Chapter 454: Investigation and Statistics Section of the Imperial Academy
The reason is very simple. Now that the Tang Dynasty has just been established, it is extremely difficult to carry out taxation work. In particular, the Tang Dynasty implements taxation by the gentry as one, and the proportion of commercial tax collection is not low. This has caused many landowners and businessmen to pay taxes.
of opposition.
Without an institution like the tax inspection team, it would be impossible to effectively collect taxes.
But today, why did His Majesty talk about this matter? Could it be that the actions of the tax inspection team have aroused His Majesty's dissatisfaction?
He immediately said: "I am guilty of failing to effectively control the illegal activities of the tax inspection team. I beg your Majesty to punish me!"
Li Xuan waved his hand again: "I know in my heart whether you are guilty or not, but there have been too many people impeaching you recently. Although the tax inspection team has a heavy task, it still needs to enforce the law in accordance with the law and cannot act randomly!"
The tax inspection team has been getting bigger and bigger recently, and its behavior has become more and more arrogant. Li Xuan feels that it is still necessary to crack down on it to prevent it from really turning into anger and resentment.
But as soon as the words changed, he said again: "But now the tax inspection team has good economic investigation capabilities, so we can allocate some manpower to prepare a new yamen!"
Allocating manpower from the tax inspection team to establish a new agency? This was beyond Qian Zuoli's expectations. He immediately said: "May I ask, Your Majesty, what are the regulations of this new yamen?"
Li Xuandao: "This new Yamen is used by the Hanlin Academy to detect illegal activities, so Qian Aiqing doesn't need to ask any more questions!"
As soon as he heard this, Qian Zuoli was a little confused. Does this kind of thing require a new yamen? There are similar institutions in the Supervisory Office and the Patrol Department. The Supervisory Office inspects hundreds of officials, and the Imperial Academy's
Officials naturally belong to the ranks of the Hundred Officials. The Supervisory Office also has the power to conduct investigations. The Patrol Department also has an Anti-Corruption Department, which also targets official corruption and other matters.
So is it necessary for the Hanlin Academy to set up its own specialized investigation agency?
What a waste!
However, Li Xuan obviously had no intention of saying anything more to him, and just said: "You only need to draw a hundred capable people from the tax inspection team as backup!"
Qian Zuoli couldn't ask any more questions at this time. He could only say: "I obey your order!"
Li Xuan suddenly approached Qian Zili and wanted to transfer personnel from the tax inspection team. This was because he was planning to establish a new agency, an intelligence agency similar to the Ming Dynasty's Dongchang, Xichang, Jinyiwei, and various intelligence bureaus in later generations.
He had already thought of the name 'Hanlin Academy Survey and Statistics Section'. The reason why he added the prefix Hanlin Academy was naturally to deceive others. Otherwise, he would just add titles such as West Factory, East Factory, and Jinyiwei.
It attracts too much attention. Maybe it will attract the attention of countless people as soon as it is established.
And the name sounds like it is just an internal organization of the Hanlin Academy, used to investigate and compile statistics on the internal affairs of the Hanlin Academy, but in fact it is not like this.
This organization will have nothing to do with the Hanlin Academy. The key point is the following four words: investigation and statistics. If you know something about modern history, you will know that there is a military commander and a Chinese leader under the bald head.
These two well-known institutions are unified, and the full names of these two institutions have the four words "survey and statistics".
According to Li Xuan's own plan, the Investigation and Governance Section of the Hanlin Academy will directly fall under Li Xuan's management and be responsible for counter-espionage, intelligence probing, assassination and other tasks.
However, in order to prevent this intelligence organization from becoming dominant, Li Xuan had actually established a military intelligence agency in the Privy Council in advance, which was the Intelligence Department under the Privy Council. This agency was responsible for spying on military intelligence.
After it develops, one will be responsible for internal affairs and the other for external affairs, forming an internal and external intelligence system similar to that of the FBI and Military Intelligence in the later generations of the United States!
Of course, it is relatively easy to establish the Intelligence Department on the Privy Council side, because the Tang Dynasty King's Division is also an army after all, and it has its own intelligence system. Although it is not very good, if nothing happens, it will
It expanded with the expansion of the army, and continued to expand with the expansion of the Tang Dynasty!
The Military Intelligence Department does not need Li Xuan to worry about, but the Investigation and Statistics Section of the Hanlin Academy needs Li Xuan to worry about, because this kind of intelligence agency, especially the internal intelligence agency, is too sensitive and can easily cause a backlash from officials.
Therefore, he planned to keep it secret in the early stage. First, he was affiliated with the Hanlin Academy, and the publicity to the outside world was that it was the self-examination agency within the Hanlin Academy.
After Qian Zuoli left, Li Xuan met with people from the Patrol Department and the Supervisory Office one after another. He told them the same thing as he told Qian Zuili, asking them to allocate their elite forces as backup!
Faced with the work that Li Xuan personally handed over, these people naturally did not dare to neglect, and soon gathered an elite force of about two hundred people!
At this time, Li Xuan also called over the chief of the Intelligence Department of the Hanlin Academy. The first sentence at the beginning was: I have an important task for you now. Are you ready?
The chief of the intelligence department, Li Daobing, was from Lijia Village back then and was one of the tenants of the Li family. Speaking of it, he could be related to Li Xuan as a distant relative. Well, in fact, the entire Lijia Village was more or less
Maybe they are related, because this village is called Lijiazhuang, and they all had the same ancestor hundreds of years ago.
After the founding of the Tang Dynasty, he was forced by the government to flee with Li Xuan like many Lijia Villagers. Because he knew a few words, he had been doing clerical work in the Tang Dynasty. However, because of his average ability, he had been working as a clerk in the Tang Dynasty.
Neither of them really got ahead.
Later, I relied on my seniority to reach the position of Chief of the Intelligence Section!
When he heard Li Xuan say this, he suddenly felt a little unable to react. When he came to his senses, he naturally expressed his loyalty quickly!
"I will serve your Majesty to the death!"
In fact, Li Xuan was too lazy to listen to his expression of loyalty. Li Xuan asked him to serve as the section chief of the survey and statistics section of the Hanlin Academy. That was because he could not find any other suitable person.
Although this Li Daobing is not very capable, he is still a person with senior qualifications. This rich qualification is enough for him to fall into the hands of the Ming Dynasty, and at the end he will end up having his family confiscated and exterminated!
At the same time, he can read, is not illiterate, and has been exposed to intelligence affairs. He served as the chief of the intelligence section in the Hanlin Academy.
Therefore, coming to him is considered a professional counterpart!
After all, he couldn't go to the Intelligence Department of the Privy Council and find someone to set up the Investigation and Statistics Section. In this case, the two departments would have the same source and could easily merge together.
That's why Li Xuan transferred personnel from the Taxation Department, Patrol Department and Inspectorate, and then planned to let Li Daobing serve as the section chief of the Investigation and Statistics Section.
After waiting for his satisfactory answer, Li Xuan directly threw him a document and said: "From today on, you will be the section chief of the Investigation and Statistics Section of the Hanlin Academy. This is the organizational charter of the Statistics Section. Please read it carefully.
one look!"
Although Li Daobing couldn't speak eight-legged essays, he could still recognize the words. After taking the document and reading it, he became more and more frightened.
Because the scope of the Investigation and Statistics Division's powers seems very small on the surface, only detecting spies, detecting rebellion and other major illegal activities.
But the first one is okay, but the latter one is not so easy to explain clearly. What is a major lawless matter such as public security and chaos?
Rebellion is easy to understand, but the following words cover many things!
Seeing the shocked and confused look on Li Daobing's face, Li Xuan was speechless, and then said: "Have you heard of Jin Yiwei?"
Li Daobing nodded!
"Dongchang, have you heard of Xichang?"
Li Daobing nodded!
After that, Li Xuan stopped talking. If Li Daobing didn't understand what he said so thoroughly, then he is hopelessly stupid and he will choose someone else.
Li Daobing also reacted at this time. After taking a closer look at the organizational structure and detailed mission objectives of the Investigation and Statistics Section, he quickly understood that the Investigation and Statistics Section that His Majesty asked him to prepare was a comprehensive version of Jinyiwei, East Factory, and West Factory.
!
He immediately showed a look of joy, and then said: "I would like to be your majesty's eagle and dog!"
The two words "eagle and dog" are enough to prove that he already knows what the investigation and statistics department will do in the future. Li Xuan immediately nodded slightly: "Now that you know, let's go back and start doing it. Prepare as much as possible. I have prepared the manpower for you.
If it’s not enough, you can find a way to solve it yourself. I will personally allocate funds for this subject in the future, so you don’t have to worry about funding issues!”
Li Daobing excitedly took Li Xuan's orders to prepare for the investigation and statistics section of the Hanlin Academy. Li Xuan was also busy with many things today. According to the past, he should go back to the backyard after finishing his work, but when he thought of what he did when he went out this morning
His legs and feet felt weak, so he quickly gave up the idea.
He immediately ordered him to go down and sleep in the front hall tonight!
Although the front hall is theoretically the place where he works, in fact Li Xuan’s own bedroom is also in the front hall!
As an emperor, he naturally has his own palace, but in the past he mostly rested in the Queen's or Ye's courtyard, and rarely slept in his own palace.
Without having to go back to the harem, Li Xuan instantly felt a lot more free. It was just getting dark, and it was impossible to go to bed so early.
It's such a dark and windy night, so of course you need to go out for some fun. How can you stay in your room eating and sleeping alone?
He immediately said to Huo Shouqi: "Let's see if the ministers who are on duty in the Hanlin Academy have left. If not, I will invite them to dinner!"
The rotating ministers of the Hanlin Academy are actually Zeng Ziwen, Liu Bagou, Qian Mengjiu and others. There are only seven of them in total. They are all important ministers of the Privy Council and the cabinet.
Since he is on duty, he naturally needs to stay near Li Xuan most of the time, ready to handle many military and national affairs at any time.
Even at night, there will be two ministers on duty!
Li Xuan summoned Zeng Ziwen and Qian Mengjiu, who were on duty tonight, and they would arrive soon!
As soon as they arrived, they saw that Li Xuan was already sitting at the banquet, and the maids from the imperial kitchen were constantly bringing dishes!
Seeing his high-spirited appearance, Zeng Ziwen remembered his wife's appearance when she returned to her parents' home. It seemed that he was as happy as His Majesty today!
There is a saying that goes like this: My wife is not at home tonight!