Su Yonglin knocked heavily on the wooden table in front of him, and the dull sound penetrated the ears of every participant.
What followed was a long period of eerie silence.
After the silence, everyone's thoughts are different.
Someone smiled with relief.
Some people are excited about this.
Some people were surprised and doubtful.
Someone is frustrated.
Some people are desperate.
Some people looked disdainful.
The expressions on everyone's faces did not escape Su Yonglin's eyes.
He didn't know what kind of wonderful response his declaration would produce within the entire revival meeting, but he was willing to believe that there would be more positive responses.
Of course, doubts and concerns exist. Su Yonglin will not avoid these doubts and concerns, but will respond to them through adjustments again and again in the years to come.
Whether it is the mass representative system or the central conference system, they are essentially reforms made by Su Yonglin in order to consolidate the achievements of the revolution and prevent the Ming leadership from being separated from the masses.
But no matter what the system is like, it is still people who implement the system. In the final analysis, it is still people.
Su Yonglin doesn't know what the future will look like, but he believes that he has enough power and time to make the future more and more like his ideal.
As a person who decides to live for his ideals all his life, he will seize every minute and every second without wasting any.
After making the declaration, he began to work hard to formulate detailed rules for the two major political reforms, including the election methods of Central Committee members, the election methods of mass representatives, and basic principles.
He personally organized various meetings to solicit opinions on a large scale on the initially drafted system plan. He also sent these drafts to local governments, requiring government organizations at all levels to give their own opinions and views.
It also requires grassroots organizations to combine reality and go deep into the masses to seek their views and opinions. It is also required to consult local farmers, businessmen, workers and other groups to consult them about their views on national politics.
After this wave of drafts for public consultation were issued, Su Yonglin was determined to promote political reforms in Zhongdu, especially making certain revisions to the judicial system.
Supervision of the main officials of the judicial system needs to be implemented, especially family relationships, marriage relationships, etc. The main officials of the judicial system must not be involved in marriage relationships with officials of the administrative system. If they are, they cannot enter the judicial system.
There are similar regulations within the Renaissance Society. Cadres in the Supervision Department of the Renaissance Society cannot have marriage relationships with cadres from other departments. Strong supervision must be maintained in this regard and no overstepping is allowed.
Not only at the central level, but also at the local level.
Officials in the local judicial system and administrative system are also absolutely not allowed to have in-law relationships, not only within their own families, but also within three generations of the same family.
Officials who have currently violated this code will be coordinated between the Imperial Staff Department and the Organization Department to transfer their positions horizontally and out of their original posts to ensure the implementation of this code.
This regulation also had a relatively large impact on the court and local governments, causing dissatisfaction among some officials. They raised questions on the table, believing that this was unfair to officials. Some people clearly did a good job but failed to do so. Also have to be transferred.
Is this reasonable?
But it didn't work.
Su Yonglin insists that the advantages outweigh the disadvantages. There will be some trouble in the short term, but in the long term, the benefits definitely outweigh the disadvantages.
So he quickly convened a legislative meeting and wrote this provision into the Ming Dynasty Officials Law, making it an iron law and pushing it forward.
He selected inspection teams from all of them to conduct regular inspections in various places to check the relationship between local administrative officials and the judicial system, with special emphasis on checking the marriage relationships between officials, and strictly controlled this situation.
If you want to object, yes, you can resign. You have the freedom to resign.
But if you want to continue to be an official and continue to receive a salary, you must do this, otherwise, I will not be polite.
An internal meeting of the Revival Association was held, and this resolution was written into the Revival Association's rules and regulations, becoming a regulation that every member must abide by.
The Fuxing Association immediately began a comprehensive investigation of marriage relationships in this area. Anyone who violated the regulations would have their positions adjusted. Su Yonglin vowed to nip such bad signs in the cradle.
This turmoil can be regarded as the aftermath of this wave of purges. Although the repercussions are quite large, it is only the aftermath after all. The bureaucrats who were beaten by Su Yonglin now have bruises and swollen faces, and they can only lie down and be beaten, without the ability to fight back.
As a result, an unprecedented wave of job adjustments began in the Ming government system and the Fuxinghui system. During this wave of job adjustments, a series of irregularities were uncovered and exposed to broad daylight.
Throughout August to October of the ninth year of Hongwu, 107 incidents of collusion between local administrative officials and judicial officials broke out in major provinces across the country. There were collusions between ordinary members and supervisory members within the Renaissance Society. Sixty-nine incidents.
They were all disposed of.
A total of more than 300 officials and members were severely punished by law, and more than 1,000 people in their families were implicated. Except for more than 20 people who were sentenced to death, most of them were sent to the Kuye Prefecture area of Heilongjiang Province to work. The hard labor of frontier construction will not be returned even if it is pardoned.
On the first day of October in the ninth year of Hongwu, on the occasion of the ninth anniversary of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Su Yonglin delivered a public speech at the celebration ceremony of the ninth anniversary of the founding of the Ming Dynasty in Zhongdu.
He admitted that he made the mistake of slacking off during the national construction period from the fourth to the ninth year of Hongwu. He focused mainly on the military and economy and neglected political and legal construction, so that this round of purges purged so many people. Many internal borers and spoiled revolutionaries.
It was his mistake and he needs to take responsibility for it.
For this reason, he will punish himself with one year's salary as chairman of the Renaissance Association, and he will be given a major demerit within the Renaissance Association and will be kept on his record forever.
At the same time, he officially declared that the emperor was a profession, occupying a superior position in the nine-rank official hierarchy of the imperial court, but his essence also belonged to one of them and was not transcendent. He also stipulated the salary and salary for the emperor's profession. Benefits.
Then at the same time, he announced that he would be punished with one year's salary and welfare benefits as the emperor, as a mark of demerit, and his record would be permanently recorded among the court officials.
As the end of this wave of great purges and the precursor to the complete abolition of the emperor system, Su Yonglin began to separate himself from the emperor. He knocked the sacredness of the emperor's existence out of the mortal world with one punch, making it essentially enter the human realm. , become a normal existence.
There is salary income and benefits, which are no different from normal official positions.
Then, he punished himself for one year with all the income from the two major positions he held - Emperor of the Ming Dynasty and Chairman of the Renaissance Association, and cut himself open to show the price he had to pay during the Great Purge.
"The emperor will make mistakes, and the chairman of the Renaissance will also make mistakes. If you make a mistake, you will be punished. This is a natural law, and no one should be detached from it. This time, large-scale officials bend the law for personal gain and are corrupt. Incident, as the emperor and chairman, I have the unshirkable responsibility. Their punishment is over and it is my turn."
