The common folk of Great Ming were tolerant as well; it was not that they couldn't tolerate corrupt officials; they simply couldn't bear those who were "inept at governance yet skilled at embezzlement."
To put it bluntly, as long as you let the common folk live their lives without committing outrageously immoral acts, no one cared how much you embezzled.
In such an environment, the downfall of most corrupt officials was not due to corruption, but rather to their "backside issues"; "corruption" was just a freely assigned charge.
Yun Shili was one who had the power to assign this type of charge.
If he truly wanted to deal with you, he would casually chat with you, then pick out a few problematic statements from your words, jot them down in his "notebook," and send you off to the imperial prison... then would you still have a way out? Not only would you have no way out, but your entire family would be doomed, and all your property would be confiscated.
