"If you don't check, you won't know. If you check, you will be shocked!"

Under the lights of the Yizhou Post Office, Li Jinglong said worriedly as he looked at the documents that had just been sorted out about the deficits of the garrisons along the way.

Their team first passed Huaian, then Yizhou, and were about to enter Qingzhou Prefecture, an important town in Shandong.

Along the way, the deficits of the garrisons wherever they passed were shocking. Take the Yizhou garrisons as an example, military warehouses or military camps have almost become the private property of the hereditary commanders and thousand households.

In fact, there is no need to investigate these things with great fanfare, just there, and even local civil servants know about them.

"The more you go north, the harder it is to check it. I guess there is a big hole in Qingzhou Prefecture!" Deng Duo looked at the document in his hand and his face turned gloomy. (I have a bad name, it's really useless)

"Yes!" Li Jinglong sighed, "North!"

When Zhao Shi heard this, he looked up puzzledly, "Why is it harder to check the northwards?"

"Because the more you go north, the deficits of each guard are getting bigger and bigger!" Deng Duo whispered.

Zhao Shi was still puzzled, "Why?"

"The poorer the place, the more greedy people are!" Li Jinglong smiled slightly, "Why are we looking from south to north? That's the reason!"

Zhao Shi frowned, and the more he listened, the more he became confused.

"The deficit in the army and the corruption of civil servants are the same!" Li Jinglong rubbed his sore shoulders, "After all, guarding rivers, lakes and seas in the south, there are not so many wars, and the place is prosperous and stable, so whether it is civil servants or military officers, there are many places to come, so you don't have to just stare at this shameful thing!"

Zhao Shi frowned and said in a deep voice, "But the south is not very rich? There is a large population, and there is less arable land per capita, and even many mountainous areas have only a few places per capita!"

"Uncle, you didn't look deeper. In the north, Shandong in the Central Plains is adjacent to the Liaodong defense line. Every year, the imperial court goes out to the frontier and trains troops in autumn, the money and grain and civilians mobilize them all from these places. In addition, the population here is not as large as the south. At the end of the previous dynasty, the population was killed by only ten people. In the thirty years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, even if it did not have the heavy taxes from the previous dynasty, the burden on them is not light. Military rations, horse raising, corvee labor..."

"In the south, at least there is no such thing? At least there is no need to help the court raise horses, no need to send the masters to the army to deliver food, nor do you have to go to the places outside Liaodong to build cities, right?"

Seeing Zhao Shi in deep thought, Li Jinglong continued to smile, "The deficit of military officers in the south is to embezzle land and drink soldiers' blood. However, because the north has to fight at any time, it is definitely more powerful to take military pay than the south. Military farmland may not necessarily be occupied, but military warehouses and military supplies must be exploited layer by layer, and even some contraband transactions are also available."

"As it said, he had no other money. Look at Xuzhou Guards, people guarding the canal! If he doesn't take the initiative to ask for money, everyone will send money. Who will give it to the military officers in the north? In recent years, the Tartars have learned their skills and no one will give them their heads!"

"The same is true for civil servants!" Li Jinglong sighed and smiled bitterly, "No one respects him, so he can only stare at the people, the government's appropriations, and the taxes."

Deng Duo also smiled bitterly, "Actually, it's easy to check some here!"

He only said half of this. The garrisons along the way are all in the Taiping Territory, regardless of north or south. If they really arrive at the border, how can they check it even if they are adjacent to the border?

A group of military officers pulled their collars open, and their bodies were covered with scars and arrows. They shouted that I was working hard for the Ming Dynasty. Come and check me?

It was not that no one had investigated in the early years. A group of big soldiers in Yulin Town directly hung the censors on the tree and hanged them alive!

"Then do we still need to check it?" Zhao Shi asked with a wink.

"Ha, of course we need to investigate!" Li Jinglong smiled heartily, "We must investigate with great fanfare. Military officers can not be afraid of civil servants, but we must not be disrespectful to me!" As he said, he scratched his head and said, "Even if he doesn't respect me, there is still Laohou Guo in Huai'an!"

Zhao Shi hesitated again, "Can we find it?"

These words made Deng Duo and Li Jinglong grin.

"What is the matter in the world that has been found?" Li Jinglong sighed, "Investigation is what he said to the people of the world."

Zhao Shi frowned, "What you said is a bit profound!"

"I'll use this to illustrate this! It's like a corrupt official in a certain place. He will not leave until he can't leave. He knows that he is a corrupt official, but he still serves as an official. The people dare not speak out. You said that even those who are about to commit crimes know that he is a corrupt official. How can he not know?"

Li Jinglong smiled and said, "At this time, a few officials from above said to investigate him! Is it necessary to investigate? After checking him, he whipped his whip and revealed what dumplings he had last year! Visit a few people and arrest him, and the evidence was confirmed."

"Then why do you have to make a big fuss about checking? You have to check it slowly and strictly? You have to check it carefully? Because people who can't leave know it when they go up to ninety-nine times! If you check it quickly, the more traitors and evil people will be, the more satisfied the people will be. You understand!"

Zhao Shi was confused. Compared with Li Jinglong, he was just an innocent and ignorant child.

"So, we don't need to check it out, we just go through it!" Li Jinglong pointed to Deng Duo, "We don't need to go down to check it out ourselves when we want to know when someone secretly informs us."

"Then..." Zhao Shi widened his eyes, "Everything is not just about evidence, just rely on..."

"We just investigate, don't worry about arresting it!" Li Jinglong said seriously, "Besides, there is no use to say that so much evidence is useless, one or two are enough! You don't understand the affairs of the officialdom, you are not icing on the cake, and there are a lot of people who take the blame. Everyone is against the wind. Do we still have to work hard to investigate?"

"We just need to find out who is the big head. Let the other little ones bite by themselves, and the task is done!" Li Jinglong continued, "The rest is the Governor's Office and the Military Department of the Five Army to have a headache!"

He said that these were too obscure for Zhao Shi.

But these days, Zhao Shi also learned something from Li Jinglong. The most intuitive thing is the change of his impression of things. In the past, he saw nothing but two sides, good and bad.

Now that he has been out for so many days, he has found that many things cannot be just about good or bad, but also about the pros and cons, and even weigh the pros and cons. The final result is mostly due to human nature.

People are the nature of seeking profit and avoiding harm, people are selfish, and people are the nature of being in harmony with light and dust.

He didn't understand, but he kept these things and words in his heart, savored them repeatedly and digested them slowly.

"Oh, uncle, don't be too serious!" Li Jinglong seemed to see what Zhao Shi was thinking, and smiled, "People, some things cannot be felt by the age of not feeling!" As he said, he shook his head and said, "No, age is actually a superficial one. Some people don't understand all their lives!"

"As a person, it's experience. If you experience more in the future, and you'll be cheated a few times, you'll learn these things without a teacher!"

"Man!" Li Jinglong patted Zhao Shi's shoulder, "There is the most important point outside of experience, pattern and vision!"

"Who is that?" Zhao Shi asked.

"Execution!" Li Jinglong said seriously, "Execution is the key, without execution, it is empty talk!"

Zhao Shiruo thought about something.

Suddenly, footsteps came from outside.

Li Jinglong's personal soldier Li Xiaowai came in from outside and whispered, "Master, I'll have a letter!"

"Who's?" Li Jinglong didn't even raise his head.

"The General of Qingzhou sent someone to deliver the letter..." Li Xiaowai said, as if hesitating, biting his lip, "I'm looking for my uncle!"
Chapter completed!