On April 14, the 10th year of Tianwu, 138 Shaanxi officials who were guilty of corruption were executed in the west of Xi'an, and their relatives were exiled to the western capital to build roads.

Including 30 eunuchs, and two officials of the Metropolitan Procuratorate who were in charge of inspecting Shaanxi, none of them were spared.

For a time, the entire officialdom of Shaanxi fell into fear.

Afterwards, when some officials greeted each other at a meeting at the governor's yamen, didn't you eat the first thing they asked? How have you been doing? How many of you were killed?

In the face of the praise of the people, Zhu Cihong did not feel the slightest sense of accomplishment, but thought hard about how to put an end to the official vice of official corruption.

He also knows that from ancient times to the present, from ancient times to the present, at home and abroad, there is still no way to completely eradicate corruption.

No system will work, people are selfish, even if it is to increase the welfare of officials tenfold, they should be greedy and greedy.

Few corrupt officials abroad? It's just that people have legalized bribery.

People's desires are endless, if you earn 2,000 yuan a month, you will want to earn 35,000 yuan a month.

When I earn 5,000 a month, I think about a monthly income of more than 10,000, followed by 30,000, 50,000, and 100,000.....

Just like being an official, the local nine-rank governor wants to be promoted to the eighth grade experience, the eight-grade experience wants to be promoted to the seventh-grade pusher, the seventh-grade pusher wants to be promoted to the sixth-grade general judgment, and the general judge wants to be promoted to the fifth grade Tongzhi, the same knowledge also wants to be promoted to the prefect, and the prefect wants to enter the central ministry......

If the conditions are sufficient, I still want to enter the cabinet, become the first assistant, and get a knighthood.

People are progressive, but also not satisfied, corrupt officials are even more so, the first vote may only be greedy for dozens of taels of silver, and after a few votes, you will unconsciously set a small goal in your heart, the next vote is greedy for a hundred and ten taels, and then work hard to be greedy for a thousand taels, the more greedy the more you are......

It is rare to be greedy for tens of thousands of taels on the first vote.

Back then, Zhu Yuanzhang was notoriously ruthless in killing corruption, from the anti-corruption to the empty seal case and the Guo Huan case, Lao Zhu killed I don't know how many corrupt officials and corrupt officials.

However, there are still many corrupt officials in Hongwu, and they are lined up to kill him, and there are even hundreds of officials in a department, and all of them are killed after a few years (the number of corrupt officials in the Hongwu Dynasty as a whole is getting smaller and smaller).

The reason for this is that in the Hongwu Dynasty and even the Ming Dynasty for more than 200 years, the treatment of officials was very low, and they could only barely support their families and could not live a comfortable and well-off life.

Where there is pressure, there is motivation, and officials can only be greedy in order to support their families.

Although Zhu Yuanzhang's actions were a bit excessive, the main body of his actions was still correct, and his purpose was to eliminate corrupt officials and corrupt officials and benefit the people.

Based on these circumstances, Zhu Cihong feels that to prevent corruption, on the one hand, it is necessary to learn from Lao Zhu's physical anti-corruption methods, so that the risks outweigh the benefits, and at the same time, it is necessary to continue to improve the treatment of officials and strengthen supervision.

High-tech may not be able to maintain integrity, but at least it can reduce corrupt officials and corrupt officials.

Once officials live without worrying about food and clothing, and prefer a wealthy standard of living, under the high-pressure punishment of corruption, it is believed that the number of people who take risks will be greatly reduced.

Zhu Cihong stayed in the Yongwang Mansion for two days and drafted a new system for the welfare of Ming officials and the punishment of corruption.

In general, the basic salary was increased to six times that of the Chongzhen Dynasty, and there was also a seniority allowance, regional allowance, post allowance and bonus system.

All the money is no longer distributed in the form of grain, but all are changed to silver yuan, and there are also benefits such as meat during the New Year's holidays.

Even with the development of the economy and the improvement of living standards, there will not be a situation where the Hongwu Dynasty will not be enough, because the allowances and benefits of the Tianwu Dynasty will also fluctuate and increase accordingly to meet all the living expenses and interpersonal contacts of officials.

In terms of punishing corruption, Zhu Cihong appropriately commuted the crime of accepting bribes, changed it to dismissal from office, sentenced to re-education through labor, and confiscated the embezzled funds.

However, for the crime of embezzlement of public funds and endangering national construction, the crime of embezzlement will be carried out with the strictest crime of copying a house!

If you take the silver of the court, the court will take your property, as long as it is your property, regardless of the embezzlement and the original property, it will all be confiscated fuckingly! Even the wife and children have to be exiled!

The reason for the current flood in Shaanxi was that officials such as the Shaanxi River Yamen embezzled public funds to control the river and built a tofu slag project, so that the houses and property of more than 100,000 people were swallowed up by the flood.

The property for disaster relief and reconstruction is all from the imperial court, because of only more than one million silver yuan, the corrupt officials raised by the son of a son not only caused the displacement of more than 100,000 families, but also caused the imperial court to spend millions of taels of silver yuan to resettle the victims!

If this kind of person is not beheaded and exiled, is he worthy of the billions of subjects of the country?

Anti-corruption is the bottom line, and the weakening and doom of any dynasty is caused by the corruption of officials and the oppression of the people, which at least accounts for a large factor.

Zhu Cihong pondered for a long time, and finally considered abolishing the system of town guards and garrison eunuchs in various places, further weakening the power of eunuchs, prohibiting eunuchs from interfering in local politics, and taking back all supervision and acceptance, and leaving the local and central departments responsible.

Zhu Cihong even remembered the queen's original words and completely abolished the eunuch system.

However, he suddenly thought of the performance of Zhang Tongchang, the governor of Shaanxi, and felt that the affairs of Shaanxi were a bit strange.

First of all, Zhang Tongchang wrote nine times to ask for his resignation, and then as soon as he arrived in Xi'an, he met Zhang Tongchang, who also had a private visit, and happened to meet Zhang Tongchang, who was originally a little afraid of eunuchs, to clean up the eunuchs, and happened to meet Ma Jixiang who came to find fault in the governor's yamen?

How can there be so many coincidences in this world, the suspicious Zhu Cihong feels that all this was arranged by Zhang Tongchang!

In fact, he guessed correctly, a few months ago, Zhang Tongchang frequently wrote to ask for his resignation, just to attract Zhu Cihong's attention and have the idea of inspecting Xijing.

Even since Zhu Cihong had just inspected Fengyang, Zhang Tongchang had already guessed that the emperor was coming to inspect Xi'an!

Hearing that the emperor suddenly appeared in Luoyang Mansion near Shaanxi, Zhang Tongchang was even more convinced that the emperor was coming to Xi'an, so he was surrounded by secret sentinels of the governor's yamen.

In order to deal with Ma Jixiang, Zhang Tongchang also sent someone to secretly understand Ma Jixiang's itinerary, and it happened that on that day, Ma Jixiang returned to Xi'an after blackmailing from the Yamen of the Weinan River.

The eunuch of the Xijing garrison did not break into the street once or twice, after everything fell into place, Zhang Tongchang deliberately provoked the eunuch with words on the street, and then beat the eunuch on purpose, specifically attracting Ma Jixiang......

Then in the dialogue of the governor's yamen, Zhang Tongchang risked provoking Zhu Cihong with words such as "ruling the world with domestic slaves", and after Ma Jixiang's arrival, he deliberately mentioned the road construction in the dialogue.

Because Zhang Tongchang knew very well that many of the official roads from Tongguan to Xi'an were problematic (he had inspected various places many times), he concluded that Emperor Tianwu, who had always attached great importance to road construction, would be unhappy and would pay attention to this matter......

This ploy was repeated one after another, fully demonstrating the political struggle that Zhang Tongchang was good at as a civilian official.

In the end, his plan was all completed, Ma Jixiang was whipped, the Xijing garrison was removed, and the rights of the eunuchs were slashed to an epic extent......

The perfect success of this series of plans is based on Zhang Tongchang's understanding of Emperor Tianwu's attitude towards the country and the people.

In the Yongwang Mansion, with a keen political sense, Zhu Cihong felt more and more that this matter was not simple, and he summoned Wang Zhen again to ask him to investigate the performance of Shaanxi Governor Zhang Tongchang during this time.

Wang Zhen's work efficiency can be called lightning, and in less than a day, Zhang Tongchang's whereabouts in the past month and the people he met were almost checked.

Facts have proved that Zhu Cihong's guess is correct, Zhang Tongchang did arrange personnel to guard the city gate some time ago, and he also temporarily went out of the palace to hang out on the street many times.

He sometimes pretended to be a book seller, and sometimes he pretended to be an old farmer who bought vegetables, so as to find an opportunity to meet the emperor who went out on patrol in Weifu, but he recognized the wrong person a few times before......

Zhu Cihong, who learned of these circumstances, was very angry, and felt unhappy that he had been arranged, just because there was no direct evidence to prove that Zhang Tongchang was acting and bullying the king, and because Lao Zhang was also a capable minister, he did not blame him after all.

However, Zhu Cihong couldn't swallow this breath, he summoned the old fox Zhang Tongchang, and said an undisguised warning, don't play with fire and burn yourself!

On the day he left Shaanxi and returned to Beijing, Zhu Cihong made another decree: to transfer Zhang Tongchang, the governor of Shaanxi, to be the deputy governor of the Northern Protectorate, in charge of the civil affairs in the north of Heilongjiang, and to mediate and deal with the contradictions between the Mongolian tribes......

Zhu Cihong's move can be regarded as a good use of people.