Therefore, Li Longji's mood at the moment is quite complicated; he is not only quite annoyed by this blatant act of greed and greed, but at the same time, he is also quite excited about the real profits of the railway department; as long as he puts a heavy hand in rectification this time, he will certainly be able to dig out a lot of the money that has been embezzled at one time, and copy off the homes of some officials, and with this money, it will be enough to build several new railway lines, and when the time comes, commerce will inevitably be even more prosperous.

Seeing the emperor's attitude towards corruption, Yang Guozhong hurriedly stepped forward and said: "Your Majesty is wise, the Luoyang Railway Branch can embezzle 3 million yuan a year, and the rest of the railway branches must be very suspicious. ”

This trick of Mao Sui's self-recommendation worked very well, Li Longji nodded with great satisfaction, and said: "In this case, the task of thoroughly investigating the railway branch will be handed over to Aiqing, however, the investigation of the case is investigated, and the normal operation of the railway must not be interfered with, otherwise, those businessmen will make trouble again." ”

Li Longji wanted to tell Yang Guozhong that the operation of the railway system should be the primary condition, and the railway system should not be paralyzed because of the investigation.

After all, the main leaders of each department are responsible for the dispatch of the railway, and if they don't say anything, they will arrest all the important leaders as soon as they come up, then the local railway system will inevitably fall into a chaotic scene without a leader, which will cause very bad consequences.

"Your Majesty rest assured, the minister will start the investigation from the capital, and it will definitely not affect the daily railway operation of Datang."

Yang Guozhong replied very confidently, he has so many henchmen, there is always a way to solve this problem. It's not that hard to do.

"Yu Chaoen, the position given by the Railway Bureau is no longer suitable for you, let's close the door and reflect for three months! I accepted this bill. ”

Li Longji looked at Yu Chaoen and said his decision, which can be regarded as a light sentence, even if it is not spent, but he has not told the emperor before, so the charge of accepting bribes cannot be cleared, but the emperor trusts Yu Chaoen and feels that he is not lying, so he gave a light sentence and confiscated the income from the gifts, in addition, he also gave his railway bureau leader, which is also a big punishment.

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

Yu Chaoen is finally relieved, although he has lost a lot of money, but this is not all his property, even if he loses this money, it will not affect his living standard, and the most important thing is to save his life at the moment, and he doesn't have to care about anything outside his body.

This time, it is most appropriate to let Yang Guozhong, who is the imperial historian, thoroughly investigate the corruption case of the Railway Bureau, because the imperial history platform itself is in charge of this matter, and in addition, the position of the right minister is still vacant, if Yang Guozhong can make a great contribution this time, it will be logical to promote him.

The emperor has made up his mind, and the ministers below naturally have nothing to say, so soon, Yang Guozhong began to transfer people, starting from the headquarters of the Railway Bureau and the Chang'an City Railway Branch, as well as the Luoyang City Railway Branch where the accident occurred.

These units are the most core, the headquarters of the railway bureau is the core of the country, the status is naturally the most important, if there is a problem with the headquarters, the national railway department will be chaotic, and in addition to the headquarters, the current development is the best, the busiest is the Luoyang Railway Branch, and the Chang'an City Railway Branch can only be ranked behind Luoyang, after all, Luoyang is located in the hinterland of the Central Plains, in terms of transportation than Chang'an City is more convenient, railway development is naturally better than Chang'an City.

In addition, the Ezhou Railway Branch, the Zhengzhou Railway Branch, and the Xuzhou Railway Branch in the southeast have all developed quite well, and they are also the main targets of this inventory.

After Yang Guozhong received the holy decree, he immediately launched an action, first controlling the headquarters of the Railway Bureau and the Chang'an City Railway Branch, and then transferring a few deputies from the Chang'an Railway Branch to the Luoyang Railway Branch, because Jin Wuwei had already set off to Luoyang City to arrest people, if Wang Gui and these people were really all arrested, Luoyang City Railway Station was afraid that it would fall into chaos, after all, all the scheduling of vehicles was in charge of these leaders, once these leaders could not appear in their posts in time, the people below would not know what to do, so, It is not difficult to understand that the station is in chaos, and once the chaos is delayed for a long time, it will cause extremely heavy losses to Datang, first of all, the loss of merchants is not a small amount.

And Yang Guozhong's worries were not too much, because just before he gave the order, the railway transportation in the direction of Luoyang had already fallen into chaos.

After Wang Hu returned to Luoyang City by freight train, he immediately reported the bad situation to Wang Gui, and then, the brothers took the soft things that had already been packed up and prepared to run away.

Before leaving, in order to stop the pursuers, Wang Gui sent out all the waiting vehicles at the Luoyang City Railway Station, and he himself went to Yingzhou in disguise, preparing to flee to the bitter cold land in the north.

Not long after these vehicles departed, Jin Wuwei arrived in Luoyang City, but they only caught Zheng Quan's coercion, and the main culprit Wang Hu's brothers had fled, and because Wang Gui sent out a large number of trains in one go before leaving, Jin Wuwei could not judge where the two brothers had fled, so he could only retreat and capture all Zheng Quan's coercions, and raided the homes of all the accomplices, and obtained an astonishing amount of money.

Because Chen Xiaoer is the deputy stationmaster of Luoyang Railway Station, he is very clear about the daily scheduling and various personnel relations of the station, so although Yang Guozhong is unhappy, he still transferred Chen Xiaoer and let him serve as the stationmaster of Luoyang Railway Station. Chen Xiaoer is a bold person, and it is really unreassuring to let him be the chief official.

The ins and outs of this case of the development of the capital are finally clear, and the Datang Daily has narrated the ins and outs of the matter in the position of the headline, of course, some of the details are omitted, for example, Chen Xiaoer's rape of the little maid, how many people were killed and injured in Yang Guozhong's mansion, what is the name, etc., are not very clear, and the assassin only wrote the names of a few masterminds.

Such a major news has naturally become a hot topic on the streets, and almost all ordinary people from all walks of life like to talk about this topic and can express their opinions.

However, there is a group of people who are quite afraid of this topic, that is, the leadership of the railway bureau in the capital, because the case of corruption of the Luoyang Railway Branch is too big, and even the railway department with the entire Datang will be greatly implicated, and the Chang'an City Railway Branch, as well as the headquarters of the railway bureau, are naturally within the scope of the investigation, so how can these people not be worried and afraid.

If they had gotten the news earlier, they might have had the possibility of escaping, but now that Yang Guozhong has launched an investigation, all the senior officials of the railway bureau in the capital and their families have been placed under residential surveillance, no one wants to escape, and there is no chance of escaping.

After a busy morning, in the afternoon, Li An had the time to read the Tang Daily, so as to learn about what happened last night, and in addition, he learned some gossip from the mouth of the craftsman, so that Li An could understand this matter more clearly.

Li An has long been clear about the corruption of the railway bureau, but he really did not expect that the corruption would be so serious, and a small Luoyang Railway Branch can actually embezzle such a huge amount of money in just one year, you can imagine how much corruption has been committed in the remaining railway parts.

However, Li An is also more optimistic, the more greedy ink, the more it can explain the wealth of the Tang Empire, if there is no wealth, you can't be greedy if you want to, and being able to confiscate so much wealth at once is a great thing for the treasury, so that the imperial court can spread its hands and feet and do a few more big projects.

The R&D center has always been short of money, and it has never been rich at any time, this time, Li An decided to write a report in person and apply for more funds from the imperial court, the reason is to improve the research and development progress of the Wanli Transsion Plan, and strive for a few months to get the initial results, and Li An also has this confidence, after all, the basic core technologies have been developed, as long as a few more months of running-in, it should be successful, and as long as this invention can be made, it will definitely bring a new round of leaps to the Tang Empire. It will play an infinite role in promoting the prosperity of the Tang Empire.

The report was written out quickly, this time Li An was also ruthless enough, he asked for a million yuan with one mouth, and half of these funds will be used to develop the Wanli Transsin plan, after all, it is not so easy to make telegraphs and telephones, it needs to be tried constantly, and every attempt costs money, and it costs money to manufacture spare parts, and once it is not suitable, it needs to be done again.

Therefore, why later generations of Chinese businessmen like to buy foreigners' technology directly is because it is not easy to develop technology, it takes countless money, and there is no guarantee that it will produce results.

And Ang Lee's situation is a little different, because Ang Lee was developed backwards, he already knew what these things looked like and what parts they needed, but, because the machines of this era were too bad, some very simple materials, but they were also difficult to manufacture, and they needed to constantly improve the machines and materials, and try little by little, and then they could make the phone.

After all, there are many technologies for telegraph and telephone, and the requirements of each technology are different, and it is necessary to keep trying to understand which technology can be manufactured more easily and can be achieved at this time, and for those that cannot be realized, they can only be temporarily given up and left for the future after the technology is good, and then slowly realized.

Although Li An has a lot of assets, but to develop things that are useful to the imperial court, you still have to use the imperial court's funds, if it is your own money, it is too much of a loss, even if you don't go to corruption, it can't ruin the family and relieve the difficulties, Li An has not such a high consciousness, and there is no need for this at all.

Because the imperial court has begun to thoroughly investigate the corruption of the railway bureau, so, many officials who have been corrupt have become uneasy, among them, the officials of the railway bureau are naturally the most nervous, and the rest of the departments are also very uneasy, many other imperial court departments, are actively filling in the loopholes, and even officials have sold their own real estate, and as long as the empty accounts are quietly filled, then, when the above sends people to check, no problems can be found. These officials will be able to escape the catastrophe.

However, for those who are greedy for ink and are good at squandering, it is difficult to remedy it, because the money for greedy ink has been spent, and there is no money to remedy it, and if they are caught one day, they can only confess their guilt and surrender to the law.

Of course, there are also some officials who have a fluke mentality, and they have begun to try their best to make a mess of the accounts, so that it is difficult for the people who audit the accounts to see the tricks, or they deliberately block the people who check the accounts, so that the accounts become a confused account that is difficult to calculate.

The most daring officials chose to burn the ledger directly, and also faked the scene of the accidental fire, and all the items and ledgers were burned, so that they were at most guilty of negligence, and the crime was naturally lighter than the huge amount of corruption, but this kind of trick is easy to be recognized, and once this kind of behavior is determined, the crime is even heavier, but some people do not want to sit still, and want to fight.

Of course, not everyone will be checked, some high-ranking officials of the court who are receiving the favor of the Holy Grace will not be checked by anyone, unless the emperor hates this person, he will let people check, and in terms of the current situation in the Tang Dynasty, almost any official can not withstand the investigation, as long as he bites the check carefully, it is basically a check, basically he will be more or less greedy for ink, as for receiving gifts, it will be more, even Li An often receives gifts, and the bigger the official, the more real power the official, the more gifts he receives, and after receiving gifts, it is inevitable to do things for others, which is also a kind of corruption, but no one will care about the slight, after all, the water is clear, there are no fish, and it is not realistic to let officials be greedy for ink at all.