I want to ruin the country

However, the milk was not very hot.

Everyone knows what will happen if lukewarm milk is poured into an empty and clean stomach. What else can happen? Diarrhea!

Diarrhea is actually an easy problem to solve. Just go to the toilet.

But there is no toilet. Diarrhea can come at any time and you won’t have long to prepare.

Weng Tonghe and these old men suffered a lot, and each of them had their trouser pockets puffed out.

It was just the end of the first month of the year and the temperature was still chilly. Not to mention at night, even during the day it was not very hot. The feeling of having shit in your trouser pocket was not pleasant. Those who could not bear it had to go home and change clothes. After all, they were officials. Now all their dignity as officials was gone, which was very embarrassing.

The soldiers once again demonstrated the basic qualities of their people's army and brought toilets into their reed sheds.

The three urgent needs of human beings are feces, urine and farts. Farts can be blown away by the wind, and the smell of urine is acceptable if it is less.

Only shit has a soul, and these old men sit on the toilet and shit it out.

The soldiers only brought the toilet bucket; they had no orders to take it away.

As the day went by, there were more and more toilet buckets under the reed mat, with at least one hundred and seventy or eighty different smells in them. These old men were really suffering!

It’s okay to die, and that’s all. The dead have no sense of smell, but some people can’t stand the suffering of living, and gradually some people are carried away by their families.

What is Yining doing? He is not idle at all. He has a lot of things to do. How can he have time to care about those old guys!

Don’t you want to kneel down and make a complaint? I will just watch you kneel. As long as no one dies, I won’t take action.

Another day passed, and after a period of busy work, Yining asked,

"How many of those old guys are still kneeling outside!"

Yi Heping replied with a smile,

"Your Majesty, I just went out and counted them, and there are still twenty-three.

Yining smiled slightly.

"They're really determined. Let them keep an eye on it and make sure no one gets killed. Although they may be pedantic, they mean well after all!"

Yi Heping chuckled,

"Don't worry, Your Majesty. Someone is watching over them. They won't starve to death. It's just a little cold and smelly!"

Yining Road,

"It can be considered as a small punishment for them!"

The military officer of the Dali Temple was coming to report on Zhang Moting's case.

"Your Majesty, Zhang Moting's case has implicated several former Changping County Magistrates.

Yining was not surprised. It would be strange if there was no involvement. He said,

"I have authorized you to investigate thoroughly, no matter who is involved or what level he is at now!"

"The minister obeys the order!"

The small case turned into a big case, and eventually ten former Changping county magistrates were arrested.

What made Yining extremely resentful was that these officials not only embezzled and committed corruption in Changping and provided protection for Zhang Moting, but they also engaged in corruption wherever they went.

Moreover, they implicated many other officials of all ranks, and the case became more and more numerous, and it was impossible to stop it.

Official Guangwu was already unable to handle these matters, and the Ministry of Justice and the Censorate were also involved in the trial.

The silver confiscated from them alone amounted to more than two million, as well as a large number of calligraphy, paintings, cultural relics and antiques.

All the money was sent into the imperial treasury. Wen Qing was so happy that he danced with joy. The problem of lack of money in the palace was completely solved!

The military officers were extremely reluctant to handle these cases, and these officials hated them, but with the emperor staring at them with red eyes, they did not dare to go too far.

However, they also gained a lot of benefits, made hundreds of thousands of silver, collected a lot of cultural relics and antiques, and turned some officials' cases into small ones and let them go!

What the military officer didn't expect was that while he was counting the silver bills and feeling secretly happy, an invisible shackle around his neck was getting tighter and tighter.

On the fourth day after Weng Tong and the others knelt to make their appeal, most of them had run away, leaving only four or five.

By the fifth day, only two people were left, one of whom was Weng Tonghe.

Weng Tonghe's son came to persuade him to go back. Weng Tonghe was so hungry and dizzy that he was powerless, but he scolded his son righteously. The son turned around and left in anger.

Ruijin came to the emperor with a dark face to report how much money he had collected. Yining asked him,

"Master Tianguan, how much money did you receive?"

Ruijin replied,

"Your Majesty, we received a deposit of 840,000 taels of silver, but this money must be returned!"

Yining found his expression very funny, as if he was afraid that his deposit would be deducted.

Yining is a modern person who attaches great importance to the spirit of contract. How could he take advantage of his status as an emperor to rob others?

He said with a grin,

"Of course I know these need to be returned, but I'm asking how many others don't need to be returned?"

Ruijin looked at the emperor's money-obsessed face and felt both hatred and shame. He hated that he had forced the emperor to be blinded by money. He was ashamed that he, as the Minister of Revenue, could not help the emperor solve his problems!

He lowered his head and said depressedly,

"There were also eighty-four people who requested to see the Emperor, and they received eight hundred and forty thousand taels of silver.

There were thirty-one people who asked the emperor to grant them a banquet, and they collected three million one hundred thousand taels of silver.

There were five people who requested to dine with His Majesty, and they collected 1.5 million taels of silver, for a total of 5.44 million taels!"

Yining felt a huge weight lifted off his chest. Haha! Five million dollars is enough for the navy's annual military expenditure!

But he thought about it again and felt that it was not right.

"How can you collect more than five million?"

Ruijin Road,

"Your Majesty, if each of the eighty-four people were ten thousand, that would be eight hundred and forty thousand. What's wrong with that?"

Yining asked,

"What about the rest?"

"There were thirty-one people who requested a banquet, and the cash collection was three million one hundred thousand. Not bad, right?"

Yining understood immediately.

"Did they collect their money repeatedly?"

Ruijin replied,

"That's right. An audience costs 10,000, a banquet costs 100,000, and meals cost 300,000. Each is calculated separately. The prices are clearly marked and there is no deception. How can this be wrong?"

Yining smiled bitterly

"So, the person who takes 300,000 yuan to dine together is taking three shares of the money?"

Ruijin didn't notice anything wrong and said seriously,

"Three servings, of course!"

Yining touched his nose and blurted out,

"Damn it, you're darker than me!"

Ruijin was shocked. Why did the emperor curse in the streets? Did he do something wrong? He said hurriedly,

"Since you want to sell it, you can't sell it cheaply to the emperor!"

Yining laughed loudly.

"Hahahaha, fine, fine, Your Excellency, I'm convinced!"

Ruijin felt a chill in his heart. If it weren't for you, the emperor, taking the lead, how could I, the Minister of Revenue, have become a vegetable vendor on the street.

Yining said again,

"However, I want to praise you for getting an extra 810,000 yuan. It's enough to cover the palace's expenses for two years. That's great! You can be said to be a model official!"

Ruijin was so ashamed and angry that his face turned pale and he gasped and said,

"Your Majesty, this cannot happen again. I've lost face, the Emperor has lost face, and our Daqing court has lost face. I'm ready to die!"