I want to be emperor

On August 16th, [-]th year of Chengshun, Jinling City.

Luo Zhixue held a morning meeting as usual. At the meeting, he dealt with a few daily affairs in a simple and quick manner, and soon arrived at the Grand Procuratorate, Youdu Yushi, and the co-organizer Wang Bingqi reported on the early stage of a new round of bureaucratic rectification. Deployment works.

"Following His Majesty's instructions, I have recruited elite soldiers from the Great Procuratorate, and asked the Patrol Department to send some elite forces to join our special anti-corruption action team this time. I will be the team leader, and the Director of the Anti-Corruption Department of the Patrol Department will report to you." Yu Bo served as the deputy team leader and was temporarily divided into nine teams. Each team will go to each province to conduct inspections, accept various local reports, and urge the provincial judicial agencies to investigate the clues of the report.”

"This large-scale inspection will strictly follow His Majesty's idea of ​​'investigate the big ones, and even the small ones', and will severely and comprehensively crack down on all kinds of officials' violations, especially corruption and bribery, which damage the public. An illegal act of trust in the imperial court."

"The first round of inspections will start this month. Each inspection team will go to the proposed nine provinces. After arriving at the place, the team members will go to various places to conduct open and unannounced visits. At the same time, we will also accept anonymous reporting letters in various places. It will be published simultaneously on the provincial editions of the Dachu Mansion Daily, and related notices will be posted in every county to ensure that the voices of ordinary people are heard as much as possible.”

"This time, we will use various methods to ensure that the anti-corruption work penetrates downwards and increase the listening to the voices of the people!"

Wang Bingqi's report did not go into too much detail. After all, this person is also a co-organizer. The team leader of this special operation is still in charge of overall coordination. Corruption is the theme.

The Anti-Corruption Bureau of the Great Procuratorate has drawn up different detailed plans according to the different situations of each province, and it is impossible for Wang Bingqi to report with dozens of thick plan documents, he can only make a general report .

Listening to these seemingly general reports, Luo Zhixue smiled.

Wang Bingqi's report seems to be just a general talk, and there is nothing surprising about the means, but the focus is not on these, but on a few key words in the report.

In particular, the anti-corruption work has penetrated downwards and listened to the voices of the people.

These two points are very appetizing to Luo Zhixue, which shows that this Wang Bingqi's political consciousness is still good, and he fully understands the main reason why he asked him to carry out the rectification of grassroots officials.

In fact, Luo Zhixue doesn't care too much about corruption in the middle and high-level... As long as these people don't touch the bottom line and don't make people angry, Luo Zhixue will basically not deal with it personally, but let the courtiers fight... How should I put it, corrupt officials also have political enemies, and many times officials are more corrupt, and after showing their feet, Luo Zhixue doesn't actually need to do anything, his political opponents just pounce on him and tear him apart!
This is also the main method of the high-level anti-corruption work of the Great Chu Empire in recent years, not relying on Luo Zhixue's attack, but relying on the internal struggle of the courtiers.

In this way, the efficiency of high-level anti-corruption is still high, and it is very long-lasting. After a while, several big corrupt officials can be killed to make the people happy! …

On the contrary, it is even more difficult to fight corruption at the grassroots level.

The grassroots and the high-level are different. For example, there are not so many so-called political struggles at the grassroots level, especially for those grassroots officials of the eighth and ninth ranks... Most of them are impossible to cross the seventh rank. Those who have a low threshold will be just a junior staff member all their lives, at most they will be a mixed-up eighth-rank, and become a senior staff member or deputy section chief.

If you want to say that they have any enemies, it is unlikely.

Moreover, many people have worked in a department for a long time, several years or even more than ten years. After these people have worked in the grassroots for a long time, they will become as stubborn as the officials in the traditional feudal dynasty.

Even the Great Chu Empire has implemented a remote distribution system, and even the lowest-ranking ninth-rank officers are distributed across the government after passing the exam.

In other words, in the current Great Chu Empire, there is no such thing as a local being an official.

But you have to consider that after a person has worked in a certain place for a long time, he will marry and have children here, or take his family directly from his old home to the place where he works.

Regardless of whether it is a government agency or an enterprise unit, if a person works in a department for a long time, or even in a certain position for a long time, problems will easily arise.

Especially when this person's position brought him some power.

But because of these people's long-term employment, as long as they are not too failures in life, most of them will have a good relationship with their colleagues.

In addition, there is no possibility of promotion, and there is no motivation to fight with each other.

This also makes it less common to report to each other, and more of them are colluding.

This also led to a lot of corruption among grassroots officials in the Great Chu Empire, but relatively few reports.

However, it should be noted that ordinary people do not actually have access to middle and high-level officials. What ordinary people can contact in daily life are some officials at the lowest level, such as patrol police, such as some ordinary staff in government offices, at most eight or eight. Pin, from the small officials around the seventh rank.

The corruption of these people will bring more intuitive feelings to the public.

After the appearance of a few low-level staff members with food and drink cards around them, many people will think that the world is as black as crows, and all the officials are corrupt officials...

Although this is true, if the vast majority of the people have this perception, then the rule of the empire will be very bad.

People's support is sometimes unimportant, but sometimes it is very important.

Although sometimes relying on guns can also win the hearts of the people, but this thing is okay to use occasionally, but if you keep using guns, you may be able to turn around and bombard you one day.

Because... the ordinary soldiers in the Great Chu Empire are also made up of ordinary people, to be precise, the poor children in the countryside. They, his family and other relatives and friends are the most ordinary bottom-level people in the Great Chu Empire people.

They are not part of the ruling class!

Therefore, don't expect them to be on the side of the powerful at critical moments, especially when they hold guns.

Think about it, when the families of ordinary soldiers are oppressed by bad gentry and corrupt officials and resist the rebellion, do you still expect the soldiers to point their guns at their families? …

It would be good if people don't hit you with black guns!
So... the army in the Great Chu Empire, to be precise, is the ground force, the army also needs it, the guards also need it, and the marine corps also needs it, and they all serve in different places.

This is true not only for officers, but also for soldiers, and officers and soldiers cannot be born in the same place.

Of course, it is very important for the army to serve in different places, but again, it is not feasible to rely on guns to win the hearts of the people. It can be achieved temporarily, but it cannot achieve long-term stability.

This has been proven in thousands of years of human history,

If you really want to win the hearts of the people, you still need to grasp the hearts of the people fundamentally, such as improving the people's living standards.

This is the most direct and most important thing, and it is also the top priority that the Great Chu Empire has been doing for the past ten years, and it has always been focused on core tasks.

Secondly, we need to reduce the public's negative impression of the government. We don't ask them to think that the government is good, but we ask them not to gnash their teeth when they mention the government...or to help transport supplies and set up ladders when they saw the enemy invade...that's right. , talking about the people of Beijing and Tianjin during the invasion of the Eight-Power Allied Forces.

During the invasion of the Eight-Power Allied Forces, countless local people used small carts and pole baskets to transport various supplies such as ammunition from the seaside all the way, and supported the logistics supply line of the Eight-Power Allied Forces with their own hands and shoulders.

Even when the Eight-Power Allied Forces attacked the city, they took the initiative to take out the long ladder at home, and then ran under the city wall under the firepower of the defenders to help the Eight-Power Allied Forces set up the ladder...

What a nonsense this is!
Why is this happening?

It was nothing more than a series of brutal rule in the late Qing Dynasty and the extreme hardship of people's livelihood, which led to people's despair and even hatred of the Manchu Qing court.

This kind of thing seems incredible, even unacceptable.

But this is reality.

For these, Luo Zhixue is aware of, so he also guards against these things, and tries his best to avoid them, and try to solve this problem fundamentally.

Pay attention to people's livelihood, maintain a positive image of the government, add strong deterrence of force, and then add loyalty education and so on.

Multi-pronged approach to achieve long-term stability.

Grassroots anti-corruption is an important part of it.

A high-ranking cabinet official corrupted a huge sum of 100 million Chu Yuan. He may have damaged the country's economic losses of millions or even tens of millions, but the actual negative consequences it caused, especially the negative impact on the hearts of the people, are far less than [-] yuan. Grassroots officials, per capita corruption one hundred Chu yuan!
Because high-ranking officials are corrupt, ordinary people cannot touch it. Although the actual damage is great, ordinary people don’t feel it strongly. Rotten, just curse a few words, more just surprise...

But grassroots corruption is directly accessible to the public, and grassroots corruption will make the public feel the infringement of their own interests.

Between the two, it's hard to say which one really harms the people more, but in terms of people's hearts alone, it is obvious that the latter is more harmful to the stability of the rule.

This is also the reason why Luo Zhixue made great fanfare and promoted the repeated work at the grassroots level to the level of a solid ruling foundation. …

Following the completion of Wang Bingqi's report and the approval and approval of the emperor Luo Zhixue, the large-scale grassroots anti-corruption work coordinated by the provincial inspectorate and the patrol department, led by the Anti-Corruption Bureau of the Great Inspectorate and supplemented by the Anti-Corruption Department of the Patrol Department The staged started vigorously!

In late August, nine inspection teams went to various provinces to start their first round of inspections!
Since September, Luo Zhixue has received repeated reports about the progress of related work at the grassroots level.

In September, Luo Zhixue received reports that more than 630 officials who were involved in corruption and other illegal activities were successively arrested and quickly tried. More than 120 of them were sentenced to death by the local court. , but will be sent directly to various mines for mining, and those with a suitable distance will be exiled to the desolate frontier for reclamation.

For example, in order to increase the resident population of the Heilongjiang River Basin, the Great Chu Empire specially set up several prisons in the local area... Speaking of prisons, they are actually exile and reclamation camps, where prisoners are transported by sea to the mouth of Heilongjiang, and then transported to several prisons by ship in Heilongjiang In the reclamation area.

Therefore, strictly speaking, there are actually not many people who are actually in prison in the Great Chu Empire... Those who can enjoy the treatment of imprisonment are generally minor criminals with short sentences, or some criminals with very special identities, such as those who were arrested by Luo. Zhixue personally decreed to hand over to the judicial trial, but the criminal ministers who did not express whether to exile...

Most criminals were either exiled or entered the mines.

Even petty criminals who are imprisoned in the local area will inevitably have to work... The government of the Great Chu Empire will not support these criminals. It is impossible to eat and drink in the given place, you have to work. eat.

If nothing else happens, this large-scale grassroots anti-corruption work will make these people extremely rare, and there will be more exiles for reclamation in places where ordinary immigrants would not want to go.

The arrest of hundreds of low-level corrupt officials in September is just the beginning, and there are many more, much more than hundreds of low-level officials will be arrested and sentenced in a series of follow-up actions.

It is hard to say exactly how many people will be involved, but there can only be an approximate number, that is, about 10 person-times will be dealt with during the one-year anti-corruption work at the grassroots level.

Because this is the target number given by Luo Zhixue... If this number is missing, it will be a dereliction of duty in this special operation, and he will deal with Wang Bingqi...

In addition, the treatment mentioned here does not mean that all of them will be arrested and sentenced. It also includes punishments such as dismissal and demotion. Everyone will not be transferred to justice.

Beginning in September, the Great Chu Empire launched a vigorous anti-corruption work at the grassroots level, led by the Great Inspectorate, assisted by the Patrol Department, and cooperated with the local inspectorates in various provinces to carry out specific work.

At the same time, public opinion and publicity were spread out in time, and the Dachu Mansion newspaper intensively launched the publicity work for this round of anti-corruption work.

The focus of the propaganda is naturally not how many corrupt officials there are, how much harm they have caused, and so on. It is not good to talk too much, but it is easier for the public to think that the government is a concentration of corrupt officials.

The focus of the propaganda is how the government attaches great importance to the administration of officials, how to ensure the people's livelihood, how to care about the vital interests of the people, and so on. …

Although the things reported are different, the starting point of publicity is different, and the focus of publicity is different, so the effect will be different.

There was no need for Luo Zhixue's instructions on these matters, the people in the Chaobao Department of the Ministry of Etiquette and Education knew it very well and made corresponding arrangements.

When the extensive grassroots anti-corruption work was vigorously carried out, the Ministry of Civil Affairs also submitted a plan for the reform of the appointment and dismissal of grassroots officials.

In the case of long-term employment, it does not exist for mid-level and senior officials. Basically, as long as they reach the rank of Cong Qipin, they basically serve as deputy mayors or deputy section chiefs of other institutions. These positions do not exist. In the case of long-term employment, it is normal to transfer positions within three to five years.

Moreover, the appointment and removal of officials of the seventh rank and the official seventh rank are basically transfers across counties, not to mention the transfers of officials of the sixth rank and above are all transfers across provinces or even across provinces.

In terms of middle and senior officials, the Great Chu Empire followed a typical floating official system, and would not allow a middle or high-level official to work in this position for a long time, nor would he be allowed to work in a certain place for a long time.

But in the past, for grassroots officials, that is, officials of the ninth and eighth ranks, such cross-regional appointment and dismissal transfers were rare.

After all, most of them are ordinary staff, you can't transfer them to work in other counties every few years...

This time, the reform is to carry out cross-regional transfers as much as possible without affecting the lives of grassroots officials.

In fact, there is only one main rule, that is, when the official is promoted from the ninth rank to the eighth rank or from the eighth rank to the genuine eighth rank, he must be transferred across towns or departments depending on the situation. In short, he cannot be promoted on the spot in the original department.

The Ministry of Civil Affairs tries to increase the mobility of grassroots officials as much as possible without affecting the normal life of grassroots officials. This is also the scope of cross-regional or cross-departmental transfers, and does not involve the scope of promotion from ninth rank to full ninth rank.

Because officials from the ninth rank are often newcomers who have not been in the value for a few years. They have just settled down, and their positions are too low, and there are too many people. If they have to be transferred frequently, the workload will be very heavy.

But it is different from the ninth rank to the eighth rank.

In terms of the actual scope of work in the officialdom of the Great Chu Empire, there is actually no difference between the ninth rank and the ninth rank. They are the most common staff members. At most, there is a small gap in salary, but it is not big.

But from the perspective of the eight ranks, this is basically a small official position, or among senior staff members in important departments, there are often a few people under their hands, and they will hold limited power in their hands.

And this kind of small power will quickly increase the possibility of their corruption.

And this time the main targets of grassroots anti-corruption are actually these small officials who have a small amount of power in their hands.

Most of these people have no hope of further becoming high officials, and they have a little power in their hands. They also have channels to realize power, and it is easy to have positive and bad consequences, which can easily create a breeding ground for corruption.

And these people are not only greedy themselves, but also have a high probability of pulling the people around them into the water, and there will be a situation of collusion. …

The core purpose of the reform of grassroots officials by the Ministry of Civil Affairs is to focus on cracking down on these small officials who have little power and no hope of promotion.

Low-level officials in the range of the eighth or seventh rank.

As for the sixth rank and above, from the sixth rank, they are already the positions of the county magistrate or the corresponding deputy directors of the government. These people are relatively middle-level officials. Although there are many corruptions among these people, they are also There is no need for the high-level empire to carry out special anti-corruption treatment, because it has been done before, and the overall work is not bad in the long run.

While carrying out large-scale anti-corruption work, at the same time, the process of appointment and removal of grassroots officials has been adjusted, and the scope of the rule of cross-department appointments in different places has been expanded to the scope of eight ranks.

Luo Zhixue hopes that through this series of measures, the phenomenon of corruption at the grassroots level can be curbed.

Of course, it is estimated that it will take some time to see the effect, maybe a year or even two or three years.

The work of official administration is a long-term work. It is impossible to say that if it is done today, the effect will be improved tomorrow, but it must be done today, tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow. It must be done continuously... after a period of time A big wave will deepen the fear of corrupt officials to form a good and lasting deterrent.

Anti-corruption has never been purely for catching corrupt officials, but for letting more officials know that corruption costs a lot, and to dispel their ideas of corruption to a certain extent.

Just like the meaning of the law, the greatest significance of the law is not to punish criminals, but to deter potential criminals, thereby reducing crime.

So, you have to let people know the serious consequences of crime!

This is also an important reason why the Great Chu Empire has widely publicized this corruption crackdown, just for deterrence!

After seeing the smooth implementation of the grassroots anti-corruption work in September, Luo Zhixue did not follow up too much. There are many things that need him, and grassroots repetition is just one of them.

On October [-]th, Luo Zhixue visited the Royal Institute of Technology again according to the itinerary. This was his second visit to the Royal Institute of Technology this year.

Luo Zhixue has always visited the Royal Institute of Technology frequently, and this place is also the place he goes to the most when he goes out.

Basically, I go there at least once a year, sometimes even three or four times.

The reason why Luo Zhixue attaches so much importance to the Royal Institute of Technology is because this place is extremely important. It can even be said that the Royal Institute of Technology bears the hope of the industrialization of the Great Chu Empire.

This is the most important university of science and technology in the Great Chu Empire, and it is also the most important research institution. A series of theoretical research in various disciplines and the most cutting-edge experimental science carried out here have provided a solid foundation for the industrial development of the Great Chu Empire. Solid technical support.

The "Daye Method" steelmaking method launched last year provided a feasible basis for the industrialized mass production of steel in the Great Chu Empire. Although this Daye Method was the first to be developed by Daye Iron and Steel Company, in fact the behind A series of theoretical technologies were provided by the Iron and Steel Research Institute directly under the Royal Institute of Technology, and the two sides cooperated.

Basically, it is a model in which Daye Iron and Steel Company provides financial and other resource support, and the Royal Institute of Technology sends out people to conduct research and share the results.

Just a big steel smelting method is enough to greatly promote the industrial development of the Great Chu Empire, but there are many similar research projects in the Royal Institute of Technology.

From weapons and equipment in various defense industries, to big guys like steam engines, to drug research in modern medicine, hybrid rice in agriculture, chemical fertilizers, to weather forecasting, etc., everything that can be related to science and technology The Royal Institute of Technology is basically involved, but it's just the amount of resources invested.

Today, Luo Zhixue went to the Royal Institute of Technology to inspect, and what he saw was the steam engine!
A few days ago, the Royal Institute of Technology’s steam engine project team reported that they had made major improvements to the steam engine. The prototype test was quite successful, and it already had practical use value. That’s why Luo Zhixue came to inspect it.

After all, in addition to routine inspections, Luo Zhixue was able to make a temporary inspection, and only breakthroughs in some key technologies such as steam engines.