Today, the Tang Empire's anti-corruption work mainly relies on the Supervisory Office. However, the Supervisory Office is not only responsible for the anti-corruption work of officials, but also supervises the entire group of officials. If officials are serious enough to commit corruption and rebellion,
Issues as small as life style all have the power and obligation to supervise.
In addition, the Inspectorate is also responsible for the prosecution of all public prosecution cases, especially criminal cases.
But there is another problem. Although the Inspectorate is independent of the cabinet ministries and is an independent rating unit with the Privy Council, the Naval Command and the cabinet, its funding and personnel arrangements have always come from the cabinet.
This also leads to the fact that the Inspectorate still has many connections with the cabinet, making it impossible to achieve true independence.
This is actually very detrimental to anti-corruption work.
When the appointments and promotions of censors are controlled by the Ministry of Civil Affairs, it is naturally difficult to avoid contact with ordinary officials.
Not to mention that funding issues also need to be allocated from the cabinet.
After Li Xuan carefully considered the current official system of the Tang Empire, he was ready to adjust the existing cabinet, supervisory office, court and other systems. He wanted to completely separate the judicial system from the administrative department and let the judicial system do the work.
to true independence.
And large-scale adjustments to major departments will naturally be very large. If it were replaced by other ordinary countries, regardless of whether it is a monarchy, a democracy, or a centralized democracy, I am afraid that it would have to go through many negotiations.
, can finally be determined.
But in the Tang Empire, there was no need for such trouble. Li Xuan could let his subordinate departments slowly discuss and deal with small matters, but any decision involving major matters was always made by Li Xuan with one word.
Of course, in order to avoid future problems that would damage the emperor's prestige, as before, Li Xuan would not come forward to mention it. Instead, ministers would propose reform plans, and then Li Xuan would approve it.
In this way, the thing is done, and the credit goes to the wise and great Holy Emperor Li Xuan. If things go wrong by accident, then the minister who proposed the plan will naturally be blamed, and the Holy Emperor Li Xuan was just deceived.
That’s all.
After deciding to adjust the judicial system and even the entire administrative system, Li Xuan quickly summoned many important ministers, including the censor of the Supervisory Council, the ministers of various cabinet ministries, the president of the Grand Court, etc.
Through one-on-one interviews, he revealed his thoughts to these ministers in a roundabout way!
Don't worry that the ministers won't understand this kind of roundabout talk. Officials who can become high-level officials in the empire are all talented people, and as important ministers of the empire, you will see Li Xuan every day, not just every day, but you will see Li Xuan every day.
Li Xuan naturally understood it quite well. Although Li Xuan's words were unclear and he did not express his opinions directly, most of these ministers had guessed what the Holy Emperor wanted to do.
Immediately, everyone went back and prepared to take action.
Why so decisive and quick?
Because they all know that as an official in the Tang Empire, there are many things that you cannot do, and the most important thing is not to go against the Holy Emperor Li Xuan!
I won’t talk about abilities for now, but obedience is a must.
Because it is impossible for those who are disobedient to be promoted by Li Xuan to serve as ministers of various ministries and other high-level positions, let alone enter the imperial study room.
Li Xuan was not interested in promoting a few thorns, and then playing against him every day, and then he had to pretend to be open-minded and accepting of teachings in order to maintain the dignity of the sage.
Li Xuan would kick him out as soon as he found out about the assassin!
If you want to oppose Li Xuan, there is no way, that is to rebel...
If someone rebels and leads an army into Jinling City that day, Li Xuan promises to be obedient!
The question is: can the rebellion succeed?
One word may not sound good, as it can easily lead the emperor to make wrong decisions, but for the emperor, even if he makes the wrong decision, it is better than having his ministers make the right decision on his behalf!
The key point is not whether the decision is right or not, but who makes the decision!
Li Xuan is undoubtedly a very qualified emperor, so when he promoted ministers over the years, don't expect to become a minister if you don't like him. At most, he will be a third-rank minister, and if he is higher, he will be a minister or minister.
As governor of a province, Li Xuan would rather give such an important position to an obedient pig than to a talented person with evil intentions.
Therefore, most of the senior officials of the Tang Empire are serious imperialists, and they always follow the opinions of the Holy Emperor Li Xuan. Of course, this does not mean that they are incompetent or have no independent opinions.
On the contrary, no one who can climb to this status is a simple person. Otherwise, he would have been killed in the fierce officialdom struggle. How could he climb up smoothly all the way, and finally enter the sight of the Holy Emperor and become
Senior officials such as ministers and ministers of various ministries.
Soon, a minister followed Li Xuan's suggestion and wrote a letter!
This excerpt is just an introduction. Naturally, it is impossible to talk about big issues such as official reform at the beginning. Those are the main events later, and it is not the time to show up yet.
This piece of information was used to impeach relevant officials from the Ministry of Industry and Jiangbei Province for abusing their power for personal gain, accepting bribes, and embezzling project funds in the Hongze Lake embankment.
On the surface, this accusation is just to impeach a few mid-level officials from the Ministry of Industry and a few middle- and low-level officials from Jiangbei Province, but everyone knows that this accusation has been directed at higher-level people, such as Jiangbei Province officials, and officials from the Ministry of Works.
Several department heads, even ministers, and even relevant officials from the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises were implicated.
As expected, as expected, within a few days, a large number of impeachment reports against relevant officials from Jiangbei Province, the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises, and even North Anhui Province and Henan Province flew into the palace like snowflakes.
These excerpts are just a prelude. In the future, senior officials in various places will definitely need to make excerpts to express their stance.
Because many middle- and high-level officials can see something unusual from this matter.
Official corruption, how rare this thing is, is that many corrupt officials have to be arrested every year. Last year, thousands of officials were killed at once. In the end, it affected the ministers and even the ministers who were forced to commit suicide.
However, such a big disturbance did not cause much turmoil. Although the officials were frightened by it, it did not cause a large-scale upward trend.
However, now, it is just a small corruption in Jiangbei Province, but it has caused large-scale corruption in Gyeonggi and the local area. If there is no deep meaning behind it, they will not believe it even if they are killed.
And they can also be very sure that there must be the tacit approval or even approval of the Holy Emperor behind this, otherwise it would be impossible to cause such a big disturbance.
And things turned out exactly as they expected!
At first, only middle and low-ranking officials submitted the petition, but after a few days, even the ministers of various ministries began to submit the petition. At this time, the reason why the officials submitted the petition was not only because of corruption in Jiangbei, but also spread to other areas.
The Supervisory Office's supervision is not good, and they say that the functions of the anti-corruption agency of the Supervisory Office and the anti-corruption agency of the Patrol Department overlap, etc.
At this moment, the Inspectorate was put on the fire, and the officials of the Inspectorate naturally began to defend themselves, saying that it was not our lack of supervision, but our shortage of manpower and funding. In this case,
How is it possible to supervise so many officials across the country?
At this time, the main point of this major debate was actually introduced, and the previous excerpts were all just introductions, which only led to the complete independence of the judiciary.
During the entire process, Li Xuan did not express a single opinion, and all the information about this matter was left unpublished.
Although the emperor's decision to remain silent has many meanings, sometimes it means acquiescence, sometimes it means opposition, sometimes it means not seeing it, and there are different opinions in different specific situations.
Ordinary middle and low-level officials are naturally unclear about the attitude of the Holy Emperor on this matter. They are not familiar with Li Xuan and do not know the inside story of this matter. Naturally, they cannot make accurate judgments, which also leads to various judgments.
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But most of the important ministers or the middle and low-level officials who had more contact with the Holy Emperor were able to judge what the Holy Emperor meant!
This time, the meaning of not saying anything is probably: you continue, I am listening!
Although Li Xuan had received hints from the Holy Emperor before, Li Xuan always met people alone, and what each minister said was naturally different, and these ministers naturally did not have the courage to communicate with each other.
What if I say a few words like: "Brother so-and-so, what did His Majesty say to you? Do you want to tell me a few words? Then we can plan and make a fortune?"
They dare to use other people's heads to guarantee that these words will be relayed to the Holy Emperor by Hantong Eagle Dog intact that night!
They didn’t even need Hantong Yingquan to tell them, they would go to the palace to face the Holy Spirit that day, saying that so-and-so had evil intentions and wanted to follow the minister’s lips!
For a centralized monarchy, it is very taboo for ministers to connect in private. If the connection involves the Holy Emperor, it will basically lead to a long life.
If someone with evil intentions is slapped down, let alone beheading, the whole family will not be able to survive!
This also led to the fact that although many senior officials had hints from the Holy Emperor, the problem was that Li Xuan actually said different things to everyone, not even the same thing.
Therefore, many senior officials do not know what other colleagues will do!
As the matter developed, it became more and more complicated, even to the point where many senior officials who knew some of the inside story couldn't understand why the matter suddenly evolved into what it is now.
And most importantly, what does the Holy Emperor want to do?