In the late Qing Dynasty, Yi Yi was greedy and despicable. He sold official positions with his son Zaizhen and minister Na Tong, and was ridiculed as "Qingna Company" by people at that time.
In 1904, the censor Jiang Shizhen impeached him for being a military minister. He had deposited 1.2 million taels of private property in the British merchant bank.
The famous Times and New York Times also mentioned that his house was the "market" of the Chinese officialdom. Even the gatehouse had a "toll booth".
In particular, The Times published an article titled "The Biography of Prince Qing", which said: "His residence is north of the Imperial City, and all the officials in Beijing, big or small, run to his door. This is probably what the Chinese say,'His door is like a bazaar'.”
According to statistics, when the Qing Dynasty was destroyed, the family property that Yi Cui had accumulated through bribery was equivalent to more than 100 million taels of silver. At that time, the Qing Empire's annual financial revenue was only more than 80 million taels, which could be called the biggest greed in the late Qing Dynasty.
He Shen, formerly known as Shanbao, the word Zhizhai, Hu Lu, Manchuria is the red flag people.
After Qianlong's death, Heshen was confiscated. There were more than 32000 taels of gold in the private warehouse and more than 3 million taels of silver buried in the cellar.
In addition, according to the records, Heshen also had 1260 hectares of land for rent, 1000 rooms for rent, and a large number of jewelry, jade, clothes, books, and so on. The number was huge and unprecedented.
Some said that if they copied No. 25 of No. 106 on the list, it would be converted into more than 2.2 billion taels of silver.
Some said that there were 100 red gold ingots, each weighing 1000 taels, estimated at 1.5 million taels of silver, 5.8 million taels of red gold, 87 million taels of silver, 9.4 million taels of silver, 5.83 million taels of silver, 3.15 million taels of silver, 75 pawn shops, 30 million taels of silver, two jade warehouses, estimated at 70 million taels of silver, and more than 8000 hectares of land, estimated at 8 million taels of silver.
Some people estimated that the He family's production value was 800 million taels of silver, which was more than ten years of the court's income.
These people were all famous corrupt officials in ancient China, especially He Shen. He alone embezzled ten years of the Qing Dynasty's national treasury income.
Long Yunfeng wasn't sure if Great Qin had corrupt officials like them, but if the corrupt officials were dealt with, they would be able to add tens of millions of silver to the national treasury.
It was easier to do things with money!
What Long Yunfeng lacked the most right now was money. He could only do things with money, and he couldn't do anything without it.
"Corrupted officials must be dealt with." Long Yunfeng was determined to take action against the corrupt officials. Many of the people in the royal court were from aristocratic families. Once they were investigated, many aristocratic families would fall from power and weaken their strength.
"Then this matter will be handed over to the two sirs. What do you think?”Long Yunfeng smiled.
Wang Huan and Li Zhenguo were shocked when they heard that.
" Your Majesty, if you want to deal with a corrupt official, I have a better candidate." Zhu Yu understood what Wang Huan and Wang Yu were thinking. Wang Huan was still alright. He was an old aristocratic family of Great Qin, and his family was quite powerful.
However, Li Zhenguo's family was poor. If he were to take action, it was very likely that he would be retaliated by the aristocratic families.
"Oh! Please speak, General Zhu." Hearing that there was a better candidate, Long Yunfeng was even more delighted. He didn't have anyone he could use, so it would be great if he could find a suitable candidate.
"Shadow Guard Commander Zhang Han." Zhu Yu said.
"Shadow Secret Guard? Why don't I know about this Shadow Secret Guard?" Long Yunfeng asked curiously.
"Your Majesty, the Shadow Secret Guards can only be controlled by the virtuous emperors of the past. Your Majesty has just ascended the throne today, and the divine dragon has descended. Great Qin will rise and be blessed by the heavens, so you now have the right to control the Shadow Secret Guards.”Zhu Yu said.
"So that's how it is!" Long Yunfeng immediately understood. If he was a fatuous ruler, he wouldn't have the ability to control the Shadow Secret Guards.
He did not know what kind of strength the Shadow Secret Guard had, or what kind of organization it was.
"Your Majesty, should we summon the commander of the Shadow Secret Guards, Zhang Han?”Zhu Yu saw that Long Yunfeng was deep in thought and interrupted him.
"Oh! He's already outside." Long Yunfeng was surprised.
He didn't expect Zhu Yu to have already brought him here. It seemed that he had a purpose for looking for him today.
"Your Majesty, he is already outside." Zhu Yu pointed to the door and said.
" Guo Huai, let Zhang Han in!" Long Yunfeng shouted at the door.
After a while, one of them was wearing a strange outfit. His overall outfit was naturally black.
The tight-fitting clothing design was easy to fight, and the dark patterns similar to the armor also matched the identity of the leader.
The perfect combination of leather armor and armor, coupled with the terrifying bone-corroding skeleton decoration on the armor, showed its cold and murderous characteristics.
The scars on his face and the tough lines on his face all revealed his resolute and decisive personality.
His sharp eyes seemed to be able to see through everything and see through other people's every move.
"Shadow Secret Guard Commander Zhang Han greets Your Majesty.”After Zhang Han came in, Dan Qi knelt down and cupped his hands.
"Rise."
"Thank you, Your Majesty."
Long Yunfeng sized him up, and Zhang Han sized him up. Long Yunfeng didn't mind and said," Zhang Han, tell me about the Shadow Secret Guards."
Zhang Han didn't answer. Instead, he looked at Wang Huan and Li Zhenguo.
Long Yunfeng understood Zhang Han's gaze and smiled.""I'm fine!"
"Yes." Seeing Long Yunfeng's words, Zhang Han didn't say anything else and said,"The Shadow Secret Guards were established before Great Qin was established and have existed for hundreds of years. All members are only loyal to Great Qin's Emperor…"
"How many members does the Shadow Secret Guard have? What kind of missions do they usually carry out?" Long Yunfeng asked.
He couldn't wait to know what kind of organization the Shadow Secret Guard belonged to.
"The Shadow Secret Guard has a total of three thousand members. They are responsible for all kinds of intelligence and are also responsible for carrying out assassination missions.”Zhang Han didn't hide anything and directly walked out.
So it was an intelligence agency!
Long Yunfeng was a little excited. He originally wanted to wait for a period of time before setting up his own intelligence agency. Now that there was one here, how could he not be surprised?
"Including information on Great Qin's officials?”Long Yunfeng asked in surprise.
"Yes, sir."
"Zhen wants to use a knife against these corrupt officials.”Long Yunfeng asked.
"The leader of the Hanyin rebellion has been escorted to the Forbidden City today. According to the investigation, the riot this time is only related to the two thousand households of Hanyin, and these two thousand households were recommended by Song Xian of the Internal History Office.”Zhang Han told him what he knew.
"Is it accurate?" Long Yunfeng asked.
"Correct," Zhang Han answered firmly.
"Hehe, if the entire Great Qin were to take care of corrupt officials, how much silver do you think it would bring to the national treasury?”Long Yunfeng asked with a smile.
" According to the information I have, if the entire country were to fight corruption, it would add at least 100 million taels of silver to the national treasury," Zhang Han replied.
"How many?" Long Yunfeng exclaimed.
My goodness, a hundred million taels of silver! If this money went into the national treasury, how much could he do?
"Your Majesty, this is the lowest case. If we completely punish corruption, we can probably add a lot of silver to the Great Qin treasury.”Zhang Han said.
" If we completely deal with corruption, Great Qin will be in chaos," Long Yunfeng said as he sighed.
How could an official not be greedy? Even if there weren't, they were only a minority.
"Then Your Majesty means to only punish great greed.”Wang Huan interjected.
"Right, corrupt officials can't be completely governed. Even though those small corrupt officials are greedy, they are still the foundation of Great Qin. "Seize all those that exceed ten thousand taels, and hand over ninety percent of those below ten thousand taels to the national treasury. I will let bygones be bygones, and if there are any more, I will not forgive them. However, if there are no accurate reports, I will also take them down," Long Yunfeng said.
" Your Majesty, this method is feasible. This way, we can discipline the officials and ensure the stability of the region," Li Situ also agreed.
" Alright, Zhang Han." Long Yunfeng saw that they all agreed with his point of view and looked at Zhang Han.
"I'm here." Zhang Han knelt on one knee.
" You will be in charge of the officials this time. Don't disappoint me," Long Yunfeng said.
" I won't let you down, Your Majesty," Zhang Han replied.
"Get up!"
"Yes, sir."
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