Only half a year after this person succeeded Ji Lingda as a Taoist member of Jiangbei Province, he was impeached for major corruption issues and was connected to the Hongze Lake expansion project corruption case.
Although no compulsory measures have been taken yet, he was actually ordered to return to Beijing to report on his duties. However, after returning to Beijing, the Holy Emperor never summoned him, but left him in an official inn, well, under house arrest.
That kind!
Nowadays, the Supervisory Office sends special teams to Jiangbei in order to better collect detailed evidence of Xie Guanglin's crimes. Then, with the cooperation of the local Supervisory Office, it continues to clean up Jiangbei officialdom. The local corruption is too serious. Last year,
It happened once, and it happened again this year. The Ministry of Civil Affairs has suspended promotions and transfers of officials currently serving in Jiangbei and those who have served in Jiangbei.
In addition, the task force has another task, which is to clear out the local Supervisory Office agency!
Since large-scale corruption has occurred twice in a row in Jiangbei's local administrative agencies, if there is no problem with the Supervisory Office, few people will believe it.
The task force of the task force is only in Jiangbei Road, but in Li Xuan's view, Jiangbei is nothing more than an introduction!
This time, Li Xuan plans to kill at least twenty or thirty high-ranking officials from the third rank or above. As for who they are, it depends on the situation!
This depends on the situation, not who is guilty, but who is more suitable to kill.
Because Li Xuan had long known from Hantong's report that every official in the empire was a third-rank official or above, and a military general above major general, no matter whether it was Liu Bagou, the chief minister of the cabinet, or Hao Bainian, the army general!
Are they all corrupt officials?
The only difference lies in the method and amount of corruption!
Among them, Liu Bagou's situation is relatively good. According to Hantong's report, this person has not directly received bribes, nor has he ever asked for bribes. He only occasionally provided some convenience for his family's business due to his political status, and the benefits he received were also small.
Not too big.
Considering Liu Bagou's political status and the fact that he took advantage of his position to provide some convenience for his family's business and obtain some business benefits, it can be said that he is already very clean.
This is also the reason why Li Xuan has always pretended that he had not seen such a thing and continued to reuse Liu Bagou.
For others, the situation is generally much more serious. For example, Qian Zuili, the Minister of Taxation, although his ability in all aspects of work is very good, he often accuses Li Xuan of taking the blame, but his methods of amassing money are also unusual, through
The tribesmen have gained a lot of economic benefits from doing business.
However, considering that Qian Zuili has taken a lot of blame for Li Xuan over the years, and the tax department under his leadership has become more and more efficient, Li Xuan still values him more, and more importantly, he has not directly accepted
Bribery, like Liu Bagou's, is to do business directly through the tribe, and provide some conveniences under certain circumstances to make a profit, but the amount of profit is relatively large.
Most of the high-ranking officials of the empire, especially the core high-ranking officials above the second rank, are actually like Liu. They are relatively politically sensitive in high positions. They usually do not accept bribes directly, nor do they allow their family members to accept bribes indirectly.
Bribery, they usually let family members do business and occasionally provide some conveniences.
Well, in fact, even if they themselves do not take the initiative to provide convenience, when the clan members of these executives are doing business outside, with their backs against the big trees, everyone will give them face. In many cases, they just open a leather company, and they have a
A lot of people lined up to deliver orders!
This method is relatively obscure, and the political impact is not so bad. For many years, Li Xuan has turned a blind eye. After all, these people are old officials who have followed him to conquer the country.
Now that the country has been conquered and they are powerful, they naturally want material enjoyment. Even though their salary is not small, their clan members have become more and more numerous in recent years, and their ostentation has become bigger and bigger.
However, the salary is already difficult for them to maintain a decent life for a large family. Li Xuan will not delve too deeply into this matter by subsidizing their lives through business.
Of course, if they are handled strictly in accordance with the law, they can all be pulled out and shot, because their actions are very obvious taking advantage of their positions for personal gain, and this is expressly prohibited by imperial law.
But if they are all killed, Li Xuan will be the only emperor left in the huge Tang Empire!
In addition, most people are relatively restrained and know how to take it easy.
Of course, there are a few people who have gone too far, and Li Xuan has already listed the names of these people, allowing Hantong to collect more evidence. By then, these second-grade senior officials will be
Li Xuan was going to pull out the chickens to scare the monkeys.
Relatively speaking, in fact, the corruption situation among second-grade senior officials is not too serious. The most serious corruption among senior officials occurs at the two levels of third-grade and third-grade officials and below, and is widely concentrated in
On older officials.
Because these middle and high-level officials have real power, and many of them are local officials. In the capital, a third-grade official is nothing at all, but if it is in the local area, then it is a Taoist priest or the chief envoy of each province.
Such a high-ranking official, with great real power.
According to the current situation that Li Xuan has learned, the most serious corruption cases usually occur in deputies, such as provincial envoys and inspectors, as well as magistrates and county magistrates in prefectures and counties.
In addition, another major characteristic is that it appears in older officials!
Li Xuan read many secret reports from Hantong and found that most officials' corruption occurred when they were over forty years old and reached a peak around fifty years old.
There are a lot of reasons for this. Part of it is that after people reach middle age, family life is under great pressure, and these officials often have a big family to support.
Another important reason is that the possibility of these older officials to continue to be promoted is very small, and the official career of many officials has basically come to an end.
Because the Tang Empire has a clear age limit for serving as an official, that is, those from the second rank and above are sixty-five years old, and those from the second rank below are sixty years old.
However, in the Tang Dynasty, there was usually a rule for the promotion of officials, that is, after serving for three years, they could be promoted only if they received excellent evaluation results. Of course, this rule only applied to ordinary officials, while officials listed as key training by the Ministry of Personnel
There will be another separate training process.
At present, according to the latest imperial examination and official system, the grades of new scholars and doctors are already very low.
If you take the Jinling Examination, the first-level scholars, doctors, bachelors, and legal scholars in each subject will be awarded the eighth rank, the second-level students will be awarded the eighth rank, and the third-level students will be awarded the ninth rank. However, the number of admissions is relatively small, and only three people will be awarded the first-level in each subject.
There are only seven people in the second class, and there are only more than a hundred people in the third class.
If you take the provincial examinations, the first-level students will be awarded the eighth rank, the second-level students will be awarded the ninth rank, and the third-level students will be awarded the ninth rank. The number of first-level students and second-level students in each province will be equivalent to the number of Jinling General Examinations, and the number of third-level students will be the same.
It is adjusted according to the actual situation, ranging from more than a hundred people to hundreds of people.
With so many scholars participating in the imperial examination every year, there are only a dozen or so people from the fourth grade who can enter the official position with the eighth rank, only a few dozen people who can enter the official position with the eighth rank, and only two or three hundred people who can enter the official position with the ninth rank.
The rest all entered the official ranks from the ninth rank.
This also means that if an ordinary official starts from the ninth rank and follows the normal path, even if it is very smooth, he will not have the chance to become a second rank minister after being promoted to the second rank in three years.
Senior officials in the empire are often selected according to the key training lists formulated by the Ministry of Civil Affairs. The local civil affairs department is responsible for the key training of officials of the fifth grade, while the central Ministry of Civil Affairs is responsible for the training of officials of the fourth grade and above. As for officials of the third grade,
, basically you need to be on Li Xuan’s training list to have any hope.
As for those officials who are on the training list, they often gain rapid promotion through frequent transfers and accumulate more work experience, or they may hold important positions and perform exceptionally well, instead of following the traditional three-year tenure.
Examples of promotions.
The most typical example of this is Chen Lifu. As a key talent for training under His Majesty, he has held important positions all the way. Although he has not been promoted in recent years, everyone has
You know, even Chen Lifu himself knows that the superiors deliberately let him serve as the county magistrate in Shanghai. This training is also an investigation.
Once you satisfy your superiors, you will quickly move up the ranks once your term expires.
Otherwise, why is Chen Lifu working so hard to build the North Coast Industrial Zone? Does he expect to make money from any big projects? All this is for political achievements.
However, there are still relatively few officials like Chen Lifu who are valued by their superiors. In fact, most officials have to work hard, and most of the hard work is of no use.
Especially for many officials who are around fifty years old, their official career is usually almost over. At most, they can move up one level. Moreover, this kind of promotion is often assigned to idle positions. To put it bluntly, it is for them to become officials.
Retirement in the past few years.
Under such circumstances, they would often unscrupulously start to make huge profits, taking advantage of their positions to allow their tribesmen to make profits in business. This is all childish, and there are not a few who directly ask for money.
And these people are also the targets that Li Xuan plans to attack this time!
On the one hand, the number of these people is relatively large, and their grades are relatively high. A large number of third-grade and fourth-grade people can be caught. They are high-grade and have a great influence. The effect of killing chickens to scare monkeys is also relatively good.
In addition, these people are relatively old and have almost been arranged to provide for old age. Removing them in advance can just make room for the young people below, and it will not affect the operation of the empire's official institutions.
Then these people generally made a lot of money, confiscated their properties, and replenished the empire's huge financial losses due to a flood and the huge infrastructure construction in the next few years.
Faced with the situation where all officials are corrupt, Li Xuan carefully considered which corrupt officials he should attack. He definitely did not mean to arrest corrupt officials when he saw them, but to consider from many aspects!
To have a good deterrent effect, it can avoid instability in the empire, and it can also bring other benefits!
Corrupt officials and people who meet the above three conditions are the targets that Li Xuan will focus on this time! d