"What, 100,000 stones, isn't this only one-fifth of the output at its peak." Wang Junlin's brows furrowed.

Qian Zhengkuo said: "That's right, so the income of the salt industry has also plummeted, and the reason for this is that the salt farm has always been run by the government, and the salt workers have lost their enthusiasm for a long time, and they have to get by." The second is that coastal bandits are serious, and pirates often land to rob the salt works, which affects the operation of the salt works. Third, on the long coastline of Fanyang County, there are still many nobles and salt dealers engaged in boiling and selling illicit salt! ”

After Qian Zhengkuo finished speaking, Wang Junlin suddenly stared at him, but he just didn't speak.

Qian Zhengkuo was a little nervous under Wang Junlin's knife-like gaze, and couldn't help but say, "I don't know what else the lord has to order the lower officials?" ”

Wang Junlin took out a letter from his cuff and said with a smile: "Qian Zhengkuo, as soon as this official entered the yamen of the county government this morning, he found a letter on this table, the content of which is that someone reported you, saying that you Qian Zhengkuo accepted bribes, connived at and colluded with smugglers, and even colluded with pirates to enrich your own pockets, but is there such a thing?" ”

Qian Zhengkuo was already a thief, but after listening to Wang Junlin's words, his face turned pale with fright, and he no longer had the calm state just now, and he suddenly fell to the ground, sweating like rain.

He knew the attitude of the Lord Taishou in front of him towards corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and the four officials in Changxiang County fell to the ground, which was a lesson from the past, and Lord Taishou even killed Lu Jiandong, a descendant of the Lu family, let alone an ordinary aristocratic official like him.

Qian Zhengkuo raised his head and looked at the fatal real-name report letter in Wang Junlin's hand, and he could only put the letter in the Taishou Lord's house, but he could only be an official in the county government.

It's just that almost every official in the county government knows about the matter of the salt line, but more or less everyone who knows about it is involved, and they are all grasshoppers on a rope, so they shouldn't report him.

"Could it be that a certain little official happened to know about this, and his eyes were hot and jealous, so he exposed this matter to Lord Taishou, as long as I gave me a little time, I will definitely be able to track it down!" Qian Zhengkuo was secretly ruthless in his heart.

But at this time, Wang Junlin's voice sounded again: "Qian Zhengkuo, according to what was said in this letter, it is not too much for the official to cut off your head ten times for what you have done, how do you want to explain?" ”

"Xiaguan...... Xiaguan ......"

Just when Qian Zhengkuo was sweating profusely, his brain was running rapidly, thinking about his rhetoric, and thinking about passing the level in front of him first, Wang Junlin did something that surprised and shocked him!

Under the witness of Qian Zhengkuo, Wang Junlin rubbed the letter with both hands, and the letter turned into very small crumbs and fell to the ground, and no one could know what was written in the letter.

Qian Zhengkuo was stunned for a moment and said, "My lord, this ......"

Wang Junlin smiled slightly, and said: "This official has just arrived, how can he arbitrarily determine the crime of the subordinate official because of a letter, and besides, this person is secretly doing things, and he doesn't dare to report you, I am afraid that he has ill intentions and tries to provoke the relationship between you and me and disrupt the normal operation of my county government." ”

Obviously, Wang Junlin crumpled a letter with nothing written on it into confetti to scare and deceive Qian Zhengkuo, and it is easy to kill a small character like Qian Zhengkuo, but it is useless if the problem of the salt field cannot be solved, and to solve the problem of the salt field, it is necessary to solve the problem of the Lu family......

Although there was already a royal history platform in the Sui Dynasty, three provinces and six ministries were initially set up, but the supervision system of officials, especially the supervision of local officials, almost non-existent, now it seems that the Blue Guard Mansion and the private spy organization around the emperor can be regarded as some supervision force, but there are so many counties and counties in the Great Sui, so many officials, who can supervise it, in this way, whether the officials are from the gate valve, or ordinary nobles, or the henchmen sent by the emperor, there is not much constraint, can only rely on self-discipline.

Perhaps when these officials first became officials, they also thought about being good officials, doing their jobs well, being honest and honest, and in the first year or two, they also abided by their bottom line and refused all bribes of money, silk and jewelry. But people always have weaknesses, some are lustful, some are good wine, some are good jade, and even some are good men. As long as people have hobbies and shortcomings, they can be regarded as having loopholes, and this line of defense was soon attacked by the beauties, wine and meat, gold and silver, beautiful jade, and treasures sent by local gatekeepers, nobles, colleagues, gentry, and merchants, and it fell deeper and deeper.

Slowly, some of the original good officials also forgot their original intentions, lost their bottom line of being an official and a man, and by the way, they also cultivated their own preferences, tasted the beauty of money, the beauty of beauty, and material enjoyment, so that they turned a blind eye to some illegal things within their jurisdiction, and even went along with them, in exchange for money and beauty, and only paid attention to material enjoyment all day long, and their spirit was completely degraded.

Of course, Wang Junlin knows that the salt tax salt field is a piece of water. It is very deep, and it is estimated that there are many officials involved, and if it is revealed, it may cause the entire Fanyang County to collapse from top to bottom, and he suspects that the henchman Ying Yanglang sent by Yang Guang may have been pulled into the water.

In fact, if Wang Junlin looks at the neighboring counties again, and even looks at the entire Great Sui officialdom, it is not difficult to find that although the Great Sui has been established for less than 30 years, from top to bottom, all officials have long been corrupt and rampant.

And the officials only want to make money and enjoy themselves, and their awareness of the specific things they do below will only be worse than them, and they will naturally learn from them, so in the end it is the common people in the world who are unlucky, and it is actually wrong to say that all the officials and nobles are enjoying the people's fat and people's ointment, and it is right to say that they are drinking the blood of the common people and eating the flesh of the common people.

Since the founding of the Great Sui Dynasty, in the whole world, there has not been a single official who can strictly discipline himself, not take the slightest bribe, and embezzle a penny of silver!

Perhaps there is only one person excepted, and that is Wang Junlin......

Thinking about it, Wang Junlin really has never been corrupt or bribed, and on the contrary, he doesn't know how much money he spends on office work.

As for the others? The education of the officials of the Great Sui who came from an aristocratic background and the example of their elders had already determined what kind of officials they would be. As for the aristocratic gate valve itself, not to mention, they were originally the bloodsuckers on the body of the Great Sui or the common people of the Great Sui, and they were the kind of bloodsuckers who would never fall off and suck blood all the time.

But if these people were sucking money that had been handed over to the treasury, and the amount was not small, then one of them would be displeased, and would not hesitate to kill for it.

This person is naturally His Majesty the Emperor, but the problem is that Yang Guang only thinks that these damned people dare to embezzle my money, so they should be damned, and he doesn't think about anything else.