Chapter XXVI: Whistleblowing System

There are incidents, handling, investigation, arrest......

This overall process is not wrong, it is indeed not too late to make amends, but why do you have to wait for the sheep to be lost to remedy, when there is a hole, the first step to fill the hole, wouldn't it be more perfect?

Pei Min looked at the information in the treasury of the Imperial History Terrace, and found sensitively: a large number of them are habitual offenders who have been in trouble for a long time, they started from the very beginning, from the greed for a small amount of money, little by little to raise courage, so step by step, out of control towards the abyss of death. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoThe harm of this kind of person is long-lasting, but because it didn't hurt the muscles and bones, it didn't cause an extremely bad impact, so the Yushitai didn't know about it. Until the people's grievances accumulate little by little, and the damage to the country increases little by little. The paper couldn't hold the fire, so he was caught and convicted.

This is naturally a good thing to capture the culprit, and it is very happy. However, the loss to the country and the damage to the people cannot be recovered. However, if it can be detected and detected earlier, it is completely possible to minimize the threat and harm.

Pei Min originally wanted to consult with Cheng Xingzhan to see if he could establish an intelligence department, but after thinking about it, he felt that something was wrong, and said to himself: "I have only been in Yushitai for ten days, and I have noticed the shortcomings. Cheng Lao has been working in Yushitai for ten years, how can he not know this? There is a reason why they know but do not reform. Yes, the authority of the Imperial Historical Observatory is already extremely heavy, if it still has an intelligence agency, wouldn't it be equal to Jinyiwei? ”

Thinking of the brocade guards of the Ming Dynasty, Pei Min shuddered.

The Ming Dynasty's Jinyi system had advantages and disadvantages, like a double-edged sword. Jinyiwei did a lot of great things for the country, but due to excessive power, Jinyiwei's misdeeds also caused a lot of harm to the Ming Dynasty, with advantages and disadvantages. The key is that the existence of Jinyiwei is because of the needs of the royal family, and the emperor of the Ming Dynasty needed the knife of Jinyiwei to consolidate his power. Now unless Li Longji himself proposes to get a guard similar to Jinyi to spy on the courtiers, what is the difference between outsiders and looking for death?

In addition to strengthening the control of the intelligence of the Imperial Historical Observatory, what other ways can improve the intelligence sources of the Imperial Historical Observatory?

Pei Min thought about it for a long time, thinking about whether the system of later generations could be used, and suddenly thought of the Independent Commission Against Corruption, but his heart moved. He doesn't know much about the Independent Commission Against Corruption, but he does know that before the Independent Commission Against Corruption, corruption was rampant in Hong Kong, and after the establishment of the Independent Commission Against Corruption, the atmosphere in Hong Kong has changed greatly, and it has achieved miraculous results in just a few years.

The status of the Imperial Historical Observatory is similar to that of the Independent Commission Against Corruption, both of which are directly responsible to the emperor, and the system cannot be copied or anything, after all, there are obvious differences in modern and ancient times. However, their way of reporting and filing a case to protect the whistleblower can be completely utilized, and there is no need to set up their own intelligence agency, so that all the people can become the eyeliner and give those who know a way to report, and they are afraid that those corrupt officials and corrupt officials will hide too deeply?

There is no shortage of people in the world, but there is a lack of ways to protect those who know, so that those who know do not dare to report it. If a reasonable reporting method and an effective confidentiality method can be developed to protect the safety of the whistleblower. The Imperial Observatory doesn't have to be as passive as it is now, and has to wait until the matter is big and everyone knows about it to make the final touch.

Thinking of this, Pei Min found a pen and paper to record what he thought in his heart, thought about it repeatedly for a long time, and wrote more than a thousand words freely, and only found Cheng Xingzhan after being satisfied.

"Cheng Lao, the juniors have written something, do you think it can be done?" Pei Min did not directly hand over the writing to Shangshu Province, but gave it to his boss, Cheng Xingzhan has been in Yushitai for many years, and many things are more experienced than him as a newcomer.

Cheng Xingzhan was extremely satisfied with Pei Min's recent diligence, and was also very friendly to him, took what he wrote, and asked him to sit aside. Only then did he glance at it, Cheng Xingzhan's eyes lit up, and he said with a smile: "The history of the Emperor is worthy of being a Wenqu star, this small hand, written really beautifully, has gradually had its own style, amazing." ”

He smiled and praised.

Looking down along the top of the content, Cheng Xingzhan's original smiling expression became serious and solemn, at first he looked at it at a glance and ten lines, read it again and again, and finally read it word by word, read it three times, and then looked at Pei Min in a complicated way, and said heavily: "Serving the imperial history, this is to put my imperial history platform on the fire to roast!" ”

Pei Min smiled: "Real gold is still afraid of fire to refine?" Yushitai originally paid attention to correcting the moral conduct of officials, picketing hundreds of officials, and impeaching lawlessness. It's just that the way I have to report is too old-fashioned, so that the people dare not report it, and those in the know are afraid of being affected and dare not report it. For some reason, in addition to the accurate implementation of the supervision of the imperial history of the procuratorate, the supervision of our Taiwan institute is almost equivalent to scratching the itch in the boots and has not been implemented. ”

Cheng Xingzhan said in a deep voice: "Then do you know the reason?" ”

Pei Min said without hesitation: "Of course I know that the supervision of the procuratorate is responsible for the supervision of foreign officials, on the one hand, the dereliction of duty of foreign officials is very harmful, and it cannot be punished severely, on the other hand, foreign officials are good and can be governed." But the Beijing officials are different, the Beijing officials protect each other, each forming a faction, and sometimes one person is involved in the whole body. For some reason, small sins are too small to be tacitly acknowledged, and they will not be punished. Only when there is a trouble, will I intervene in it. But the disaster has come true, what's the point of meddling? Emperor Zhaolie of the Han Dynasty has a saying, 'Don't take small goodness and don't do it'. Small good is good, isn't small evil evil? Evil, big or small? On the first day of my report, Cheng Lao told me that the Yushitai is not a place of nine secluded places, let alone a place where cool officials gather, but a place to guide people upwards and urge officials not to be evil. That is to say, how can I do to connive at small evils and small faults to become great evils? ”

Cheng Xingzhan groaned for a long time and sighed: "What you said is not unreasonable, but it is not easy to implement this system. ”

Pei Min said with a smile: "Our Imperial History Observatory is directly under the control of His Majesty, and no department has the right to interfere, even the Prime Minister. As long as Your Majesty supports it, and as long as Your Majesty has the heart to purge the court's atmosphere, it is not difficult to put this system in place. ”

Cheng Xingzhan thought about Li Longji's actions in the court these days, and nodded approvingly, "That's the case, you can go up and down on your own." When going up, remember not to violate the provisions in the "Tang Law Discussion", 'Zhuyue sue and the recipient, each with forty lashes'. Don't treat the whistleblower as a criminal complaint, but anonymously. ”

"Xie Cheng's guidance!" Pei Min smiled and left.

Cheng Xingzhan looked at Pei Min with a complicated expression, and it was already conceivable that if these things written by Pei Min were really implemented, Yushitai would become the object of jealousy of officials in the DPRK and China, but its status in the hearts of the people would rise and become a place to ask for the people's lives, which had advantages and disadvantages. However, the authority of the Imperial Historical Observatory is to do this kind of thing to offend the official, and I don't care about offending more. It would be a good thing if we could reverse the stain brought by Junchen in the past.

Pei Min went back and revised a copy of the book according to Cheng Xingzhan's instructions, and it was handed over to Shangshu Province for approval by the prime minister.

When this letter reached Shangshu Province, it immediately caused an uproar, and the prime ministers from all walks of life expressed their opinions one after another, and their remarks were different.

objected to saying that Pei Min was drilling the tip of the horns and encouraging the people to sue the officials, but those who agreed said that Pei Min was opening up his views widely, and warned those who were officials to be diligent and honest, and they said different things from each other.

Yao Chong praised Pei Min's move, and seeing that his opinions could not be unified, he directly reported to Li Longji and was ruled by Li Longji.

Li Longji is young and vigorous, he values Pei Min's innovation more than conservative, anyway, even if it has no effect, it will not cause harm to the country, so he agreed to the proposal. The official document was promulgated by the Imperial Historical Observatory, and whistleblowing offices were placed in various parts of Chang'an, and whistleblowing boxes were set up, and officials were arranged by the Imperial Historical Observatory to take care of them.

This announcement did not cause much impact at first, as if it had sunk into the sea, and had no effect.

On the other hand, Yushitai is as terrible as hell in the hearts of the people, and I don't believe that Yushitai will ask for the people's lives.

Until Li Xianqiu's son rode a horse on Chang'an Avenue and injured the people, a good deed person wrote an anonymous letter and threw it into the whistleblower box.

Pei Min asked people to find out the facts, and directly handed over a letter of impeachment to Li Longji: Li Xian has no way to teach his son, and he is reckless and oppressive to the people.

This is a trivial matter, Li Longji did not severely punish Li Xianji, but ordered Li Xianji to think about deducting the March salary behind closed doors, and compensate all the expenses of the injured people.

This little thing spread, but it was full of fear, which made the news of Yushitai easy and resolute in reacting.

Wenchen military generals do not pay attention to face, the punishment is small, and the face is big. After returning home, they all began to restrain their children. made the people in the yamen hate Pei Min to the core, and the atmosphere of recklessness outside plummeted. After the people learned about it, their perception of the Yushitai changed a lot in an instant.

After this incident, the credibility of the Imperial Historical Observatory has improved a lot. From time to time, he will receive some petty reports, Pei Min arranges people to check them one by one, and after repeatedly confirming that they are correct, he makes corresponding measures.

In the face of the eyes of the Yushitai in Chang'an, the officials in Beijing were all cautious, so as not to seize the handle of the Yushitai.

On this day, Pei Min received another anonymous report letter, the content of the report letter was a bit absurd, accusing the wealthy Yu Yun of becoming a monk and evading taxes.

Pei Min couldn't cry or laugh when he looked at this report letter, and even felt a little ridiculous. Although many criminals have been caught by anonymous reporting, there are also some good people who write nonsense and increase their workload. This tax evasion can't be managed by the Imperial Observatory......

Pei Min crumpled the report letter into a ball, threw it into the garbage basket, drank mint tea boringly, thinking about when he would be able to deal with the big case and have a good time, he thought about it, the more he thought about it, the more he felt that it was wrong, he ran to the garbage basket to pick up the report letter, looked at it repeatedly, and shouted, "Come on, work!" ”