Chapter 394: Annihilate the Supervisory Department!
Ye Mingsheng will give you money to complete the task, but the premise is that you can give him satisfactory work results. If you fail to meet his expectations, you will be in danger...

In order to give Ye Mingsheng a satisfactory report card, Huo San and Wang Xuecheng have been working hard during this period, using all their connections and personal relationships to try to dig out the hidden members of the Supervisory Department. Thanks to their efforts, they have captured 237 hidden spies in the past month, including two thousand-householders and five centurions of the Supervisory Department.

Officials related to the Supervisory Department, profiteers who provided benefits to the Supervisory Department, and landlords totaling 109 people were uncovered.
In addition, seven warehouses of the Supervisory Office were seized, and valuables including 100,000 taels of silver, 300 taels of gold, and countless collectibles, calligraphy and paintings, and land deeds were confiscated. This dealt the Liaoyang Supervisory Office the most severe blow since its establishment in Liaoyang.

After learning about these situations, Ye Mingsheng couldn't help but sigh. The Supervisory Department had great power in Liaoyang. This undoubtedly strengthened his determination to clear out the remaining poison of the Supervisory Department...
The existence of the Liaoyang Supervisory Office has been devouring the people's money all the time and has become a cancer in Liaoyang's political environment, oppressing and killing loyal people. Ye Mingsheng will never tolerate such a thing and is determined to eradicate it!
While carrying out an overall crackdown on the Supervisory Department, under the order of Ye Mingsheng, the Coordination Office also specially organized forces to collect intelligence and prepare for a surgical precision decapitation operation against the Supervisory Department - to kill Shen Jianzhong!

However, Shen Jianzhong's whereabouts are mysterious. Huo San and Wang Xuecheng tried to locate him and get rid of him several times, but they all failed. They only know that Shen Jianzhong is still in Liaoyang.
As the largest spy agency in the Great Zhou Dynasty, the Supervisory Office is naturally no pushover. After being hit so hard by the Coordination Office, they are also organizing forces to fight back. However, because they have gone underground, their working method has changed from arresting you and putting you in prison to executing you to assassination and poisoning.
Perhaps after repeated assassination attempts against Ye Mingsheng failed, the Supervisory Office was still organizing and planning assassinations against Ye Mingsheng, but the scale and frequency were reduced. They used the saved manpower and resources to target other officials under the Fengzhou Army.

Although the Coordination Office had thwarted several conspiracies of the Supervisory Office, they were limited in staff and had to concentrate most of their manpower on investigating and raiding the Supervisory Office according to Ye Mingsheng's orders. Most officials did not have as tight security as Ye Mingsheng, so some of them slipped through the net and took advantage of the situation, killing several military officers and civil officials.

Even Huo San, the current director of the Coordination Office, was intercepted and killed by people organized by the Supervisory Department while he was on a business trip a few days ago. Fortunately, Huo San had strong guards around him and Huo San himself was good at martial arts, so he was able to escape the disaster...

Although the Supervisory Office is still resisting stubbornly and unwilling to accept their destined fate, Ye Mingsheng is very clear that as long as he can stay in Liaoyang, appease the people, and gain the support and backing of people from all walks of life in Liaoyang, then the seemingly crazy counterattack of the Supervisory Office now is nothing more than a dying struggle, and they will not be able to hold on for long.

After returning safely to the Ye Mansion and having breakfast with Ye Cui and An Miaoyi, Ye Mingsheng devoted his energy to work again.

He is a man who plans before he acts, and likes to take action after having a complete plan, especially when dealing with those aristocratic families that have been passed down for hundreds or even thousands of years. A single policy is unlikely to pose a fundamental blow to them. If he wants to make them surrender and solve the problem of the aristocratic families in feudal society, he has to launch a combination of policies, starting from land, economy, education and many other areas.

This requires Ye Mingsheng to adapt to local conditions, use the experience of past dynasties in his memory, and give the best solution based on the current special environment.

Just as Ye Mingsheng was writing furiously on paper, writing down the policy he had prepared, there was another knock on the door of his study.

Although he did not look up to see who it was, but relying on his experience and understanding of the knocking sound, Ye Mingsheng knew that the person knocking on the door was his secretary Qi Dechao...
"What happened?" Ye Mingsheng asked while writing his own education policy. In response to Ye Mingsheng's question, Qi Dechao reported:
"My lord, the emperor's envoy Gao Chen has already passed Xiao'anpo an incense stick ago, and he will enter the city in one hour!"

Hearing this news, Ye Mingsheng finally came back to his senses from writing the policy. After thinking for a while, he asked Qi Dechao:

"I remember you told me before, whose brother-in-law this Gao Chen is?"

Qi Dechao heard this and introduced:
"Reporting to the lord, this Lord Gao Chen is the second master of the Xichuan Marquis Gao family. His elder sister, Gao, is the legal wife of the Minister of Revenue Murong Lun, and is also the elder sister-in-law of our Lord Murong Yuliang."

Ye Mingsheng was somewhat emotional about Qi Dechao's introduction. Nowadays, the class stratification in the Great Zhou Dynasty was very serious. The upward channels for the children of poor people without connections were basically blocked...

In order to ensure that their privileges can continue and be passed down for thousands of generations, privileged classes such as noble families all marry within their class. This results in many children of noble families being related by blood or marriage if you count their ancestors carefully.

Such class solidification is naturally a good thing for the privileged class of noble families, but it is not a good thing for the country. The country's development and progress will be slowed down, or even regressed.
When the ceiling for children from poor families to rise becomes lower and lower, there will be more and more talented people who are not appreciated for their talents and have unfulfilled ambitions. Class contradictions will naturally become more and more acute. Just a spark is enough to start a prairie fire!

If we cannot ease this pressure through institutional reform and allow children from poor families the opportunity to succeed, then uprisings, rebellions and rebellions will naturally arise. This is a historical inevitability and no one can change it!

Today, the three hundred year old Zhou dynasty is in such a precarious and critical situation, largely because the rulers of the dynasty failed to properly handle the privileged class, which brought about social problems and class contradictions, making the situation irreversible...

(End of this chapter)