The suicide of Gu Shizhong, the founding father of the People's Republic of China and an army general, did not cause too many waves in the outside world. Even the military arrested hundreds of generals and did not cause any waves.
On the one hand, the Tang Empire strictly controlled the leakage of military information. The military was a violent organ. In order to avoid the leakage of intelligence and maintain its mystery, the Tang Empire strictly prohibited the leakage of military intelligence. Even many people in the country even
It is unclear how many troops the empire has, let alone confidential information such as their specific numbers, locations, and commanders of the troops.
News about military reports occasionally appeared in the newspapers of the Tang Dynasty, and they were often replaced by vague terms such as "a certain department", and detailed numbers were not reported.
This time, the news about the military's anti-corruption was even more tightly controlled. The Tang Dynasty Daily did not report any news about the anti-corruption within the military.
In addition, another very important reason is that the Tang Empire has been implementing a very strict separation of military and political affairs for more than ten years. Now, the separation of military and political affairs has basically become a basic political concept, even for ordinary people.
Everyone also knows that the army is the army and the government is the government. These are two different things and cannot be confused.
And civilian officials will never mention a moment's information about the military unless necessary.
Not to mention that this military anti-corruption storm has had a huge impact on everyone. Even military bosses Hao Bainian, Li Chunjing and others kept their mouths shut and did not dare to express the slightest opinion.
The civil servants outside did not dare to have any opinions on military affairs.
In addition, now that the civil servants are unable to protect themselves and are being watched by the Inspectorate every day, how can they have time to pay attention to the life and death of the generals in the military?
The scale of the anti-corruption storm set off at the end of the 16th year of Seonpyeong's reign exceeded anyone's imagination. Starting in November, starting from the Gyeonggi Judiciary, a huge anti-corruption storm started and then spread throughout the country.
In Shanghai, Chen Lifu stood on the balcony on the second floor of the county government office and watched the censors from the Supervisory Office outside leading the patrol officers to take away more than thirty officials from the county government office!
A young official behind him whispered: "Sir, are you just watching them take people away? What's going on with their Inspectorate? How come they took away so many people indiscriminately!"
"Shut up!"
Chen Lifu didn't even look back at him, but continued to stare outside!
The ordinary officials below were not aware of what was going on, and thought it was just the Shanghai Special County Supervisory Office that was crazy. However, as the magistrate of the Shanghai Special County, he knew that these arrest missions were
The Shanghai Special County Supervisory Office is not the key at all. The key people are the Jiangnan Inspection Team sent by the Anti-Corruption Bureau of the Central Supervisory Office.
The leader of the Jiangnan inspection team was a high-ranking official of the third rank, and he was a serious and heavyweight imperial envoy with an imperial edict. Even if Chen Lifu was in front of the inspection team, he would have to lie down obediently.
Not to mention Chen Lifu, even the magistrate of Songjiang Prefecture, and even Huo Shouqi, who has been a Taoist priest of Jiangnan Road for many years, are now all well-behaved and fearful that they will also be arrested.
According to what Chen Lifu knows, this anti-corruption storm is not limited to Shanghai, or even Jiangnan Province, but is an anti-corruption storm that has spread across the country.
And according to the information he got from secret channels, even the military has launched an anti-corruption storm.
In this case, in order to protect themselves, many people would even take the initiative to push others out, not to mention offending the inspection team. As the saying goes, a dead Taoist friend will not die of a poor Taoist.
In order to win leniency, some officials who are targeted by the inspection team will often take the initiative to explain their problems and reveal their accomplices.
In this situation, even Chen Lifu himself had to be careful, for fear of being involved!
Although Chen Lifu prides himself on being an upright person and has never disdained corruption or bribery, the Chen family has a large business and is also engaged in industry and commerce. Although Chen Lifu has not provided any convenience to his own industry, his clan members have done a lot of business.
When doing business, his name will naturally come up, and if he talks about it, he may get into some trouble.
Under this situation, Chen Lifu also reflected. It seems that he has to change the model of the family business. It is not reliable to engage in industry and commerce directly, and it is easy for others to get caught. In the future, it is better to simply set up a fund and then do financial work.
Just invest.
This can avoid a lot of trouble.
After Chen Lifu personally watched the Inspectorate arrest dozens of officials from Shanghai's special counties, within a few days he heard that many people in other prefectures and counties, and even the Jiangnan Province Yamen, had also been arrested.
And the most important thing is that Huo Shouqi, who has been a Taoist priest of Jiangnan Dao for many years, seems to have failed this time!
The reason why I say "seems" is that there is no definite word.
It's because Huo Shouqi was not arrested or devalued, but was promoted!
However, the position he was promoted to was governor of Liaoxi Province!
Although it is said that he has changed from a Taoist priest of the third rank of Jiangnan Province to a governor of Liaoxi Province of the second rank, even a fool can see that this is promotion and demotion in secret.
In the officialdom of the Tang Dynasty, the importance of an official's power and his future could not be determined simply by his rank.
Chen Lifu is a typical example. If you say that his rank is only the fourth grade, he is the county magistrate of a special county in Shanghai. He is the only county magistrate of the fourth grade in the country and has a bright future.
And other officials of the fourth rank in the country, such as the prefects of other prefectures, are also of the fourth rank, but can they compare with Chen Lifu?
It is impossible. Even some officials from the third rank to the third rank are not as powerful as Chen Lifu, the Shanghai County Magistrate.
Jiangnan Dao Taoist priests may not be considered to be just a third-grade Taoist priest, but because of the special nature of Jiangnan Dao, their political status is among the top three among many provincial officials in the country!
In other words, the governors of ordinary provinces are actually inferior to the Taoist priests of Jiangnan Province.
According to normal circumstances, Huo Shouqi was almost promoted, but he should have been directly transferred to Gyeonggi Province to serve as a minister of a certain department, and he had to be a left minister. If he was a right minister, it would be devalued.
But now, instead of failing to join the cabinet, he was transferred to western Liaoning as governor.
Although the rank has been upgraded to the second rank, can the governor of Liaoxi Province compare with the Taoist priests of Jiangnan Province?
Impossible.
Outsiders don't know that the reason why Huo Shouqi is unlucky is not because of his own problems. Well, although he also has corruption, this little economic problem is not something Li Xuan takes seriously.
What makes Li Xuan most dissatisfied is that the corruption situation in the huge Jiangnan Province, which is the core area that provides more than half of the empire's fiscal revenue, is so serious. It is not much better than that in Jiangbei Province, and the amount of corruption is even higher.
On a larger scale, compared to many provincial highways across the country, the corruption situation in Jiangnan Province is enough to rank among the top three.
Among the prefectures and counties under Jiangnan Province, only Shanghai County is in a slightly better situation. Most of the other prefectures and counties are full of problems!
Under such circumstances, although Huo Shouqi himself did not have a big problem, Li Xuan believed that this member was pursuing economic development one-sidedly and thus neglecting official governance.
In other words, Huo Shouqi actually saw the problems, but for the sake of local stability and economic development, he tolerated or ignored these problems, causing the problems to become more and more serious.
There is such a big problem in Jiangnan Road. If Huo Shouqi's own economic problems were not serious and he made great contributions to the economic development of Jiangnan Road when he was in charge of Jiangnan, Li Xuan would have shot him long ago.
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Now it is considered a punishment to send him to Liaoxi Province to serve as governor.
Li Xuan still hopes that he can reflect on his mistakes, realize his mistakes and correct them. After all, in the imperial political arena, there are too few high-ranking officials who are as good at developing economic and people's livelihood affairs as Huo Shouqi.
At least after Huo Shouqi was transferred, Li Xuan didn't know who to appoint as the Taoist priest of Jiangnan Road for a while.
This position is too important. In Li Xuan's mind, this position is more important than any governor of any province in the country, a Taoist priest, or even a minister of various ministries.
Its importance is comparable to that of various ministers.
Therefore, the newly appointed Taoist officials must be highly qualified, capable of controlling Jiangnan Dao, and must also be officials who are good at developing the economy and people's livelihood.
Li Xuan made many choices, and finally summoned Xiang Hanyi, Jia Wenbo, and Xiao Fangquan to Beijing to report on their work urgently!
It is said to be a job report, but anyone with a discerning eye knows that Li Xuan is here to select the new Taoist priest of Jiangnan Province!
If it were an ordinary high-ranking official, Li Xuan would usually not do this.
For positions such as governors of various provinces, Taoist priests under direct control, and ministers, the Ministry of Civil Affairs often lists all qualified candidates. The list is naturally very large, and then it is handed over to the imperial study room for discussion. Finally, the ministers on duty in the imperial study room select three candidates.
The five candidates were recommended to the Holy Emperor as candidates. At the same time, each minister had to explain the reasons for the recommendation in detail, and finally reported to Li Xuan.
Of course, whether Li Xuan chooses or not is another matter.
Because at the same time, the Personnel Department of the Hanlin Academy will also recommend a number of candidates based on Li Xuan's requirements, and Li Xuan himself will also have several candidates in mind.
Finally, after comprehensive consideration, Li Xuan will choose one person to become the new governor, Taoist priest or minister.
In other words, there is a long list of candidates, the Imperial Study Room recommends, the Hanlin Academy recommends, and then the Holy Emperor makes the decision.
But this time, Li Xuan directly called these three people back to Beijing to report on their duties. This was clear that he would personally test these three people and then decide on the candidates for Jiangnan Taoist priests.
As for who among these three people will eventually become the new Taoist priest of Jiangnan Dao, that is still unknown.
At least, Li Xuan himself doesn't have a clear choice yet.