.
A county magistrate is hastily packing his bags and preparing to escape with his family, the sky outside the window is dreary, it is a good time to leave the city. Outside the gate house has already prepared a carriage, gold and silver treasures piled up half of the space in the car. Officials sitting on the carriage, look terrified, forehead are sweaty.
His wife was sitting on the sidelines, also uneasy and apprehensive, "We're just going to run away?"
The official said fiercely, "Can you do it without fleeing? Do we have to take all the gold and silver in the house to fill in the embezzlement loophole? Even if you want to, we don't have that much money!"
The lady stopped talking, and her eyes were all covetous as she looked at the gold and silver in the cart.
The two carriages came under the city gates, and the official lifted the curtains and said toward the city watchman, "Open the door and let this official out of the city!"
Seeing that it was the lord of the city, the officers and soldiers guarding the city hastily retreated and opened the gates.
The carriage drove out leisurely in the night, and the official picked up his sleeve to wipe the cold sweat from his face, unable to believe that he had gotten out so easily.
His wife had laughed, and as the official watched her laugh, a bad feeling rose steeply in his heart. But it was already out of the city, the carriage had traveled all night, and the next day who could tell where he had gone?
The official also laughed, only this smile of escape after the robbery did not last long, the carriage suddenly stopped, the car shook, the official and the lady hit their heads.
"What's going on!" The officer steadied himself and shouted angrily, "Can't even drive?!"
Outside, however, it was silent and no one answered him. The officer's heart jumped, and the sense of foreboding returned.
He reached out with a trembling hand and lifted the curtains to take a look, and then he went into cardiac arrest.
Only to see the road outside, there are a group of constables are holding torches surrounded his two carriages, everyone dressed neatly with a big knife, torchlight under the face of the majestic and horrible.
Leading the way came a man in official robes, who looked at the magistrate who was ready to flee and laughed, "Zhao Ning, ah Zhao Ning, are you getting ready to flee?"
The magistrate lost his voice and exclaimed, "You--"
The originally silent county minister laughed coldly twice, his normally bent spine seemed to straighten up steeply, his eyes burning as he looked at Zhao Ning and said forcefully, ''With me around, you won't be able to escape! You've eaten so much of the people's fat and wealth, and you just want to run away like this? Don't even think about it! I'm going to arrest you right now and hand you over to His Holiness's inspection team for interrogation once they come to Huang Pu City!"
The magistrate snapped, "I have no sorrow with you!"
The torches illuminated every face in the darkness, dispersing a chill, and the county magistrate glanced toward each of the surrounding constables holding torches, then said, word for word: "Do you think we just want to do wrong for you? Do you think we want to be reviled by the people? This is Huang Pu City! It's not your nest of money! What wouldn't we dare to do? The imperial court has come to investigate corruption, what else do we not dare to do!"
By the end of his words, his fists had clenched, veins popping out in excitement, and his eyes filled with scalding tears.
Already some of the constables behind them could not help but let out low curses of anger and pain, and these voices passed from one to the other, and every man who sank against his conscience with his eyes closed could not help but think of the people of the city.
Corrupt official Zhao Ning looked at the group of people and lowered his head disheveledly.
Things like this happen all over the place.
There were good officials who were dedicated to the people who stood up and took the lead in seizing the corrupt officials and their evidence of corruption within their rule, only to wait for the imperial court to send someone to check them out. And there were places where no officials stood up, and that was the people who knew how to read, the readers who had correspondence with the capital, and after they learned of the action and strength of the anti-corruption efforts, a little something was kindled in their hearts, which prompted them to gather together boldly, and then call on the people to stop the corrupt officials from tearing down the east wall and mending the west wall, so that they wouldn't dare to move and mend the sums that they had embezzled.
"Gentlemen!" The scholars were sweating with anxiety, but they tried their best to tell the people about the court's anti-corruption activities over and over again; they spoke until their mouths were dry, and they said loudly and firmly, "The court will definitely catch the corrupt officials! His Holiness will surely make these fishers of the people be punished!"
Speech was relatively free in the Daheng Dynasty, but in the midst of such a bureaucratic system, scholars who had not yet become officials would not be unaware of the consequences of offending an official. If they did so and the court did not find out the corrupt officials, they would live as if they were dead.
But they looked at the expectant peasants, looked at the people who shouted "Your Majesty's grace", "Corrupt officials deserve to die", the chest is full of overflowing strength, such emotions, so that when they face these corrupt officials, but also more strengthened hard up.
And these good officials, scholars, and people, with great effort, created a great situation for the court, which the court would never waste.
In the capital recently appeared something called "Dahengguo Newspaper", which was sold in the bookshop of Zhang's family in the west of the capital, and only one hundred copies were sold every day.
Above the article when to follow up on the anti-corruption process, the provincial capital recently fell which officials, embezzlement of what things, through this and implicated what, are recorded on it. In addition, there are also various places of humane deeds, people's views on anti-corruption and benefit, etc., a not missing, completely and thoroughly the national level of anti-corruption activities down to the people's eyes, so that the people in the capital scramble to line up in front of Zhang's bookstore at dawn, want to be the first to see the content of the "Dahengguo Newspaper".
The people in the capital also do not know why, see these things are like a treasure to see a glance less, whenever you see the people around the people see officials fall and rejoice in tears like rain, but also unconsciously wet eyes, secretly wiping away the tears. When you see other prefectures and counties of gratitude and praise to the Holy Spirit, you are so proud that you can't wait to laugh to the heavens.
Such an article such content will easily rally the people of a country to rally their sense of belonging to the country and flocking to the rulers.
This was naturally Gu Yuanbai's handiwork.
Teahouse.
The storyteller slapped a handful of waking wood, and the very thing that was placed in his hand was a copy of the Dahengguo Newspaper, and he said loudly, "...... The county minister of that Huangpu city, with all the constables, pressed the big corrupt magistrate back into the city! The people who heard about this could not go out because of the curfew, so they went to see from the window cracks and doors by the windows, rejoicing and wanting to make a joyful celebration, but also covering their mouths for fear of disturbing the sleeping children."
"Before our court officials arrived, the people of Huangpu City consciously guarded the city gates every day, forbidding outsiders to enter or leave, and preventing the magistrate from escaping. When our inspection officials arrived, they thoroughly investigated the county magistrate's residence and the local granary, and they really found out the big corruption! Supervisory officials spent three days counting the amount of embezzlement by the county magistrate of Huangpu City," the storyteller sneered, and woke up the wood with a bang, "There were 300,000 taels! The income of more than a thousand households in Huangpu City for ten years! This amount of embezzlement can't be said, our supervision officials can't bear it, His Majesty can't bear it! On the same day, the monitoring officials of the people sentenced Huang Pu City magistrate to beheading disposal, disposal out of the time, the whole city cheered, and that laborious farming but was robbed of the old farmers, tearful eyes two lines."
"The youngest child does not understand the grief of the parents and grandparents, but also followed the joyful leap. Parents and grandparents wipe their eyes, tears wet lapel, and the county magistrate Zhao Ning today's scenario of pleasure, but also to today's gratitude. Beheading Zhao Ning that day is more ten thousand people, the sound of applause can resonate for a hundred miles around, only to hear the hour is up, the fast knife fell, that Zhao Ning was decapitated!"
"Yes!"
The stage was filled with shouts of approval, everyone was emotional and exuberant, "And after that? What about the money seized from the corrupt officials' homes?!"
The storyteller laughed, ''Before our saint sent people to start fighting corruption, he had already set up a charter. Part of the money seized from corrupt officials everywhere is kept locally for construction purposes, and what is taken from the people is naturally used for the people. A portion is sent to the imperial court to fill the national treasury."
"This word construction, still mentioned in the newspaper, means to establish the meaning of furnishings, and the portion of silver wealth that His Holiness left in the area is also to be used for road construction!"
"Road construction," murmured the man at the bottom, "I can't believe it's about to start."
Teahouse seat, Gu Yuanbai end up a cup of water, but out of attention listening to the downstairs storyteller emotional words, for a moment forgot to taste tea.
Only after he heard the crowd underneath start discussing passionately on the matter of road repair with all the enthusiasm did he smile slightly and sip his tea lightly.
What the people aspire to, the court can do it, is the most convincing way to win the hearts of the people, gather the hearts of the people.