The recent rectification of the inspectorate has been carried out on a very large scale, starting from the self-inspection of the Inspectorate, then to Zhenjiang, then to Shanghai, Suzhou, Nanjing, Hangzhou and other important cities, and then to the entire Zhejiang Province, southern Jiangsu, southern Anhui, and the northern part of Fujian, which have been controlled by the Chinese Empire for a long time.

On the contrary, the rectification of officials in the Inspectorate is aimed at all lower-level officials and civil servants at the most basic level, such as the director below the head of the government, the section chief below the county, and the ordinary staff members of various departments.

It is also very important to carry out a large-scale cleanup of law enforcement agencies, that is, patrol police agencies in various places.

In this operation, a large number of grassroots officials in the Yamen in the former Qing Dynasty, civil servants from the Yamen, and almost the entire Yamen in many counties were cleaned up.

There were even a lot of riots caused by this, but with the support of the military, they were all suppressed and cleaned up one by one, and the Royal Army and the Auxiliary Defense Force stationed in various places did not mean to cooperate with or support the government's official work, but because they did not care what these people were causing the riots, and as long as there were riots, they would be ruthlessly suppressed.

In the process of suppression, the Royal Army handled things better, but the troops of the Auxiliary Defense Army were often more cruel when suppressing, these soldiers of the Auxiliary Defense Army were prisoners of the Taiping Army or prisoners of the Qing Army, these prisoners were used to burning and looting all the way in the past, and after being forced to shave their heads to join the Chinese Army, they were extremely strict by military law on weekdays. Now once they are released to fight, they are still facing unarmed rebels. A lot of them are more cruel than ever!

Shen Jingshan of the Inspectorate in order to keep his position and win glory and wealth. In the future, there is hope that he will be knighted like Bi Yutong, and this time he is determined to show his strength, trying to show his ability and value in front of Lin Zhe.

At present, if the Inspectorate wants to make political achievements, it is difficult to make a breakthrough in ordinary supervision affairs such as public prosecution, because these are all ordinary cases, and they are only about ordinary people. But the Inspectorate also has the authority to supervise hundreds of officials!

The officials at the top of the empire don't care how the Inspectorate handles civil cases, but if the Inspectorate sets off a storm of rectification of the rule of officials on a large scale. That is enough to make local and even cabinet central officials feel a headache.

The reason why Shen Jingshan is only half a pole lower than Prime Minister Bi Yutong in the civil service system of the empire, but much more powerful than other cabinet ministers and others, is because of the power of supervising hundreds of officials.

Specifically, it should be that the Inspectorate under the Inspectorate has the four powers to file a case, investigate, approve arrest, and initiate prosecution against officials who have committed corruption and dereliction of duty.

It is worth noting that the Inspectorate does not have the law enforcement power of the patrol police department, he can file a case, investigate, and approve arrests, but in the actual law enforcement process, the patrol police are needed to carry out specific law enforcement work such as investigation and evidence collection, arrest, etc., and the Inspectorate does not have the power to participate in judicial trials in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

The 'Metropolitan Inspectorate' of the Ming and Qing dynasties and the 'Inspectorate' of the Chinese Empire are relatively similar in pronunciation. On the surface, it seems that the functions are somewhat similar, but in fact they are two different things.

Let's not talk about the details first, just talk about the Imperial Inspectorate itself, which is in the judicial system of the Empire. The situation is the 'procuratorial power' of later generations, and of course, in this era, it may be changed to 'supervision power'.

In simple terms. The current Chinese Empire implements a very standard judicial system for later generations, that is, the separation of law enforcement, procuratorial power, and judicial power.

Among them, the patrol police department has the power to enforce the law and the large court has the jurisdiction to adjudicate. Although it is also important, it is far less important than the Inspectorate, which has the authority to inspect hundreds of officials.

The peculiarity of the Inspectorate allowed it to remain unaffected by anyone other than Lin Zhe, the emperor of the empire. Not the military, not the Grand Court, not the Cabinet!

Therefore, once Shen Jingshan awakens and launches a large-scale rectification of officials, it can be said that the cabinet has no practical means to obstruct this, and they can only influence the Inspectorate in indirect ways.

Soon, Hou Bingqu, minister of the Organization Department, pointed out at the cabinet meeting that there is an extreme shortage of grassroots officials in various localities, and the current reserve talents available to the Organization Department are far from being able to fill the holes.

But after Hou Bingqu started this, although he said that the Ministry of Education would hold the second imperial examination, in fact, everyone could hear that his spearhead was directly aimed at the Inspectorate.

If it weren't for the bloody storm set off by the Inspectorate during this time, how could there be a serious shortage of officials in southern Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

You must know that although these two regions had the first battle of Hangzhou, but other places are basically the type of peaceful evolution, and have always maintained a stable situation, the officialdom has not changed much compared with the former Qing Dynasty, and the people's livelihood is also relatively stable, at least the people in the northern Zhejiang region have not seen the Taiping Army, Shanghai in the southern Jiangsu region in 1853 because of the knife will be chaotic, in 1854 Wu Ruxiao entered Suzhou again again, but after 1854, since the east of Changzhou is no more war, The people were able to live and work in peace and contentment, and after three or four years of recuperation and recuperation, before the Chinese army raised the flag and rebelled, the people's livelihood and industrial and commercial economy in southern Jiangsu had basically recovered to before the eastward advance of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

Among them, the business area and Shanghai County area are developing rapidly!

And a stable and rich southern Jiangsu and northern Zhejiang region is the foundation that supports the Chinese army's four expeditions!

As for the other newly occupied and ruled regions, it is unceremoniously very limited to the current Chinese Empire.

At the same time, there was such a major political turmoil in southern Jiangsu and northern Zhejiang, which had always been rich and stable, and even a small number of dismissed patrol police and other civil servants resisted violently to varying degrees, which ushered in the harsh suppression of the military, so that many places that had not been harmed by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in previous years were killed by the Chinese army's suppression forces.

In some places, the Chinese military has zero tolerance for all forms of violence. At the same time, in order to deter those who come after them, the former patrol police officers or other civil servants who participated in the riots, or the former officials who were dismissed, are basically killed for the crime of 'rebellion'.

Although the Ministry of Justice enacted a new law. The system of joint sitting has been clearly abolished, and no one person will commit a crime and kill the nine clans. But in this incident, the generals in the military were all very tough-minded, and even forced the Ministry of Justice to restore the old calendar of plotting against the nine clans.

Although the Ministry of Justice, with the support of Bi Yu and other civilian officials, withstood the pressure of the military, it had to temporarily revise the crime of treason, in addition to imposing the death penalty for the crime of treason, it also added a clause on confiscation of all property. Basically, it will be confiscated, and it is basically a modern version of the copyist.

Later, under strong pressure from the military, a 'treason' was added to this incident to try the criminals who participated in the incident, but were not yet punished for treason.

The Inspectorate led to a rectification of the officials, and the military, regardless of the cause of the incident, only suppressed any unrest that arose, and demanded severe punishment for those involved in the unrest.

Together, these things put a lot of pressure on the cabinet!

And now Hou Bingqu and a few people have talked about it. These ministers, who usually look majestic in the eyes of outsiders, don't care about the prestige of any officials, and the etiquette of the scholars is all foaming at the mouth, and one says that the inspectorate is completely the factory guard of the country. Once the power falls into the hands of traitors, it will be even more harmful than the West Factory!

Some people also said that Shen Jingshan colluded with the military in private to harm local officials. For private gain!

If Shen Jingshan heard this, he probably snorted coldly. Compare my Inspectorate with the West Factory, so where do you place the intelligence of the Palace Affairs Department?

People are the right secret service agencies, right? Moreover, it is directly under the intelligence agency led by the Son of Heaven, although on the surface it is said that this intelligence department only has the power to spy on the public opinion of the military and civilian officials, but this is only the surface.

In fact, although the intelligence department of the palace affairs department is low-key, since its establishment, many ministers and high-ranking officials have only heard of this name, but they rarely hear what this institution is like, its establishment and all affairs are kept secret from the outside world, and even Bi Yutong does not know what the intelligence department does specifically.

It's a mysterious and independent organization, and it's all shady things!

No one dares to call itself the West Factory, how dare I compare it with the West Factory, at most it is just compared with Jinyiwei!

As for colluding with military generals, he Hou Bingqu thought about it, but the problem is that he doesn't have that ability!

The military has always belonged to a group with transcendent status in the empire, and the generals in it take out a young general at will, their seniority is longer than that of these ministers, and the importance of any royal army commander is more important than these ministers in Lin Zhe's eyes.

This can be seen from the fact that the military generals occupy the vast majority of the titles granted by the empire now, and the civilian officials can be seen from the fact that only Bi Yu and the same person have obtained the viscount for the time being.

In terms of status, these ministers and the senior generals of the military are in an asymmetrical state, and the generals of the military on weekdays are also high-headed, and they always treat the ministers in the cabinet as the staff of the Qing Dynasty back then, as if the existence of the cabinet is to do miscellaneous work for the military.

Even Bi Yutong, the head of the civil officials, saw the senior generals of the military, especially the dozens of senior generals who were the first to follow Lin Zhe to fight the world, such as Shi Qingxuan, Xu Yanqing, and Lin Chengfei, they all had to laugh at what they said!

provoked these military bigwigs, for example, some time ago on the issue of winter clothes, Chen Yuntao, the commander of the Third Army, dared to directly send a letter to Lai Changying, Minister of Industry and Commerce of the Cabinet, the tone was not a little respectful, and he looked up and called 'Brother Changying', even Bi Yutong would not directly call him by name on weekdays to show respect, but Chen Yuntao dared to call his name directly, and brought a brother, and the content of the letter almost pointed out that Lai Changying was not doing well, delaying the distribution of winter clothes for more than 20,000 soldiers of his Third Army.

This Chen Yuntao is still just a junior in the military, and within the military, I saw Shi Qingxuan, Xu Yanqing, Shen Chiyun and other seniors all respectfully carrying out the junior salute.

If Shi Qingxuan is replaced, even if he directly scolds Prime Minister Bi Yutong, this Bi Yutong can only be broken and swallowed in his stomach.

But then again, although the group of people in the military all raised their tails to the sky and couldn't look down on these civilian officials in the cabinet, Lin Zhe set up a separate headquarters, and the military power and political power were completely separated.

The two sides can be said to be flooding without violating the river, and the military generals ignore the civilian officials, and the civilian officials will not be bored and get behind the cold ass of the military generals.

Therefore, even if Shen Jingshan wants to collude with the military generals, the military generals will not dump him!

These cabinet officials counted one by one, and when they were excited, some even untied the neckline under their necks, and then slapped the table with a red and piercing face, saying that the current situation must be changed, and the inspectorate must not continue to mess around, and the military must be seriously warned not to interfere in the government affairs on the side of the government, otherwise he will go to the Son of Heaven to join him in a major crime of collusion between the military and the government and plotting against him!

Looking at these people, Bi Yutong nodded secretly!

Two days after the cabinet meeting, various excerpts of the impeachment inspectorate and even the military flew into Pingrentang like snowflakes! (To be continued......)