Qiming 1158

Chapter 808 Su Yonglin's Responsibility

A Fuxing member named Xu Li served as the magistrate of Huang County in Daming Prefecture.

Because this is the hardest-hit area where rivers are raging and military disasters are linked, Su Yonglin ordered the organization department of the Renaissance Society to appoint a capable and responsible Renaissance member Xu Li to serve as the county magistrate.

In November of the first year of Hongwu, the order was issued, and in December of the first year of Hongwu, Xu Li took office.

Soon, Xu Li organized the people of Neihuang to establish seven township-level peasant associations and 46 village-level peasant associations, settled all the population in Neihuang County, established a complete grassroots organization, and completed land distribution, ideological A series of things such as culture and education.

And he also personally led the people of Neihuang to build seven canals, seventeen rural roads, and two county roads.

Therefore, the evaluation was the best in the year-end assessment of Hongwu's second year, and it was proposed to be promoted to the governor of Daming.

However, in the first month of the third year of Hongwu, all the local judicial bureau personnel were finally in place and began to review the local old account books. Two secret books.

These two books of accounts reveal the crimes committed by Xu Li in addition to his outstanding political achievements during the more than one year he has been serving as the magistrate of Neihuang County.

The head of the Judicial Bureau was shocked and immediately arrested him that night. He was interrogated by surprise, causing the unsuspecting Xu Li to collapse quickly and honestly confessed the crime.

In the end, 23 county officials, including Xu Li, and several members of the local revival branch were arrested together, and a den case was settled.

This was also the first case where Renaissance members participated, which shook the center of the Renaissance Association in Zhongdu.

After Su Yonglin learned of this, he was deeply indignant and ordered Xu Li to be escorted back to the Central Capital to interrogate him in person, and learned from him the whole process of his fall.

It's not strange at all, it's not out of line at all, it's just a very old-fashioned handling of too much money, unable to contain the greed that is gradually brewing in my heart, and gradually fall in love with exquisite food and wine, as well as gorgeous clothes.

The greed in his heart overcame reason, and finally, starting from himself, the Neihuang county government gradually collapsed. In the end, only a few people insisted on their beliefs and uncompromising, and were pushed to the edge of the county government and were not taken seriously.

They tried to reflect the situation of the county government many times, but they were strictly monitored by Xu Li. If it weren't for the successful deployment of the judicial bureau, they did not know how much damage Xu Li would have caused to Neihuang County.

And in this process, the revival branch in Neihuang County didn't play its due role either. The branch director didn't know anything about the matter. One of the two deputy directors was Xu Li's accomplice and secretly assisted. Xu Li embezzled from project funds and project materials.

Su Yonglin was deeply frustrated by the unsurprising process of committing the crime.

It's the mediocre fall that makes people feel the most sad.

If there is any external force to promote the temptation of beauty, he can comfort himself, but this kind of degeneration without external intervention is the most frustrating.

The confrontation between idealism and realism is not always smooth sailing, because the carriers of both sides are people.

When Su Yonglin tried similar cases, he also noticed that some of the old officials explained their mental process of committing the crime. Except for Xu Li's struggle and hesitation, they were mostly the same.

Most of them did not want to be corrupt officials from the very beginning, but just entered that environment and drifted with the flow.

The courage to swim against the current is not for everyone.

Although he was mentally prepared for this, Su Yonglin was still quite distressed when the incident really happened in front of him.

Because of this incident, Kong Maojie made a request for punishment, and criticized himself at an internal meeting of the Revival Association, asking for his demotion.

Su Yonglin comforted Kong Maojie, but did not punish him, and then ordered Xu Li's case to be spread throughout the Da Ming revival organization, so that they could take a look, understand, and wake up.

Then the meeting unanimously passed a resolution to expel Xu Li from membership.

Then, under the tribunal of the Metropolitan Tribunal, Dali Temple and the Ministry of Law, it was decided to sentence Xu Li to death.

Seven members of Fuxing who co-committed the crime with him were also sentenced to death, and the rest were imprisoned, sentenced to terms ranging from seven to 13 years, and could not be released under amnesty.

The families behind a total of 26 criminals will not be able to take the imperial examination within three generations, and the three generations will not be able to contact affairs related to government affairs.

In addition, Su Yonglin also added a punishment regulation for this case.

Xu Li's family is responsible for Xu Li's corrupt behavior.

The loss of public funds caused by Xu Li's behavior will be borne by them. In the future, a considerable part of their entire family's income will be used to repay debts, regardless of the generations.

In short, as long as there are descendants, the public funds and debts must be repaid until they are repaid, or no relatives in the family survive.

Realists always have many realistic reasons to make their behavior seem normal, and in this case, idealists sometimes have to use the stick of realism to confront them.

Su Yonglin thought so.

After Xu Li's case, Su Yonglin believed that in the past few years, he had paid too much attention to the increase in the number and scale of the organization, as well as the control of authority, but not enough attention to some internal issues of the organization.

He did put in place a fair amount of precautions, but they didn't have the effect they should have.

It's not that the preventive measures are ineffective, but that there is a shortage of manpower trained by the revival training school.

Due to the shortage of manpower, the need to fight against the old bureaucratic landlords and gentry, to expand power, etc. is a very urgent need, so Su Yonglin gave priority to the staffing of local administration, while suspending the staffing of justice.

In terms of the allocation of judicial personnel, the central government has the most complete allocation, followed by the administrative offices of the provinces, and then the administrative offices of the state capitals.

In the vast grass-roots areas below the state capital, the corresponding configuration is slightly backward. In many places, there is only an empty shelf, and the administration still dominates everything. The judicial configuration is lagging behind.

As a result, the local administrative power is too large, and the forces of the Renaissance Society branch and the judicial branch, which are restrained, are quite lacking and cannot play a check and balance effect.

This is not a healthy situation.

In other words, this is the biggest hidden danger of Daming at present.

Before Xu Li's case, Su Yonglin even ignored this issue, blindly promoting economic recovery and military strikes, ignoring legal system construction, and even being a little passive in the affairs of the Renaissance Society without much investment.

He remembered the various considerations before he became emperor, and recalled the many considerations at the beginning, and suddenly felt that a large part of the reason why these things happened was because of his own neglect.

In this matter, Su Yonglin felt that he was duty-bound.

So he decided to launch a vigorous action.

(End of this chapter)