Lu Bu also took this opportunity to successfully burn the fire to the ministers of the Qingliu family. Cai Yong, Huang Wan, Zheng Xuan, Cui Lie and other Qingliu ministers of the aristocratic families also recommended many children of the aristocratic families due to the face of their colleagues. Many of the children of the aristocratic families they recommended were involved in this corruption case.

The fire was not extinguished, but instead caused the fire to burn him. Cai Yong, Huang Wan and other ministers of the noble families were very frightened and all fell to the ground, shouting long live the mountain, saying that they had no eyes and were ashamed.

Emperor Liu Bian saw the white-haired Cai Yong, Huang Wan and other ministers of the aristocratic family kneeling on the ground for a long time. They looked very sincere. When he saw Lu Bu signaling, he ordered people to help them up.

Emperor Liu Bian said to Cai Yong and others: "Originally, you were going to be held accountable this time. Gu Nian is old, weak, hardworking and high-profile, so there will be no punishment for the time being, but this matter must be published in the Dahan Daily and passed on to the world."

Although Cai Yong was Lu Bu's father-in-law, who was defending the Han court and serving the emperor to fight against unjust ministers, they were political allies, but in protecting the interests of the aristocratic families, the two were political enemies who met the opponents. Lu Bu did not want to force his father-in-law too ruthless, but he exposed all these things in the Han Daily, which would definitely discredit the reputation of these aristocratic ministers.

Cai Yong, Huang Wan and other ministers of the noble families quickly knelt down and asked Emperor Liu Bian not to publish these recommendations in the Han Daily.

Liu Bian showed a embarrassed expression, and Lu Bu came out to smooth things out again: "I have an idea. If these recommenders can compensate the poor people who have been harmed by the corrupt officials they recommended, and their merits will be fulfilled. They can stop making these things public."

The profound meaning of Lu Bu's words is that you don't have to use your career as a recommendation leader and pay for the people you recommend, but you must wipe your butt for the recommendation and comfort the poor people.

Therefore, these noble ministers from these noble families became monks and pacified the people who were cheated in the name of the court.

Sikong Cui Lie, who was known as the stinking of money, took care of the money he had donated and went up to me and said, "I am worried that if this happens, all the ministers will be afraid of being implicated, and I am afraid that they will no longer recommend talents to the court."

Emperor Liu Bian didn't know how to deal with it, so Lu Bu handed over a note, and Wang Yue, the general of Longxiang, came forward to present it to Emperor Liu Bian.

Emperor Liu Bian glanced at him, was overjoyed, and said to Cui Lie with a smile: "Since all the ministers of the court are afraid of being implicated and unwilling to recommend talent to the court, then there are officials with seventh rank and above, including the governors of each state, generals of each state, prefects of each county, magistrate of each county, county magistrate, county magistrate of each county, county magistrate of each county, county magistrate of each county, county magistrate of each county, and county magistrate of each county, and county magistrate of each county, and county magistrate of each county, and county magistrate of each county, and said to Cui Lie with a smile: "Since all the ministers of the court are afraid of the joint system, they are willing to recommend talent to the court."

Sikong Cui Lie knew that this was Lu Bu's instruction, and he hit Qi'an in the face of his words, so he was speechless. Emperor Liu Bian took the opportunity to issue an edict: "All officials above the seventh rank can recommend talents, but if there is a problem with the person recommended, the recommendation owner will also bear joint and several liability."

This move has restricted the most important recommendation power of the aristocratic ministers. Now, not only are you noble ministers who can recommend talented people. Even ordinary officials of the seventh rank or above who are from the Hanshu can recommend talented people, but the joint liability between the recommender and the recommended person will be investigated seriously in the future, and those aristocratic ministers have nothing to say.

After a court meeting, several imperial edicts were issued, letters from the heads of the aristocratic families present, military orders and imperial edicts were issued together, but the heads of the aristocratic families and their senior officials stayed in Yecheng to prevent some corrupt officials from jumping over the wall.

The state generals, county lieutenants, county lieutenants and township lieutenants distributed in seven prefectures were all direct soldiers from the Central Army of Lu Bu. Their men and horses were dispatched together, carrying imperial edicts, military orders, letters from the head of the family, and files from the Censorate, arrested those corrupt officials at lightning speed, entered the fort manor of the corrupt families, first checked the evidence of the crime, then checked the property, and arrested the corrupt officials and their profit-making families. All those who dared to raise their swords and guns to resist were killed on the spot.

There are many corrupt officials from aristocratic families who are eager to jump over the wall and lead their private soldiers to fight back. However, they are all a big family. The heads of the family and important figures of the family are all in the palace of Yecheng. There are no people in the family who can make a complete decision. The corrupt children of the aristocratic families are rejected by the innocent children of the aristocratic families. They cannot lead many soldiers. The Central Army and local county soldiers under the leadership of the generals of Lu Bu were all raids in a flash. The children of the aristocratic families were arrested before they were ready for battle.

After completing the purge of corrupt officials and their families, public trial meetings were held in various places to let all the people see the faces of these corrupt officials and correct Lu Bu's reputation. Those corrupt officials with serious crimes were executed on the spot. Those corrupt officials with minor crimes and those profit-making families were demoted to slaves and placed in the construction corps of various states for labor. The construction corps of various states suddenly had tens of thousands of free laborers, and whether it was mining, land reclamation, or water conservancy construction, was accelerated a lot.

The innocent children of those aristocratic families left their original families and went to Liangzhou, Shuozhou, Youzhou and other places with vast land and sparsely populated Liangzhou, Shuozhou, Youzhou and other places to rebuild their family businesses. In addition to the industries of the corrupt family were taken away by the innocent children, the remaining part was compensated to those poor people who had been infringed on the interests of corrupt officials. Half of the remaining majority was taken to the treasury of the Ministry of Revenue and the other half to the central bank.

During this storm of integrity, more than 60 billion yuan of property was collected from corrupt families in seven states, which was about two years of taxes during the peak period of the Han Dynasty. Lu Bu took out more than 10 billion yuan and used county magistrates, county magistrates, township magistrates, and tingweis to supply people from all over the country. Over the past three years, Lu Bu promised to invest in education and childbirth subsidies to them. Each person could get more than 1,000 yuan, which was about half a year of their income.

When the poor people who had scolded Lu Bu learned the truth at the public trial meeting, they felt very guilty, but they were unwilling to say that they had misunderstood Lu Bu in the past. But when they got the glittering and loud Wuzhu coins, their attitude suddenly changed by 180 degrees, and they began to praise Lu Bu, praising him like the Buddhas in the sky who saved the suffering.

Man Chong followed Lu Bu to inspect various places, checking the investigation of corrupt officials, and looking at the performance of the poor people, Man Chong smiled at Lu Bu and said, "This is the way people's hearts are, and this is the way people's opinion."

Lu Bu shook his head helplessly. The quality of the people in any era in this country is like this. His mind is simple and easy to be incited by others. He is like a fence-bearer. Because they are ordinary people, they are difficult to survive. Telling them big truths is far from giving them real money and silver.

Among the hundreds of aristocratic manors, only the lonely and helpless head of aristocratic family and their eldest son were left. The population was much thinner, so there was no need to live in such a large manor. Emperor Liu Bian issued another edict to allow all the scattered aristocratic families to settle in Yecheng for the convenience of the court's supervision. All the original scattered burgers were taken over to the court, and the court distributed them to the original tenants of the aristocratic families to live in the original tenants of the aristocratic families. From then on, the burgers of aristocratic families became the home of tenants who turned over to become self-cultivated farmers.

All the private soldiers raised by those aristocratic families in the fort manor were captured. Except for the two guards left to those innocent and honest families according to the standards of the two guards around aristocratic families, most of the other private soldiers were assigned to local county soldiers.

Lu Bu remembered the problems reported by the old shopkeeper in the dilapidated inn that day, and issued military orders to let those Central Army soldiers and county soldiers who had old and young, and were indispensable to him. The county soldiers retired to serve as pavilion chiefs, pavilion chiefs, security chiefs, and a captain. On the one hand, they consolidated Lu Bu's rule over the local area, and on the other hand, they all alleviated the pressure on local people.

The soldiers in counties and counties in various places are supplemented by private soldiers from various aristocratic families, and then demobilized partly according to their respective family situations. In the end, the number remains stable. Most of the soldiers left are not a small burden, so they can focus all their attention on training and fighting.

During this anti-corruption storm, Lu Bu obtained tens of thousands of war horses, weapons and armor, and millions of stones of food by searching the corrupt families. The strength of the Central Army and local counties and soldiers was significantly expanded, and the local aristocratic arrogance was suppressed to the lowest point in history.

In the seven states under Lu Bu's rule, there are thousands of aristocratic families. Not every aristocratic family has the same family style as the Yuan family in Runan. There are still aristocratic families like the Wenxi Pei family, Chenjun Yuan family, and Chenliu Cai family. Their family style focuses on cultivating virtue, learning, and integrity, so there are few corrupt children in the family. For such good families that only occupy a small part of their family, Lu Bu still strives for their support with great kindness and wins their support. After the few black sheep and their profit-making families are eliminated, the good family can continue to maintain it.

The Julu Tian family, Guangping Ju family, Jiyin Dong family, Qinghe Zhu family, Wuji Zhen family and other aristocratic families have always been loyal to Lu Bu's family. Because Lu Bu controls military and political power, some of the children of these aristocratic families rely on this relationship to plunder the people's wealth and ointment, and greed for Lu Bu's grants is also very hateful.
Chapter completed!