Da Ming Tai Shi

Chapter 267 Establishment of the Anti-Corruption Bureau
Zhang Wen's situation was soon found out. In the prison, Zhang Wen truthfully vomited everything he knew and did not resist.

Against what?

Now that he already knew that he was caught by Zhu Biao, how could he still resist?

Zhang Wen can figure out the pros and cons of confessing to his colleagues or going against Zhu Biao.

The criminal evidence of who took bribes and who embezzled Mexico's military expenses in the Five Army Mansion over the years was quickly sent to Chen Yunfu.

The case was tried by Shao Zhi himself, so Chen Yunfu was not worried about leaking the news and letting others know.

"This list."

Shao Zhi pointed to the confession of many crimes, with a hint of panic on his face.

The clinker, Chen Yunfu, didn't respond at all after reading it once, and just said.

"Zhang Wen's embezzlement of military expenses is an unforgivable crime. Immediately declare the official sentence and behead him for public display. All the stolen money will be recovered. His family property will be confiscated, and his relatives will find a way out."

It is one of the core provisions of the new "Law of the Ming Dynasty" not to prosper in large prisons, which is also approved by Zhu Biao.

In fact, both Zhu Biao and Zhu Yuanzhang opposed Zhulian, but Zhu Yuanzhang changed later.

When Zhu Yuanzhang was only the king of Wu, he personally said to Li Shanchang: "Isn't it too much for the law to sit on three rules in a row?"

Li Shanchang replied: "(Han) Gao Zu was born in Caoye, he was open-minded and magnanimous, he didn't kill people indiscriminately, and he became an emperor's foundation in five years."

Zhu Yuanzhang took it very seriously, so after the founding of the country, he established the "Law of the Ming Dynasty", except for treason, never implicate family members, and the latter was lynched by Zhu Yuanzhang himself.

Zhang Wen died, and the Fifth Army Mansion did not make any noise. Everyone seemed to tacitly regard Zhang Wen as a scapegoat.

Although it is impossible to continue the investigation, including the establishment of the Metropolitan Procuratorate in the Fifth Army Mansion, Zhu Biao still sounded a heavy alarm for the Five Army Mansion.

From the second year of Yongle, the military expenditure of the Ming Dynasty was taken over by the Ministry of War.

The Ministry of War conducts a comprehensive inventory of the number of soldiers in the Beijing camp and the frontier, including the guards of Jin, Yan, and Chu.

Every year, the Ministry of War sends people to the barracks to distribute the salaries and cloths, and the Fifth Army Mansion is no longer taking over.

Those who can be assigned to the leadership of the Five Army Mansions are only the military guards of the provincial capitals.

Everyone knows that this is a seizure of power, but so what.

Xu Huizu wanted to ask Zhu Biao to say something, but the latter directly put Zhang Wen's confession in front of Xu Huizu.

The frightened Xu Huizu couldn't say anything.

"During the Guo Huan case, the father was furious, and even killed six departments in one go; all officials in Zhejiang, Zhili, and Jiangxi provinces, Wei Guogong, wanted to do it for himself."

In front of Xu Huizu, Zhu Biao burned Zhang Wen's confession to ashes.

"Many of you and I are siblings. I don't want to see the day when siblings kill each other. Huizu, go and comfort my brothers."

Xu Huizu, who was drenched in cold sweat, fell to the ground: "My lord, thank my emperor for his kindness."

The Fifth Military Mansion calmed down in an instant.

Faced with this situation, Chen Yunfu had to admire Big Brother's methods.

Most of the time, you don’t have to rely on turning the table to achieve your goals. Yes, it’s really fun and cool to turn the table, but if you turn the table, you can eat when others have nothing to eat.

Follow Brother Crow, hungry for nine meals in three days.

How much military expenses the Fifth Military Mansion has been greedy for over the years, and how much Zhang Wen can know, what he knows is only the tip of the iceberg. .

Generals are not the same as civil servants.

Civilian officials are extinct, and they can be replenished in more than ten years, but training an excellent general requires the baptism of war.

The Ming Dynasty has no battles now, how to cultivate it.

Randomly pick a little soldier who looks pleasing to the eye and say, I think you are good, you can be the generalissimo.

This is not a pure bet on the country's luck.

"In the past, the military expenses were handed over to the Fifth Army Mansion because my father was worried that the officials of the Ministry of War would be greedy for ink. As a result, the Fifth Army Mansion was also greedy for ink. So which government office should I hand it over to avoid corruption?"

Zhu Biao sent out a soul question, but then he gave an accurate answer.

"Hand it over to the yamen that is supervised and has a complete supervision mechanism. Since the Metropolitan Procuratorate cannot be established in the Five Military Mansions, then return it to the Ministry of War. At least the Ministry of War still has the government. The imperial court also has the Metropolitan Procuratorate. You said last time, Let the Metropolitan Procuratorate have the independent investigation power of independent cases, I think it is very good, I can try it, what do you plan to do?"

"Give the Metropolitan Procuratorate independent investigative power, but at the same time put a cage on this power." Chen Yunfu thought about it and said: "I mentioned before that the Metropolitan Procuratorate must not be used as a sword for party struggles, so what the Metropolitan Procuratorate does It should be separated from court politics and not be used by others, so his investigation must have a scope, and it must be clear what to investigate and what not to investigate.

The duty of the Metropolitan Procuratorate is to receive impeachment memorials, and there are many contents of impeachment, which are divided into categories.

Such as officials' lack of personal morality, corruption, bribery, misbehavior, and abuse of power, these are places that can be impeached, but if the Metropolitan Procuratorate has the power to investigate all these aspects, then the Metropolitan Procuratorate has too much power. Whoever controls the Metropolitan Procuratorate is equivalent to holding a knife on the necks of officials across the country, and can cure you if you are not sick.

Therefore, what I think is that the Metropolitan Procuratorate is only responsible for investigating whether officials are corrupt and accepting bribes. At the same time, there must be a premise that all impeachment memorials must have actual signatures, and rumors of impeachment will be cancelled.

Back then, the Supreme Emperor allowed Ke Dao officials to play rumors and promised impeachment and innocence, which caused rumors to spread inside and outside the court, you said I was guilty, I said he was guilty, and you would be stained all over if you were not sick.

As a result, there is a war of words every day in the court.

Since you want to give the Metropolitan Procuratorate independent investigative powers, you can no longer allow rumors to be impeached, and you must abolish the innocence of the officials. If you want to impeach, you must impeach with real names. You must clarify who you are impeaching, when and where they took bribes. The procuratorate can only investigate which money was embezzled and who received the bribe.

Such impeachments as I suspect, I think, and I think, will not be accepted. The Metropolitan Procuratorate only investigates famous cases, so that it will not become a partisan weapon for some interested people, even if the minister is the chief assistant of the cabinet. , and has no right to allow the Metropolitan Procuratorate to investigate whoever it wants to investigate. If it is investigated, there will be a cause, and the cause will be true.

If the memorandum of impeachment cannot be found, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate dares to investigate an official privately, then the responsibility will fall on the Metropolitan Procuratorate. "

This is what Zhu Biao is most satisfied with about Chen Yunfu, sir!

This is true dedication to the public.

Zhu Yuanzhang was wary of Chen Yunfu and was reluctant to kill him. Now that Zhu Biao is the emperor, he would naturally be on guard against ministers, but he still gave Chen Yunfu unprecedented power as a foreign minister because of this.

The public heart can be seen.

"What name do you give this newly established yamen?"

"Since it belongs to the Metropolitan Procuratorate, in terms of establishment, it is natural to be at the same level as the departments under the Six Ministries, and the scope of power is anti-corruption and bribery. It can be called the Anti-Corruption Department or the Anti-Corruption Bureau. The meaning of government affairs."

After three options, Zhu Biao chose the second one after thinking about it for a while.

"Let's call it the Anti-Corruption Bureau. It's clear at a glance. Anti-corruption is the authority. The bureau has restrictions. Anti-corruption is only anti-corruption, and the authority cannot be extended without authorization."

This has nothing to do with Chen Yunfu.

Furthermore, many official systems themselves are inherited from ancient times.

Institutions at the levels of ministries, divisions, bureaus, and departments existed in the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, it is not surprising to be called the Anti-Corruption Bureau.

In short, with Zhu Biao's nod, the Anti-Corruption Bureau of the Metropolitan Procuratorate is considered to be established.

(End of this chapter)