I want to be emperor

Chapter 410

Compared with Ding Gangyi who was able to resolutely abandon all his family wealth, some people did not have such courage, or fell into the eyes of money, and at the same time had a fluke mentality.

Tian Guangyuan, the right servant of the Ministry of Industry, is a typical example... The Inspectorate has already found out a lot of detailed evidence, and finally reported it to the imperial court.

Luo Zhixue was not too moved by this, and he quickly issued an instruction: "Severely punished, so as to serve as an example to others."

Tian Guangyuan is too courageous. He has been the right servant for only one year. Before that, he served as the director of the Iron and Steel Department under the Ministry of Industry for more than a year. In the past two years, he has been in high positions and made a lot of money. At the same time, he even asked for bribes from his subordinates to provide promotions. convenience.

When it broke out last month, Luo Zhixue actually gave Tian Guangyuan a chance, implying that as long as he handles it properly, then I can turn a blind eye to it.

After all, Tian Guangyuan was also an old courtier of the dragon when he was in Nanyang Mansion, and relatively speaking, he still has some abilities. Luo Zhixue still hopes that he can find his way back.

However, this person looked like an upright official at the time, crying and shouting that the minister was innocent, and someone had framed him.

Well, Luo Zhixue is too lazy to deal with such a person.

Everything follows the rules, and when the time comes, do whatever you want.

Ever since, this is the formal investigation stage of the Inspectorate...

Even at this stage, Tian Guangyuan still thought of concealing, transferring assets and other means to evade investigation, but never thought of going to Luo Zhixue to admit his mistake and beg for mercy.

Then...then Tian Guangyuan was taken away by the censor of the inspector's office and the patrolmen.

Later, after Luo Zhixue's approval, the Great Inspector's Office formally filed a public prosecution against Tian Guangyuan. From the second rank's right deputy capital imperial envoy, he personally served as the public prosecution censor, and filed a lawsuit on charges of corruption, bribery, dereliction of duty, and deception.

On December [-], the Grand Court held its first semi-public hearing on the case.

Three days later, the second trial was held and the verdict was pronounced: Tian Guangyuan himself was sentenced to death and executed immediately. His son cooperated with Tian Guangyuan in transferring assets and resisting the investigation. He also raped three civilian women in the past year and was also sentenced to death.

The rest of the family members were exiled for three thousand miles.

As for the family property, it is natural that all the brains were confiscated.

More than 20 other corrupt officials involved in the case were also sentenced one by one, most of them were sentenced to death, and a few were also ransacked and their family members were exiled.

The case of Tian Guangyuan was also the first semi-public investigation and trial of a senior official at the second rank since the founding of the Great Chu Empire. They all learned about this through the residence newspaper of the Great Chu Empire.

This is actually rare in the Great Chu Empire.

Although the Great Chu Empire had successively dealt with some high-ranking criminals before.

Officials from the second rank and even the official second rank Shangshu level have been dealt with, but basically they are dealt with within the officialdom, and it is rare to say that they will be tried publicly and expelled.

Most of them ended with demoting, begging for bones, etc. For serious cases, they would not be judged publicly, but would be given three feet of white silk or a glass of poisoned wine. Generally speaking, Luo Zhixue gave these old courtiers a A decent ending.

It's just that now Luo Zhixue finds that this is not enough, the threat is not enough, and it has given those courtiers with ulterior motives a false impression.

That is, no matter how serious the crime is, the most he can do is to go home for the elderly, and maybe he can recover in a few years...

No matter how bad it is, it is suicide, but the family and property can be preserved.

And this is not good!
Except for a very few people who have no choice but to do things that violate the law and discipline, most of them do it because of greed and luck in their hearts.

There is no way to do greed. After all, people all want something, and there is no way to eradicate desire. Without desire, there is no way to be human.

But luck can be suppressed.

When the cost of breaking the law is high enough, people will consider the risks when trying to break the law.

Therefore, in the past two months, Luo Zhixue has also changed some of his attitudes towards his courtiers, relying solely on internal handling to give them a decent ending Since it gave them the illusion, then use another method to deter them and let them know that the cost of breaking the law is very high It's so tall that he and even his whole family can't bear it.

Not to mention, the impact of the Tian Guangyuan case is far-reaching and significant.

Many people have figured out Luo Zhixue's thoughts from this case: Before corruption, you must consider the consequences, and you cannot afford the consequences.

At the same time, the censors at the Procuratorate also knew His Majesty's attitude, and now they support anti-corruption, so they worked harder, hoping to catch a few big corrupt officials and then get promoted.

All of a sudden, the mood in the officialdom improved a lot.

Luo Zhixue is very pleased about this, it seems that there are quite a lot of smart people.

Although he also knows that this situation cannot last for a long time, and even after a year or so, many people will forget the threat of this case, and then continue to corrupt.

But it's good to last for a year and a half.

Besides, at worst, Luo Zhixue will bring up another big case in a year's time to reorganize the atmosphere.

Anti-corruption and rectification of officials is a normalized work that needs to be carried out persistently.

Luo Zhixue is well aware that this job may accompany him throughout his career in power, and Luo Zhixue has already prepared for this and has a rough plan.

Just kill a batch every once in a while.

Corrupt officials are like leeks, once a crop is harvested, another crop will emerge in a short time.

By the way, some assets can be confiscated to supplement the national treasury. In Tian Guangyuan's case, the Tian family and more than a dozen other official families whose homes were confiscated contributed a total of 10 taels of income to the national treasury.

Thinking about it this way, Luo Zhixue felt that it would be good to kill a batch of corrupt officials every once in a while.

Some dynasties raise merchants and kill pigs, so Luo Zhixue should have no problem raising officials but killing pigs?

In December of the third year of Chengshun, the impact of the Great Chu Empire on the outside world and on the internal civil servants was to fight corruption and rectify the administration of officials.

A large number of officials were arrested one after another, and then sentenced to death and ransacked their homes, or were sentenced to imprisonment or exile, etc.

Those who don't know this may also because the focus of the Great Chu Empire's work in December and the following months is the administration of officials.

In fact, it is not. The rectification of officials is just the things that the Great Chu Empire did in December, and it didn't even rank in the top five.

For the Great Chu Empire during this period, the most important thing was military affairs.

Especially preparing for the Northern Expedition next year.

This matter is the most important thing for the Great Chu Empire in the autumn and winter of this year, and even in the spring of next year.

Even the unfolding of many things was itself part of the preparations for the Northern Expedition.

For example, the two battles of Fujian and Zhejiang, these two battles were originally part of the strategy of first south and then north, and first south and then north were part of the strategy of the northern expedition.

So don't look at the Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian and Zhejiang that the Chu army fought very far away from Beizhili. In fact, they attacked Guangdong, Guangxi and Fujian and Zhejiang first to prepare for the subsequent attack on Beizhili.

After the Fujian-Zhejiang campaign, recruiting Zheng Zhilong was also based on this consideration.

Now it is time to rectify the Dangtu Industrial Zone and strive to increase the production capacity of flintlock guns.

There is also a flintlock replacement for the first division, so that the ace unit of the first division can be replaced with a flintlock as the main force of the Northern Expedition.

The same is true for the reorganization of the garrison. In addition to arranging a large number of surrendered troops, the reorganization of the garrison is also to save military expenses and at the same time produce more main forces so that more main forces can be mobilized to participate in the Northern Expedition. Northern Expedition.

The Great Chu Empire couldn't rely on two or three divisions to fight all the way to Shuntian Mansion in Beizhili, could it?

All of the military affairs mentioned above are very important.

In addition to military affairs, some people's livelihood and public security affairs are also more important.

For example, restoring the people's livelihood in Fujian, Zhejiang, and Guangdong and Guangxi regions is also the focus of the Great Chu Empire's work in this autumn and winter period. For this reason, the imperial central government has allocated a total of 400 million taels of silver for post-war relief and people's livelihood in the above four provinces. Resume on.

The military expenditures for the previous campaign, plus the post-war relief funds, the Great Chu Empire spent at least more than 1000 million taels of silver in the battles of Guangdong, Guangxi and Fujian and Zhejiang.

Basically, many assets confiscated from the recalcitrant officials and gentry in the above four provinces were filled in.

But it's not a bad thing to say.

In this way, the empire was able to collect a batch of funds for the elimination of bandits in all internal control areas.

Beginning this autumn, that is, after the battles in Guangdong, Guangxi and Fujian and Zhejiang regions came to an end, the military and the patrol department cooperated with each other. In addition to regular operations, they also gradually launched large-scale illegal armed suppression activities in the existing control areas.

The targets of the suppression were all kinds of messy bandits and thieves, including all kinds of illegal armed forces of landlords. In short, the attitude of the Great Chu Empire was very clear. Except for officers and soldiers, no other armed forces should exist.

Whether it's the large-scale guardians of the landlords, the bandits who occupy the mountains as kings, or the rogues running around, they all want to be encircled and suppressed.

It is worth mentioning that during the large-scale elimination of various illegal armed forces, it was also one of the reasons that led Luo Zhixue to make up his mind to completely eliminate the garrison.

The fighting power of this garrison is too scumbag!

In the early stage of the campaign to encircle and suppress all kinds of illegal armed forces, in fact, the garrison troops were mainly involved in the battle, but the actual combat performance of these garrison troops made the military very dissatisfied.

Many garrison troops could not even defeat the armed forces of the landlords... let alone encounter some thieves and bandits with relatively strong mobility.

When the Ninth Garrison Division was encircling and suppressing a group of bandits in western Hunan, one of its garrison regiments was ambushed by the bandits and suffered heavy losses.

There are also many garrison troops who do not have a high will to fight, and they will stop or even turn around and run when encountering slightly stronger illegal armed forces.

The low performance of the garrison in the campaign against illegal armed forces that started in the autumn finally made Luo Zhixue make up his mind to eliminate the garrison in an all-round way.

Raising so many defenders, wasting a lot of money and food and not being able to fight, it's annoying to watch.

However, after a large number of garrison troops were eliminated, although part of the main force was expanded, most of these main forces were used for foreign operations or to garrison important strategic cities.

This also led to a problem. Many small and medium-sized cities are defensive forces.

Under such circumstances, the army officially requested to form a number of low-cost regular troops, which are used to suppress local areas on weekdays and used in conjunction with the main force in wartime.

The army's proposal is very interesting. The troops they propose are not ordinary second-line troops like the garrison in the past, but are regular troops like the existing main forces, but they require low cost.

Luo Zhixue was very interested in this proposal.

(End of this chapter)