Chapter 562: Judicial Reform

"Today, let's talk about judicial reform. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 After a hundred officials, it is difficult to sleep and eat, and the people have a taste, and there are enough talking points to talk about the Lantern Festival and the New Year, after the first court meeting, it is the meeting of the Ayaqi Palace, and Li Chen threw out a shock bomb.

In the case that shook the government and the opposition last year, Li Chen took the opportunity to bring about another major rectification. The first was to punish those officials involved in the case, and then promulgated a clean government law, stipulating that all officials must declare their assets, so as to stop the Tang Dynasty, and the corrupt atmosphere of officials.

In fact, the impact on hundreds of officials, this bill is quite small, and what is really vigilant is that Li Chen has to punish those officials who committed crimes. Li Chen really had to do it, and he told which prime ministers he wouldn't kill anyone, demote officials, or raid his home, but it was even more terrifying.

To put it mildly, to paraphrase some of the novels and legends that are newly popular in the Tang Dynasty, he can't kill his head, and he is a good man eighteen years later. However, Li Chen really tossed those officials from the perspective of dignity.

Li Chen asked those officials, even their relatives, to shave their very fashionable, fashionable, avant-garde, and avant-garde yin and yang heads, and then put on coarse cloth clothes, and swept the floor in the office space of the public service organs, especially their original units. The special shape makes everyone forget it.

To be honest, this trick is really ruthless. Li Chen does not kill people, but he humiliates people. Let those convicts lose face, and let them wander around in their original units, reminding others that if they don't want to be as embarrassed as them, from high-ranking officials to lowest-level sweepers, don't commit crimes.

Although Li Chen respects professional equality very much and does not look down on the cleaning staff, he does not let them clean and do nothing in vain. Besides, the social climate is like this, he just takes advantage of it.

All the officials cursed, and it was not the right to insult people. It's a lot worse than killing your head. After all, this sweeper is different from the sweeper in Shaolin, so don't want to learn any strong martial arts. This is a punishment, if you are not even afraid of killing your head, you can not be humiliated, then I will humiliate you, see what you do.

Not everyone can stand it, and some offenders can't stand this kind of punishment, and their families commit suicide. In this regard, Li Chen did not sympathize at all, and ordered the violent corpse to be displayed to the public for three days to punish him, don't think that he can die.

Just like Li Chen said before, if I give you a little, it won't be enough to feed the dogs, and make your life sad, it's me who is sorry for you, but if I am worthy of you, you shouldn't take it, don't blame me for being ruthless. Is it hard to be honest? Can't you behave and do things? Don't even do it. A dead man is a human being, but if he loses his dignity, he is like an animal.

Committed suicide by being violently corpsed, and if he didn't die, he silently suffered the insult? At that time, it was not entirely that Li Chen gave them a chance. As long as they can cite others, their sentences can be reduced. Although you can't be reinstated, you can get out of this status.

If there's anything more sad than seeing these colleagues, dangling in front of them all day long, being used to warn everyone, it's that these people are still staring at you all day long. I hope you will be like them one day.

If you don't kill people, it's just a matter of killing people all at once. But now not only do they put these people back to their original units to be vigilant, but also give them a chance to turn over, which is really like a thorn in the back.

They are all doing this business, doing the same thing, and they are all clear to each other. Now knocking people from the clouds to hell has a chance to climb up, even if it is with spider silk, they will hold on, and this will not let people live. It's not just spider silk, it's a ghost for the dead.

Spider silk, the legend says that one day the Buddha was in the Western Elysium, and saw a great evil man in hell, this person was hungry and full of evil, and he deserved to go to hell to suffer. But this person, the only good thing he did in his life was to spare the life of a spider.

When he wanted to trample the spider to death, he thought of it and let it go. So, the Buddha fished a small spider from the Western Pure Land, put it on his fingertips, and let the spider spin silk and hang down from the Western Elysium to hell.

The wicked man, overjoyed, clung to this spider silk and climbed up desperately. However, there are too many such wicked people in hell, and many people are holding on to it, and they are desperately climbing up along the spider silk, and the wicked people at the front are desperately stepping on them, but it is useless.

As a result, how many people can a spider silk withstand? No matter how thick you are, you can't stand it, and hell is innumerable for wicked people to climb. In the end, of course, it was broken.

Those officials are here, and they think elegantly, they are born from the same root, and they are too good to fry each other. Or use spider silk as a metaphor, you have fallen, why bother to pull people into the water. To be more vivid, it should be for the dead ghost.

Alternate catches of folklore. Those who have died will gather at the place where they are dying, and wait for the next ghost to come, and when he catches the alternate, the previous one can go to reincarnation. Seriously, this is probably more vivid than the metaphor of spider silk. Aren't these people just waiting to be caught?

That's it, let these officials have trouble sleeping and eating all the years, I am afraid that I am a little tired, and I will be reported by my former colleagues, this New Year, the officials of the Manjing Division, except for those who have humble official positions, do not involve too many officials, in order to have a good year, and the others are either busy cleaning up their hands and tails, or they are holding their tails to be people and officials, and they dare not be too public.

But now, they are not publicized, Li Chen didn't plan to pass it like this, just after the New Year, he recruited the prime minister to continue to discuss the matter of government reform, "How does the saint want to reform?" , Zhou Qi thought for a while, and was the first to ask.

"The improvement of the supervision system has made many shortcomings of Datang appear. There are often county lieutenants, or county magistrates, who extort rich families at every turn, fabricate charges, and send them to prison, and they need to pay money and land to get out.

"Holy Saint, now that the place is under strict surveillance, I believe that with such surveillance, such bad habits will no longer appear." Cui Xuan said that in his opinion, this situation is fundamentally unavoidable, and it cannot be avoided by all dynasties, but under such a perfect supervision system of the Tang Dynasty, this situation should be mitigated to the greatest extent.

"I thought I could. But there are so many cases, it is shocking, like this county order, for the sake of performance evaluation, there is a local life lawsuit, he helps to conceal it, and deliberately throws the deceased to a neighboring county."

"And this, the new county lieutenant took the opportunity to declare a personal vendetta, arrested the enemy and sent him to prison, suffocated him to death, and reported a violent illness to death, who dares him to be so bold."

Li Chen casually gave two examples, very ordinary, very ordinary, first of all, a county order, for the sake of performance evaluation, a nameless corpse was found in the place, and he asked people to move him to a neighboring county, so that even if there is a lawsuit, it is not with him.

The other is a Xinke county lieutenant, who made him an enemy, fabricated charges, and sent him to prison. After Li Chen ascended the throne, the officials of the Tang Dynasty had regulations that they must go to other places. This county lieutenant is indeed not a local, but who would have thought that his enemy, when he heard that he was admitted, did not know this regulation, and was afraid that he would be retaliated against, so he moved in a hurry.

He was discovered by the county lieutenant, so he fabricated the accusation, excused him as a gangster, arrested him and imprisoned, tortured him for a while, and finally enlarged a stone in his chest, so that he could not breathe, and finally died of a violent illness.

"I also know that for the local county order, the settlement of litigation is also an important evaluation, but this is not an excuse for them to take the case."

"I thought that my Datang should reform the county order examination system and the judicial system together." After saying that he had achieved his goal, Li Chen elaborated on his thoughts, not so much as a discussion, but rather a statement, and the prime ministers listened.

The first is the reform of the examination system for officials in the Tang Dynasty, "The most important work of the county order will be to develop the locality." , Li Chen said this, a few prime ministers were thoughtful, Li Chen didn't say it, several more experienced prime ministers are probably mentally documented.

Li Chen has been piloting in Longxi many years ago. The newly dispatched county magistrates, assassination history, and the biggest work are all to govern the locality, and anyone with a discerning eye can see what Li Chen is trying to do.

Moreover, Li Chen has continued to make big and small moves over the years, and has constantly taken back various rights to the imperial court, such as the previous fiscal and tax reforms, and the right to collect taxes has been withdrawn from the local government and from the hands of individual local envoys. After leveling the Youzhou Rebellion and completely recovering the three towns of Hebei, this system was completely implemented.

Large and small fiscal taxes, whether it is field tax or household tax. or commercial tax, salt tax, and tea tax, all of which are collected by the household department. Localities are not allowed to meddle.

After that, it was military power, and more than half of the feudal towns in various places were abolished, and a large number of power was concentrated in the hands of the imperial court. Then there is the responsibility of supervision and police, theft and inspector before, and they are all taken back to the imperial court, and any position is only responsible to the imperial court, and the local government is not allowed to interfere. Therefore, it is not surprising that Li Chen has taken action on the authority of the Datang County Order again.

"I wonder where the saint plans to start?" Ling Fox asked, "It's very simple, the four virtues and seventy-two are the most, it's too general, and each county order, the assassin history, and the governor must put forward their own goals. Although the doctrine of Shen is not harmful, it is not without merit.

Datang examination standards, is the four goodness twenty-seven most, this examination method, compared with the previous generation, has made great progress, perfect organization, legalization, and standardization.

The organization is perfect, and the person in charge of the examination is Shangshu Province Degong Langzhong, and there are 50 subordinate members under him to assist him in handling it. The examiner is the chief examiner of the Beijing official, and the examiner is the examiner of the foreign official. The criteria for evaluating merit are the four major good deeds, which are moral and righteous, prudent and clear, fair and diligent, and the assessment is the moral level of officials, morality, prudence, fairness, and diligence.

Twenty-seven most, according to different positions, there are 27 requirements, the main assessment is morality, diligence, ability, performance. Then in the end, there are only four standards for the officials, called the fourth-class method, depending on whether you are diligent and fair.

In addition, I just said that the organization is perfect, because there is more than one person in the assessment. The examiner is the chief examiner, but there is also an invigilator. The middle and outer members of the examination are only responsible for the fourth rank and below, and the third class and above are assessed by the emperor.

Below the fourth level, Zhongshu Province and Menxia Province will send school examiners and invigilators to supervise the assessment of Beijing officials and foreign officials respectively. Finally, Datang officials take a small test every year and a big test every four years. The small test is ranked, and the big test is comprehensively ranked in the small test in the past few years, as the final grade.

The Tang Dynasty took such an exam, which seemed to be very perfect, but Li Chen was still not satisfied. First of all, the assessment of officials is too sloppy. Of course, because of the large number of officials, the assessment is inconvenient, so it can only be approximate.

But Li Chen had already included the officials in the ranks of the Tang officials. The recruitment of officials is no longer sloppy, and the promotion channel is relatively smooth, since this is the case, it should not be so hasty.

Secondly, the four virtues and twenty-seven are the most, in fact, on the one hand, they are somewhat unfair, and on the other hand, the standards are difficult to judge. The injustice is, you say that he is not diligent, but many things are handled quickly and well, and he doesn't need to think about it at all. And then that one is very hardworking, but he doesn't know how to do things, he is inefficient, and he works all day long, how can this be counted?

In addition, although invigilators and school exams will be dispatched, there are quite a lot of counties in Datang Prefecture, in fact, it is difficult for them to seriously check all the matters. A lot of the time, it's just going through the motions. Therefore, Li Chen felt that it was necessary to change and move.

"The doctrine of Shen is not harmful, although it is terrible, I have always disagreed, but it is not without merit. It will be a new assessment item for Datang officials, and everyone will need to list their goals for the coming year and assess their achievement every year."

"If this goal is set too low, even if it is achieved, the evaluation will not be high, and if it is set too high, it will be in vain if the goal is not achieved."

Li Chen believes that the "law" should be a code of conduct for people to abide by. I don't think so, I don't think so, I don't think so. However, over the years, he studied diligently and found that his understanding of Legalism was a little biased.

In fact, Shen does not harm the importance of "art", and the exquisite means of the emperor are not without merit, at least this "criminal name is the same", it is very advanced.

Originally, the foundation of his reform of the Datang assessment system was that Zhang Juzheng had to pass the test. Zhang Juzheng prepared all the official documents exchanged by the imperial court and established three books for the purpose of examination. One is registered, and two are distributed to different units for assessment.

The annual assessment depends on what you want you to do this year and whether you have done it, as the basis for the assessment. For this reason, the operation efficiency of Daming has been unprecedentedly high, and many redundant officials have been eliminated. All the officials were forced to wind up.

However, this can only be used for reference, because Li Chen not only asks officials to do things, but also requires them to have initiative. Like modern officials, they will work hard to develop the economy for the sake of their own political achievements, rather than simply doing things well. In this way, it is actually more appropriate for Shen Bu to be "involved in the same criminal name".

"In the future, the prefectural order will be dedicated to the development of the locality, and the judgment will be the appointment of a new office." , obviously said that it was judicial reform, but it dragged on until the end, and Li Chen said his purpose. It is necessary to completely separate the judicial power.