On August 17, the 16th year of Chengshun, Jinling City.
Luo Zhixue held a morning meeting as usual. After briefly and quickly handling a few daily affairs, the meeting soon went to the Grand Inspectorate, Youdu Censor, and the co-organizing minister Wang Bingqi to report on the early stage of a new round of rectification of officials. Deployment work.
"Following your Majesty's instructions, I have mobilized elite soldiers from the Grand Inspectorate and asked the Patrol Department to send some elite forces to join our special anti-corruption action team. I will serve as the team leader. The Director of the Anti-Corruption Department of the Patrol Department reported to Yu Bo serves as the deputy team leader and has been 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 reports."
"This large-scale inspection operation will strictly follow the idea proposed by His Majesty that 'big ones should be investigated, and small ones should be investigated even more', and will severely and comprehensively crack down on all types of officials who violate the law, especially corruption and bribery, which undermines the public An unlawful act of trust in the court.”
"The first round of inspections will begin this month. Each inspection team will go to the nine planned provinces. After arriving at the local area, each team member will go to various places to conduct overt and covert inspections. At the same time, we will also accept anonymous reporting letters and relevant reporting letter information in various places. It will be published simultaneously on the provincial editions of Da Chu Di Daily, and relevant 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 anti-corruption work penetrates downwards and listen more to the voices of the people!"
Wang Bingqi's report did not go into too much detail. After all, this person was also a co-organizing minister. As the team leader of this special operation, he was responsible for the overall coordination. The specific matters were actually handled by the powerful department of the Inspectorate, that is, the countermeasures department. It was conducted with the theme of corruption.
The Anti-Corruption Bureau of the Grand Inspectorate has drawn up different detailed plans based on different situations in each province. Wang Bingqi cannot report these plans with dozens of thick stacks of documents. He can only make a general report. .
Luo Zhixue smiled when he listened to these seemingly general reports.
Wang Bingqi's report seems to be just general talk, and there is nothing surprising about the methods. However, the focus is not on these, but on several key words in the report.
In particular, anti-corruption work has penetrated downwards and listened to the voices of the people.
These two points are very appealing to Luo Zhixue, which shows that Wang Bingqi's political consciousness is still good, and he fully understands the main reason why he asked him to carry out rectification of grassroots officials.
Luo Zhixue actually doesn't care much about corruption at the middle and high levels... As long as these people don't touch the bottom line and don't cause anger and resentment, Luo Zhixue will basically not deal with it personally, but will let his ministers fight... How should I put it? Corrupt officials also have political opponents. Many times, official corruption is serious. After Luo Zhixue is exposed, his political opponents will pounce on him and tear him to pieces without Luo Zhixue taking action!
This is also the main method of anti-corruption work at the top levels of the Dachu Empire in recent years. It does not rely on Luo Zhixue's crackdown, but on the internal fighting of the ministers.
In this way, the efficiency of high-level anti-corruption is very high, and it is very long-lasting. Every once in a while, a few corrupt officials can be killed, making the people happy!
On the contrary, it will be more difficult to fight corruption at the grassroots level.
There is a difference between the grassroots level and the top level. 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 cannot cross the seventh rank. Those who are at the threshold will only be a junior section clerk all their lives. At most, they will be in the eighth grade and become senior section clerks or deputy section chiefs.
It is impossible to say that they have any enemies.
Moreover, many people have served in one department for a long time, for several years or even more than ten years. After these people have served at the grassroots level for a long time, they will become as stubborn as the officials in the traditional feudal dynasty.
Even though the Great Chu Empire has implemented a remote allocation system, even the most junior ninth-grade clerks will be allocated across different provinces after passing the exam.
In other words, in the current Da Chu Empire, there are no locals serving as officials.
But you have to consider that after a person works in a certain place for a long time, he will get married and have children here, or he will bring his family directly from his hometown to the place of work.
Regardless of whether it is a government agency or an enterprise, if a person works in one 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 also brings him some power.
However, because of their long-term tenure, as long as they are not too failed in life, most of these people will have good relationships with their colleagues. Even if they are not good enough, it will be an acquaintance relationship.
In addition, there is no possibility of promotion, and there is a lack of motivation to fight against each other.
This also makes it less common to report each other, and more of them are complicit.
This resulted in a lot of corruption among grassroots officials in the 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 come into contact with in their daily life are some of the lowest-level officials, such as patrol police, some ordinary clerks in government yamen, and at most some eight-year-old officials. Rank, a minor official starting from around the seventh rank.
The corruption of these people will bring more intuitive feelings to the people.
After there are so many junior clerks from the ninth grade who can get food and drink cards around them, many people will think that the world is as dark as crows and that all 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 hearts and minds are sometimes not important, but sometimes they are quite important.
Although you can sometimes win people's hearts by relying on guns, it is okay to use them occasionally, but if you use guns all the time, you may not know that one day the guns will turn around and bombard you.
Because... the ordinary soldiers in the Da Chu Empire are also made up of ordinary people, to be precise, they are poor children in the countryside. They, their family members and other relatives and friends are the most ordinary low-level people in the Da Chu Empire. people.
They are not part of the ruling class!
Therefore, don't expect them to stand on the side of the powerful at critical moments, especially when they are armed with guns.
Think about it, when the families of ordinary soldiers are oppressed by bad squires and corrupt officials and then resist and cause chaos, do you still expect the soldiers to point their guns at their families?
It’s good if people don’t shoot you in the dark!
So... the army in the Chu Empire, to be precise, is the ground force, including the army, the Guards, and the Marine Corps, all of which serve in other places.
This is not only true for officers, but also for soldiers, and officers and soldiers cannot be born in the same place.
Of course, it is important for the military to serve in other places, but again, it is not feasible to rely on guns and artillery to win the hearts and minds of the people. It can be achieved temporarily, but it cannot achieve long-term peace and stability.
This has been proven over thousands of years of human history,
If you really want to win the hearts and minds of the people, you still have to capture them fundamentally, such as improving people's living standards.
This is the most direct and important thing. It is also the top priority that the Chu Empire has been doing for the past ten years and has always been a core priority.
Secondly, we need to reduce the people’s negative impression of the government. We don’t ask them to think how good the government is, but we ask them not to gnash their teeth whenever the government is mentioned...or to help transport supplies and set up ladders when they see the enemy invading...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 carts and poles and baskets to transport ammunition and other supplies all the way from the seaside. They used their hands and shoulders to support the logistics supply line of the Eight-Power Allied Forces.
Even when the Eight-Nation Allied Forces attacked the city, he took out the long ladder at home, braved the firepower of the defenders and ran to the city wall to help the Eight-Nation Allied Forces set up the ladder...
What a bummer!
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 in turn aroused people's despair and even hatred towards the Manchu Qing court.
This may seem unbelievable, even unacceptable.
But this is reality.
Luo Zhixue knew about these things, so he also guarded against these things, tried his best to avoid them, and tried to fundamentally solve this problem.
Pay attention to people's livelihood, maintain a positive image of the government, coupled with strong force deterrence, and then coupled with loyal education and so on.
Take a multi-pronged approach to achieve long-term peace and stability.
Anti-corruption at the grassroots level is an important part of this.
If a senior cabinet official embezzles a huge sum of one million yuan, he may cause millions or even tens of millions of economic losses to the country, but the actual negative consequences, especially the negative impact on people's hearts, are far less than Tens of thousands of grassroots officials, with an average of one hundred yuan worth of corruption per capita!
Because the corruption of high-ranking officials is out of reach of ordinary people. Although the actual damage is also great, ordinary people do not feel it strongly, and they even do not know that their own interests have been violated... Therefore, the public knows about the corruption of high-ranking officials in ministries and departments. It's rotten, so I just cursed a few words, and more of it was just a surprise...
However, grassroots corruption is directly accessible to the public, and grassroots corruption will make people feel the infringement of their own interests.
Between the two, it is difficult to say which one is more harmful to the people, but in terms of people's hearts and the stability of the rule, it is obviously the latter that is more harmful.
This is also the reason why Luo Zhixue made great efforts and elevated the repeated work at the grassroots level to the level of solid foundation for rule.
With the completion of Wang Bingqi's report and the recognition and approval of Emperor Luo Zhixue, a large-scale grassroots anti-corruption work was carried out with the Anti-Corruption Bureau of the Grand Inspectorate as the leader, the Anti-Corruption Department of the Patrol Department as the supplement, and the Provincial Inspectorates and Patrol Departments as cooperation. It started with a bang!
In late August, nine inspection teams went to each province to begin their first round of inspections!
Since September, Luo Zhixue has received repeated reports on relevant work progress from the grassroots level.
In September, Luo Zhixue received reports and successively arrested and quickly tried more than 630 officials for corruption and other illegal activities. More than 120 of them were sentenced to death by the local court, and the rest were sentenced to several years of imprisonment. Wait, imprisonment is not really jail, but they will be sent directly to various mines for mining. Those who are at a suitable distance will be exiled to the desolate frontier for farming.
For example, in order to increase the permanent population in the Heilongjiang River Basin, the Dachu Empire specially set up several prisons in the area... The prisons were actually exile camps. The prisoners were transported by sea to the Heilongjiang estuary, and then transported to several prisons by ship in the Heilongjiang River. In the reclamation area.
Therefore, strictly speaking, there are not many people who are actually in jail in the Da Chu Empire... Those who can enjoy the treatment of jail are usually misdemeanor criminals with short sentences, or some criminals with very special status, such as those who have been arrested. Zhixue personally ordered that the criminal ministers be transferred to judicial trial, but did not clearly indicate whether they would be exiled...
Most of the criminals were either exiled or found their way into the mines.
Even misdemeanor criminals who are in jail locally have to work... The government of the Dachu Empire will not support these criminals. It is impossible to eat and drink in the palace. You have to work. Eat.
If nothing else, this large-scale anti-corruption campaign at the grassroots level will make these people extremely rare, and more exiled people will be colonized in places where ordinary immigrants would not be willing to go even if they were beaten to death.
The arrests of hundreds of grassroots corrupt officials in September are just the beginning. There are many more grassroots officials, many more than hundreds, who will be arrested and sentenced in a series of subsequent actions.
It is difficult to say how many people there are specifically. We can only give a rough figure, which is that during the one-year grassroots anti-corruption work, about 100,000 people will be dealt with.
Because this is the target number given by Luo Zhixue... If this number is missing, it means that this special operation is derelict, and he will have to deal with Wang Bingqi...
In addition, the treatment mentioned here does not mean that everyone will be arrested and sentenced, but also includes dismissal, demotion, etc., and not everyone will be transferred to judicial processing.
Beginning in September, the Da Chu Empire launched a vigorous grassroots anti-corruption campaign. The Grand Supervisory Office took the lead, the Patrol Department assisted, and the local supervisory offices in each province cooperated and carried out specific work.
At the same time, public opinion propaganda was also launched in a timely manner. The Dachudi newspaper intensively carried out publicity work on this round of anti-corruption work.
The focus of the propaganda is naturally not on how many corrupt officials there are, how much harm they have caused, etc. It is not good to say too much of these things. On the contrary, it is easier for the public to think that government agencies are a gathering place for corrupt officials.
The focus of the propaganda is how the country attaches great importance to administrative work, how to ensure people's livelihood, how to pay attention to the vital interests of the people, etc.
Although the things reported are different, the starting points of publicity are different and the focus of publicity is also different, so the effects will be different.
Luo Zhixue did not need to instruct these matters. The people in the Reporting Department of the Ministry of Etiquette knew it very well and made corresponding arrangements.
When extensive grassroots anti-corruption work was carried out vigorously, the Ministry of Civil Affairs also submitted a reform plan for the appointment and removal of grassroots officials. In principle, this reform plan is to avoid as much as possible a grassroots official from serving in the same organization for a long time.
In the case of long-term employment, it actually does not exist for middle and senior officials. Basically, as long as you reach the level of seventh grade, you will basically serve as deputy mayor or deputy section chief of other institutions. These positions do not exist. In the case of long-term appointments, positions will normally be transferred within three to five years.
Moreover, the appointment and dismissal of officials from the seventh rank to the seventh rank are basically cross-county transfers, not to mention the sixth rank and above, all are cross-government transfers or even cross-province transfers.
In terms of middle and high-level officials, the Great Chu Empire pursued a typical official transfer system. It would not let high-ranking officials from the first and middle schools work in this position for a long time, nor would they 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 grades, such cross-regional appointment and dismissal transfers were rare.
After all, most of them are ordinary staff members. 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.
There is actually only one main stipulation, that is, when promoting from the ninth rank to the eighth rank or from the eighth rank to the eighth rank, one must be transferred across towns or across departments depending on the situation. In short, one cannot be promoted on the spot in the original department.
The Ministry of Personnel Affairs tries to increase the mobility of grassroots officials as much as possible without affecting their normal lives. This is also the scope of cross-regional or cross-department transfers and does not involve promotion from the ninth rank to the full ninth rank.
Because officials from the ninth rank are often newcomers who have only been in the job 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.
However, it is different to upgrade from the ninth grade to the eighth grade.
In terms of the actual scope of work in the officialdom of the Dachu Empire, there is actually no difference between the Zhengjiu and Congjiu. They are both the most ordinary clerks. At most, there is a small difference in salary, but it is not big.
But from the eighth grade, this is basically a minor official position, or a senior staff member in an important department. They often have a few people in charge, and they will have limited power in their hands.
And this small power will quickly increase their possibility of corruption.
The main targets of this grassroots anti-corruption campaign are actually these petty officials who have little power in their hands.
Most of these people have no hope of becoming high-ranking officials. They have a small amount of power and have channels to realize their power. Positive and negative consequences can easily occur, which can easily create a breeding ground for corruption.
Moreover, these people are not only greedy themselves, but also have a high probability of dragging people around them into the same trap, leading to collusion.
The core purpose of this grassroots official governance reform of the Ministry of Personnel Affairs is to focus on cracking down on these petty officials who have little power and no hope of promotion.
Low-level officials in the eighth or seventh grade.
As for the sixth rank and above, from the sixth rank, they are already the county magistrate or the deputy director of the corresponding government department. These people are relatively middle-level officials. Although these people have a lot of corruption, they are not There is no need for the empire's top officials to carry out special anti-corruption measures, because they have been doing this before, and in the long run, the overall performance is not bad.
While carrying out large-scale anti-corruption work, the appointment and removal process 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 the eighth grade.
Luo Zhixue hopes that through this series of means, corruption at the grassroots level can be curbed.
Of course, it is estimated that it will take some time to see the effects, perhaps one year or even two or three years.
Administration work is a long-term work. It is impossible to say that if you do it today, the results will be effective tomorrow. Instead, you must do it today, tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow. It must be done continuously... and it must be done at intervals. A big one will deepen the fear of corrupt officials and form a good and lasting deterrent.
Anti-corruption is never simply about arresting corrupt officials, but rather about letting more officials know that the costs of corruption are high, thereby dispelling their thoughts 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 and thereby reduce criminal behavior.
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So, you have to let people know the serious consequences of crime!
This is also an important reason why the Da Chu Empire widely publicized this corruption crackdown, just to deter!
After seeing the smooth implementation of grassroots anti-corruption work in September, Luo Zhixue did not pay too much attention to the follow-up. There were many things that needed his attention, and grassroots anti-corruption was just one of them.
On October 7, Luo Zhixue went to the Royal Institute of Technology for another inspection according to his schedule. This was his second inspection of 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 most when he goes out.
Basically I go there at least once a year, sometimes even three or four times.
Luo Zhixue attaches so much importance to the Royal Institute of Technology because this place is extremely important. It can even be said that the Royal Institute of Technology holds the hope for the industrialization development of the Chu Empire.
This is the most important university of science and technology in the 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 in various disciplines conducted here provide the basis for the industrial development of the Chu Empire. Solid technical support.
The 'Daye Method' steelmaking method that was implemented last year provided a feasible basis for the industrial-scale mass production of steel in the Dachu Empire. Although this Daye Method was the most developed by Daye Steel Company, it is actually behind it A series of theoretical technologies were provided by the Iron and Steel Research Institute directly under the Royal Institute of Technology, and they cooperated.
Basically, it is a model in which Daye Steel Company provides financial and other resource support, and the Royal Institute of Technology sends people to conduct research and share the results.
Just a large-scale steel smelting method is enough to greatly promote the industrial development of the Chu Empire, but there are many, many similar research projects at the Royal Institute of Technology.
From weapons and equipment in various defense industries, to big things like steam engines, to drug research in modern medicine, to hybrid rice and chemical fertilizers in agriculture, to weather forecasting, etc., anything that can be related to science and technology As for the relationship, the Royal Institute of Technology is basically involved, it just depends on the amount of resources invested.
Today Luo Zhixue went to the Royal Institute of Technology for an inspection, and what he saw was the big steam engine!
Some time ago, the steam engine project team of the Royal Institute of Technology reported that they had made major improvements to the steam engine. The prototype test was quite successful and it has practical value. That's why Luo Zhixue came over to inspect.
After all, in addition to regular inspections, the only breakthroughs in key technologies such as steam engines that allowed Luo Zhixue to make temporary inspections were only possible.
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