The status of the Imperial Secretariat has always been quite special, and the internal ordinary staff are the best young talents selected from the annual national employee examination, and the officials of each department are all the best middle-level officials in the empire.

The head of the Imperial Secretariat and several deputy directors are called 'interior ministers', and their power is to some extent that they can be ministers of the cabinet.

Such an institution has attracted almost the attention of the whole empire, especially those young officials, who are almost all crowded to get into it.

However, it is precisely because of the importance of the palace secretariat that Lin Zhe is even more disgusted and even angry at Li Pingtong's behavior!

Although you Li Pingtong is not a cabinet minister, but your power is not inferior to that of a cabinet minister, but a pivotal role in the imperial political arena, and such a person is secretly contacting the harem and interfering in the affairs of the imperial reserve.

If you have such an open and clear attitude as Jiang Daoquan, there is nothing, as long as you don't make a public excerpt, then Lin Zhe is basically unreasonable.

But you turned out to be secretly contacting the harem, trying to influence the affairs of the reserve through conspiracy, which also caused fluctuations in the cabinet, and then affected the stability of the imperial political arena.

Then this is what Lin Zhe can't bear.

Soon, the detailed investigation report on Li Pingtong was sent to Lin Zhe by the palace intelligence department, and to Lin Zhe's surprise, Li Pingtong had no contact with the Empress Dowager Lin on the surface, but he had close contact with the Fang family.

Moreover, the palace intelligence department also learned some rumors, saying that Li Pingtong's second son would marry the granddaughter of the Fang family's house, although it was not officially announced. But it is rumored to have entered the contact stage, if nothing else. It is estimated that the marriage will be officially married within a year.

It seems that this Li Pingtong has a very close relationship with the Fang family, a relative of the Queen Mother.

See here. Lin Zhe didn't plan to keep Li Pingtong anymore.

And when Lin Zhe decides on something, then he won't drag his feet.

Soon the news was revealed to several courtiers, and there was no need for him to say it explicitly, and soon someone was impeached by Li Pingtong, and the crime was naturally not colluding with relatives or participating in the affairs of the Legislative Reserve, but economic problems that officials were very likely to commit.

No matter what era the officials are, nine out of ten officials will have all kinds of problems, and they can't all be perfect, when Lin Zhe was looking for his problems. Even if Li Pingtong is a clean official, he will definitely find out many problems.

At the beginning, there were only a few excerpts for the impeachment of Li Pingtong, and Lin Zhe kept these excerpts of impeachment according to the usual practice.

This kind of stay usually has two meanings, one is that the emperor does not plan to deal with it, so he suppresses it, and the other is that the emperor feels that it is not enough, and you continue to impeach.

These two meanings are completely different, and how the courtiers tell the difference depends on their ability.

And this time, many of the courtiers seemed to smell blood. Especially those middle- and low-level officials who boasted of being clear and wanted to gain the rank of advancement by impeaching the minister, they increased their impeachment, and the impeachment fold flew into the Xinhua Hall like snowflakes.

What's even more surprising is that. Several senior inspectors in the Inspectorate even jointly filed a case for investigation of Li Pingtong's various problems.

The Inspectorate is an independent body and is not accountable to the Cabinet. With the exception of a few high-ranking officials, such as the Cabinet ministers and some very sensitive high-ranking officials such as the Secretariat. Other officials are basically ignored by them, and they basically investigate if they want to open a case for investigation.

Even if the Inspectorate wants to open a case to investigate the cabinet ministers and officials of Li Pingtong's level. also has authority, but this kind of thing has too much political influence, and they generally carefully consider the risks and gains and losses, and they will not start easily without absolute certainty.

But with the Emperor's permission, it would be different.

On the one hand, the palace intelligence department secretly transmitted some information about Li Pingtong to them, and they already had clear evidence of Li Pingtong's corruption and bribery.

In addition to this, when they tried to open an investigation against Jiang Daoquan in November last year, they had great confidence, and many inspectors were counting on defeating a cabinet boss to determine the authority of the Inspectorate and their own political capital.

But in the end, it failed, which made the inspectorate lose a lot of face, many senior inspectors are thinking of recovering a city, and now Li Pingtong's case is sent to the door, they will naturally not let it go, the inspectors decided to file a case, even if the president of the inspectorate came, it was useless.

The system of the Inspectorate is different from that of the Cabinet, which is not based on subordinate departments, departments, and other institutions, but on individual inspectors.

The Inspectorate implements a very unique system of responsibility for inspectors!

The Inspectorate is composed of offices led by senior senior inspectors, and many institutions within the Inspectorate are mostly logistics service agencies, but they do not have the power to meddle in the cases in the hands of the inspectors, nor are they responsible for investigating cases and initiating public prosecutions.

The core of the Inspectorate is these inspectors, they can investigate any case they want, and the president of the Inspectorate has no right to intervene.

Those senior senior inspectors, that is the role of many senior officials in the cabinet who see it, they may be far less powerful than these important ministers, but if people are more than you to investigate you, even if they can't find any problems, but if you are summoned twice in three days, you can't stand it!

However, the Inspectorate usually does not interfere in such matters as politics, because once it is successful, it is easy to say, fame or something will come, but if it is not successful, it is easy to cause a commotion.

But even if they fail, there is no need to worry about losing their official positions and leaving their posts, even if they want to check the prime minister, and they fail in the end, the prime minister does not have the ability to dismiss them.

The personnel relations of ordinary officials in the Inspectorate are the responsibility of the personnel department of the Cabinet of the Inspectorate, but the appointment and dismissal of the Inspectorate. Its authority rests with the 'Ombudsman Committee' within the Inspectorate, and you are to remove an Inspector from office. You'll have to get a vote from the Inspectorate.

Unless this man provokes public anger, it is difficult to think that he will be removed by the pressure of the cabinet. Because the inspectors in the inspectorate are doing things that offend people, not to mention most of them, but those senior inspectors have their hands stained with the blood of officials.

Most of the reasons why they were able to rise to the top and accumulate their fame today were through the investigation and prosecution of those officials, and the number of officials they sent to prison is too many to count.

It is their job to offend officials, which leads to the fact that these inspectors themselves are very grouped, and rarely dismiss their colleagues because of the pressure of officials. Because in this case, he will be the one who will fall tomorrow.

A number of senior inspectors of the Inspectorate jointly filed a case against Li Pingtong and prosecuted, on the one hand, they got information from the palace intelligence department, and they also guessed some hints from Lin Zhe, so they did this.

As for the risks, of course, there are risks, but they don't care, the big deal is that they are just busy in vain, and they did it once in November. At that time, Jiang Daoquan's case was inconclusive, but in the end, even if Jiang Daoquan hated the inspectors of the Inspectorate, the inspectors who investigated Jiang Daoquan were still alive and well.

So they are fearless!

When the inspector led someone to ask him to cooperate with the interrogation, Li Pingtong was not worried about anything at first. It is not the first time that an Ombudsman has investigated a senior official, but there are very few high-ranking officials who have actually fallen because of the Ombudsman's investigation.

However, when he was still a repeat of the Jiang Daoquan incident, the inspectors presented evidence that he thought no one could find out.

Li Pingtong, who was able to become the head of the Secretariat, looked at the documentary evidence. His face was filled with despair.

He absolutely did not believe that the Inspector would be able to investigate these secret matters on his own, not even by the Joint Investigation Bureau or the Anti-Corruption Bureau. Because these things are very secretive, and the level of people involved is very high.

Looking at the country, it has the ability to dig out these handles of its own. Except for the Imperial Intelligence Service, there was no one else.

And once the palace intelligence department intervenes, it means that this matter is directly from the will of the Son of Heaven.

He was a smart man, and just looking at the hard evidence, he guessed at once why he was sitting here today.

He was silent and didn't speak for a long time!

On the same day, a number of senior inspectors in charge of the case announced that they had mastered the clear evidence and had issued an arrest warrant to the Supreme Court, and then they would formally prosecute Li Pingtong.

When Lin Ermao secretly came to the safe house of the Inspectorate and saw Li Pingtong, Li Pingtong still lost the demeanor of a high-ranking official in the past, and the whole person was like a down-and-out old man, his expression was full of despair.

After seeing Lin Ermao, his whole expression changed, but he didn't show any anger, saying that Lin Ermao framed him or something, although he knew very well in his heart that the evidence obtained by the Inspectorate was sent by the palace intelligence department.

"Director Lin save me!" Li Pingtong did not get angry, but begged for mercy!

Lin Ermao did not answer his words directly, but said: "I came today just to advise you, don't say some things that shouldn't be said!" ”

Li Pingtong was stunned at first, but he came to his senses after a while, and then the whole person collapsed on the ground: "You all know? ”

Lin Ermao nodded: "No matter how secretive it is, it will always show its feet!" ”

"I knew that sooner or later this matter would be revealed, but I didn't expect it to be so soon!" Li Pingtong sighed.

Lin Ermao took two steps closer: "But we still don't know, why are you involved in this matter?" It's not like you don't know what to prioritize! ”

Li Pingtong smiled bitterly at this time: "I'm also here to save my unsuccessful son!" ”

Then Li Pingtong said briefly, the reason why he intervened in the affairs of Lichu was not for himself, it was basically difficult to make any progress in his position, but like all military and political dignitaries, he also had children and grandchildren behind him, and they were also descendants of his father.

His eldest son also entered the official career and is now serving in Guangdong, but he is the prefect of Huizhou Prefecture, and in the early years, his eldest son did not hold back his greed and took advantage of his power to make a lot of money in the construction of Hong Kong's national defense projects.

But it was soon discovered, and the person who found it was the Fang family, and they used this to threaten Li Pingtong to cooperate with their Lichu action.

Li Pingtong had no choice at all.

Although Li Pingtong has three sons, there is only one eldest son who really enters the official career, and this eldest son is the guarantee of the wealth of the Li family in the future for decades.

And more importantly, this Li Pingtong's eldest son is not an ordinary project, but also a naval defense project of the military, if the military knows, his son will be finished, and if he Li Pingtong can retire smoothly at that time, he will have to burn high incense, maybe he will be forced to go to prison by the military.

When the time comes, let alone him Li Pingtong, even if the bigwigs of the whole cabinet act together, they will not be able to keep their official hats.

Although the military is low-key on weekdays, once it gets angry, not to mention Li Pingtong himself, and even the entire cabinet together can't stop it, if the cabinet dares to protect Li Pingtong, Navy Minister Lin Dabiao dares to directly bombard Xue Huan's official residence with naval guns!

Hearing this, Lin Ermao couldn't help but sigh, fortunately, no one in his family has entered the political world!

Then I have to admire Li Pingtong's son, this is really bold enough, and he dares to reap the benefits of the military, whose money is greedy, don't be greedy for the military's money, don't look for death! This is a typical behavior that kills oneself and kills Lao Tzu.

After Lin Zhe learned about this, he couldn't help but think of two words: Pit Dad! (To be continued.) )