Chapter 454 Anti-Corruption Operations

The operation of the Soviet system is based on Zhao Dongyun's will as the core, and the current Zhao Dongyun is no longer the Zhao Dongyun of three years ago, two years ago, he was just one of the senior generals in Beiyang, and his status and prestige are far inferior to Wang Yingkai, not even as good as Duan Qirui, not to mention compared with a fierce man like Zhang Zhidong.

But today, three years later, relying on the hundreds of thousands of Fengjun in his hands to sweep the country, his prestige is also rising rapidly, and no one in contemporary China can compete with him in prestige.

The huge prestige, coupled with the fact that the Soviet Fengjun was established by him, his control over the entire Soviet system even exceeded Yuan Shikai's control over Beiyang back then.

You see, the current republican constitution stipulates the cabinet prime minister's system, but President Zhao Dongyun is a real president with real power, and the presidential secretariat is an institution above the cabinet.

Such people made up their minds to fight corruption, and the entire Soviet power apparatus was put into operation.

Led by the Inspection Department, with the cooperation of the Ministry of Police and the Ministry of the Interior of the Cabinet, a temporary 'Central Office of Integrity and Integrity' was set up.

The purpose of this series of announced measures and documents is not to say how many corrupt officials will be arrested directly, but to tell a large number of officials across the country that Zhao Dongyun is about to start working, and those who are smarter should quickly stop and wipe their butts clean.

At the same time, it is also to set off public opinion and gain more popular support.

After all, anti-corruption is a good thing, and if you do a good deed, you can't keep your parents in name and you can't do it yourself.

Therefore, Zhao Dongyun hyped it up, in order to let the people know that I, Zhao Dongyun, love the people and want to crack down on corrupt officials and corrupt officials.

Of course, since it has been hyped up, it is impossible not to show any achievements.

Half a month after the Central Anti-Corruption Office was in the city, it officially announced to the outside world that in the past six months, the Anti-Corruption Office has achieved remarkable results and has cracked more than 10 official corruption cases involving more than 100,000 yuan.

More than five officials at or above the level of directors of various central agencies and more than 30 officials at the level of division chiefs were arrested!

Later, the Ministry of Justice will also officially announce that it will formally prosecute the above-mentioned officials involved in the case, and will also prosecute a number of senior corporate officials who paid bribes to the above-mentioned officials.

In order to cooperate with the investigation of the inspection department and the Ministry of Justice, the Central Court has also issued an announcement that the Central Court will cooperate with the relevant law enforcement and supervision agencies to adjudicate the above-mentioned cases in strict accordance with the relevant laws.

For a time, the Soviet anti-corruption campaign set off a big storm across the country.

Although the officials involved in the cases are relatively high-level, in fact they are limited to the government departments directly under the central government, and the anti-corruption campaign against officials in the provinces and local governments has not yet been officially launched.

However, after the outbreak of this introduction, due to the support of public opinion, coupled with the fact that the situation within the Soviet system is now stable, Zhao Dongyun decided to continue to expand the anti-corruption action, no longer limited to the central government, but to expand to local governments.

Soon, the police department of the Tangshan Administrative Office announced that under the leadership of the inspection department, the department had cracked a super case involving more than one million yuan.

The protagonist of the case is Lin Kuqun, one of the deputy county magistrates of Luanzhou County, who is not only the deputy county magistrate, but also the executive chairman of the 'Urban Construction Committee' of Luanzhou County, and is fully responsible for the renovation of Luanzhou's old urban area, the planning and construction of the new urban area, and although Luanzhou County is only a county, there are many local taxes every year, and most of them are used for urban construction, so Lin Kuqun handles millions of funds.

He asked his relatives to set up a construction team and then contract the project at a high price, and he dared to contract out the project at a price of 200,000 yuan for a project of 100,000 yuan, and there were many frauds in the procurement of materials, including the Fuyuan Ash Company, which inflated the price when it sold a large amount of ash to Luanzhou County, and gave a large number of kickbacks to a group of officials such as Lin Kuqun.

After the case broke out, not only Lin Kuqun was dismissed, but also a large number of officials from Luanzhou County, as well as a large number of officials from the Yongping Mansion and the Tangshan Administrative Office, were implicated.

For this reason, Wu Chongxi, director of the inspection department of the Presidential Office, personally led a team to Tangshan and led the police department to arrest more than 100 officials from the Tangshan Administrative Office and various lower-level governments.

The impact of this case has even exceeded a series of cases investigated by the previous inspection department, so far Zhao Dongyun is quite serious, he personally gave instructions to the general director of the Ministry of Justice, Lin Shaonian, that the case must be handled strictly, and at the same time, he also gave an instruction to the central court, requiring the case to be handled strictly and quickly.

Zhao Dongyun wants to use this case to achieve a role of knocking on the mountain and shaking the tiger, and at the same time, it is also to convey a message to the law enforcement agencies of the subordinate ministries that he Zhao Dongyun is serious about playing anti-corruption this time.

In less than half a month, the central court completed a series of trials on the case, and the first offender, Lin Kuqun, was sentenced to death, in addition to the person's cousin, Lin Kuli, who was responsible for setting up a construction team to take over the project, was also sentenced to death, in addition to more than a dozen people were sentenced to death, and the rest were sentenced to decades or several years in prison.

With the outbreak of the Luanzhou urban construction case, the law enforcement agencies of the Soviet Union have cracked a series of major and important cases in various places.

"Since we launched a formal operation in September, we have solved more than 50 cases involving more than 100,000 yuan, and more than 1,000 officials have been involved!" Wu Chongxi of the inspection department said respectfully.

Zhao Dongyun didn't have much expression when he heard this, but he casually flipped through the two-page report and said: "In the past month, your work has been fruitful, and you will continue to work hard in the future!" ”

Wu Chongxi said cautiously after hearing this: "Then the follow-up strength?" ”

Wu Chongxi is still unclear about what Cheng Dongyun wants to carry out the anti-corruption action, according to him, no matter what era the current Cheng dΓΉ is placed in, it can be regarded as a large-scale, long-term rectification of the rule of officials, but looking at Zhao Dongyun's meaning, it seems that the scale is not large enough.

Wu Chongxi is also a person who has been mixed with officialdom for a long time, in the prefect of the Qing Dynasty, he was successively the prefect of Chenzhou, Kaifeng, Henan, in the prefect of Kaifeng, he tried many serious cases, big cases, accumulated fame and official reputation, and was promoted to Jiangnan'an Grain Road, and then promoted to Jiangning Bu political envoy, and later transferred to Zhili Bu political envoy under the recommendation of Yuan Shikai, and in 1902 had a short period of acting governor of Zhili and minister of Beiyang, this person has a deep relationship with Yuan Shikai, and the Beiyang system is closely related.

Later, the person was promoted to the governor of Jiangxi, in 1906 Beiyang raised troops, Wu Chongxi, who was the governor of Jiangxi at that time, was expelled by the Duanfang who controlled the two rivers at that time because of the deep scenery of Beiyang, and refused to take refuge in Duanfang, he went all the way north to Beijing, and later served as the deputy minister of justice in Wang Yingkai's cabinet. However, he soon resigned voluntarily in 1907 because of conflicts with his colleagues and not being appreciated by Wang Yingkai.

In the second half of 1907, Zhao Dongyun led the Feng army into the customs, defeated the direct army and moved into Beijing, and prepared for the second cabinet, and this person was invited to serve as the vice minister of justice.

However, after the person joined the company, he still had a discord with a key member of the Soviet department, and he almost made trouble to the point of resigning again!

Wu Chongxi and the Beiyang people after Yuan Shikai's death are not very gregarious, it is related to his identity experience, he was even Yuan Shikai had to shout a teacher before, and those Beiyang people who rose rapidly in 1906, those Zhao Dongyun and Duan Qirui and others also said that people have power in their hands and cannot be compared, but what about other Beiyang people, especially those civil officials in the Beiyang system, before 1906, they were only middle-level officials at best, and the world didn't know at all, But after 1906, they all climbed to the position of chief cabinet and deputy minister, ranking above Wu Chongxi, and Wu Chongxi himself was also an arrogant person, otherwise he would not have resigned from Wang Yingkai's cabinet on his own initiative.

In the face of such an unsociable person, Zhao Dongyun did not take the initiative to give up, considering that Wu Chongxi had rich experience in handling cases, so at the beginning of 1908, he transferred Wu Chongxi to the Presidential Office Inspection Department as the director.

As one of the major departments under the Presidential Office, although the status of the Inspectorate is not as good as that of the Secretariat, its real power is not small, and its status is enough to be equal to the Ministry of Police, the Ministry of the Interior, and other cabinet forces.

People with such a rich resume are said to have broadened their horizons, but when they heard Zhao Dongyun say that they were not satisfied with the current scale of anti-corruption, they couldn't help but be amazed.

That's why I asked Zhao Dongyun how big the scale is!

Zhao Dongyun quickly gave him a clear answer: "All ministries and directors below and local governors can be dealt with, and the directors and governors above will report directly to me and then decide!" ”

Wu Chongxi sighed in his heart after hearing this, although he had long known that his boss was a ruthless person, but he didn't expect to be so ruthless, just this sentence, I don't know how many people will lose their heads because of this.

It seems that the president has really decided to set off a nationwide rectification of officials, but will such a large-scale turmoil affect local stability?

After leaving Jurentang, Wu Chongxi shook his head, these things are not something he can worry about, he just needs to do his part well.

The Soviet Department took anti-corruption as an introduction and set off a large-scale rectification of officials, and officials were dismissed every day!