In mid-August, after a summer rain, the weather was a little cooler, but Li Xuan's office was still covered with ice.

Every year in summer, Li Xuan hates it because of the heat.

Even if ice cubes can be placed in the house to cool down, Li Xuan can't stay indoors all the time, even if it is in the palace courtyard, Li Xuan has to go back and forth to the front yard and backyard every day.

And now in this kind of weather, as soon as you open the door, you will feel a heat wave!

But when it comes to winter, Li Xuan doesn't like it either, because it's too cold!

The weather was hot, but there was still work to be done.

After reviewing the many folds according to the usual practice, Li Xuan called the secretary who was waiting outside to listen to the arrangements for a while.

After the secretary outside came in, he took a small notebook and began to say, "Your Majesty, two people will come to meet you at noon today. At eleven o'clock, there will be Chen Pugao, the dean of the Jiangxi Inspectorate, to make a debriefing report, and at 11:30, the new governor of Yunnan, Feng Demin, will come to the audience, and this morning His Majesty ordered that today's morning meeting be postponed to before lunch, so the five ministers on duty and walking in the imperial study will come to have a morning meeting after the meeting! ”

When he said this, Li Xuan interjected: "After the morning meeting, give food to the imperial study, well, let Feng Demin stay!" ”

After Li Xuan finished speaking, he motioned to the secretary to continue, and after the secretary got the signal, he continued: "In the afternoon, there will be six more people who will come to the audience, and the navy will come over to report on the recent extermination of pirates, in addition, the queen mother sent someone to pass the word, saying that let His Majesty have time to go in the afternoon!" ”

"Oh, what's wrong?" Li Xuan showed a slightly puzzled look, during the day, including the Queen Mother, everyone in the harem knew that this was Li Xuan's working time, and they would not be easily disturbed if there was no important matter.

After all, Li Xuan's daily schedule is very tight, and dealing with the twists and turns is the most basic, and then holds various meetings, morning meetings in the imperial study, military briefing meetings, various special meetings in front of the emperor, and then receives a large number of officials every working day, many senior officials or officials in important positions before taking office, he will meet with them, not for a long time, depending on whether it is important or not, as little as a few minutes, as much as tens of minutes.

For example, when the Dayuan Mansion was first established a few days ago, Li Xuan took the time to meet with the prefect of the first Dayuanfu, and had a long conversation for more than an hour, and most of the time, he was listening, and occasionally expressed his opinions.

Of course, the vast majority of the audience time is basically controlled within ten minutes, and not every middle and high-level official can get the opportunity to meet when he takes office or reports on his work, otherwise, Li Xuan will not be able to see each other without sleeping 24 hours a day.

However, even if he was busy with other government affairs, most of the time he would set aside two hours a day to meet with his courtiers.

At this time, the secretary said: "The person sent by the Queen Mother did not say it clearly! ”

Hearing the secretary say this, Li Xuan was not asking anymore, it was estimated that there was something wrong, otherwise he would not have let him go over when he was busy in the afternoon, and immediately said: "Well, I know, let the people from the navy come over to make a report in the afternoon, well, earlier, let them arrive at two o'clock!" ”

After that, he waved his hand and let the secretary out.

looked at the clock, it was ten fifty o'clock, and there was still a little time, so he found a document, and then briefly looked at it, this document was the basic situation of the Jiangxi Inspectorate gathered by the Hanlin Academy, Li Xuan didn't look at it too carefully, just looked at it briefly, and ordered the secretaries outside to let Chen Pugao, the president of the Jiangxi Inspectorate, come in.

At the same time, Chen Pugao, who was waiting in the waiting room outside, was sitting upright and drinking tea slowly, the tea in the palace was naturally good tea, but now he seemed to be tasting tea, but in fact, he didn't have the heart to taste the taste of this tea.

Now his mind is full of debriefings!

He was the president of the Jiangxi Inspectorate who began to take office the year before, and he was originally the imperial history of the Inspectorate, and he took up the post of president of the Jiangxi Inspectorate, which can be regarded as the beginning of the ruling party, but after he took office in Jiangxi, he did not do very well.

In the past few months, the inspection team dispatched by the Central Supervision Yuan has unearthed a large number of corrupt officials in Jiangxi, and the matter is somewhat serious; although it is said that the main responsibility for corruption among local officials lies with local officials, especially the Jiangxi governor and political envoys, but as the president of the Jiangxi Supervision Yuan, the work of the Jiangxi Supervision Yuan has not made much progress during his tenure.

How to say it!

The Jiangxi Inspectorate did not take down these corrupt officials, but waited until the central inspection team found out and took them down, what does this represent, this represents a real job!

Otherwise, His Majesty would not have recalled him to his duties.

This is not good, I'm afraid that he will lose his official position, thinking of this, he just hates those people in the patrol group, damn, the same department is an official, and he doesn't give face at all, when the incident happened, he was running up and down, for what?

Naturally, it was not to cover those corrupt officials, but to try to transfer the case to the Jiangxi Inspectorate for processing.

However, the people of the patrol group naturally refused, and how the patrol group judged the merits was naturally judged by how many officials were arrested in the local area and how many major cases were solved.

If the patrol group gains nothing in Jiangxi, the members of the patrol group will be unlucky one by one, and they dare not say that they will lose their official posts and go to work, but they will be demoted.

Why?

Because there must be corrupt officials, but you don't find out, that is a dereliction of duty.

At present, in the Tang Dynasty, there are several central expatriate officials who inspect the localities, such as the inspectorate of the inspectorate, the inspector of the Ministry of Taxation, and the investigator of the Ministry of Officials.

The Ministry of Taxation inspects the Ministry of Taxation, regardless of the corruption of local officials, and only manages the internal affairs of the Ministry of Taxation system and tax collection affairs.

The officials of the Ministry of Officials also investigate the officials, no matter what kind of corruption and the like, mainly investigate the governance of the officials on the spot, the reputation of the people, and so on.

The expatriate officers of each department are generally responsible for the affairs of their own department.

And really deal with official corruption, dereliction of duty and the like, or the inspectorate of the inspectorate, although its grade is not high, but the real power in hand, a provincial patrol, often are the five products of the imperial history of the team, most of the patrol members are seven officials.

However, these patrol officials are not resident in the place, and basically take them in one place for a few months, and then stay in another place for a few months.

If they can't find a problem, the inspection officials themselves will be unlucky, and if they find out the problem, it will naturally be the local official's bad luck.

Therefore, the contradiction between the inspection officials and the local officials is relatively large, and they belong to the kind that are inherently opposed!

Chen Pugao complained in his heart that the people in the patrol group were ruthless, and at the same time, he was also thinking about how to get through this difficulty.

After receiving the secretary's notice, he didn't think about the mess, and then took a few deep breaths and followed the secretary in front of Li Xuan's office, and when he arrived at Li Xuan's office, he first saluted and kowtowed.

Li Xuan sat at the back of the desk, still holding a report on the governance of Jiangxi in his hand, and after hearing the voice, he glanced at Chen Pugao slightly, and then withdrew his gaze and did not speak.

Li Xuan didn't say that he was flat, and he didn't dare to get up if he gave Chen Pugao a hundred guts, so he could only continue to kneel.

After five minutes, Li Xuan put down the report in his hand, and then said, "Get up!" ”

Hearing this, Chen Pugao got up, because he knelt for a long time when he got up, his legs were a little numb, and the courtiers of the Tang Dynasty rarely knelt in front of Li Xuan for a long time, and they were often given seats when they held meetings.

"At the beginning of the year, I went north, passing by Jiangxi, this Jiangxi and that place are good, the land of water and rice, raising people, Chen Aiqing said yes?" Li Xuan said casually.

But these words are in Chen Pugao's ears, but they are heart-wrenching, raising people in the land of water and rice? This is a hint that he will be lazy and enjoy happiness when he goes to Jiangxi, if this is the case, then get out of here as soon as possible!

Of course, as the emperor, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, and the ancient saint who is greater than the sun, Li Xuan will not say it directly, but at any time, listening to the emperor's words, he cannot only listen to the superficial meaning, but must learn to listen to the meaning behind the words.

Of course, if you guess wrong, then the ending is generally not too good!

Chen Pugao said at this time: "Back to Your Majesty, Jiangxi is a good place, but the minister has lived up to His Majesty's expectations, so that the Jiangxi officials are corrupted, and the minister is guilty!" ”

Li Xuan's expression remained unchanged: "Don't be busy saying that you are guilty, whether you are guilty or not, you don't count if you say it yourself, I only count if I say it, let's talk about it, what's going on in Jiangxi?" ”

Then Chen Pugao began to have the opportunity to formally defend himself, of course, it is impossible to defend directly, he has to be tactful, and focused on mentioning several reasons for the corruption of Jiangxi's officials.

For example, local officials in Jiangxi have a large number of demotion officials, especially more among grassroots officials, and it is also said that when the Inspectorate was carrying out its work in Jiangxi, it was blocked by many senior officials in Jiangxi, because in order to pursue political achievements, senior officials in Jiangxi unilaterally connived at some officials with outstanding abilities but who were corrupt.

Li Xuan listened, and did not interject halfway, but waited for him to say for more than ten minutes before he spoke: "Well, I know, go back, what to do after you go back, I guess you have a number in your heart, I won't say much!" ”

Hearing Li Xuan say this, Chen Pugao also breathed a sigh of relief, it seems that today's difficulty can be regarded as over, but looking at His Majesty's attitude, I am afraid that what he has given himself is the last chance.

Ma Dan, this time I returned to Jiangxi, I will definitely take the butcher knife, this time it is useless for anyone to intercede, otherwise, this time I just came back to report on my work, and next time I am afraid it will not be as simple as a debriefing!

However, he didn't know that Li Xuan's heart at this time was already ready to remove him, but there were not many high-ranking officials in the Inspectorate, and he couldn't find a suitable candidate for a while, so let him do it first, and when he had the right personnel, he would immediately kick out this dereliction of duty!

As the president of a provincial inspectorate, no matter what reason or objective reason, let the government be so corrupt, this is a serious dereliction of duty!

Otherwise, there are many problems in other provinces, why can people control the rule of officials at a relatively stable level!

Chen Pugao went out, and then came in the new Yunnan governor Feng Demin, who was different from Chen Pugao's sad face, but Feng Demin was high-spirited!