After the meeting ended, the upper echelons of the Russian Empire left one after another.
Many of the ministers rushed home in a hurry. It seemed that they were calculating how much corruption they had committed over the years.
In order to save his life, he would have to hand over all the stolen money.
Otherwise, if Michael II was serious, wouldn't they have to go to prison to accompany Sergei Viktor?
"Akinfev, it's up to you now. I'll get the intelligence department and the army to cooperate with you. The officialdom of the Russian Empire was completely rotten. If they did not clean it up properly, the consequences would be very serious. In fact, our empire will no longer have a future.”Mihail said solemnly.
In another time and space, the reason why the Bolsheviks were able to succeed was precisely because the people of the Russian Empire were completely disappointed in the entire country. Therefore, they fully supported the Bolsheviks.
Now, the lives of the common people were already very bad. Even though everyone was silently enduring it. But he knew that if he didn't make any changes, the consequences would be very serious.
The finances of the Russian Empire were heavily in debt. If he wanted to carry out drastic reforms in industry, transportation, military, and agriculture, he would need a large amount of money.
The stolen money handed over by these officials and the family property of those people were undoubtedly an important source of these funds.
"Yes, Your Majesty. I will do my best. However, few of the officials in the empire were clean. If he did so, it would probably cause a huge commotion.”Akinfev was somewhat worried.
" Don't worry about that." Mihail shook his head." As long as the army is not in chaos, the empire will not be in chaos." Even if there were some small problems, they could be easily resolved. Next, you can start with the high-ranking officials of the Empire. Then, he pushed it down level by level. Of course, there was no need to be too ruthless. As long as the officials handed over the majority of the stolen money, it would be fine. There was no need to take it seriously. If that was the case, there would be problems. "Of course, I will further improve the treatment of the officials so that they no longer have an excuse to be corrupt. After that, if anyone dared to reach out, they would naturally not be tolerated and would be severely punished!”
"Yes, Your Majesty!" Akinfev nodded, understanding what Mihail meant.
As the saying goes, if the water is too clear, there will be no fish, and if people are too careful, there will be no fish.
Human desires were endless, which made it impossible for many people to completely resist temptation.
The Russian Empire was so big and had so many officials. It was simply impossible to make all the officials incorruptible.
It could be foreseen that the Empire's Ministry of Supervision would be very busy.
Mihail hoped that the Imperial Department of Supervision would become a sharp sword hanging over the heads of the officials, so that they would have some scruples when doing things and wouldn't be too arrogant. In that case, it would be the best for the Russian Empire.
It would be best if the atmosphere of the Russian officialdom could be cleared up in five or even ten years.
The first thing the Ministry of Supervision did after it was established was to thoroughly investigate the former Minister of Finance and confiscate all his assets.
Many of the officials in the Imperial Department of Supervision were retired intelligence personnel.
Whether it was interrogation or investigation, they were experts.
In just a week, the Ministry of Supervision had figured out the corruption situation of Sergei Viktor over the years and the situation of his family property.
When Akinfev sent the report to Michael, he was also shocked.
Although he knew that Sergei Witt was a corrupt official, he realized that he had underestimated his greed.
Sergei Viktor's bank account, gold, jewelry, antiques, land, shops, mansions, and shares of the companies he held, etc.
In total, it was 2.5 billion rubles.
One had to know that the annual revenue of the Russian Empire was only 1.2 billion rubles!
No wonder the people of the Russian Empire were living in misery. So it was because these guys had embezzled too much.
Mihail directly requested for Sergei Witt to be put on trial.
In the end, the court sentenced Sergei Witt to be hanged immediately.
The execution location was in the Red Square outside the Ke Palace.
For a moment, all the people of Mosk crowded here and watched Sergei Witt being hanged.
This was undoubtedly a great shock to the officials of the entire Russian Empire.
They finally understood that the new tsar was undoubtedly much more ruthless than the previous tsars!
At the same time, the other officials of the Russian Empire, especially the officials of the cabinet, were also summoned by the Ministry of Supervision to confess their crimes and hand over the stolen money.
All the cabinet ministers also took the initiative to hand over the stolen money. Although it wasn't all that they were greedy for, it was still the vast majority. This was undoubtedly a very good example. The other officials naturally did not dare to disobey the order and handed over the stolen money one after another.
In an instant, the treasury of the Russian Empire was filled to the brim.
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