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However, while Yu Xiaotian vigorously combated corruption, he also fully considered the difficulties of the officials of the Ming Dynasty. After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the salaries given to officials were relatively low, which to some extent also caused the officials to make ends meet if they were not corrupt. Even after the founding of the country,

Even though Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang took severe measures, he could not stop the corruption among officials.

Therefore, Chief Yu Xiaotian increased the income of officials, and brought some people who worked for the government who had previously been on the fringes of the system into the system. While the state provided them with salaries, he also issued a death order to cancel the ban across the country.

All kinds of bad policies that were privately set up or formed by local governments in the past, such as money-making methods such as licking the stems and burning silver, were strictly ordered to be canceled immediately while raising wages.

If in the future it is found that someone is still using these methods to intimidate the people, then I'm sorry, I will have the Imperial Envoy and the Imperial Guard to settle the score with them.

Officials in the officialdom have mixed reactions to this. Some corrupt officials believe that this may increase their income on the surface, but in fact it cuts off their financial channels for making money secretly, and also makes them lose control of their opponents.

Power, some of the servants they used to support had to rely on the power they gave them to collect money for them and support them.

But now that these personnel have been included in the system, their salaries are uniformly given by the court, and their identities, powers and responsibilities have been clarified. These people only need to act according to the rules in the future. As for their former masters, their control over them has weakened.

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The most important thing is that although the imperial court issued a decree to increase their salaries, the increased salary is still much less than the money they secretly earned. This undoubtedly cuts off their financial resources. Really corrupt officials

They do not live on their salaries at all, so this new policy will undoubtedly once again touch the vested interests of these corrupt officials.

But where are Yu Xiaotian's tough tactics? Most of them have now learned the lesson and confront him head-on. This is to make it clear that paying New Year's greetings to the Lord of Hell will lead to a long life.

But if they are asked to submit, this bunch of corrupt officials will definitely not do it. They know a lot of ways to deceive superiors and hide from subordinates. Although there are orders from above, they have their own methods below. This is called having policies from above and countermeasures from below.

, as long as they are still officials, they can continue to dominate the world with one hand.

Of course, when Yu Xiaotian made up his mind to promulgate the new policy, he knew very well that a considerable number of officials would think so, but he ignored these matters for the time being and just promulgated the policy first. The next step was to strictly investigate and deal with it.

In troubled times, heavy codes are used. Now that we are in troubled times, it is impossible not to kill some people.

You used to be greedy. It can be said that the Ming Emperor was too stingy. You couldn't support your family, so you had to be greedy. Now I have given you a salary increase. If you are still greedy, don't blame me for being rude.

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian had already sent a message to the Metropolitan Procuratorate to select people from across the country, specifically those scholars with a good reputation who had been harmed by corrupt officials, or young people who were literate but had no fame, but were smart and capable.

, those with meritorious status are temporarily arranged to enter the Metropolitan Procuratorate as supervisory censors, while those without meritorious status but are shrewd and useful are arranged to serve in the Jinyi Guards.

The original number of people in the Metropolitan Procuratorate has been expanded from the previous 110 to more than 500. It is almost guaranteed that each state and county can be assigned a supervisory censor, and each supervisory censor is assigned five to ten new ones.

Jinyiwei, as their auxiliary force, helps them investigate cases or arrest corrupt officials who have committed crimes.

In fact, after the transformation of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Jinyiwei, their functions were closer to those of later disciplinary inspection departments. Although they were not high-ranking, they had great power. They were directly responsible to the court and were not subject to the control of any local officials. The handling of cases was completely independent.

In addition, these supervisory censors do not serve locally, but are all employed in other places. The areas they supervise are determined by drawing lots, and the areas they serve are changed every two years. In the province, they collude with local officials to form cliques and collude for personal gain.

Furthermore, when these supervisory censors went to their assigned areas to exercise their supervisory powers, they all went secretly in plain clothes and in simple vehicles. They were not allowed to meet with local officials without incident, so that the local officials had no way of knowing when the supervisory censors and Jin Yiwei would arrive.

On the ground, they can secretly monitor local officials.

In addition, another layer of supervision was set up for the Supervisory Censor. On top of the Supervisory Censor, there were more than thirty sub-inspectors who were carefully selected by Yu Xiaotian himself. These more than thirty sub-inspectors secretly came to

Inspections are carried out in various places. Likewise, they do not know the supervisory censors below. They just do their own things.

If there are serious differences between the matters investigated by the sub-inspection envoy and the matters investigated by the local supervisory censor, and the sub-inspection envoy found out that the local officials were corrupt, but the local supervisory censor did not find out, then the following

After coming down, the local supervisory censor will be arrested and charged with serious neglect of supervision and sentenced to serious crimes.

Under such layers of supervision, Yu Xiaotian believes that even if someone wants to fish in troubled waters, it may not be too easy. His idea is that corrupt officials will catch one and kill each one. He is not afraid of killing too many, let alone

Because too many corrupt officials were arrested, there was a shortage of officials in various places.

The most indispensable thing in the world for China is people who want to be officials. As long as there is a vacancy, more people will definitely compete for this vacancy.

In fact, when it comes to combating corruption, it is easier to govern officials than to govern officials. Officials in the Ming Dynasty have always served in different places, and they can be regarded as solid soldiers. However, those officials are basically appointed locally.

In some places, petty officials can even be said to have been hereditary for more than a hundred years. They have served in the local area for generations. Intricate local relationships have long been formed, and sometimes officials can even be isolated and do their own thing.

Therefore, some officials angrily said: All subordinate officials in the world can be killed. This sentence contains the blood, tears and helplessness of many officials. Therefore, it is easy to control officials from being greedy, but it is difficult to control subordinate officials in those places from doing evil.

The reforms of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Jin Yiwei that he has launched now are aimed at combating corruption. Not only must we deal with corrupt officials, but the focus should also be on governing local subordinates. Killing a large number of subordinate officials who are causing trouble for one party and replacing them with fresh blood can truly strengthen the rule of law.

Manage the place well.

The method of adding imperial guards to the Metropolitan Procuratorate is undoubtedly the best way that Yu Xiaotian can think of at the moment. As for the civilian supervision mechanism, it is all empty. Now even if it gives ordinary people the power to supervise officials and gives them democracy

They don’t know how to use power. China’s thousands of years of feudal rule have long ingrained the people’s fear of officials. If you talk about democracy to them now, it can be said to be like playing the harp to a cow, and they will be regarded as a fool.

Viewed by a madman.

After several months of intensive preparations, hundreds of newly minted censors, plus thousands of freshly minted imperial guards, all swarmed out of the capital in high spirits, like a group of vicious dogs with teeth and claws, and according to their

The results of the lottery went to various places and began to exercise their power.

Although Yu Xiaotian knew that these people might not be able to fully achieve the goal he wanted to achieve, he could predict that these people would definitely cause a huge bloody storm in the land of Ming Dynasty. It is estimated that within two years

Within the country, I don’t know how many officials in the country would be killed, their homes confiscated and executed.

However, such a result can be expected. In the near future, the corruption of local officials will be greatly curbed. Of course, in order to truly achieve such a goal, strong enough force must be indispensable to provide these supervisors with sufficient force.

Shi and the new Jinyi guards acted as backup.

Therefore, during this year, Yu Xiaotian spared no effort to continue to expand the number of soldiers and horses in the Yu Family Army, and gradually began to secretly take action against the Ming Dynasty's military.

A group of hereditary generals were sent by him to some places to lead troops to suppress rebels or bandits. Like these Qiuba people who obtained military power by relying on the merits of their ancestors and hereditary cover, there are really very few people who are really capable. There are more of them.

They were more like some landowners with military positions. When they were really asked to use troops to fight, each one of them immediately showed their true colors.

Even if they were asked to attack some small groups of mountain bandits, these guys would often succeed more than fail. Failure to complete the task was the second best. Many of them were simply killed or beaten by their enemies.

After a great defeat, he fled home in despair.

And through this method, Yu Xiaotian also caught the sore feet of these guys, dismissed them on charges of incompetence, and went back to be their rich men, handing over military power and pulling them down. If they refused to submit, then

He was accused of treason and his whole family was executed, uprooting him without leaving any further trouble.

After pulling out these guys who were standing in the toilet and not taking a shit, Yu Xiaotian used the soldiers of the family army to fill their vacancies, and gradually penetrated his military force into all parts of the country.

In less than a year, Yu Xiaotian had killed more than ten general officers, more than thirty deputy generals, and a large group of guerrilla generals in various provinces. Needless to say, General Qian,

The number is almost impossible to count.

Through this method, he promoted a large number of officers from the Yu Jiajun under his command to replace those who were pulled out. In addition, he also filled tens of thousands of Yu Jiajun soldiers to various places.

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Moreover, Yu Xiaotian reintroduced the military recruitment system to completely replace the military household system implemented in the Ming Dynasty. Soldiering will no longer be a hereditary occupation. The military household system and the hereditary replacement system were abolished. Officers no longer rely on hereditary inheritance, but

They were selected and stationed by the military, and local warlord groups formed in the provinces.

Of course, these actions have not yet touched the warlords and family groups that currently have more military power in various parts of the Ming Dynasty, such as the Guan Ning Army outside the Pass. For the time being, he has not moved because he still needs Zu Dashou and the Guan Ning Army soldiers to stay temporarily.

People outside the customs are keeping an eye on Jiannu for him, but for the time being he can't spare any effort to destroy Jiannu and regain Liaodong.

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