Nowadays, when commerce and trade are not developed, the total population of Dantu County is only about 20,000.
There are no troops stationed in the county, so the more than 100 officers and soldiers are the highest armed force in the county.
Zhu Ying's three thousand black armor guards were all cavalry.
Facing a county like Dantu County, it can be described as a crushing existence.
This is why some peasant uprisings seemed to make it easy to attack a county. In less than a few days, they captured a certain county, which seemed very powerful.
However, once the sergeants of the guard arrived, the somewhat famous generals attacked these rebels as if they were chopping melons and vegetables.
This is the fundamental reason.
On the contrary, some large clans may only have a few thousand people, but if their folk customs are strong, they can fight with each other.
Among the Tiqi, a man with disheveled hair was escorted up.
"Your Highness, this person was riding in a carriage, acting suspiciously, and wanted to leave the county. We happened to meet him. After some questioning, he turned out to be Liu Bingyuan, the magistrate of Dantu County."
Liu Bingyuan was suppressed by two big, round-waisted sergeants. He had no strength to struggle, just like a little chicken.
When he heard that the young man in front of him was called His Highness, Liu Bingyuan immediately knew that he must have been in trouble.
While thinking about it, he knew that the person in front of him was the legendary His Highness Huangming Changsun.
The Usha above the head is gone.
After being released by the sergeant, Liu Bingyuan knelt down on the ground, bowed and said: "The guilty minister Liu Bingyuan, pays homage to His Highness the Grand Sun."
Zhu Ying was not surprised. He knew that he knew that Liu Bingyuan, who looked disheveled and looked very pitiful, did not feel any sympathy in his heart.
This kind of moth has killed countless people in the past and embezzled countless people's money and money. If he is executed directly, it will be considered an advantage for him.
"Since you call yourself a sinner, then write down the sins you have committed."
Zhu Ying said calmly.
Liu Bingyuan knew that he could not escape death, so he kowtowed and said: "I obey the order of His Majesty Taisun."
Then he took the pen and ink, opened the book and started writing.
After writing it, Song Zhong took it and prepared to hand it to His Highness Taisun.
Zhu Ying waved her hand and said: "You don't have to look at it. From the looks of it, you can see that you are somewhat sincere and repentant. Whether you are acting well or really, just push him out the door and behead him."
When Liu Bingyuan heard this, he quickly fell to the ground and bowed: "Thank you for your grace, Your Highness."
This was truly a blessing. Liu Bingyuan knew very well that the sins he had committed were beyond the scope of the execution of the Nine Tribes, and he would certainly not be able to escape by killing his entire family.
Immediate execution now can be said to be the best outcome.
In fact, Zhu Ying also knew that there was a large interest group behind Liu Bingyuan.
But he could no longer investigate further.
The group behind Liu Bingyuan can only be the Liu family clan. If a thorough investigation were to be carried out, thousands of people would be killed.
This is not to say that killing thousands of people is nothing to worry about.
It's just that there are too many situations like Liu Bingyuan's in the entire Ming Dynasty.
If we really clean the entire Ming Dynasty, it would be unrealistic at all.
To be honest, the county seat of Weisuo is even more exaggerated.
"Following the decree of His Highness Taisun, Liu Bingyuan, the magistrate of Dantu County, violated the laws of the Ming Dynasty, engaged in corruption and bribery, and took care of human lives. His crimes are extremely heinous and he should be executed immediately!"
As a scream rang out, Liu Bingyuan's head fell to the ground.
More than a hundred government officials just watched helplessly as the former magistrate lost his life.
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Things in Dantu County were quickly compiled into intelligence and sent to Zhu Yuanzhang.
Zhu Yuanzhang smiled happily when he saw how his eldest grandson cut through the mess in Dantu County and easily and neatly eliminated the magistrate.
However, Zhu Yuanzhang also realized a big problem regarding the situation in Dantu County.
After pondering for a while, he summoned Zhan Hui, the Minister of Civil Affairs, to discuss the matter.
Zhan Hui came to the Huagai Hall and kowtowed: "Meet your Majesty."
Zhu Yuanzhang was so angry that he threw the document in his hand directly to the ground and scolded: "Take a good look at what is being done here in the Ministry of Personnel. If you review officials in this way, our eldest grandson can just go to any place."
Such a mistake was made."
"Dantu County is only a short distance away. It is only a hundred miles away from the capital. It can be said to be at the foot of the imperial city."
"We have been cleaning up corrupt officials for so many years, but there is a mouse lurking under our feet. I don't know who gave him such protection. Is it you? Zhan Shangshu!"
Zhan Hui never imagined that as soon as he entered the door, he would be greeted by His Majesty's thunderous wrath.
But now I am being scolded for being confused. Apart from knowing that the problem occurs in Dantu County, I don’t know anything else.
There were over a thousand county towns in Jiangshan during the Ming Dynasty, but who could remember so many of them?
All I can do is pick up the booklet, glance at the ten lines, and browse quickly.
Just by seeing Liu Bingyuan's name, Zhan Hui knew what the problem was.
He remembered clearly that this man was appointed as the magistrate of Dantu County and it was he who personally recommended him.
Speaking of which, during the Chinese New Year this year, I even made a special trip to visit him.
Looking at the various crimes in the document, Zhan Hui kept kowtowing: "I know someone who is ignorant, please punish me."
Zhu Yuanzhang said impatiently: "Okay, get up. The reason we want you to come here this time is not to punish you, but to have a good discussion about how to manage these officials."
thing."
"We have been so strict in punishing corruption and bribery over the years, but there are still many people who go against the trend."
"Many of these people are our hand-picked Jinshi. No matter in terms of appearance or moral character, we feel that they should not be able to do these things."
"But unfortunately, after investigation, it was found that these people, in vain of our kindness, became greedy one by one, and became more and more hateful."
"In some places, three officials in a row were found guilty of corruption and executed. However, the fourth official here, regardless of the lessons learned from past mistakes, also wanted to be corrupt."
"It has been twenty-six years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, and we have been killing them for twenty-six years, but these guys give us the feeling that we can't stop killing them."
"Zhan Hui, tell us what these people think."
Zhu Yuanzhang's tone contained complaints, anger, unwillingness, and sighs.
In "Da Ming Code·Criminal Code", Zhu Yuanzhang has a special chapter on "Accepting Stolen Laws", with a total of eleven articles.
The following are "Officials Accepting Wealth", "It Is a Crime to Sitting on Stolen Money", "Accepting Wealth Afterwards", "Requesting Money from Borrowers for Business", and "Asking for Borrowers' Property in Officials", which provide extremely detailed regulations on the phenomenon of officials receiving money.
From the emperor's relatives to the landlords and wealthy businessmen, any offender must be punished in accordance with the law. A criminal must not be indulged for personal harm to the public, and money is never allowed to be used as atonement.
Those who deserve to be killed will be killed, and those who deserve punishment will be punished equally. After all the circumstances are investigated, both the briber and the bribe taker will be punished with the same crime.
Before Zhu Ying entered the palace, he used torture against corrupt officials and killed chickens to scare monkeys. This was also Zhu Yuanzhang's thunderous method.
As for punishments for punishing corrupt officials, corporal punishments include tattooing with ink, chopping off fingers, amputating hands, cutting off feet, and picking tendons, etc.
The death penalty includes clan execution, lingchi, owl's head, abandonment of the market, "peeling off the skin and making grass", etc.
It can really be said that Zhu Yuanzhang has been around him since the founding of the Ming Dynasty in the area of anti-corruption.
In order to increase anti-corruption efforts, Zhu Yuanzhang established supervisory agencies from the imperial court to local governments. Their strict organization and powerful power were unique in previous dynasties.
Zhu Yuanzhang of the Central Committee established the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the highest anti-corruption agency, integrating criminal, prosecutorial and legal functions.
Soon after, six departments were set up for Shizhong to specialize in correcting, impeaching and impeaching corrupt officials in the six departments.
At the local level, in addition to the supervisory censors sent by the imperial court, there were also supervisory departments in each province to take charge of supervisory duties.
Later, a "governor" system was established, in which the imperial court sent trusted ministers to various places to inspect local officials.
In the eighteenth year of Hongwu's reign, Zhu Yuanzhang promulgated the "Great Edict" to the whole country, which included a new provision: From now on, the chief minister, prefecture, prefecture, and county officials who are in office and unemployed officials.
If you dare to "manipulate litigation, instigate crimes, frame others, collude with the government, and endanger the state."
The local people are virtuous and upright, and the heroes can capture these people and kidnap them to the capital. If anyone dares to intercept them on the way, their heads will be displayed to the public.
Zhu Yuanzhang launched a vigorous and vigorous anti-corruption campaign. It lasted for a long time, the measures were strict, the methods were cruel, the punishments were cruel, and the number of killings was rare in the history of the dynasty for thousands of years.
Hearing this, Zhan Hui immediately replied: "From what I can see, these former students have bad character. After taking office as officials, they found it difficult to control themselves in the face of many temptations."
"That's why I wasted no time on Your Majesty's grace and did something that triggered the law."
Zhan Hui didn't dare to reply simply and immediately shut up.
Zhan Hui, who is well versed in the art of serving as an official, knows very well that in his current state, it can be said that he talks too much and makes many mistakes.
Moreover, he is the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel and controls the promotion, appointment and dismissal of officials all over the world.
If it weren't for Your Majesty's trust, I would have been ruined long ago.
Zhu Yuanzhang didn't care too much, but said to himself: "Our eldest grandson actually raised this issue with me once."
"It's just that we haven't paid too much attention to it all the time. After looking at the situation in Dantu County today, I later realized that what Da Sun said seems to be very reasonable."
Zhan Hui said at the right time: "I don't know what kind of clever plan His Highness Taisun has come up with."
Zhu Yuanzhang recalled it and said: "What Dasun means is that whether it is a local county or a prefecture, there is a big drawback, that is, the person in power, above the civil and military, almost belongs to
One person governs.”
"When you lose the control of others and have the power in your hands, too many things begin to become completely different."
"It's okay if you have a kind heart, but if you have evil thoughts, it will naturally be easier for you to collude with some landlords and businessmen, and collude with government officials and businessmen."
"If we want to completely stop the corruption trend, we must have people to check each other and act as enemies. It is best to divide them into three parties and use the three-legged power to divide the power in their hands."
"In this way, they will be afraid when breaking the law."
After listening to His Majesty's words, Zhan Hui felt vaguely touched.
What is different from others is that Zhan Hui is a cruel official, and because of some connections, he does not have clan cliques.
For example, recommending Liu Bingyuan, the magistrate of Dantu County, is because Liu Bingyuan is indeed talented.
It is precisely because of these reasons that Zhu Yuanzhang has always trusted him in terms of loyalty.
Zhan Hui's self-cultivation is very high. Apart from being a bit mean and a bit sinister, he is a good official.
The father of Zhan Hui, the Minister of Civil Affairs, was named Zhan Tong, and he served under Chen Youliang in the late Yuan Dynasty.
Later, Chen Youliang died, and Zhu Yuanzhang recruited him as Dr. Guozi, because there was a shortage of talents at that time, and Zhan Tong was a very talented person.
Zhu Yuanzhang appreciated his talents in writing, and he could also implement some of Zhu Yuanzhang's ideas very well. In many aspects, Zhu Yuanzhang was very satisfied, so Zhu Yuanzhang always valued him and took good care of him.
Even when he was old, Zhu Yuanzhang's care for him did not weaken.
Both father and son are ministers of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, just like the fourth and third princes of the Yuan family in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, which is astonishing.
In fact, Zhan Hui was monitored by Jin Yiwei for almost twelve hours.
Including those servants, servants, and maids, there are countless people who are secret agents of Jinyiwei.
Even one of Zhan Hui's side rooms might have some private contact with Jin Yiwei.
Mainly because of the position of Minister of Civil Affairs, the power in his hands is too important.
Throughout the dynasties, what the emperors were most worried about was the collusion among officials.
The Minister of Civil Affairs is the most likely to cause this situation.
The future of middle and low-level officials is almost entirely in the hands of the Ministry of Personnel. Once the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel has careful thoughts, the impact will be huge.
Zhan Hui has been the Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs for many years, and he knows the situation of some local officials by heart.
Hearing His Majesty mention His Majesty the Grand Sun's thoughts, Zhan Hui couldn't help but applaud in his heart.
"I heard what your Majesty said is actually a good medicine to cure corruption."
"I have seen too many students here step by step on the road of corruption. His Highness Taisun's words almost go to the core."
"It's just that we need to think more carefully about how to decentralize power here."
Zhu Yuanzhang nodded: "At present, we have some ideas. The Public Security Department founded by Da Sun is pursuing this method."
"Dasun is on patrol now, so he can also see whether this method is effective or not."
"If there is a Department of Public Security in a place where corruption is greatly reduced, then we can start implementing it."
"If the situation has not been reduced even after the intervention of the Public Security Department, then we have to look at where the source of this corruption comes from."
"In this way, you can write a charter first. There is no need to go too high. First, decide on the county seat."
"Re-divide the powers held by some officials in the county and specify them in detail."
Zhu Yuanzhang explained.
He wants to try to carry out a reform of the county officials.
Let’s see if the power of a county magistrate is divided and it really has the effect of curbing corruption.
Moreover, after this reform comes out, it can be tried in a large number of counties first.
If the effect is good, it will be promoted nationwide.