Zhou Chong rectified several ministers with the most fierce opposition by thunderous means, and the attack was very heavy, according to the charges found by Jinyiwei, even if these officials are not dead, they don't want to mix in the officialdom in the end, which makes those officials who oppose the reform shudder in unison, after all, they themselves know that they also can't stand the investigation, if they oppose it again, I'm afraid Zhou Chong will investigate all the way, and I don't know how many people will fall into the same fate by then.

People are selfish, especially the officials in the officialdom, most of them have gone through many years of hard study, and then worked hard in the officialdom to improve their qualifications, and finally finally got today's fame and status, they will not give up easily, so when they saw that the few early birds were beaten off by Zhou Chong, they all retracted their heads, but although they did not oppose it on the surface, they still stubbornly obstructed the implementation of several reforms in secret, especially the local tax was stripped from the functions of the local government. Then the takeover of the tax department, which is completely uncontrolled by the local government, has been hindered by countless local officials.

For the reaction of the Ming officialdom, Zhou Zhong also had long expected, so he was not moved at all, first starting from the fact that the easiest official Yu Lu was completely issued by the bank, this matter was Zhou Chong's most fully prepared, plus the official's Yu Lu was greatly raised, so a considerable number of officials are still very welcome, after all, not everyone in the officialdom wants to be corrupt officials, most of them are forced by the meager Yu Lu, and the atmosphere in the officialdom, and now Zhou Zhong has given them a new choice, Therefore, many people are very welcoming to this policy.

Of course, there are also officials who are reluctant to receive money from banks. Although their income has increased a lot, their income has become open and transparent, and their monthly income is fixed. And Zhou Zhong has secretly let all officials be vaccinated, even if the corruption and bribery in the officialdom are forgotten in the past, he will not pursue it again, but if he has a rich new salary, but he still has to do those corruption and bribery things, then don't blame Zhou Zhong for being ruthless, Daming's brocade guards have been dispatched everywhere. Jinyiwei, who had received sufficient financial support, had regained the vitality of the early Ming Dynasty, and now waited for officials to make mistakes so that they could use them to make meritorious contributions.

Zhou Chong's strategy of light, dark, soft and hard. It does play a lot of roles, especially the notoriety of Jinyiwei is still very deterrent in the officialdom, after all, when Taizu and Chengzu were in the dynasty, Jinyiwei's minions came out everywhere. The ministers in the court are all precarious. I'm afraid that one day I will be rushed to the house by Jinyiwei, who was synonymous with death at that time, as long as it has a relationship with them, there will definitely be no good end in the end.

Although the Jinyiwei in these years has not been able to have the prestige of the year, the obscenity of the year has not been eliminated, and now Zhou Zhong obviously wants to restore the strength of the Jinyiwei again, in order to deter the officialdom, plus the increase in the move of Yulu. With such a combination of grace and power, except for a small number of people. Of course, this does not mean that they will be honest officials in the future, everything depends on whether Zhou Zhong can continue this kind of supervision, otherwise if there is no one to supervise, these people will soon revert to the old state.

In contrast, the matter of the bank issuing officials is only a small matter, and the other reforms are more difficult than the other, and Zhou Zhong is a person who likes to make it easy first and then difficult, so after solving the matter of officials, the next step is to improve the functions of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and make it the main agency of the Ming Dynasty to supervise hundreds of officials and localities.

It is worth mentioning that Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, was also very distrustful of the following officials, especially for corruption, and hated it, so in the official institutions of the Ming Dynasty, the Metropolitan Procuratorate with the function of supervising hundreds of officials was arranged with a very important task, which can be seen from the number of imperial historians, such as the previous Tang and Song dynasties, the imperial history only a few to a dozen, but the imperial history of the Ming Dynasty has reached an astonishing more than 100 people, and the country is divided into thirteen provinces, each of which has set up a province to supervise the imperial history, Although the grade of these imperial histories is only the seventh grade, their power is very great, and their duties are far more onerous than before.

However, although the scale of the Ming Dynasty is larger than that of the Tang and Song dynasties, it is far from large enough for Zhou Chong, a person who has crossed over in later generations, after all, according to the political structure of the separation of powers in later generations, the Inspectorate is in charge of the judicial power, and the political status is very special, at least parallel to the cabinet, and now the cabinet is in charge of the legislation and the executive, Zhou Chong is not capable at all, and he does not plan to separate for the time being, but the judicial power with supervision functions must be independent from the Ming Dynasty, only in this way, Only then will the administration of justice not be interfered with by the administration and the occurrence of corruption will be avoided as much as possible.

It is precisely because of this, so Zhou Zhong was busy with the affairs of the officials, the first thing was to enhance the status of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, originally there were two highest promotions in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, namely the left and right imperial history, all of which were positive three products, which were much worse than the positive first product of the cabinet scholars, so Zhou Chong was on the left and right of the imperial history, and set up a general imperial history, becoming the first official of the Imperial Metropolitan Academy, the same grade as the cabinet scholars, and the imperial history of the general capital can only be appointed and dismissed by the emperor, and no one else has the right to accuse the imperial history of the general capital, In addition, the grades of the left and right imperial histories and deputy imperial histories have also been improved, which makes the official grades of the Metropolitan Procuratorate rise to a higher level all of a sudden.

However, if you want to enhance the status of a government agency, it is far from enough to improve the grade of officials, you must also have the corresponding real power, Zhou Zhong in accordance with the political structure of the Ming Dynasty, officially put the Dali Temple and the Criminal Department under the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, these two institutions are the most important criminal institutions in the Ming Dynasty.

In the past, it was called the Three Law Divisions together with the Metropolitan Procuratorate, in which the Criminal Department mainly decided the trial of the world's cases, and the Dali Temple was mainly responsible for the refutation and rehabilitation of some unjust, false and wrongly decided cases, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate not only had the duty of supervision, but also had the right to arbitrarily decide on some cases, which was equivalent to the Supreme Court of the Ming Dynasty.

In the past, the Metropolitan Procuratorate did not have a direct subordinate relationship with the Dali Temple and the Criminal Department, but now Zhou Zhong has directly promoted the Metropolitan Procuratorate to become the superior institution of the Dali Temple and the Criminal Department.

In addition, in order to allow the Metropolitan Procuratorate to better supervise the country's hundred officials, Zhou Zhong deliberately put Jinyiwei under the management of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, so that Jinyiwei's intelligence agency can also be used by the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

Of course, Jinyiwei is under the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, this is just an expedient measure, and when Zhou Chong's rectification of the officials is completed in the future, Jinyiwei will be out of the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, as for the future Jinyiwei's belonging, Zhou Chong also has a plan, that is, to build Jinyiwei into a professional intelligence agency, only responsible for the acquisition and collection of intelligence, but can not have the power to arrest and torture people as before.

In a short period of time, the Imperial Court already had the power to match it, and under this huge power, the imperial historians in the capital and other places also began to change their roles and exercise their powers. Especially the local supervision of the imperial history, they want to snatch the judicial piece from the hands of the local government, after all, this is already the responsibility of their metropolitan procuratorate, of course, those local officials must not want to see the loss of power in their hands, so this has caused a lot of fighting, but the supervision of the imperial history is relatively strong, and there is a group of minions of Jinyiwei to help, it is rarely difficult for officials from all over the country to compete for the supervision of the imperial history, and even if they temporarily retain power, the future metropolitan procuratorate will not let them go, So it's better to hand it over obediently.

However, in the process of the transformation of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, there have also been a lot of problems, the most important thing is that the imperial history of the Imperial Procuratorate, some of the imperial history is not capable enough, unable to follow the transformation of the Imperial Procuratorate, for these people, Zhou Zhong can only helplessly transfer it out of the Imperial Procuratorate, and then from the Dali Temple and the Criminal Department to transfer capable manpower to supplement, in addition to some places of the imperial history and local officials are embarrassed, do not pay attention to the laws of the imperial court at all, and it is impossible to work hard for the imperial court, for these people, Zhou Zhong is naturally ruthless, Even at the beginning of the rectification of the rule of officials, the first officials to be killed were these imperial histories.

It will definitely take a long time for the Metropolitan Procuratorate to completely transform into the independent judicial body that Zhou Chong wants, but after Zhou Zhong completely assigned the Criminal Department and Dali Temple, as well as the local judicial organs to the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the entire Metropolitan Procuratorate has a certain degree of independence, and they already have the function of supervising hundreds of officials, so that an independent supervision of the administrative power of the Ming Dynasty has been completed, and is exercising its functions, which has laid a solid foundation for Zhou Chong's rectification of the rule of officials.

Although the change of the Metropolitan Procuratorate involves the entire Ming Dynasty's power organs, it is relatively easy, firstly, the power of the Metropolitan Procuratorate is relatively large, and secondly, the Metropolitan Procuratorate itself also benefits from it, so the officials in the Metropolitan Procuratorate are extremely supportive of Zhou Chong, with the support of these people, it is much easier to promote this reform, as for the opposition of other officials, there are naturally officials of the Metropolitan Procuratorate who fight with them, but the next two reforms are very troublesome, and even Zhou Chong is very headache. (To be continued......)