Hantong has existed for many years, but the outside world doesn't know much about Hantong, because Hantong's business is relatively special, one of which has nothing to do with ordinary people, and it doesn't engage in white terror or anything like that.

Its main business is to monitor, prevent, and combat civil strife, specifically those rebels, ministers' rebellions, and now the Tang Dynasty is in full swing, and there are almost no internal rebellions, at most some armed anti-tax and small and medium-sized rebellions.

So, a lot of people don't actually know that such an institution exists.

Even if it is a hundred officials, they actually don't know much about Hantong, and they don't feel it deeply.

They knew that Han Tong's eagle dog was most likely lying in ambush around them, but Han Tong only investigated and did not act.

Over the years, it has rarely been involved in any cases, let alone large-scale arrests.

Therefore, over time, they have become accustomed to the existence of Han Tong, and they do not think that it will pose any threat to them.

Compared with Hantong, the Inspectorate is the biggest enemy of the hundred officials, because the Inspectorate is the institution in the Tang Empire that specializes in investigating the hundred officials, and anti-corruption is one of the most important businesses of this institution.

However, now, Han Tong has bared his fangs and arrested thousands of officials at one time, and many of them are high-ranking officials from the third rank and above, and even from the second rank.

Moreover, in these arrests, Han Tong often directly arrested people, and then directly handed them over to the Inspectorate, and came up with extremely detailed evidence, which made many officials wonder, how did they find so much evidence in a short time?

They didn't know that Han Tong didn't look for evidence in a short period of time, they just went to the archives to dig out the files of the relevant officials, and then directly arrested people according to the above investigation report.

Otherwise, there would be no such high efficiency.

Many people said that Hantong was more hateful than the Jinyi Wei and the East and West Factories of the former Ming Dynasty, and it was a cancer of the Tang Empire.

Although Li Xuan said that he had stopped his actions, in the face of these officials who impeached him, Li Xuan did not show any mercy, and directly handed over the relevant list to Hantong, asked them to investigate one by one, and then arrest people.

And kill Zhongliang?

Among the arrested officials, if one of them was innocent and wished, Li Xuan dared to give up the throne directly and die on the tofu!

In this case, the person who said this kind of thing either had a problem with himself, or he wanted to emulate the civil officials of the former Ming Dynasty and planned to engage in some kind of partisan dispute, and Li Xuan would not allow any of them.

Han Tong's action was carried out only after Li Xuan's authorization.

Han Tong put it bluntly, it was a knife in Li Xuan's hand, and Li Xuan asked it to catch whoever it wanted.

Now these people want Li Xuan to abolish his knife, and their hearts can be punished!

Hantong received the list, so he began to arrest people again.

The method is the same as the previous way of arresting corrupt officials, directly digging out the officials' files, and then directly arresting people according to the above investigation report, and then throwing people and evidence directly to the inspectorate.

To a certain extent, the role played by Hantong today is somewhat similar to that of patrol police, which is to investigate, arrest, and then transfer to the Inspectorate, so that the Inspectorate can initiate a public prosecution.

It's just that Hantong's investigations are all secret, and they are not as open as the patrol police.

Of course, this is only the superficial approach of Hantong, in fact, Hantong's power is greater than outsiders think.

Hantong is an intelligence agency directly responsible to Li Xuan, and since it is an intelligence agency, it will have some special powers, and these powers are contrary to many of today's Tang Dynasty laws.

To a certain extent, many of the things that Han Tong did were illegal.

However, Han Tong directly obeyed the orders of the Tang Emperor Li Xuan, and in the Tang Empire, a monarchy with a high degree of monarchical centralization, Li Xuan's words were actually the law, so to a certain extent, what Han Tong did was not illegal.

But no matter what, this time the huge energy of Han Tong was completely exposed in front of hundreds of officials, which caused panic among many officials.

However, this incident also brought another benefit, that is, the Datang Central Committee held high the banner of cracking down on corruption, and won the broad support of the people.

Why support?

Naturally, the credit of the Chaobao Division is indispensable here!

In the past two or three months, the focus of public opinion guidance has been on flood control in the early stage, disaster relief in the middle stage, and in the later stage, it has begun to guide public opinion in the central government's crackdown on official corruption.

No matter what era the people are, they like to see someone stand up and kill all those corrupt officials.

It's just that in the previous dynasties, there was no newspaper like the Tang Dynasty newspaper that directly faced the whole country and everyone, so public opinion was mainly controlled in the Shilin, and at the same time, in the traditional feudal dynasty, the imperial power did not go to the countryside, and the vast countryside adopted gentry autonomy.

But it is different in the Tang Empire, through the establishment of town-level and village-level administrative institutions throughout the country, the Tang Empire has completely extended the tentacles of imperial power to rural areas, and at the same time, in order to ensure that the local ruling power is not monopolized by scholars, many township officials are retired soldiers.

In particular, the sheriffs who control a lot of actual power in the villages are even more close to the retired soldiers, and these sheriffs are basically the captains of the local militia.

In the past, the remarks of a few scholars could directly affect the situation of public opinion in a region, but it was impossible for them to appear in the Tang Dynasty.

The Tang Dynasty Newspaper is distributed nationwide, and basically everyone can subscribe freely, and it will also provide public posting, with various policies written in black and white, and those who read books can't talk nonsense.

Under the guidance of public opinion in the Tang Dynasty Daily, this time the public opinion of the outside world was mainly biased towards the central government, especially the bright greatness of the Son of Heaven, and vigorously criticized the bad deeds of these corrupt officials, causing public indignation.

At this time, anyone who dares to overturn the case for them will need to face public outrage.

Therefore, in this action to crack down on corrupt officials, although hundreds of officials may have a lot of opinions, in the hearts of the people, Li Xuan, the son of heaven, has done a great thing.

The flood and the rule of officials, these two events almost ran through the entire summer of the fifteenth year of Xuanping of the Tang Dynasty, and the turmoil was not initially concluded until September, and by this time, several high-ranking officials had fallen.

The downfall of these high-ranking officials is not that they are corrupt or anything, if you really want to talk about corruption, all the officials above the third rank of the Tang Empire, none of them will be wronged if they are shot one by one.

Their downfall is more about being too stupid and exposing too many clues, and they just happened to be caught by the Inspectorate, and then the Imperial Historians who voted for promotion and fortune in the Inspectorate just bit them to death, and in the end, it was the Holy Son of Heaven who pushed the boat down the river, which led to their official downfall.

Jinling City, the palace annex, Li Xuan looked at Zhou Yibao with an expressionless face!

And Zhou Yibao, who was kneeling on the ground, looked at Li Xuan above with an expressionless face, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart: A companion is like a tiger!

Since the time of Huangzhushan, he has followed the Son of Heaven to fight the country, but now, he is going to be abandoned without hesitation!

However, he doesn't blame the Son of Heaven, the Son of Heaven has given himself enough trust and power in the past ten years, the Ministry of Works, the Minister of the Imperial Study, and the Viscount of the Empire, this kind of treatment cannot be said to be less.

He blamed the wives and concubines in the family and the relatives around him!

If it weren't for their insatiable greed, how could they get themselves into such big trouble!

Ma Dan, dare to make any money, and make other money on weekdays, but now he has reached out to the disaster relief funds, which is not counted, he even dares to reach out for military expenses, this is not looking for death!

Knowing that they were so bold, he himself cut them down with a knife first, and if his wife and concubine were gone, he could marry again, and even if his children were gone, he could regenerate, but this official hat and even his title could not be kept, what was the use of all this?

At this moment, he closed his eyes slightly!

It was he who went to the puppet Ming military camp alone that night, negotiated with Su Jiakang, and forced the puppet Ming thief army to open a gap in the city, so that the Son of Heaven and hundreds of troops could escape from the city smoothly.

How high-spirited I was at that time!

Alone in the enemy camp, his reputation is quite great!

Later, with this credit, he gradually gained a firm foothold in the Tang Dynasty, when Wang Shi went south to Liangguang, he served as the prefect of Huizhou Prefecture, and then promoted to the position of inspector, and then Wang Shi entered the south of the Yangtze River, after the capital Jinling, he was transferred back to Gyeonggi as the director of the Water Conservancy Department of the Ministry of Industry, and later promoted to the right attendant of the Ministry of Industry, and then transferred to Hunan Province as the governor.

A few years later, he was transferred back to Gyeonggi and served as the left waiter of the Ministry of Agriculture.

In the twelfth year of Xuanping, he served as the secretary of the Ministry of Industry and the minister of the imperial study.

He can also be regarded as one of the few officials who were born in the Huangzhushan era, but now they are still active in the high-level political circles, there are more than ten Shangshu in the cabinet, and the officials who have been in high positions in the Huangzhushan era are actually only Liu Bagou alone, and the others have been eliminated by the big waves.

Even Wang Wenhua and Qian Mengjiu, two of the three major civil officials in the early Tang Dynasty, have withdrawn from politics one after another.

And more importantly, these two people still died well, and they still enjoy the title and even fame after the ceremony.

Only he, Zhou Yibao, I'm afraid he won't be able to die well!

He repented, hated!