Chapter 819: The Land of Water and Rice, Raising People
In mid-August, after a summer rain, the weather became a little cooler, but there were still ice cubes in Li Xuan's office.
Li Xuan hates summer every year because it's so hot.
Even if ice cubes can be placed in the house to cool down, Li Xuan cannot stay indoors all the time. Even in the palace courtyard, Li Xuan has to go to the front and back yards every day.
And in this weather, basically as soon as you open the door, you will feel the heat wave!
But in winter, Li Xuan doesn't like it either because it's too cold!
Although the weather is sweltering, work still needs to be done.
After reviewing numerous memorials as usual, Li Xuan called the secretary waiting outside to come in and hear about the arrangements.
After the secretary outside came in, he held a small notebook and began to say: "Your Majesty, two people will come to see you at noon today. At eleven o'clock, President Chen Pugao of the Jiangxi Provincial Inspectorate will give a report. At eleven o'clock,
At 30:00, the new Yunnan Governor Feng Demin will come for an audience. In addition, His Majesty ordered this morning to postpone today's morning meeting until before lunch, so the five on duty in the Royal Study Room today and the walking minister will come after the interview.
Have a morning meeting!”
When he said this, Li Xuan interjected: "After the morning meeting, I will give you a study room, um, let Feng Demin stay too!"
After Li Xuan finished speaking, he motioned to the secretary to continue. After the secretary received the signal, he continued: "In the afternoon, six more people will come to visit, and the navy will come to report on the recent suppression of pirates. In addition, the Queen Mother sent someone
Come and send a message, saying that your majesty is free and can go there in the afternoon!"
"Oh, something happened?" Li Xuan showed a slightly puzzled look. During the day, everyone in the harem, including the Queen Mother, knew that this was Li Xuan's working time, and they would not easily disturb him if there was no important business.
After all, Li Xuan's daily schedule is very tight. He handles the most basic tasks of memorials, and then holds various meetings, morning meetings in the imperial study room, military briefing meetings, various special meetings before the emperor, and then receives interviews every working day.
He would meet with a large number of officials, including many high-ranking officials or officials in important positions, before they took office. The time was short, depending on whether they were important or not, ranging from a few minutes to dozens of minutes.
For example, when the Da Yuan Mansion was just established a few days ago, Li Xuan took the time to meet with the first magistrate of the Da Yuan Mansion and had a long talk for more than an hour. Most of the time, he was listening and
Occasionally I will express my opinions.
Of course, most of the interview time is basically controlled within ten minutes, and not every mid-level and senior official will be able to get an interview opportunity when they take office or report on their duties. Otherwise, Li Xuan will be available 24 hours a day.
Even if I don’t sleep, I won’t be able to finish it all.
But even if he is busy with other government affairs, most of the time he will devote two hours every day to meet with his ministers.
At this time, the secretary said: "The person sent by the Queen Mother did not say anything clearly!"
Hearing what the secretary said, Li Xuan stopped asking questions. It was probably something. Otherwise, he wouldn't have let him go when he was busy in the afternoon. He immediately said: "Well, I understand. In the afternoon
Let the people from the Navy come over to make a report first, well, let’s get there earlier and let them arrive at two o’clock!”
After that, he waved his hand and asked the secretary to go out.
Looking at the clock, it was now ten fifty, and there was still a little time, so he found a document, and then took a brief look at it. This document was compiled by the Hanlin Academy about the Jiangxi Provincial Inspectorate.
Li Xuan did not look too carefully at the basic situation on the side. After briefly looking through it, he ordered the secretaries outside to let Chen Pugao, the president of the Jiangxi Inspectorate, come in.
At the same time, Chen Pugao, who was waiting in the guest room outside, was sitting and drinking tea slowly. The tea in the palace was naturally good tea, but now he seemed to be sipping tea, but in fact the tea was
He had no intention of tasting the taste at all.
Right now, his mind is filled with work reports!
He took up the post of president of the Jiangxi Procuratorate the year before last, and he was originally the censor of Qiandu of the Procuratorate. When he took up the post of president of the Jiangxi Procuratorate, he began to take charge of the government. However, after taking office in Jiangxi, he
It's because he didn't do it very well.
In the past few months, the inspection team sent by the Central Supervisory Office has uncovered a large number of corrupt officials in Jiangxi. The matter is somewhat serious. Although the main responsibility for corruption among local officials lies with local officials, especially the governor of Jiangxi and the Bu
Political envoy, however, as the president of the Jiangxi Procuratorate, the work of the Jiangxi Procuratorate did not make much progress during his tenure.
how to say!
The Jiangxi Procuratorate did not take down these corrupt officials. Instead, they waited until the central inspection team found out and took them down. What does this mean? It represents actual work!
Otherwise, His Majesty would not have recalled him to report on his duties.
If this is not done well, I am afraid he will lose his official position. Thinking of this, he just hates those people in the inspection team. Damn it, they are officials in the same department and they don’t give them any face. When the incident happened, he
But running up and down for what?
Naturally, it is not to protect those corrupt officials, but to try to transfer the case to the Jiangxi Supervisory Office for handling.
But the people from the patrol team naturally refused. How the patrol team determines merit is naturally based on how many local officials have been arrested and how many major cases have been solved.
If the inspection team achieves nothing in Jiangxi, every member of the inspection team will be unlucky. I dare not say that they will lose their jobs, but they will definitely be demoted.
Why?
Because there must be corrupt officials, but if you don't discover them, that's a dereliction of duty.
Currently, in the Tang Dynasty, there are several types of centrally dispatched officials who inspect local areas, such as inspectors from the Supervisory Office, inspectors from the Taxation Department, and investigators from the Ministry of Personnel.
When the Ministry of Taxation conducts inspections, they don’t care about the corruption of local officials, they only care about the internal affairs of the tax department system and tax collection matters.
When the Ministry of Civil Affairs investigates officials, they do not care about corruption or the like. They mainly conduct on-the-spot investigations on the officials' governance and public reputation.
The expatriate officials of various departments are generally responsible for the affairs within their own departments.
The real deal with official corruption, malfeasance and the like is still done by the Inspectorate of the Supervisory Office. Although their rank is not high, they hold real power. Inspections of a province are usually led by the censor of the fifth rank, and most of the members of the Inspectorate are
He is a seventh-grade official.
However, these inspection officials are not permanently stationed in one place. They basically stay in one place for a few months and then stay in another place for a few months.
This is because when inspection officials go to local areas, they are basically looking for trouble. If they cannot find problems, the inspection officials themselves will be unlucky. But if they find problems, it will naturally be the local officials' misfortune.
Therefore, the conflict between inspection officials and local officials is relatively large, and they are naturally antagonistic!
Chen Pugao complained in his heart that the people in the inspection team were merciless, and at the same time he was thinking about how to get through this difficulty.
After receiving the notice from the secretary, he did not think about the messy things. Then he took a few deep breaths and followed the secretary to Li Xuan's office. When he arrived at Li Xuan's office, he first saluted and knelt down.
Li Xuan was sitting behind the desk, still holding a report on Jiangxi's officialdom and reading it. After hearing the voice, he glanced at Chen Pugao briefly, then withdrew his gaze and said nothing.
Li Xuan didn't even dare to stand up even if he gave Chen Pugao a hundred courage, so he could only continue to kneel.
After five minutes, Li Xuancai put down the report in his hand and said, "Get up!"
After hearing this, Chen Pugao stood up. When he stood up, his legs were a little numb because he had been kneeling for a long time. Officials of the Tang Dynasty generally rarely knelt in front of Li Xuan for a long time during meetings.
When visiting, seats are often given.
"I went north at the beginning of the year and passed by Jiangxi. This place in Jiangxi is a good place. It is a land of water and rice, and it is good for raising people. Did Chen Aiqing say that?" Li Xuan said casually.
But to Chen Pugao's ears, these words were heartbreaking. A land of water and rice to support people? This implies that he would be lazy and enjoy the blessings when he went to Jiangxi. If this is the case, then get out of here as soon as possible!
Of course, as the emperor, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, and the eternal sage who is greater than the sun, Li Xuan will not say it directly, but at any time, when listening to the emperor's words, you can't just take the superficial meaning.
Learn to listen to the meaning behind words.
Of course, if you guess wrong, the ending will usually not be too good!
Chen Pugao said at this time: "Your Majesty, Jiangxi is a good place, but I have failed to live up to your Majesty's public expectations. As a result, Jiangxi's officialdom has been corrupted, and I am guilty!"
Li Xuan's expression remained unchanged: "Don't be too busy saying that you are guilty. Whether you are guilty or not, it doesn't matter whether you are guilty or not. It is up to me to say it. Let me tell you, what happened over there in Jiangxi?"
Then Chen Pugao began to have the opportunity to formally defend himself. Of course, it was impossible to defend directly. He had to be more tactful, and he highlighted several reasons for the corruption of Jiangxi's officialdom.
For example, there are a large number of local officials in Jiangxi who have been demoted, especially among grassroots officials. At the same time, when the Supervisory Office carried out its work in Jiangxi, it was blocked by many senior officials in Jiangxi, because senior officials in Jiangxi
In order to pursue political achievements, officials have unilaterally condoned some officials with outstanding abilities but corrupt behaviors.
Li Xuan listened, but did not interrupt in the middle. Instead, he waited for him to speak for more than ten minutes before he said, "Well, I understand. Let's go back. I guess you already know what to do after you go back.
I won’t say much more!”
Hearing Li Xuan say this, Chen Pugao also breathed a sigh of relief. It seems that today's difficulty has passed, but judging from His Majesty's attitude, I am afraid that this is the last chance given to him.
Damn, when I return to Jiangxi this time, I will definitely take the butcher's knife. It will be useless for anyone to plead for mercy this time. Otherwise, this time I will just come back to report on my work, but the next time I am afraid it will not be as simple as reporting on my work!
However, he didn't know that Li Xuan was already preparing to remove him from his post at this time. However, there were not many senior officials in the Inspectorate, and they couldn't find a suitable candidate for a while, so he was asked to do it first.
Go ahead and get rid of this derelict guy as soon as we have the right people!
As the president of a provincial inspectorate, no matter what the reasons or objective reasons are, letting the official administration be so corrupt is a serious dereliction of duty!
Otherwise, there are many problems in other provinces, so why can they control the officialdom at a relatively stable level?
Chen Pugao left, and the new governor of Yunnan, Feng Demin, came in next. Unlike Chen Pugao, who looked sad, Feng Demin was in high spirits!