This secret letter came from the secret spy of the Intelligence Bureau, and the above thing was not a big deal, but it was extremely bad in nature.

On the fifth day of the fifth month of May in 1124, the Chinese Empire was established, and it is now the beginning of 1126, less than a year later, but there have been some bad signs in the country.

In fact, the establishment of the empire has to be pushed forward by several years, because the period of Zhennan Kingdom is also included, but even so, the corruption of local officials in the imperial provinces also makes Li Nan feel a little frightened.

The Song State is a lesson from the past, why did a huge country become a miserable situation that is now being eaten by other countries?

In addition to emphasizing literature over military force and geographical relations, Huizong and his most trusted six thieves, as well as the corruption of officials in the imperial court, are also the main reasons.

Li Nan had long expected corruption among the officials of the empire, but he did not expect it to be so soon.

It can be said that the history of the decline and fall of all dynasties is the history of corruption, and even in the era of Li Nan's previous life, no country can solve this problem.

China has adopted various methods to control corruption in the past dynasties, such as the Qin Dynasty set up a hundred officials to supervise the imperial history, the central government of the past dynasties to review the plan, the torture and killing of the Ming Dynasty, the secret investigation of the Jinyi Guard, the establishment of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the six departments to give things, and the Qing Dynasty to raise honest silver, but these are of little use.

In all dynasties, Li Nan believed that the most ruthless political corruption was Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Yuanzhang is the only emperor in Chinese history who was born as a poor peasant, because the disaster relief food sent by the imperial court to his family when he was young was embezzled by officials, causing his parents to starve to death, so Zhu Yuanzhang hated the corruption of officials the most.

In the Ming Dynasty, which he personally established, Zhu Yuanzhang tried to establish the most incorruptible government. He has taken many measures to rectify corruption among officials.

The first is the strict system, and in later generations, people often said that corrupt officials should be caught and killed, but many people don't know that Zhu Yuanzhang really did it.

In "Da Ming Law", Zhu Yuanzhang punished corrupt officials with a particularly heavy crime. Among them, officials who are guilty of embezzlement, once verified, will be sent to the northern desert land to fill the army; If an official embezzles more than 60 taels of silver, he shall be punished by showing his head to the public. Later, it was decreed that in the future, those who embezzled and accepted bribes did not have to be limited to 60 taels, and all of them should be killed!

Moreover, Zhu Yuanzhang treats everyone equally in law enforcement, regardless of whether the other party is a high-ranking official in the capital or a relative of the emperor. Zhu Yuanzhang's son-in-law, Ouyang Lun, who attached to the horse, relied on the fact that he was the husband of Princess Anqing, the biological daughter of Queen Ma, and ignored the ban of the imperial court to do evil. In addition to forcibly seizing land and concealing taxes, he also got involved in commerce, smuggled and sold smuggled tea to Shaanxi, and made huge profits from it. After Zhu Yuanzhang found out, he immediately ordered Ouyang Lun to be killed.

Zhu Yuanzhang's punishment measures for corrupt officials are very severe, and death is the final choice for corruption, but the punishment he implements is very severe and cruel, not simply let him die.

In addition to the "five punishments" stipulated in the Criminal Law, Zhu Yuanzhang often used extrajudicial punishments to deal with corrupt officials and corrupt officials, such as court rods, cramps, knee picking, finger chopping, foot chopping, skin and other tortures. In front of the official offices of the Ming Dynasty, most of them had a special peeling yard and a long pole for picking the heads of corrupt officials; Next to the office desk, there is a human skin stuffed with straw, which is used to deter and intimidate those officials who have greedy thoughts, so that they can be shocked.

In addition to having a special Jinyi Wei organization responsible for supervision, Zhu Yuanzhang also set up a system for people to report.

It can be said that mobilizing the common people to supervise the corrupt behavior of officials is a major initiative of Zhu Yuanzhang.

Zhu Yuanzhang solemnly reiterated in the "Great Message": Those who abide by the order and embezzle are allowed to go to Beijing to sue the laws and regulations. And emphasizing that "...... Dare to invite those who intercept and block, order. "His chief officials, chiefs, and all other people, if they dare to obstruct them, their families will be punished." That is to say, as long as ordinary people find corrupt officials and corrupt officials, they can be tied up and sent to Beijing for punishment, and all checkpoints on the road must be released.

However, it is not easy to talk about the people's complaints, the common people are used to being suppressed, and it is difficult to have the impulse to expose and report, although this policy is very democratic and groundbreaking, but he obviously did not take into account the operability, so there are not many successful examples.

To be honest, this question really stumped Li Nan.

Li Nan pondered for a long time, recalling the methods of corruption in various countries in later generations, but he found that in fact, they were all similar, and whether it was the United States or European countries, the corruption of officials has never stopped.

Seeing Li Nan's embarrassed face, Luda, who had not yet left, opened his mouth and asked, "Holy Lord, has something serious happened?" ”

Hearing Luda's words, Li Nan shook his head and handed him the secret letter in his hand, "You all circulate it and take a look." ”

There weren't many things recorded on the secret letter, so before the tea was ready, Ruda, Ludia, Tyrion and the others already knew about this trouble.

Ruda was jealous and hateful, and he had also suffered from corrupt officials before, so he said solemnly: "Holy Lord, now that the officials of the major provinces of the empire are corrupt, this kind of thing must not be tolerated. The empire has not been based for a long time, and if it is not strictly rectified, I am afraid that there will be endless troubles in the future! ”

Li Nan naturally thought of this as well, but at this time he also wanted to know what the others thought, so he said to Tyrion and Ludia, "What do you think about this matter?" ”

Tyrion hails from the world of Fire and Ice and thinks about it for a moment and says, "As long as humanity still has desires, corruption will never go away." Therefore, the minister believes that it is better to block than to loosen up, and these people must be rectified, but we still need to study a set of professional laws to deal with this matter. ”

Ludia suggested: "Now that the empire is fighting the Jin and Song dynasties, the concubines think that it is not appropriate to publicize this matter at this time, it is better to punish these corrupt officials lightly first, and after the war is over, they will focus on dealing with it." ”

Although the thoughts and suggestions of these important ministers were different, Li Nan knew that they were all thinking about the empire, and in the end, they had to make their own decisions about this matter.

Li Nan paced in the hall, thinking in his head, and after half a ring, he stopped and said in a deep voice: "All officials who have been found to be corrupt, regardless of their rank, will be dismissed except for recovering all the embezzled money, and the Imperial Human Resources Department will blacklist them, and they will not be hired in any department in this life." ”

"Holy." Hearing that Li Nan punished these officials so severely, Li Daocheng couldn't help but say: "These officials are all hard cultivated by the empire, and now they are punished like this for the first time when they make a mistake, isn't it a little heavy?" ”

Li Nan also knew that the empire was not rich enough and there were not many talents, but he paid more attention to the harm of corruption from later generations, so he famously said in public: "Now the empire is full of schools, and there will be more and more talents. ”

After making the decision, Li Nan then summoned Miranda and Dorcott to the meeting.

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