Dominate the Country

In the early morning, Gao Shida stood outside the torture room. The person who was recording the confession came out and showed him the confession. He glanced at it hastily, and a cold smile hung on the corner of his mouth:... Liu Xiashang, the then magistrate of Manzhouli, was lewd and played with male servants. He preferred those with pretty faces, and powdered and bound their feet, and wore embroidered clothes, and called them male concubines. Yu, who had a pretty face, suffered from his bullying and wished to kill this thief...

In short, he hated Liu Xiashang so much that he didn't want to continue working in Liu's house, so he frequently went out to the outside world in order to find the next place to settle down. But Liu Xiashang's old friend was Yuan Mei. For the bitter and cold area of ​​Manzhouli, Yuan Mei was still a high-ranking official, and he repeatedly hit a wall. As for interrogating him for leaking information to outsiders and providing intelligence to the smuggling network, he said he would never dare to do it.

Gao Shida's face was too ugly. The person recording the confession took it back with shaking hands and said, "Don't worry, sir. That guy hasn't told the truth yet. We still have time to ask him."

This time, the magistrate's house in Manzhouli was searched, and finally a clue was caught. But the result was not the worst [good], it was not that the magistrate Liu Xiashang himself had a trick, but that one of his personal servants was wrong.

Gao Shida's expression was a little unpredictable. He was recalling Yuan Mei and the information he had read about Liu Xiashang: "Nail this thing to me and give it to me tomorrow. But that person wants to continue the interrogation. He didn't tell the truth."

"Yes, sir."

Is Liu Xiashang's love of male homosexuality still a secret? Even his old friend Yuan Mei's past was exposed by the newspapers at the time of the war between the new and old Confucian public opinion.

Among the officials in the Qing Dynasty, male homosexuality was very prevalent, but from the perspective of the overall social situation, this phenomenon did not win the recognition of the whole society. It was just a scandal, in the eyes of the common people.

‘Rabbit husband’ has always been an insult in China.

Liu Xiashang and Yuan Mei were always together in Nanjing, and many people knew about it. Yuan Mei’s past was exposed, and Liu Xiashang’s life was not easy at that time.

Now Liu Xiashang has committed a crime. No matter whether he has a guilty conscience or not, there is a spy around him, which is a crime of negligence. He has reached the end of his career.

Liu Xiashang’s entourage was taken to the Military Control Bureau’s torture room. Under the three-wood guard, what confession can’t be made? But it can’t be guaranteed to be absolutely true. After the beating, they were taken back and locked up. As long as they were not dead, they would be judged every three hours, and they could always get real information. But this information is useless to the Military Control Bureau.

Only now that this stubborn person spits out the truth, it will be of great use.

There are many smart people among the servants of the Liu family. One of them escaped punishment by fabricating dirty things about Liu Xiashang. After that, more and more people started to talk nonsense. It seems that Liu Xiashang has nothing to do in Manzhouli every day. In addition to playing with men and gambling, she is looking for women everywhere. No matter if they are from the backyard or from Manzhouli County, as long as he sees them, he will drag them to bed.

He is also violent and beats people to death.

There are only twelve male and female servants in the Liu family, but according to them, Liu Xiashang has beaten to death 20 to 30 people in four years as an official in Manzhouli.

Coming out of the punishment hall, the midday sun above his head made him feel like he was back to the world. Gao Shida breathed a sigh of relief. The guard guarding the door of the punishment hall hurried forward to help him, and said attentively, "Slow down, sir, you are so tired."

He waved his hand and went to the office. As a result, before he even got to the office, a clerk came to report: "An important person from the Heilongjiang Provincial Government is waiting for you."

Gao Shida felt annoyed.

The Heilongjiang Provincial Government thought he was too much trouble, so they should be more capable. No local government wants to see intelligence personnel coming in and out of their own government agencies. Heilongjiang certainly doesn't want officials to commit crimes or other things to happen everywhere in its jurisdiction, so the Heilongjiang Provincial Government is very impatient with the Military Control Commission. But it feels like the Military Control Commission is deliberately looking for trouble with them.

In fact, Gao Shida didn't want to stir up trouble in the country all day long. He would rather fan the flames among the Russians, but he also had his duty. Some things were within his jurisdiction, so he had to continue to cause trouble.

Gao Shida didn't go to the reception room, but went directly back to the torture room.

There was a man tied to the rack in front. His clothes had been stripped off. His delicate body was covered with scars and bloodstains. His eyes were dark purple and dripping with blood, but he looked pretty good. Otherwise, Liu Xiashang would not have liked him.

This was the suspected personal servant next to Liu Xiashang. He had never suffered much. The military control was ruthless. His whole body was broken. None of his ten hands were intact. His bones were broken and his nails were pulled out. The soles of his feet had been burned by the branding iron, and more than one place on his body was burned to pieces. There was a strange smell of mixed fragrance and stench.

This was a mixture of meaty smell and burnt meat smell.

An interrogator was bare-chested and backless, and he was whipping this man with a whip dipped in salt water. There was also an indifferent interrogator counting them one by one.

The barbs were like iron brushes, and every time they rose and fell, they removed blood and flesh. The blood flowed along his body, from the upper body to the lower body, and then dripped onto the ground, staining a large area red.

The smell was so strong that Gao Shida took out peppermint oil and put it under his nose to sniff it, closing his eyes to endure the chill that rushed straight to his forehead. It was almost time, and the man on the rack only groaned twice no matter how hard he was beaten.

He said, "Okay, put him down." This man is a treasure, he can't be beaten to death.

The interrogators around him had a dark look on their faces, but it didn't work. Someone else cautiously advised, "Are you tired of watching him? Why don't you go out and take a walk? We'll keep an eye on him. We will never let him die." The little rabbit was so enduring, which made the people in the torture room believe that they had caught a big fish.

They must pry open this man's mouth.

Gao Shida waved his hand and stared at the man on the rack. The interrogators next to him had already handcuffed and shackled the man, and quickly put him down from the rack. As soon as the man who could rely on severe torture and beatings without saying a word landed on his feet, he fell to the ground as if he had no bones. One person picked up a bucket of salt water from the salt water tank next to him and poured it on him, and then two people dragged him away by his legs.

The person in charge of the torture room, that is, the head of the Military Control Commission's interrogation room, watched the man being dragged away and just shook his head and said, "This man is really a tough guy. No matter how hard he is beaten, he won't open his mouth." Even if he is an enemy, one cannot help but admire him.

It is said that 'under the three trees, peace cannot be sought', which is a wise saying passed down from ancient times. People cannot touch whips and irons. The head of the room felt that no one could withstand torture. In their intelligence work, once they are exposed, they can't escape and kill themselves as soon as possible. He has always suspected that Yang Jisheng recorded in Ming history is a fake. In the middle of the night, he woke up in pain after a trauma attack, so he smashed the porcelain bowl and used the fragments to cut off the rotten meat. The meat was cut off and the tendons were hanging on the membrane. He cut them off with his hands. The jailer who held the lamp for him was trembling, but Yang Jisheng was at ease. Is there really such a tough guy in this world?

But now he believes it. There are always people with particularly hard bones in this world. The head of the room never thought that he would meet one in his life, and he admired him in his heart.

Especially this tough guy's 'identity' is a rabbit, which makes people more surprised.

If his tongue hadn't been cut, he would have thought that this man was a mute.

Gao Shida said: "This man can't die yet." His face was not very good.

The director hurriedly said: "That's natural. He will be treated when he returns. He just poured a bucket of salt water because he didn't want him to die so easily. The really useful things haven't been asked yet."

Gao Shida flipped through the confession booklet. There were only a few words on it. His identity and origin were not clear. This eunuch was a refugee. His hometown was reported as Puyang, Henan. Someone has been sent to check it out. But it is very likely to be false. The specific residence and surname are recorded very clearly, but I don't know how much is true.

He entered the Liu Mansion at the age of thirteen. The strangest thing is that Liu Xiashang was still in Nanjing at that time. If this person was a nail planted at that time, he is too capable, right?

Liu Xiashang has always been a disciple of Yuan Mei. After Yuan Mei fell, he also took a sixth-rank idle position to make a living. It has been seven years since this guy entered the Liu Mansion. Now this guy is twenty years old.

Gao Shida turned a blind eye to the confession. He was only confused. No matter how much torture this guy suffered, he would never speak. So how big a secret is hidden in his heart? If this secret really started seven years ago, it would not just be a matter of smuggling in the Northeast.

In order to prevent this baby from committing suicide, he was stuffed with hemp walnuts in his mouth. There were people watching him in the cell. The doctor who treated him was a famous doctor. He didn't want him to treat the disease, but only wanted him to save people's lives.

When he came out of the torture room again, it was already dark. He asked someone to ask, but the man from the provincial government had left. Gao Shida did not go to the office or the cafeteria to eat, but asked someone to fill a basin of hot water to scald his feet. Then Gao Shida drafted this while soaking his feet. The clock ticked, and he put down his pen only when it was eight o'clock.

"Ask the confidential room to write a report and send it to Nanjing by carrier pigeon." In order to find out the secrets of this man, Gao Shida was sure that he had to get the full help of the National Security Bureau.

However, Gao Shida also knew that even though he was doing well in the Outer Northeast, this wave would not cause any ripples in Nanjing.

The water in Nanjing is much deeper than that in the Outer Northeast.

Not to mention the officials in the Outer Northeast that Gao Shida had to deal with, as long as they were from Heilongjiang, they had not yet been involved at the prefectural level, which meant that they had really reached the prefectural level. What else can be done?

Today's Nanjing City is a good time with warm autumn and clear skies. The country is prosperous and the people are growing day by day. They will not be shocked by a little news from the distant border.

And the fact is just as Gao Shida expected. At this time, Nanjing is just like a song and dance performance in the Gao Dynasty. Everyone's eyes are on the matter of "court recommendation", and no one cares about the Northeast.

In other words, the high officials and nobles in Nanjing only need to know the results of the Northeast, without having to go through the process.

Now everyone's eyes are on the emperor's new "court recommendation". This is nothing new, but it has been abolished in China for nearly a hundred years, giving ministers real power.

The emperor is going to "court recommendation", and what is "court recommendation"? In a nutshell, court recommendation means that when there is a vacancy in the court, the ministers recommend candidates. This policy originated in the Ming Dynasty.

When a senior official is vacant, the emperor appoints him after the recommendation of the ministers, which is called court recommendation. The cabinet university scholar and the minister of the Ministry of Personnel are recommended by the court or appointed by the emperor's special decree. The ministers below the ministers and the ministers of the Ministry of Personnel will be recommended by the court together with the officials above the third rank. The governors and governors of other provinces are recommended by the court. It was abolished during the reign of Kang Mazi, the "Thousand Bones and One Di".

Chen Ming had heard a saying in his previous life that Zhu Ming's court promotion was a form of "Shanzhu" and a historical progress.

Chen Ming didn't like Shanzhu, although he knew that the empire he built was destined to cross this hurdle. But this doesn't mean that he likes Shanzhu. No one stipulates that time travelers must be Shanzhu, right?

Chen Ming likes to monopolize power and loves "Long live the emperor".

But he also has to pave the way for future generations.

He doesn't know whether the court promotion is Shanzhu, but it does feel different.

The court promotion in the middle and late Ming Dynasty has become a system. Although it was abolished by a wise and powerful barbarian king, Chen Ming picked it up again after looking through history books.

According to the Ming Dynasty system, whenever the court encountered important political affairs or when a civil or military minister was absent, the emperor would order the court officials to hold a meeting to discuss and weigh the pros and cons of political affairs, and then report to the emperor for his decision. The discussion on the pros and cons of political affairs was called court discussion; the proposal on the promotion and appointment of personnel was called court recommendation.

Court recommendation: This is the method of selecting important officials in the Ming Dynasty. It was originally stipulated that officials above the third rank and nine ministers (personnel, household, ritual, military, criminal justice, and engineering - six ministers, the chief censor (in charge of supervising all officials) totaled seven ministers, and the chief justice (in charge of criminal justice redress) and the general secretary (in charge of teaching and internal and external memorials) were added. The nine ministers were the highest government agencies in the country and were familiar with the actual situation of the implementation of national policies.), the chief censor, the chief priest and other officials were publicly recommended two or three people, and the emperor decided to appoint them. This was called court recommendation. It was still adopted in the early Qing Dynasty, but later abolished.

Chen Ming now took this thing out, which to some extent divided the imperial power.

The red line of the Chen Han version of "court recommendation" was drawn to the third rank. Whether it was the third rank or the third rank, they could make their own suggestions for the candidates of the cabinet ministers. For a certain position, they had the right to recommend the candidates they recognized, and then the emperor would summarize them and decide on a list of candidates - five to seven people. Then the third-rank civil officials in Beijing and the local areas could recommend candidates based on this list.

The top three were submitted by the cabinet to the emperor for selection.

It does not mean that the first person selected by these ministers will definitely be able to sit on the throne. The final decision is still in the hands of the emperor.

Now the "court recommendation" system of the Chen Han Dynasty is still limited to the cabinet. When the entire system is completed - for example, are the scores of the second-rank officials and the third-rank officials the same? What if there is a vacancy? Chen Han's court recommendation system is organically combined with the point system. The whole process is estimated to take two or three years. The second-rank official will definitely not want to have the same score as the third-rank official. The local governors have been seeking to upgrade their ranks, and Chen Ming did not express his own opinion on this matter, but just threw out a proposition for them to do it themselves.

When this matter has a result, the second cabinet should be over by then.

If the third cabinet is successfully born, in the future, Chen Ming will expand the scope of "court recommendation" from the cabinet ministers to the ministers of various ministries and heads of various departments in Beijing, and then continue to work hard to expand it to the governors of various provinces.

However, throughout Chen Ming's life, he has not divided the military power at all, and the Grand Commandery has always been in his hands.

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