After Qin Hui completed the judicial process, it was already very late. He returned home, and Wang prepared a few glasses of wine for him.

Wang asked: "You look very tired today?"

"I have a lot of official duties these days, I believe you have heard about it."

Wang said: "The incident in Huaixi has caused a storm in the capital. This afternoon, some students from the Imperial Academy discussed the matter in front of Xiangguo Temple and said they should be severely punished."

"They're just a bunch of inexperienced boys."

"Why, aren't the officials busy with matters in Huaixi?"

"Yes, I have been busy all day, and your Majesty is in a hurry." After drinking, Qin Hui felt a little relaxed.

"how?"

Qin Hui glanced at Wang and said with a smile, "What do you think?"

Mrs. Wang understood immediately and said again: "Is there a worried look on the official's eyebrows?"

"Maybe there are too many official duties."

"Are the officials worried that the Huaixi case will offend too many people?"

"The Huaixi incident shocked the government and the public. It is not easy to deal with. If you want to kill people, many, many people may die. The crimes of those people all came from the Ministry of Punishment, and they all came from me." Qin Hui said with emotion.

Wang continued: "Guardian, please relax, this matter may be an opportunity for the official to rise to the top."

"how do I say this?"

"All Huaixi belongs to the old school. The rectification of Huaixi is a dispute between the new school and the old school. The officials use this to vigorously suppress the old school, which will inevitably make the new school happy. Grand Prime Minister, Zhang Shuye and others are now popular people around His Majesty. Not only do you want

To cater to His Majesty, you must also cater to their wishes. After all, their attitude is also very important to your future."

"But they may not always be able to gain His Majesty's trust, and the New Deal may not succeed." Qin Hui said worriedly, "If the New Deal fails, Zhao Ding will definitely step down."

Wang said: "You don't know something about this. Now some officials have begun to denounce, condemn, and criticize the Huaixi officials headed by Weng Yanguo."

"How does your beloved know?"

"The imperial students are just a microcosm. The new faction will not miss this opportunity to cleanse Huaixi. At least now, His Majesty firmly supports the new faction."

As Wang speculated, a considerable number of officials have now changed their minds and have begun to criticize officials in Huaixi for being corrupt, detrimental to personal ethics, treacherous and shameless, and unworthy of serving as ministers.

A few months ago, these officials sang praises to Weng Yanguo, praising him for being the one who dared to tell the truth after Su Shi.

It confirms what Zhao Ning said: When a person is in trouble, those who step on you are precisely those who once praised you.

Qin Hui thought for a while and said, "What you said makes sense."

"So, feel free to handle the Huaixi matter as much as you can. I have also told my brothers, and they will all support you."

Qin Hui held Wang's hand and said softly: "My beloved is my virtuous wife!"

Qin Hui is famous for his high efficiency, especially when trying cases.

Some people say that the Qin Hui trial is over before the real man is over.

After the judicial process is completed, the final judgment is submitted to Wende Palace.

This sentencing proposal undoubtedly gave New Deal officials a thumbs up to Qin Hui, thinking that he was a promising talent.

Zhao Ning also finished reading Qin Hui's trial, and he began to quickly review them one by one.

In Huaixi, Zhang Cheng, the prison chief, was accused of corruption, taking bribes, abusing his power to seize fertile land, stealing court property, neglecting his duties, and beheading him in public.

Zhou Cai, the prefect of Shouchun Prefecture, committed corruption and bribery, abused his power to seize farmland, stole court property, fished and fed the common people, and beheaded himself in public display.

Li Liwen, the magistrate of Shouzhou, was embezzled and bribed, abused his power to seize fertile land, stole court property, and beheaded in public.

There are also the Zhizhou of Haozhou, the Zhizhou of Luzhou, the Zhizhou of Guangzhou...

The treatment method is very simple: chop it all, chop it all!

This is a result that has been decided long ago.

As for the Prime Minister of Dongfu being recruited by Zhao Guan's family, it was not to discuss the method of execution, but to quickly arrange for replacement officials to be sent to Huaixi.

In the past few days, Mo Chou, the Minister of Civil Affairs, has been busy and submitted a large number of official lists to the Political Affairs Hall.

On March 20, the first batch of thirty-five officials were all sent to the execution ground outside the city.

The green grass outside the city was stained red with blood, and human heads were rolling on the ground.

The Tokyo Daily published the headline for several days.

The Huaixi case doesn’t stop there.

On the afternoon of March 20th, Wende Hall.

Zhao Ning once again summoned Zhao Ding, Xu Han, He Li, and Mo Chou, the Minister of Civil Affairs.

Zhao Ning said: "The total number of officials involved in Huaixi this time is 126, and half of the officials in Shouzhou are among them. How do you think this number of officials should be filled next?"

Xu Han said: "Of course we will make up the amount according to the original number of people."

"I feel that there is no need to fill in the original number according to the original number." Zhao Ding said, "I traveled through Huaixi the year before last and last year, and the number of officials is redundant. For example, there are five Shicao officers in Shouzhou."

"Last time I encountered a civil fight lawsuit in Shouzhou, and the lawsuit was brought to the government, but no one handled it for a month."

"It's all because there are too many military officials, who are passing the blame, and in the end no one is doing anything."

Zhao Ding spoke very carefully.

What he said was the norm in the Song Dynasty, and this is how the famous redundant officials came about.

Because there were too many officials in the Song Dynasty, many officials, regardless of their talents or not, once they became officials, they were arranged. They couldn't all sit idle in the capital, right?

There are even several prefectures and prefectures, and everyone is vying to be the first to lie down.

This has resulted in a further decline in work efficiency.

Zhao Ning invited them to discuss this matter just for this matter. He said: "I think what Mr. Zhao said is reasonable. The number of officials must be reasonably arranged. Every state prefecture has the prefect, prefect, county magistrate, and six Cao officials in the prefecture.

, county magistrate, and county captain, each can have one."

Before the Song Dynasty, these local official positions had several people in each official position, and most of them were in a state of retirement.

"The local government is governed by the magistrate, the prefecture, and the county magistrate, and the actions are done by the six officials in the prefecture."

The six cao of the state capital here correspond to the six cao of the central government, that is, the six ministries, which are the executive yamen.

For example, the engineer is responsible for recruiting and repairing local water conservancy, bridges, etc.

"In addition, each yamen will have an auditor, and an audit institute will be established in the political hall to oversee all audits."

In the Song Dynasty, there were originally audit yamen, such as the Gou Yuan, the Dumo Survey Department, the Ma Bujun Special Gou Department, and the Ping You Department all had audit functions.

But there are too many departments, and the financial audits are intertwined and confusing.

Later, when the Southern Song Dynasty was established, it was directly renamed the Audit Department and unified the Audit Department's handling.

This time, tax corruption and financial corruption in Huaixi actually reflected the collapse of auditing in the Song Dynasty.

"Your Majesty, do you want to set up additional audits in all roads?"

"Currently, Gyeonggi Road and Huaixi Road will be added, and the remaining roads are undecided for the time being."

The rest of the officials themselves are already bloated enough, and if the audit is left behind, the audit will soon be infected and stop working.

"By the way, Huaixi Road needs to streamline officials and add town supervisors. These town supervisors will all be selected from the new official school."

"I remember that there were some officials in the capital who were selected to attend the new official school, so I selected them from among them."

Since Huaixi needs to be rectified, in addition to purges, it is indispensable to reorganize the official structure.
Chapter completed!