Zeisi Qi's internal rectification work within the Anti-Corruption Bureau soon bore fruit.
He did not set off three fires as a new official as many people imagined. He only set off one fire. For a mature politician, the emphasis is on killing the enemy with one blow and setting off only one fire. Super
The fierce fire will burn all the enemies to death. As for the burning of one fire after another, not only will it not kill anyone, but it will also cause greater trouble.
Before Cai Siqi took charge of the rectification work, he specifically asked to see Li Xuan and asked the Holy Emperor to guide the work.
The word "guidance" in the officialdom of the Tang Dynasty actually meant asking for help.
Li Xuan gave him a direct answer, saying that he would support Cai Siqi's rectification work in the Anti-Corruption Bureau and ask Hantong to cooperate.
How does Hantong cooperate?
Hantong directly gave Zeiss Qi a list. Needless to say, the names on the list all had problems and needed to be rectified.
So when Cai Siqi officially took office as director, he did not engage in messy things like fighting for power. He directly brought people from the Internal Affairs Bureau of the Inspectorate to the door, and then packed up nearly half of the officials in the Anti-Corruption Bureau and took them away.
After directly killing half of the original officials, Cai Siqi went to see Shi Wuyan and asked Shi Wuyan to send more people to his Anti-Corruption Bureau. He also pointed out that they should not be deployed from the Supervisory Yuan system, but from other departments.
For example, they are dispatched by the court system and the Ministry of Justice. In addition, they are selected from this year's new academicians and Ph.D.
Moreover, it is required that the newly transferred officials should not be over forty years old, preferably young people in their twenties and thirties.
Naturally, there are many considerations in limiting the age. On the one hand, young people dare to fight hard and still retain a rare innocence that has not been too seriously polluted by the big dye vat of officialdom. Secondly, these young people still have the ability to continue.
Possibility of climbing up.
Even if their minds are no longer pure, they will work harder for their future, instead of being like those old bureaucrats in their 40s and 50s, just muddle along and be greedy as long as they can.
After such a fierce fire, the Anti-Corruption Bureau naturally changed drastically, and Cai Siqi began to complete the tasks assigned by Li Xuan.
In addition to dispatching a task force to Jiangbei, he also established a secret task force to target several heavyweight targets, and successively sent inspection teams to Jiangnan, North Anhui, and South Anhui in Zhili.
However, the large-scale arrests have not yet begun. Cai Siqi is still waiting, waiting for the Holy Emperor to sound the clarion call to attack!
Cai Siqi did not wait too long. In November and early winter, the Tang Dynasty Newspaper officially published the serious violations of laws and disciplines committed by former Jiangbei Daoist Taoist Xie Guanglin, and officially removed the officer from all positions and transferred the judicial trial.
In response to Xie Guanglin's violations of laws and disciplines, Emperor Sheng issued important instructions to "handle them strictly".
Xie Guanglin will be unlucky. This is something that many people have known for a long time, because the corruption problem in Jiangbei Province is too serious. It is precisely because of the corruption problem in Jiangbei Province that events such as judicial independence and the reorganization of the Anti-Corruption Bureau have arisen.
, as Xie Guanglin, who set off all this, it would be really unreasonable if he could continue to live.
Soon, the Gyeonggi Grand Court sentenced Xie Guanglin to death. The other more than 200 people involved in the case were also sentenced to death. The more than 200 people involved were basically officials and important officials involved in the Jiangbei corruption case.
Those implicated.
However, this is only reported and has not been publicly reported. The officials who committed the above crimes will basically not escape the consequences of having their homes confiscated and their families exterminated!
The laws of the Tang Dynasty had a joint sitting system, especially for officials. Basically, if one official committed a crime, the whole family would die!
Li Xuan believes that since the family of a criminal official has enjoyed the glory and wealth brought about by official corruption, they must bear the corresponding consequences.
In the Tang Dynasty, it was impossible for criminals to obtain huge amounts of wealth from crimes. After the criminals were caught, they still expected their families to keep these illegal gains and continue to enjoy a wealthy life.
This time, he was not even exiled, let alone sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment. In order to achieve the effect of shocking all officials, Li Xuan personally gave instructions: to deal with it strictly.
The meaning of "severe treatment" is basically to increase the level of crime. We must exterminate the clan if we can, kill if we can, and never let go.
At the same time, we must keep in mind the principle of cutting the grass and eradicating the roots!
Chinese people have a tradition that a gentleman should take revenge no later than ten years, and they also have a tradition that the hatred of parents is greater than the hatred of God.
It has been written in countless story-telling novels: After a certain powerful person was killed, his son or grandson survived by luck, and then he practiced magical skills incognito, and when he grew up, he used his magical skills to kill his enemy and take revenge!
Li Xuan didn't want an enemy's son or daughter to appear out of nowhere and shoot him in the future.
Therefore, simply exterminate the clan, eradicate the roots, and be done with it.
The arrest and handling of more than two hundred criminals is just the beginning!
Zeiss Qi has become very busy. This does not mean that he is busy handling cases. In fact, he does not know anything about handling cases. The most important thing he does in the Anti-Corruption Bureau is to rectify the internal affairs and assign tasks.
, As for how his subordinates handle the case, in fact, he doesn't interfere much, well, he doesn't know how to interfere.
Anyway, he only needs his subordinates to kill the officials on the list, he doesn't care about the rest!
As for his list, some of the heavyweight targets were dictated by the Holy Emperor, while the middle and low-level officials were based on the scope drawn by the Holy Emperor, and then he himself drew up the range.
As for those middle and low-level officials, the Holy Emperor actually doesn't care who should be arrested and who should not be arrested. He even has little control over the investigation and arrest of those high-ranking officials.
He only made two requirements for Zeiss Qi: first, it must have a good deterrent effect, and second, it must not affect the operation of various institutions in the empire.
He can do whatever he wants with the rest!
Therefore, Zeiss Qi's main job recently is to study the thick list, and then continuously circle out suitable targets from it, and then assign the targets to subordinates to handle them.
Regarding the anti-corruption matter, the Holy Emperor seemed to give him great power, but in fact Cai Siqi knew very well that he was a sword for the Holy Emperor, or a sword in disguise.
He could only chop whoever the Holy Emperor asked him to chop.
It seems that Li Xuan did not personally formulate many detailed goals, but he personally gave the names of several important officials. Through the analysis of these officials, we can know what the goals of the Holy Emperor are.
Needless to say, Cai Siqi personally formulated the criteria of "no hope for promotion, huge amount of corruption, bad influence, political consciousness is not high enough to affect the operation of the imperial administrative agencies..." and other criteria. As long as one of the criteria is met, then
You may become his target. If you meet more than two criteria at the same time, you will basically become his target.
If the three conditions are met, he is basically a dead person.
Even so, there will actually be too many targets, and what Zeiss Qi has to do is to select suitable targets. As more people are arrested, people who come to plead for mercy and rely on connections will gradually appear.
For these people, Cai Siqi will also analyze and report to the Holy Emperor. Such reports often have similar keywords: forming a party, clique, etc...
Then, these people basically can’t expect to save their lives!
The targets selected by the anti-corruption bureau are basically officials with relatively large amounts of corruption and relatively bad influence. And such officials still have people interceding for them?
No need to ask any questions, just kill the person asking for mercy. There is a nest of snakes and rats, so it doesn't matter if you kill a few more.
At this time, Li Xuan's purpose of choosing Cai Siqi as the director of the Anti-Corruption Bureau was also revealed. Who is Cai Siqi? He was born in the Imperial Academy and served as Li Xuan's accompanying secretary for seven years.
A serious imperial party, the confidants of the Holy Emperor!
Therefore, even if he knows nothing about investigating cases, it is not important. What is important is that he does not have too many complicated relationships in the officialdom like other officials. He is a very pure solitary minister.
Li Xuan is his golden thigh. Holding Li Xuan's super golden leg urgently, he doesn't need to be polite to other officials at all, even the ministers on duty in the Imperial Study Room.
After the Jiangbei case, under the leadership of Cai Siqi, the Wanbei case came one after another, and then the Shandong case. Every time the inspection team sent by Cai Siqi went to a place, they killed it.
Of course, there is even more turmoil in Jinling City!
The Anti-Corruption Bureau of the Supervisory Yuan first conducted internal purges, and then targeted the internal purges of the Supervisory Yuan, then the courts, the Legal Department, and the Patrol Department, and then extended to the Supervisory Yuan, courts, patrol police and other agencies in various provinces.
This was a purge operation led by Shi Wuyan himself. In order to ensure the success of the nationwide anti-corruption operation, Li Xuan asked Shi Wuyan to first ensure the purity of the judicial system, although for Shi Wuyan, this might be a suicide attempt.
However, the Emperor Sheng personally explained it, and Shi Wuyan did not dare to object at all.
Therefore, he personally supervised the war, and the Anti-Corruption Bureau took action, first from the central judicial institutions, and then to the local judicial institutions, and uncovered a large number of corrupt officials in the judicial institutions.
In just half a month, the Central Supervisory Office launched public prosecutions against more than 300 judicial officials. These more than 300 people were all judicial officials in the Gyeonggi region. More than 300 of them were killed.
This impact is much greater than the previous Jiangbei and Shandong cases.
More importantly, the Anti-Corruption Bureau seems to have no intention of stopping. The Anti-Corruption Bureau's task force has begun to station in other agencies in Gyeonggi Province, even independent agencies such as the Ministry of Taxation.
The Anti-Corruption Bureau acted quickly and in just one month, more than a thousand officials were arrested one after another!
This is in Jinling!
Including those previously handled by the judiciary, the total number is nearly 2,000.
Many people thought that this time it was so ruthless that it was almost over, but the Anti-Corruption Bureau still did not stop and began to extend its tentacles to local provinces.
Because Zeiss Qi knew that his mission was far from completed this time!
And in the context of anti-corruption!
In early December, the Holy Emperor ordered all armies to enter a state of in-situ garrison through the traditional channels of the Army Privy Council and the Navy Headquarters. Without special orders, troops were not allowed to be mobilized. Violators would be punished as treason!
At the same time, a secret order was issued to generals above the level of brigadier general in various places through the Army Section and Naval Section of the Hanlin Academy to repeat the above order.
Later, Li Xuan personally ordered the Guards to block Jinling City!
After the blockade was completed, the Ministry of Internal Affairs under the Army Privy Council mentioned that personnel from the Military Police Bureau of the Navy Command began to station themselves in major institutions of the Army and Navy!