However, considering that Lu Zonghan's new investment and lack of achievements have not been made recently, and the sudden appointment of such an important position will inevitably cause dissatisfaction among everyone, Ren Siqi thought about it again and again, so he transferred Song Liben to be the commander of the internal guard, Lu Zonghan was the deputy, and Song Liben's original position as the director of the Department of Pacification was taken over by Chen Sheng. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

For Lu Zonghan, he was able to take on a heavy responsibility when he first came to Chongming, and he was still engaged in an old industry, so he couldn't help but be overjoyed. As for just serving as a deputy position, he also expressed his understanding, after all, he just came to Chongming, as long as he wholeheartedly runs the internal guard, does a good job and makes meritorious achievements, I believe that Ren Siqi will vigorously promote himself, and then he will become a full-time position.

For Song Liben, although it is a flat tone from the Zhenfu Division to the internal guard, although the internal guard is only a start-up, and there is nothing in personnel and materials, Song Liben is still very happy. Because compared to the Zhenfu Division, the internal guard is closer to Ren Siqi. Moreover, the various rules and regulations of the Department of Suppression and Pacification have also been established and perfected, and there is no challenge to be an official there, and only need to do things step by step. The internal guard is different, although it is only nominally responsible for the defense of the Governor's Mansion and responsible for clearing the enemy on Chongming Island, it also has a huge power that has not been explicitly stated, that is, to supervise the officials of the Chongming family and visit the people. This position is almost the same as the power of the Jinyiwei in the imperial court, except that it does not have the power of the Jinyiwei to arrest and torture.

Ren Siqi allocated a courtyard in the Governor's Mansion, allocated dozens of guards and clerks, and allocated a batch of funds, and the Chongming Internal Guard was quietly established. The manpower and material resources that Ren Siqi can allocate are limited, and the rest needs to be solved by Song Liben and Lu Zonghan themselves. recruited personnel, formulated rules and regulations, and planted meticulous work around the civil and military forces on the island, and the two were busy. Lu Zonghan is an old man in Jinyiwei who is extremely familiar with intelligence work, so he is responsible for intelligence work inside and outside the island, mainly to investigate the people's situation and install detailed work around the officials; Song Li himself was the director of the Department of Pacification, and he was more familiar with the army, so he was in charge of guarding the governor's mansion and investigating the enemy's spies. The two worked together, and although the internal guard had just been established, it quickly showed its success.

According to the information provided by the internal guards, a large number of Chongming officials who took bribes and perverted the law were punished, demoted or fined salaries, and those who were dismissed from public office and imprisoned in serious cases.

Li Yanzhi was very depressed, because several of his relatives who were promoted to Chongming County on errands were all dismissed by Chongming County, and even his personal intercession did not work. He returned to the Governor's Mansion in frustration, and was reprimanded by Ren Siqi again, and threw a stack of papers on him.

Li Yanzhi picked up the paper scattered on the ground, looked at it carefully, and his forehead was suddenly drenched in cold sweat. His words and deeds in these days are recorded on the paper, and all the violations of the law are clearly recorded. Including the fact that he accepted bribes to facilitate businessmen, and who he accepted to say good things about their promotions, all of this was recorded on paper.

"Governor, his subordinates deserve death," Li Yan knelt on the ground with a pout, his head was on the ground and his body trembled uncontrollably, as the director of the General Staff Department, he naturally knew about the establishment of the internal guard, but he didn't expect that the internal guard had just been established, and he found out on his head, could it be that the governor was already so dissatisfied with himself?

"Brother Yanzhi," Ren Siqi sighed, reaching out and pulling Li Yanzhi up. Hearing Ren Siqi still call himself a brother, Li Yanzhi's heart fell suddenly, maybe the matter is not so serious.

"Brother Yanzhi, do you remember how impassioned you were when we first talked in Daishan, and how indignant you were when you talked about the maladministration of the imperial court and the suffering of the people. What's wrong now, not long after I became a high-ranking official, why is it the same as a court official? ”

Ren Siqi said bitterly, and Li Yanzhi's face was flushed with shame.

"The court officials are not high, and it is not enough to live a decent life without being greedy, after all, there are few honest people like Hai Rui. But our Chongming is different? Our Chongming's salary is much higher than that of the court officials, take you as an example, as the director, your monthly salary is eighty taels of silver, in addition to a certain amount of firewood, rice and noodles, so much income is enough to feed the family, so why accept bribes from others? Oh yes, I forgot, you married a four-room concubine, and the family has a large population, which is understandable. Ren Siqi teased.

"My subordinates are wrong, so I'll go back and send them away." Li Yanzhi stood up and said with a flushed face.

"Since you are married, so be it, what will you do after you drive them away so that they can be removed? But don't marry again in the future, Brother Yanzhi, you are almost forty, can you bear it if you have more women, our Chongming career is starting, our great cause has not yet seen our eyebrows, and there are countless things waiting for us to deal with in the future. ”

Ren Siqi said as he took the paper from Li Yanzhi's hand and put it in the brazier, the fire flashed, and the paper burned violently.

"Governor ......" Li Yanzhi's eyes finally shed tears.

Looking at the back of Li Yanzhi leaving, Ren Siqi's face changed, Li Yanzhi has a lot of questions, but after all, talents are rare, and I am afraid that no one can hold the position of director of the General Staff except him, so Ren Siqi can only hold it high and give him a verbal admonition. I hope he can take this as a warning in the future, for the brothers who started with him, none of Ren Siqi wants them to end well.

There are a lot of officials who have been found to be problematic this time, after all, there are too many officials on the island, and there is no distinction between officials in Chongming now, and the officials of the six rooms in the original county have been awarded grades, and the county has a township, and the township is a long-term official, and there are hundreds of officials with grades on the entire Chongming Island, most of whom are filled by officials from Yangzhou, and the quality of these people can be imagined. Because there were too many officials who found out the problem, Ren Siqi could not punish them one by one, so he could only punish them with small punishments and reprimands and punish them. However, according to the Governor's Office, the record of the offense will be included in their file, which will affect their future promotion, and if they commit it again, they will be punished for both crimes!

Under the information provided by the internal guards one after another, Chongming Island launched a rectification campaign to clean up the officialdom, focusing on cleaning up the bad officialdom habits left over from the Ming Dynasty. This rectification movement was enthusiastically supported by the people of the island, and many people took the initiative to go to the Neiwei Yamen to denounce the illegal affairs of the officials, and the Neiwei Yamen would send personnel to cooperate with the Chongming County Government to investigate the case, as long as it was verified, the offender would be dealt with, and the whistleblower would be rewarded.

There are also officials such as Shen Tingyang who persuaded Ren Siqi to stop the purge, after all, there is still a war affair, and he is worried about causing instability in the army's morale, and he is even more worried about making the people on the island panic. Chen Zilong praised Ren Siqi's approach, he thought that those mediocre and greedy officials should be eliminated as soon as possible, and replaced with more capable, so that Chongming can go further, and there will be hope for the great cause of resisting the Qing Dynasty!

Because it was a war matter, the purge initiated by Ren Siqi was limited to Chongming Island, and it was also limited to the rectification of the civilian system, and after a short period of chaos, Chongming's officialdom was one of the positive, a large number of mediocre officials were taken down, replaced by capable and energetic people, and the operation of the Chongming government became more effective.