Hantong has existed for many years, but the outside world doesn't know much about Hantong, because Hantong's business is quite special. One of the counter-espionages has nothing to do with ordinary people, and it doesn't engage in white terror.
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Its main business is to monitor, prevent, and combat civil strife. Specifically, it is those rebels and ministers who rebel. But now that the Tang Dynasty is at its peak, there are almost no internal rebellions. At most, there are some armed tax resistance and small and medium-sized rebellions.
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Therefore, many people actually do not know that such an organization exists.
Even among the officials, they actually didn’t know much about Han Tong, and they didn’t have deep feelings about it.
They knew that Hantong's hawks and dogs were most likely ambushing around them, but Hantong only investigated and took no action.
Over the years since its establishment, it has rarely been involved in any cases, let alone carried out large-scale arrests.
Therefore, over time, they have become accustomed to Hantong's existence and do not think it will pose any threat to them.
Compared with Hantong, the Inspectorate was the biggest enemy of the officials, because the Inspectorate was the agency in the Tang Empire that specialized in investigating officials, and anti-corruption was one of the most important tasks of this agency.
However, now, Hantong bared his fangs and arrested thousands of officials at once, including many high-ranking officials from the third rank and above, and even ministers from the second rank.
Moreover, in these arrests, Hantong often arrested people directly and handed them over directly to the Inspectorate, and produced extremely detailed evidence. This made many officials wonder how they found such people in such a short time.
Much evidence?
They didn't know that Hantong didn't look for evidence in a short time at all. They just went to the archives room to dig out the files of relevant officials, and then arrested people directly according to the above investigation report.
Otherwise, there would be no such high efficiency.
Hantong's large-scale actions made the imperial officialdom panic for a while. Many people said that Hantong was more hateful than the Jinyiwei and Dongxichang of the previous Ming Dynasty, and was a cancer of the Tang Empire. Many people were stunned.
Qing even went so far as to impeach the Investigation and Statistics Department of the Hanlin Academy for violating laws and disciplines and harming Zhongliang. In order to avoid becoming a former Ming Dynasty guard, he demanded that the Investigation and Statistics Department of the Hanlin Academy be immediately abolished.
Although Li Xuan asked Han Tong to stop his actions, Li Xuan showed no mercy in the face of these officials who were impeaching Han Tong. He directly handed over the relevant list to Han Tong and asked them to investigate one by one and then arrest them.
Still killing Zhongliang?
As long as one of the arrested officials was innocent and wanted, Li Xuan would dare to give up the throne and die on the tofu!
In this case, the person who said this either had something wrong with him or he wanted to imitate the civil servants of the previous Ming Dynasty and planned to engage in partisanship, and Li Xuan would not allow any of these.
Hantong's actions were carried out only after obtaining Li Xuan's authorization.
Hantong put it bluntly, it was a knife in Li Xuan's hand, and it would catch whomever Li Xuan asked him to catch.
Now these people want Li Xuan to destroy his knife, and they are so cruel!
Hantong received the list and began arresting people again.
The method used to catch corrupt officials is exactly the same as before. They directly dig out the official's files, then arrest people directly based on the above investigation report, and then throw the people and evidence directly to the Inspectorate.
To a certain extent, the role played by Hantong today is a bit similar to that of the patrol police. They investigate, arrest, and then transfer the case to the Inspectorate for prosecution.
However, Hantong's investigations were conducted secretly and were not as open as the patrol police.
Of course, this was just Han Tong's superficial approach. In fact, Han Tong's power was greater than outsiders imagined.
Hantong is an intelligence agency that reports directly to Li Xuan. Since it is an intelligence agency, it will have some special powers, and these powers are contrary to many laws of the Tang Dynasty today.
To a certain extent, many of the things Hantong did were illegal.
However, Hantong directly obeyed the orders of Emperor Li Xuan of the Tang Dynasty, and in the Tang Empire, a highly centralized monarchy, Li Xuan's words were actually law, so to a certain extent, what Hantong did was also
Not illegal.
But no matter what, this time Hantong's huge energy was completely exposed to all officials, causing many officials to panic.
However, this incident also brought another benefit, that is, the Central Committee of the Tang Dynasty held high the banner of combating corruption and won widespread support from the people.
Why support?
Of course, the contribution of the Reporting Department is indispensable here!
In the past two or three months, the North Korea Press Department has focused on guiding public opinion. In the early stage, it was flood control, in the mid-term, it was disaster relief, and in the later stage, now, it has begun to guide public opinion on the central government's crackdown on official corruption.
No matter what era people are from, they all like to see someone stand up and kill all those corrupt officials.
It’s just that in the past dynasties, there was no newspaper like the Tang Dynasty newspaper that directly faced the whole country and everyone. Therefore, public opinion was mainly controlled by scholars. At the same time, in the traditional feudal dynasty, the imperial power did not go to the countryside, and the vast countryside was
Adopt gentry autonomy.
But it was different in the Datang Empire. The Datang Empire completely extended the reach of imperial power to rural areas by establishing administrative agencies at the town level and village level across the country. At the same time, in order to ensure that local governance rights were not
It is monopolized by scholars, so many officials in towns and villages are retired soldiers.
In particular, the police chiefs who control a lot of actual power in each village are served by retired military personnel. These police chiefs are basically also captains of the local militia.
In the past, the opinions of a few scholars could directly affect public opinion in a region. This was impossible in the Tang Dynasty.
The Tang Dynasty Daily is published nationwide, and basically everyone can freely subscribe to it. It also provides public postings. Various policies are written in black and white, and those who read can't talk nonsense.
Under the guidance of the public opinion in the Tang Dynasty newspaper, this time the external public opinion was mainly biased towards the central government, especially the greatness of the Holy Emperor, and they criticized the misdeeds of these corrupt officials, causing public outrage.
At this time, anyone who dares to overturn their verdict will need to face public outrage.
Therefore, although officials may have some opinions on this campaign against corrupt officials, in the hearts of the people, the Holy Emperor Li Xuan has done another great thing.
Floods and officialdom, these two things lasted almost throughout the entire summer of the 15th year of Xuanping in the Tang Dynasty, and the turmoil was not initially over until September, and by this time, several high-ranking officials were overthrown.
The downfall of these high-ranking officials does not mean that they are corrupt or anything like that. If we really want to talk about corruption, all the officials above the third rank of the Tang Empire will be shot one by one without being wrongly accused.
Their downfall was more due to being too stupid and exposing too many clues. They happened to be caught in the foot by the Inspectorate, and then the censors from the Inspectorate who wanted to get promoted and make money just bit them.
They persisted, and in the end it was the Holy Emperor who pushed them along, leading to their official downfall.
In Jinling City, the palace courtyard, Li Xuan looked at Zhou Yibao with an expressionless face!
Zhou Yibao, who was kneeling on the ground, looked at the expressionless Li Xuan above, and couldn't help but lament in his heart: Accompanying a king is like accompanying a tiger!
I, who had followed Emperor Sheng to conquer the world since the days of Huang Zhushan, was now about to be abandoned without hesitation!
However, he does not blame the Holy Emperor. In the past ten years, the Holy Emperor has given himself enough trust and power. He has been the Minister of the Ministry of Industry, the Minister of the Imperial Study, and the Viscount of the Empire. This kind of treatment cannot be said to be inadequate.
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What he blamed was the wives and concubines at home and the relatives around him!
If they weren't greedy, how could they have caused so much trouble for themselves!
Damn, you dare to make money from anything. It’s okay to make other money on weekdays, but now you have reached out to disaster relief funds. Not only that, but you even dare to reach out to military expenses. Isn’t this looking for death!
If he had known that they were so bold, he would have killed them with a knife first. If the wives and concubines were gone, they could be remarried, and even if the children were gone, they could be reborn, but the official title or even the title would not be preserved. What is the use of all this?
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At this moment, he closed his eyes slightly!
Flashbacks flashed through his mind that year, when the Tang Dynasty King's Army entered the city of Zhengtai County, but was blocked by Su Jiakang's puppet Ming army. It was he who went to the puppet Ming army camp alone that night to negotiate with Su Jiakang in order to massacre the city.
The threat forced the puppet Ming rebels to open a gap, so that the Holy Emperor and hundreds of troops could successfully escape from the city.
How high-spirited I was at that time!
He broke into the enemy camp alone and gained quite a reputation!
Later, relying on this meritorious service, he gradually established a firm foothold in the Tang Dynasty. When Wang Shi went south to Guangdong and Guangxi, he served as the magistrate of Huizhou Prefecture, and was later promoted to the inspector. Then Wang Shi entered the south of the Yangtze River and established the capital.
After Jinling, he was transferred back to Gyeonggi Province and served as director of the Water Conservancy Department of the Ministry of Industry. He was later promoted to the right minister of the Ministry of Industry, and then transferred to Hunan Province as governor.
A few years later, he was transferred back to Gyeonggi Province and served as the left minister of the Ministry of Agriculture.
In the twelfth year of Xuanping's reign, he served as Minister of the Ministry of Industry and Minister of the Imperial Study Room to this day.
He can be regarded as one of the few officials who was born in the Huang Zhushan era but is still active in high-level political circles. There are more than ten ministers in the cabinet. Among the officials who have been in high positions since the Huang Zhushan era, in fact, only Liu Bagou is left.
There was only one person, the others were eliminated by the waves.
Even Wang Wenhua and Qian Mengjiu, two of the three major civil servants in the early Tang Dynasty, have already retired from politics one after another.
What's more important is that these two people died a good death and still enjoyed their titles and even their fame after becoming officials.