At the beginning of Annan, Mo Dengyong had sent his trusted officials to the capital to present a surrender. Yang Cong's mission to come to the southwest this time was successfully completed. Next, he seemed to have nothing to do.

However, after he returned from Annan, he seemed to be busier than before. He was still in Yong'anzhou before. After returning from Annan, he took the Jinyiwei and his personal guards to patrol everywhere, so busy that no one could find him.

What's going on?

In fact, there is nothing else. He just wants to work hard to see if he can change the current situation of poverty and backwardness in the southwest.

Perhaps, he was for the people in the southwest to make them live a better life, perhaps he wanted to make more achievements and enter the cabinet as soon as possible. In short, he didn't want to be idle and waste all his good time on waiting.

Some people just fantasize that pies will fall from the sky, do nothing all day long, just wait, but end up accomplishing nothing, but complaining about God's unfairness.

Yang Cong is not the kind of whimsical person. After he came back from Annan, he began to patrol everywhere. No matter whether he could change the poverty and backward situation in the southwest in the end, he always had to go and take a look and work hard to be content.

I don’t know if I don’t read it, but I was really shocked when I saw it.

He had just walked around the prefectures near Yong'an Prefecture and found that the southwest was really poor.

Yong'an Prefecture is quite good. At least the people can barely fill their stomachs. At least they are wearing relatively neat clothes, so other prefectures are different. Basically, as long as the local officials are a little greedy, the people below will not cover their bodies and eat, and they will live like beggars!

How many people are like Zhang Jiude who can control their greed?

He found that there were very few, really few, at least he could not find many places he had seen.

It can be said that except for Yong'an Prefecture, other places are basically messy.

At this time, he really hated Yan Song a little.

It’s okay if this guy is greedy, don’t ruin the trend!

This guy controls the Ministry of Personnel and buys officials and sells officials, which makes corruption popular below, making it difficult to find honest officials. Corrupt officials are arrested in large numbers. How can the people live?

This kind of trend is really terrible, because some officials had some conscience and knew that they should not be too conscience when doing things. However, after Yan Song brought up this trend, the conscience of most officials was destroyed.

They clearly saw that the people under their rule were not covered in their bodies and could not fill their stomachs, and they lived like beggars, and they were still desperately greedy. The people were greedy and resentful, and they were completely ignorant of the lives of the people.

Are they originally cold-blooded animals without emotion?

Of course not. Most scholars still had ideals and ambitions when they were young. The purpose of their study at the beginning was definitely not to be corrupt officials, but to govern the country, manage the family and pacify the world.

However, after Yan Song brought up this trend, many people changed. They became selfish, they became extremely greedy, and they became inhumane!

Many officials are not naturally like this, but are influenced and assimilated. There is no way. If you are not greedy, you will have no money to respect your superiors. If you have no money to respect your superiors, you will not be promoted. If you cannot be promoted, you will have no money or power. If you are not greedy, you will fall into a dead end and never have the chance to make a name for yourself. You may have become a governor or even a six-department minister. You are still just a magistrate.

There are countless examples of this kind. Like Zhang Jiude, he is not greedy now and cannot guarantee that he will not be greedy in the future. If he stays in the prefect for nine years, twelve years or even fifteen years, can he still remain honest?

This trend is indeed very terrible. Yang Cong found that if this trend is not stopped, it would be impossible to change the current situation of poverty and backwardness in the southwest, because no matter how many ways you want to find the people to make money, the money will eventually fall into the pockets of those corrupt officials, and the people will still be in poverty!

So, how to stop this trend?

It’s very simple, kill, kill the chicken to warn the monkey, kill one to warn the hundred!

He can't control officials in the capital, but can't control officials in the five southwestern provinces?

After he walked around the nearby prefectures, he went straight to Nanning, the capital of the Chengxuan Political Envoy Department of Guangxi, and prepared to investigate from top to bottom, capture a few typical examples, and punish them to see if these people dare to be greedy.

This guy, the governor of five provinces, came, and the officials of the Guangxi Third Division naturally welcomed, welcomed and showed their sincerity.

Yang Cong didn't tell anyone what he was here for. Every day, except for dealing with banquets from a senior official from a large yamen, he took his subordinates and wore casual clothes to wander around attractions near Nanning, as if he was idle.

In fact, he was paralyzing the officials in Nanning. In secret, he had already ordered Shen Lian to take his subordinate Jinyiwei to secretly visit.

As a result, Shen Lian found a big fish, which was Yuan Yingshu, deputy envoy of the Guangxi Examination Censorate.

This guy is really rampant. He is like Yan Shifan in Nanning City, with clear prices, accepting bribes, buying and selling officials!

Shen Lian didn't even need to inquire hard, and he just had a secret investigation and found out, because this guy didn't cover it up at all. The people in Nanning City knew that if they wanted to be promoted, they would just take the money to find Lord Yuan.

Speaking of which, he, the deputy inspector of the Censorate Division, has such great power. Whoever wants to be promoted can be promoted? Isn’t that a joke?

This has something to do with the rules for promotion in the Ming Dynasty, because local officials must basically go through "big plans" to be promoted.

In other words, if you can rank excellent in the "big plan" assessment every three years, you will basically be promoted.

The "big plan" of local officials is similar to the "Beijing Inspection" assessment items and assessment methods of Beijing officials. However, there is no Ministry of Personnel, no Censorate, and no cabinet. The assessment materials for officials are generally summarized and submitted to the Ministry of Personnel by the Criminal Office.

That's why Yuan Yingshu has the power to determine the promotion of officials.

Of course, if he was just a deputy envoy of the Criminal Censor, he would not have such great power, after all, he had a Criminal Censor, and the assessment materials of local officials must be inspected by the Ministry of Personnel. It is not something you can do by making random messes.

The reason why he has such great power is mainly because of his identity. He is not only the deputy envoy of the Guangxi Censorate, but also Yan Song's eldest son-in-law!

This guy is really an enemy, and Yang Cong wanted to kill Yan Song, but Yan Song's son-in-law "delivered to the door".

There is nothing to say, kill!

Of course, his so-called "killing" is not to drag people out and chop them up, but to arrest them, interrogate them strictly, force them to confess their crimes of corruption, and then submit them to the court to request punishment.

If someone else came to be the governor of these five provinces, I guess he would not dare to do anything to Yuan Yingshu.

This guy is Yan Song's eldest son-in-law. Do you dare to do someone else? If you dare to do someone else, you, the governor, may have done the final result.

Yan Song is famous for his vengeance. Whoever dares to provoke him will dare to kill people. Not to mention the governor of the five provinces, even the Grand Secretary of the Cabinet or even the Chief Secretary of the Cabinet can find a way to kill you.

Of course, Yang Cong is different from ordinary officials, so he has no such concern at all.

He and Yan Song are mortal enemies. Anyway, they offended others before, and they were afraid of being terrified!
Chapter completed!