Let's say that Li Shimin stayed in Qingzhou for a day. Every time he went to a place, someone would follow him and report on him.
And he also put forward some suggestions on the construction of Qingzhou.
It can be said that this trip was more like an inspection.
The people of Qingzhou also welcomed Li Shimin's behavior very much.
This is a good thing.
Because although Qingzhou has developed quite well under the leadership of Xue Rengui and Li Lizhi.
Although there is also the blessing of Shengtang Group, some official facilities are still not complete.
These matters are not something that the Shengtang Group can do, they still have to be handled by Li Shimin.
But after Li Shimin arrived in Qingzhou this time, he discovered that there were so many problems.
When the local officials heard that he was coming, they followed him directly and gave Li Shimin the highest standard of treatment.
Li Shimin's suggestions were also condensed and spread to Chang'an.
He will give instructions after he returns.
This involves so many things.
Li Shimin found many problems, so it was not very enjoyable to play.
Many concubines were unhappy.
But what else could they say?
You can only express your dissatisfaction through behavior, and you dare not say a word if you are dissatisfied.
Everyone thought it was better not to play.
It's not as interesting as being in Chang'an City.
Because after coming out, the officials were the ones I saw the most, and their real time together was very short.
Finally, Li Shimin finally wanted to go back.
This trip made everyone very depressed, so Empress Changsun had to organize another trip, this time without the emperor.
Everyone agreed.
It is inconvenient to do anything with an emperor, so it is better not to have one.
As soon as Li Shimin returned to Chang'an, he also gave a lot of suggestions to the Shengtang Group. Some suggestions were given when he left, and some suggestions were given when he came back.
For this, Di Renjie expressed a lot of thanks.
On this day, Li Shimin was approving Qingzhou's report.
Dai Zhou came to the palace.
His expression is not very good.
"Your Majesty! I have something to report."
"Tell me, what's the matter?"
Li Shimin put down his pen and asked.
"According to investigations, when Dang Renhong was the governor of Guangzhou, he embezzled more than one million yuan. Now he has been detained. Please make your decision!"
Dai Zhou said so.
Speaking of Dang Renhong, he is considered a capable person.qqxδnew
When Li Yuan entered Guandong, Dang Renhong led more than 2,000 men to join Li Yuan in Puban and followed him to pacify the capital.
Soon after, the official paid homage to the governor of Shaanzhou.
When he was fighting against Wang Shichong, Dang Renhong was responsible for transferring food and wages. At this time, he did a good job.
Therefore, he was used by Li Yuan.
He successively served as the governor of Nanning Prefecture, Rong Prefecture and Guangzhou.
According to Li Shimin's reply, Renhong was a man of talent, knowledge and strategy, and had a reputation wherever he went. Li Shicheng thought highly of him.
Now that something like this happened, Li Shimin was quite shocked.
"In my opinion, Dang Renhong's character is very good. Why did he embezzle millions of dollars?"
Li Shimin was very puzzled.
This million is quite a lot. The money an official can get in his lifetime is only tens of thousands of taels, or even less.
But Dang Renhong embezzled millions.
"Your Majesty, I didn't believe it at first, but later a large amount of money and account books were found from his residence. He couldn't tell where the money was coming in and out. On these points, his guilt has been confirmed!"
Dai Zhou said again.
"Where is the case now?"
"Your Majesty, at Dali Temple, because Your Majesty went on a trip, Dali Temple has reported to Dali Temple five times, requesting that Dang Renhong be dealt with! He should be sentenced to death!"
Li Shimin valued Dang Renhong very much, and the Dali Temple reported it five times, which was to push Dang Renhong to death.
Who made him greedy?
Now there is no other option but the death penalty.
At this time, Li Shimin wanted to protect Renhong.
However, at this time, Li Shimin directly ordered officials of fifth rank and above to gather in front of Tai Chi Hall.
Hundreds of officials, big and small, didn't know what Li Shimin wanted to do this time.
Among the civil and military officials of the entire dynasty, probably only Dali Temple and Dai Zhou knew what Li Shimin wanted to do.
But at this time, Dang Renhong was escorted up by soldiers.
At this time, Dang Renhong had gray hair and his overall condition was very poor.
When Li Shimin saw him like this, he felt compassion.
The people from Dali Temple stood up again.
"Your Majesty, Dang Renhong embezzled millions of taels in a few years. All the money was stolen from the people. He enriched one person and suffered for thousands of people! He has dozens of houses and countless gold, silver and jewelry.
After all, a large number of mobile phones, computers and other items were confiscated from his home. He also connived at his subordinates to receive benefits, and his behavior of selling out his official position was clearly demonstrated here. I sincerely request your Majesty to directly impose the death penalty!"
At the same time, many officials also came forward to request that Dang Renhong be killed.
This made Li Shimin very sad.
Dang Renhong fell to his knees, trembling all over.
The ministers who killed Li Shimin were generally treasonous beings.
Like corrupt people, he killed less, and if there was no Dang Renhong at that time, the Tang Dynasty might not have existed.
Of course, that's only possible.
But having said that, Dang Renhong is still very important.
Therefore, Li Shimin said: "Dang Renhong has both merits and demerits! I can't bear to let him die, but I can't find a reason to give him a way out for a while. So I just want to change the law and ask all my beloved ministers to agree to save him from death."
At this time, people from Dali Temple came out again and said: "Your Majesty! The law is what the king has received from heaven. He cannot break his promise due to personal feelings. Now I am partial to Dang Renhong and want to pardon him. This is confusing the law and has a negative impact."
to heaven."
In this case, Dang Renhong must die.
But Li Shimin added: "I want to sit on a mat in the southern suburbs, eat vegetarian food only once a day, and spend three days apologizing to God."
However, Fang Xuanling advised: "The power of life and death is in the hands of the emperor alone, so why should he be so self-deprecating?"
Yes, there is no need to do that for a corrupt minister.
But Li Shimin said: "However, I also have three sins."
At this time, all civil and military officials in the court were shocked.
All emperors have three sins?
Could it be that Li Shimin also committed some serious crime?
"My dear friends, please listen to what I have to say!"
Li Shimin said again.
"Your Majesty, you are not guilty of any crime. The only ones guilty are greedy people."
"Yes, Your Majesty, stop blaming yourself. There is no need to do this for corrupt officials."
However, Li Shimin said: "I have three crimes. First, I cannot recognize people clearly. I know that some people are greedy but use them a lot, giving them more power to commit corruption. This is a crime!"
Second, confusing the law due to personal affairs is a second crime;
Third, being close to good people without rewarding them, and hating evil people without punishing them are the three sins."
"Therefore, I should apologize to God."
When Li Shimin said this, everyone fell silent.
"Dang Renhong is getting older. Death or immortality is only a matter of time. And I want to depose Dang Renhong as a civilian and exile him to Qinzhou. What do you think?"
When it comes to exile, it only temporarily saves lives, because more than 90% of criminals will die on the way to the place of exile.
And Dang Renhong is so old.
The probability of him dying on the road is more than 90%.
And at such an old age, what will he do for a living when he reaches his destination?
There is only one way to die. Even if you can survive, it will only be suffering.
Therefore, exile is tantamount to a capital offense.
This was how Li Shimin treated Li Chengqian at that time.
But luckily Li Chengqian survived and became the king.
This was something Li Shimin didn't expect.
But Dang Renhong is different. He is too old to be a king, and he has no physical strength.
Now he is sick all over his body.
Just give him a temporary life.
Unexpectedly, Dang Renhong was very ashamed and said at this time: "Your Majesty, please grant me death! I have lived enough. Moreover, I have committed a capital crime and cannot be forgiven."
If Dang Renhong wants to die, why won't Li Shimin let him die?
All the ministers also admired Dang Renhong. Most people couldn't get what they wanted to live. It is said that it is better to live than to die.
But Dang Renhong is different.
In this way, his performance is quite respectable.
Although he is a corrupt official.
Fang Xuanling said at this time: "Your Majesty, if you see that Dang Renhong wants to die, then give him a happy life."
Other officials then expressed the same views as Fang Xuanling.
But Li Shimin didn't take it seriously.
"I have decided, that is what I have decided, there is no reason to take it back."
In this way, Li Shimin does not want Dang Renhong to die now.
Perhaps, this is for everyone to see.
Maybe there is another reason.
"His Majesty!"
"Okay, here comes someone, pull Dang Renhong down and exile him immediately!" Li Shimin said immediately.
At this time, someone entered the palace and took Dang Renhong away.
Dang Renhong didn't want to resist anymore and allowed the guards to take him away.
However, when he left the hall, the guards turned back.
"Your Majesty, Dang Renhong has committed suicide by biting his tongue!"
As soon as the news came out, everyone was shocked and wondered what was going on.
However, this may be his most dignified life and death.
"Pull him down and hand him over to his family!"
Li Shimin also said that in this case, Li Shimin still had feelings. If it were someone else, they might just pull his body out and feed it to the dogs.
In fact, Li Shimin had this approach to dealing with corrupt officials a few years ago.
That is, how much money the corrupt officials have embezzled will be rewarded to the corrupt officials.
At that time, everyone still felt that Li Shimin's behavior was very abnormal. Why not punish him but reward him?
But what everyone doesn't know is that Li Shimin's purpose in doing this was to arouse the shame of these corrupt officials.
Because for a long time, Li Shimin would announce all the amounts embezzled by corrupt officials in front of all officials every time he went to court.
This is nothing more than embarrassing corrupt officials.
What he did even more brilliantly was to reward these corrupt officials with the same amount of money.
And let these corrupt officials move the rewards from the palace to their homes in person.
In this way, corrupt officials not only lose face in court, but also become even more embarrassed on the way home.
You will also receive comments from people on the road!
And because of this method, there were fewer and fewer corrupt officials in Li Shimin's dynasty.
However, it is a bit difficult for officials in the capital and officials far away from home.
For example, today's case involves officials in other places. Obviously, the mountains are high and the emperor is far away.
At this time, Li Shimin said: "Whoever dares to commit corruption in the future may not end up like Dang Renhong! Now that the Tang Dynasty has developed, and you officials' lives are better, why bother to commit corruption? If you really want to make money, Sheng
There is money to be made in the Tang Group. If you become an official, I think it is because you have a heart to govern, rather than just wanting to make a fortune!"
It is indeed the case.
Those who work as officials now don't make much money, but if you want to make money, you can go to Shengtang Group.
Now Datang can make money no matter what it does, and it will all make more money than being an official.
Since they have chosen to be officials, they should do it well. If they don't want to be officials, then go to the Shengtang Group and don't harm the court here.
All civil and military officials dared not speak.
Li Shimin also said: "It is my decree that from today to thirty days later, anyone who commits corruption will hand over the proceeds of corruption, and will be rewarded with one-tenth of the amount of corruption, and will never be held accountable again."
Li Shimin said this, is that considered a sacrifice move?
"Yes!" everyone said immediately.
Li Shimin, on the other hand, waved his hand to signal his retreat.
In the next few days, the imperial treasury received hundreds of millions of money, and there was a special person to register it.
In fact, these are Li Shimin's plans.
He has recorded all these corrupt people. If he is investigated again in the future and his property is higher than one-tenth of the amount of corruption, he will not spare the other party.
And there are some greedy people, he chooses to let them live, but if there is a next time, then these people will all die.
Li Shimin's actions caused a sensation.
Although the initial results are high, it cannot eliminate corruption.
Some corruption phenomena still exist, and you should ask Li Min at this time.
Let Li Min handle it, but how could Li Shimin ask him.
If you ask, let the minister do it.
Moreover, if such corruption occurs on such a large scale, doesn’t it prove Li Shimin’s negligence?
He won't accept this.
In this way, fifteen days passed.
On this day, Dai Zhou found Li Shimin with a thick booklet in his hand.
"Your Majesty, these are one billion taels of silver, and there is also a list of corrupt officials. Do you want to see it?"
Li Shimin took a look at the thick roster. He also wanted to see it, but after reading it, he might have other ideas about these officials.
So, he gave up.
"Don't read it anymore. Seal this list. Next time when we check for corruption, if anyone has the same name as above and the amount exceeds 10,000 taels, we will kill him directly!"
Li Shimin said this, and Dai Zhou understood.
"Yes, Your Majesty, I understand. I will go down first."
"Wait a minute, did you say that one billion taels is that much?" Li Shimin realized at this moment that Dai Zhou meant one billion taels.
"Yes, Your Majesty."
Li Shimin was shocked.
I didn’t expect that these people would have been greedy for so much money in the past few years without arrests.
"What's the use of that one billion taels? Dai Zhou, think about it carefully, you have to make money with this money."
Li Shimin's intention is obvious, that is, he wants to reinvest the money to generate more money.
"Yes, Your Majesty, this minister will go and screen it and then show it to Your Majesty?"
"No, you can invest directly. Remember, you can only invest in Shengtang Group, and no other investments are allowed!"