Before and after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, many of the people executed outside the Zhongdu City were princes and nobles of the Jin Dynasty. Their execution broke the shackles in people's hearts.

The heads of the Kelie tribe and Qiyan tribe who were executed some time ago in Zhongdu City shattered people's fear of the powerful enemies in the north.

Now that Ren Dejing was executed under Zhongdu City, it 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.

Each prisoner offering ceremony and decapitation ceremony will bring about such changes.

The residents of the land of China, which has been divided for hundreds of years and cannot be unified, have finally admitted in their hearts that a great moment is about to return and a great era is about to come.

But in Su Yonglin's opinion, at this time in history, accompanied by glory and prosperity, there is still a cold temperature that has not changed for thousands of years.

The lives of the people at the bottom are just a breather, but have not been fundamentally improved. They can only fill their stomachs without dying after eating bran and vegetables. That is the prosperous era.

This is the case in the prosperous era, let alone the troubled era?

What Su Yonglin wanted was a real prosperous era full of warmth, rather than a "prosperity" that the people could praise by eating braised vegetables and eating sweet potatoes.

It was the prosperity of emperors, generals and ministers, the prosperity of men, the prosperity of literati and poets, and the prosperity of superiors.

Instead of the prosperous era of cattle and horses facing the loess and facing the sky.

In order to arrive at a prosperous era full of warmth, Su Yonglin was determined to carry out his revolutionary actions to the end.

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

The reason is very simple. Since the second half of the second year of Hongwu, with the efforts of the audit department of various departments, the Ministry of Justice, the Censorate of the Crown Army and the Tianwang Army spies, the anti-corruption operations within the Ming Dynasty are proceeding in an orderly manner. With the progress of the anti-corruption operations, many corrupt officials have surfaced.

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

In order to restore the devastated Central Plains, Su Yonglin led the Ming court to use the wealth of the superior people seized by the war to start a large-scale 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 action.

In this process, the allocation of a large amount of money and the flow of a large amount of materials are inevitable. The officials in the central and local areas are mainly responsible for handling. Only under their arrangements and coordination can the construction of various regions be carried out in an orderly manner.

In this process, corruption emerged.

Corrupt officials gradually couldn't control their hands and began to extend their hands to the project payment and engineering materials. Some people directly embezzled the project payment and some people reselled the project materials.

Correspondingly, the Ministry of Law, the Censorate, and the Audit Departments of various departments led by the Revival Association also exerted their power at this time. Through rigorous review and calculation, these corrupt officials were gradually pulled out.

These people are regardless of their origins, both locally and centrally, and are distributed everywhere. After being found by the audit department, they were severely interrogated by officials of the Ministry of Justice, pried open their mouths and confirmed their charges.

So three officials were dismissed, either executed or detained. Su Yonglin was resigned from the officials who committed the crime and never spared lightly.

Moreover, Su Yonglin strictly enforced the regulations, and the three generations of criminal officials were not allowed to participate in the imperial examinations, were not allowed to join the army, and the government departments were not allowed to hire and handle affairs, thereby aggravating the punishment.

At the beginning, the corrupt officials arrested were basically the large number of old officials and officials left behind by the Jin Dynasty that were temporarily irreplaceable.

At the beginning of the founding of the country, Su Yonglin could not cultivate so many of his own people and could not replace them, so he could only continue to appoint them.

So they developed the fine traditions left over from the Jin Dynasty.

It is not unreasonable for them to embezzle in the Jin Dynasty, because the financial situation in the Jin Dynasty is chaotic and tense. Sometimes small officials and officials cannot get the salary paid by the court and find it difficult to live. Some people embezzle to support their families.

However, after habits became natural, corruption became natural and continued to the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, the salary of officials in the Ming Dynasty cannot be compared with the middle and senior officials of the Southern Song Dynasty. The salary of officials in the Southern Song Dynasty treated the only ones in the Scorpion's Tail, and the salary of officials in the Ming Dynasty was far less than that.

However, the salary of Ming officials is very practical, and they never arrears and are paid in full. They have money and food. Safety can ensure the stability and prosperity of officials' lives.

Under such circumstances, these officials continued the old rules left over from the Jin Dynasty and plucked their hair by the geese.

When the imperial court came down, they took a large sum of money. After the small sum of money, they took a small sum of money. The materials used for construction projects arrived at the construction site, took a look, picked some good ones, sold them, and made another profit.

They seemed not to take the audit department of the court and the gradually spread out local judicial bureaus seriously, thinking that this was a new atmosphere in the new dynasty, with heavy thunder and little rain, with gongs and drums on the top and singing and dancing below, and nothing was wrong.

It was indeed the case at the beginning.

Although Su Yonglin set up very strict targeted measures for possible corruption, due to the shortage of manpower, the departmental structure set up by the court in the local area could not be improved for a while.

Simply put, there are many departments and the shelves have been built, but no one has.

People need to be trained. Zhongdu’s political and legal schools do not have time to cultivate so many talents in one go, so they can only slowly spread out and gradually implement them, so that many local judicial branches and Revival Association branches have been set up, but no one is there.

Therefore, no one can do many key judicial affairs, and the actual power is still in the hands of local bureaucrats, and there is a situation where administration is greater than anything else in the local area.

Of course they can do whatever they want, because no one can restrain them. If their conscience is still there, they can make the place well. If their selfishness suddenly arises, it is hard to say.

However, as time went by, more and more trained officials rushed from the central government to the local government and took over the power that was originally controlled by the county prefectures and prefectures. The local judicial departments gradually gained flesh and blood, gained vitality, and then began to operate.

It was reviewed and investigated, so soon, these old officials found that the situation was wrong.

While having breakfast here, the officials from the Justice Bureau kicked open the door and came in to get people.

There was a pleasant thing with his wife and concubine there, and the officials from the Judicial Bureau kicked open the door and came to get someone.

The iron cable and wooden shackle were put on directly and brought it to the Judicial Bureau.

The judicial officials are serious and ruthless, and do not take care of them at all. They are strictly interrogated and will be punished if they are not told.

Many corrupt officials cannot stand the punishment at all, and some of the torture instruments were explained before they were put on.

So after the gradual improvement of local judicial institutions in the second half of the second year of Hongwu, more and more cases have surfaced, and a large number of corrupt officials in the local area have been found and uprooted.

This situation has occurred in Yanyun, Hebei, Shandong, Hedong, Henan, and even Liaodong.

If it was just an old bureaucrat who committed a crime, Su Yonglin didn't care and would not feel any 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 their responsibilities.

However, among the corrupt officials found by the Audit Department and the Judicial Bureau, the names of Fuxing members suddenly appeared in the file file in February of the third year of Hongwu.
Chapter completed!