Jiajing was furious, and Wang Hua, Yu Zhong, Pan Nian and other salt administration officials in the Huai River were finished. Not only were they dismissed from office and investigated, but their families were also confiscated.

However, not much silver was collected from their homes. Even Wang Hua, who was the most corruption, only more than 300,000 taels were collected from his family. The total silver was collected from all the officials of Lianghuai Salt Administration. Where did the remaining silver go? Even if they had only been greedy for three years, it would be more than 3 million taels.

Many officials knew this problem very well. Wang Hua was not the biggest beneficiary. There were still people above him. If it was implicated, I wonder how many officials would be dismissed from office and investigated and their homes were searched!

Just when many officials thought a major earthquake in the officialdom was about to begin, the matter ended without warning.

The Yangming lineage did not continue to investigate. They did not have the courage or ability. These days, there were very few officials confiscated such as salt merchants' filial piety. If they really insisted on it, they would probably be involved in 80% of the officials in the entire court.

If this happens, it is almost an enemy of the entire court officials. Whoever has the courage and ability and cannot do it, then he has to stop.

Jiajing may not know the tricks, or he may know, but he did not have the intention to go into it in depth. From his attitude towards Yan Song in history, he could see that his attitude towards corrupt officials was not completely eliminated. Most of the time, what he valued was the ability of officials to do business, and those who were able to do good things, if they were greedy, he would use it as well.

The corruption case of the two Huai Salt Administration ended in a hurry, and then the appointment and removal of officials were replaced. According to conventional rules, the appointment and removal of local officials were generally provided by the Ministry of Personnel, and the emperor decided whether to use it or not.

Zhang Bangqi had already prepared the list. After Jiajing gave the imperial edict, he quickly handed over the memorial.

This time, the officials of the Lianghuai Salt Administration were reshuffled. The list was so long. The other officials were nothing, but the two Huai Salt Administration Department had some problems, because Zhang Bangqi proposed that Wang Dong, the former Fujian Chengxuan, the left senator of the Political Envoy.

However, I felt that it was not Jiajing who had the problem, because the memorial had to be passed to the cabinet and wrote the bill before it would be passed to him.

At this time, there were only three Grand Secretarys in the cabinet, Li Shi, Xia Yan, and Yan Song. Most of the time, the one who took charge was not Li Shi, the chief assistant of the cabinet, but Xia Yan.

As for the reason, it is very simple. Li Shi was a loyal and honest person. He rarely fought for power with others, but Xia Yan was a person with a strong desire for power. If he could get the power in his hands, he would have to rob him. In addition, another Grand Secretary Yan Song and him were also "in the same group". As one went up and down, the rescue of the cabinet became Xia Yan.

Xia Yan naturally knew that Wang Dong was from the Yangming lineage. He was quite dissatisfied with this appointment and removal. What a joke. You robbed you of the position of Minister of Revenue in Nanjing, you were punished by the governor of Shanxi, and you were promoted to the Hanlin Academy. You also wanted to take advantage of the Lianghuai Salt Administration. If you all got the advantage, we would only suffer losses!

He saw this memorial and took it away very strongly. He wanted to write the votes. Li Shi just frowned slightly and said nothing.

However, he read this memorial for a long time in his duty room, but he didn't know how to write it, because he didn't have the right person to take over the position of the Yandu Shipping Office of the Lianghuai Du Shipping Office.

In desperation, he had no choice but to invite Yan Song to discuss.

Yan Song is still pretending to be like a grandson now and comes to call him.

He pretended to be respectful, walked into Xia Yan's duty room and asked carefully: "Brother Gong Jin, what's wrong?"

Xia Yan raised the memorial in his hand and said angrily: "This group of people is too much, and he will take advantage of all the benefits in his own hands."

Seeing this, Yan Song carefully took the memorial and saw it, and couldn't help but smile in his heart.

However, on the surface, he pretended to be united with the enemy and said angrily: "Yes, they will rob any fat and flaws. It's too unreasonable. Brother Gong Jin, what do you think about this?"

Xia Yan said angrily: "Do they think they can do whatever they want if they control the Ministry of Personnel? Dreaming! But in the end, do you have any suitable candidates? I will write a vote and see what the emperor will do."

Hehe, there are naturally candidates.

Yan Song pretended to hesitate for a moment, then said carefully: "This, I can't find any suitable person in a hurry. How about Bai Qichang, Shaoqing of Guanglu Temple?"

The Shaoqing of Guanglu Temple, a fifth-rank official in the capital, was transferred to the local area and was promoted to the third level. He served as the transfer commander of the Yan Huai Du Transportation Commissioner of the third-rank Lianghuai Du Transportation Commissioner. Xia Yan believed that this candidate was OK, so he immediately picked up a piece of white paper and wrote it down. After writing it, he took the memorial from Yan Song and pasted the white paper on it.

This is the vote draft, which is the opinions and suggestions written by the Grand Secretary of the Cabinet to the emperor. They cannot directly write their opinions and suggestions on the memorial, but can only attach a piece of white paper. After reading their suggestions, the emperor will tear off the vote draft, and then write down his views on the memorial with a red pen, which is the so-called criticism of the red.

This vote may not necessarily affect the emperor's decision, but Xia Yan believes that the candidate he proposed can replace Wang Dong. Is this true?

When Jiajing saw the memorial and the above tickets, he frowned.

Xia Yan wrote the ticket draft, which was too direct. This guy actually wrote on the ticket draft, "Wang Dong is a disciple of Wang Ji, and he is suspected of being nepotist."

The reason why Jiajing frowned was not because Zhang Bangqi was suspected of being nepotist, mainly because Xia Yan’s crazy problem had not been changed.

What's wrong with Wang Dong being a disciple of Wang Ji? Who doesn't know that Bai Qichang is your villager? You say that others are nepotism, what about you?

Jiajing's opinion on Xia Yan was getting bigger and bigger. He was actually a little biased towards Wang Dong when it came to the appointment of the Yandu Transportation Commissioner of the Huaidu Transportation Commissioner. However, for the sake of security, he decided to seek the opinions of the court officials.

Both Huaihe Salt Transportation Envoys seem to have not met the standards of court discussion. Generally, the third-rank minister and the fifth-school chief need to negotiate the court. From the third-rank salt transport envoys, they can only consult the court officials individually.

At this time, Jiajing thought of Li Shi again.

Li Shi was the chief minister of the cabinet and was fair. Moreover, he was neither Yangming nor Xia Yan's party. It seemed that the appointment and removal of the salt transportation envoy seemed to be the best for him to seek his opinion.

The reason why Xia Yan was full of confidence that Bai Qichang could replace Wang Dong as the transferee of the salt transport envoy of the two Huaidudu was also because of this reason. He also knew that the third-rank salt transport envoy was not yet at the level of court discussion. When the emperor could not make a decision, he had to consult the opinions of the Grand Secretary of the Cabinet. Now there are only three Grand Secretary of the Cabinet. He and Yan Song were 2 to one against Li Shi. Even if Li Shi was inclined to Wang Dong, they could win.

He was too proud, but he didn't know that what Jiajing didn't like most was his point. He wanted to be more tactful, maybe Jiajing would ask for his opinions. He was so direct and arrogant, but he would be strange if Jiajing could do it.
Chapter completed!