Suddenly, a wave of officials resigning and entering the capital broke out.

After the Beijing Administrative Announcement was released, in just a few days, a large number of officials in various yamen in the capital resigned. For various reasons, illness, family members, etc., they were going to resign.

Yuan Jixian, the chief minister of the cabinet, could not help but be alarmed by the increasing resignation and went to the forefront. He asked his subordinates to make a statistical report and then quickly entered the palace to report to the emperor.

After seeing Yuan Jixian, Liu Jun did not receive a report on the rule. Regarding this matter, he had already received a report from the Jinyiwei of the East Factory. He quickly figured out the reason for this tide.

Yuan Jixian believed that these officials who resigned had problems. Now they resigned to avoid Beijing investigation and evade investigation. He advocated taking immediate measures to investigate these officials who were about to resign, especially their economic problems. He told the emperor, "The New Year is coming in a few days, and all the yamen will seal off holidays. At this time, they resigned and even don't even need double salary at the end of the year. It is obvious that there is a ghost. As long as these people are checked again, they will definitely be accurate when they check."

Liu Junze just smiled, "Teacher, I think this is a good thing. These people also know that they can't stand the investigation, so they want to get out of here. I think this is a good thing for the court."

"Good thing?" Yuan Qiangxian couldn't understand. Black is black, white is white. Since he knew that these people had problems and wanted to escape, shouldn't he be punished?

"I know, we should not indulge, nor should we indulge. But there is a priority in matters. What is the most important thing in the court at present? Assessment and what is the most important thing in the assessment is the assessment of current officials. Those who are capable should give way to the mediocre. Now that the assessment has not begun, these officials with problems will voluntarily withdraw first. What is this not a good thing?"

"They voluntarily withdraw now, and the court can record these people first for investigation. For these people, they can wait for the assessment before they are investigated, or just hand them over to the judicial department for investigation. We still have to do the current assessment now. Without these people, the assessment can save a lot of trouble and speed up a lot of progress. By the end of next spring, the workload is not enough."

Liu Jun took out two cigars from the cigar box and cut one for himself and Yuan Jixian. This is a cigar from the Americas, a commodity exported by the Portuguese to the Dahan. Now Portugal transferred the colonies of Malacca and Timor in South China to the Dahan, and then received a loan of 50 million yuan from the Dahan, which was exchanged for merchant ships and warships, as well as various artillery, firearms, steel, cloth and other materials, and was continuously transported back to China.

The Portuguese could sell very few goods to the Han Dynasty, namely gold, silver, various minerals, and some local products on the coast of the Indian Ocean. They were cigars, high-end tobacco, etc. from the American colonies, and became an export commodity that could earn the Han Dynasty silver dollars.

In addition to tobacco, whale products are also an important product that the Portuguese can export to big men now.

Portugal has many whaling ships in many waters such as the Pacific, Indian Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, etc. They chase whales and hunt whales, and there are special fat-refining equipment on the whaling ships. They can stay at sea for three or four years until the whale oil barrels on the ship are full before they return full.

Whale products are an extremely popular and important commodity in this era. Whale oil can be used as lighting and lubricating oil, and whale bones can also be used as shaping materials.

Although it is hard to go out to sea to catch whales, the profit is very high. As long as nothing happens, the profit of the whaling ship can reach 15%, which is quite attractive profit.

The Portuguese's colonial trade around the world has shrunk greatly, but their whaling industry has been developing. This year, the Portuguese received large loans from the big man and then turned into various orders, including many new ship orders. In addition to warships, there are many merchant ships, and there are twenty whaling ships alone.

Liu Jun smoked cigars from America and thought of the Portuguese whaling ships and whale oil. Then he suddenly thought that in the 17th and 8th centuries in history, the whaling industry seemed to be very prosperous. Especially later, Americans took over the big stick of the whaling industry and made the industry bigger and stronger. At their peak, they had one hundred whaling ships. The richest Americans along the coast were the owners of those whaling ships.

The most dazzling dowry they marry their daughter was not silk or porcelain, but whale oil from ships.

However, whale oil was difficult to meet the demand later, just like the current big man.

Nowadays, Dahan has a great demand for lighting oil, such as whale oil, butter and rapeseed oil, and various animal and vegetable oil lighting. However, with the development of industry and commerce and urbanization, the consumption of lighting oil is quite large. The price of lighting oil has been rising and is already very expensive.

It seems that in history it was later developed by Americans or French people?

The kerosene lamp shines not on the oil extracted from coal, but on the oil extracted from petroleum. The kerosene refining technology does not seem to be very difficult, it is distillation.

Moreover, the technology of oil production is not difficult. Later, Americans used the Chinese salt well mining technology to mine oil. Whether it was drilling wells, oil production, or distilling and refining kerosene, there seemed to be no technical problem.

Maybe you should set up an oil mining company and then set up a refinery to extract kerosene for lighting.

How many whales can be caught in whaling and how much whale oil can be refined in a year? But how much oil can be collected in a year when mining an oil well? Moreover, kerosene is definitely cheaper than whale butter, and the lighting does not have much odor.

Making a kerosene lamp is also very simple.

"His Majesty!"

Yuan Jixian was walking, and found that the emperor was smoking a cigar but was dazed in a daze.

"Oh, what are you? I just thought of something else, you continue?"

Yuan Jixian was helpless, "Your Majesty's old minister wants to ask, do you agree to all the officials who resign at the moment?"

Liu Juntou, "As long as they resign, they all agree."

"Don't track down their problems?"

"Don't rush to investigate first. After the assessment, it will be too late to investigate. If there is corruption and dereliction of duty, what should I do or what should I do? It will be handed over to the judicial department. Of course, if the problem is not big, it is just some gray income. As long as they resign, it will be fine. If the water is clear, there will be no fish. If it is really a comprehensive investigation after the event, I am afraid that people will be panicked and will not be conducive to stability."

Those officials who resigned can find problems more or less. In fact, as long as they are carefully investigated, no official can find problems.

But there is no need.

Those who are extremely corrupt and embezzled public funds and accept bribes with huge amounts, of course they cannot be spared. Don’t resign or even run away, they will be caught.

However, most of them resigned officials are not serious, and most of them are not considered bribery, and they can only be regarded as gray income from various edges.

Now that these officials have resigned, Liu Jun can turn a blind eye to let them go. Whether they go to business or buy land, they can launder their gray income money.

What Liu Jun wants to focus on is the officials in power in the officialdom.

The emperor made a statement, and Yuan Jixian had nothing to say.

On that day, Liu Jun passed the order to various departments, and then the officials who reported to resign were immediately approved and agreed to resign.

Shuntian Mansion.

Li De sat in his corridor, a little absent-minded. Today, a colleague from the yamen came to inform him of the resignation procedures. He was very happy when he finally got the approval of the resignation. He felt relieved, but on the other hand, he felt that he had time to be in his hands. The Li family had passed on several generations of official positions, which ended in his hands.

The Shuntian Prefecture is very big and not all work in the same yard. In fact, the Shuntian Prefecture has now divided into several teams, all of which are in one place, each with its own government office.

Li De belongs to the civil administration area, and there are many officials in this area, and many resign this time. In their yamen alone, there are more than fifty resignations, mainly officials.

At the beginning, there were only a few resignations, but in the past two days, there were a lot more. After today's rumor that I could resign, and there was no other investigation after the investigation, more than 30 resignations were immediately followed.

The superiors did not try to keep them, and they would not refuse anyone, and would criticize anyone.

Anyway, the Chinese New Year is coming soon, so I was going to seal the holidays of the Guanya, but now I think these people have a holiday in advance. After the New Year, I will naturally be able to make up for new people, and I am not afraid that too many people will leave for a while and delay things.

Everyone sat there silently, waiting to call their names and go in and go through the procedures.

"Li De!"

His name was called, and Li De quickly got up and walked into the house.

The one who is in charge of the procedures is an old official, who is also an old colleague with Li De.

"Brother, are you really determined?"

Li De turned his head and said, "I decided."

“No more considerations?”

Li De's head again.

"Then sign it, stamp the private seal and press a handprint." The old official handed over a few forms, Li De took it and looked at it. It was all handover orders and his resignation report.

Li De signed, stamped, and pressed his handprints one by one.

When the handprint on the last list was pressed, Li De felt that his body seemed to be hollowed out all of a sudden. From now on, he was no longer an official in the yamen.

"Old Li, hand over all the keys and cards in the public housing in the yamen."

Li Deyi asked to hand over all the keys and other things out.

"Okay, your resignation procedures have been completed. Now you can go to the financial settlement to settle your salary. There is an order on it. Although there are still a few days before the holiday, I will give you enough salary for December and add a monthly salary bonus at the end of the year. It is the fruits and fish that we prepared in our yamen and these year-end benefits are gone. But I believe you don't care about this thing, right?" the old official said with a smile.

Li De also smiled, "Then I won't continue to disturb my brother. When you have time during the Chinese New Year, I will go to your house to pay New Year's greetings and have a drink with me."
Chapter completed!