Xiao Ruxun did not think that Chinese people were all saints. Facing so much money, they could maintain their integrity and not be greedy.
In fact, from the very beginning, corruption had never stopped.
It was mainly in the local areas and less in the central government.
On the one hand, the central government was particularly strict. On the other hand, Xiao Ruxun's Imperial Plantation fleet and the official fleet organized by the Ministry of Finance all had shares of some court officials and military generals.
In order to prevent these guys from taking risks and causing political and military fluctuations, Xiao Ruxun took the initiative to use the Imperial Plantation fleet to accommodate the shares of the generals and the Ministry of Finance to accommodate the shares of some officials. He allowed them to make money with him, but they had to pay taxes.
Outside of this range were those who did not have the right to eat meat with the emperor. Of course, Xiao Ruxun did not treat them badly. The officials who did not have the ability also felt the increase in salary and benefits of the court, and their lives were really good.
In addition, the businessmen and officials who evaded taxes in business activities and bribed officials were the main targets of the second wave of the purge.
From the central to the local, they were uprooted. Xiao Ruxun had never been lenient in the purge of the bureaucratic system, especially some of the officials in the Department of Commerce, and even the corruption of the officials inside Black Water.
To deal with these people, he directly killed them and hung their heads outside the government office, then sold their families as coolies, and all the women were sold to the brothels.
He used extremely cruel methods to crack down on these guys who competed with the national treasury, and then directly confiscated their property for the national treasury.
No matter how much money you have now, I can still kill your whole family and take it for the national treasury. So, don't have any ideas about the national treasury.
This attitude was spread to all the departments in the Department of Commerce.
Then the internal branches of Black Water stationed in the three provinces in the southeast were purged. Zhang Wu was called out and scolded by Xiao Ruxun in front of him, warning him not to do stupid things. Zhang Wu was so scared that he went directly to Nanjing to take charge of the internal purge of Black Water.
It was said that more than 300 people were killed.
The great purge in the fourth year of Longwu was aimed at corrupt officials. It was mainly about economic problems, not political problems. Most of the officials with political problems had been killed in the first year of Longwu. Now, the main problem was economic problems.
Although their business was big enough and the benefits were big enough, even if the corruption was serious, compared to the European and American countries more than a hundred years ago, Xiao Ruxun could not tolerate this group of people treating the silver of the national treasury as their own silver.
After I die, I don't care. As long as I live, you all have to die.
While the purge was being carried out, the preparations for the Northern Expedition also sped up and improved. The logistics base in Guanzhong and the forward operating base in Gansu were arranged in an orderly manner with a large amount of investment. They had been completely established and were operating well.
The horse policy was beginning to show results. The cavalry training was becoming more and more standardized. From the beginning of the reorganization of the Qin Army to the end of the fifth year of Longwu, the Qin Army had increased by 60,000 cavalry, basically meeting the needs of the Northern Expedition. But it was still not enough. Xiao Ruxun was still expanding the base.
The Northern Expedition was the pursuit of success in one battle. Xiao Ruxun had explained this concept many times. He requested that the army leading the Northern Expedition must be clear about this concept. When the time came, not only the Northwest Army and the Guanzhong Army had to attack, but also the capital region army, and even the Liaodong Army.
This Northern Expedition would be unprecedented. It would be more intense than the Northern Expeditions of Emperor Wu of Han and Dou Xian. The goal was not only to seal Wolf Juxu and restrain Shi Yanran, but also to completely solve the problem of the Northern Barbarians and turn the grasslands into the most reliable meat supply for the people of Daqin.
Xiao Ruxun had already begun to let the Ministry of Works take charge of building cities on the grasslands and recruiting herdsmen to raise cattle, sheep, and horses. This matter had to be done well. This was a supporting measure for the Northern Expedition. If this matter could not be kept up, the Northern Expedition would become meaningless.
Of course, recovering the land was also very important.
Xinjiang, which was controlled by the Yarkand Khaganate, and Ü-Tsang had to be conquered. The territory of the western region had to be completed, and the western plateau had to be conquered. This was to build a barrier for Huaxia and establish a terrain advantage over the countries outside the barrier.
Therefore, for several years, Xiao Ruxun constantly sent spies into these two areas to draw maps, understand the culture, understand the political environment, and so on. This was to prepare for the future full-scale invasion.
With the supply of sufficient wealth, all these works were carried out very smoothly. The various divisions of the Qin army were already gearing up for the Great Northern Expedition, and they could not wait to expand their territory as described by Xiao Ruxun. They were very eager to have the achievement of at least doubling the territory of the empire.
That would be enough for them to establish an unprecedented meritorious service and forever be remembered by future generations.
This time was different from the past. It was not that they would withdraw after conquering, but that they would occupy it forever and never give it up.
To achieve this goal, Xiao Ruxun's Dazhi Highway plan had also been carried out very smoothly. From the beginning of the second year of Longwu to the end of the fifth year of Longwu, the planned Dazhi Highway had been built very well in more than three years.
The Northwest Dazhi Highway had been built out of Xi 'an City and was proceeding to the northwest. The Liaodong Dazhi Highway had been built close to Shenyang. The next step was to build a road network all over Liaodong. The Southeast Dazhi Highway had also been built very smoothly. It had entered the mountainous area of Fujian and opened up many roads.
For the construction of the Dazhi Highway, it was not Xiao Ruxun who had contributed the most, but the Japanese.
Ever since she was conquered, Xiao Ruxun had been using the construction of the Grand Road to whittle down the Wokou population. In just three short years, the number of Wokou population that had been whittled down had already exceeded two million. At the cost of this, the construction of the Grand Road and the local water conservancy infrastructure had expanded by a large margin.
Therefore, Xiao Ruxun deeply understood the fact that the prosperity of a country must be built on the suffering of other countries.
It was the blood and tears of the Japanese that the infrastructure of the Daqin had been built so quickly, so well, and so cheaply. It had also helped the rapid stability of the former Japanese land, which was now designated as the Japanese province.
Of course, those Japanese died so quickly not only because of the construction of the Dazhi Highway. In fact, in order to control the schistosomiasis, except for the first period, the snail extermination work for the next few years was done by the Japanese. For this reason, almost every Japanese who was responsible for the snail extermination work had died.
From the time they first contracted the disease to the time they were killed and burned, the life cycle of these people was generally less than half a year.
Moreover, by using the Japanese to control the schistosomiasis, the entire treatment group led by Fang Congzhe could freely capture and exterminate snails on a large scale. They didn't need to do any protective work, and they didn't need to worry about people getting sick. They directly sent the Japanese into the water to capture and exterminate the snails. Not only was the snail extermination efficient, but they also died very quickly.
Many birds with one stone.
Under the simultaneous promotion of the village doctor program and the snail extermination action, the medical and health conditions of the people in the Jiangnan area had been greatly improved. While the working group exterminated the snails, they would also formulate new health and medical rules for the local people, so that they would understand the importance of health and health.
Otherwise, look, these Japanese who died so miserably would end up like this!
They spread the medical and health regulations to the villages and asked the villagers to do the same. The effect was very good.
At least in the three southeastern provinces, public toilets were relatively common. People knew that if they wanted to relieve themselves, they had to go to the public toilets. Not only was it convenient and hygienic, but it also wouldn't cause them to get sick.
The fifth year of Longwu passed quickly. In this year, the first batch of students from the new school entered the school and began to learn new things. Public education blossomed everywhere among the people. The three southeastern provinces and Northern Zhili became the model and the object of this ancient people's rebirth.
Daqin was built to be safer and more hygienic. It was slowly approaching the country of Xiao Ruxun's dream.
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