"Quickly tell me your method!" Not only Ji Yingying, but everyone else was also very eager to know what method she had.
The national treasury really can’t hold on any longer.
[That is...] There was a sudden pause, and everyone's heart was in their throat.
Ji Yingying, on the other hand, seemed quite calm, as if it didn't matter whether she spoke or not.
[That means we have a list. We can use the list to gossip, or use sketches to gossip. If someone is corrupt, we'll raid their home.]
[List of names and portraits, you really know how to come up with ideas.] She couldn't tell the Emperor about this, since nobody believed in such things, and she didn't want the Emperor to think of her as a monster.
"My dear minister, the national treasury has been empty these past two days. You should stay in the palace and handle things. I have some mistakes in the portrait lists. Please help me sort them out so that the lists match the portraits. I also need to discuss with the ministers how to enrich the national treasury."
"Yes, Master Xiaoji, I'll leave this matter to you. We need to discuss things in the next two days."
"What the hell?" Ji Yingying didn't understand, but she still heard that the ministers and the portraits were all mixed up and she needed to sort them out.
As for the empty national treasury, that's not her responsibility.
[Xiangxiang, why do I feel like they know something?]
"Ah...you don't know, do you? But it's so strange. We just said that having a list and portraits would be enough, and they arranged it. Did they hear me talking?"
Everyone's heart was in their throat. It was too scary. If it was discovered, wouldn't they be in trouble?
But the next second, Ji Yingying dismissed her concerns: "Impossible! If they really heard your voice, they would definitely mistake me for a monster and burn me to death. That would be too horrible."
Yes, this world is quite strange.
[Yes, yes, I am right.]
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Thank goodness, things have turned out alright.
"Yingying, go check the list and the portraits. Once you've compared them, go home."
"Yes, Your Majesty, I will go immediately." Ji Yingying went to the Hanlin Academy.
As soon as she left the imperial study, the emperor immediately sent people to stake out the area, ready to arrest any corrupt officials who were found.
Not long after arriving at the Hanlin Academy, Ji Yingying sat down, portraits and names of officials from all over the country were sent to her, and she was asked to compare them one by one.
Ji Yingying first compared all the officials in the capital. The ministers of the six ministries were all in good standing, their family income was normal, and they had not embezzled.
There were no problems with the Dali Temple and the officials who attended court every day, but there were one or two newly arrived officials whose family fortunes were of dubious origin.
However, it was only a few tens of thousands of taels. When the emperor heard this news, he thought that as long as there were no corrupt officials, he would just take those tens of thousands of taels.
[Oh wow~ This guy is really handsome! Who is this? Oh, it's Lord Zheng! This guy... he looks rather hypocritical! Xiangxiang, investigate him.]
[You can get a memorial, and then we can search his house.]
Why? Because they embezzled so much.
[He's a local official, and he has connections with a certain department, the one that our Sister Ji Sasa lives in. He's in charge of making contacts. Although he doesn't get paid much, he's made a lot. The money confiscated should last at least a month.]
Big fish.
[Yes, not only that, he was also involved in human trafficking in Jiangnan City. Your arrest was due to him tipping you off. Although he didn't make the arrest, he still has some connections.]
Very good. Very good.
Ji Yingying smiled. Since they've already targeted her, she went straight for it and ransacked her home.
A memorial was sent directly to the imperial study, and then people were immediately ordered to search the house. As for Lord Zheng, he was beheaded directly, and the other members of the Zheng family were exiled.
After all, the memorial Ji Yingying submitted reported that only Lord Zheng had committed a crime, and the others were just beneficiaries.
[Host, do you know anything about drugs? ]
[I know. What happened? Did you find someone taking drugs?]
[Yes, but it’s not for consumption, it’s for sale.]
[Um, this one?]
"Yes, Prefect Lu, he grows poppies and processes them into a kind of ointment for people to inhale. As a result, he has amassed a great fortune, and the people he sells to the most are from Linfeng Kingdom."
How much wealth does he have?
There are quite a few of them, all selling this kind of plaster, making a lot of money.
How much profit could he make from confiscating property? And did he sell any of it to the people of the Tianyou Dynasty?
Yes, but in small quantities.
【Hehe…】Ji Yingying wanted to curse. She hated drug dealers more than anything in her life. No one who was a drug dealer was innocent, not even their descendants.
She had a neighbor in modern times. That neighbor was a policeman. She didn't know what kind of policeman he was, but one day, he couldn't come back. He had two children at home.
The older one was taken away, but was returned after three months.
The child appeared uninjured, but his mental age was permanently stuck at that of a two-year-old; he could only talk and walk. The neighbor sought help from many doctors and even knelt down to beg, but to no avail.
Later, we found out that it was done by drug dealers to take revenge on the policeman. Unfortunately, the policeman could not come back, and he would never know that his child was taken revenge on.
After she knew the truth, she cried all night. She felt helpless at that moment. Crying was a sign of cowardice because she could not help at all.
Later, she actively participated in drug awareness campaigns, just so that more people could see it.
[Would this result in the death penalty for the entire family?]
[It is necessary, and the opium poppy must be destroyed. It is an unforgivable thing.]
[I remember we met last time? Did you burn it?] She seemed to remember encountering a poppy flower once, and wondered if it had been burned.
[No, they are at the Imperial Hospital. Court Judge Liu is researching it.]
[Okay, I'll go back and check. I think I gave you a prescription.]
I think I have it, but it's been too long, I don't remember.
[Last time it was fine, but this time it directly endangers society and is unforgivable.]
Because they had been discussing this for a long time, the Emperor also took a special look at it.
It was confirmed that this thing was not a good thing, and the letter also wrote about the harm and uses of poppy.
It depends on how the emperor handles it.
Ji Yingying looked at the next one, and it turned out to be a clerk. It seemed he had already left the capital, and they should be able to... you know... soon. She finished reading.
[This advisor's official position was bought, and his family was quite wealthy, but he earned that money by deceiving consumers—that is, selling the worst goods at the highest prices.]
"Then confiscate it to prevent the people from being exploited." Ji Yingying handed over another memorial.
The fact that a mere secretary could possess a million taels of gold shows just how difficult life must be for the poor.
The Emperor is waiting now, waiting for winter to pass and for spring to come. He will definitely let Ji Yingying lead everyone to have a good meal.
Ji Yingying drank a glass of water, and seeing that it was getting late, she quickly asked, "His Majesty asked me to watch over people here. Will meals be provided?"
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