I want to be emperor

Suddenly, an airborne official from the third grade of Guangzhou City who participated in politics and also served as the director of the Office of Civil Affairs, and this airborne official named Wang Xilin was also from the Supervision Department of the Ministry of Civil Affairs.

This immediately caused many officials in Guangzhou to frown slightly.

They feel threatened, mortal threat!

On the other hand, Wang Tu who was in Heyuan couldn't help but frown slightly after hearing the news. Could it be that the higher-ups sent Wang Xilin to Guangdong at this time, could it be that there is some deep meaning behind it?
It is not unusual for a high-ranking official to be parachuted to a place in the Great Chu Empire. On the contrary, this kind of thing happens quite often, but it is not normal to parachute a high-ranking official who specializes in anti-corruption.

It is easy for people to guess, is there some kind of large-scale corruption case?And this kind of corruption case is so deeply involved, to the extent that Jinling has to send a high-ranking official to suppress it?
Wang Tu didn't know, but he knew that someone would be unlucky, and there would be a lot of people, and many of them would be people in high positions.

Officials in remote places like Wang Tu were surprised when they heard the news that Wang Xilin had been parachuted into office. At the same time, they expected that huge turmoil might occur in the future.

Many other officials can naturally understand the importance of the matter, and some officials with dirty hands and feet are even more frightened by it.

All of a sudden, the atmosphere in the officialdom in Guangzhou became extremely clean. When many businessmen or lower-level officials wanted to entertain officials, or find officials to clear up their relationship and do certain things, they found that the corrupt officials who used to be more than one were now He became an upright official.

When you came to the door with a gift, you were directly turned away, and some officials even shouted a few times on purpose, saying that this official is definitely not such a person, don’t ruin my name, the voice of rejection is quite loud so that the neighbors can hear it.

Of course, more people still chose to stand still and watch Wang Xilin in the dark.

Want to know what exactly Wang Xilin wants to do and what kind of mission did he come here with?

Who is his target?

There are even some people who try to inquire about it directly from Wang Xilin through various methods.

But to their disappointment, after Wang Xilin took office, he looked like a good old man, and he went to work in the yamen every day with a teacup soaked with wolfberry, and the things he did were ordinary things.

As soon as the off-duty time came, he strolled back to the official dormitory behind the governor's yamen.

He didn't buy or rent a house outside at all, and lived directly in the official dormitory inside the governor's office.

So that some outsiders have no chance to contact him.

And this, Fan Fei did not reassure outsiders, on the contrary, it deepened the concerns of some officials.

Even Governor Tang Tiangui was slightly dissatisfied with this.

This Wang Xilin has been smiling on the surface since he took office, but anyone who is not a fool can tell that this person is already sharpening his knife and preparing to kill.

Anyone who really thinks that Wang Xilin came to Guangzhou to keep in good health is a real fool.

Wang Xilin was in his mid-forties at the time. For an official, he was in the prime of life and at the peak of his official career.

In fact, this person is indeed the case. During his two years as the director of the third division of the Supervision Department of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, he impeached three second-rank senior officials, thirteen regular third-rank officials, and more than a dozen third-rank officials.

Those of the fourth rank or even below the fourth rank are not worthy of his achievements!
These officials who have been impeached are not just resigning. They will eventually be handed over to the judiciary for trial. Three high-ranking officials from the second rank were shot, and two were sentenced to life. Then they were sent to Northeast mining .

A total of more than 20 official third-rank and junior third-rank officials have six death sentences, and the rest are either indefinitely, or a dozen or 20 years in prison. Most of these sentenced are also sent to mines in remote areas for mining , or were dispatched to frontier areas for reclamation.

Whether it is mining or reclamation, it is actually a kind of exile.

In the Great Chu Empire, people who broke the law and were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment did not mean that they could go to jail all day long without doing shit.

Except for very few special cases, after almost all the prisoners were sentenced, the prisoners who served life sentences or long-term sentences were generally sent to the frontier to mine or to cultivate in undeveloped areas where the weather was cold and the poisonous insects were everywhere.

Short-term imprisonment is sent to the nearest mine operated by the prison for mining, or sent to remote and dangerous places to repair railways or something.

For example, on the current Baoji-Lanzhou railway line, the construction of the dangerous section of the railway is done by prisoners... The proportion of casualties is not small, because the number of prisoners killed and injured in the construction of this railway has exceeded There are more than 400 people.

As for ordinary railway workers, the casualties were very small, adding up to only 30 to [-] people, and if these ordinary railway workers had to engage in dangerous work, they would have high salaries, and if something happened, they would also have generous pensions. These prisoners But no, if you die, you will die...

Sending criminals to dig mines and build roads for reclamation has always been the way the Great Chu Empire has always dealt with them.

If you want to break the law in the Great Chu Empire and still want to eat, drink, sleep and sleep in Jian, how can there be such a good thing.

And Wang Xilin's two-year career in the supervisory department sent a large number of high-ranking officials to dig mines and build roads, which made him a well-known ruthless person in the Ministry of Civil Affairs.

Such a ruthless person was sent to Guangzhou to do official work... That is equivalent to cutting the necks of many officials in Guangzhou with a knife in his hand... Wang Xilin, this is the knife!

And that's exactly what happened!

On December 28, the 30th year of Chengshun, Wang Xilin had only been in office for half a month, and the Internal Affairs Department of the Office of Civil Affairs dispatched urgently to interview more than [-] officials from the Provincial Office of Official Affairs and the Office of Guangzhou Government.

Note that this kind of interview is not mandatory by law. It is purely an official agency that calls people over in the name of a conversation, but it is said to be a conversation, but it is actually an interrogation.

You don't have to go... But the officials of the Inspectorate on the back foot will probably lead the patrols to arrest people directly.

Wang Xilin urgently interviewed more than 30 civil servants, large and small, and this move directly set off a storm in Guangzhou.

According to opaque sources, after the news came out, many middle and low-level officials fled in fear of crime that night, including a fifth-rank director of the Animal Husbandry Department of the Department of Agriculture and Forestry.

However, the director of the fifth grade was not able to escape in the end, and the Internal Affairs Department of the Civil Affairs Office, which had been prepared for a long time, had already squatted with the patrolmen.

On December 24th, this person was thinking about absconding on a boat at the pier. In a panic, he jumped into the river to escape. Unfortunately, he overestimated his water skills...and was drowned directly.

Wang Xilin hadn't arrived a month after he took office, and he jumped into the river to death by jumping into the river to death.

The next day, when many people in the governor's yamen looked at Wang Xilin who was holding a teacup and smiling at everyone, they couldn't help their legs trembling.

What kind of good man is there, he is a butcher!
On December 26, in the new round of high-level meetings in the governor's office, the governor Tang Tiangui, the chief minister Cheng Yongfeng, the inspector Xu Xin, and five other officials from the third grade in Guangzhou City all attended the meeting.

Five people participated in politics from the third grade, including Wang Xilin, who supervised the administration of officials and also served as the director of the Office of Officials.

Feng Yongan, the prefect of Guangzhou.

Mei Chengye, who supervised many affairs such as flood control and conservancy, shipping, and Guangzhou Port development, and also served as the director of the Department of Transportation;

Jia Weihong supervised the etiquette affairs and concurrently served as the director of the Governor's Yamen Department of Internal Affairs.

Wu Feibai, director of the Industrial and Commercial Department who supervises the industrial and commercial affairs and is also in charge of agricultural and forestry affairs.

The above-mentioned eight people are the core figures in the civil service system of Guangdong Province under the Great Chu Empire. These eight people have decided everything about the empire, the second largest economically powerful province, except for taxation and military affairs.

In this meeting, Wang Xilin formally impeached 53 officials, including 27 officials from the Provincial Office of Civil Affairs and the Guangzhou Government Office of Civil Affairs, and 26 officials from other agencies.

Including the director of the Provincial Animal Husbandry Department who jumped and drowned after absconding in fear of crime.

Looking at the long impeachment list, Tang Tiangui couldn't help frowning.

No wonder some people in Jinling City said that Wang Xilin is an official butcher, this attack is ruthless!

He didn't oppose or stop Wang Xilin's administration of officials, but Tang Tianxi didn't like Wang Xilin's urgent way of working without any regard for influence.

It has only been less than a month since he took office, and he forced to death a director of the fifth grade, impeached more than 50 officials, and according to the charges of his impeachment, once it is transferred to the judiciary and enters the judicial process, I am afraid that there will be five or six death sentences. The last time was more than [-] years of fixed-term imprisonment.

It is said that there are three fires for a new official to take office, but Wang Xilin did not set fire, but threw a bomb directly!

There is no one who engages in official affairs like this, and it made people panic as soon as they came up. In the past half a month or so, the officials have been worried and asked everywhere for news. Many people even found Tang Tianxi to inquire about the news.

Such a thing, how can anyone concentrate on work!
And to be honest, Wang Xilin is not really a member of the Anti-Corruption Bureau of the Procuratorate... It is not his job to catch corrupt officials, that is the job of the Procuratorate.

You have engaged in anti-corruption since you came up... Have you asked the Inspector's Office for their opinions?

Xu Xin, the Inspector who supervises the affairs of the Inspectorate, has a lot of opinions on Wang Xilin's actions in the past half a month... He has talked to Tang Tiangui several times... He said it was a conversation, but it was just a small report about Wang Xilin.

Why did Xu Xin do this?

Very simple, Wang Xilin has crossed the line.

In the Great Chu Empire, the Ministry of Official Affairs and the Inspectorate are two institutions. Although official administration and anti-corruption are related, they are actually irrelevant.

Official governance refers to the style and achievements of officials.

To put it simply, the work of official administration is actually to create a good officialdom atmosphere, so that officials can serve the monarch with all their heart and effort.

Anti-corruption... This is a judicial issue!
To some extent, the anti-corruption activities of the civil affairs agencies have gone beyond the bounds... This is why when the civil affairs agencies conduct investigations, they cannot directly arrest people, but need to use the name of inviting people to talk.

You come, then talk and ask.

If you don't come, you have a ghost in your heart...Even if the officials of the staff can't find your footsteps for a while, don't expect to run away... Maybe the bureaucracy will impeach you and remove you directly.

Because the official affairs agency is in charge of the appointment and removal of officials!
You have kept secrets and concealed things from the bureaucracy, and you dare not come to talk. Doesn’t it make it clear that you have a problem... Low-level officials are directly dismissed, middle- and high-level officials are formally impeached, and then all are handed over to the judiciary for investigation.

But in this situation, the Procuratorate actually doesn’t like it in many cases... It’s their job to catch corrupt officials and get promoted and make a fortune, but your official agency insists on intervening, and you call it an interview instead of arresting people , This is grabbing credit.

In the local political structure of the Great Chu Empire, the duties and powers of various institutions and officials are very clear.

For example, Wang Xilin, who is in charge of the administration of officials, participated in politics from the third rank, and his scope of authority was on the administration of officials.

It is worth mentioning that the official affairs organization has always been a powerful organization in the Great Chu Empire, whether it is in the capital or in the local area.

In Gyeonggi-ri, the Minister of Civil Affairs has always been one of the ministers of affairs, and he has never been absent!
Locally, the Provincial Office of Officials, the Government Office of Officials, and the County Office of Officials are all extremely powerful institutions, and the top leaders are often held concurrently by higher-level officials.

The directors of general provincial departments are only of the fourth rank.

However, the director of the Office of Civil Affairs has always been part-time from the provinces to participate in politics, from the third rank!
The participation in politics of the Great Chu Empire was formed from the merger of left and right participation in politics and consultation in the pre-Ming Dynasty. The grade is Cong Sanpin, and it is a senior official in the provincial officialdom, second only to the governor and the chief envoy. It belongs to the provincial level. Senior officials.

Sometimes folks also refer to participating in politics as the Senate, because both political participation and council participation existed in the pre-Ming Dynasty... The folk term has continued, and even many officials sometimes confuse themselves.

But it is precisely the official document that only participates in politics, not in parliament!

The number of people participating in politics in each province is variable, ranging from three to five people, and there may even be six or seven people in the number. These political participants are generally used to take charge of important affairs or institutions. .

At the same time, it is also used as a title for the magistrates of important prefectures, mainly the prefectures where the provincial capitals are located, such as the prefect of Guangzhou, which has always been added with the rank of third rank.

Sometimes it is also used as a temporary dispatch of high-ranking officials to preside over certain affairs, such as the current large-scale port development in Guangzhou. Because the large-scale port development is extremely important, this matter is carried out by a political participant who directly names the head of the port development zone. Jurisdiction.

From the third rank's participation in politics, in the official system of the Great Chu Empire, he was already a serious provincial senior official, and he was able to participate in the important affairs of a province at the local level.

And if you go up on the ground, you will be the chief minister or inspector of the third rank. If you are promoted in Gyeonggi, you will be the director of each department of the third rank.

In the huge Guangdong, apart from the governor, the chief envoy, and the inspector, there are at least three or four people, and no more than five or six people who participate in politics are the most powerful.

Of course, the independent tax office is not included in this list!
The tax department has always been independent, and has nothing to do with the local governor's office. Even the governor can't control them, and they even have their own law enforcement forces: the tax police!
There are even paramilitary units such as armed tax police among the tax police. The armed tax police in the hinterland of the country are not bad, and they can generally be regarded as slightly stronger law enforcement units.

However, in some turbulent areas such as the frontiers, overseas, and newly occupied areas, the armed tax police are serious military units, with all kinds of weapons and equipment readily available, and their combat effectiveness is quite strong.

In some places overseas, due to insufficient military manpower, the task of suppression in some places even requires the help of armed tax police.

When expanding overseas, the military fought to defeat the hostile organized forces, and the armed tax police followed to play house raids and exterminate the clan... No, taxes were collected.

But in the hinterland of the mainland, it is rare for ordinary people to see this kind of fully armed armed tax police now. After all, no one dares to engage in large-scale armed tax resistance, so at present, it is generally only when the family is ransacked and the family is wiped out. Armed tax police with live ammunition.

That's right, such things as ransacking homes are not within the purview of ordinary police officers, but within the purview of tax police, because the money obtained from ransacking homes must be handed over to the state treasury... The tax department uses this reason to despise such oil and water as extreme The lucrative errands have been held for more than [-] years, and countless patrolmen up and down are itching their teeth with hatred.

That's a house raid, and if anyone who performs a task fishes a little, it's a lot of oil and water!
It's a pity that the tax police firmly control the authority to search the house.

From this we can see the particularity of the tax authorities in the Great Chu Empire, let alone the patrol police, even the local governors.

Even if it is as strong as the governor of a province like Tang Tiangui, he can still see the tax officials when there is nothing to do... This is a lot, in case these tax officials have a whim that day and want to investigate Tang Tiangui's tax issues , then the matter is big.

Even if he himself has no tax problems, but there are so many people in his family, if he doesn't keep them together, he will be found out about some tax problems.

After all, many people like to do things like tax evasion and tax evasion. If the tax department ignores you on weekdays, it doesn't mean it can't be found out.

In the contemporary Great Chu Empire, if you offend anyone, don't offend the tax officials... This is especially true for the rich and powerful.

Ordinary people who don't have two characters in their pockets don't need to be afraid of these tax officials.

The tax authorities of the Great Chu Empire have always had a fine tradition: don’t do it right!
This is not because the tax officials are kind-hearted, but because they have no money in their pockets, no matter how hard they squeeze it, they can’t squeeze out a few taels of oil, and tax collection and even tax inspection also require costs!

Staring at the bitter hahas every day, the tax collected by the Great Chu Empire is probably not enough for tax collection and tax inspection costs!
But those powerful and wealthy people are different. They are all fat and oily. If they can find an opportunity to pounce on them, they will not only have more income for the treasury, but also bring more political achievements for themselves.

And in this process, the tax officials make a little money, which is to make their mouths full of oil.

So when they find any dignitaries showing signs of tax evasion, a group of tax officials will rush to them drooling.

Just like a pack of mad dogs!
In the face of these mad dogs, even the governor Tang Tiangui, although he didn't say he would walk around, he could still avoid contact without touching them.

unlucky!

Over time, the local taxation agencies have basically formed their own factions, and basically have nothing to do with the governor's office.

However, although the tax officials are a bunch of mad dogs, they only care about taxation, and they don't care about other things, and they have no authority to control them.

For example, regarding the corruption of many officials, tax officials care about whether you have paid taxes on your illegal income, not where your illegal income comes from and what crimes you have committed.

There is even a clause in the tax law of the Great Chu Empire, that is, the tax agency will keep the source of taxpayers' tax revenue confidential, and law enforcement agencies such as the patrol police have no authority to read it.

Of course, there will be no people who are stupid enough to pay taxes directly with illegal income... Most of them will launder illegal income through various channels, and then pay taxes on the laundered money.

The tax agency doesn't care about that, money laundering is none of their business, that's the financial crimes unit within the police force.

However, you have to pay taxes on laundered money.

In the Great Chu Empire, taxation agencies are special and cannot be compared with general administrative agencies.

But other local institutions are basically under the control of the governor. Of course, the governor's control is only a theory.

In fact, the governor cannot handle so many affairs by himself. At the same time, it is also for the check and balance of power, so as to prevent the governor from becoming the emperor of the land. Therefore, there are political envoys and judicial officials who clearly define the scope of their duties and are responsible for people's livelihood and economic affairs. Inspector of public security affairs.

In addition, Cong Sanpin, who is in charge of various affairs, participated in politics.

This group of people has formed a provincial-level high-level structure. This structure is currently very stable.

And Wang Xilin went overboard as soon as he came, and he made such a big move, which is considered to have a relatively serious influence in the local political structure of the Great Chu Empire. Otherwise, Xu Xin would not have such a big opinion.

Even though there was no public objection, Tang Tiangui was approached many times to report the situation.

Tang Tiangui also had a headache about this... He knew that Wang Xilin had come with an important mission, but his way of doing things was too impatient, and the actions were so big that the impact was very bad.

Although he was dissatisfied with Wang Xilin's way of handling affairs, he couldn't ignore the impeachment report Wang Xilin officially submitted at the meeting.

After looking through it for a long time, he finally handed it over to Xu Xin, the inspector on the right: "Everyone, take a look!"

Soon, the impeachment report was simply circulated.

Xu Xin turned his head to look at Cheng Yongfeng at this time, and after a few seconds showed anger, he said: "It's so bold, buying and selling officials, accepting bribes, and conniving at family members for money and death, these people have done all the evil things , not enough to demonstrate the justice of the law.”

Cheng Yongfeng, the chief envoy, did not speak immediately, but bowed his head in thought for a moment, then tapped his fingers on the table, opened his mouth a few times, but finally sighed and said: "It's a pity, Qian An is a capable person , the new industrial zone in Foshan is well managed, but it’s just that you know people and face, but you don’t know your heart!"

Qian An, the magistrate of Foshan County, and Chengshun joined the Secretariat of the Imperial Academy as the third secretary in 24 years. Chengshun was sent to Guangdong in 26 years. In the autumn of the same year, he served as the magistrate of Foshan County, Guangzhou Prefecture.

In the 27th year of Chengshun, Foshan's economic growth rate ranked first among the counties and districts in Guangzhou. Although Chengshun's 28th year is still a few days away, everyone knows that the economic growth rate of the counties and districts in Guangzhou this year is still the first. It will be Foshan County.

With such dazzling achievements, if there is no accident for this gentleman, he will definitely move up after the turn of the year, not to mention from the fifth rank, even the real power director of a state or a province who is a fifth rank is easy loose.

But... now it is planted!