But the officials in the courts of the six central departments are not unlucky, it depends on the situation.

For example, if there is a tax problem in the governor's department, then check it down to see which state and county it is, and then see if there is any connection between local officials and officials above the six ministries.

If you have such a relationship as a colleague or relative, you have to check it carefully. If there is no connection, there is probably no connection.

Of course, whether there is any specific relationship or not, it still needs to be interrogated before you can draw a conclusion.

After all, criminal investigation methods are very limited these days, and torture can be said to be a very direct method.

So in this prison, every day, you can see the Jinyiwei arrested local officials from below and locked them up in the prison, and then interrogated them carefully. Of course, these officials were stubborn at the beginning.

How could I tamper with taxation? How could I be corrupt? I am a honest official!

Even if I get beaten twice, my mouth may not be able to spread. At this time, I will spread the account books calculated by the students in front of them.

How could they have thought that the court had such great determination? They recalculated the local taxes, and it was so fast!

Some people may be wondering, why don’t these local officials make this fraud more realistic from the source? For example, change local taxes!

First of all, these local officials may not have such great abilities and abilities, especially their mathematical skills, and they have changed their taxes so well. You must know that even in modern times, professional accounting can do it.

Even professional accountants can be full of loopholes when doing accounts.

Not to mention these local officials who have no mathematical skills, even if they look for some dog-headed masters from the people, they are just Confucian scholars who have become monks halfway.

How strong can they have mathematical abilities?

If it were in the Tang Dynasty, it might be a little more powerful, but at this time of the Ming Dynasty, I really only read the Four Books and Five Classics every day, and there were very few Confucian scholars who studied mathematics.

Another reason is that they do not have this permission.

Because there is a very important indicator in Zhu Yuanzhang's household registration system, that is, the yellow book system!

It is a household registration document made by the state to verify household registration and recruit taxes and service.

The yellow book uses households as units and publishes detailed township officials, name, age, Dingkou, land and houses, and assets. It is divided into three categories according to the occupation and household registration.

This yellow book requires that it be filled in every year, and a total of ten years will be completed.

And this is the basis for central finance and taxation.

This is not something that the local prefect or county government office can touch.

Instead, there are special officials who are counting and registering, and most of these officials are sent from the central government.

It is conceivable how much effort and effort Zhu Yuanzhang spent to prevent corruption among officials.

Unfortunately, after the middle of the Ming Dynasty, this policy was basically in name only. After all, officials at that time had colluded with each other and began to suck blood on the country.

But now it is the year of Hongwu!
Chapter completed!