Chapter 429: Mixing Sand
"Method? Which method do you want, Aunt Anne? The more troublesome thing is that you personally supervise and kill those who are corrupt. If you kill too many, they will naturally be afraid. When When the costs of crime are greater than the benefits, they naturally know how to choose." Purficott looked indifferent, but his words were cold and without warmth.
Princess Anne gritted her teeth at this suggestion, but still shook her head and said: "The scope of what I can manage alone is limited. Even if I can ensure that the upper-level officials are not corrupt, what about the grassroots staff?
The empire has a large group of office workers. They are numerous and are responsible for doing practical things. It is impossible for me to monitor every one of them.
Little Purficott, you have a way to do it! Guarantee that they won’t be corrupt? You must have something, right?”
Princess Anne became excited as she spoke, and looked at Perfectcott with eyes full of expectation. In her opinion, the girl in front of her had never let her down.
Faced with Princess Anne's plea, Perfectcott sighed helplessly, put down his pen and said, "Auntie Anne, you really give people problems!"
"Who? You are the smartest person in the empire! Little Purficott, you must have a way, right?" Princess Anne also knew that she was forcing someone to make things difficult, but now this was a problem that had to be solved, so she had no choice but to make things difficult for Purfi. Kurt.
After all, it is better to embarrass her alone than to embarrass everyone in the empire together.
"My method goes against your consistent principles, Aunt Anne, and it is very immoral. Are you sure you want to listen to it, Aunt Anne?" Purficott looked at Princess Anne, but she didn't think so. It’s embarrassing, after all, in the history of the original world, countless people have already proven how to effectively prevent low-level corruption in this situation.
Princess Anne felt relieved when she heard that Purficott said there was a way. As for Purficott's suggestion that the method was immoral, she didn't care that much.
After all, she knows what the situation is right now, and she is grateful to God that there is a way to solve the problem. Whether she is immoral or not is not her primary concern now.
If being immoral can stop the current very bad corruption problem, then she doesn't mind giving up her morality.
"Just tell me, little Purficott. If you think your method is immoral and you are unwilling to do it, then leave it to me. I am ready to give up everything for the sake of the empire. " Princess Anne said righteously.
“That’s not the case, it’s just that it will be relatively difficult to accept.” Purficott shook his head, and then explained to Princess Anne: “There will be corruption because it is profitable. The grain used in the empire's disaster relief is specially allocated from the empire's material reserve warehouse. Generally speaking, it is the better grain sold on the market. After all, the empire has certain standards for purchasing and warehousing.
Even if there are problems such as mildew and rot, someone will clean and replace them in time every year. Even if there are some problems, they will not be too serious.
When these grains reach the hands of disaster relief officials or grassroots workers responsible for distributing grains, they can resell the grains. After all, it is good grains that will not be sold.
In the future, whether it is a shoddy trade or a direct burning of the position, the empty account can be filled. So the simplest way to solve this problem is to make everything unprofitable, without profit, and these people will naturally not engage in corruption.
As I said, when the costs of crime are greater than the benefits, people will naturally not commit crimes. ”
"I understand, what should we do?" Princess Anne looked at Purficott with burning eyes, waiting for her answer.
“It’s very simple, that is to change the relief food from the standard high-quality food in the empire’s warehouse to the low-quality food that is moldy, rotten, or mixed with stones and gravel.” Purficott said She came up with an idea that Princess Anne thought was wicked and smoky: "These inferior grains are originally grains that no one wants in the market. Usually only the poorest poor people will buy this grains or use this grains to make products." food, because they have no money to buy better food.
So this kind of food on the market cannot be sold. In many cases, grain merchants sell it directly to ranches for feed, or simply throw it away. Burn it.
As long as Auntie Anne changes the relief grain to this, those officials will not be able to sell it even if they resell it, and the problem will be solved.
But the moldy grain will be solved. No matter how much you eat, it will be harmful to your health, so it is better to mix it with sand. Mixing one-third of a bag of wheat with sand will not only allow more people to eat, but also make the food worthless."
"No wonder you said this method is immoral. It is indeed immoral." Princess Anne took a deep breath. She didn't expect that Perfectcott would give her such an idea. This had a somewhat big impact on her.
But after careful consideration, Princess Anne had to admit that this method could indeed ensure that the poor at the bottom could at least eat the relief food instead of being resold by those officials and clerks.
After thinking about this, Princess Anne took a deep breath and said to Purficott: "I understand, I will let someone deal with this matter."
< br> "Aunt Anne, do you really want to do this? In fact, you should ask the Duke of Gloucester to send someone to deal with it. As a representative of the royal family, you have a good reputation among the people. This is a very valuable asset. You should not Such a waste." At this time, Purficott suddenly dissuaded Princess Anne and suggested another more unethical approach that could maximize the benefits of this matter: "Auntie Anne, you can ask the Duke of Gloucester to recommend one. If a noble with dirty hands and feet goes out to do this, the other party will definitely embezzle part of the process to enrich himself.
And you can announce his corruption after he completes the thing. Crime, cutting people off will reap a wave of public support.
Now the people's hearts are very important to the empire. Aunt Anne, your image in the hearts of the people is very positive. This will be very useful for us to stabilize the people's hearts and call on the people to comply with the empire's decisions. So you'd better not waste your personal prestige. "
"Isn't this... too much..." Princess Anne was completely speechless by Purficott's suggestion. She did not expect that Purficott could actually do this.< br>
However, Purficott just waved his hand indifferently and continued to pick up the pen to review the documents: "This is nothing. Anyway, those nobles are really a burden to the empire, so it is better to let them use it. own role and make some contributions to the empire. ”
(End of this chapter)