"There are few clean officials, and corrupt officials are like the sand of the Yellow River." For rulers of all dynasties, corruption was an extremely troublesome problem. Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, stood up in a short time and suffered even more. Therefore, he hated the matter of favoritism and abuse of power. Therefore, after Zhu Yuanzhang took office, he also took a series of anti-corruption measures.

Zhu Yuanzhang specially gathered talents from all over the world, compiled the "Da Ming Law" and "The Three Great Edicts", made detailed provisions on the punishment of corruption, and required strict implementation. He set up a huge inspector of the inspection agency, which would integrate the functions of criminal, procuratorial and legal affairs. Later, he set up a six-section commission to impeach corrupt officials in the six ministries.

Zhu Yuanzhang also encouraged the people to prevent corruption. He welcomed the people to report it. If any local officials dared to "manipulate lawsuits, instigate crimes, frame others, collude with the government, and endanger the state", local virtuous and heroic people could arrest these people and escort them directly to Nanjing for trial. If someone dared to intercept them halfway, he would behead them directly. These measures were unheard of in the history of feudal dynasties.

During the Wanli period, 1 guan of copper coins could buy 2 s of ordinary rice. In the Ming Dynasty, 94.4 kilograms of silver could buy 377.6 kilograms of rice. In our lives, the price of rice is about 3 yuan per kilogram. In terms of conversion, one liang of silver is worth 1,132.8 yuan. Therefore, embezzling 60 taels of silver is actually equivalent to 68,000 yuan of property. From today's perspective, the laws set by Zhu Yuanzhang were naturally very strict. What was the treatment of officials at that time? The "History of Ming Dynasty" records that the official salary sent by the seventh-rank magistrate was only 45 taels of silver in a year, which is about 50,000 yuan, which is not as good as most working-class people today.

The cost of "Dream of Red Mansions", one of the four great classics, is actually very close to that of the Ming Dynasty. In the chapter of Liu Laolao entering the Grand View Garden, the Jia family spent 24 taels of silver just by eating crabs. No wonder she felt that this could be enough for a small family to eat for a year, while the wife of the Jia family had 20 taels of money and Xiren had 2 taels of money. This is still a woman's house. In comparison, the county magistrate of the Ming Dynasty was indeed a bit shabby. No wonder Zhu Yuanzhang tried his best to curb the corruption, but he could not control it.

Therefore, Zhu Cilang's desire to restore the ancestral skinned daylily can be imagined.

Zhu Yuanzhang wandered around, and he had endured various human sufferings. Later, he joined the rebel army, experienced a series of wars, and became the emperor. Therefore, he knew the suffering of the people very well, and he knew the harm of corrupt officials to the people very well, so he killed each other when he saw corrupt officials.

Zhu Cilang also wanted to do this and wanted to imitate Zhu Yuanzhang. But he could not cover up the sky with one hand. Not to mention him, even Emperor Chongzhen would have no choice.

Emperor Chongzhen wanted to kill corrupt officials, but he had killed countless court officials, but he was really powerless to deal with corrupt officials.

It happened that Emperor Chongzhen had an excuse because of the incident of the Crown Princess. Zhu Cixuan once again took charge of the Jinyiwei and started the search activity with the Jinyiwei.

In fact, there is nothing to investigate. Since the 13th year of Chongzhen, the Jinyiwei has been collecting information from various corrupt officials in the capital. Now, it is not easy to find out these corrupt officials. Just transfer the files and clean up one by one.

But Zhu Cixuan did not do this, and he was not in a hurry to do it. Because Xiao Shishi's problem has not been solved yet.

Xiao Shishi must be made the crown princess, and she only recognizes her in her life. Since she has broken up with her ministers, she might as well tear her face apart.

The Jinyiwei's anti-corruption campaign quickly achieved important results, in just half a month. Several officials, headed by Wu Bei of the Censorate, were arrested in the imperial prison for embezzlement.

That’s right, it’s the ministers of the Censorate who jointly opposed Xiao Shishi’s as the crown prince.

The main commander to investigate and correct officials and evil officials from all the internal and external corpses, or to show off their faces or to report the seal. The two capitals are in the inner world, inspect the Beijing camp, supervise the township, conduct the imperial examinations and military examinations, inspect the Guanglu, inspect the warehouses, inspect the inner trunks, the imperial city, and the five cities. The rotation is on the drums. The Qing army, the admiral school, inspect the salt, tea and horses, inspect the wine, patrol the pass, collect the fortune, seal the horses, and the farmland.

The Censor, the Censor, was divided into inspectors, and was punished by one or two or two or three years old, so he was reprimanded. There were Jingji Road inside, and there were each inspectors outside, and there were inspectors, and the seals were issued and issued. They were all set up for the copy of documents. They were still worried that they would not be able to be released for a long time. They also decided to write the articles of the constitutional system, and surrendered to various officials, and divided the offices of the yamen, the temple was calculated and the plan was calculated, and the Zhou Dynasty was careful and detailed. The so-called "having rules and regulations" was caused by descendants, and the so-called "the political system of civil and military affairs was distributed in the square strategy.

At the beginning, most of these censors were good officials, but with the corruption of the government, the final pure land of the censors was also polluted.

The censor mainly relies on brushing papers to check and impeach all officials. This "censor" is not the same as what we usually call reviewing the questions before the exam. The "censor" here refers to the censors copying and checking the documents and case files of each government office. It is a bit similar to the current audit of enterprises. Every quarter, the company's finances must be reviewed every year to see if there are any mistakes. If there are any, they need to report them and find out the problem.

When the "filling" system was established, according to regulations, the supervisory censors reviewed the files of all government offices and localities across the country within a certain period of time. Because the supervisory censors were ordered by the emperor, all local government offices and government offices must cooperate, otherwise they would be suspected of deceiving the emperor. Through this regular supervision, all officials were afraid and did not dare to act recklessly. The supervisory censors could also promptly discover problems and deal with them through the review of the files.

However, when this system was implemented in the Jingtai period of the Ming Dynasty, problems arose during the Tianshun period and could not be implemented. There are mainly three reasons for this.

First of all, brushing the scrolls cannot be completed independently by the Censor of the Supervisor. It often requires two or three Censors to cooperate in one place to brush the scrolls. At the same time, a large number of clerks are required to cooperate, which consumes a lot of paper.

Later, the court changed frequently, and the court had no energy or manpower to carry out large-scale brushing. During the Tumen Incident, more than 60 officials who were personally expeditioned by Yingzong were killed or injured. Finally, they recovered their vitality. In the eighth year of Jingtai, another siege-snatching the Gate. Yu Qian, Wang Wen and other officials who had previously supported Zhu Qiyu ascended the throne were cleaned, and Shi Heng, Cao Jixiang and others were also imprisoned for crimes. The turbulent political situation prevented the court from operating normally, and supervision had to stop.
Chapter completed!