Suddenly, a parachute official from Guangzhou City came to Guangzhou City, who was a third-level political officer and the director of the Department of Civil Affairs. Moreover, this airborne official named Wang Xilin was from the Supervision Department of the Ministry of Human Affairs.
This immediately made many officials in Guangzhou frown.
They felt threatened, a 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 superiors had some deep meaning in sending Wang Xilin to Guangdong at this time?
It is not unusual for the Chu Empire to parachute high-ranking officials to local areas. On the contrary, it happens quite often. However, it is abnormal to parachute a senior official who specializes in anti-corruption.
This can easily make people wonder, could there be some large-scale corruption? And this kind of corruption is so involved that it requires Jinling to send a senior official to suppress it?
Wang Tu didn't know clearly, but he knew that someone was going to be unlucky, and there would be many people, and many of them would be people in high positions.
Officials in remote places like Wang Tu heard the news of Wang Xilin's air landing and were surprised. At the same time, they anticipated that huge turmoil might occur in the future.
Many other officials naturally knew the importance of the matter, and some officials with dirty hands were even more frightened by this.
Suddenly, the official atmosphere in Guangzhou became extremely clean. When many businessmen or lower-level officials wanted to entertain officials, or find officials to smoothen relationships and do certain things, they found that the officials who used to compete with each other were now corrupt. He became an upright official.
I came to the door with gifts, but was turned away directly. Some officials even deliberately shouted a few times, saying that I am definitely not such a person. Please don't ruin my reputation. The rejection was quite loud. so that the surrounding neighbors can hear it.
Of course, more people chose to stand still and watch Wang Xilin in the dark.
I want to know what Wang Xilin wants to do and what kind of mission he came here with?
Who is his target?
Some people even tried to find out directly from Wang Xilin through various means.
But what disappointed them was that after Wang Xilin took office, he looked like a good old man, bringing a teacup filled with wolfberry berries to work in the yamen every day, and doing ordinary things.
As soon as the off-duty time came, I wandered back to the officials' dormitory behind the governor's office.
He did not buy or rent a house outside at all, but lived directly in the official dormitory inside the governor's Yamen.
So that some outsiders have little chance of contacting him.
And this, Feifan did not reassure outsiders, but instead deepened the concerns of some officials.
Even the governor Tang Tiangui was slightly dissatisfied with this.
From the time he took office until now, this Wang Xilin looks smiling on the surface, but anyone who is not a fool can see that this man is already sharpening his knife and preparing to kill people.
Anyone who really thinks that Wang Xilin came to Guangzhou to stay healthy is a real fool.
Wang Xilin was thirty-three years old at the time. For an official, he was in the prime of life and at the peak of his official career.
In fact, this is indeed the case for this person. During his two years as director of the Third Division of the Supervision Department of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, he impeached three senior officials of the second rank, thirteen senior officials of the third rank, and more than ten subordinate officials of the third rank.
Those of fourth grade or even lower than fourth grade are not worthy of his political achievements!
These officials who were impeached could not just resign. They would eventually be handed over to the judiciary for trial. One of the three second-grade officials was shot, two were sentenced to life, and then they were sent to the Northeast to mine. .
In total, six of the more than twenty third-grade and junior third-grade officials were sentenced to death, and the rest were either life-long or ten or twenty years in prison. Most of those sentenced were sent to mines in remote areas. Mining, or being sent to border areas for cultivation.
Whether it is mining or farming, it is actually a kind of exile.
In the Dachu Empire, being sentenced to a fixed-term prison sentence after breaking a law does not mean that you can stay in jail all day long.
Except for a few special circumstances, after almost all prisoners are sentenced, those with life sentences or long-term sentences are usually sent to the frontiers to mine or to cultivate in undeveloped areas where the weather is freezing and poisonous insects are everywhere.
Those with short-term sentences are sent to the nearest mine operated by the prison for mining, or sent to remote and dangerous places to build railways or something.
For example, on the current railway line from Baoji to Lanzhou, the construction of the dangerous section of the railway was all completed by prisoners... This ratio of casualties is not small, because the construction of this railway has only been started for less than a year, and the number of prisoners killed and injured in building this railway has already exceeded More than four hundred people attended.
As for the casualties of ordinary railway workers, they are very small, adding up to only twenty or thirty people. Moreover, if these ordinary railway workers have to engage in dangerous operations, they will receive high wages, and they will also receive generous pensions in case of an accident. These criminals People don't have it. If they die, they will die...
Sending criminals to mine, build roads, and colonize areas has always been the way the Chu Empire dealt with them.
If you want to break the law in the Chu Empire and still want to have enough food, drink and sleep in the palace, how can it be such a good thing.
During Wang Xilin's two-year career in the Supervision Department, he sent a large number of senior officials to mine 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 administrative work... It was equivalent to the superior holding a knife in his hand and slashing the necks of many officials in Guangzhou... Wang Xilin, this is the knife!
And this is indeed the case!
On December 19, the 28th year of Chengshun, less than half a month after Wang Xilin took office, the Internal Affairs Office of the Department of Personnel Affairs dispatched an emergency response and interviewed more than 30 officials from the Provincial Department of Personnel Affairs and the Guangzhou Prefecture’s Personnel Affairs Department. officials.
Note that this kind of interview is not mandatory by law. It is purely for the personnel agency to call people over in the name of a conversation. But it is said to be a conversation, but in fact it is an interrogation.
You don't have to go...but the officials from the Houji Inspectorate will probably lead the patrolmen to arrest the person directly.
Wang Xilin urgently interviewed more than 30 civil servants, large and small, and this move directly caused a storm in Guangzhou.
According to opaque sources, after the news came out, many middle- and low-level officials absconded in fear of crime that night, including a fifth-rank director of the Animal Husbandry Department of the Agriculture and Forestry Department.
However, the fifth-grade director was not able to escape in the end. The Internal Affairs Office of the Personnel Affairs Department, which had been well prepared, squatted down with the patrol officers early on.
On December 24th, this man was trying to escape by boat at the pier, but he jumped into the river in a hurry to escape. Unfortunately, he overestimated his water ability... and was drowned.
Before Wang Xilin took office for a month, he scared a fifth-rank official to death by jumping into a river.
The next day, many people in the governor's office couldn't help but have their legs tremble when they looked at Wang Xilin, who was holding a tea cup and smiling at everyone.
What kind of good guy is there? He is just a butcher!
On December 26, at a new round of high-level meetings in the governor's office, Governor Tang Tiangui, Chief Envoy Cheng Yongfeng, Inspector Xu Xin and five other senior third-level political officials in Guangzhou City were all present.
Five people from the third rank participated in politics, including Wang Xilin, who supervised the administration of officials and was also the director of the Department of Civil Affairs.
Feng Yongan, the prefect of Guangzhou.
Mei Chengye, who oversees many affairs such as flood control, shipping, and Guangzhou Port development, and is also the director of the Department of Transportation;
Jia Weihong, who supervised the affairs of etiquette and education and also served as the director of the Internal Affairs Department of the governor's Yamen.
Wu Feibai, director of the Department of Industry and Commerce, who oversees industrial and commercial affairs and is also in charge of agriculture and forestry affairs.
The above eight people are the core figures in the civil service system of Guangdong Province under the Dachu Empire. These eight people determine everything except taxation and military affairs in the empire, the second largest economically powerful province.
In this meeting, Wang Xilin formally impeached fifty-three officials, including a total of twenty-seven officials from the Provincial Department of Personnel Affairs and the Guangzhou Prefecture’s Personnel Affairs Office, as well as twenty officials from other agencies. six.
Including the director of the Provincial Animal Husbandry Department who jumped into the water and drowned after absconding in fear of crime.
Looking at the long impeachment list, Tang Tiangui couldn't help but frown.
No wonder someone in Jinling City said that Wang Xilin was an official butcher. This was so cruel!
He did not oppose or prevent Wang Xilin from engaging in official governance, but Tang Tianxi did not like Wang Xilin's urgent work style, which did not consider the impact at all.
He had only been in office for less than a month, but he had forced to death a fifth-grade director and impeached more than fifty officials. Moreover, according to the charges he was impeached for, once transferred to the judiciary and entered the judicial process, I am afraid that five or six people would be sentenced to death. The maximum sentence is more than ten years in prison.
It is said that a new official has three things to do when he takes office, but Wang Xilin did not set a fire, but just dropped a bomb!
How can anyone engage in official administration work like this? It has made people panic as soon as it started. In the past half month, all the officials have been on tenterhooks, looking for information everywhere. Many people even came to Tang Tianxi to find out information.
With all this going on, how can anyone concentrate on their work?
And to be more serious, Wang Xilin is not really a member of the Anti-Corruption Bureau of the Inspectorate... Catching corrupt officials is not his job, that is the job of the Inspectorate.
You started anti-corruption as soon as you came up...Have you asked the Inspectorate for its opinion?
Xu Xin, the inspector who oversees the affairs of the Inspectorate, is very dissatisfied with Wang Xilin's behavior in the past half month... He has talked to Tang Tiangui several times... It is said to be a talk, but it is just a roundabout report on Wang Xilin.
Why is Xu Xin like this?
Quite simply, Wang Xilin crossed the line.
In the Great Chu Empire, the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Supervisory Council were two institutions. Although official governance and anti-corruption were related, they were actually unrelated.
Official governance refers to the style and performance of officials.
To put it simply, the work of government administration is actually to create a good official atmosphere and let officials serve the king with their heart and efforts.
Anti-corruption... this is a judicial issue!
To some extent, the civil service agencies' anti-corruption efforts have gone too far... This is why when the civil service agencies conduct investigations, they cannot arrest people directly, but need to invite people to talk.
If you come, let's talk and ask.
If you don't come, you have something wrong with you... Even if the civil service officials can find out about you for a while, don't expect to run away... Maybe the civil service agencies will impeach you and remove you from office.
Because the civil service agency is responsible for the appointment and dismissal of officials!
You are secretive and hiding from the civil service agencies, and you dare not come to talk. Doesn’t this clearly indicate that you have a problem... Low-level officials are directly removed from office, and middle- and high-level officials are formally impeached, and then all are handed over to judicial investigation.
But in many cases, the Inspectorate actually doesn't like this situation... It's their job to catch corrupt officials and get promoted and make money, but your civil service agency has to get involved, and you just pretend that interviewing people is not arresting them. , this is taking credit.
In the local political structure of the Da Chu Empire, the functions and powers of each agency and official were very clear.
For example, Wang Xilin was in charge of the administration of officials.
It is worth mentioning that the civil service agencies have always been powerful agencies in the Chu Empire, whether in the capital or local areas.
In Gyeonggi, the Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs has always been one of the counselors and is never absent!
At the local level, the Provincial Personnel Affairs Department, the Government Personnel Affairs Office, and the County Personnel Affairs Section are all extremely powerful institutions, and their top leaders are often concurrently held by higher-level officials.
Ordinary directors of provincial departments only have the fourth rank.
However, the director of the Department of Personnel Affairs has always been a concurrent post of political participation from each province, starting from the third rank!
The political participation of the Great Chu Empire was amalgamated from the left and right political participation and consultation in the pre-Ming Dynasty. The rank was Congsanpin, which was a senior official second only to the governor and chief envoy in the provincial officialdom. It belonged to the provincial level. High official.
Sometimes people also refer to political participation as shenyou. This is because both political participation and shensuo existed at the same time in the pre-Ming Dynasty... The folk names have continued, and even many officials themselves sometimes confuse them.
But it is precisely in the official documents that there is only participation in politics and no participation in discussions!
The number of political participants in each province is variable, ranging from three to five, and sometimes there are even six or seven. These political participants are generally used to be in charge of important affairs or institutions. For example, the directors of the provincial civil affairs departments have always been third-level political participants. .
At the same time, it is also used as an additional title for the prefect of important prefectures, mainly for prefectures where provincial capitals are located. For example, the prefect of Guangzhou has always been given the title of third-level political participation.
Sometimes he will be temporarily dispatched as a senior official to preside over a certain matter, 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 person who participates in politics and directly acts as the head of the port development zone. jurisdiction.
From his participation in politics at the third level, he was already a serious senior provincial official in the official system of the Great Chu Empire, and was able to participate in important provincial affairs at the local level.
If you are promoted further on the ground, it will be the chief envoy or inspector of the third rank. If you are promoted in the capital, it will be the director of each department of the third rank.
In the vast city of Guangdong, apart from the three governors, chief envoys, and inspectors, there are only three or four people, but no more than five or six political participants, who are the most powerful.
Of course, the independent tax department is not included in this!
The tax department has always been independent and has nothing to do with the local governor's office. Even the governor has no control over them. They even have their own law enforcement force: 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 fine and can generally be regarded as slightly stronger law enforcement units.
However, in some relatively turbulent areas such as frontiers, overseas, and newly occupied areas, armed tax police are serious military units, equipped with all kinds of weapons and equipment, and their combat effectiveness is quite strong.
In some places overseas, due to insufficient military manpower, armed tax police have to help in some places' repression tasks.
When expanding overseas, the military went to defeat the hostile organized forces, and then the armed tax police followed and raided homes and exterminated people... No, they collected taxes.
In the hinterland of the mainland, it is rare for ordinary people to see such heavily armed tax police. After all, no one dares to engage in large-scale armed resistance to tax. Therefore, currently, you can only see large numbers of them when they raid homes and exterminate clans. There are armed tax policemen with guns and ammunition.
That’s right, home confiscation is not within the purview of ordinary patrol police, but within the purview of the tax police, because the money obtained from the confiscation of homes must be turned over to the national treasury... The tax department uses this reason to make this kind of illicit act of confiscating homes extremely difficult. The lucrative job has lasted for more than 20 years, and countless policemen from top to bottom hate it with itch.
That's a house raid. Anyone who performs the task can just grab a little bit, but that's a lot of money!
Unfortunately, the tax police tightly control their authority to search homes.
This shows the special nature of the tax authorities in the Dachu Empire. Not to mention the patrol police, even the local governors are not.
Even a provincial governor like Tang Tiangui, who is as powerful as Tang Tiangui, can still see tax officials without seeing him when there is nothing to do... This is too much, just in case the tax officials suddenly have a whim that day and want to investigate Tang Tiangui's tax issues , then things get serious.
Even if he himself has no tax problems, there are so many people in his family, and if he doesn't have enough insurance, he will be found to have some tax problems.
After all, many people like to do tax evasion. Just because the tax department doesn't pay attention to you on weekdays doesn't mean it can't be found out.
In the contemporary Chu Empire, if you offend anyone, don't offend the tax collector... This rule is especially true for the rich and powerful.
But ordinary people who don't have two big words in their pockets don't need to be afraid of these tax officials.
The taxation agency of the Dachu Empire has always had a fine tradition: don’t do anything to the pain!
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, they can't squeeze out a few taels of oil. Moreover, tax collection and even tax inspections also require costs!
Staring at the Kuhaha people every day, the taxes collected by the Dachu Empire are probably not enough to cover the cost of tax collection and tax inspections!
But those rich and powerful people are different. They are all fat and oily. If they can find an opportunity to pounce on them and take a bite, not only will the national treasury have more income, but they will also be able to bring more political achievements to themselves.
And in this process, the tax officials can make a little profit, which is to make their mouths full of oil.
So when they find any powerful person showing signs of tax evasion, a group of tax officials will pounce on him with their mouths drooling.
Just like a bunch of crazy dogs!
Faced with these mad dogs, even the governor Tang Tiangui, although he didn't say he knew how to walk around, could still avoid contact without contact.
unlucky!
Over time, local tax agencies basically formed their own factions and had little to do with the governor's office. Naturally, there was no such thing as ranking of power.
However, although the tax officials are a bunch of mad dogs, they only care about taxation and not other matters, and they have no authority to control it.
Take the corruption problem among many officials, for example. What tax officials care about is whether you pay taxes on your illegal income, rather than where your illegal income comes from or what crimes you have committed.
There is even a clause in the tax law of the Da Chu Empire that the tax agency will keep taxpayers' tax sources confidential, and law enforcement units such as patrol police have no authority to access it.
Of course, no one would be so stupid as to pay taxes directly with their illegal income... Most of them would launder their illegal income through various channels, and then pay taxes on the laundered money.
The tax authorities ignored this. Money laundering had nothing to do with them. It was a matter for the financial crimes unit within the police.
However, you have to pay taxes on the laundered money.
In the Dachu Empire, the taxation agencies were special and could not 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 just a theory.
In fact, the governor alone cannot handle so many affairs. At the same time, it is also for the purpose of checking and balancing power to prevent the governor from becoming a dominating power and becoming a local emperor. Therefore, there are clearly defined scope of powers and administrative envoys responsible for people's livelihood and economic affairs, and judicial envoys. The inspector of public security affairs.
In addition, there are Congsanpin who are in charge of various affairs and participate in politics.
This group of people together form a provincial high-level structure. This structure is currently very stable, with everyone performing their own responsibilities, checking and balancing each other, and supervising each other.
And Wang Xilin made a profit as soon as he came, and his actions were so big, which had a relatively serious impact on the local political structure of the Chu Empire, otherwise Xu Xin would not have such a big opinion.
Even though there was no public opposition, Tang Tiangui was approached many times to report the situation.
Tang Tiangui also had some headaches about this... He knew that Wang Xilin came with an important mission, but his way of doing things was too impatient. The action was so big and the impact was very bad.
Although he was dissatisfied with Wang Xilin's way of doing things, he could not pretend that he had not seen the impeachment report that Wang Xilin formally submitted at the meeting.
After looking through it for a long time, he finally handed it to Xu Xin, the inspector on his right: "Everyone, take a look!"
Soon, the impeachment report was briefly circulated.
Xu Xin turned to look at Cheng Yongfeng at this time, and after a few seconds he showed an angry look and said: "They are so bold, buying and selling officials, accepting bribes, and indulging their family members to make money and kill people. These people have done all kinds of evil things." , is not sufficient to demonstrate the justice of the law.”
The chief envoy Cheng Yongfeng did not speak immediately. Instead, he lowered his head and pondered for a moment, and tapped his fingers on the table. He opened his mouth several times, but finally sighed and said: "It's a pity, Qian An is a capable man." , the new industrial zone in Foshan has been run well, but it’s just that we know the people well but don’t know the hearts!”
Qian An, the county magistrate of Foshan, joined the Imperial Academy Secretariat as the third secretary in the 24th year of Chengshun. In the 26th year of Chengshun, he was sent to Guangdong. In the autumn of the same year, he was appointed the magistrate of Foshan County, Guangzhou Prefecture.
In the 27th year of Chengshun, Foshan's economic growth ranked first among the counties and districts in Guangzhou. Although the 28th year of Chengshun has only passed by a few days, everyone knows that the economic growth rate of counties and districts in Guangzhou this year has been The top spot will still be Foshan County.
With such dazzling achievements, if nothing happens to this gentleman, he will definitely make a move in the new year. Not to mention starting from the fifth rank, even being the magistrate of a state or the director of a powerful department in a certain province in the fifth rank will be easy. loose.
But...now it's wrong!
