?By April of the 17th year of Xuanping's reign, the anti-corruption campaign had been going on for less than half a year. Facing the report submitted by the Anti-Corruption Bureau, Li Xuan also began to back down!
This rectification of officialdom cannot continue. If it continues, I am afraid that the rule of the empire will really be shaken.
In less than half a year, the entire empire has investigated and solved tens of thousands of anti-corruption cases, arresting more than 50 senior officials from the third rank and above, and more than 4,000 middle- and high-ranking officials from the fourth to the seventh rank.
, the number of low-level officials in the eighth and ninth grades has exceeded 20,000!
More than 25,000 officials were arrested!
At the same time, behind these officials, there are often a large number of key criminals involved in the case, such as their relatives, businessmen, etc. The number of this group of people is even greater, currently exceeding 100,000.
More than 100,000 people were arrested in a short period of time, which caused the judicial system in various parts of the empire to overrun. In some cases, even the prisons were not enough. In many places, because there were too many criminals arrested, there was no room for them in the prisons.
Forced to build various temporary prisons.
The patrol police are busy arresting people every day, the Supervisory Office is busy filing public prosecutions, and the courts are busy trying cases.
Not all of these criminals will be sentenced to death. In fact, most of them will still be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment. These criminals who are sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment will subsequently be sent to labor camps in various places to work in mining and road construction.
Coolies, and some will be exiled overseas.
There are always a lot of troubles to follow.
The judicial system's over-running is just a trivial matter. The key point is that this anti-corruption campaign has been going on for only half a year. At the beginning, most officials were still watching other people's jokes.
In the mid-term, many people are afraid that they will also be implicated, but at this time, they still dare not say anything, because if they say anything at this time, wouldn't it be clear that there is something wrong with them, so even though they are afraid,
But everyone still shouted anti-corruption slogans and followed the steps of the Holy Emperor.
But now, more than 20,000 officials have been arrested, and more than 100,000 civilians have been involved in the case. The scale of this anti-corruption campaign has become too big, so big that many people are pretending to have nothing to do with it.
, or officials who want to take this opportunity to kill their competitors, or who really want to improve their officialdom and rectify their morals are afraid.
In April of the seventeenth year of Xuanping, almost all officials in the empire, no matter whether they were ministers of the second rank or the lowest clerks of the ninth rank, were on tenterhooks.
Not to mention that they are no longer corrupting money as before, now they are all taking the initiative to cut off their arms to survive, cutting off and covering up some of the past corrupt behaviors.
Nowadays, these officials postpone even ordinary banquets and entertainments as long as they can.
No one wants to be targeted by those jealous censors!
Why are the censors so angry?
Because Cai Siqi from the Anti-Corruption Bureau of the Inspectorate was behind them with a gun to their heads!
Then it was very clear to the censors within the Inspectorate that this time's anti-corruption campaign was planned. There were targets and plans for how many officials with capital crimes should be arrested and how many officials who could be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment should be arrested.
If you are unable to complete the task, be prepared to fill the quota gap yourself!
Cai Siqi called it a "planned anti-corruption" within the Anti-Corruption Bureau of the Inspectorate!
And Cai Si Qi did exactly what he did. In other words, this was a task given to him by Li Xuan. Although there was no clear data standard, Cai Si Qi knew that he must reach a standard, otherwise his work would be ruined.
Just incompetent.
And if he doesn't do well, then his own end will probably not be much better!
When the owner stabs the enemy with a dagger, if the dagger cannot penetrate the enemy, then the owner will definitely change to a sharper dagger!
Caisi Qi will not be willing to be an abandoned dagger!
He must prove to Li Xuan that his knife is still very useful!
The Holy Emperor did not give clear instructions, so he would set his own standards. This standard is very simple: draw one out of twenty!
Generally speaking, out of a hundred officials, five will have to be eliminated.
Of course, it is impossible for him to tell his subordinates clearly, but he will master this degree in the specific process. Censors who fail to meet this requirement will be unlucky, and they will be devalued without having anything to do, and they will also have
Needless to say, those who are wrong will be thrown directly into prison.
And those who reach this standard are rewarded!
In this way, although no one said it clearly, the censors also had a steelyard in their minds. The number of arrests must reach a certain standard. In this way, the censors naturally tried their best to investigate the case and arrest people, because they did not arrest them.
People, they are the ones who die.
However, with this tough approach, the overall goal of drawing one out of twenty in many places has not yet been achieved, but it has already caused some people to panic.
When the governors of several provinces petitioned the central government to send more officials to fill the vacancies, Li Xuan realized that it was time to stop and if he continued to kill, he would have to kill all the people.
Nowadays, in many places, even the number of officials is insufficient.
For example, in Jiangbei Province, where the situation is most serious, starting last autumn, not only the Taoist officials, but also the prefects of several prefectures under their jurisdiction, and even more county magistrates below them, were all replaced, and some were arrested.
Some were transferred to monitoring positions.
These local chief officials are fine, but more ordinary officials have been arrested too many, which has begun to affect the operation of the local administrative system.
At this time, Li Xuan also gave instructions to Cai Siqi: In the past six months, I am very satisfied with the work performance of the Anti-Corruption Bureau of the Supervisory Yuan. It has greatly rectified the officialdom and cleared up the officialdom. The follow-up anti-corruption bureau will
Corruption work must continue.
However, this anti-corruption work cannot be rushed. It must be done slowly and gradually, and it should not be carried out in a panic.
Li Xuan's words stopped the Anti-Corruption Bureau!
Later, Li Xuan instructed the Tang Dynasty Newspaper to publish relevant propaganda articles to guide public opinion!
The core of the article is that under the guidance of the wise and great Emperor Shengtian, the empire's administrative rectification has achieved fruitful results. A large number of corrupt officials have been arrested, a large number of people have been eliminated, and a bright future has been created for the common people in the world.
An environment to live and work in peace and contentment!
And who gets all the credit for this?
Nature is the wise and great, greater than the sun, the benevolent eternal sage, the divine emperor who surpasses the three emperors and five emperors, the son of heaven, the holy emperor Li Xuan!
This article, which looks like a summary of anti-corruption work, is actually used to appease the officials. Don’t be afraid, I have already killed almost all of them. Let’s do what needs to be done.
However, it is impossible for the officials to really feel at ease, because this report is followed by a very short briefing, informing the Anti-Corruption Bureau of the Inspectorate that Cai Si has made great achievements in rectifying the officials and has been granted permission to enter the Imperial Study Room.
walk.
Although he is not a minister on duty, but only a walking minister, the power of a walking minister in the imperial study is actually very great.
Currently, there are nine ministers on duty in the imperial study, and there are also 18 ministers on duty!
Because the imperial study adopts a rotation system, generally speaking, there will be three ministers on duty leading six ministers on duty daily.
After all, whether they are duty ministers or walking ministers, most of them still have their own jobs. They cannot stay in the imperial study room all day long and are on duty. They also need time to deal with their essential work.
Some daily affairs are basically handled directly by the ministers on duty and the ministers on duty. When major events occur, all the ministers on duty in the imperial study will be summoned for discussion.
Whether they are duty ministers or walking ministers, they are actually a small group of people who stand at the top of the empire's power, because the selection of personnel for the imperial study is not limited to the official's grade and position, they are directly selected by the emperor.
Therefore, the opportunity to enter the imperial study is not arranged according to the position, but there is no rule. Li Xuan will let whoever succeeds.
In this case, it does not mean that if you are a high-ranking official of the second rank, you will definitely be able to enter the imperial study room. Even if you are a walking minister, you may not have access to it.
As for the second-grade level, let alone that.
The meaning of Li Xuan letting Cai Siqi live in the imperial study is very obvious. It is not just to reward Cai Siqi. This is not important at all. What is important is that he wants all officials to know: Don't think that the rectification of officialdom is over.
, you can relax!
The existence of Cai Siqi is a knife, and it is still a knife hanging over their heads!
Li Xuan continues to reuse this person in order to directly express his position to all officials in the world: please be honest with me, otherwise I will draw my sword and kill people!
Thanks to Li Xuan's arrangement, Cai Siqi also reached the peak of his life!
Who would have thought that half a year ago, he was just the deputy director of the Imperial Academy Secretariat and a third-grade accompanying secretary. Half a year later, he would be able to hold a high-ranking position as a second-grade official and join the Imperial Study Room as a walking minister. He would become a member of the empire.
One of the more than 20 most powerful senior officials.
According to the current political structure of the empire, the most powerful person is undoubtedly the duty minister in the imperial study. Under the nine duty ministers, there are eighteen walking ministers.
A total of twenty-seven imperial study ministers formed the core power class of the Tang Empire!
Well, this includes civil and military affairs, because the ministers on duty and the ministers on duty in the royal study are both civil and military.
For civil servants, entering the royal study is their greatest pursuit, and for military generals, the same is true!
But what is more noteworthy is that the imperial study room has never been a formal administrative organization. Even in the official system, there is no such organization. The imperial study room duty minister and walking minister are not official positions, nor do they have any
grade, and similarly without any salary.
The Imperial Study Room, from the beginning to the present, is just a simple Imperial Study Room, and entering the Imperial Study Room is just an errand arranged by Li Xuan for them.
Dispatch, official position, and rank are completely different concepts.