Although the names of these two institutions are different, their functions are the same as those of the Anti-Corruption Bureau of the Inspectorate, but they are both anti-corruption agencies, except that the authority of the Inspectorate is limited to the civilian system, while the Interior Department of the Army Privy Council is only for the Army, and the Military Police Bureau of the Navy Command is only for the Navy.

As for the anti-corruption work of another major system, that is, the Guards and the royal family, the anti-corruption work is directly carried out by the Han Tong.

In terms of system, in fact, the supervision and anti-corruption system of the Tang Empire is very perfect, but no matter how perfect the system is, someone has to implement it, and the previous enforcement is obviously not big enough.

This time, the scope of Li Xuan's anti-corruption crackdown is not limited to the civilian system, but to the entire imperial officialdom, whether it is a civilian official or a military general.

When the military also began an anti-corruption investigation and began to arrest a large number of officers in batches, and even on December 2, the Army Department of Internal Affairs took away Gu Shizhong, the founding father, the regiment commander, brigade commander, division commander, army commander, and logistics department director of many units.

Basically, every official knows that the Son of Heaven is really planning to do a big job this time.

For a time, there was a storm in the capital!

Many people are terrified, afraid that the next one will be taken away by the anti-corruption department!

The civil officials panicked, and the military generals couldn't get any better, many generals were afraid, Li Xuan wanted the rabbit to die and the dog cooked, and the bird was hidden with the bow, for a while, even the military bosses of Hao Bonian and Li Chunjing couldn't help but enter the palace frequently, on the one hand, they brushed their presence in front of Li Xuan, and on the other hand, they also showed their loyalty.

At the same time, many high-ranking officials and generals also seized the time to start self-examination, striving to wipe away the previous stains, and even took the initiative to hand over the criminals in the family to the anti-corruption department, posing as a gesture of cleaning up the door.

Hao Bonian did even more, he directly as the head of the family, personally divided the family, and drove all the brothers and other clansmen out of the Guogong Mansion, overnight, only Hao Bonian and his wife and children were left in the huge Guogong Mansion, and the rest of the Hao family were all driven out by him.

This is not just a simple matter of living separately, he personally went to the household department, changed his household registration, and distributed all the public property in the family.

In the past, the Hao family, since Hao Bonian was developed, his previous relatives have all come together, coupled with the development of these years, the population of the entire Hao family has reached more than 80 people.

Formed a very typical wealthy family!

This kind of big family is also a tradition in China for thousands of years, but where there is a big family, there are dozens or even hundreds, they gather to live, help each other, and have a lot of public family property.

But now, Hao Bonian has directly carried out a complete separation, living separately, distributing property, and even changing household registration.

After the separation, the Hao family Guogong Mansion only had six registered people on its household register!

And he also took the initiative to give Li Xuan a secret fold, which detailed the separation of the family, and at the same time took the initiative to report all the assets of the Hao family, and even the benefits obtained through some conveniences in the past few years were truthfully reported.

Without the slightest hint of concealment!

I have to say that Hao Bonian's political consciousness is very high!

He was keenly aware that this time the purpose of the Son of Heaven was not to hide all the birds and hide the rabbits and dead dogs, but to crack down on the officials, but this time the scope of the officials' attacks was somewhat wide, and it only affected the core high-level.

He knows even more that whether it is himself, Li Chunjing, or a few other bigwigs in the military, but they all have some economic problems, although they are not serious, but they are not much better than Gu Shizhong.

The difference between them and Gu Shizhong is not how much money they have corrupted, but how much they have been corrupted!

In the face of the investigation of the Internal Affairs Department, Gu Shizhong tried his best to conceal it, and frequently used his power to threaten the investigators, which was the reason why he was finally arrested by Li Xuan personally.

After seeing Gu Shizhong being arrested, Hao Bonian immediately took action, there was no need to hide anything, under the investigation of Han Tong, Hao Bonian knew very well that some of his small actions could not be concealed from the Son of Heaven at all.

In fact, there is only one way to avoid this blow, and that is to correct your attitude and take the initiative to move closer to the Son of Heaven!

As for the many ways to get closer, Hao Bonian chose the most extreme method.

Because as a military boss, he has a lot of contact with Li Xuan, and he has a lot of private conversations, and he knows that the Son of Heaven is actually very dissatisfied with the current wealthy family.

He clearly remembered that the Son of Heaven had inadvertently said during a private chat with him that most officials were corrupt, not for their own enjoyment, but to support their families, and that a family of hundreds of people would naturally spend a lot of money to maintain a decent life.

Although the Son of Heaven was just an unintentional casual conversation at that time, Hao Bonian keenly grasped the key point, that is, the Son of Heaven was dissatisfied with the Hao family.

In line with the attitude of keeping up with the pace of the Son of Heaven, Hao Bonian did not hesitate at all, and directly adopted the mode of taking the initiative to divide the family, and the nearly 100 people in the Guogong Mansion were driven out to fend for themselves in an instant, and there were only six people left in the huge Guogong Mansion in the end.

Hao Bonian's attitude surprised Li Xuan, and then said to him when Hao Bonian faced the saint: "It's good, there are not too many entanglements, and you can better serve the empire!" ”

Then he discussed with Hao Bonian about the method of reforming military affairs, and took the initiative to ask Hao Bonian about his views on the reform of the current military establishment, and he did not have the coldness that he had beaten Hao Bonian several times before.

This attitude finally made Hao Bonian breathe a sigh of relief, he knew that he had survived this crisis.

At the same time, he also grasped the key point of Li Xuan's words, that is, 'tie'.

Obviously, in the seriousness of the Son of Heaven, the big family is obviously a kind of bond!

This is a very important political signal, and Hao Bonian knows better that as the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, Li Xuan, the son of heaven, even if he chats in private, it is impossible to talk nonsense, and every sentence and even every word that the son of heaven says contains political meaning.

So after he went back, he started his better friends and subordinates, and his henchmen sent a message, asking them to slim down their respective families, don't engage in any wealthy families, big families, the Son of Heaven has already made it clear that the wealthy family is a stumbling block, and he will naturally kick away the tie.

Hurry up and deal with this kind of tie on your own, and don't wait for the internal affairs gendarmes of the Internal Affairs Agency to arrest people, then it will be too late.

Li Xuan is very satisfied with Hao Bonian's attitude, and Li Xuan is also satisfied with his actions.

It is worthy of being the most prestigious boss in the Tang Army at present, and his political consciousness is quite high, and he only mentioned a few words slightly, and he realized the problem, and more importantly, he dared to solve the problem.

In recent years, Li Xuan has become more and more disgusted with big families and the like, in his opinion, this wealthy family model has seriously affected the governance of the imperial officials, and even affected the ordinary administration.

Although the empire has penetrated the administrative organs into the countryside from the very beginning, the situation in the countryside is still firmly controlled by the local gentry and wealthy families.

In many places, the village chiefs or something are actually the children of the local wealthy families.

It has to be said here that a considerable part of the traditional gentry in China did not live in the city, but in the countryside.

This has a great relationship with the traditional imperial power not going to the countryside, in the pre-Ming Dynasty, the imperial power, that is, the power of the government was only limited to the county seat, and the vast rural areas, in fact, did not manage much, basically relying on the way of rural self-knowledge.

In the countryside, the rules of the clan are greater than the law!

The imperial power of the Tang Empire went to the countryside, which undoubtedly violated this political ecology of thousands of years, and then caused many conflicts.

In order to solve the rural problem, but also to solve the problem of government governance, Li Xuan's next step is to implement the policy of forcibly separating families, and to split up those wealthy families with hundreds of people.

It's just that Li Xuan didn't plan to implement this policy now, he planned to do it again next year, but Hao Bonian was the first to notice this, and he did it in advance.

In this regard, Li Xuan naturally approves.

Although this Hao Bonian also has some economic problems with others, it is harmless, and in Li Xuan's opinion, his political consciousness is still very high.

Hao Bonian's behavior was inexplicable in the eyes of others, except for some of his subordinates and friends, others did not follow up.

And Li Xuan is not in a hurry, anyway, the task at this stage is not this, it is a plan that will be carried out next year or even the year after, and it is still too early now.

Let's put the officials in order first.

Other issues were deferred.

After Gu Shizhong was arrested, the Privy Council of the Army continued to arrest six lieutenant generals, more than 30 major generals, and hundreds of brigadier generals, and the navy also arrested more than 20 generals.

The arrest of these generals was personally ordered by Li Xuan, and they were basically selected specific targets.

The military's rectification was not publicized on a large scale, nor was it published in the Tang Dynasty newspapers, because if it was published, it would easily cause large-scale turmoil, and the military's anti-corruption handling was basically based on low-key internal handling.

Gu Shizhong's handling is a typical example, after he was arrested, he wanted to ask to see Li Xuan many times, but Li Xuan was not allowed.

In the end, it took only two days for the Army Military Court to sentence him to death!

However, this death sentence was not executed, and although Li Xuan had a lot of dissatisfaction with this veteran who followed the world, he still gave him a decent way to end his life!

On December 24, the sixteenth year of Xuanping, in the special guest house of the Privy Council Internal Affairs Department, Gu Shizhong, wearing a full set of army general's dress, bowed to the palace and drank a glass of poisoned wine by himself, thus ending his life.