He couldn't help but sneered sarcastically in his heart. Li Ningyu opened the door and walked in. When he saw Li Ningyu walking in, the officer who originally interrogated Zai Yi immediately stood up and saluted, smiled and raised his hand. Li Ningyu just sat down.
The officer's position didn't say a word, and he directly looked through the interrogation records above.
Zai Yi, Zai Xun, Zai Lian, and Zai Lan were all powerful ministers. Although after being arrested, their faces still looked arrogant. Jiang Zhongzheng looked on the side and was very unhappy. Then he said to
After the guard battalion officer on the side muttered a few words, two soldiers walked over and moved away the wooden chair where Zaiyi was sitting. Seeing such a scene, Li Ningyu raised the corners of his mouth slightly and did not say anything to stop her.
, because he also saw Zaiyi unhappy.
After a few minutes passed, Li Ningyu turned to the guard battalion officer and asked: "Has the list of house searches been compiled?"
"Master, most of them have been sorted out. How about I show them to you?"
"Yeah! Okay, you go get it!" Li Ningyu nodded and replied softly, and then Jiang Zhongzheng went out with the officers of the guard camp, leaving only Li Ningyu, Zaiyi, and a few soldiers of the Far East Guard Battalion.
In the interrogation room.
About ten minutes later, Chiang Kai-shek and the officers of the guard camp, who had just left, walked in with four thick booklets.
Seeing so many property lists, Li Ningyu couldn't help but be stunned and then he couldn't help but get angry, because it can be imagined how rich these great men in the late Qing Dynasty were, but did they pay attention to the people who were in dire straits?
In the eyes of people like them, there is only power, power, and power!
The role of power in their eyes is to make their lives richer and more decadent. In order, Li Ningyu looked through the first account book.
Zaiyi: He was given a garden, sixteen palaces in the capital, with a total of 730 rooms, a side house with seven rooms, a total of 360 houses, and an Anhui-style new house, a total of 620 rooms.
10. A total of 330 private shops, 8,500 hectares of land, 11 bank accounts with a capital of 630,000 taels, a deposit of 5.21 million taels, ten pawnshops, and a capital of 80 taels.
Ten thousand taels and more than 1,600 items, the value of which has not been calculated.
The treasury: fifty-eight thousand taels of red gold, the silver treasury: 5,830,000 taels, the pound sterling: 168,000 taels, the treasury: 11,500,000 taels of copper coins.
The size of the ginseng is not counted, and the total weight is 600 kilograms. The jade articles include: thirteen jade tripods, twenty-one jade chimes, one hundred and thirty jade Ruyi handles, two thousand one hundred and six inlaid Ruyi jade handles, and one snuff bottle
One hundred and forty-eight, three jade screens with thirty-six leaves, jade bowls, jade vases, jade basins, and other large and small jade articles, a total of 393 pieces, the value of which is not calculated.
There are also: Jade Buddha, Jade Guanyin, Jade Horse, etc., more than ten pieces, value not calculated.
Jewelry warehouse, silverware warehouse, antique warehouse, silk and satin warehouse, foreign goods warehouse, skin warehouse, copper and tin warehouse, porcelain warehouse, study warehouse, delicacies warehouse, inside the wall, in the cellar...
After seeing the rest, Li Ningyu really couldn't stand it anymore, because all these things were telling Li Ningyu that these people's wealth was unparalleled. Li Ningyu was not prepared to continue reading the other accounts.
, just raised his head and asked the guard camp officer: "Are the other guys similar?"
"Yes, Master, Zaixun seems to be a little more!" Seeing Li Ningyu's ugly face, the guard battalion officer replied carefully and truthfully.
"Okay, okay!" After Li Ningyu said three good words in a row, he turned around and left with Jiang Zhongzheng.
But halfway through, he turned around and said coldly: "Is it necessary to give face to such people? Your interrogation method is of no use to these guys who are thicker than the city wall. It’s one o’clock in the morning, and before dawn, I need to see all the crimes of the four of them, even when they were children and peeked at the maid taking a bath, I need to dig them out!”.
"Yes! Make sure to complete the mission!" After hearing Li Ningyu's order, the whole night in the prison was filled with whips and miserable screams, and the people not far away could not help but feel horrified. .
Corruption in the Qing Dynasty did not happen overnight. It took several generations of hard work and continuous struggle for more than a hundred years before the Qing Dynasty ushered in the great cause of the prosperous age of Kangxi and Qianlong.
But soon after entering the prosperous age, the Qing regime lost its direction and motivation, and the trend of extravagance and corruption rose and became more and more serious!
As a result, it directly turns from prosperity to decline, and under the attack of internal and external forces, it slips further and further until it finally perishes. The corresponding relationship between prosperity and arrogance and wealth and luxury is that arrogance will lead to laziness, luxury will lead to greed, and finally it will evolve into greed. Corruption, the historical trajectory of corruption, is bound to fail. In the early Qing Dynasty, the rulers maintained diligence and prudence, and were full of vitality. In terms of political administration, the rulers paid great attention to winning over people's hearts and winning the cooperation of the majority of Han people. In the late Qing Dynasty, the rulers Compared with decadence, corruption, and darkness, the Qing Dynasty that entered the Pass represented hope and a new atmosphere, and implemented political and economic policies such as "Manchu and Han integration" and "never increase taxes" and "dividing a small family into a small family." These have greatly contributed to He won the hearts of the people and stabilized his rule.
In the early Qing Dynasty, institutions at all levels were concise and honest, and the military and political institutions were capable and efficient, much more streamlined than those in the Ming Dynasty. The number of palace personnel was only one-twentieth of that of the Ming Dynasty, and the expenditure was only one-eighth of that of the Ming Dynasty. The rulers witnessed the After the tragic scenes of war and chaos at the end of the world, and after all the hardships of starting a business, they knew how difficult it was to conquer the world, so they were able to work hard, work hard, and be honest and honest.
During the heyday of Kangxi and Qianlong, the national power and prestige of the Qing Dynasty also reached its peak. The unprecedentedly vast, unified, prosperous, and powerful Qing Empire emerged and stood in the east of the world. One of the fundamental reasons for the transition from prosperity to decline was corruption.
Qianlong was an emperor who enjoyed great achievements and was aggressive in military affairs. The so-called perfect martial arts were actually continuous wars that lasted for a long time and wasted people and money. Although in the Qianlong dynasty, taxes increased compared with the previous generation, but expenditures increased even more. The original savings in the national treasury began to only go out.
After Jiaqing took over, it was already a huge empty frame, so much so that Jiaqing had to resort to Heshen to replenish the national treasury. At the same time, behind the increase in taxes during the Qianlong period, there was an abnormal source of income, among which There are arbitrary charges such as donating money to officials and exporting goods, merchants giving back services, increasing the price of salt, and public stalls to support honest people.
Because these abnormal incomes can alleviate temporary emergencies, but for a government and a country and society, it is tantamount to drinking poison to quench thirst. Once the national finance relies on a large amount of abnormal income, it can be seen that it is bound to eventually decline.
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