Since then, in order to customize prices, the Shadow Division and the Eagle Eye Division have checked the locality, but after discovering many illegal things about local officials, Zhao Xun can be said to be furious. On weekdays, although the Shadow Division and the Eagle Eye Division also inspect hundreds of officials, in order not to let the Metropolitan Procuratorate become an ornament, they do not let the officials write to say that they reuse the Eagle Dog, and they do not want the Shadow Division and the Eagle Eye Division to have too much power.

Zhao Xun knew very well that once the Shadow Division and the Eagle Eye Division had too much power, it would have a bad impact. If the emperor can use it, it's okay to use it well, but if the emperor doesn't handle it properly, there will definitely be chaos.

In addition, if you don't say it well, it will leave a bad reputation on history. Therefore, Zhao Xuncai tilted the focus of the Shadow Division and the Eagle Eye Division to the military, and as for the supervision above the locality, it was handed over to the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

But since he saw the situation reported by the two secret guards, Zhao Xun really wanted to kill them. However, Zhao Xun also knows that this is impossible. Zhao Guo now has hundreds of local officials at the level of Fu Yin and above, and when it comes to illegal things, I am afraid that everyone will be involved.

It's a pleasure to kill them, but what to do with them after they are killed? If the officials of fifty or sixty prefectures, such as the governors, tax envoys, and patrol envoys, were all killed by themselves, I was afraid that there would be no county officials in the prefectures and counties of Dazhao. Even if it is to promote officials to take over, it will not be completed in a short time and a half. Besides, at the same time, if the officials of a class are clicked, even if they are selected, they cannot be put in place all at once.

After all, every official succeeding his predecessor is not something that can be completed in a day or two. In particular, a large number of officials at one time were not familiar with the government affairs of these places at all. If all these officials were to be killed, the imperial court would definitely not be able to dispatch so many county officials to the prefectures for a while, and I am afraid it would lead to even greater chaos.

The most important thing is that Zhao Guo has not yet ruled the world, if there are internal problems, who knows if it will affect the overall situation. If the southern princes find an opportunity, it will not be a good thing for the Zhao State.

This time, the gathering is only at the level above the prefecture, and those county orders and the like are not much better. Lu Ziliang and others were also worried that after killing these governors, they would force other guilty county commanders in the world to rebel together. After all, now that the world is not completely under the control of Zhao State, even if they rebel or flee, there is a way out. Although the current Great Zhao State is not afraid of the rebellion of local officials at all, it is obviously inevitable to cause turmoil in Great Zhao. And at that time, the southern princes will naturally not ignore it. In this way, it is not in the interests of Zhao Guo, nor is it in line with Zhao Xun's wishes.

After all, the rebellion must be pacified, and the pacification will require labor and mobilization, and countless money and food will be spent, and people will die. And often in every civil strife, not many soldiers actually die, and in the end it will always be the unarmed people who will suffer.

What about after the rebellion was put down? The imperial court will definitely not be able to find so many experienced and qualified people to rule the people's livelihood in the counties for a while. If you can't find so many people, you can't quickly calm down the people, and in the end it will affect yourself.

Although it is a short-term military control in some areas of new offensive and storage, it is impossible to let the entire territory under the jurisdiction of Dazhao implement military control, right? Military control has certain benefits in the short term in the areas that have just been conquered, but in the long run, it will definitely do more harm than good to the localities.

Therefore, although Zhao Xun was very angry, he only killed more than forty or fifty people, and did not involve all the people. However, Rao only killed forty or fifty people, which also made all the officials of the court tremble.

The cold winter of December had made the officials under Zhao Guo feel no cold, because the cold in their hearts was even worse. The weather is cold, and you can still use the flame to keep warm. But the coldness in my heart is powerless.

After King Zhao summoned the civil and military officials for a banquet, the entire Youzhou City began to boil. Overnight, on the head of Youzhou City, there were forty or fifty heads of local officials at or above the head of the local government Yin, and then not only that, but also the heads of more than 20 central officials of the central procuratorate and the official department.

Such a scene made the people, merchants, and scholars in the entire Youzhou City stunned. King Zhao invited civil and military officials to a banquet, but nearly 100 heads were cut overnight, which was not a small incident.

Then the people of the city found out what was going on, and the four gates and the various squares in the city were plastered with notices about the deaths of these officials. Immediately afterwards, the Dazhao Times Political Newspaper also printed pages to report the deeds of those officials who were killed.

The officials no longer cared about how the people in the city would react. Now, all officials are starting to report their mistakes to the Inspectorate. It wasn't that they were willing to go to the king's secret guard to report the situation, but the nearly 100 heads hanging above the city told them that if they didn't tell the Supervision Department in detail what they had done, they were afraid that they would become one of the people hanging there.

There are also officials who want to avoid the important and trivial things when they report to the Supervision Department, but the Supervision Department is the meaning of King Zhao's four secret guards, and they are responsible for supervising the officials of the world. Coupled with the cooperation of the Eagle Eye Division and the Shadow Division, their affairs may not be found out, but important mistakes cannot be concealed from the information in the hands of the Supervision Division.

Therefore, after hanging a dozen or so heads above the city again, the remaining officials no longer dared to hide it in the slightest. But fortunately, the things committed by these officials are not too bad. Of course, if what they committed was too bad, I am afraid that they would have been executed by King Zhao in the palace.

But Rao is like this, Zhao Xun was also angry and blue after checking the self-reports of these officials. However, Zhao Xun still endured it and did not continue to massacre these officials. For these officials, Zhao Xun demanded that they hand over all the illegal income they had obtained into the state treasury. As for myself, most of them continue to be officials in the same place.

Of course, this does not mean that Zhao Xun will let them go, but that all the officials who are at fault cannot be replaced now. In addition, some officials are indeed talented, even if they are wrong, it is harmless, and such officials, they will continue to be officials in Zhao State. However, they don't dare to do the same thing easily.

The background of these officials was recorded in the hands of King Zhao's secret guard supervision department, and did not fall into the hands of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. Zhao Xun didn't want the officials of the Metropolitan Procuratorate to manipulate other officials and seek personal interests for themselves. In addition, a large number of officials of the Metropolitan Procuratorate were also investigated during the current court gathering, and there were four or five people who went directly to the war, and dozens of people were dismissed from their posts and investigated. And there are too many officials involved in the case this time, and Zhao Xun is not worried that they are being used by others. Therefore, the handle of these officials can only fall into Zhao Xun's own hands, and no one other than himself can use this handle to blackmail these officials.

In addition to the officials who participated in the court gathering and began to be inspected by the Supervision Department in Youzhou City, nearly 100 merchants, firms, and chambers of commerce also suffered. Because merchants come and go from south to north, and do not stay in one place for long. In order to prevent these merchants from escaping when they heard the news, at the same time as the court, the Shadow Division and the Eagle Eye Division, together with the local government soldiers and county soldiers, arrested the merchants involved in the case.

In addition to merchants, large-scale inventory activities were also carried out at the local level. Only officials above the level of the prefectural governor and the local adjutant and officials at the county level are not qualified to participate in the court. But this doesn't mean that they don't have anything to do, Fu Yin can commit crimes, and many of the adjutants below are also involved. And among the county orders at the bottom, there are also many officials who have committed illegal things.

In short, in the cold winter season of December, it was not the weather that made all the local officials under Zhao feel cold, but the changes in the imperial court. They don't know when they'll be the next ones to be taken down by the Dark Guard.

It was not until January of the sixth year of Changping that the inspection of the officials who affected the entire Zhao State was completed, which made all the officials who committed the crime and those who did not commit the crime breathe a sigh of relief. At this moment, under Zhao Guo, thirty percent of local officials have been directly dismissed and replaced with new officials. However, in this investigation, a total of 60 percent of the officials committed crimes, and the remaining 30 percent only asked them to confess what they had committed, and did not immediately deal with them, but let them continue to serve in local positions. The instructions given by King Zhao are to look at their next performance to deal with it, and if they perform well, all the past will be exempted. If the performance is not good, the penalty is doubled.

Zhao Xun believes that now that these officials who committed crimes have returned to the localities, they will never dare to be presumptuous again, because they may be liquidated at any time. Even if they no longer bend the law for bribes and engage in favoritism in the future, if they don't do things well for the local government, then the past guilt will become a reason to deal with them again.

This action of the imperial court can be said to have caused huge fluctuations in the Zhao State, although the local people have been affected a lot, but for the people, this is definitely a great good thing. Through the notices and newspapers in various places, the people everywhere knew that these officials were taken down by King Zhao because of favoritism and corruption in the local area. Therefore, the people everywhere are more supportive of King Zhao.

And the people of Xuzhou and Dongyongzhou are no longer worried about their future. At the very least, under the rule of Zhao State, they will not be oppressed by the government, and Zhao State's policies will also be well implemented on them.

Throughout the winter, officials in the Zhao state ruled the land, and the officials went through a difficult period. Countless officials were investigated, dismissed, beheaded, and hung above their heads and in various cities. In just over a month, the entire Zhao State was undergoing a period of strict investigation.

The fact that so many officials have been taken down and beheaded has indeed brought a lot of disaster to the localities. Fortunately, in the south, the land bordering the southern princes, part of it was the land of Xinna, and the rest of the area was also garrisoned by large armies, so even if three or five local officials were ready to rebel and flee south, it did not succeed.

This inventory has a great impact on Zhao Guo, and it will take two or three months to get all the localities to return to the new officials to completely take over the localities, to complete the government affairs relationship, and to find out all the problems. However, it is winter at this moment, and the southern princes will not be hostile to the Zhao army at this moment. Therefore, Zhao Guo is now conducting a thorough internal investigation, which is also the best time.

This inventory also has a great impact on Dongyongzhou and Xuzhou in Xinna. In addition to letting the people in these two places know the importance that the Zhao court attaches to the new policy and the importance it attaches to the people, it is more of a deterrent to the surrendered officials in these two places.

The land of Dongyongzhou is the jurisdiction of the king of Luoyang, and after Dongyongzhou was taken by the Zhao army, the officials under the command of the king of Luoyang in the past also surrendered to Zhao. And the land of Xuzhou was even more so, under the leadership of Li Fangzong and other Chu army officials. A large part of the Chu army officials surrendered to Zhao and were used by the Zhao state.

In contrast, Zhao was more strict with the surrender of the soldiers under the command of the princes in various places. For these civil officials, in addition to some important ministers of the original princes, more of them are arranged in the same place and cooperate with the officials sent by Zhao to control the places, after all, their understanding of these regions is far from being comparable to the officials sent by Zhao State. Of course, even if they stay in the locality, they are mostly petty officials or adjutants.

However, these officials were not officials of Zhao State, and they did not know much about the system of Zhao State, and when they were born as princes, they all had various problems more or less, and after this incident, these officials who surrendered can be regarded as seeing the system of Zhao State clearly and knowing the power of Zhao State.

At least the former Chu army officials who entered Youzhou City with Li Fangzong no longer dared to be from any Chu army background. They can also be regarded as seeing the power of King Zhao, or rather, ruthlessness, in just one month, not how many officials have been killed and dismissed. Of course, what they were more afraid of was the ubiquitous secret guard under King Zhao's command. Think about it, how many prefectures and counties in Zhao State will be investigated clearly in just a few months, and in these few months, hundreds of officials will be rolled off. Think about it again, wasn't the Chu army under the guidance of the secret guards of the Zhao State, killing each other and falling apart? Aren't their own words and deeds also under the watchful eye of these secret guards?

Therefore, in addition to the local officials of the Zhao State, the officials of Dongyongzhou and the Chu army who surrendered were even more trembling, fearing that they would be dealt with by the King of Zhao for an unknown reason. And they are now stepping up their familiarity with the Zhao system, so as not to make mistakes unknowingly.

Compared with Dongyongzhou, there are more generals in the Chu army who surrender to Zhao, after all, most of the Chu army surrendered directly under the slogan of surrendering Zhao after Li Han and others killed Li Chi, the king of Chu. The Luo army in Dongyongzhou was defeated by the Zhao army. Therefore, the generals and colonels who surrendered to the Chu army were also the most dissatisfied with the Zhao State.

After the generals of the Chu army were demoted to Zhao, the treatment given by the king of Zhao was to let them study in the military academy of the Royal Academy, and then serve as Zhao Jun according to their ability. However, these generals believed that this was Zhao Guo's right to confiscate them. However, after this gathering, these generals no longer dare to talk nonsense. In contrast, life can be more important than rights. After all, if the rights are gone, you can fight for them in the future, and even if you don't have the rights, you can enjoy wealth and wealth. But if your life is gone, you're gone.

"I didn't expect that this strict investigation will bring quite a big effect!" After listening to all aspects of the report of Lu Ziliang and others, Zhao Xun said coldly.

Lu Ziliang and the others didn't dare to say much, they knew that King Zhao was still annoyed by those officials at the moment, even if they read the self-reported confessions of those officials, they were also full of anger. Local officials are the parent officials who manage a place, and their behavior represents the imperial court, and they act mischief above the local government, and in the end, it is indeed Da Zhao who is affected, and they are also the officials of these central custom systems.

"Your Majesty, there are more than 200 officials involved in the Central Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of Households, and the Criminal Department, ranging from Langzhong to Shizhong, to the small officials of various ministries. In addition to the dozens of people who were killed a few years ago, the rest have been investigated, how to deal with them now? Please show it to the king! Pei Yi asked cautiously.

"What a central official, at the feet of the Son of Heaven, in the field of vision of this king, there are such bold officials, who don't take this king in their eyes at all! Yes, it's really good, it's bold! Zhao Xun smiled angrily, "Since they are so bold, then they are also ready to accept punishment." “

For these central officials, Zhao Xun will not be merciful. Among them, in addition to the supervisory body, the rest are the bosses of local officials, and they are the yamen who evaluate the merits of local officials. If they were strict, how could local officials be so bold? It is their audacity and presumptuousness that emboldens local officials even more.

As the saying goes, in troubled times, use heavy codes! For these people, Zhao Xun has no idea of giving them the same treatment as local officials. As a central official, he is the boss of the local officials, and he is the person who assigns the national policy, if they can't control themselves, then Zhao Guo will have no fun.

Zhao Xun has decided to execute them all, regardless of the size of the crime. Although Zhao Xun knew that there might be some innocent people and some people who did not commit crimes to death would be implicated and implicated to death, if he continued to be merciful at this time, not only would he not be able to achieve the goal of deterring officials at all levels in the center, but he might also make those who were lucky enough to escape even more serious people, but he would just do it more hidden.

Dogs can never change eating! Maybe at the beginning they will restrain themselves because they killed a group of people, but after a while, these people will heal their scars and forget the pain, the old disease will recur, and people's hearts will be difficult to satisfy, Zhao Xun knows this very well, so since he wants to kill it, it is better to kill it all at once.

Pei Yi said in a deep voice: "The king, the ministers and others are foolish, treat them like local officials, choose the serious ones and kill them, and the rest of the people will be dealt with differently according to their crimes." ”

Zhao Xun's face turned cold, and he waved his hand: "Joke!" Are they the same as local officials? No way! As a central official, in the imperial capital, and by the side of this king, how can this king pardon? In dealing with them, not only should there not be the slightest reduction or exemption, but they must also be dealt with severely. Pass the order down, and kill them all! The king wants to let the officials in the imperial capital know what can and cannot be done. "This time, he wasn't prepared to show mercy to his men anymore.