"Independent Commission Against Corruption?"

Everyone looked at each other, and none of the people present had ever heard of this term, but since there was a general meaning of the word clean government, the people present could also guess some of it.

Shoufu Zhou Tingru frowned and said: "Lord Yue, I have enough yamen in the Ming Dynasty, is it necessary to set up another anti-corruption office?" ”

Although the rest of the people didn't speak, they all stared at Yue Yang, and the meaning of the inquiry inside was self-evident.

"Absolutely!" Yue Yang's words carried a trace of undoubted affirmation: "Back then, my Taizu Emperor Gao once said that anyone who is greedy for ink for more than sixty taels of silver can be killed, but now more than two hundred years have passed, and my Ming officials are greedy for ink, but they are everywhere, and even take it for granted, it is not an exaggeration to say that ten officials and nine are greedy." In recent years, why there have been thieves all over the world, isn't it because my officials in the Ming Dynasty are too incompetent? Ben Hou once remembered that there was an article called Rulin Gaiden published in the "Daming Times", and there was a story called Fan Jinzhongju in it. This Fan Jin's family was so poor that he didn't have rice to put in the pot before the middle lift, so he went to the market to sell an old hen. When he learned the news of his win, he was overjoyed and became a madman, but fortunately, his father-in-law Hu Butcher slapped him and brought him back to his senses. At this time, the local squires and other prominent figures were impressed by him, some gave away houses, some gave property, and they became rich overnight. If this trend is not curbed, how can I talk about the future? ”

Yue Yang said. The faces of the crowd are also constantly changing. The ministers here are all people who have been mixed in officialdom for most of their lives, how can they not know that the atmosphere of greed for ink in the Ming officialdom is now very serious. It can be said that today's Ming greed for ink has become a norm, and the difference between officials is only that they are greedy for more and less for less.

Chen Yan asked with an ugly face, "Lord Yue." What exactly does this ICAC yamen do, can you explain a little bit clearly? ”

Yue Yang smiled slightly: "This is very simple, this Independent Commission of Integrity is independent of all yamen, not subject to the control of anyone except Your Majesty, its duty is to investigate all the incumbent officials and officials of my Ming Dynasty, if there is any illegal behavior, you can report to Your Majesty, and then Dali Temple, the Criminal Department, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate must try the official within a month after receiving their reports." If the official is guilty of corruption, dereliction of duty, dereliction of duty, etc., he shall be immediately tried, and the person who should be removed shall be removed from office and exiled. Kill the head of the head, so that I can be fundamentally reversed in the wind of greed for ink. ”

Although Yue Yang had a smile on his face when he said this, everyone seemed to smell a thick smell of blood wafting in the Warm Fragrance Pavilion.

After finishing speaking, Yue Yang set his eyes on Chongzhen, who was sitting behind the dragon case. In fact, the establishment of the Independent Commission Against Corruption is not difficult to say, but it is neither easy nor easy. The question is whether Chongzhen has the determination to push him. And Yue Yang also made a decision in his heart, if Chongzhen didn't even have the courage, he would still honestly be his soil emperor in Dayuan and Nanyang, and he would not mix in the affairs of Daming anymore.

Chongzhen groaned for a while, and finally asked Yue Yangdao: "Yue Aiqing, according to what you said, can't this kind of thing be handed over to Jinyiwei or Dongchang?" ”

"No way!" Yue Yang explained: "If it is to arrest, spy or investigate whether officials have rebelled against other great rebellions, Jinyiwei and Dongchang are both good hands, but if you want to investigate whether the officials are greedy for ink, you still have to set up a special organization, after all, there is a specialization in the art industry." ”

Chongzhen sat on the dragon chair and muttered for a long time, his eyes constantly flashing. In the end, he slapped the table heavily and said: "Okay, this matter will be according to what Aiqing said, and Aiqing will quickly draw up a charter after going back." I'll be able to do it after I see it! ”

Seeing that Chongzhen agreed to Yue Yang's proposal so quickly, Fan Fucui originally wanted to say something, but was stopped by Xue Guoguan with his eyes. In this way, the establishment of the Independent Commission Against Corruption was decided.

Three days later, this yamen, whose name was copied by Yue Yang from another time and space, was established in a remote place in the inner city of Gyeonggi, and things were done in a very low-key manner. There is no other scene of congratulations when the yamen was established, and many people in the capital don't even know that there is such a yamen in the Ming court.

But when a month later. When the Ming officialdom broke out one big news after another, the prestige of this yamen spread all over the world.

Within a month after the establishment of the Independent Commission Against Corruption, Henan, Shaanxi, and Hubei successively reported bursts of explosive news like an earthquake, from the second-grade senior officials to the nine-grade sesame officials and the unpopular Xu officials, a total of 267 officials and 654 Xu officials were taken away by the sudden Jinyiwei and Dongchang Fanzi, and then the Criminal Department, Dali Temple, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate tried these people under the supervision of Chongzhen's eyes. A total of 433 of these people were beheaded, and the rest were either sentenced to prison or exiled, and this matter quickly spread all over the world after being reported by the "Daming Times", and the name of the Independent Commission Against Corruption appeared in front of the world for the first time.

"Look...... Look...... My Daming country is rotten! ”

In Kunning Palace, Chongzhen and Yue Yang sat opposite each other, and Empress Zhou and Zhu Yujiao sat next to their husbands. Chongzhen sighed to Yue Yang, who was sitting in front of him: "The officials in the three provinces of Shaanxi, Henan, and Hubei, from the governor to the county, are almost all rotten, one million taels of silver and 400,000 quintals of disaster relief food, how can they ...... How dare they swallow it all, and continue to reach out to the imperial court to ask for disaster relief silver, don't they have a little shame after reading the books of sages since they were children? ”

"Your Majesty, don't rule the officials in the hope of self-discipline of officials, people who think like this are either too naïve or too ignorant." Yue Yang's words were still so harsh that Zhu Yujiao, who was sitting next to him, reached out and poked her husband's waist.

Zhu Yujiao's actions that he thought were hidden were seen by Chongzhen on the side, he sighed lightly and smiled bitterly: "Silly girl, you don't need to remind Zhenghong, he is right, it seems that the emperor is not as clear as Zhenghong's son-in-law!" ”

"Father, what nonsense are you talking about!" Hearing the ridiculous words in Chongzhen's words, Zhu Yujiao's immature little face suddenly turned red.

Chongzhen patted his daughter's hand, turned his head to Yue Yang and said: "In the past, Emperor Taizu once set up an ancestral precept, but all officials who were greedy for sixty taels of silver could be killed, and there were tens of millions of corrupt officials killed in the years of Taizu's reign, but he still couldn't be greedy of those people. ”

Yue Yang was also drunk with the title of his cheap old man, a virtuous son-in-law, and a loving son-in-law, but for the sake of Comrade Xiao Zhu marrying his daughter to himself, he patiently explained: "As the saying goes, things are man-made, a bad system can make good people change, and a good system can also make bad people do good things." Although the killing of Emperor Taizu in the past could not completely avoid the greed of officials, you can't help but admit that it was because of Emperor Taizu's severe torture that a large number of corrupt officials were deterred, and during the reign of Taizu, the rule of the Ming Dynasty was also the best, but since the Yongle period, the rule of my Ming Dynasty has become worse and worse, what is the reason for this? ”

"This ......"

Chongzhen felt that he had been asked, maybe he vaguely knew the reason, but he didn't want to say it.

Yue Yang said it for him: "As Shi Caichen said, if a country wants long-term peace and stability, it must rely on a good system, and this is only a premise, a good system must rely on people to implement, otherwise it can only be a castle in the air." The same is true of the rules set by Taizu, otherwise the current Ming Dynasty would not have become like this. ”

Yue Yang's words made Chongzhen feel very embarrassed, now no one knows the situation of Daming better than him, if it is really implemented in accordance with Zhu Yuanzhang's rule of sixty taels of greedy ink that will be executed, I am afraid that all the officials of Daming will be dragged out and beheaded.

Seeing that her husband was choked by her son-in-law and couldn't get off the stage, Queen Zhou hurriedly said in a round speech: "Zhenghong, you also have to understand the emperor's difficulties, now the Ming thief Kou Chuping is the time when people's minds are settled, if the emperor wantonly slaughters officials, I am afraid that it will attract the civil and military criticism of the Manchu Dynasty." ”

"Attracting civil and military criticism from the Manchu Dynasty?"

Yue Yang almost laughed when he heard this, and he said in a tone of hatred that iron is not steel: "Your Majesty, the queen, whether the Ming Dynasty is stable or not depends not on the criticism of the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military affairs, he relies on the gun in his hand, and the silver in his hand, without these two things, even if all the officials of the Ming Dynasty are Hai Rui, it is useless." After all these years, can't Your Majesty still understand this truth? ”

Hearing this, Chongzhen was silent, and for a while, the bits and pieces that had come from his ascension to the throne quickly passed through his mind. Yes, why has he had such a hard time all these years, isn't it because he doesn't have a strong army in his hands and no money in the household? If the household had enough silver, why would he be so embarrassed that he couldn't even pay the silver, and if he had a heroic army that won all battles, he would have raised troops to level the Tartars outside the pass.

And what did he get in exchange for his forbearance with the officials below? In exchange for their more and more unscrupulous, what they have summoned is more and more greedy appetite, although the original officials are greedy for ink, but at least there is a bottom line, the silver allocated by the court can still have such two or three percent into the mouths of the people, but now it is good, the following officials directly eat all of them, not only that, but they also colluded up and down to try to continue to coax the court to ask for money, such officials have become a tumor on the body of the Ming Dynasty, and their existence is harmful to the Ming Dynasty.

Thinking of this, Chongzhen's eyes began to light up, he looked at Yue Yang and took a deep breath: "What you said is right, this time you let it go, I will support you!" (To be continued)

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