Chapter 1119: big purge
Chapter 1119 The Great Purge
Chapter 1117: Great Purge
The anti-corruption operation in the north was carried out without any warning in advance, and it left just as quickly as it came.
It only took Heibingtai one day to arrest thirty-one Shanxi merchant families and four ordinary families, led by the Qiao family of Yanmen and the Chang family of Taiyuan.
After investigation, ten more families were arrested, for a total of 45 large and small families.
Forty-five families, this is not a small number, it has already accounted for nearly one-fifth of the total number of Shanxi merchant families. This has given all Shanxi merchants a shock.
Shanxi merchants were greedy and had no bottom line. While they enjoyed the huge benefits brought to them by the Jin army, they also wanted to obtain greater benefits, and even betrayed the entire nation for this purpose.
Greed blinded the eyes of these Shanxi merchants, making them blindly believe in the power of Yuan Meng, but ignored that the Jin army was actually very powerful.
How powerful was the Jin army?
As strong as Yuan and Meng, they must also use the hands of merchants to plot against the Jin army in order to defeat the Jin army with confidence;
The Jin army was so powerful that when they really attacked Shanxi merchants, they, the Shanxi merchants, had no power to fight back and could only surrender and wait to be killed.
The Shanxi merchants far overestimated their position and thought that the Jin army could not do without them, so Qin Wen would never dare to attack them, but they did not know that they had already touched Qin Wen's back.
The Qin family was born into a family of merchants, and few people knew merchants better than Qin Wen. He gave the Shanxi merchants huge wealth, but did not give them the force to protect their wealth, just to prevent these greedy merchants from backlash.
The Jin army can protect the wealth of Shanxi merchants, and can also recover their wealth and lives.
As Qin Yijue said, these Shanxi merchants are just pigs raised by the Jin army. After being fattened, if they are good, they can still survive. If they are not, they will be taken out and slaughtered for meat.
Heibingtai arrested one-fifth of Shanxi merchants at once this time, which also made those Shanxi merchants who had not committed any crime panic all day long, because not all of them were absolutely clean, and the arrest operation was not over yet, and no one could I wonder if the Jin army will kick open their own door.
Although this arrest was started by Shanxi merchants, it was not only targeted at Shanxi merchants, but also against all traitors who had colluded with Yuan and Meng. Therefore, the arrest of forty-five Shanxi merchant families was only the beginning, and the purge was still It continues in an orderly manner.
Soon, the great purge spread from the business world to other walks of life. Countless people were arrested, and eventually it involved the political world, and even the Qin family itself.
In the Prefectural Mufu Mansion, Qin Wen looked at the report in his hand with trembling eyes and said angrily: "How dare they, how dare they?"
I saw the report: Two county magistrates, five county magistrates, six county magistrates, and one county lieutenant have been arrested...
“Catch as many as you want, arrest them all, investigate them, investigate them, investigate them,” Qin Wen shouted angrily.
Due to physical reasons in recent years, Qin Wen relaxed his control over the political circles, but he did not expect that because of his negligence, the Jin military and political circles were so corrupted.
Qin Wen's scalp was numb after seeing a series of incidents such as accepting bribes, shielding Shanxi merchants, engaging in favoritism and dereliction of duty...etc.
Where is the Yanmen Army that once governed the Qingming Festival, never closed its doors at night, and never picked up lost items on the road? Just because he changed his name and became the Jin Army, have all the good traditions been thrown out to feed the dogs?
Qin Wen felt that his heart was bleeding. He felt sad for the fate of the Jin army he had formed with his own hands. It is obvious that there are not a few Jin army officials who colluded with Shanxi merchants. After all, if the officials did not collude with the merchants, how could the merchants be so bold? But it was useless even if Shanxi merchants bribed all the officials.
The Jin army implemented a policy of separation of military and political affairs. The army did not interfere in government affairs and did not corrupt the army. Officials did not have the power to mobilize the army. Therefore, once evidence was found, any official had only one way to be arrested.
The only thing that pleased Qin Wen about this purge was that among the officials involved, none was at the county guard level or above. As for the army, only one county captain was involved.
From this it can be seen that Qin and Wen's management of the army was still excellent. No matter how corrupt and dirty the political and business circles were, the army still maintained the purity of soldiers and was not polluted by the dark and dirty politics and business circles.
“Father, among the people involved in this case, there are many people from my Qin family, as well as some close friends around my adoptive mother...”
As he said that, Qin Yijue glanced at Qin Wen's face and asked cautiously: "Are these people also?"
Qin Yijue hadn't finished her words, but Qin Wen had already understood what she meant, and his expression suddenly turned extremely ugly.
Qin Wen had long guessed that there were many people in his family with unclean hands and feet, even the people around his wife. He originally thought he could be ruthless, but it has actually come to this point. At the time, he still couldn't help but feel a bit in a dilemma.
"Grasp."
Qin Wen took a deep breath and said in a deep voice: "Whoever colludes with Yuan Meng will be arrested."
Qin Yijue sighed slightly when he heard this. Now his family can't run away either.
“Report to my lord, two adults, Hao Tong and Sima Fang, are wearing thorns and coming to ask for an audience.”
Qin Wen was shocked when he heard this and hurriedly went out to meet them. As expected, he saw his confidants Hao Tong and Sima Fang with their upper bodies exposed and wearing thorns.
“Why are you doing this? Get up quickly.”
Qin Wen pulled the two of them and said: "I have heard about the Hao family and the Sima family, and my Qin family is the same. There are many people in the big family, and it is normal for there to be a few scum. This is different from You are not related."
Although Hao Tong and Sima Fang were upright officials, they could not control everyone in the family. This time, many people from the Hao family and Sima family were also arrested, including many of the core brothers of the family, so the two of them came together. This scene of coming to plead guilty.
Hao Tong and Sima Fang refused to get up. Sima Fang said, "I took care of myself but failed to take care of my family. I really betrayed the lord's trust. Please punish me for lax supervision." "
“In order to give our Jin army officials the power to govern the Qingming Festival, Hao Tong was willing to go to jail to frighten a bunch of young people.”
Hao Tong said with a serious face. After hearing this, Sima Fang on the side couldn't help but twitch his cheeks and thought to himself: Hey, this is different from what he said when he came here. Is he playing a little too much?
Qin Wen knew that in order to support his purge, these two people were willing to go to jail in person to deter all other officials. He immediately said with a moved face: "Wen Ding will not let down your hard work."
"Hao Tong and Sima are coming, but they are silent in defense. They are specially punished to be imprisoned for one month to reflect, and to be punished for one year."
“Thank you, Lord, for your success.”
(End of this chapter)