The Inspectorate of the Tang Dynasty was different from the Inspectorate of the Ming Dynasty and other ancient feudal dynasties!
The Supervisory Office of the Tang Dynasty only had two powers: one was to prosecute various private cases, and the other was to supervise hundreds of officials.
The former is the basic and essential work of the Inspectorate. If you do it well, it's your duty. If you don't do it well, get out!
The latter is a bonus. If officials of the Inspectorate want to get promoted and make a fortune, they basically hope to catch a corrupt official and successfully convict him! This is because officials of the Inspectorate can only be promoted internally, and those who are promoted internally
The main consideration is how many corrupt officials the Supervisory Yuan officials have arrested and what level of corrupt officials they are.
If an inspector in the prefectural-level inspectorate can convict the local prefect, then it goes without saying that he will be immediately promoted to the province or even directly transferred to the central government.
Therefore, when the officials in the Inspectorate smell the smell of corrupt officials, they immediately pounce on them just like they smell the smell of promotion and wealth.
If you go to the Inspectorate to report a corrupt official, the officials from the Inspectorate will immediately give you food and drinks. If the report is true, the Inspectorate will also give you a bonus!
This has also resulted in the fact that in many cases the local Supervisory Office often has great conflicts with the local government, because they are naturally antagonistic. If the officials in the Supervisory Office want to be promoted and make a fortune, they have to catch corrupt officials.
Of course, the above can only be said to be an ideal situation. No matter how good the system is, people will destroy it. If the local supervisory officials would rather not be promoted and insist on colluding with local officials, then there is nothing that can be done.
, at this time, we can only rely on the inspection and anti-corruption agency within the Supervisory Yuan to deal with it.
Of course, there is another informal situation, that is, the Investigation and Statistics Section of the Hanlin Academy, in addition to counter-espionage and monitoring major changes in public sentiment, will occasionally intervene in such major illegal affairs of officials.
However, they still have the power to investigate secretly, and finally report it to Li Xuan. As for whether to deal with it or not, it depends on Li Xuan's mood.
Although there were not many instances of officials, especially high-ranking officials, being greedy and bending the law in the Tang Dynasty, it had been two years since the rise of the Tang Dynasty. The days when everyone tightened their belts and made revolution together were over. Many
People have begun to be eroded by hedonism.
In this regard, Li Xuan also turned a blind eye. Unless the impact was relatively large and the nature was relatively bad, it would be unreasonable for Li Xuan's ministers to accept some money from his opponents.
After all, people have followed you to conquer the country, and they have lived a hard life without receiving wages for several years. Now that the life of the Tang Dynasty is getting better, why don't you let them enjoy the glory and wealth?
Although the salary paid to officials by the Tang Dynasty is not low, an official these days often has a large family to support. They have to maintain the dignity of the official, which costs a lot, and the current Tang Dynasty
Fighting every day, fiscal revenue is spent on military expenditures, administrative expenses are in short supply, and it is common for officials to be in arrears with their salaries.
Therefore, Li Xuan didn't care much about the things that his middle- and high-level officials were doing just to make some money to improve their lives and maintain dignity.
But everything has to have a certain point. Once this point is exceeded, Li Xuan will not hesitate to ask the Investigation and Statistics Department of the Hanlin Academy to take out the evidence and deal with it.
In the past year, although officials at the level of minister have not been dealt with, two ministers have been killed, and many fourth- and fifth-rank officials below the minister have been killed.
However, these matters of dealing with mid-level and senior officials are generally relatively secretive. In many cases, they are not directly arrested and convicted, but people from the Investigation and Statistics Department of the Hanlin Academy are directly sent to the door with a copy of Li Xuan's oral instructions and poison.
Or a piece of white silk.
Let these corrupt officials take matters into their own hands!
Usually, in order to protect their families and their names after death, even if these officials are unwilling, they will still tremble and drink the poison in the end. If they are unwilling to drink it, it's okay, Hantong's hawks and dogs will do it for them!
This kind of thing usually spreads among the top officials of the imperial court, but the outside world generally doesn't know about it. This is mainly to control the influence. After all, the Tang Dynasty is still in its rise stage. Li Xuan can't let people feel that the Tang Dynasty is still in the rise stage.
It has become corrupted and full of corrupt officials!
Especially the image of middle- and high-level officials needs to be maintained!
We have to make people feel that the Tang Dynasty is still good as a whole, His Majesty is still wise and great, and the ministers in the court are still fair and honest, but there is just a small group of middle and low-level officials who are greedy and bend the law.
But the actual situation is that the upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is crooked, and the trend of being greedy and perverting the law has always been caused by the hands of others, and no one can say who is wrong.
Even Liu Bagou, the most self-disciplined person in the court, now no longer wears tattered Taoist robes, but lives a life of fine clothing and fine food. But what is interesting is that this man is now prosperous and wealthy, but
He still doesn't have a wife.
As for that bitch Wang Wenhua, he already had seven or eight concubines. In just two years, he gave birth to four sons!
This makes Li Xuan, who has only one daughter, quite envious to be honest!
Dong Yunyun was pregnant last year and gave birth to a little princess to Li Xuan this fall. Although the baby was a princess and not a prince, Empress Dowager Bai and even the ministers outside were quite disappointed, but Li Xuan was happy.
very!
In the past two lives, this was his first child, although in his heart he also hoped that the child Dong Yunyun would give birth to would be a boy, so that he could solve the problem of the heir to the empire and consolidate the country's foundation.
Moreover, Empress Dong is the queen of the harem, and the first prince she gives birth to will be the legitimate prince and the crown prince of the Tang Dynasty.
But since he is not a prince, but a princess, it is useless to think so.
But aside from political factors, Li Xuan actually has no prejudice against men and women, so he also attaches great importance to his first child.
Because the mortality rate of children in this era is too high, even the royal family is no exception, so Li Xuan worked hard to prevent his little princess from dying.
He even personally formulated a scientific parenting plan and selected the healthiest women to serve as wet nurses. Li Xuan assigned several personal maids to take care of the princess. Li Xuan's personal maids were basically royal ladies.
Yuan was born as a female orphan raised by the royal family. Empress Dowager Bai personally trained her. She has very good qualities in all aspects. Moreover, most of the personal maids around Li Xuan have also been trained by Li Xuan and have some of the most basic scientific knowledge.
Literacy.
At the same time, the little princess's daily life is subject to strict hygiene standards. Anyone who is sick, especially those who are suspected of having a cold, is not allowed to approach the house where the princess lives. This order even includes Dong Yunyun and Queen Mother Bai.
At the same time, he asked people from the Royal Medical College to be stationed permanently to monitor any risk of illness at any time.
But no matter what, Li Xuan still felt a little uneasy. Unfortunately, the medical level was still too poor these days. Although he had established the Medical Department of the Imperial College, he also selected a few people to study medicine in the Youjun Camp.
And they began to use the crude telescopes they made to study microorganisms, allowing the medical students to secretly dissect corpses and study the structure of the human body.
But all this time is too short. It is almost impossible for Li Xuan to see the emergence of modern medicine in a short period of time!
Li Xuan, who attaches great importance to his eldest daughter, even followed Queen Mother Bai's advice against his will. He said that in order to let the princess grow up safely, he should not give the title prematurely, otherwise, he would prepare to wait until the eldest daughter was full moon.
At that time, the canonization ceremony was directly held and the official title of princess was awarded.
Now I just have a name, ‘Li Wei’, nicknamed Wei’er!
Of course, Li Xuan will not tell anyone that 'Weier' is the name of his first girlfriend!
Choosing this name can be regarded as a glimmer of hope for the past life!
However, although Li Xuan attaches great importance to his young daughter Li Wei, his attention does not mean that others also attach importance to her. At least Queen Mother Bai does not attach much importance to her, because in her eyes, only a boy is considered a success.
Not to mention the granddaughter Li Wei, even the eldest princess Huichen, the biological daughter of Queen Mother Bai, does not attach much importance to Queen Mother Bai. Otherwise, she would not let Huichen's weight continue to increase in recent years.
Three-year-old Hui Chen weighs at least 70 kilograms, and she is not very tall, so when seen from a distance, she looks like a round ball.
However, in addition to being able to eat fat, Princess Huichen has not had any illness or suffering in the past few years. Although she is not taken seriously, she is the eldest princess after all, so she has no problem with food and clothing.
Even in the early years, Queen Mother Bai could not even think of asking Princess Huichen to teach her how to read and write. In the end, when Li Xuan discovered that Princess Huichen was illiterate, he specially found some talented people to teach her how to read and write.
The female official gave Hui Chen some enlightenment reading. After studying for more than a year, he was finally not as ignorant as before. He only knew how to eat and eat!
Speaking of which, Princess Huichen is actually quite pitiful. In the huge palace, her grandma doesn't care if she doesn't love her uncle. To be honest, except for the eldest brother Li Xuan, who occasionally cares about her, everyone else basically ignores her.
, even Queen Mother Bai is the same.
He is already thirteen years old, which would be considered a grown-up if compared to other feudal royal families in ancient times. It is estimated that some mothers and concubines have already begun to prepare to select a prince-in-law for a princess of this age, but Empress Dowager Bai did not have any
action.
Don't think that Empress Dowager Bai wants to keep Princess Huichen by her side for two more years. She is worried that Huichen will be harmed by marrying too young and too young. This idea is only for Li Xuan, and Empress Dowager Bai categorically
There is no such idea!
The real situation is that Queen Mother Bai has never thought that she has a daughter who is almost old enough to prepare to choose a consort and get married directly in a few years.
Now Empress Dowager Bai has set her sights on Concubine Ye's Shu and Wang's concubines. Because these two women are pregnant, Empress Dowager Bai is waiting for them to give birth to a son for Li Xuan and give birth to a son for the Tang Dynasty.