Chu Fan was completely paralyzed as he looked at the pile of silver. A corrupt official might be able to easily come up with ten years' salary, but an honest official wouldn't be able to. How could Chang Sun Dechong have collected it all so easily?
Could it be that Chang Sun Dechong took it by force?
Chu Fan found Changsun Pinting and asked her about the specific situation in detail.
Changsun Pinting explained with a smile, "These monies were all voluntarily handed over by the officials. As for the monies handed over by the honest officials Your Majesty is concerned about, they were all handed over by the servants of those officials' families. And Censor Liu Wenshan, who is recognized as the most honest official, even handed over fines five times."
Chu Fan said speechlessly: "Liu Wenshan is so stubborn, let alone paying five times the fine. He can't even come up with the standard fine, let alone Liu Wenshan's wealth. The official in the court doesn't know? How could he come up with so much money? It must have been paid by those corrupt officials in their names."
Changsun Pinting replied, "Your Majesty is very clever. He figured out the inside story right away."
Chu Fan now understood why such a large amount of fines had been collected. Those corrupt officials were indeed very clever. In order to allow Chang Sun Dechong to complete his task, they had actually sent people to falsely claim to be servants from other families and pay the fines.
As for those corrupt officials who did not take advantage of the situation and did not help those honest officials to pay the fines, these corrupt officials were just greedy but they were not fools. If they did not pay the fines to those honest officials, Chang Sun Dechong's mission would not be completed.
If Changsun Dechong didn't complete his mission, the matter wouldn't be over. He could have easily dealt with a few officials who had made mistakes in order to complete his mission. After all, Changsun Dechong hadn't handed in his mission yet, so the emperor's order to use fines to offset past mistakes wouldn't take effect.
As for why Changsun Dechong didn't ask those honest officials for money? This is impossible no matter how you think about it. Changsun Dechong and others are loyal to the Wei Kingdom. Moreover, he holds real power in the court and is the Minister of War. How could he not know that those honest officials have no money?
Therefore, in order to enable Chang Sun Dechong to complete his task, these officials who had committed corruption asked their servants to pretend to be the servants of those honest officials and pay the fines.
Chu Fan figured it out and could only smile frivolously. He roughly counted the inner treasury. There were already over eight million silver coins in it. If he could take this silver back to Blue Star, he would become a multi-millionaire.
As for those corrupt officials who themselves said that I would no longer pursue their crimes, I will not pursue their past offenses.
After all, as the emperor, he had already promised to use the fine to offset his previous mistakes, which was a relief for him. He knew that if he continued to pursue the matter, it would only cause more chaos within the court, and what he needed was a stable and strong Wei.
Chu Fan did not want the people of Wei to be dragged into the war. What Chu Fan wanted was forcing the upper-level officials of Wei to abdicate, rather than letting Wei be plunged into a people's war.
Chu Fan was very happy when Lü Ben and others were forcing the emperor to abdicate outside the palace. However, the system did not recognize those nobles and officials who had fled the Wei Kingdom as people of the Wei Kingdom. The system task could not be completed, which made Chu Fan very depressed.
After thinking for a while, Chu Fan no longer cared about these things. In the following time, Chu Fan played with several women everywhere, as if the things in the court had nothing to do with him.
"Congratulations to the host for obtaining the homemade method of penicillin." Chu Fan's eyes lit up when he looked at the rewards he received this month.
This reward doesn't seem to be very useful, but if I can make penicillin, I can treat many common diseases while I am still in this world.
When on Blue Star, penicillin was widely used in the world. Chu Fan was thinking about all kinds of information about penicillin.
Penicillin is a revolutionary drug that can effectively fight bacterial infections. In ancient times, many fatal diseases often claimed countless lives due to the lack of effective treatments. Penicillin can effectively treat them.
The medical value of penicillin is extremely significant. It has a powerful therapeutic effect on a variety of bacterial infectious diseases, including but not limited to pneumonia, meningitis, sepsis and other serious diseases.
Before the advent of penicillin, people were often helpless against bacterial infections, relying on traditional herbal remedies or other treatments with questionable efficacy. These methods had limited efficacy and were often accompanied by significant side effects and complications, ultimately leading to the death of many patients. The advent of penicillin revolutionized this situation.
Penicillin, with its unique antibacterial mechanism, can rapidly destroy bacterial cell walls, thereby inhibiting their growth and reproduction. This mode of action makes penicillin highly effective against a wide range of Gram-positive and some Gram-negative bacteria, and it is also less likely to develop drug resistance. Consequently, penicillin is widely used clinically to treat various bacterial infections, achieving remarkable therapeutic results.
In addition to its remarkable efficacy, penicillin also has the advantages of minimal side effects and high safety. Compared with other antibiotics, penicillin is less toxic and less harmful to various organs and systems in the human body.
Chu Fan knew he had to produce penicillin, and the lab equipment he'd received by signing in last month finally found its way into his lab. He'd been disheartened when he'd signed in last month, as it seemed useless. However, this month, he'd mastered the production method, and now he could use it to extract penicillin from the mold Penicillium.
Chu Fan asked the eunuchs in the palace to move the smelly and moldy food in the kitchen to the room where the experimental equipment was kept. During this period of time, Chu Fan did not play with Mu Xi and other women.
Chu Fan finally made some progress day by day. After more than ten days, with the help of modern standard laboratory equipment, Chu Fan was able to purify a small amount of penicillin powder.
With the progress in extracting penicillin, Chu Fan once again reunited with Mu Xi and the other women, but Chu Fan discovered that Changsun Pinting's sister, Changsun Pinqing, was not there. Chu Fan thought about the woman who was like Lin Daiyu. Chu Fan had a good impression of this woman, and he didn't know if something had happened.
Chu Fan asked Zhangsun Pinting, "Why didn't your sister come to the palace?"
Changsun Pinting replied with an evasive look, "My sister has something going on at home and can't come to the palace anymore."
Chu Fan looked at Changsun Pinting's words and understood the implication that Changsun Pinting might not come to the palace again. Chu Fan was a little disappointed.
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