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"Three years to clear the magistrate, a hundred thousand snowflakes and silver" is a kind of sarcasm to ancient corrupt officials. There are many explanations for this sentence.
1, one explanation is that the first official wanted to be an honest official at first, but after three years in the Qing Dynasty, because of the assimilation of official corruption, it was really unbearable, and they began to make big profits.
I think this explanation of being an "honest official" while making money is quite desirable. More people do this. Such corrupt officials make big reports during the day, give instructions to subordinates, or make long speeches at meetings, perform "caring for the masses" at the grassroots level, and even write inscriptions for primary schools, factories, shops and troops. Of course, they will always be "anti-corruption" and "clean".
3,100,000 silver seems to make the eyes of small corrupt officials shine and their mouths water.
4, only when the "magistrate for three years", only "one hundred thousand silver", exposed, was "click".
Baidu Encyclopedia: The Qing Dynasty magistrate for three years, 100,000 snowflakes and silver.