Nowadays, when commerce and trade are not developed, the total population of Dantu County is only about 20,000.
There are no troops stationed in the county. The more than 100 officers and soldiers are the highest armed force in the county.
Zhu Ying's three thousand mysterious guards were all cavalry.
Facing a county like Dantu County, it can be described as a crushing existence.
This is why some peasant uprisings seem to have become very easy to attack county towns. In less than a few days, they captured a certain county town, which seemed very powerful.
However, once the sergeants of the guard arrived, the somewhat famous generals attacked these rebels as if they were chopping melons and vegetables.
This is the fundamental reason.
On the contrary, some large clans may only have a few thousand people, but if their folk customs are strong, they can fight with each other.
Among the Tiqi, a man with disheveled hair was escorted up.
"Your Majesty, this person was riding in a carriage, acting suspiciously, and wanted to leave the county. We happened to meet him. After some questioning, he turned out to be Liu Bingyuan, the magistrate of Dantu County."
Liu Bingyuan was pressed down by two big, round-waisted sergeants. He had no strength to struggle, just like a little chicken.
When he heard that the young man in front of him was called His Highness, Liu Bingyuan immediately knew that he must have been in trouble.
While thinking about it, he knew that the person in front of him was the legendary His Highness Huangming Changsun.
The Usha above the head is gone.
After being released by the sergeant, Liu Bingyuan knelt down on the ground, bowed and said: "The guilty minister Liu Bingyuan, pays homage to His Highness the Grand Sun."
Zhu Ying was not surprised. He knew that he knew him. Looking at Liu Bingyuan, who looked disheveled and looked very pitiful, he didn't feel any pity in his heart.
This kind of moth has killed countless people in the past and embezzled countless people's money and money. If he is executed directly, it will be considered an advantage for him.
"Since you call yourself a criminal, then write down the crimes you have committed."
Zhu Ying said calmly.
Liu Bingyuan knew that he could not escape death, so he kowtowed and said, "I obey the order of His Majesty Taisun."
Then he took the pen and ink, opened the book and started writing.
After writing it, Song Zhong took it and prepared to hand it to His Highness Taisun.
Zhu Ying waved her hand and said, "You don't have to look at it. From the looks of it, you can see that you are somewhat sincere and repentant. Whether you are acting well or really, just push him out the door and behead him."
Upon hearing this, Liu Bingyuan quickly fell to the ground and bowed: "Thank you for your grace, Your Highness."
This was truly a blessing. Liu Bingyuan knew very well that the sins he had committed were beyond the reach of the Nine Tribes, and he would certainly not be able to escape by killing his entire family.
Immediate execution now can be said to be the best outcome.
In fact, Zhu Ying also knew that there was a large interest group behind Liu Bingyuan.
But he could no longer investigate further.
The group behind Liu Bingyuan could only be the Liu family clan. If a thorough investigation were to be carried out, thousands of people would be killed.
This is not to say that killing thousands of people is nothing to worry about.
It's just that there are too many situations like Liu Bingyuan's in the entire Ming Dynasty.
If we really clean the entire Ming Dynasty, it is simply unrealistic.
To be honest, the county seat of Weisuo is even more exaggerated.
"According to the decree of His Highness Taisun, Liu Bingyuan, the magistrate of Dantu County, violated the laws of the Ming Dynasty, engaged in corruption and bribery, and disregarded human life. His crimes are extremely heinous and he must be executed immediately!"
With a scream, Liu Bingyuan's head fell to the ground.
More than a hundred government officials just watched helplessly as the former magistrate lost his life.
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Things in Dantu County were quickly compiled into intelligence and sent to Zhu Yuanzhang.
Zhu Yuanzhang smiled happily when he saw how his eldest grandson cut through the mess in Dantu County and easily and neatly eliminated the magistrate.
However, Zhu Yuanzhang also realized a big problem regarding the situation in Dantu County.
After pondering for a while, he summoned Zhan Hui, the official minister, to discuss the matter.
Zhan Hui came to the Huagai Hall and kowtowed: "Meet your Majesty."
Zhu Yuanzhang threw the document in his hand to the ground angrily, and scolded: "Take a good look at what is being done here in the Ministry of Personnel. If you review officials in this way, our great grandson will be able to do it wherever he goes." Such a mistake was made."
"Dantu County is only a short distance away. It is only a hundred miles away from the capital. It can be said to be at the foot of the imperial city."
"We have been cleaning up corrupt officials for so many years, but there is a mouse lurking under our feet. I don't know who gave him such protection. Is it you? Zhan Shangshu!"
Zhan Hui never expected that as soon as he entered the door, he would be greeted by His Majesty's thunderous wrath.
But now I am being scolded for being confused. Apart from knowing that the problem occurs in Dantu County, I don't know the rest.
There are over a thousand county towns in Jiangshan during the Ming Dynasty, but who can remember so many of them?
I can only pick up the booklet, glance at the ten lines, and browse quickly.
Just seeing Liu Bingyuan's name, Zhan Hui knew what the problem was.
He remembered clearly that he personally recommended this man to serve as the magistrate of Dantu County.
Speaking of which, I even came to visit him during the Chinese New Year this year.
Looking at the various crimes in the document, Zhan Hui kept kowtowing: "I know someone who is ignorant, please punish me."
Zhu Yuanzhang said impatiently: "Okay, get up. The reason we want you to come here this time is not to punish you, but to have a good discussion about how to manage these officials." thing."
"We have been so strict in punishing corruption and bribery over the years, but there are still many people who commit crimes against our will."
"Many of these people are our hand-picked Jinshi. No matter from the appearance or moral point of view, we feel that they should not be able to do these things."
"But unfortunately, after investigation, it was found that these people were in vain for our kindness and became greedy one by one, becoming more and more hateful."
"In some places, three officials in a row were found guilty of corruption and executed. However, the fourth official who came up here also wanted to be corrupt, regardless of the lessons learned from the past."
"It has been twenty-six years since the Ming Dynasty was founded, and we have been killing them for twenty-six years. But these guys give us the feeling that we can't stop killing them."
"Zhan Hui, tell us what these people think."
Zhu Yuanzhang's tone contained complaints, anger, unwillingness and frustration.
In "Da Ming Law·Criminal Law", Zhu Yuanzhang specially designed a chapter on "Accepting Stolen Laws", with a total of eleven articles.
The following are "Officials Accepting Wealth", "It is a Sin to Sitting on Stolen Money", "Accepting Wealth Afterwards", "Requesting Money from Borrowers for Business", and "Asking for Borrowers' Property in Officials", which provide extremely detailed regulations on the phenomenon of officials receiving money.
From the emperor's relatives to the landlords and wealthy businessmen, any offender must be punished in accordance with the law. A criminal must not be indulged for personal harm to the public, and gold atonement must never be allowed.
Those who deserve to be killed will be killed, and those who deserve punishment will be punished equally. After all the facts of the case are investigated, both the briber and the bribe taker will be punished with the same crime.
Before Zhu Ying entered the palace, he used torture to deal with corrupt officials and killed chickens to scare monkeys. This was also Zhu Yuanzhang's thunderous method.
As for punishments for punishing corrupt officials, corporal punishments include tattooing with ink, chopping off fingers, amputating hands, cutting off feet, and picking tendons, etc.
The death penalty includes clan execution, lingchi, owl's head, abandoning the market, "peeling the skin and making the grass" etc.
It can really be said that in terms of anti-corruption, Zhu Yuanzhang has been around him since the founding of the Ming Dynasty.
In order to increase anti-corruption efforts, Zhu Yuanzhang established supervisory agencies from the imperial court to local governments. Their strict organization and powerful power were unique in previous dynasties.
Zhu Yuanzhang established the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the highest anti-corruption agency in the central government, integrating criminal, prosecutorial and legal functions.
Soon after, six departments were set up for Shizhong, dedicated to correcting, impeaching and impeaching corrupt officials in the six ministries.
At the local level, in addition to the supervisory censors dispatched by the imperial court, there were also supervisory departments in each province to take charge of supervisory duties.
Later, a "governor" system was established, in which the imperial court sent trusted ministers to various places to inspect local officials.
In the 18th year of Hongwu's reign, Zhu Yuanzhang promulgated the "Great Edict" to the whole country, which included a new provision: From now on, officials in the Chief Secretary, Prefecture, Prefecture, and County will be unemployed.
If you dare to "manipulate litigation, instigate crimes, frame others, collude with the government, and endanger the state."
The local virtuous, upright and heroic people can capture these people and take them to the capital. If anyone dares to intercept them on the way, their heads will be displayed to the public.
Zhu Yuanzhang launched a vigorous and vigorous anti-corruption campaign. Its long duration, strict measures, ruthless means, cruel punishments and numerous killings were rarely seen in the history of the dynasty for thousands of years.
Hearing this, Zhan Hui immediately replied: "From what I can see, these former students have bad character. After taking office as officials, they found it difficult to control themselves in the face of many temptations."
"That's why I wasted no time on Your Majesty's grace and did something that triggered the law."
Zhan Hui didn't dare to reply simply, and immediately shut up.
Zhan Hui, who is well versed in the art of serving as an official, knows very well that in his current state, it can be said that he talks too much and makes many mistakes.
Moreover, he himself is the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, and controls the promotion, appointment and dismissal of officials all over the world.
If it weren't for Your Majesty's trust, I would have been in danger long ago.
Zhu Yuanzhang didn't care too much, but said to himself: "Our eldest grandson actually raised this issue with me once."
"It's just that we haven't paid too much attention to it all the time. After looking at the situation in Dantu County today, I later realized that what Da Sun said seemed to be very reasonable."
Zhan Hui said at the right time: "I don't know what kind of clever plan His Highness Taisun has come up with."
Zhu Yuanzhang recalled it and said: "What Da Sun means is that whether it is a local county or a prefectural city, there is a big drawback, that is, the person in power, above the civil and military, almost belongs to One person governs.”
"When you lose the control of others and have the power in your hands, too many things begin to become completely different."
"It's okay if you have a kind heart, but if you have evil thoughts, it will naturally be easier for you to collude with some landlords and businessmen, and collude with officials and businessmen."
"If we want to completely stop the corruption trend, we must have people to check each other and act as enemies. It is best to divide them into three parties and use the three-legged power to divide the power in their hands."
"This will make them feel afraid when breaking the law."
After listening to His Majesty's words, Zhan Hui felt vaguely touched.
What is different from others is that Zhan Hui is a cruel official, and because of some connections, he does not have clan cliques.
For example, recommending Liu Bingyuan, the magistrate of Dantu County, is because Liu Bingyuan is indeed talented.
It is precisely because of these reasons that Zhu Yuanzhang has always trusted him in terms of loyalty.
Zhan Hui's self-cultivation is very high. Apart from being a bit mean and a bit sinister, he is a good official.
The father of Zhan Hui, the Minister of Civil Affairs, was named Zhan Tong, and he served under Chen Youliang in the late Yuan Dynasty.
Later, Chen Youliang died, and Zhu Yuanzhang recruited him as Dr. Guozi, because there was a shortage of talents at that time, and Zhan Tong was a very talented person.
Zhu Yuanzhang appreciated his talents in writing, and he could also implement some of Zhu Yuanzhang's ideas very well. In many aspects, Zhu Yuanzhang was very satisfied, so Zhu Yuanzhang always valued him and took good care of him.
Even when he was old, Zhu Yuanzhang's care for him did not weaken.
Both father and son are ministers of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, just like the fourth and third princes of the Yuan family in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, which is admirable.
In fact, Zhan Hui was monitored by Jin Yiwei for almost twelve hours.
Including those servants, servants, maids, and who knows how many people are Jin Yiwei's hidden spies.
Even one of Zhan Hui's side rooms might have some private contact with Jin Yiwei.
Mainly because of the position of Minister of Civil Affairs, the power in his hands is too important.
Throughout the dynasties, what the emperors were most worried about was the collusion among officials.
The Minister of Civil Affairs is the most likely to cause this situation.
The future of middle and low-level officials is almost entirely in the hands of the Ministry of Personnel. Once the Minister of Personnel has careful thoughts, the impact will be huge.
Zhan Hui has been the Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs for many years, and he knows the situation of some local officials by heart.
Hearing His Majesty talk about His Highness the Grand Sun's thoughts, Zhan Hui couldn't help but applaud.
"I heard what your Majesty said is actually a good medicine to cure corruption."
"I have seen too many students step by step on the path of corruption. His Highness Taisun's words go straight to the core."
"It's just that we need to think more carefully about how to decentralize power here."
Zhu Yuanzhang nodded: "At present, we have some ideas. The Public Security Department founded by Da Sun is pursuing this method."
"Dasun is on patrol now, so he can also see whether this method is effective or not."
"If there is a Department of Public Security where corruption is greatly reduced, then we can start implementing it."
"If the situation has not been reduced even after the intervention of the Public Security Department, then we have to look at where the source of this corruption comes from."
"In this way, you can write a charter first. There is no need to go too high. Set the county seat first."
"Re-divide the powers in the hands of some officials in the county and specify them in detail."
Zhu Yuanzhang explained.
He wants to try to carry out a reform of the county officials.
Let’s see if the power of a county magistrate is divided and it really has the effect of curbing corruption.
Moreover, after this reform comes out, it can be tried in a large number of counties first.
If the effect is good, it will be promoted nationwide.
