Qiming 1158

Chapter 807 Su Yonglin's sense of urgency is getting stronger and stronger

Before and after the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, many of the people executed outside Zhongdu City were the princes and nobles of the Jin Kingdom, and their executions shattered the shackles in people's hearts.

The leaders of the Kelie and Qiyan tribes who were executed under the Zhongdu City some time ago shattered the fear of the powerful northern enemy in people's hearts.

Now that Ren Dejing was executed under the Central Capital City, he established the Ming Dynasty's outstanding achievements to the outside world, and established the impression that the Ming Dynasty was extremely powerful in people's hearts.

Every prisoner offering and beheading will bring about such changes.

The inhabitants of China, which has been divided for hundreds of years and cannot be unified, finally admit in their hearts that a great moment is about to return, and a great era is coming.

But from Su Yonglin's point of view, at this time in history, the glory and prosperity are still accompanied by a cold temperature that has not changed for thousands of years.

The life of the people at the bottom just got a chance to breathe, but it has not been fundamentally improved. It is just that they can fill their stomachs and not die by eating bran and pharynx. That is a prosperous world.

The so-called prosperous times are still like this, let alone the troubled times?
What Su Yonglin wants is a real prosperous world full of warmth, not a "prosperous world" that ordinary people can praise by eating bran and chomping vegetables and sweet potatoes.

It was the prosperous age of emperors and generals, the prosperous age of gentlemen, the prosperous age of literati and writers, and the prosperous age of high-class people.

Instead of facing the loess and back to the sky in the prosperous age of the bulls and horses.

For the arrival of a prosperous world full of warmth, Su Yonglin is determined to carry out his revolutionary actions to the end.

However, when it came to the most fundamental situation, Su Yonglin's sense of urgency became stronger and stronger.

The reason is very simple. Beginning in the second half of Hongwu Year [-], with the efforts of the Audit Department of various departments, the Ministry of Justice, the Metropolitan Court, and the secret agents of the Skynet Army, the anti-corruption action within the Ming Dynasty has been carried out in an orderly manner. As the operation progressed, many corrupt officials surfaced.

Their appearance is not without reason. They did not appear out of thin air or drilled out of the cracks in the stone, but gradually appeared with the implementation of the large construction plan promoted by the central court.

In order to repair the dilapidated and devastated Central Plains, Su Yonglin led the Ming court central government to use the wealth of the superior people to start a big construction plan, transportation, water conservancy, city walls, houses, and various construction plans.

A large amount of funds flowed into the private sector, a large amount of materials entered the construction site, and a large number of farmers in the slack season entered the construction site as laborers, and began a vigorous revival and construction operation.

In this process, the disbursement of a large amount of money and the flow of a large amount of materials are unavoidable, and the central and local officials are mainly responsible for handling them.

In the process, corruption emerged.

Corrupt officials gradually couldn't control their hands, and began to reach out to the project funds and materials. Some directly embezzled the project funds, and some re-sold the project materials.

Correspondingly, the Ministry of Justice, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the Audit Department of various departments, led by the Renaissance Society, also exerted their power at this time, and through rigorous examination and calculation, these corrupt officials were gradually found out.

These people, regardless of their backgrounds, are distributed everywhere, regardless of the locality or the central government. After the audit department found clues, they were severely interrogated by the officials of the Ministry of Justice, opened their mouths, and were convicted of the crime.

As a result, three consecutive officials were dismissed, executed, or taken into custody. Su Yonglin dealt with the officials who committed the crime again and again, and would never forgive them lightly.

Moreover, Su Yonglin strictly enforced the regulations. Three generations of offenders were not allowed to participate in the imperial examinations, they were not allowed to join the army, and government departments were not allowed to hire them to work, so as to increase the punishment.

At the beginning, the corrupt officials who were arrested were basically the huge number of old officials and officials who were temporarily irreplaceable left by the Jin Kingdom.

At the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Su Yonglin could not train so many of his own people, and he could not replace them, so he could only continue to employ them.

So they made use of the fine traditions left by the Jin Kingdom.

It is not unreasonable for them to embezzle in the Jin Kingdom, because the finances of the Jin Kingdom are chaotic and tense, and the petty officials sometimes cannot get the stipends issued by the imperial court, making it difficult to live, and some people embezzle in order to support their families.

But after the habit became natural, corruption became natural, and it continued under the rule of the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, the salaries of Ming officials could not be compared with those of middle and senior officials in the Southern Song Dynasty. The salaries of middle and senior officials in the Southern Song Dynasty were the only part of the scorpion's tail, and the salaries of Ming officials were far less than that.

However, the salaries of officials in the Ming Dynasty were practical, and they were never in arrears.

Under such circumstances, these officials still continued the old rules left by the Jin Kingdom, and plucked the wild goose.

When the large sums of money from the imperial court come down, they will draw from the middle and large sums, and when the small sums come down, they will draw small sums of money. The construction materials arrive at the construction site, take a look, pick some good ones, share a share, sell them, and then make a fortune.

They don't seem to regard the audit department of the imperial court and the gradually expanded local judicial bureau as one thing.

It was true at first.

Although Su Yonglin has set up very strict targeted measures for possible corruption, but due to the lack of manpower, the departmental structure set up by the imperial court at the local level cannot be perfected for a while.

To put it simply, there are a lot of departments set up, and the shelves have been fought, but no one is there.

People need to be cultivated, and the political and legal schools in Zhongdu have no time to cultivate so many talents.

As a result, no one can do many key judicial and government affairs, and the actual power is still in the hands of local bureaucrats. At the local level, administration is more important than everything else.

Of course they can do whatever they want, because no one can restrain them. If they still have their conscience, they will be able to fix the situation.

However, as time went on, more and more officials were trained from the central government to the local area, and took over the power that was previously controlled by the county and state capital. run.

The audit, the investigation, and soon enough, these old officials found that something was not right.

While we were having breakfast here, the officials of the judicial bureau over there kicked open the door and came in to get people.

They were having fun with their wife and concubine over there, and the officials of the judicial bureau over there kicked open the door again and came to get someone.

The iron rope and the wooden shackle were directly put on them and brought to the judicial bureau.

Judicial officials were serious and unsympathetic, and they did not take care of them at all.

Many corrupt officials simply can't stand the heavy punishment, and some torture instruments are explained before they are loaded.

So from the second half of the second year of Hongwu, after the local judicial institutions were gradually improved, more and more cases surfaced, and a large number of local corrupt officials were identified and uprooted.

This is the case in Yanyun, Hebei, Shandong, Hedong, Henan, and even Liaodong.

If it was just the old bureaucrats who committed the crime, then Su Yonglin didn't care and would not have any sense of urgency. He just thought it was a good thing, because he could eliminate the old bureaucrats faster and replace them with his own people to take on the responsibilities.

However, among the corrupt officials investigated by the Audit Department and the Judicial Bureau, the name of the Fuxing member appeared in the file in February of the third year of Hongwu.

(End of this chapter)