The Red Mansion Is Like a Jade Gentleman

Chapter 295

It's not that Lin Hai didn't want to make a deal with Xue Gao now, but Lin Hai has always been careful in doing things. He was afraid that the Zhen family would follow Xue Gao, so he wanted to go a few days later. He was not afraid that Xue Gao would run away, Xue Gao It's not just one person, but a whole family.

When talking about this to Kong Jiayi at night, Kong Jiayi frowned unexpectedly, "Master, you should still think about this matter! I always feel a little uneasy."

After listening to Kong Jiayi's words, Lin Hai was a little curious, "Why are you so uneasy, this matter is not something that our family is going to do, basically all the officials in the Jiangnan officialdom are doing it!"

"I was thinking, Master, your annual income from this official position is already enough. If you are investing in shares and doing business, will it give people a feeling of insatiable greed?" There are two opinions on everything, you may think he is good Yes, others may think he is bad, Kong Jiayi is not as optimistic as Lin Hai.

Lin Hai patted Kong Jiayi's hand, "You're worrying too much, the emperor doesn't know who I am, if I want to be greedy, I'm not greedy enough for the inspector censor!" I have to pay back my money, and with my family background, I can still live comfortably even if I don’t make any money.”

"Then, master, this is..." Kong Jiayi was a little puzzled, she didn't know how much property the Lin family had, but according to the example of the Kong family, the family property should be quite a lot, although it can't be called rich, but it is comfortable It's okay to wear it for a lifetime.

"I did it to confuse the new emperor. According to the news from the capital, the emperor's body is not as good as before, and he is getting weaker every day. I don't have to worry about this problem at all when the emperor is here, but the new emperor is here. Xun Yanyu If Shi is in such a good position, will he let me continue working? Impossible.

Maybe there will be a lot of trouble at that time, if someone suspects that my current family property is obtained through corruption.It happened to be possible to make it clear that the matter of investing in business with Xue's family would be fined at most. "Whether it is for the sake of the Kong family or the Yuan family, it is impossible for the new emperor to attack Lin Hai. The biggest possibility is to transfer him from the position of patrolling the salt censor.

For this position, Lin Hai has sat for so long, and knows that it is impossible to keep doing it forever, so he has no regrets.Everything that should be fished has already been fished, and I am walking on the road to death if I hold on to it!But Lin Hai wants to make sure that no one else will frame him for other crimes while leaving the position of Xunyan Yushi.That's why I took a step ahead to plan ahead.

If no one sued him, that would be just right, and he would get so much money for nothing.

The reason for choosing Xue Gao.and no one else.It is because Lin Hai knows that Xue Gao can make money, and can make other officials think that he has made a lot of money on the surface.Lin Hai couldn't believe the other businessmen.

After hearing Lin Hai's explanation, Kong Jiayi also realized that it was exactly the same thing after so many years.Lin Hai had always been in the capital before, either in the Hanlin Academy or the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and they were all places where there was no big lucrative water.

After arriving in Yangzhou and serving as a doctor at Lantai Temple, Kong Jiayi didn't see how Lin Hai made money, but she didn't take it seriously. After all, the Lin family's property, even if Lin Hai didn't know how to make money, was enough for him to live for a lifetime!

But after waiting for Lin Hai to serve as the censor of salt inspection, Kong Jiayi has seen Lin Hai's ability to make money!

I really complied with that sentence, don't open for three years, and open for three years.

The speed of making money is fast, and there is no talk, and everything is high-quality.

In fact, how did Kong Jiayi know that Lin Hai didn't want to be corrupt before, but there was no place to be corrupt, and waiting for a place to be corrupt, the reputation outside has already formed!

Mr. Lin is a doctor of the Qing Dynasty and the son of a scholarly family. He despises tacky things, so these salt merchants tried their best to make some elegant things to honor Lin Hai. Among them, there are the most isolated copies of calligraphy and paintings, so in the eyes of Kong Jiayi I feel that everything Lin Hailao makes is high-quality goods.

From the bottom of his heart, Lin Hai also didn't want to be corrupt, but to be an upright official means being independent, which is very easy to be hated by others in the officialdom, and often makes enemies invisible.In ancient times, the personal safety of officials was not guaranteed. It was unknown whether they could go to court in the morning and come back at night.I remember that there was a time when officials had to say goodbye to their families when they went to court in the morning, and had a celebration party when they returned home in the evening, thanking themselves for having survived another day.

Therefore, if you want to be in the officialdom, you must cling to the powerful.This requires bribery and tribute, and mutual protection.And the regular income is so little, if there is no corruption and bribery, how can there be money to go around to buy peace?So why did Jia Yucun curry favor with the Jia family so much after his recovery? It wasn't because the Jia family was powerful and the Jia family allowed him to be a high-ranking official.

Moreover, honest officials like to pretend to be noble, and like to use the heart of a saint to check the wrongs of the world.It doesn't count for him to be an upright official alone, and he expects others to be upright officials with him.For corrupt officials, this is no different from cutting off his livelihood.Isn't that courting death?Therefore, there are actually very few honest officials in history who can die well.

Moreover, such things as corruption cannot be slapped with a single slap.

Corruption is not only a matter in the officialdom, even ordinary people have to pay bribes in order to do something, even if they don't give white money, some souvenirs must be filial.If you don't benefit others, why should others help you?It’s okay to do it once or twice, but if there are too many times, what will others think in their hearts? They are not being cheap, and they will rush to ask for help.

In fact, this is the mentality that sponsored the spread of corruption.

But this is not the main reason for corruption. The main reason is that the salary system of officials at that time was very unreasonable and could not maintain normal living needs at all, so that even if they were not corrupt, they could only prepare for it. The poor life is the same.It can be seen from this that if you want to be an upright official, first of all, your stomach will not pass.

Even Lin Hai doesn't have to worry about not being able to eat, but he doesn't want to be labeled as a maverick in the officialdom.

You are a child of an aristocratic family and don't worry about eating, but many other officials are from poor families. Their main purpose of being an official is not to benefit the people of one side, but to live a prosperous life.Otherwise, there are obviously some people who can eat enough to eat every meal, but why do they still want to take the imperial examination? Why don't they want to eat meat every meal, and have chicken, duck and fish every meal.

In fact, there are still some differences in this corruption. There is no problem with some corruption that is within the emperor's bottom line, but once it exceeds the bottom line, it is hard to say!Lin Hai could figure out where Emperor Xuande's bottom line was, but he couldn't figure out where the new emperor's bottom line was. It was something Lin Hai always liked to do to plan ahead.

However, the first point of Lin Hai's words made Kong Jiayi a little surprised, "Master, you are the body of the emperor..." Could it be that the assassination during the Northern Expedition was really stabbed to the vitals.

Lin Hai nodded, "Otherwise, I wouldn't have found a way out so early! I don't want to work hard for so many years, and then I will still have a reputation of corruption when I go back to the time before I took office."

"Plop!" Kong Jiayi laughed when he heard Lin Hai's words, these words were really vivid.

In fact, as a means of corruption by patrolling salt censors, there are far more than prefects.

How corrupt the prefect can be is nothing more than doing some tricks in paying taxes, or hinting at the officials below to give more filial piety.

In ancient times, silver and copper were used as the main currency.When using silver as tax payment, there will be a certain loss of silver in the process of exchange, casting, preservation, and transportation, so there will be a certain surcharge when taxing.

This surcharge is called "consumption envy" or "fire consumption". Consumption envy is a kind of tax collected from the common people, but it is not a regular tax, but a kind of extra income that is levied by the state and county officials at their own discretion. The whereabouts of consumption and envy are used for local office expenses and local officials' living allowances, and do not have to be handed over to the central government.

What should you do with such a sum of money that you can get for free without being charged with any crime?

Out of a hundred people, 150 people will choose to embezzle.

In addition to consumption and envy, the ancient social public expenditure is also a mess.

Because there is no independent and rigorous accounting and auditing system, how much money a project needs depends entirely on the words of the official.This gives officials the opportunity to take advantage of the state's fiscal expenditures to embezzle.

For example, the management of the Yellow River is a major project related to the destiny of the country, but despite the fact that successive dynasties have invested a lot of manpower, material and financial resources to control the Yellow River, the Yellow River should still burst.Leaving aside the technical issues, the problem exposed here is actually that a large amount of public funds fell into private pockets, and the project was simply turned into a tofu scumbag project or a flashy "inspection project".

Regarding the matter of officials taking advantage of the opportunity of being on the emperor's mission to carry out corruption, the emperor who understands knows about it, but if he knows it, he knows it, so there is no way to investigate it!So many times I can only turn a blind eye and close my eyes.

Moreover, the ancient bureaucratic system was vertical, and superiors had the power to kill and kill subordinates. In ancient times, grassroots officials directly extorted people's wealth or corrupted through loopholes in the country's financial system, while superior officials mainly obtained benefits by extorting bribes and accepting bribes.

Someone once said that every time a local county magistrate goes to Beijing to report on his duties, he spends five or six thousand gold in bribes in the capital.It was also pointed out that the imperial court "every time one person is sent out of Beijing, it is a way for that person to support him."What's the meaning?This is the one who can take the opportunity to ask the magistrate for a bribe.

All these corruptions can be seen by the emperor. Although he did not pursue the responsibility, the emperor still knows it in his heart.If the emperor wants to pursue it deliberately, these things are all evidence of crime, and they are all ironclad evidence that can make you rob your house.

Lin Hai just wanted to make the emperor feel safe, and didn't want to leave a particularly big handle, so he chose to invest in business instead of taking advantage of the convenience of patrolling the salt censor to carry out corruption.