Chapter 920 Donation Chaos

Changzhou raised 500,000 donations, which is not easy.

After all, Changzhou is not a big city, nor does it have any heavy industry.

The only thing that can be said is that there is a railway passing by here, and the traffic is passable. And it is relatively close to Nanjing and Shanghai, and it is the supplier of vegetables and livestock for the two places.

Such a place is richer than most cities in Dahua, but it is certainly not much richer.

A small Changzhou donated 500,000 yuan, which is very abnormal. Even in Beijing, donations are only 100,000 yuan, and in Wuhu, a place where a large number of industries gather, donations are only 300,000 yuan.

Changzhou donated 500,000 yuan, which seems unbelievable to people from other places.

As a result, Changzhou was published in the newspapers and gained a lot of limelight.

People from other places in Dahua also learned that there is a place in Dahua called Changzhou, which is very wealthy.

Outsiders are curious, but in Changzhou, this is not a secret at all, even children know what is going on.

It was nothing more than Shi Jianxun, the mayor of Changzhou City, who wanted to take the opportunity to show his face and make some political achievements, so he had a showdown overtly and secretly.

Although Shi Jianxun did not expressly stipulate that everyone should donate and the specified amount.

However, those merchants who did not donate will receive some special treatment.

There are too many reasons for the government to clean up those businesses.

Of course, many of these merchants have backgrounds. If the matter were really brought up, Shi Jianxun would be overwhelmed and wander around.

But Shi Jianxun is not stupid, he has mastered this speed very well.

The amount of the showdown is neither too much nor too little, which can make those merchants feel pain, but it will not turn their faces for this little money and use their connections.

Personal connections are not eternal, they are consumables, and they will become invalid if they are used too many times, and they are usually reserved for critical moments.

If you bother with a little thing, then the big man behind it will not be bothered to death.

Troubling the big man with small things can only leave an impression of being ignorant to the big man.

Therefore, those merchants usually grit their teeth, curse a few words behind their backs, and then pay the money.

Even if there are a few popular people, if they want to report, there is often no result.

Now that the court officials are all focused on disaster relief, how can they have time to take care of such trivial matters.

If an investigation is carried out and Shi Jianxun is arrested, he will not be convicted of any major crimes, at most he will be criticized and fined.

After all, Shi Jianxun didn't take the money into his own pocket, but sent all the money to the disaster area.

Although the process was not very glorious, the result still has a certain positive meaning.

Moreover, all he blackmailed were businessmen.

Wu Changqing has done this kind of thing before.

In the past, the Chinese army was short of military expenses at the beginning, didn't they also use this method to blackmail those businessmen and scrape together money to support the army.

The emperor can do it, but the official can't do it?

This is not the only place in Changzhou, and some other places have more or less similar situations, but the degree is different.

If there are excessive places, not to mention the merchants, even the common people are apportioned.

Fortunately, the apportioned amount is not large, and they dare not go too far.

Officials from all over the world are under the pressure of political performance. Seeing that other places have donated tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands, the economy of their jurisdiction is not worse than that of the other party. If they only collect a few thousand yuan, the big bosses in the court must doubt their governance. ability, and even suspect that they have embezzled.

Moreover, most of these officials do not feel that such apportionment is excessive.

After all, the imperial court is usually so kind to the people, cutting taxes and supporting them at every turn, so what's wrong with apportioning some loving donations now?

If this was changed to the Ming Dynasty, it would be a direct increase in taxes and direct robbery. After the flood, this kind of tax will not be canceled at all, and then it will remain in place.

In the end, this tax paid goes into their pockets.

Those officials who came from the Ming Dynasty felt that it was too gentle to just apportion donations.

Don't blame them for thinking this way, in fact, many people also think this way in their hearts.

They all felt that the imperial court was much better than before.

Just a little bit of ad-hoc apportionment, not a tax increase, is a happy event.

Therefore, in those places where apportionment is carried out, the process is actually very smooth, and the people are very cooperative.

Corruption also occurs in Dahua, but it is relatively rare.

Dahua's statistics bureau is too powerful, and it has a similar understanding of the economic situation in various places.

About the donation capacity of a place, the people in the Bureau of Statistics can count it.

If a huge Shanghai only donated one million yuan, there is no need for evidence investigation, and it can be directly determined that the mayor of Shanghai has been corrupted and cannot escape.

Therefore, out of fear of the Bureau of Statistics, most officials are relatively honest.

That's why Zeng Yihui, the county magistrate of Pingxiang, became greedy.

Zeng Yihui never expected that his humble Pingxiang County could raise a donation of 50,000 yuan, which was obviously beyond the standard.

This is mainly because Pingxiang's mineral resources have been vigorously developed in recent years. There are several coal mines and tungsten mines in the territory, and a steel factory and other factories have even been built nearby.

This caused Pingxiang to turn around in an instant, and the income of the people around it increased sharply from mining.

With money, the people here have become very fond of the current imperial court.

Satisfaction and loyalty.

Hearing that other places in Dahua were hit by floods, the people here were very active in donating, and abruptly scraped together 50,000 yuan.

Ever since, Zeng Yihui had a different idea.

If you hand in the 50,000 yuan, you can certainly get a good evaluation, and even have a chance to get promoted.

However, the actual benefit is not great.

It would be better to stay in Pingxiang and become the county magistrate to earn more money if transferred to another place to raise a level and a half.

Since there is no need for political achievements, then naturally there is no need to hand over all the money.

Moreover, because Pingxiang is a poor place in other people's impressions, no one will doubt it at all if they only pay 10,000 yuan, they will only think that this is the normal level of Pingxiang.

Wu Changqing asked the people below to organize donations in order to arouse the love in the country and cultivate the cohesion of the nation.

As a result, of course, some results have been achieved.

Coupled with the follow-up publicity, people in most areas can gain a sense of identity.

However, in those places where the distribution is apportioned, the effect is very general, and some people even feel resentment in their hearts.

Not to mention, there are still places that take the opportunity to embezzle.

This donation operation is somewhat imperfect.

Of course, this is also the normal state of Dahua.

Policies under the imperial court often change in local areas.

The situation in Dahua is still relatively good, at least much better than the previous Ming Dynasty, and much better than those foreign countries.