I want to be emperor

The Great Chu Empire once again launched a major rectification of officialdom, which brought dramatic turmoil to the imperial officialdom. Various official newspapers also successively reported the news of the dismissal of some corrupt officials, so that the people were aware that the corrupt officials were dismissed during this period. The number is much higher than usual.

And this is just the beginning... The large-scale rectification of officialdom in the Dachu Empire has never been just about killing a group of officials and arresting a group of corrupt officials... The judicial treatment of corrupt officials is actually only the most superficial.

In fact, it is more aimed at rectifying the entire officialdom, especially corruption.

Those officials who have been dealt with by the judiciary are more like the chickens that were killed to scare the monkeys...their heads are used as a deterrent to make the officials stop being so arrogant and be more honest...

But if it is just a simple judicial process, the effect will not be particularly great, because the rectification of official governance is to rectify the official administration, not just official corruption.

Therefore, along with the judicial action, there was also a major rectification led by the Ministry of Civil Affairs.

The Ministry of Personnel Affairs will deal with a large number of officials who have not been dealt with judicially but have misdeeds, including being transferred to idle posts, demoted, retiring early, and even dismissed from all public offices, etc.

The number of officials dealt with internally by the Ministry of Civil Affairs is much larger than those dealt with judicially.

The final result of the dual actions of the Ministry of Personnel Affairs and the Inspectorate was that the originally stable political ecology in many places was broken, a large number of people left the center of power, and another group of people came to the center of power.

Here we need to talk about why Luo Zhixue carried out a major rectification of officialdom every few years, but it did not arouse widespread opposition and resistance from officials!
Because of the general rectification of officialdom, a large number of people will inevitably be disposed of, and a large number of positions will be vacated... The new vacant positions mean more promotion possibilities.

Many ambitious officials are waiting for this period of administrative rectification, and then quickly take action to suppress their opponents, or even remove their hostile superiors, and then ascend to power themselves.

If you don't push down your colleagues and superiors, how can there be any room for you to be promoted... It's a carrot and a pit!
Therefore, the great rectification of the administration of the Chu Empire was both a risk and an opportunity for officials!
For many middle- and high-level officials in the empire, the rectification of civil service was a war, not a confrontation between themselves and the Inspectorate or the Ministry of Civil Affairs, but a war with political opponents.

In this war, you either send your political opponents into it, or you are sent into it by your political opponents...

As for who wins and who loses, it all depends on their respective methods. Anyway, no matter how many people there are in the Supervisory Office and higher-level administrative agencies, they all come with a mission and must gather enough heads.

It's either your head or your opponent's head, it's up to you.

Therefore, in the great rectification of officialdom, there is actually no distinction between good officials and corrupt officials, only winners and losers!
This was also done deliberately by Luo Zhixue... Ordinary people's rectification of officialdom might be a battle between the emperor and his ministers, but Luo Zhixue was not... Luo Zhixue's rectification of officialdom was actually different from all his political methods. Pretty much, he will always only act as a superior arbiter and never enter the ring in person.

Then he watched the officials under him fight with each other, and after the ministers decided the winner, he rewarded the victorious ministers, such as promotions and fortunes, while punishing the losers by being dismissed from office, imprisoned, or even shot...

As for who wins and who loses, Luo Zhixue actually doesn't care very much. What he cares about is that the number of losers must be enough and the weight must be heavy enough, so that the people watching the show outside can be happy!

The fundamental purpose of the official rectification is to make the people happy every few years. By the way, I warn those officials to restrain themselves and be smarter. Be greedy, but don't be so stupid...

Therefore, a group of officials must be killed, otherwise the people will not bother to watch this drama.

As for the specific officials who were killed, Luo Zhixue did not intervene specifically and let those officials fight on their own.

Even in the end, even the few senior officials responsible for the rectification of officialdom, except for the ministerial level, others and even the co-organizers of the ministerial rank could not be pulled out and shot to make the people smile.

After all, this official rectification can also be said to be a gladiatorial arena arranged by Luo Zhixue. Xu Longze led a group of people to compete with senior officials from other factions.

No matter who wins or loses, Luo Zhixue will get what he wants: the heads of a group of high-ranking officials!

No matter what, Luo Zhixue will always be the winner!

This is the special advantage of being a ruler.

When you know that Luo Zhixue's deep-seated purpose of carrying out the rectification of officialdom is just to kill a group of corrupt officials, act as a deterrent to other officials, and at the same time make the people happy and release internal pressure.

Then you will have a very good understanding of the series of administrative actions of the Da Chu Empire.

We can understand the series of seemingly strange behaviors of the inspection censor sent out by the Inspectorate.

In October of the 45th year of Chengshun, the Nanyang Patrol Censorship Team dispatched by the Grand Inspectorate arrived in Singapore, the capital of Malacca Province, by ship.

The arrival of the inspection censor made the local officials feel as if they were facing a formidable enemy... There was no other way. Who in the officialdom didn't have many opponents... If the opponent came up with evidence and reported it, it would be over in minutes. Okay, why don't you be afraid of this?

Therefore, although the leader of the inspection censorship team who came was just a third-grade Qiandu censor, in Malacca Province, even the governor came to the dock to greet him in person, which gave the inspection censorship team a lot of face.

I can't do it without giving it... Although the leader of the team is only a third-grade Qiandu censor, the leaders of these inspection censorship groups all have a very special name, that is: they are ordered to inspect so-and-so Provincial officials manage affairs.

To put it more bluntly, this is an imperial envoy...

They have the authority to investigate all civil servants below the third rank in the patrol province, instruct the patrol law enforcement agencies to arrest and then prosecute.

In other words, except for the governor and the chief envoy who cannot handle it, they can handle all other officials directly. This does not mean that the governor and the chief envoy can sit back and relax... because corruption can often be brought down by just catching one. If there is a long list, the governor or chief envoy will also have close relatives under his command. If these close relatives are caught, his role as governor or chief envoy will almost be over.

In fact, the censors in the Dachu Empire, even if they are not imperial envoys, the ordinary censors have very great authority, especially over officials.

At the local level, even an ordinary censor has the independent authority to investigate all civil officials in the jurisdiction, even officials several levels above him.

And local officials are often unable to resist... This is because the Supervisory Council system in the Chu Empire is completely separate from the local administrative system, and its personnel, funding, etc. are all independent of the local administrative structure.

In other words, the censors are not managed by local officials... they are only managed by the superior inspectorate.

It is different from the patrol police in judicial units who accept dual management from local and unit superiors.

In the local administrative agencies of the Great Chu Empire, there were multiple sets of agencies that were independent of each other and did not belong to each other. They were the governor's Yamen, the prefect's Yamen, and the magistrate's Yamen.

But in addition to this set of local administrative agencies in the traditional sense, there are also three sets of independent agencies that are not subordinate to each other.

That is tax agencies, supervisory agencies and judicial agencies.

All tax matters fall under the management of tax agencies, and local administrative agencies have no room to intervene...including tax law enforcement.

Prisons, judicial management, public prosecutions, and supervision of officials are the business scope of the Inspectorate.

Judicial institutions are simpler, merely judging cases and interpreting vague laws.Local administration and these three institutions are independent of each other, and no one can control the other.

This has also created a high degree of independence in the three major agencies of taxation, inspection, and trial. It can even be said that even the local governor does not have the authority to issue any orders to a newly hired member of the Ninth Grade Inspectorate... Inspector The personnel affairs of the hospital are not under the control of local administrative agencies.

At the same time, theoretically, the lowest censor who has just passed the examination, that is, a seventh-grade censor, can independently investigate any official within his jurisdiction.

By the way, don’t think that the censor from the seventh rank is a scumbag...

You have to know that not everyone in the Inspectorate can investigate cases, approve arrest warrants applied by law enforcement agencies, and initiate public prosecutions... you have to be a formal censor.

In fact, most of the local inspectorate's staff are ordinary staff, including a large number of eighth- and ninth-grade clerks or other senior administrative staff.

The censor is actually a very special existence within the Supervisory Council system.

For example, a student from the law department who has obtained the lawyer's qualification certificate applies for a position in the Supervisory Council. After successfully joining the job, he is only an ordinary clerk of the ninth rank. He is usually assigned to a subordinate of the censor and is of course a low-level assistant. This is actually different from that of an ordinary clerk. almost.

Then it depends on your own abilities or luck, and your connections and background... After you have been successfully promoted to the seventh rank, you can then go and take the Censorship Qualification Assessment held by the Grand Inspectorate. The Censorship Qualification Assessment is a nationwide unified examination. Once a year, the assessment content is quite harsh.

Only after passing the censor's assessment will you be granted the official title of 'censor', and you will be able to have a series of special powers such as independently investigating cases, approving arrest applications submitted by judicial authorities, and prosecuting public prosecution cases.

And this kind of censor is actually what people often call censor. Not every official in the Inspectorate is a censor.

If you fail to pass the assessment, you can only do other administrative work... Not all the inspectors are censors, there are also many middle-level administrative officials who are engaged in logistics and so on.

But the censor is undoubtedly the core of the Supervisory Council system. Almost all senior officials in the Supervisory Council system are all censors.

For ordinary officials in the Supervisory Council system, if they cannot pass the Censorship Qualification Examination, it will be very difficult for them to be promoted... Even if they specialize in logistics and administration, they will basically be at the fourth rank, although there is no explicit restriction on non-Censorship. Officials of the Inspectorate who were not born in the imperial family were not allowed to cross the fourth-grade threshold, but in fact, in the past forty years of the empire, no official of the Inspectorate who was not an imperial censor had crossed this threshold.

In fact, most of the officials of the Inspectorate who were not censors were far away from the threshold of fourth rank, and almost all were below fifth or sixth rank.

This series of harsh conditions is actually to give the censor a high degree of independence and free authority to investigate cases...and this kind of authority cannot be in the hands of mediocre people, otherwise it will easily cause trouble.

Therefore, the Supervisory Council system has specially set up an internal censorship qualification examination. You must pass the censorship qualification examination to become a censorship with various huge powers.

It's not that you can rely on seniority, connections, and backgrounds to reach a certain age and level, and you will naturally have this kind of authority... This can easily lead to trouble.

After all, censorship is very special. It itself requires strong legal skills... It is a very professional profession, and censors in the Chu Empire usually switch careers to become lawyers after becoming official, and their income is very high... …

Ordinary officials in the Inspectorate really can't do this!
Based on the unique and huge authority of the Censor, coupled with the title of Imperial Envoy, when the members of the Nanyang Patrol Censorship Team arrived in Singapore, the local officials, even the senior officials, were frightened.

Because this group of people who came really have the power to take them down.

After the inspection censorship team arrived in Singapore, they did not immediately conduct any investigation or the like... Instead, after staying in the hotel with great fanfare, they published the reporting contact information through the newspaper...

According to the Inspectorate’s many years of experience, such large-scale inspections cannot be accomplished by oneself... After all, they all come from Gyeonggi Province. Although they hold the power of life and death over local officials, the problem is I'm not familiar with the local situation. It's not that easy to investigate local cases.

Based on years of exploration and experience, we finally came up with an effective method, which is to take advantage of the contradictions and conflicts among local officials, and then let various reporting materials and evidence come to your door, and then based on these Report material for investigation.

It is difficult to breach a fortress from the outside, but it is much easier to fight if the fortress itself explodes from the inside.

And the situation did develop like this. After the inspection censors published the contact information for reporting, they received a large number of anonymous reporting letters within a few days.

Many of them are sent by low-level officials or even ordinary people, but there are also a very small number that are anonymous, but one look at the materials and it is clear that the person who did it is also a mid-level official.

As for senior officials, at this point in time they tend to stay put and wait and see which way the wind is blowing.

Now that there are various materials and evidence from the report, the inspection censors have begun their work... Their work is simple and efficient, and they will not play with you at all in detailed investigation of the case.

They simply and crudely based on the report letter, and then took all the reported subjects away for interviews, and then professional interrogators conducted so-called 'interviews'.

Those interrogation masters are all psychology masters. Even if the person they are talking to says nothing, they can still get some information through clues, and then formulate targeted situations to make breakthroughs.

For example, a director of the Malacca Provincial Department of Industry and Commerce was reported for buying and selling officials... According to normal channels, it is estimated that he would have to slowly and secretly investigate, then look for evidence, and finally make an arrest.

But the inspection censor would not do this. They went directly to the Industrial and Commercial Department and took the third-grade director away for a so-called conversation in front of countless people.

Then he interviewed several of his subordinates and even relatives... various threats and inducements, such as giving rewards for reporting meritorious services and exempting personal punishment.For example, if you exaggerate and threaten, saying that you can survive against an ordinary censor, but against an imperial envoy... that is simply asking for your own death. It offends me. I will show you a robbery of your family and genocide...

Facts have proved that although some people can withstand the threats and inducements of the patrol censor who has the title of imperial envoy, there will always be people who cannot resist...

Once someone cannot resist, the door will be opened.

Just like an ant's nest bursting, a small hole appears, and then countless holes will be opened. It won't take long before the outer defenses of the entire corrupt official criminal gang will be completely shattered... and then these corrupt officials will Report each other and strive for meritorious service...

Therefore, for the censors who hold the title of Imperial Envoy and have great power, it is not difficult to catch corrupt officials sincerely... As long as they are willing, they can catch an official randomly and follow the above procedures, and they can basically find out the clues. A lot of corrupt officials.

It's just that you can't do this kind of thing casually...you have to pay attention to the impact, and at the same time, you have to cooperate with the layout from above.

Otherwise, if you just kill all the senior officials in a governor's office, how can the local administrative work be carried out?What do people think?
If you kill one of the senior officials in the governor's office, the people will be very happy... I feel that the empire's top officials are making great efforts to rectify the administration. Although there are corrupt officials, the empire as a whole is still good, and life is still promising!
But you killed them all... When the people looked at it, they thought, Oh my god, no wonder I am so poor. It turns out that all the officials in the world are fucking corrupt...

Don’t even want this empire!

Therefore, if the censor really wants to do this, there is no need for competitors to torment you, the big boss above will just slap you into the Pacific Trench.

Because the boss doesn’t mess with you, Your Majesty will have to bury the boss in the Pacific trench...

If you kill all the corrupt officials, will there be any more left in this empire...