Gu Shizhong, the founding father of the People's Republic of China, committed suicide as an army general, which did not cause too many waves in the outside world, and even the military arrested hundreds of generals one after another, but it did not cause any waves.

On the one hand, the Tang Empire strictly controls the leakage of military information, the army is a violent organ, in order to avoid the leakage of intelligence and maintain mystery, the Tang Empire strictly prohibits the leakage of military intelligence, and even many people in China do not even know how many troops the empire has, not to mention the specific number and the confidential information of the station and the chief officer of the army.

Occasionally, news about military reports appeared in the newspapers of the Tang Dynasty, and vague words such as 'a certain department' would often be used instead, and the detailed number would not be reported.

This time, the news of the military's anti-corruption campaign was tightly controlled, and the Tang Dynasty newspaper did not report the slightest news about the military's internal anti-corruption.

In addition, there is a very important reason that the Tang Empire has been implementing a very strict separation of military and political affairs for more than ten years, and the separation of military and political has basically become a basic political concept until now, even ordinary people know that the army is the army, and the government is the government, which are two different things and cannot be confused.

And civilian officials will never mention a moment of information from the military when they are not necessary.

Not to mention that this time the military anti-corruption storm is a very big impact that everyone can see, I didn't see that even the military bigwigs Hao Bonian, Li Chunjing and others obediently closed their mouths and didn't dare to put forward the slightest opinion.

Those civilian officials outside did not dare to have any opinion on military affairs.

In addition, now that the civilian officials themselves are difficult to protect, they are being watched by the Inspectorate every day, how can they have time to pay attention to the life and death of those generals in the military.

The scale of the anti-corruption storm set off at the end of the sixteenth year of Xuanping was greater than anyone could have imagined, and from November, starting with the Gyeonggi judiciary, a huge anti-corruption storm was hung up and then spread throughout the country.

In Shanghai, Chen Lifu stood on the balcony on the second floor of the county office, looked at the imperial historians of the inspectorate outside, and took more than 30 officials directly from the county office with the patrol police!

A young official behind him whispered, "My lord, do you just watch them take people away?" What the hell is going on with their Inspectorate, how did they arrest so many people indiscriminately! ”

"Shut up!"

Chen Lifu didn't even look back at him, but continued to stare outside!

The ordinary officials below still couldn't notice what was going on, and thought that it was just the Shanghai Special County Inspectorate that went crazy, but as the county magistrate of the Shanghai Special County, he knew that the Shanghai Special County Inspectorate was not the key to this arrest task at all, and the key person was the Jiangnan Patrol Team sent by the Anti-Corruption Bureau of the Central Inspectorate.

The leader of this Jiangnan patrol team is a high-ranking official from the third grade, plus he holds the holy decree in his hand, but he is a heavyweight of the Eight Classics, even if Chen Lifu is in front of the patrol team, he has to lie on his stomach obediently.

Not to mention Chen Lifu, even if it is the prefect of Songjiang Prefecture, and even Huo Shouqi, who has been a Taoist of Jiangnan Province for many years, which one is not in the rules now, for fear that he will also be arrested.

According to Chen Lifu's knowledge, this anti-corruption storm is not only limited to Shanghai, or even Jiangnan Province, but has spread across the country.

And according to the information he got from secret channels, even the military has set off an anti-corruption storm.

In this case, in order to protect themselves, many people will even take the initiative to push others out in order to protect themselves, let alone offend the bad luck of these patrol teams.

In order to strive for leniency, some officials targeted by the inspection team often take the initiative to explain their problems and confess their accomplices.

In this case, even Chen Lifu himself has to be cautious, for fear of being involved!

Although Chen Lifu prides himself on sitting firmly and has never disdained to play corruption and bribery, but the Chen family has a big business and is also engaged in industry and commerce, although Chen Lifu has not provided any convenience to his own industry, but when the clansmen do business, they will naturally be famous for him, and if you talk about it, you will get into some trouble.

In this case, Chen Lifu is also reflecting, it seems that he has to change the model of the family industry, it is not very reliable to engage in industry and commerce directly, and it is easy to be caught by pigtails.

This will save you a lot of trouble.

After Chen Lifu personally watched the Inspectorate arrest dozens of officials from Shanghai's ad hoc counties, it didn't take him a few days to hear about it, as did other prefectures and counties, and even many people were arrested in the yamen of Jiangnan Province.

And the most important thing is that Huo Shouqi, who has served as a Jiangnan Taoist for many years, seems to have been planted this time!

The reason why it is said is that it seems to be and not a word of affirmation.

is because Huo Shouqi was not arrested or devalued, but was promoted!

However, the position he was promoted to was the governor of Liaoxi Province!

Although it is said that the Jiangnan Taoist from the third grade has changed from the governor of Liaoxi Province from the second grade, but fools can see that this is a bright rise and a secret depreciation.

In the officialdom of the Tang Dynasty, whether an official's authority is heavy or not, and what his future is, cannot be judged purely by his grade.

Chen Lifu is a typical example, if you want to say that his grade is only the fourth grade, but he is the county order of Shanghai's ad hoc county, the only one in the country, and the future is very bright.

And other officials in the country, such as the prefects of other prefectures, are also positive four-pin, but can they be compared with Chen Lifu?

Impossible, even if it is some officials from the third grade or even the third grade, their power is not as powerful as Chen Lifu, a Shanghai county magistrate.

Jiangnan Daoist, don't look at it as just a three-grade Taoist, but because of the particularity of Jiangnan Dao, its political status is a feudal official in many provincial roads in China, and it is the top three existence!

In other words, the governors of ordinary provinces are actually inferior to Jiangnan Daoists.

According to the normal situation, Huo Shouqi is almost promoted, but he should have fallen directly into Gyeonggi and served as a waiter in a certain department, and he had to be a left waiter, if it was a right waiter, it would be a belittlement of him.

But now, instead of being able to enter the cabinet, he was transferred to Liaoxi as the governor.

Although the grade has also been upgraded to the second grade, the governor of Liaoxi Province can be compared with the Jiangnan Daoist?

Impossible.

Outsiders don't know that the reason why Huo Shouqi is unlucky is not because of his own problems, well, although he is also corrupt, but this little economic problem is not in Li Xuan's eyes.

What makes Li Xuan most dissatisfied is that the corruption situation in a huge Jiangnan Province, the core area that provides more than half of the empire's financial revenue, is so serious, it is not much better than that of Jiangbei Province, and even the amount of corruption is even greater, compared with many provincial roads in the country, the corruption situation in Jiangnan Province is enough to be included in the top three.

Among the prefectures and counties under Jiangnan Province, only Shanghai County is in a slightly better situation, and most of the other prefectures and counties have a lot of problems!

In this case, although Huo Shouqi himself did not have much of a problem, Li Xuan believed that the member was one-sided in his pursuit of economic development, thus ignoring the rule of officials.

In other words, Huo Shouqi actually saw the problem, but for the sake of local stability and economic development, he tolerated or ignored these problems, which led to the problem becoming more and more serious.

If it weren't for the fact that Huo Shouqi's own economic problems were not serious, and when he was in charge of Jiangnan, he also made great contributions to the economic development of Jiangnan Province, then Li Xuan would have shot him to death.

Now it is a punishment to get him to serve as the governor of Liaoxi Province.

Li Xuan still hopes that he can reflect and realize that his mistakes can be corrected, after all, in the imperial political arena now, there are too few high-ranking officials like Huo Shouqi who are good at developing economic and people's livelihood affairs.

At least after Huo Shouqi was transferred, Li Xuan didn't know who to let serve as the Taoist of Jiangnan Province for a while.

This position is too important, in Li Xuan's heart, the importance of this position is more important than that of any provincial governor or Taoist in China, and even more important than the servants of various ministries.

Its importance is comparable to that of the various Shangshu.

Therefore, the new Taoist must be a senior official who can control Jiangnan Province, and must also be an official who is good at developing the economy and people's livelihood.

Li Xuan chose to come and go, and finally summoned Xiang Hanyi, Jia Wenbai, and Xiao Fangquan to report to Beijing urgently!

said that it was a debriefing, but anyone with a discerning eye knew that Li Xuan was trying to select the new Taoist of Jiangnan Province!

If it was an ordinary high-ranking official, Li Xuan would not usually do this.

Provincial governors, Zhili Sidao priests and squires and other positions, often the Ministry of Officials list all the qualified candidates, this list is naturally very large, and then handed over to the imperial study for discussion, and finally by the imperial study on duty ministers to select three to five as candidates to recommend to the Holy Son of Heaven, at the same time, the ministers also have to explain the reasons for the recommendation in detail, and finally report to Li Xuan.

Of course, whether Li Xuan chooses or not is another matter.

Because at the same time, the personnel department of the Hanlin Academy will also recommend a number of candidates according to Li Xuan's requirements, and at the same time, Li Xuan himself will have several candidates in mind.

In the end, after comprehensive consideration, Li Xuan would choose one person to become the new governor, Taoist or squire.

In other words, there is a list of candidates, a recommendation from the Imperial Study, a recommendation from the Hanlin Academy, and then a factor for the decision of the Son of Heaven.

But this time, Li Xuan directly recalled these three people back to Beijing to report on their work, which made it clear that he would personally test these three people, and then decide the candidates for Jiangnan Daoist from them.

As for who of the three people can finally become the new Jiangnan Daoist, it is unknown.

At least, Li Xuan himself didn't have a clear choice.