This person succeeded Ji Lingda as a member of Jiangbei Province for only half a year, but he was impeached for major corruption problems, and was linked to the corruption case of the Hongze Lake expansion project.

Although no coercive measures have been taken yet, in fact, he has been ordered to return to Beijing to report on his work, but after returning to Beijing, the Son of Heaven has not summoned him, but has left him in the official inn, well, the kind of house arrest!

Now the Inspectorate is sending a special case team to Jiangbei, just to better collect the detailed evidence of Xie Guanglin's crimes, and then with the cooperation of the local Inspectorate, continue to purge the Jiangbei officialdom, that local corruption is too serious, it was done once last year, and again this year, and the officials have already suspended the promotion and transfer of officials who are now serving in Jiangbei and those who have served in Jiangbei.

In addition, the task force has another task, that is, by the way, the local inspectorate is also wiped out!

Since there has been large-scale corruption in Jiangbei's local administrative organs twice in a row, if there is no problem on the side of the Inspectorate, it is estimated that few people will believe it.

The task of the task force is only in Jiangbei Province, but Jiangbei is just an introduction in Li Xuan's view!

This time, Li Xuan is going to do a big vote, from the top three grades and above, at least twenty or thirty will be killed, as for who it is, it depends on the situation!

This depends not on who is guilty, but on which one is more appropriate

Because Li Xuan had already known from Hantong's report that all the officials in the empire who were above the third rank, and the generals above the major general, one was counted as one, regardless of whether it was Liu Bagou, the first assistant of the cabinet, or Hao Bonian, the army general!

It's all corrupt officials!

The difference is only in the way and how much money is corrupted!

According to Hantong's report, this person has not directly accepted bribes, nor has he solicited bribes, but only occasionally his political status has provided some convenience for his family's business, and the benefits obtained are not large.

With Liu Bagou's political status and his use of his position to provide a little convenience for his family's business and obtain some business benefits, it can be said that he is already very clean.

This is also the reason why Li Xuan has always regarded it as not seeing this kind of thing and continues to reuse Liu Bagou.

For others, the situation is generally more serious, such as Qian Aoli, although the secretary of the Ministry of Taxation is very good at work in all aspects, and often mentions Li Xuan's back to the black pot, but the means of collecting money are also unusual, and he has sought a lot of economic benefits through the business of his clansmen.

However, considering that Qian Xuanli has carried a lot of black pots for Li Xuan over the years, and the work efficiency of the tax department under his leadership is becoming more and more efficient, Li Xuan still values him more, and more importantly, he did not directly accept bribes, but like Liu Bagou, he directly did business through his clansmen, and provided some convenience to make profits under certain circumstances, but the amount of profit was relatively large.

Most of the high-level officials of the empire, especially the core high-level officials above the second grade, are actually mostly the same as Liu Bagou and Qian Aoli, who are still politically sensitive in high positions, and usually do not accept bribes directly, nor do they allow their family members to receive bribes indirectly, they generally let their families do business and occasionally provide some convenience.

Well, in fact, even if they themselves don't take the initiative to provide convenience, but when these executives' clansmen are doing business outside, they have their backs against the big trees, and everyone will give them face, and many times, they open a leather bag company casually, and there are a lot of people lining up to deliver orders!

This method is relatively obscure, and the political influence is not so bad, Li Xuan has also turned a blind eye for many years, after all, these people are all old courtiers who have followed him to fight the country.

Now that the country has been laid, they are powerful and powerful, and naturally they inevitably want material enjoyment, even though the amount of their money is not small, but over the years, there are more and more of their clansmen, and the pomp is getting bigger and bigger, but it is already difficult for them to maintain a decent life in the big family, and through business subsidies to live, Li Xuan will not delve too deep into this kind of thing.

Of course, if they were dealt with in strict accordance with the law, they could all be pulled out and shot, because their actions were very obvious to use their positions for personal gain, and the laws of the empire expressly prohibited such situations.

It's just that if they are all killed, the huge Tang Empire will only be left with Li Xuan, the emperor!

In addition, most people are still relatively restrained and know how to accept it when they see it.

Of course, there are a few people who have done more excessively, and the list of these people Li Xuan has already been listed, so that Han Tong can collect more evidence, and when the time comes, these high-ranking officials are the chickens that Li Xuan is ready to pull out to kill chickens and set an example.

Relatively speaking, in fact, the corruption situation of high-ranking officials of the second rank is still not too serious, and the most serious corruption among high-ranking officials appears at the two levels of middle and high-ranking officials from the third rank and below the third rank, and it is widely concentrated in the relatively old officials.

Because of these middle and high-level officials, they have real power, and many of them are local officials, in the capital, an official of the third grade is nothing at all, but if it is at the local level, then it is a Taoist or a provincial political envoy and other big officials, and the real power is extremely great.

According to the current situation that Li Xuan has mastered, the most serious corruption is generally the majority of deputy positions, such as political envoys and envoys in various provinces, and for example, Tongzhi and county officials in prefectures and counties.

In addition, there is another major feature that it appears in older officials!

Li Xuan read many secret reports of Han Tong and found that the corruption of most officials occurred over the age of 40, and reached a peak around the age of 50.

There are many reasons for this, partly because people have a lot of pressure in family life after they reach middle age, and behind these officials there is often a big family to support.

Another important reason is that the possibility of these older officials wanting to continue to move up is very small, and the career path of many officials is basically at the end.

Because the Tang Empire has a clear number of years, that is, sixty-five years old from the second rank and above, and sixty years old from the second rank below.

However, in the Tang Dynasty, there is usually a rule for the promotion of officials, that is, after serving for three years, they can only be promoted if they are evaluated as excellent, of course, this rule is only for ordinary officials, and the officials who are included in the key training by the Ministry of Officials will have a separate set of training processes.

At present, according to the latest imperial examination and official system, the grades of new scientific scholars and doctors are already very low.

If you take the Jinling examination, the first class of scholars, doctors, bachelors, and priests in each department will be awarded the eighth grade, the second class will be awarded the eighth grade, and the third class will be awarded the ninth grade, but the number of admissions is relatively small, and there are only three people in the first class in each subject, only seven people in the second grade, and more than 100 people in the third grade.

The number of first-class and second-class students in each province is equivalent to the number of people in Jinling, and the number of third-class students is adjusted according to the actual situation, with as little as more than 100 people and more than 100 people.

Every year, so many scholars participate in the imperial examination, and only more than ten people can enter the official with the eighth grade, only dozens of people enter the official from the eighth grade, and only two or three hundred people enter the official with the ninth grade, and the rest are all from the ninth grade.

This also means that if ordinary officials start their careers from the ninth grade, they will follow the normal path, even if it is very smooth, and they will not have the opportunity to become a second-grade scholar if they are promoted to the next level in three years.

The high-ranking officials of the empire are often based on the key training list formulated by the Ministry of Officials, the local official affairs department is responsible for focusing on the training of officials of the fifth grade, while the central official department is responsible for the cultivation of officials above the fourth grade, as for the third grade, basically they need to enter Li Xuan's training list to have hope.

Those officials who enter the training list will often be promoted quickly through frequent transfers and accumulating more work experience, or they will be promoted after performing well in important positions, and they will no longer follow the traditional example of being promoted after a three-year term.

One of the most typical examples is Chen Lifu, as a key training talent who has a name in His Majesty, the positions he has held all the way are important positions, and although he has not been promoted in recent years, everyone knows, even Chen Lifu himself knows that the boss deliberately let him serve as a county magistrate in Shanghai, which is sharpening and also an investigation.

Once the boss is satisfied, he will quickly soar up as soon as his term expires.

Otherwise, why did Chen Lifu work so hard to build the North Shore Industrial Zone, did he expect to do any big projects to make money from it, all for political achievements.

However, there are still relatively few officials who have been valued by Chen Lifu, and most of the officials actually have to endure hardships, and most of the hardships are often useless.

Especially for many officials around the age of 50, usually their career is basically over, at most they move up one level, and this kind of promotion is often arranged for idle positions, to put it bluntly, they are allowed to retire in the first few years.

In this case, they often start to make a big profit unscrupulously, using the convenience of their positions to let their clansmen do business and make profits, which are all pediatrics, and there are not a few people who directly reach out to ask for money.

And these people are also the targets that Li Xuan is preparing to focus on this time!

On the one hand, the number of these people is relatively large, and the grades are relatively high, the third grade, the fourth grade of this level can catch a large handful, the grade is high, the impact is great, and the effect of killing chickens and monkeys is also relatively good.

In addition, these people are on the older side, and they have almost been arranged to retire in the elderly, and removing them in advance can just make room for the young people below, and it will not affect the operation of the official institutions of the empire.

Then these men generally made a lot of money, just in time to confiscate their property and replenish the vast amount of the Empire's treasury that had been lost by a flood and the huge infrastructure that followed in the following years.

Faced with the situation that an official is corrupt, what kind of corrupt official should be attacked, Li Xuan has carefully considered, definitely not to say that he will arrest a corrupt official when he sees it, but to consider it from many aspects!

It has to be a good deterrent, and it has to avoid turmoil in the empire, and at the same time bring other benefits!

And the corrupt officials who meet the above three conditions are the targets of Li Xuan's focus this time!