The monopoly of salt and iron was an important financial guarantee for the Wei Empire to survive difficult times.

In the early days of Guo Peng's reign, the money obtained from the sale of salt and iron played an important role in the stability and expansion of the empire.

To this day, under the premise that Guo Peng opened up two major trade routes on the sea road, the economy of the Wei Empire has also developed greatly, and agricultural production has been completely restored and further improved. The benefits brought by the salt and iron monopoly have gradually become the pillar of the Wei Empire's finances.

Of course, it is also very important.

"This time, your evidence was collected so detailed, and you should have some understanding of these private salt gangs, right?"

Guo Jin stared at Guo Chaodong.

Guo Chaodong nodded immediately.

"Under the strict checkpoints on the official roads of our dynasty, private salt gangs are difficult to sell across regions, and they often sell private salt locally. Now, Linzi camp organizations in various places have sent people to join 37 private salt gangs. If Your Majesty orders to close the net, we can close the net immediately."

After collecting the Internet, you can interrogate the host behind the scenes and then uproot the roots.

Guo Jin knows it.

But he was a little dissatisfied.

"Only thirty-seven? If the scope is so wide, there should be more than thirty-seven private salt gangs, right?"

"It is true, but time is limited, and Linzi camp organizations in various places cannot penetrate in time, but they still have a lot of grasp of their movements. If Your Majesty gives an order, it will not be difficult to destroy about 70 private salt gangs in one fell swoop."

Guo Chaodong said so.

Guo Jin nodded slightly satisfied.

"Although there are not many, there are more than just now. This time, you are doing well in Linzi. After the work is done, you will be rewarded with the detailed works that lurk in. The secret spies participating in Linzi camp will also be rewarded. If you are OK, you can close the Internet cafe."

Guo Jin's eyes were cold and shining: "There is not enough staff in Linzi Camp, so I asked the local police to join in to help with the handling. I want to see how bad the Salt Affairs Department is!"

"Abide by the order!"

Guo Chaodong paused his head and immediately went down to make arrangements.

On the premise that Linzi Camp has no clear head, the director of the Central Bureau is the default deputy commander. Guo Chaodong adheres to Guo Jin's will and conveys the highest instructions for Guo Jin. In essence, he has begun to perform Yan Rou's duties, but he just does not have that power.

Now, since the emperor has given the order, what are you waiting for?

Closing the Internet!

Guo Chaodong quickly and accurately conveyed Guo Jin's orders to the hands of local Linzi camp organizations. The local Linzi camp organizations immediately started their respective actions, either initiated actions according to detailed instructions, or initiated actions based on the information they had previously discovered.

The local Linzi camp has limited personnel and most of them cannot be exposed, so the main force of the operation is the local police force.

The dispatch of the police force requires permission from the county magistrate or county magistrate. When deciding to transfer, the local judicial department with the right to dispose of the matter cannot interfere.

There is only one exception, that is, when the Linzi Camp operates, the police force must cooperate unconditionally, the Chief Executive must sign a dispatch order, not interfere, and the Ministry of Justice shall not interfere.

This is the emperor's order, the extension of imperial power, how can the Chief Executive and the Ministry of Justice intervene?

During the operation, the head of the local Linzi camp held a token to find the county magistrate or county magistrate. The county magistrate and county magistrate must immediately sign the dispatch order, and then dispatch a police force to assist in the affairs.

Linziying grew from the earliest secret organization. After its founding, it gradually could not hide its existence and had to be transformed into an open official institution.

Officials already know that this is a spy organization that acts upon the emperor's orders, but they don't know much about how Linzi Camp operates, how it acts, and what powers it has.

For example, the county magistrate and the county magistrate knew that once someone held the Linzi camp to request the dispatch of the police force, they must cooperate unconditionally and must not interfere with the evasion. No matter what Linzi camp should do, they must not interfere.

They don’t know what other things are done, what power is in Linzi, and where the organization is located, etc. These are all unknown.

Just like at present, many county magistrates or county magistrates are asked to sign orders to dispatch police forces to do business, but they do not know what to do.

After the news of a large number of private salt dealers being arrested from various places, these local officials suddenly realized that the emperor had attacked the private salt dealers!

At the end of March of the fifth year of Xingyuan, Linzi Camp closed down the private salt gangs hidden under the surface of society, and blasted 73 private salt sales gangs in one fell swoop, arrested more than 2,000 people, killed hundreds of people in the operation, and made a famous reputation.

Some people are selling private salt. Because they do not happen much and have a wide range of occurrences, the officials and gangs who are full of personal pockets act in a low-key manner, so many officials in the country are still unknown. They suddenly heard that the emperor was quite surprised by the people selling private salt.

Anyone who sells private salt?

Official salt is not bad, and it is not expensive. Why are you selling private salt?

Some things can only be explained by greed, or it can be said that as long as the salt and iron franchise exists for one day, there will inevitably be people selling private salt.

But no matter what, these people were arrested.

Then he was taken to Luoyang and handed over to the Sili School Command for strict interrogation.

The emperor ordered that anyway, useful news should be taken out from their mouths and to catch all their online listings.

So Cheng Yu showed his skills again. In just three days, he tortured more than 50 private salt dealers and used the information he took out from their mouths to build a series of criminal network messages.

Obviously, this is a vicious incident in which corruption of officials led to corruption among businessmen, and the two sides worked together to poach the national corners.

Since the income from salt monopoly is still relatively important to the current Wei Empire, Guo Jin believes that these people cannot be forgiven by any means and rejected the sentencing recommendations proposed by the Ministry of Justice.

He ordered all the leaders of these private salt dealers to be executed, and his family members were also executed to serve as a warning to others.

Trafficking gangs can avoid death, but they are sent to coolies together with their families and go to Pingzhou, Mozhou, Yunzhou and Jiaozhou to carry out coolies. The general amnesty has nothing to do with them. They are coolies from life to death and cannot be forgiven.

Punishing more than 2,000 people and their families in one go, affecting tens of thousands of people. It is very large and it is difficult to implement it. However, in order to prevent the corruption of the salt administration and form a deterrent to the people, Guo Jin insisted on implementing such a harsh punishment plan.

The punishment for downstream executors has ended, and the punishment for upstream initiators has just begun.

The entire Salt Affairs Department was touched by Linzi Camp from top to bottom, and then began to arrest the criminals and businessmen of the Salt Affairs Department.

The martyrs who were handed over to the Sili lieutenant were arrested within the scope of the Sili lieutenant, while those who were outside the country were handed over to the local police force for arrest and were escorted to Luoyang and handed over to the Martyrs.

A single stone caused a thousand waves, and the salt administration officials in Hebei, who had the largest number of criminals, were almost wiped out.

Some people were well-informed and knew that the emperor was here this time and had no chance to survive, so they tried to escape.

But in the strict local network of the Wei Empire, they were arrested one after another.

There was also a clever one. The one with the most flexible hands and feet had even run to the sea, taking refuge in a boat, trying to escape, but was also arrested by Linzi Camp, coordinated with the navy to dispatch warships to cross the sea, and was also caught.

None of these officials and businessmen were forgiven and all of them were executed. The family was deprived of their rights and was given to the laborers and was not allowed to return when they were pardoned.

From March of the fifth year of Xingyuan to June of the fifth year of Xingyuan, in three months, Guo Jin sorted out all the salt administration system, and the number of officials cleaning up to 237.

All their land was confiscated and nationalized and waited for redistribution.

That's not all. Guo Jin feels that those who are greedy for small gains should also be punished and imposed a certain amount of fines to deter the common people and tell them who dares to buy private salt will have to pay the price.

If the stick is not knocked on the head, you don’t know how to be afraid. You dare to buy private salt to disrupt the market. If you don’t punish them, you won’t know the majesty of the law!

Greeding in small gains is the nature of human beings. Guo Jin believes that if the punishment for greed for small gains is much heavier than the benefits brought by small gains itself, then naturally no one dares to greed for this small gains, so punishment is necessary.

In this regard, officials from the central government felt that this was contrary to the polite and kind rule set by Guo Peng during the period.

They feel that if they want to punish civilians, it will be too wide and it will easily cause panic among the people.

This may bring some trouble to local officials.

For example, if the people gather to cause trouble and collectively protest, it will make the government feel very troubled and difficult to deal with properly.

Guo Jin believes that this is not the case.

He convened a state meeting and spoke sternly at the meeting.

"At the beginning of the founding of the Supreme Emperor, the country was in ruins and the people were in poverty and needed to rest and rest, and to hide the wealth of the people. After the Supreme Emperor worked hard for the thirteenth year of the Supreme Emperor, the world was prosperous and the people were rich. Now, it is no longer the situation at the beginning of the founding of the country.

I think that in troubled times, we should focus on tolerance and use heavy rituals. Today, it is no longer a chaotic world. The prosperous times first appear, and it is the time when the world should be governed by heavy rituals! Instead of continuing to use tolerance, benevolent and benevolent government to forgive people who commit crimes without restrictions.

During the reign of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Jing, Huang-Lao's theory was used to govern without doing anything and rest with the people. Although he had accumulated national strength for the Han Dynasty, Emperor Wu had no government orders, and there were no powerful people everywhere, and there were many heroes. A word from the folk heroes was more useful than the government.

When an official takes office, the first thing he does is not to understand the people's sentiments, but to visit local heroes and seek asylum. If he is an enemy of the heroes, the heroes will even kill people in the street and slaughter officials. Is this a scene you want to see?

It is of course useful to rest with the people, and the laws must not be chaotic! At all times, we must show the existence of the court, and at all times, we must let the people know who is the one who keeps their words! We will continue to carry out the orphans! There must be no mistakes!"
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