On April 14, the tenth year of Tianwu, 138 Shaanxi officials who were guilty of corruption were killed in the west city of Xi'an, and their relatives were exiled to exile to the Xidu Protectorate to build roads.

Including thirty eunuchs and two officials from the Censorate who were in charge of inspecting Shaanxi, none of them were spared.

For a moment, the entire Shaanxi officialdom fell into fear.

Afterwards, some officials asked when they were greeted at the Governor's Office. Didn't you eat it? How are you doing recently? But how many of you have been killed?

Faced with the praise of the people, Zhu Cilang did not feel any sense of accomplishment, but was thinking hard about how to eliminate the bad habits of officials' corruption.

He also knew that since ancient times to the present, both in China and abroad, there has been no way to completely eliminate corruption.

No system can work, people are selfish. Even if they increase the welfare of officials ten times, they should be greedy.

There are few corrupt officials abroad? It’s just that people legalize bribery.

People’s desires are endless. If you earn 2,000 yuan a month, you will think about earning 3,000 or 5,000 yuan a month.

When the monthly income is 5,000, I think that the monthly income is over 10,000, followed by 30,000, 50,000,000...

Just like being an official, the local ninth rank governor wants to be promoted to the eighth rank, the eighth rank governor wants to be promoted to the seventh rank governor, the seventh rank governor wants to be promoted to the sixth rank governor, the Tongzhi also wants to be promoted to the fifth rank governor, the Tongzhi also wants to be promoted to the prefect, and the prefect wants to enter the Central Department even...

If the conditions are sufficient, I still want to enter the cabinet, become the chief minister, and get a title.

People are progressive and unsatisfied, and even more so for corrupt officials. The first vote may only be greedy for dozens of taels of silver. After a few votes, they will unconsciously set a small goal in their hearts, and the next vote will be greedy for hundreds of taels, and then work hard to get greedy for a thousand taels. The more greedy you are, the more you become...

Very few people greed for tens of thousands of taels in the first vote.

Zhu Yuanzhang was famous for his corruption campaign back then, from the corruption campaign to the empty seal case, the Guo Huan case, and Lao Zhu killed countless corrupt officials.

However, there were still many officials in Hongwu who were corrupt and lined up to kill him. There was even hundreds of officials in a section, and they were killed in a few years (the number of corrupt officials in the Hongwu Dynasty was getting smaller and smaller).

The reason is that the salary system of the Hongwu Dynasty and even the Ming Dynasty for more than 200 years was poorly treated by officials. They could only barely support their families and could not live a comfortable and well-off life.

There is pressure and motivation. In order to support the family, officials can only be greedy.

Although Zhu Yuanzhang's behavior was a bit extreme, his behavior was still correct. His purpose was to eliminate corrupt officials and benefit the people.

Based on these situations, Zhu Cixuan believes that preventing corruption is to learn from Lao Zhu's physical anti-corruption methods, so that risks outweigh benefits. At the same time, it is necessary to continue to increase the treatment of officials and strengthen supervision.

High-tech may not necessarily support integrity, but at least it can reduce corrupt officials.

Once officials live without worries about food and clothing and prefer a wealthy living standard, under the pressure of punishing greed, I believe that there will be a significant reduction in those who take risks.

Zhu Cixuan stayed in the Yongwang Mansion for two days and drafted a new system for welfare and punishment of corruption among the Ming officials.

In general, the basic salary was increased to six times that of the Chongzhen Dynasty, and there were also salary for the seniority of work, regional allowances, job allowances and bonus systems.

All salaries are no longer paid in the form of food, but are all replaced by silver dollars, and there are also benefits such as meat during festivals and festivals.

Even with the development of the economy and the improvement of living standards, there will be no shortage of salary in the Hongwu Dynasty, because the allowances and benefits of the Tianwu Dynasty will also increase accordingly, satisfying all living expenses and interpersonal exchanges of officials.

In terms of punishing corruption, Zhu Cilang appropriately reduced the crime of accepting bribes, changed to dismissal of posts and sentenced to labor reform, and confiscated the embezzlement.

However, the crime of embezzlement of public funds and endangering national construction will be executed with the strictest crime of home search and death!

If you take the silver from the court, the court will take your property. As long as it is your property, no matter whether the embezzled money or the original property, it will be confiscated! Even your wife and children will be exiled!

This flood in Shaanxi was caused by the fact that officials including the Shaanxi River Dock Office embezzled public funds for river control and built shoddy projects, and even the houses and property of more than 100,000 people were swallowed up by the flood.

The property for disaster relief and reconstruction was all paid by the court. Because of the more than one million silver dollars, the corrupt officials raised by the bitch not only caused more than 100,000 families to be displaced, but also caused the court to spend millions of silver dollars to resettle the victims!

Is this kind of person worthy of the 100 million subjects of the state if he is not beheaded and his home is confiscated?

Anti-corruption is the bottom line. The decline and despair of any dynasty is caused by corruption of officials and exploitation of the people, which at least accounts for a large factor.

Zhu Cilang thought for a long time and finally considered abolishing the system of eunuchs in garrisons and eunuchs in various places, and gradually weakening the power of eunuchs, prohibiting eunuchs from interfering in local politics. All supervision and acceptance will be taken back by local and central departments.

Zhu Cilang even remembered the queen's words and completely abolished the eunuch system.

However, he suddenly thought of the performance of Shaanxi Governor Zhang Tongchang, and felt that the matter in Shaanxi was a bit strange.

First, Zhang Tongchang wrote a letter to resign nine times, and then as soon as he arrived in Xi'an, he met Zhang Tongchang, who was also in private visits. He happened to meet Zhang Tongchang, who was originally a little afraid of eunuchs, and he happened to meet Ma Jixiang who came to find fault in the governor's yamen?

There are not so many coincidences in this world. The suspicious Zhu Cilang feels that all this was arranged by Zhang Tongchang!

In fact, he guessed correctly. Several months ago, Zhang Tongchang frequently wrote letters to resign in order to attract Zhu Cixuan's attention and have the idea of ​​inspecting Xijing.

Even since Zhu Cilang had just inspected Fengyang, Zhang Tongchang had already guessed that the emperor was coming to inspect Xi'an!

When he heard that the emperor suddenly appeared in Luoyang Mansion near Shaanxi, Zhang Tongchang became more convinced that the emperor was coming to Xi'an. Therefore, he was covered with secret whistles from the governor's yamen around the city gate, waiting for the "suspicious" group of people to enter the city, and immediately went to the streets in vain.

In order to deal with Ma Jixiang, Zhang Tongchang also sent people to secretly understand Ma Jixiang's itinerary. It happened that day that Ma Jixiang returned to Xi'an after extortion from the Weinan River Dock Office.

The eunuchs of the Xijing Governor's garrison office have been rushing into the street for not once or twice. After everything happened, Zhang Tongchang deliberately provoked the eunuch on the street with words, and then beat the eunuchs on purpose, which specifically attracted Ma Jixiang...

Then in the conversation in the Governor's Office, Zhang Tongchang took the risk of angering Zhu Cilang with words like "ruling the world with family slaves". After Ma Jixiang arrived, he deliberately mentioned the road construction in the conversation.

Because Zhang Tongchang knew very well that many of the official roads from Tongguan to Xi'an were problematic (he had visited various places many times), he concluded that Emperor Tianwu, who had always attached importance to road construction, would be unhappy and would pay attention to this matter...

This strategy was one after another, fully demonstrating the political struggle Zhang Tongchang was good at as a civil servant.

In the end, all his plans were completed, Ma Jixiang was whipped, Xijing Governor's garrison was removed, and the eunuch's rights were slashed epic...

The perfect success of this series of plans is based on Zhang Tongchang's understanding of Emperor Tianwu's attitude towards serving the country and the people.

In the Yongwang Mansion, with his keen political sense, Zhu Cilang felt more and more that this matter was not simple. Wang Zhen, who he summoned again, asked him to investigate the performance of Shaanxi Governor Zhang Tongchang during this period.

Wang Zhen's efficiency was lightning. In less than a day, Zhang Tongchang's behavior in the past month was almost the same as the people he met.

The facts prove that Zhu Cixuan's guess is correct. Zhang Tongchang did arrange for personnel to guard the city gate some time ago, and he also temporarily went out of the government office for a few days to stroll around the streets.

He sometimes pretends to be a book seller, sometimes pretends to be an old farmer who buys vegetables, so he looks for opportunities to meet the emperor who goes on a tour in a miscarriage, but he has recognized the wrong person a few times...

Zhu Cilang was very angry when he learned about these situations. He felt unhappy because there was no direct evidence to prove that Zhang Tongchang was acting as a fool, and because Lao Zhang was also a capable minister, he did not blame him in the end.

However, Zhu Cilang could not swallow this. He summoned the old fox Zhang Tongchang, and spoke with an unconcealed warning, don’t burn yourself if you play with fire!

On the day he left Shaanxi and returned to Beijing, Zhu Cilang issued another decree: to transfer Shaanxi Governor Zhang Tongchang as the deputy captain of the Northern Protectorate, to be in charge of the northern cultural affairs and politics in the Heilongjiang area, and to mediate and deal with conflicts between Mongolian tribes...
Chapter completed!