I want to be emperor

Chapter 384

When the Great Chu Empire Army launched large-scale military operations in Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian and Zhejiang, a very targeted storm of bureaucratic rectification quietly broke out in Jinling City.

However, some people in the storm still don't know that the sky above their heads is already covered with dark clouds.

Chen Shoulin was one of them.

Now he is still happy for his promotion, and he is feasting his guests because of it.

Of course, when entertaining guests, it is normal to accept some congratulatory gifts. These congratulatory gifts can be converted into tens of thousands of taels. In the future, people will just bring them back to their hometown in Chubei to buy shops and other industries to enrich them. The foundation of the Chen family.

Looking at the gift list, Chen Shoulin was smiling!

It’s not bad that I decided to vote for a thief at the beginning, oh, no, Conglong, since Conglong in Yuezhou, it only took me more than a year to change from a mere eighth-rank Jiaoyu to a third-rank director .

And now he is about to be transferred to the Ministry of Water Resources as the right servant. From the second grade, people from the Ministry of Civil Affairs have already come to do a symbolic investigation and inquiry, and the appointment letter will probably come down in a few days.

Chen Shoulin is very satisfied with this transfer. Although the Ministry of Water Resources is regarded by many people as a weak department, far inferior to the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Ministry of Industry, and the Ministry of Taxation, he was directly transferred from the position of director to the right. Minister's.

This is a direct transfer of a Beijing official, and it can even be said that he has been directly promoted to two levels.

As long as he stays in the position of the right servant of the Ministry of Water Resources for a few years, he has a great chance of becoming the left servant, and even if he is not good enough, he can be sent to a local governor as a governor.

This official career is very smooth.

Besides, others only think that the Ministry of Water Resources has no rights and no status in the Senate, but the Ministry of Water Resources has a lot of oil and water at all.

The Great Chu Empire still paid more attention to infrastructure such as water conservancy. Many of the work-for-relief projects were actually local water conservancy construction projects, whether it was flood control or irrigation.

And since there are so many projects, the money and food that have been handed over are naturally indispensable.

Looking back, I will do my best to operate one or two. In the past few years, You Shilang will be able to accumulate a foundation worth 10 taels for their old Chen family.

But thinking of the family business, Chen Shoulin said to the letter sent by his elder brother a while ago that the agricultural tax was too heavy. The hundreds of acres of land in their family, plus the thousands of acres of land purchased last year, the agricultural tax was too high. Not a small number.

The rent collected here is half of the tax.

There are also several commercial firms that the family bought last year, which also pay heavy taxes.

His elder brother said that the Chen family worked hard last year, and the combined income of various industries was only tens of thousands of taels, but paying taxes would cost several thousand taels. Only a few thousand taels.

What are you talking about after a year of hard work, but in the end you made wedding dresses for those taxpayers...

Chen Shoulin's heart ached when he thought of paying thousands of silver in taxes every year.

He worked so hard to earn money outside last year, and he only earned tens of thousands of taels. As a result, those tax officials didn't even have to talk about it, and they could collect thousands of taels of silver just by sending a tax notice.

This is simply unreasonable!
In addition, at the beginning of the year, because his pro-army missed paying some taxes, they were bitten by those tax mad dogs, and they had to fine them more than 2 taels of silver...

Even if he wrote a letter in his own handwriting, it was useless to go to the Han Tianfu tax office to explain it clearly, and Chen Shoulin was very angry.

How can we achieve long-term peace and stability by tyrannical government and heavy taxes, and taking profits from the people?

And when he thought that many people in the court were from mud-legged backgrounds and couldn't even write well, Chen Shoulin felt that there was a long way to go.

If this doesn't bring down those muddy legs of Chen Xingkai, it is impossible to return the imperial court to a bright future.

But pulling people down is a little bit worse, he himself is just a second-rank weak department right servant, and he hasn't officially taken office yet...

So this is not an urgent matter for the time being, but tax tyranny absolutely cannot continue like this, otherwise, how many good families in the world will suffer.

Immediately, he thought about writing a letter to impeach the tax system.

Although he also knew that this kind of booklet would be lost in the sea after being sent up, but if he didn't do some things, he would never succeed.

As long as he insists on impeachment, and then pulls other comrades to impeach, sooner or later, His Majesty will be able to change his mind.

Just as he was deliberating on how to write the impeachment tax system, suddenly there was a rush of footsteps outside...

Chen Shoulin frowned slightly, who was so ignorant of the rules, it seemed that these servants recruited from outside were still not good enough, they didn't understand the rules, so they had to write a letter, asking the family to send a group of children over.

The sound of hurried footsteps outside approached quickly, and soon they reached the door of the study, only to see a middle-aged man come in and said with a panicked expression: "Master, it's not good..."

Chen Shoulin immediately shouted coldly: "It's not proper to do things in a hurry, what I said in the past, be prudent, this is the Chen Mansion, not some thatched cottage with mud legs!"

The middle-aged man didn't seem to hear the reprimand, but continued to talk to himself: "Master... a group of patrolmen came outside, and there are a few censors..."

Censor and Patrolman?
Chen Shoulin wouldn't find it strange if the two appeared separately.

But if they were dispatched together, and they still came to his own house, then Chen Shoulin would have a very bad premonition.

He knew that although the inspector's office and the patrol police in Guochaoli belonged to the judicial system, they were actually two completely different departments.

Patrol police are law enforcement agencies. When investigating ordinary cases, the patrol police usually investigate on their own. Even if they want to arrest people, they need to ask the Inspectorate to issue an arrest warrant, but the patrol police can just use the arrest warrant to arrest people. Shimen personally led the team to arrest people.

But there is a special situation, that is, corruption cases against officials.

In corruption cases against officials, the censors often bring a group of patrolmen to arrest people. In fact, there was no such rule at the beginning. The main reason is that many censors regard the arrest of corrupt officials as their political capital. This political capital, the censor who does a good job in anti-corruption work often rises very quickly.

In order to prevent myself from working hard to investigate the case, and then being picked peaches by other censors and taking away the credit, so some censors personally led people to arrest people, in order to mark the case files from beginning to end. Even if the immediate boss came, he would not be able to take away the credit for his own brand.

This has also led to the fact that the censors of the Great Chu Empire now personally bring the patrolmen to arrest people when handling official cases.

And now...

In his house, the censor and patrolmen came!

And the most important thing was that among the hundreds of people in the huge Chen Mansion, he, Chen Shoulin, was the only one who was an official.

Among the other more than 100 people, a dozen or so were his newly recruited personal maids, and two were children who followed him.

The remaining more than 100 people are hired servants.

What is this censor here for?
Is it directed at yourself?

Chen Shoulin, who was spinning these thoughts quickly in his mind, didn't know that his breathing had started to become short of breath.

However, he was born as a serious hypocritical juror, and he has been an official for many years, so he has practiced his composure.

After taking a deep breath, he immediately got up and walked out: "Go and see!"

He, Chen Shoulin, was formerly the director of the Textile Department of the Ministry of Industry, and now he is about to be the right servant of the Ministry of Water Resources, a second-rank senior official in the country.

He wants to see who is so bold as to mess around in his own house!
He just got up, and before he reached the door, he heard a rush of footsteps outside, and quickly trotted in more than a dozen patrolmen in black uniforms.

And there was a burst of shouting outside: Be honest!Get down!

Anyone who dares to resist will be killed on the spot!

Police attacker beheaded and ransacked home!
When Chen Shoulin saw these patrolmen and heard these words, his expression was extremely ugly!

Especially when he saw that his only eldest son was also forcibly tied up by a patrolman. The eldest son struggled a little, and the patrolman directly smashed him with a scabbard. He was even more angry: "What are you doing? Let him go!"

"Do you know who this official is, and does your Shangfeng know that you trespassed on the residence of the minister of the court?"

"If you don't let him go, I want to impeach you. This patrol department is lawless."

Although Chen Shoulin's words were extremely angry, his legs couldn't help but began to tremble...

This scene!
Let him have an extremely bad premonition!

The patrolmen opposite were not fools, even if they were fools, their bosses would not be fools, and those censors were not fools either.

As long as he is not too stupid, then he will never break into the mansion of a second-rank right servant in the court without authorization, and arrest people wantonly or even do it directly.

These patrolmen have even drawn their knives!
When Chen Shoulin shouted angrily, another person came out from behind a group of patrolmen!

This person is not wearing the black uniform of the patrolmen, but a blue Confucian uniform, with a gold coat of arms pinned to it, and the gold coat of arms is exactly the gold used by officials above the fourth rank in the Great Chu Empire. coat of arms.

Looking closely at the pattern above, it is still a peacock, which means that the person who came is a third-rank official.

Although the Great Chu Empire did not strictly stipulate the daily attire of officials at the beginning, as long as it is not too outrageous, basically no one will say anything about you.

The most orthodox court clothes are only required when going to court and in some formal occasions.

The court clothes of the Great Chu Empire strictly followed the tradition of the Han Dynasty, that is, high-level officials wore scarlet, mid-level officials wore blue, and low-level officials wore green, basically the same color as the court clothes of the Ming court.

Solemn and strict!
As for ordinary clothes, officials of the Great Chu Empire now mainly wear Confucian clothes, and they are all blue in color...

The reason why they all wear Confucian uniforms is purely for the benefit of the top and the support of the bottom.

In daily life, Luo Zhixue preferred to wear Confucian clothes, and later became emperor, even if it was a dragon robe, it was just a dragon pattern added to the Confucian clothes.

The officials below naturally followed suit.

As for the color, at first Chen Xingkai and the others imitated the uniforms of military officers and wore dark blue, but in order to distinguish them from the uniforms of military officers, they changed to blue.

The bigwigs above are dressed like this, and the officials below are all following suit!

So it didn't take long for the blue Confucian uniform to become the standard attire of the civil servants of the Great Chu Empire...

The grade distinction is mainly based on the coat of arms.

But the patrol police are an exception. They don't wear this kind of official uniform, but the prefect that evolved from military uniform. For example, the patrol uniform is actually a black version of the military uniform.

Now, an official in his thirties, wearing a blue official uniform and a badge on the chest of the third grade, walked up to a group of patrolmen, then glanced at Chen Shoulin, and then raised his hand and took out an arrest warrant: "Chen Shoulin, You are under arrest!"

After all, without waiting for Chen Shoulin to say anything, he just waved his hand, and the patrolman behind him rushed up and captured Chen Shoulin...

During the whole process, Chen Shoulin was dumbfounded, did not refute a word, let alone resisted at all...

It wasn't until he was dragged away that he suddenly came to his senses: "No... I am the right servant of the Ministry of Water Resources, a senior official of the Ministry of Water Resources. You have no right to take me away. I want to see the adults, I want to see you!" Your Majesty...you can't do this...you..."

However, the censor beside him chuckled: "No, you are not!"

Then he turned around and said to a senior patrolman: "Brother Li, I'll leave it to you as soon as I come down. No one in the Chen family will stay, and they will all be taken back for questioning, as well as other people Chen Shoulin is familiar with. Once summoned for an inquiry, I will have to trouble you to go there!"

A middle-aged patrolman with a gold badge on the side said with a smile on his face: "It's all trivial, Brother Wang, just wait, this time, Lao Li, I will definitely take care of it for you, and no one can escape! "

(End of this chapter)