The scholar clan has Li Shimin to keep an eye on, Luo Tong is relaxed, and after chatting for a while, he wants to leave! finally had a holiday, of course he had to go home to accompany his flowery wife, instead of talking about government affairs with Li Shimin, an old man.

"Don't worry, I have an idea, I want to hear the opinion of the virtuous son-in-law." Luo Tong wanted to leave, but Li Shimin wouldn't let him go!

"What's the matter?" Luo Tong had no choice but to sit down again.

Li Shimin groaned: "There is a serious phenomenon of fewer people and more officials in my Tang Dynasty, and I have always wanted to do something about the officials. Eliminate meaningless, worthless, incompetent and incompetent officials in order to revitalize the government of the DPRK. According to a preliminary estimate, there are more than 2,000 officials in the Tang Dynasty in total, and there are countless overlapping positions and responsibilities. They can make trouble if they have nothing to do, and they shirk each other's responsibilities when they have something, which is not only meaningless to the development of my Datang, but there are huge hidden dangers. At least it would have to be cut by more than half. ”

Luo Tong was a little stunned, it is inevitable for every dynasty to be overly official and superfluous. The only way to deal with over-the-top officials is to lay off employees, and then the problem comes. Attrition, how to reduce, and to whom? These are all headaches, and if they are not handled well, they will cause turmoil. Faced with the phenomenon of over-the-top officials, most dynasties chose to let it go, so as not to shake the fundamentals. It is this practice of letting things go unchecked, resulting in excessive officials and officials being as smelly and long as a footwrap, and when it comes to the real danger to the country, there is no way to deal with it.

In fact, many malpractices are like people's bodies, when there are small problems, they don't pay attention to deal with them, and when they threaten the body, they want to deal with it but it's too late.

There are 2,000 officials in the Chang'an court, which is not much, far from enough to cause harm, but Li Shimin has noticed this hidden danger and intends to drastically reduce the personnel to less than half, which is really shocking.

"More than half of the officials in the world are from the scholar clan, they control the local government affairs, and it is good to meet upright people, if they are evildoers, not only will all the assistance of the court go into their pockets, but also let the people have nowhere to redress. When I ascended the throne, I wanted to do it, but the scholars united and forced the palace in the name of all their children resigning. Hey! Now that they have ink history paper, ink books, and libraries, the advantages of the scholars no longer exist, they will not be stupid enough to give up their inherent positions, they are reluctant to let go, but I don't want to endure it anymore. ”

Luo Tong didn't know what to say, he heard that the scholars were arrogant, but he didn't want to be arrogant to the point of confronting the emperor. This is still the time when the scholars are at a low point, if it is a smooth period, how will it be so high-flying? Luo Tong couldn't imagine what the anarchic world would look like after half of the officials in the world resigned, he finally understood the strength of the scholar clan, and the Tang dynasty still accounted for fifty percent of the official positions after the troubled times, and during the period of Emperor Wen of Sui in the peaceful and prosperous era, wouldn't it occupy seven or eight layers? If the scholar clan produces an amazing talent, if this person ascends to the top and shouts, there will be seventy or eighty percent of the officials responding, no wonder the four emperors of the Sui and Tang dynasties have been fighting against the scholar clan all their lives, and the strength of the scholar clan is too terrifying.

"Actually, I'm aware of this problem too."

Luo Tong avoided the topic of the scholar clan and said matter-of-factly: "When I was in Lingzhou, I heard a story with a particularly fresh memory: it was said that an old man asked for help from the government, and he spent more than half a month looking for more than 30 officials, and these more than 30 officials spent half a month to discuss, and finally reported to their superiors, which took more than a month. In fact, this is just a trivial thing that a person can do with only a few dozen breaths,"

Li Shimin said solemnly: "Take your example, when the matter is done, the old man may have found a hundred people, that is, ninety-nine of them are redundant. Therefore, it is necessary to cut through the chaos with a quick knife and reduce the number of employees. A few years later, the situation was more complex and more constrained. For a generation or two, it's almost impossible to do it, and I can't guarantee that they have the courage. ”

Luo Tong thought that the future situation would be more complicated, and as Li Shimin said, not every emperor had the courage of Li Shimin, and thought about it: "I support my father-in-law's plan to reduce and lay off employees, and I am sure that about eighty percent of these redundant officials are people with unclean foundations, and my father-in-law is just laying off employees, don't you think it's too merciful?" I think that while layoffs are being made, the fight against corruption should also be carried out together! This can not only recover certain losses, but also warn people in the future. ”

"What can you do to recover the losses of the imperial court?" Li Shimin suddenly came to the spirit!

Luo Daodao: "The way officials are corrupt is nothing more than those four tricks: first, rely on their bosses to cover up; the second is to borrow money and grain to fill the account; the third is to spend tips to report a big account; Fourth, officials protect each other, deceive superiors and subordinates, and cause trouble. ”

"Now that you understand this, I wonder if there's a way to fix it?" Li Shimin didn't have much hope in his heart, but they had already talked about it, so they asked casually.

"There is no good way...... However, there is a stupid solution! Luo Tong had already filed and smiled mysteriously.

Li Shimin's face showed a trace of regret at first, but when he heard it, he showed a trace of expectation in the end: "A stupid way is a stupid way, it's better than no way!" ”

"Actually, it's simple, the main thing is to see the determination of the father-in-law!"

In this era, there is no high technology, and the methods of corrupt officials and corruption are relatively primitive, and they generally can't escape the four items that Luo Tong said! Luo Tong smiled, and said the famous "Yongzheng Corruption":

The first move: Yongzheng set up a team of shrewd officials to go to various places to check the accounts, find out a corrupt official, immediately dismiss him on the spot, and select one person from the accompanying officials to take over!

Protecting officials is a stubborn disease in officialdom. The successive officials have always helped the predecessor to fill the hole, and then left a large deficit for the successor to make up, the reason why the deficit can not always be made up, this is one of the reasons, but with Chai Shao's method is different, the successor of the corrupt official is to check the accounts, and the person who audits the accounts will not play a round and cover for him for the sake of his own future. In this way, this corrupt official will have nowhere to run but bow his head and admit his guilt and accept punishment. Moreover, the person who checks the accounts also knows how his official position came from, so he can only work diligently and dare not be corrupt, so he has cut off the generation of corrupt officials from the root.

The second trick: for borrowing money and grain to fill the account, order all the borrowed money and grain to be confiscated!

Some corrupt officials, when the higher-level officials came to check the accounts, would borrow money and grain from the wealthy households to replenish the treasury, and then return them after the officials left. However, when Chai Shao sent people to check, no matter who the money and grain belonged to, only the number recorded by the state government would prevail. In this way, if the corrupt officials are caught, the rich will not get their money and food back, making it difficult for the corrupt officials to fill the deficit and directly waiting for them to be imprisoned.

The third trick: for the tips spent, Yongzheng set up an audit team. The statistical group is a verification and auditing body, which only obeys the orders of the Governor's Office, and its task is to inspect and verify the money and grain sales of officials at all levels. From then on, local taxes or reimbursement of expenses had to be verified by the audit team, and no one could do anything about it. In this way, there is no way for higher-level officials to embezzle, and it is impossible for local officials to pay a small amount of money to cover all their deficits.

The above three major killer moves have eliminated the emergence of corrupt officials from the root year.

For those who have become corrupt officials, Yongzheng adopts a three-step approach: first dismiss the official, then make a claim, and raid the house three times!

Dismissal: It is the immediate suspension of all official duties of the responsible official after the deficiency is discovered.

Claim: The official was ordered to make up the shortfall within the time limit, and a dismissed official could no longer prey on the people, and they had to pay for the shortfall out of their own pockets.

Raiding the house: Once the officials who are in deficit are discovered, the yamen is strictly searched, and on the other hand, the officials in the hometown where the corrupt officials are located are asked to seal up the family property in their hometown, monitor their families, recover the property that has been sold, and put an end to the possibility of transferring and hiding the stolen money. As soon as the guilt of the corrupt officials was verified, they raided his family, even the homes of their relatives and children.

The hand of "first dismissing officials, then making claims, and raiding the house three times" can be said to be the most fundamental and thorough way to rectify corrupt officials and corrupt officials. After corrupt officials embezzle money, they are nothing more than squandering and enjoying, and they are generally greedy together by a family. Therefore, Yongzheng did not let go of all the families of corrupt officials, and all those who got benefits from corrupt officials did not let go, deposed from their official positions, demoted to commoners, deeply experienced the hardships of the people, and made corrupt officials unable to raise their heads for the rest of their lives.

This set of methods derived from "Yongzheng to control corruption" is definitely the culmination of the rule of Chinese officials, and it is also a model for punishing and restraining corrupt officials and corrupt officials. Yongzheng punished corruption drastically, during his reign, corruption was almost extinct, and everyone in the officialdom was honest and honest, which can be called a miracle in the governance of feudal officialdom!

It is also a feudal era, since Yongzheng can use it, Li Shimin can also use it, Chai Shao, who has such an idea, made a series of deletions and additions on this basis, making it more in line with the era of the Tang Dynasty.

On the basis of "Yongzheng to control corruption", Luo Tong not only put forward the concept that three generations of corrupt officials cannot be officials, but also asked each state and county to open a room in the library as a historical museum of "corrupt officials and corrupt officials", and each corrupt official has his own archive.

This dossier is like a genealogy: starting with the corrupt official's generation, followed by his sons and daughters, and grandchildren (nieces and nephews......

The existence of this archive makes corrupt officials realize that once they are corrupt, they will be spurned for generations to come! So as to establish the concept of "one person is corrupt, all generations will be punished".

With this concept, the official family also spontaneously has an internal binding force, so that it always reminds and supervises the children of the clansmen who have become officials, so that they do not become corrupt, so as not to bring flying disasters and eternal stigma to the family. And colleagues can't tolerate the corruption of the people around them, so as not to be involved in the case and implicated by them.

Luo Tong talked endlessly to Li Shimin about all the methods of "Yongzheng to control corruption", coupled with the personal opinions of a great man in the 21st century such as the anti-corruption method and the supervision of the whole people, and the emotional department was even more dancing, telling a beautiful blueprint.

Li Shimin was dumbfounded when he heard this, but he couldn't help but be amazed. Then I asked what I didn't understand.

Luo Tong also took the trouble to answer them one by one.

There were some proposals that were not suitable for the atmosphere of the Tang Dynasty, and the two discussed with each other and revised the plan.

Li Shimin said excitedly: "Virtuous son-in-law! You are such a genius, I have convinced you, your anti-corruption method is an unprecedented great innovation, and I am really eye-opening today. By the way, your system makes people dare not be corrupt, but it also limits people's imagination, if everyone is afraid of making mistakes and dare not let go of their hands and feet, then how can Datang talk about development? Therefore, while punishing corrupt officials, rewarding clean officials and rewarding promising people must also be carried out at the same time. ”

Luo Tong said with a smile: "What's so difficult about this, Your Majesty only needs to set up an honorary award according to the spirit of competition." ”

Li Shimin came to his senses: "There is a champion in the imperial examination, and there is a first place in polo, so why not use it in the government!" I want to award a year's best political achievements, the best courtier of the year, the best counselor of the year, and the best general of the year. Think about it, what a privilege this is, if it is promulgated, shouldn't the thorny history be sharpened for the benefit of the people? Don't the courtiers do everything possible to make plans for my Tang Dynasty state affairs, and the officials don't want to find fault with me by all means? There are also those generals who have nothing to do, and they are not yet one by one, begging to go to war. ”

Li Shimin said and spoke, but he didn't dance before this sudden thought.

Luo Tong looked at the Tang Emperor who had fallen into ecstasy, revealing his sincere admiration. The best assassin of the year, the best courtier of the year and the best general of the year are all easy to say, but the best official of the year really shows Li Shimin's broad mind that is good at accepting advice, and secretly wonders: "There is such an emperor in the Tang Dynasty, why worry that the Tang Dynasty cannot be powerful all over the world." ”

Luo Daodao: "My father-in-law drew inferences from one another, and Luo Tong admired it." ”

Li Shimin said with a happy face: "It's polite again, not to mention that this is your attention after all, what I have done is nothing more than a slight improvement." If the merit is counted, the virtuous son-in-law accounts for at least eighty percent. Your anti-corruption law will be promulgated when I have sorted it out. ”

Looking at the canopy outside the window, Li Shimin laughed and said: "Every time I discuss with my virtuous son-in-law, I forget that time flies, and before I know it, it's evening again!" Come on, prepare for dinner, today I want to get drunk with my virtuous son-in-law. ”

"Not today!" Luo Tong hurriedly refused: "I still want to go to Weishui to see the lights!" ”

Li Shimin suddenly woke up and said: "I forgot, there is a lantern festival today, it is very lively, and almost half of the people in the capital will go to Luoshui to see the lanterns." Go, go, go! ”

"Father-in-law...... Luo Tong walked a few steps, suddenly changed his tone, and had a hippie smile: "You see that Changle is also sullen in the palace, ...... panic" and then made an expression that you understand.

Li Shimin scolded with a smile: "Go, go...... That girl has made your kid bad, and before she gets married, she runs out all day long! Well, in extraordinary times, you are not afraid of 10,000, you should be careful! ”

Luo Tong said happily: "Father-in-law, don't worry! I'm here. ”