Just as the people of Great Li City were deeply grateful to their new ruler, the Great Xia Dynasty, and delighted by the series of policies it had introduced,
the enthronement ceremony of Emperor Xingyuan, the founding emperor of the Great Xia Dynasty, officially began in the Great Li Imperial Palace after many days of preparation.
Early that morning, the newly appointed officials entered the imperial palace one after another and gathered in the front hall.
Some of them were elders of Ghost Ridge Palace, while others had come from the former Great Li court.
Although corruption ran rampant among the many officials of the Great Li Dynasty, no matter the dynasty or era, there were always some officials who truly kept their sleeves clean and served as upright officials.
Or perhaps some officials had not been very greedy. They knew what they could take and what they could not, and even when they accepted bribes, they genuinely got things done instead of drawing a salary while doing nothing.
The Great Xia Dynasty did not kill all these officials with a single stroke. Instead, after assessing them, it made them surrender part of their ill-gotten gains before continuing to employ them.
After all, no one was perfect. There was no country or organization in the world that could completely eliminate corruption and embezzlement.
The extent to which such corruption was suppressed depended entirely on the dynasty's ability to enforce its laws.
The Great Li Dynasty had been completely unwilling and unable to govern such matters, whereas the newly born Great Xia Dynasty still retained the various brutal punishments inherited from its origins as a Devil Dao Sect.
As for serious offenders—for example, one person had embezzled the relief grain allocated by the Great Xia Dynasty for the people of Great