"Your Majesty, the second point is that the officials have no passion for doing things, they are already desperate for the future, so they have no passion for doing things. Therefore, they all want to benefit themselves and be able to benefit their future generations when they are old. Jingwen said.

Li Shimin and the officials frowned, obviously they didn't know why the officials still had this idea.

"Your Majesty, after research, most of these corrupt officials are officials around forty years old, and they are probably middle-level officials. Although they are barely regarded as the founding heroes, their merits are obviously not as good as yours. You all have titles that can be passed down from generation to generation. Even you can rely on your status to enter the official career of your descendants through the legal door, and you will not worry that future generations will have no future. But those mid-level officials do not have titles, nor do they have the right to shade their descendants. Once they are old, after retirement, they will at most get some so-called pension, so that their lives will not be affected. However, their descendants will not be able to get any benefits, so they hope to make money when they are in power, and even have a good financial foundation for their descendants after they retire. Jingwen said.

After listening to this statement, everyone also recognized it a little. Those officials actually think this way, and that's because their future is not good. In officialdom, in fact, not only the descendants eat youth, but also the ancient officialdom eats youth. When you are older, it is not easy to be promoted. What's more, those officials are the founding heroes, but their merits are not as good as those top founding heroes, which also causes them to be unable to be promoted. For example, Fang Xuanling Du Ruhui, if you look at it normally, they are only in their forties, they are still very young, and they can serve the emperor for many years.

There were those young ministers who were closer to the emperor, how could they be promoted? Even after more than ten or twenty years, the old ministers who were closer to the emperor were older, they would not be able to get promoted, because they were also older. When the time comes, the emperor will be more inclined to use those young people. Therefore, their future has been cut off, and when they cannot obtain higher official positions or even titles, they want to make profits for themselves.

And they are all in their forties, in this ancient era when they could call themselves old husbands in their thirties. I'm afraid that when they are in their forties, their grandchildren will come out. However, their position is not necessarily enough, and they cannot let their descendants enter the official career through their own door, which causes them to consider the living conditions of their own descendants. This is the so-called right not to use, expired and invalid, which is very similar to a phenomenon called fifty-nine in later generations.

"There's really no solution to this." Li Shimin also said, because it is impossible for Li Shimin to give all those high-level privileges to middle and low-level officials, which is obviously unrealistic!

"Okay, let's not talk about the causes of corruption, can any of you talk about how to deal with corruption and how to curb it?" Li Shimin asked.

"Your Majesty, the minister has some opinions, please allow the minister to say a few words." Jingwen said.

"Speak!"

"Your Majesty, the reason why these officials can be corrupt is actually because there is no supervision. Higher-level supervision is too far, peer-level supervision is too soft, and lower-level supervision is too difficult. And in this way, without supervision, corruption naturally arises. If we want to deal with corruption, we must first work supervision. Jingwen said first.

"Oh? How do you work on supervision? Li Shimin continued to ask.

Jingwen immediately said: "The minister thinks that the number of imperial historians in the Imperial History Observatory can be expanded. ”

"The official position of the imperial court, a radish and a pit, where can it be increased casually? The old man is a secretary of the ministry, of course it can't be like this! Du Ruhui said first.

However, Jingwen immediately said: "Lord Du Ruhui, in fact, I don't want to increase the number of officials, but to increase the number of supervisors. At present, Datang has a imperial examination system, and dozens of officials are hired from the imperial examination every year. And these dozens of officials can choose some young ones and some later to grant official positions, and let them serve as a trainee imperial historian at the Imperial History Observatory. Because young people have not experienced too much human affairs, they are very unaccustomed to the ugliness of officialdom, and if they are given the position of apprentice imperial history, they are afraid that they will fight against the ugliness of officialdom. In addition, the power to directly report to the emperor was granted to those who were apprentices to the imperial history, which could have a deterrent effect on those corrupt officials. ”

"Good! It's a good idea to supervise your superiors. The old man, the official of the ministry, didn't even think of this method, but it actually made you think of it. Du Ruhui clapped his hands and said.

In fact, Jingwen has changed his thinking, and the original system was to supervise small officials by big officials. But now Jingwen is doing this, that is, the petty officials supervise the big officials, which can be said to be an improvement. Jingwen learned this from the Ming Dynasty, he read those novels of the Ming Dynasty, and the emperors of the Ming Dynasty liked to be young for the imperial history, because young people have no qualifications and prestige in the officialdom, and they urgently need to establish their prestige, so they naturally sue everywhere like mad dogs. As long as there is some wind and grass, they will play the emperor. This will allow those officials to take it easy and not be corrupt.

"Article 2, in fact, is to adopt the method of openness in government affairs. We might as well ask the major yamen to sort out the internal affairs of the previous month, such as what expenses were spent and where public funds were used, from the end of each month to the beginning of the second month, and then announce them within their own yamen. This is the so-called openness of government affairs, so that people within the yamen can supervise each other. Jingwen said.

Jingwen actually wanted to be open to the people, but the reality did not allow it. In this era, when we have not yet advanced enough to make administrative affairs open to the people, we naturally cannot do so. However, as long as it is disclosed to the people in the same yamen, it is advanced enough to allow the people in the same yamen to supervise each other.

"Open government affairs? This is good! The officials of the same yamen can supervise each other, and it is not easy to cheat. It's a very good idea. Wei Zheng also said.

"Is there anything next?" Li Shimin then asked.

Li Shimin found that Jingwen, a little chef, was not without insights. Isn't Jingwen just saying something refreshing now? So Li Shimin also wanted to hear what Jingwen could say.