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Ma Zhou lowered his head, suddenly picked up his clothes and knelt down and said, "The crime deserves death." Changguang County has just entered our Han Kingdom, the people's livelihood here is difficult, the official treasury is empty, and there is no way to build houses, so the ministers made their own claims and falsely reported that the houses had been built, but in fact they had not been built at all. ”

Li Chengzong looked at Ma Zhou and said, "So after you came back, you told Gu what to do nothing, and benevolent government should not be used indiscriminately."

Ma Zhou nodded and said, "Yes, if you don't enter the people, you don't know the suffering of the people, and the ministers don't want to disturb the people and harm the people." Therefore, it is a capital crime to deceive the king!"

Li Chengzong sighed and said, "Gu already knew these things. Moreover, you and Changguang Zhi County also distributed Lone's reward to the people of Changguang County, since you have the people in your heart, Lone will not punish you. After speaking, Li Chengzong turned to Song Xin and asked, "Song Shangshu, do you remember, how long will you think about it?"

Now Song Xin was so frightened that he trembled, his face was like white paper, and he knelt down, crying: "The minister's capital crime, the minister's capital crime!"

Li Chengzong's face turned pale: "You and Liu Wen, the prefect of Qindao, bent the law for bribes in the name of building houses for the people, and filled their own pockets, thinking that they don't know, right?" Now I hit the south wall and know that it is a capital crime. Okay, be alone and fulfill you, come on! Song Xin, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, and Liu Wen, the prefect of Qindao, were put on death row, and they were beheaded after the autumn. ”

The next day, Li Chengzong ordered the "house building movement" to be stopped, and Ma Zhou inspected the whole country instead of himself. If it is found that there are officials who embezzle and disturb the people in the name of building houses, they will all be taken down.

In the end, Li Chengzong shouted loudly: "The most worried person is afraid that the people of my Han Kingdom have no clothes, no food, and no shelter. If not, Lone would rather bear the infamy of a tyrant, and he will definitely wait for his life and kill all the corrupt officials in the world!"

In this way, what started as a "house building movement" eventually evolved into a long-term struggle to rectify the rule of officials and crack down on corruption. But no matter what, Li Chengzong, who forced officials to build houses for the poor people, can be regarded as unprecedented and unprecedented.

The reason why Li Chengzong used the "House Building Movement" to set off a campaign to rectify the rule of officials was that he was deeply heartbroken by the reality, but fortunately, Li Chengzong had a virtuous helper, Yang Rong said to Li Chengzong when he mentioned the rule of officials, "No matter how perfect the system is, there are loopholes." If officials are not constrained by morality and official morality, it is not difficult to exploit the loopholes of the policy for personal gain, and the premise of governing the country is to govern the officials first....... "Yang Rong advocated increasing supervision at the same time, it is necessary to strengthen the education of officials, combine rewards and punishments, and vigorously promote the ruling level and quality of officials in the Han State!

At the beginning of the sixth year of Wude, Li Chengzong issued thirteen edicts in a row, promulgating them to all governors, governors, prefects, prefectures, counties, and all civil and military officials, warning them not to be corrupt, not to accept bribes, and not to withhold; Military attachés are not allowed to eat empty quotas, and violators will be severely punished.

As long as the corruption crimes of the officials of the Han State were verified, Li Chengzong would copy his family secrets, even the homes of their relatives and children. Later, it was recorded in the history books that in this year alone, dozens of officials at all levels were dismissed and confiscated, and many of them were senior officials of the third rank or above.

In order to effectively deter the bureaucrats from embezzlement and corruption, Li Chengzong did not hesitate to use the heads of corrupt officials to scare them, even if he was misunderstood as a tyrant, Li Chengzong did not care. For this reason, he specially ordered that in the Han Kingdom, when corrupt officials and corrupt officials were executed, officials of all sizes should go to watch......

In this regard, Li Chengzong also has a lofty opinion: Killing corrupt officials cannot only be seen by the common people. If you want to ask the officials to go to see it, no one is allowed not to go, the loneliness is to let them take a good look, they are frightened to see it, they can see their muscles and bones are soft, they can see their souls are depressed, and they can see their dreams and souls restless! In this way, when their black eyes stare at Bai Yinzi in the future, they will be surprised, and they will have to weigh and weigh, and they will not be able to do things too much, so they will have to think of leaving a way back for themselves! Lone tells you that these officials claim to be disciples of saints, and it is much more useful for them to see this bloody scene than for them to be locked up in a house and read a hundred Analects and Spring and Autumn!

Li Chengzong directly thrifted Yong Laosi's anti-corruption methods, and he set up a special organization, mainly sending audit specialists to various places to audit accounts, so as to strengthen the standardization of auditing procedures. Prior to this, some bold officials would secretly manipulate the account books that recorded the payment of silver and grain, so as to achieve the purpose of corruption, which had basically become an unspeakable bad practice at that time. Then, after the establishment of the examination office, some people will audit and audit the accounts, and those corrupt elements will naturally stop in moderation. But then some people ask, so how can Li Chengzong guarantee that the person who investigates corruption is not a corrupt official? Or even if he is not a corrupt official, but chooses to cover up? In response to this problem, Li Chengzong also studied and implemented the second plan.

For overseers, Lee Seung-jong adopted the immediate make-up method. Because even in the Han State, which pursued mercantilism, there were many people who took the official examination, but there were few official positions, so Li Chengzong seized this point and used the masses to supervise the "supervisors" and set up a system of alternate officials.

This is tantamount to saying that in the process of auditing by supervisors with real power, a large group of "alternate supervisors" who do not have real power behind them are all following closely step by step to see whether the supervisors are corrupt or cover-up. Once such a situation occurs, the substitute officials will immediately arrest the embezzlers, and at the same time, the imperial court will select one of the followers on the spot and take his position immediately. So many people grab an official position, normally speaking, they must hope that someone else will have an accident and then take it themselves. It is precisely in this way that the enthusiasm for supervising and auditing and fighting corruption has been enhanced, and at the same time, there will be no acts of covering up corruption.

Then the third point, Li Chengzong chose to play the pro-people card: high salary and honesty. That is, to give you an extra tip, enough for you to eat and drink to support your family. The implication is that additional subsidies are given, so don't think about corruption anymore.

In order to thoroughly prevent the spread of corruption, Lee Seung-jong introduced the secret folding system. In the past, feedback was reported from the subordinates to the next level, and finally conveyed to Li Chengzong, but generally which subordinate would offend his superiors openly. So in order to be able to obtain the true first information, Li Chengzong distributed a box to each official above the county order, and each box had two locks on it. A key is in the official, and a key is in Li Chengzong.

Although the official locked it, Li Chengzong could still open it with the key. In this way, if anyone wants to impeach whom, they can communicate directly with Lee Seung-jong without having to go through the reporting procedure.

Of course, Li Chengzong didn't dare to use this method much, because Yang Rong told him that in real history, Wu Zetian often used this method, so that there was chaos within the court later. However, it is still very effective to use it a few times, and after killing chickens and monkeys a few times, the officials will be honest, and no one will think about corruption anymore.

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