The three law divisions of the Ming Dynasty were composed of three institutions: Dali Temple, the Criminal Department, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

Generally speaking, the criminal department is mainly responsible for the trial, and the Dali Temple has become a prudent criminal organ, managing the rejection and rehabilitation of unjust and wrongful cases.

To a certain extent, the characteristics of separation of functions and powers and mutual containment between the three legal divisions have been reflected.

Compared with later generations, the criminal department of the Ming Dynasty obviously had more power than the public security, while the authority of Dali Temple was smaller than that of the court, and the Inspectorate was relative to the Supreme People's Procuratorate.

The Ming Dynasty also had a Jinyiwei, which can be regarded as equivalent to the National Security and Discipline Inspection Commission, but Jinyiwei has now abolished the right to arrest and censor, and has basically become an intelligence organization.

From the perspective of the Ming government, the six ministries and the cabinet were responsible for the work and maintained the world's long-term rotation, while the Dali Temple and the Inspectorate plus the Jinyi Wei were the bureaucracy's self-correction to ensure the long-term healthy operation of the imperial court.

To control the six ministries and the cabinet is to obtain administrative power, and to control the Dali Temple and the Metropolitan Procuratorate is to monitor the bureaucracy.

If you obtain administrative power, you will be able to obtain benefits in the administrative process, control the promotion of officials, and control the future of officials, and obtain the power of supervision and trial of officials, so that you can control officials and form a relationship of containment.

There are important members of the Chu Party in each of the three law divisions, and the inspectorate is mainly responsible for the discipline of officials, mainly the territory of Jiangnan scholars such as Qian Qianyi, but Wang Yan is not very at ease with Qian Qianyi, so he arranged Yuan Pengnian to enter the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

After all, people who are officials will have some problems to a greater or lesser extent, and if they don't place people in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, someone will have to deal with the Chu Party, which will be a big trouble for the Chu Party.

Generally speaking, the Metropolitan Procuratorate will only appear when it is necessary to run people, Qian Qianyi and others have done the imperial history of the inspector, but because they do not belong to any faction, they are the remnants of Donglin, and their power in the court is weak, and they cannot afford to offend any of the three kings, so the presence of the Inspectorate in the Nanjing court is very low, and there is basically no achievement and right to speak.

As a result, supervision was insufficient, and officials of the three factions were not afraid of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and corruption and the struggle for power and profit followed.

Generally speaking, when you want to get people, the Inspectorate will come out, and everyone can't help but feel a pang in their hearts when they hear that the Inspectorate has a proposal.

"The Inspectorate's proposal this time is aimed at the corruption of officials, as well as the disobedience of local officials to the imperial court orders." Yuan Pengnian's background was not very good, and he was a little angry in front of several ministers, he saw that there was no abnormality on the faces of the officials, bowed down and continued: "Next year, the Inspectorate is going to send three ways to inspect the imperial history and inspect the localities, first of all, starting from Huguang and Liangguang, to conduct an inventory of local officials!" ”

"Check Huguang and Liangguang first?"

This year, the prefect of Suzhou of the Chu Party framed a large silk weaver in Suzhou on the charge of secretly communicating with the Qing court, embezzled more than 200,000 taels of silver, 1,000 looms, and forced the merchant to death.

This matter was fueled by the two factions, and it was stirred up in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and finally Wang Yan ordered a strict investigation and put a cousin of the Wang family in prison for questioning and beheading, so as to suppress the matter.

When everyone heard that they were going to send Yushi to inspect the place, they thought that Wang Yan was going to find trouble with Tang Lu, and thought that he was going to attack Tang Lu and the two factions, but they didn't want to check on themselves.

After Yuan Peng Nianfang finished speaking, the Chu Party members present exploded. Huguang and Liangguang are the base camps of the Chu Party, why do they still check their own people first?

Wang Yanzao was in the middle hall, and when he saw everyone's reaction, he coughed lightly to silence everyone, and then said: "This proposal of the Inspectorate was given by Lonely, and if you have any objections, you can say it." ”

"Your Royal Highness, although Wang Fuji's corruption has brought us a bad influence, but there are also many problems in Zhejiang and Tang, the imperial history first inspected the southwest, and the lower officials are afraid that the people below will be emotional!"

The Chu Party is now a vested interest group, and is gradually out of Wang Yan's control, and he can no longer be arbitrary in many things.

Yan Qiheng arranged a large number of Chu Party officials in Lianghu and Liangguang, and they were huddled together, and there must be a lot of dirty things among them, so he naturally didn't want Yushi to go to inspect the southwest.

Absolute power will inevitably lead to corruption, Wang Yan glanced at everyone, and then said in a deep voice: "You are all people who are determined to rejuvenate our emperor and Han nation. This inspection of the imperial history will definitely damage the interests of some people, but if we don't investigate, our ideals will come to naught. It has only been a long time since Nanjing was conquered, and some people have become corrupt, if we let it go unchecked, Zhang and Li's generation will rise again, we will all suffer, and it will be too late to regret it! ”

The Chu Party is getting bigger and bigger now, although the upper echelons are not yet obviously corrupted, but the bottom is mixed, and it is inevitable that problems will arise frequently, and many high-level leaders also understand this, but sometimes they know it, but they can only pretend not to see it.

"What His Highness is worried about, we are also deeply worried, but at this time, isn't it too early to inspect~~~"

Wang Yan waved his hand and interrupted Qu Congzhi's words, "Lone knows what you think, in Lone's opinion, whether it is Hauge or Dolgon, they are no longer my opponents, and our enemies will always be our own people." ”

In the eyes of everyone, during the period of fighting the world, you should be lenient to your subordinates, so that some people can follow, but in Wang Yan's view, this period has slowly passed, and it is time for gradual change, and he is not depriving his subordinates of their interests, he is targeting those who seriously cross the line, to a certain extent, he is also safeguarding the interests of the entire gentry group.

Wang Yan glanced at everyone, "It's not that Lone doesn't let them reap the benefits, the salaries of officials have increased this year, and the law that officials' families are not allowed to do business has not been investigated, and the people below have already reaped a lot of benefits, but some people are not satisfied, and if they want to be greedy, then they should be killed." Also, what's going on with Huguang and Liangguang Qingzhang land? If they can't do it yet, what do they want to do? This time, the imperial history must go down to the imperial court to find out, and remove a group of officials. ”

Everyone here somewhat understood why Wang Yan wanted to let the imperial history inspect, in addition to corruption, the main problem was that the land in the southwest was not cleared, and the people below did not take him seriously, which angered him.

Yan Qiheng and the others saw that Wang Yan had made up their minds, looked at each other, and did not give any further opinions on the matter of the imperial history inspection.

Wang Yan waited for a while, saw that everyone bowed slightly, and added, "In the future, the supervision of officials by the Inspectorate will be strengthened, and Gu is ready to add a pre-discussion and open a channel in the people, where there are 10,000 people to advise and tens of thousands of people, they can be directly handed over to the cabinet, and the cabinet must respond within a month, so that public opinion has an outlet to avoid huge corruption!" ”

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