"As for the deficits recorded here, I will pretend I don't know about those from five years ago. But for those within the past five years, who of you took them and how did you take them? Give me the whole amount. If it wasn't you, you must also find a way to make the person who took it give it up. Otherwise, I will confiscate your homes and use your property to pay for it!"
After saying that, Kangxi told them to get out.
When several first-rank officials came out of the Qianqing Palace, their expressions were extremely wonderful.
In fact, after reading the memorial, the few people were not very scared. After all, they all knew that the Qing Dynasty laws stipulated that embezzling disaster relief funds exceeding 40 taels could be punishable by death, but that only restricted low-level officials and had no binding force on people like them.
Moreover, the law does not hold everyone responsible.
There are too many officials involved. If they are all singled out and demoted, the impact will be too wide-ranging. The emperor will definitely not be willing to mobilize so many troops.
Therefore, at first, several people thought that the emperor would most likely scold them, deduct their salary for a year or two, or at least give them a beating with a stick, and the matter would be over.
Unexpectedly, the emperor actually asked them to make up for the deficit within five years.
The deficit over the past five years, roughly speaking, is about one million taels!
The four of them will be compensated with one million taels.
On average, each person received 250,000 taels, which was not a small sum for them.
The poorest person here is Zhang Yushu.
He was born into a poor family. Although he had gained a lot of benefits by following Soetu over the years, he also spent a lot of money on bribes, and his family really did not have 250,000 taels of silver.
Unlike the other three, they all have the support of their families, and if they pool their money together, they can raise 250,000 taels of silver.
Now Zhang Yushu is even more afraid that Yisan'a and Akdun will behave like human beings and put all the pressure on him and Maltu.
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